09-02-2004, 12:05 AM
v1.10 uswest ladder2 game, classic, playing game after Diablo kill (you just have to rejoin the game after the Diablo kill timer boots everyone out).
I killed everything on the cow level with my Chippydin and then brought in my Find Item horking barb for grins (only player in game)... when he entered the cow portal I noticed a rogue standing nearby and did a WTF?!
After reassuring myself that I didn't have a hireling I took a screenshot (I should have brought up the party screen and hired a rogue so you could see "for sure" that the rogue was a townie).
I then spent some minutes trying to herd a chicken into the cow portal (with the expected "nope, doesn't go through" result, of course) while thinking about this.
I'm torn between thinking:
a. the game put a wandering rogue in the cow level post clear, as an easter egg unknown to me
b. the rogue got "sucked in" to the cow level due to sloppy coding and a race condition when my barb entered the red portal
c. the rogue happened to walk into the cow portal by chance
I only credit "c." as remotely possible because I've seen act 3 townie sorcs wander out into the wilderness.
I killed everything on the cow level with my Chippydin and then brought in my Find Item horking barb for grins (only player in game)... when he entered the cow portal I noticed a rogue standing nearby and did a WTF?!
After reassuring myself that I didn't have a hireling I took a screenshot (I should have brought up the party screen and hired a rogue so you could see "for sure" that the rogue was a townie).
I then spent some minutes trying to herd a chicken into the cow portal (with the expected "nope, doesn't go through" result, of course) while thinking about this.
I'm torn between thinking:
a. the game put a wandering rogue in the cow level post clear, as an easter egg unknown to me
b. the rogue got "sucked in" to the cow level due to sloppy coding and a race condition when my barb entered the red portal
c. the rogue happened to walk into the cow portal by chance
I only credit "c." as remotely possible because I've seen act 3 townie sorcs wander out into the wilderness.
"He's got demons? Cool!" -- Gonzo, Muppet Treasure Island
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"Mom! Dad! It's evil! Don't touch it!" -- Kevin, Time Bandits
"Proto-matter... an unstable substance which every ethical scientist in the galaxy has denounced as dangerously unpredictable." -- Saavik, Star Trek III
"Mom! Dad! It's evil! Don't touch it!" -- Kevin, Time Bandits