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Firing a rod in a keybind is...

Fire once in a specified direction:

apply -a rod of heal; stay f; apply -u rod of heal
apply -a rod of firebolt; north f; apply -u rod of firebolt
apply -a rod of firebolt; fire 1; fire_stop; apply -u rod of firebolt

Fire continuously in a direction until <fire ...

I have so far been unable to make a bind that fires a rod so it does not hit me. I only recently learned how to guarantee apply/unapply via bindings (-u / -a) to insure access to rod of word of recall / rod of heal:

apply -u rod of word of recall; apply -a rod of word of recall; fire stay; fire ...

Buying back XP sounds nice... but one wonders whether this is just one more way Crossfire would be biased against the low-level character (though it is not obvious to me what "Not under such a scheme..." means since that appears to hint that something different is done for low-level characters). In ...

I never go anywhere the first time without a word of recall scroll/staff/rod. While this is not much of a solution if you use a Bed Of Reality there, it is how I visit Brest without having to be a high-level.

Not saying some other transport options aren't warranted, but... Word of Recall is usually ...

Even more recently, removing ~/.crossfire/sounds fixed a sound problem even though the files in that directory could be played directly to /dev/dsp when the client was not active.

FYI, I once had a long-standing sound problem on one of my systems that nobody could help me with, then one day I replaced the .crossfire/gdefaults file and sound started working again. Mine had been broken somehow (probably something I did).