wump/wump.6

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  38 .Dd June 23, 1990
  39 .Dt WUMP 6
  40 .Os
  41 .Sh NAME
  42 .Nm wump
  43 .Nd hunt the wumpus in an underground cave
  44 .Sh SYNOPSIS
  45 .Nm wump
  46 .Op Fl h
  47 .Op Fl a Ar arrows
  48 .Op Fl b Ar bats
  49 .Op Fl p Ar pits
  50 .Op Fl r Ar rooms
  51 .Op Fl t Ar tunnels
  52 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  53 The game
  54 .Nm wump
  55 is based on a fantasy game first presented in the pages of
  56 .Em People's Computer Company
  57 in 1973.
  58 In Hunt the Wumpus you are placed in a cave built of many different rooms,
  59 all interconnected by tunnels.
  60 Your quest is to find and shoot the evil Wumpus that resides elsewhere in
  61 the cave without running into any pits or using up your limited supply of
  62 arrows.
  63 .Pp
  64 The options are as follows:
  65 .Bl -tag -width indent
  66 .It Fl a
  67 Specifies the number of magic arrows the adventurer gets.
  68 The default is five.
  69 .It Fl b
  70 Specifies the number of rooms in the cave which contain bats.
  71 The default is three.
  72 .It Fl h
  73 Play the hard version -- more pits, more bats, and a generally more
  74 dangerous cave.
  75 .It Fl p
  76 Specifies the number of rooms in the cave which contain bottomless pits.
  77 The default is three.
  78 .It Fl r
  79 Specifies the number of rooms in the cave.
  80 The default cave size is twenty-five rooms.
  81 .It Fl t
  82 Specifies the number of tunnels connecting each room in the cave to
  83 another room.
  84 Beware, too many tunnels in a small cave can easily cause it to collapse!
  85 The default cave room has three tunnels to other rooms.
  86 .El
  87 .Pp
  88 While wandering through the cave you'll notice that, while there are tunnels
  89 everywhere, there are some mysterious quirks to the cave topology, including
  90 some tunnels that go from one room to another, but not necessarily back!
  91 Also, most pesky of all are the rooms that are home to large numbers of bats,
  92 which, upon being disturbed, will en masse grab you and move you to another
  93 portion of the cave (including those housing bottomless pits, sure
  94 death for unwary explorers).
  95 .Pp
  96 Fortunately, you're not going into the cave without any weapons or tools,
  97 and in fact your biggest aids are your senses; you can often smell the
  98 rather odiferous Wumpus up to
  99 .Em two
 100 rooms away, and you can always feel the drafts created by the occasional
 101 bottomless pit and hear the rustle of the bats in caves they might be
 102 sleeping within.
 103 .Pp
 104 To kill the wumpus, you'll need to shoot it with one of your magic arrows.
 105 Fortunately, you don't have to be in the same room as the creature, and can
 106 instead shoot the arrow from as far as three or four rooms away!
 107 .Pp
 108 When you shoot an arrow, you do so by typing in a list of rooms that you'd
 109 like it to travel to.
 110 If at any point in its travels it cannot find a tunnel to the room you
 111 specify from the room it's in, it will instead randomly fly down one of the
 112 tunnels, possibly, if you're real unlucky, even flying back into the room
 113 you're in and hitting you!