1.\" $NetBSD: wump.6,v 1.8 2006/01/22 21:22:30 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 7.\" Dave Taylor, of Intuitive Systems. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 18.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 19.\" without specific prior written permission. 20.\" 21.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 22.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 23.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 24.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 25.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 26.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 27.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 28.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 29.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 30.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 31.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 32.\" 33.\" @(#)wump.6 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 34.\" 35.Dd January 19, 2006 36.Dt WUMP 6 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm wump 40.Nd hunt the wumpus in an underground cave 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl h 44.Op Fl a Ar arrows 45.Op Fl b Ar bats 46.Op Fl p Ar pits 47.Op Fl r Ar rooms 48.Op Fl t Ar tunnels 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50The game 51.Nm 52is based on a fantasy game first presented in the pages of 53.Em People's Computer Company 54in 1973. 55In Hunt the Wumpus you are placed in a cave built of many different rooms, 56all interconnected by tunnels. 57Your quest is to find and shoot the evil Wumpus that resides elsewhere in 58the cave without running into any pits or using up your limited supply of 59arrows. 60.Pp 61The options are as follows: 62.Bl -tag -width indent 63.It Fl a 64Specifies the number of magic arrows the adventurer gets. 65The default is five. 66.It Fl b 67Specifies the number of rooms in the cave which contain bats. 68The default is three. 69.It Fl h 70Play the hard version -- more pits, more bats, and a generally more 71dangerous cave. 72.It Fl p 73Specifies the number of rooms in the cave which contain bottomless pits. 74The default is three. 75.It Fl r 76Specifies the number of rooms in the cave. 77The default cave size is twenty rooms. 78.It Fl t 79Specifies the number of tunnels connecting each room in the cave to 80another room. 81Beware, too many tunnels in a small cave can easily cause it to collapse! 82The default cave room has three tunnels to other rooms. 83.El 84.Pp 85While wandering through the cave you'll notice that, while there are tunnels 86everywhere, there are some mysterious quirks to the cave topology, including 87some tunnels that go from one room to another, but not necessarily back! 88Also, most pesky of all are the rooms that are home to large numbers of bats, 89which, upon being disturbed, will en masse grab you and move you to another 90portion of the cave (including those housing bottomless pits, sure 91death for unwary explorers). 92.Pp 93Fortunately, you're not going into the cave without any weapons or tools, 94and in fact your biggest aids are your senses; you can often smell the 95rather odiferous Wumpus up to 96.Em two 97rooms away, and you can always feel the drafts created by the occasional 98bottomless pit and hear the rustle of the bats in caves they might be 99sleeping within. 100.Pp 101To kill the wumpus, you'll need to shoot it with one of your magic arrows. 102Fortunately, you don't have to be in the same room as the creature, and can 103instead shoot the arrow from as far as three or four rooms away! 104.Pp 105When you shoot an arrow, you do so by typing in a list of rooms that you'd 106like it to travel to. 107If at any point in its travels it cannot find a tunnel to the room you 108specify from the room it's in, it will instead randomly fly down one of the 109tunnels, possibly, if you're real unlucky, even flying back into the room 110you're in and hitting you! 111