ROGUE(6)

🐉 ROGUE(6) — okay so hear me out, it's a Games Manual page and it's literally iconic

bestie. sit down. we're playing the rogue manual page and it's giving vintage. this is section 6 of the manual, the games section, and honestly? it ate. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

rogue — exploring The Dungeons of Doom 🏰💀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rogue [-s] [save_file]

that's it. that's the whole invocation. short king. 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so rogue is a computer fantasy game but with a new twist — it's CRT oriented, and the entire point of the game is to survive the attacks of various monsters and get a lot of gold, instead of doing the puzzle-solving thing like most computer fantasy games do. yes, it's a whole different vibe. no cap.

to get started you really only need to know two commands, and honestly that's so nice of it:

• the command ? will give you a list of the available commands
• the command / will identify the things you see on the screen

now. to actually win the game — as opposed to merely playing to beat other people's high scores — you must locate the Amulet of Yendor, which is somewhere below the 20th level of the dungeon, and then get it out. 😭 nobody has achieved this yet, and if somebody does, they will probably go down in history as a hero among heroes. like, main character energy to the extreme. 👑

when the game ends — either by your death 💀, when you quit, or if you (by some miracle) manage to win — rogue will give you a list of the top-ten scorers. the scoring is based entirely upon how much gold you get. there is a 10% penalty for getting yourself killed. so maybe don't do that. 🙈

if save_file is specified, rogue will be restored from the specified saved game file. 💾

the -s option will print out the list of scores. ✨

for more detailed directions, read the document A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom. it's giving required reading, fr fr.

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Timothy Stoehr, Michael C. Toy, Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold, Glenn Wichman

legends, all of them. 🎀

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /var/games/bsdgames-nonfree/rogue.scores — score file
• ~/rogue.save — default save file

put some respect on these paths. 🫡

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Michael C. Toy and Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold, A guide to the Dungeons of Doom.

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💀 BUGS 💀

probably infinite, although none are known. 😌

however — and this is important — the fact that Ice Monsters sometimes transfix you permanently is not a bug. it's a feature. iykyk. 🧊✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! stay gold (literally, that's how you score), don't get transfixed, and remember: this one came from Debian, dated May 31, 1993, filed under ROGUE(6) in the games manual. vintage drop. slay. 💖🎀🦋