Floating eyes out of the blue? (was: Re: Intelligence)

AngleWyrm <anglewyrm_idontreadspamthankyou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Floating eyes are different from the above examples in this respect:
There is no clue that contact will paralyze you. It implements a
designer's wish that the player should learn the hard way.

I was going to say something about perhaps adding a hint in a message,
but then checked. The game does warn you, you only have to look:

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[/]
Specify unknown object by cursor? [ynq] (q)
Please move the cursor to an unknown object.
(For instructions type a ?)
e an eye or sphere (floating eye)
More info? [yn] (n)
[y]
Floating eyes, not surprisingly, are large, floating eyeballs
which drift about the dungeon. Though not dangerous in and
of themselves, their power to paralyse those who gaze at
their large eye in combat is widely feared. Many are the
tales of those who struck a floating eye, were paralysed by
its mystic powers, and then nibbled to death by some other
creature that lurked around nearby.
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What can be objected to is that many of these entries don't actually
explain much. Often you just get some obscure quote, which, for me at
least, is discouraging to use the command. (I recently did a few times,
because I have forgotten a lot, but then stopped for lack of information
in it.)

But for floating eyes, it's there, at least.

--
Tina
Sam Hum Mal Law Nikúya 3.4.0, long time ago; 17.04.2002 to 24.04.2002
Ascended!
Astral Plane: -5 (of 49 DL). HP: 177 of 184

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