Re: bpl12 Suggestion (corpse rot)

From: George (greerga@DRAGON.HAM.MUOHIO.EDU)
Date: 10/20/97


On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, Andrew Helm wrote:

>> I don't remember what the stock time is on corpse-rot, but for me it's 5
>> ticks. Five minutes should be plenty of time for someone to get the stuff
>> from the corpse before it gets extracted.
>
>What if a scavenger picks up a player's/mob's corpse with equipment in it?
>If you kill the scavenger you can't get the corpse out of the scavenger's
>corpse: you have to wait till the corpse decays.  For this reason a
>decaying corpse junking it's items is a bad idea.

The assassin gets the corpse of the Peacekeeper.
500H 70M 82V > kill assassin
You chop him to pieces!  Ah!  The blood!
Your blood freezes as you hear the assassin's death cry.
500H 70M 82V > g corpse corpse
You get the corpse of the Peacekeeper from the corpse of the assassin.

I'm hoping the timer would be reset when picked up if someonne does do
this method of extraction. :)

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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard


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