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Shroedinger's dead cat

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Give experience to the hero if opening Shroedinger's Box reveals a cat
corpse rather than releasing a live cat.

It feels a bit odd to assess a bonus rather than a penalty.
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2026-03-12 13:12:42 -07:00
parent 7cff1696b7
commit c30eea477d
2 changed files with 12 additions and 4 deletions
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
/* NetHack 3.7 pickup.c $NHDT-Date: 1720074481 2024/07/04 06:28:01 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.374 $ */
/* NetHack 3.7 pickup.c $NHDT-Date: 1773373633 2026/03/12 19:47:13 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.386 $ */
/* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
/*-Copyright (c) Robert Patrick Rankin, 2012. */
/* NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. */
@@ -2860,6 +2860,9 @@ observe_quantum_cat(struct obj *box, boolean makecat, boolean givemsg)
}
} else {
box->spe = 0; /* now an ordinary box (with a cat corpse inside) */
if (givemsg)
pline_The("%s inside the box is dead!",
Hallucination ? rndmonnam((char *) 0) : "housecat");
if (deadcat) {
/* set_corpsenm() will start the rot timer that was removed
when makemon() created SchroedingersBox; start it from
@@ -2867,10 +2870,14 @@ observe_quantum_cat(struct obj *box, boolean makecat, boolean givemsg)
deadcat->age = svm.moves;
set_corpsenm(deadcat, PM_HOUSECAT);
deadcat = oname(deadcat, sc, ONAME_NO_FLAGS);
if (!svc.context.mon_moving) {
/* give experience points for the death of the cat since
that has been finalized by the hero opening the box */
more_experienced(20, 10); /* 20:current exp; 10:score bonus */
newexplevel();
}
}
if (givemsg)
pline_The("%s inside the box is dead!",
Hallucination ? rndmonnam((char *) 0) : "housecat");
}
nhUse(deadcat);
return;