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JawnV6 posted:How does a lock pick get rusty? Fall in water I'd guess?
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This was weird: I was exploring one of the long corridors in the castle, where out of nowhere a death ray hits me. Luckily I had a cloak of MR  The weird part is that I kept walking up the corridor until I explored everything, without finding a wand of death, a black dragon, or anything else. My only theory is that a soldier had the wand, fired it once on me, then quaffed a cursed potion of gain level? I've searched everywhere, and no explanation anywhere.
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Mar 26, 2009 23:15
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I'm cruising towards mine's end on my ranger, XP 11 with -3 AC, nothing much identified, but I got my magic lamp, bag of holding full of potions of full healing and whatnot. I round a corner, run into a winged loving gargoyle, who takes me down to 20 hp on the first turn. Oops. Hmm, options! Figuring I don't have the time to pull a potion out, I decide on the next best thing, using my wand of digging to buy myself some time. I then use it to dig down, instead of engraving E, which would have made sense. You dig a pit in the ground. How convenient! You die. Oh for fucks sake I'm stupid. Yeah I was in mine's end, despite checking the gazetteer map earlier and not recognizing the maze level.. It would have been a stupid thing to do on any other level as well, since I'd probably would have landed on something nasty.
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Apr 2, 2009 00:13
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McNerd posted:But otherwise, with telepathy and a blindfold (which you can wear while playing with nurses), green molds are the only instakill you have to worry about, right? L
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Apr 2, 2009 20:04
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I just ascended my first ranger, and I'm a little underwhelmed I guess. Throwing a stack of daggers in the earlygame was great, but after getting mjolnir and the quest bow I dumped those. Then it took me something like 20k turns to get any identify, and I didn't get enchant weapon until way later, and had to blow tons of potions in alchemy before getting sickness, but I was all good to go. I guess I wanted the bow thing to be better, but in the end I almost killed things as fast with my +0 mjolnir as I did with my +7 bow with 150 +7 blessed poisoned arrows. Add to that the fact that running around picking up the drat arrows was annoying, and my ranger felt more like a normal melee character. Sure, instadeath with poison was nice and all, but it felt a little underwhelming overall.
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Apr 7, 2009 15:44
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What the flying gently caress happened here? I was cruising along on the ascension run with my paladin, riding my pimp dragon when this happened on the Juiblex level. My dragon is standing happily in the water right next to me. I suck at riding apparently, did the incubus seduce my dragon, removing the saddle? 50k turns gone, gently caress. Edit: Nice, bones in the water with a full ascension kit, I hope the character that gets there has wands of cold and object detection. 
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Apr 15, 2009 17:18
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Ugh, that's one thing I was unsure about that I couldn't find in the spoilers - what, exactly, can you protect your pet from? Reflection seemed to work against wands and black dragons, but where I just lucky? Also my dumb dragon got stoned by a cockatrice, so I assume those should always be jousted from afar. Foocubus I learned was bad the hard way, what about trappers/lurkers? Poly traps once I get MR?
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Apr 15, 2009 21:13
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So I guess the safety rules when riding would go something like: - Don't get in close combat with C, as your mount will retaliate if they get hit - Don't get hit by wands/disintegration rays unless your mount is a gray/silver/black dragon (?), as it's a 20% chance it will hit your mount instead of you - Don't let your pet eat shapeshifter corpses - Don't get in close combat with foocubus or nymphs as they can steal the saddle - Don't ride into trappesr, lurkers or worms(?) What about: - Liches and destroy armor spells (saddle isn't armor I guess, but the mount is wearing it )- Liches and touch of death? - Slimes? Can your pet get slimed? - Poison? Demogorgon/Pestilence? - Polytraps? Man, riding things sure is complicated
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Apr 16, 2009 14:47
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Sweeeeeeet, looks like Armstronger will pick up the dragonriding legacy of his predecessor!  Click here for the full 1057x970 image. I just like to joust, what can I say  Now if only I had some armor that was worthwhile enchanting..
