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Sartak posted:You can also dig down and go back up. Medusa is by the downstairs. She's near a Perseus statue that has a good chance to contain levitation boots. Cursed levitation boots. It sucks to have to waste a prayer on decursing them because you are retarded and had your whole inventory blanked because you forgot to put on your levitation ring before dumping the trolls body into the moat at the castle. Oh and then having a soldier blow the ring up with lightning. Not that I would know anything about that of course.
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# ? Mar 19, 2009 03:50 |
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Fury1671 posted:Dip a dagger into potions to check for poly, then dip a unihorn to check for blindness, Hallucination, sickness and confusion. (Sickness becomes Fruit Juice, the rest become water.) Hell, once you have poly id'd and a unihorn you can just quaff potions to find out what they are. Just stand on a burnt elbereth inside of a locked closet and you should be fine from 99% of monsters incase you quaff paralyze. Not that it really makes that much of a difference. But I find it more efficient to dip darts/arrows instead of a dagger when testing for polymorph potions. If you do find a potion of sickness the darts/arrows become poisoned, and can then be used to identify a stack of healing potions have. Although this method has the downside of consuming a potion of sickness/healing. But by the time I'm ready to ID potions in this manner, I've found that NPC's have usually already ID'd 2 of the 3 healing potions and I have more than enough potions for my holy water needs. Also when it comes time to quaff unidentified potions, be sure to BUC test them first and only drink uncursed/blessed potions.
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# ? Mar 19, 2009 04:43 |
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God dammit, I created a monk earlier and on the first two levels I found an aligned altar, a blessed elven mithril coat, a crystal plate mail, a blessed two handed sword, a tinning kit and more jackal corpses than I could carry.
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# ? Mar 19, 2009 06:24 |
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Fury1671 posted:Cursed levitation boots. It sucks to have to waste a prayer on decursing them because you are retarded and had your whole inventory blanked because you forgot to put on your levitation ring before dumping the trolls body into the moat at the castle. Oh and then having a soldier blow the ring up with lightning. Try floating over a sink next time.
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# ? Mar 19, 2009 08:24 |
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http://alt.org/nethack/userdata/xkraelx/dumplog/1237380158.nh343.txt Please notice why I died and look at my inventory. cries
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krael posted:http://alt.org/nethack/userdata/xkraelx/dumplog/1237380158.nh343.txt Haha I saw that in #nethack. I still don't get how you managed to screw that up. Not too terribly worse than lycanthropy breaking my dragon scale mail tho
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stubblyhead posted:Try floating over a sink next time. Yea, I knew about the sink trick, but for some reason I decided to pray. Probably because I was headed to Gehennom and really had no use for the prayer.
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Cy posted:Haha I saw that in #nethack. I don't take nethack "too" seriously. I just do stuff because it's fun. But the next time I manage to get myself the same amount of gear, I promise you I won't die of overeating, that's for sure Another YASD was equipping a cursed ring of teleport, getting teleported to a random room, Keystone entering and I start zapping a wand of slow monster, that bounces on the wall, hits me, sleeps me and they kill me
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# ? Mar 19, 2009 14:48 |
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Well, that sucked. I made a Lawful Valkyrie and was trying to make Excalibur. My first #dip made a bunch of snakes come out, so I killed them all with careful use of the E word and a prayer. Then I healed up and tried dipping again. Same thing happened, though this time I wasn't so lucky. So I ask you, what the crap? Was it just wicked bad RNG luck, or am I doing something wrong? I was level 6 and lawful, so I would think I wouldn't have a problem, but double snakes?
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MarionetteOwl posted:Well, that sucked. I made a Lawful Valkyrie and was trying to make Excalibur. My first #dip made a bunch of snakes come out, so I killed them all with careful use of the E word and a prayer. Then I healed up and tried dipping again. Same thing happened, though this time I wasn't so lucky. Bad RNG luck. There's only a 1/6 chance of your sword turning into Excalibur on any dip. Snakes twice in a row was random luck. (If you want the math, the chances of getting snakes twice in a row is (5/6 * 1/30)^2 = 1/1296)
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# ? Mar 19, 2009 23:31 |
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Atorox the Excursionist St:13 Dx:13 Co:17 In:15 Wi:9 Ch:12 Neutral S:15783 Dlvl:10 $:1074 HP:69(84) Pw:36(36) AC:-2 Xp:9/3695 T:5561 Blind Burdened This egg is delicious! You are slowing down. What do you want to eat? [bcde or ?*] Never mind. Your limbs are stiffening. There is a gnome corpse here; eat it? [ynq] (n) Blecch! Rotten food! Everything suddenly goes dark. Your limbs have turned to stone. You have turned to stone. Aloha atorox the Tourist... You turned to stone in The Gnomish Mines on dungeon level 10 with 15734 points, and 1074 pieces of gold, after 5561 moves. Killer: cockatrice egg Feel the irony of eating a delicious egg while being blind.
