At 06:57 PM 6/25/99 -0700, Jack Naugle wrote:

> When you are sitting on the boat one second and on a rock the next with
>the boat nowhere in sight, that is a bug. The /loc command is a bug-fix
>command. In a normal game situation I would not use it, but as a bug-fix I
>greatly appreciate having it available and I SURE appreciate all the help
>from the great citizens of Norrath that frequent this list.

Tonight my friend and I owe a debt to the collected bards of Norrath.
Riding the boat from Freeport to Butcherblock, just before he entered the
Butcherblock area, he suddenly found himself stranded on a rock in the
company of aqua goblins. He got a message to me and I remembered the
advice I'd heard hear about swimming for an island with a dock. He
preferred to pray to the bitwise gods, but none seeemed to be listening.

So we hatched a plan. I would take the boat on the same path he did,
reporting to him where it was. I told him the boarding technique I learned
so recently in this scrying pool, swim for the boat as if you're going to
climb its prow, and find yourself in the hold by the bar. I called out the
landmarks as they passed, in detail as we entered, sailed through, and
beyond the aqua goblin rocks.

Then I heard my friend's exultant shout! He was aboard. A rescue at sea.
And we owe it all to what I learned here from my fellow bards.

My deepest gratitude for your help in rescuing my friend.

Thrush

We weren't even tempted to use /loc. And now we have an in-game story of
fear, frustration, anticipation, and rescue, even though it was caused by a
stupid software bug.

Bob