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Apr 17, 2009 19:41
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gently caress tin openers
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Apr 18, 2009 12:10
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Note to self: When gleefully finding the bones file of your previous knight in the middle of the water, after carefully making and using a scroll of earth, then finding a wand of cold for the middle and then digging down to get your fabled treasures, DON'T dig down twice. Now to scour 3-4 levels for stuff, ugh. Also you can get digested by purple worms, but you'll just get thrown off the mount.
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Apr 19, 2009 13:55
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 Click here for the full 1680x957 image. Ridiculously powerful - I hit the right altar first, and just decided to clear out the place since nothing could touch me or my reflectioned tamed ki-rin at all. Or so I thought - Nibbles got killed despite me checking him every now and then, and I've no clue why, can pestilence hurt him? I never got him to pick up a unihorn In addition to no monster ever touching you, you get stupidly powerful magic missiles, and all good spells at 50% failure or less. Love the class Edit: I think I used one WoD charge on these fellows total: Asmodeus Baalzebub Orcus Juiblex The Wizard of Yendor (9 times) Death (4 times) Pestilence (thrice) Famine (5 times) 5 arch-liches
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Apr 19, 2009 22:04
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Darth l33t posted:Monsters don't get diseased, but remember that all the Riders do 8d8, 8d8 per attack, which will dispose of any monster quickly. Ki-rins don't have hands (they're basically angelic horses), so they can't use unihorns. I didn't find a corpse I could revive either, the whole thing was just weird Riders didn't hit me at all, but a tourist with +4 frost brand did, still doesn't ki-rins always leave corpses? For the robe, I picked it up later, and I couldn't be bothered, it was not like anything was touching me anyways
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Apr 20, 2009 07:23
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Shady Amish Terror posted:Would it matter? Greater than ninety percent of the chuckleheads he'd fling it at have reflection. If he knew how to use it on himself, he'd keep healing himself with it
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Apr 20, 2009 17:20
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MarionetteOwl posted:Quick question: If I mount a pony and run around the dungeon chopping poo poo up, will the pony level, or do I need to be unmounted for that? The latter, see http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Knight or the riding page for details.
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Apr 20, 2009 21:57
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I did my extinctionist in less than a week once during some hefty off-time with little to do. Not recommended
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May 27, 2009 08:03
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McNerd posted:Mind flayers are fun, I can vouch for that, and if you've never had one or died from a brain-sucking attack I'll tell you that it has the best message associated with it. I agree to that part, but they also come with a pretty huge downside if you're going past the wizards tower on the way down and you're not prepared He'll lock on to Rodneys telepathy - and wake him. Great if you're doing a speed run though, I guess?
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Jul 13, 2009 08:00
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Same Great Paste posted:How can a pacifist get out of a loving fog cloud in Sokoban? How do you solve that? Teleport?
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Jul 17, 2009 08:13
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Goodbye Evenzero the Demigod... (Chaotic Priest) You and the giant beetle and Pestilence went to your reward with 2606451 points, Stormbringer (worth 8000 zorkmids and 20000 points) and 0 pieces of gold, after 32356 moves. You were level 25 with a maximum of 213 hit points when you ascended. Even when I try to go fast I'm too cautious and slow This game had stupid luck, 2 /oW , magic lamp, speed boots, early fountain wish, so I should have been able to go much faster. Oh well.
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Jul 29, 2009 14:53
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Sturmtiger IV posted:Master lich ported in and touch of death'd me. Luckily, indeed, for me that it didn't work. Where you keeping magicbane in your offhand? Does that count as wielded?
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Sep 10, 2009 08:33
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Filburt Shellbach posted:Genociding your original race and ascending while polymorphed has a neat effect. Try it and see. I can't find any games with it, what is it?
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Dec 10, 2009 11:33
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Why are people suddenly doing insane speedruns, did I miss a patch?
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Dec 12, 2009 01:31
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Girl Drink Drunk posted:So all I'm doing nowadays is diving to the castle to get the wishing wand so I can get the stuff to self-polymorph, which is cool as hell. How do you get the actual wand at a stupid low level without dying?
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Jan 8, 2010 09:07
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..btt posted:I remember thinking "if only it had been turn 1 that really would have been special" Yup, it is TDTTOE
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Sacrificing an unicorn of your own alignment would do the same, I guess?
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