Centaurs have two lives?

Kerrien · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:09 pm

Code:

[HP:100%] [ME:100%] [PE:100%]
> bash
You slam into a centaur warrior and send it sprawling!
Your bash knocks the wind out of a centaur warrior.
A centaur warrior punches at a naj's chest, causing a deep gash.
A centaur warrior punches at a naj's stomach, barely wounding it.
A centaur warrior punches at a naj's stomach, causing a small wound.
You slice a centaur warrior's left leg, shattering its kneecap!
You slice a centaur warrior's right leg, cutting flesh as if it were butter!
A naj kills a centaur warrior as it dismembers its left leg with its flaming bite! <---------------- Huh?
A naj's flaming bite starts a centaur warrior's waist on fire.
A naj's flaming bite starts to melt a centaur warrior's left arm.
A naj's flaming bite barely burns a centaur warrior's chest.
Overall, a centaur warrior looks pretty hurt.

[HP:100%] [ME:100%] [PE:100%]
> 
A centaur warrior punches at a naj's chest, causing a big, bleeding wound!
A centaur warrior punches at a naj's left hand, ripping a small wound.
A centaur warrior punches at a naj's face, slightly bruising its cheek.
You slice at a centaur warrior's stomach.  ENTRAILS fall to the ground!
You slice at a centaur warrior's stomach.  ENTRAILS fall to the ground!
A naj winces as a series of fractures appears on its scale hide!
A large flame from A naj kills a centaur warrior.
A centaur warrior is DEAD!!<--------- Huh?
A centaur warrior's head is skillfully severed from its body.

[HP:100%] [ME:100%] [PE:100%]
> l

The Gathering Place of the Strong description
  Obvious exits: n e ne
     The corpse of a centaur warrior is lying here. <--------- one corpse
     The severed head of a centaur is lying here.
(43) A scrumptious looking steak is here.
     The sliced-off leg of a human is lying here.
     The severed hand of a human warrior is here.
     The severed finger of a dwarven warrior is here.
     A wooden barbed arrow with a sharp diamond head lies here.
(Charmed) A naj is here mounted by you.

Is this normal, I would have bugged logged it but I it would be hard describing it without the person actually seeing this.

Guest · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:13 pm

Don't let the damage messages deceive you. Things only die once, unless an imm spam kills you when you're dead.

YorikP.Pazu · **Joined:** Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:57 am **Posts:** 320

The area probably regened in the instant it took you to type look. I think I even had it happen to me under morea a few times where the death cry of one mummy would make the one that poped to replace it start attacking me.

Guest · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:25 pm

That's actually a damage message, not a death message, and yes, it is misleading. You sort of have to think of him going "Ahhh, you're killing me with your magic power!"

Or whatever.

shpadoinkle · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:28 pm

The message "So-and-so kills so-and-so with their deadly wrath" is one of the damage messages for that damage type, like crushing someone with maces and so on. It's just unfortunately close to the death message.

The centaur died only once. If you don't see "so-and-so is DEAD", then they haven't died.

Kerrien · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:29 pm

Ah ok. I thought it was somthing along those lines

YorikP.Pazu · **Joined:** Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:57 am **Posts:** 320

Every so often all the monsters in an area come back ('pop') So that after you kill them they don't just stay dead. If you killed a creature right before the timer went off that brought all the dead creatures back, it would look like it didnt die...

But I read the log wrong anyways... your naj took the leg off, you killed it. I thought you were confused by there being another one in the room.

It might be that your naj killed its lower body, and you killed its mid/upper body all in the same time... and the system didnt check that it was before letting you kill it.... Soemthing about the three differnt parts of the body haveing three different sets of hps or some such.

Adder · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:33 pm

It's a special damage message. For instance, have you ever seen:

XXX's deadly wrath mauls you.
XXX's deadly wrath injures you.
XXX's deadly wrath wounds you.
XXX's deadly wrath DOES UNSPEAKABLE THINGS to you!

etc.

I'm fairly sure "kills" is just a damage message. Sort of silly, but no the NPC didn't have two lives.

Kerrien · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:41 pm

I don't thing bodies have three life areas. But I do think it is the naj's attack type that does the "Kill" thing

Viltrax · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:44 pm

There's a remote chance that you reached 0 HP just as a tick went by, allowing you to regen back above 0 health... but I doubt it. It's much more likely that a 'fatality' death message was written in for a non-fatal scenario (eg, a full-damage impact where there was no successful armor or magical protection save).

Category: BUG
Area: Damage message
Weapon type: Flaming Bite [Deadly Wrath too?]
Existing message: A x kills a x as it dismembers its left leg with its flaming bite!
Suggested Replacement: A x severely mauls x as it dismembers its left leg with its flaming bite!

[edit: added note that Deadly Wrath may also have the typo]

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