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- SAVING AND RESTORING
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- Since omega's dungeons are quite large, all dungeon levels are saved in
- compressed form; besides that, the current dungeon and the city level will
- be stored in the save file. When a dungeon level is entered, the level
- is restored from disk if it is available; otherwise, whether the level
- has never been explored before or the level file has been deleted, it
- will be (re)generated. To explain this, you might simply consider that
- the "actual" level is far larger than is apparent, and you are just
- traversing a different part of it if you lose your map of the level...
-
- If you know the spell of Return, (learnable at the Explorers' Club)
- you will be able to warp to your deepest excursion in the dungeon
- without having to retraverse the other levels in between. Some other
- shortcuts exist for "warping" from one locale or level to another.
-
- To at least simulate the continuity of character in the game, saved
- files will be deleted on restoration. Of course, you *can* copy them,
- with your level files, if you want to cheat. Note, however, that level
- files cannot be re-used with a different save-file when you next play
- the game.
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