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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:08:19 -0500
From: John Colagioia <JColagioia@csi.com>
Organization: No Conspiracy Here...
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Grrr...Bear with me--had a news server failure or two, so I'm getting
messages from one server that I can't post to, and replying to them via
the NORMAL server, which seems to have returned for the moment...the
upshot is that the threads, unfortunately, won't match up.  But this is
old enough that most people might not care, anyway.

And it all had nothing to do with Deja, oddly enough.

Greg Ewing wrote:
> John Colagioia wrote:
> > Maybe I've been programming too long, but this would actually make
sense to
> > me, since the "HELLHOUND, " tag  is basically "redirecting" the
comment to
> > another character, making this "HELLHOUND, (I want you to) BITE
INFERNAL
> > MACHINE."  Kind of like using file handles...or device numbers on
the C64...
>
> Hmmm...
>
> ] OPEN HELLHOUND FOR COMMANDING AS NPC #1
> ] #1, BITE INFERNAL MACHINE

Exactly!

Uhm...OK, not really EXACTLY.  Sort of a twisted, evil version of it,
but nifty
enough that it'll probably end up in somebody's game by the end of 2002
(maybe
even one of mine, should I ever finish one)...


