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	5	.\" Dave Taylor, of Intuitive Systems.
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	35	.\" @(#)wump.6 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
	36	.\" $FreeBSD: src/games/wump/wump.6,v 1.3.2.1 2001/07/22 11:32:37 dd Exp $
	37	.\" $DragonFly: src/games/wump/wump.6,v 1.3 2005/08/01 00:21:07 swildner Exp $
	38	.\"
	39	.Dd May 31, 1993
	40	.Dt WUMP 6
	41	.Os
	42	.Sh NAME
	43	.Nm wump
	44	.Nd hunt the wumpus in an underground cave
	45	.Sh SYNOPSIS
	46	.Nm
	47	.Op Fl h
	48	.Op Fl a Ar arrows
	49	.Op Fl b Ar bats
	50	.Op Fl p Ar pits
	51	.Op Fl r Ar rooms
	52	.Op Fl t Ar tunnels
	53	.Sh DESCRIPTION
	54	The game
	55	.Nm
	56	is based on a fantasy game first presented in the pages of
	57	.Em "People's Computer Company"
	58	in 1973.
	59	In
	60	.Nm
	61	you are placed in a cave built of many different rooms,
	62	all interconnected by tunnels.
	63	Your quest is to find and shoot the evil Wumpus that resides elsewhere in
	64	the cave without running into any pits or using up your limited supply of
	65	arrows.
	66	.Pp
	67	The options are as follows:
	68	.Bl -tag -width ".Fl t Ar tunnels"
	69	.It Fl a Ar arrows
	70	Specifies the number of magic arrows the adventurer gets.
	71	The default is five.
	72	.It Fl b Ar bats
	73	Specifies the number of rooms in the cave which contain bats.
	74	The default is three.
	75	.It Fl h
	76	Play the hard version -- more pits, more bats, and a generally more
	77	dangerous cave.
	78	.It Fl p Ar pits
	79	Specifies the number of rooms in the cave which contain bottomless pits.
	80	The default is three.
	81	.It Fl r Ar rooms
	82	Specifies the number of rooms in the cave.
	83	The default cave size is twenty-five rooms.
	84	.It Fl t Ar tunnels
	85	Specifies the number of tunnels connecting each room in the cave to
	86	another room.
	87	Beware, too many tunnels in a small cave can easily cause it to collapse!
	88	The default cave room has three tunnels to other rooms.
	89	.El
	90	.Pp
	91	While wandering through the cave you'll notice that, while there are tunnels
	92	everywhere, there are some mysterious quirks to the cave topology, including
	93	some tunnels that go from one room to another, but not necessarily back!
	94	Also, most pesky of all are the rooms that are home to large numbers of bats,
	95	which, upon being disturbed, will en masse grab you and move you to another
	96	portion of the cave (including those housing bottomless pits, sure
	97	death for unwary explorers).
	98	.Pp
	99	Fortunately, you're not going into the cave without any weapons or tools,
	100	and in fact your biggest aids are your senses; you can often smell the
	101	rather odiferous Wumpus up to
	102	.Em two
	103	rooms away, and you can always feel the drafts created by the occasional
	104	bottomless pit and hear the rustle of the bats in caves they might be
	105	sleeping within.
	106	.Pp
	107	To kill the wumpus, you'll need to shoot it with one of your magic arrows.
	108	Fortunately, you don't have to be in the same room as the creature, and can
	109	instead shoot the arrow from as far as three or four rooms away!
	110	.Pp
	111	When you shoot an arrow, you do so by typing in a list of rooms that you'd
	112	like it to travel to.
	113	If at any point in its travels it cannot find a tunnel to the room you
	114	specify from the room it's in, it will instead randomly fly down one of the
	115	tunnels, possibly, if you're real unlucky, even flying back into the room
	116	you're in and hitting you!