Can someone tell me what happened here?

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PowerWyrm
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Can someone tell me what happened here?

Post by PowerWyrm » Tue 09.07.2013, 11:21

I was playing my ironman mage, I just mapped a portion of a level with a lesser vault, detected monsters, traps, objects and invisible monsters without seeing anything dangerous and was about to go clear the LV when this happened:

http://www.mangband.org/Main/HighScoreChart?v=1.1.2 Ironman?dump=Senya-1950361432

The hounds appeared suddenly without any warning, started all to breathe immediately (http://mangband.org/developer/ticket/1016 -- this bug REALLY needs to be fixed!!!)... and since I didn't have res sound with that char instantly KOed it. No way to check the message log on the client (ironman means instant disconnection), and the character dump doesn't have enough messages to explain anything. Could someone with access to the server log tell me what happened? I don't see anything on the screen that could have summoned the hounds, neither were any Qs or silent watchers around when I detected and surely there was no summoning trap.

I checked the code, and I don't think there's a chance that the hound pack respawned on my character (there's a check for min distance). The only thing I can think of is an unlucky summoner respawn (Q or silent watcher) out of LOS in the corridor below the @ or on the last line of the lesser vault. This is really frustrating...

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Re: Can someone tell me what happened here?

Post by Thorbear » Fri 19.07.2013, 19:56

Here is the full log from around your death, it would appear that a scroll mimic summoned the hounds, although I cannot see it in the death-screen.

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You miss the Red worm mass.
You hit the Red worm mass.
You have destroyed the Red worm mass.
You sense the presence of creatures!
Map sector [0,1], which is your sector.  Direction?
Map sector [1,1], which is South of your sector.  Direction?
Map sector [0,1], which is your sector.  Direction?
It casts a fire bolt.
Your Staff of Enlightenment (7 charges) {@u0} (s) was destroyed!
The Scroll mimic magically summons help!
You hit the Impact hound.
You hit the Impact hound.
You hit the Impact hound.
You have slain the Impact hound.
You hit the Impact hound.
You hit the Impact hound.
You hit the Impact hound.
You have slain the Impact hound.
You miss the Impact hound.
You hit the Impact hound.
You hit the Impact hound.
You miss the Impact hound.
The Impact hound breathes force.
You have been stunned.
The Impact hound claws you.
The Impact hound claws you.
The Impact hound bites you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound breathes force.
The Impact hound claws you.
The Impact hound claws you.
The Impact hound bites you.
The Impact hound misses you.
You miss the Impact hound.
You hit the Impact hound.
You have slain the Impact hound.
The Impact hound breathes force.
The Impact hound breathes force.
The Impact hound breathes force.
You miss the Impact hound.
You miss the Impact hound.
You hit the Impact hound.
You hit the Impact hound.
You failed to get the spell off!
The Impact hound breathes force.
You have been heavily stunned.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound claws you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound bites you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound breathes force.
You have been heavily stunned.
The Impact hound breathes force.
You failed to get the spell off!
The Impact hound breathes force.
The Impact hound breathes force.
You have been knocked out.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound bites you.
The Impact hound bites you.
The Impact hound breathes force.
The Impact hound breathes force.
The Impact hound claws you.
The Impact hound claws you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound bites you.
The Impact hound bites you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound bites you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound claws you.
The Impact hound claws you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound breathes force.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound claws you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound breathes force.
The Impact hound breathes force.
The Impact hound breathes force.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound claws you.
The Impact hound bites you.
The Impact hound bites you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound misses you.
The Impact hound breathes force.
You feel yourself slow down.
The Impact hound breathes force.
You die.
I am Thorbear...

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Re: Can someone tell me what happened here?

Post by PowerWyrm » Mon 22.07.2013, 11:00

Ah thx! A scroll mimic of course... I thought it would be something like this, since I detected both monsters and traps when looking at the vault. This is still a good example of the bug #1016: the monster shouldn't have the right to cast every turn, but only 1_IN_5.

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