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Re: Do you keep your items in any Hell level when killed?

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From: Gerrit Kirkwood
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 00:00
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Greg Kemmetmueller wrote:
> 
> > : If you are surrounded there is no place for your stuff to fall!  So,
> you
> > : get to keep it all... consider yourself lucky...
> >
> > Also, the more gold you have when you die, the better.  When you die,
> > you drop half of your gold.  If you have a lot of gold, the less
> > spaces there are for other things to fall, and you keep more stuff.
> 
> Not necessarily.  It's just a more spectacular show.  I had 150k once, a
> quarter of the screen was filled with monsters, and when I died, some of my
> stuff flew past the bottom of the screen.  :)

I've also seen stuff fall on the far side of walls.  I think you still
drop everything, it just falls in farther locations, making it even more
difficult to get everything back.
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From: Gerrit Kirkwood <ger...@cco.caltech.edu*REMOVETHISTOREPLY*>
Subject: Re: Do you keep your items in any Hell level when killed?
Date: 1997/02/24
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