[CF-Devel] Cause light wounds broken

[Kevin R. Bulgrien]

At 01:19 PM 8/10/02, I wrote:

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     Server 1.3.0 off of CVS...
     
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     The cause light wounds spell can make monsters invulverable.  This has
     
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     happened to me repeatedly.  No (reasonable amount of) damage can kill
     
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     the creature after this happens...
     
     
They aren't really invulnerable.  I laid on the Run key and "went to
sleep" while running into the monster.  When I woke up, he was dead...

Without looking at the code, one might guess the problem to be one of
death detection and rollover.  Like a "life" number goes negative but
death isn't detected.  The creature now will not die until the variable
rolls back around to zero again.

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     If I were to guess, I'd guess that the death check isn't working quite
     
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     right...
     
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     This character I see this with at the moment is a lvl 2 wisdom 
     
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     character with 5 Grace.  He's level 8 physical and cannot kill this
     
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     particular gnoll with hundreds of successful hits with any melee 
     
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     weapon - even one that does damage other than physical.
     
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     So, then if I let the invulnerable gnoll get out of the way I am firing,
     
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     I can kill other gnolls with cause light wounds or waste hordes of them
     
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     by melee.  Every now and then cause light wounds will make another
     
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     invulnerable.
     
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     Magic spells never seem to do this...