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Double message if the tentacles grab The Starcross where and you can't see it #59

Open eriktorbjorn opened 5 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 5 years ago

If instead of staying in your seat when The Starcross is grabbed, you get a mixture of two different messages:

>WAIT
Time passes...
Suddenly an odd protrusion near the red dome splits open and a huge articulated
metal tentacle issues from it at great speed.Something has grabbed the ship! You
are slammed against the bulkhead! After a great deal of buffeting, there is a
metallic clang and the ship is at rest, but unfortunately, so are you.

   ****  You have died  ****

You wake to find yourself alive, on board the "Starcross." It appears you have
been given another chance.

This is handled by TENTACLE-APPEARS. Currently, it will always write the "Suddenly an odd protrusion ... at great speed." part of the message. But this only makes sense if you're in any of the rooms where you can see it, namely SPACESHIP-BRIDGE, SPACESHIP-AIRLOCK or DEEP-SPACE.