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Message: 7152
Author: rushforthian
Date: 05/10/2017
Subject: Re: Useful POKE / Andrew's beta-test of JSW64 & JSW64:Dragon32
Andrew wrote:
> POKE 33824,
> It sets the current room so that the next time you lose a life, you appear in that room at the position you > entered THE ROOM IN WHICH YOU APPLIED THE POKE - so it has to be applied with care, but it's
> not as clumsy and illogical as WRITETYPER when you know what you're doing. It does make > items/toilet/Maria appear prematurely, though.
I suppose it provides a circumstance in which the toilet can be fatal - if a guardian in the room from which you are attempting to teleport happens to occupy the same coordinates as the toilet at the moment when you apply the POKE. (It wouldn't be an infinite death scenario though - after losing one life, Willy should safely teleport to The Bathroom.)
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