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# ? Mar 20, 2009 12:05 |
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krael posted:Egg death. Thats why we don't eat eggs. And you still had time to pray/snack on a lizard corpse.
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Fury1671 posted:Thats why we don't eat eggs. And you still had time to pray/snack on a lizard corpse. I'm surprised though, I thought eating a cockatrice egg was an instadeath for sure. Touching a cockatrice is, isn't it? I thought its combat ability was the only delayed stoning in the game. McNerd fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Mar 20, 2009 |
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Cockatrice eggs make awesome missiles though!
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# ? Mar 20, 2009 16:14 |
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McNerd posted:I'm surprised though, I thought eating a cockatrice egg was an instadeath for sure. Touching a cockatrice is, isn't it? I thought its combat ability was the only delayed stoning in the game.
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Darth l33t posted:Being hit by a wielded corpse also causes stiffening. I think the delayed deaths were implemented because dying instantly from eating an unidentified egg, or being hit by a corpse you didn't see wielded, would be patently unfair. If you bite a cockatrice as a vampire lord, or assign its corpse to the 'y' key and then try to eat something off the floor, that's your own drat fault so you die instantly. McNerd fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Mar 20, 2009 |
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Dumb question but how do I restore a saved game in NethackW.exe?
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# ? Mar 20, 2009 17:00 |
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tripwood posted:Dumb question but how do I restore a saved game in NethackW.exe?
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# ? Mar 20, 2009 17:06 |
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Well, my Ranger ended up dying promptly after the screenshot I posted but I ascended my first character tonight. Chaotic Orcish Barbarian, twoweaponing Frost Brand and a silver saber. Fairly easy run, the most tedious part was the plane of fire with my ring of conflict. I ended up taking it off because the turns were way too long.
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# ? Mar 23, 2009 05:53 |
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I've been sending a great train of barbarians to their deaths this last few weeks. At least I got a few good deaths out of the deal. Used a wand of teleport on a leocrotta so it couldn't kill me only to have it reappear behind me and eat me? Check (in sokoban no less). Mistake a floating eye for a bothersome water nymph and get frozen and killed? Check. I recently started spoilering myself more after trying to avoid it in the past. It hasn't helped too much yet, but it's really fun reading about all the stuff I might see in a year.
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Bushibytes posted:Well, my Ranger ended up dying promptly after the screenshot I posted but I ascended my first character tonight. Chaotic Orcish Barbarian, twoweaponing Frost Brand and a silver saber. Fairly easy run, the most tedious part was the plane of fire with my ring of conflict. I ended up taking it off because the turns were way too long. Put on a blindfold and turn off sparkle in your options. Holy poo poo its the greatest thing I've ever heard.
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# ? Mar 23, 2009 14:19 |
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If it's any consolation to J5A you should know I took your Mjolnir with me to the Astral Planes. Forgot to name it though.
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# ? Mar 23, 2009 15:58 |
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I just found an all you can eat Cockatrice buffet. Anyone hungry?
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tripwood posted:I just found an all you can eat Cockatrice buffet. Anyone hungry? Screw cockatrice nests, seriously. Also, in response to the choking death earlier, I still think mine is the best. http://alt.org/nethack/userdata/Cholfo/dumplog/1206136544.nh343.txt Note my resists. And the amulet of magical breathing in my bag. And my spells. And my gear. And my gems. Boy was my face red, I was heading down to beat Rodney around and ascend. The real embarrassment was the mental image, though.
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# ? Mar 23, 2009 17:14 |
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Note to self: NAME wands immediately after engrave identifying them. I've never had a wand of cold do this code:
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welcome posted:Note to self: NAME wands immediately after engrave identifying them. I've never had a wand of cold do this If it's any consolation, that's probably a chameleon. You have (or had) a decent shot of getting upstairs to wait a bit before it ported in any nasties.
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# ? Mar 23, 2009 19:01 |
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No it was definitely an arch-lich. I zapped a wand I thought was cold at a monster behind a boulder in the pit corridor. (It was polymorph.) I was trying to plug the last three pits so I could stand on the upstairs and beat him to death, with Magicbane and magic resistance I was taking no damage on most of his appearances. I figured I could outlast him. Then he did ~40 damage in two psi bolts
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stubblyhead posted:If it's any consolation, that's probably a chameleon. You have (or had) a decent shot of getting upstairs to wait a bit before it ported in any nasties. I always have the worst luck with those bastards. Always something harmless while it's out of range. But once it's with range it's a usually something way out of my ability to handle. Last time it was a Jabberwock that came out of a blind corner to destroy me before I could even E.
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welcome posted:No it was definitely an arch-lich. I zapped a wand I thought was cold at a monster behind a boulder in the pit corridor. (It was polymorph.) Ahh, I see. I had assumed that it was create monster. Have you thought about using 0 for boulders, by the way? Makes sokoban much easier IMO. When you use ` it sometimes makes me think it's one space above where it actually is, making me push it against a wall.
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# ? Mar 23, 2009 19:55 |
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeesss my first ascension! I got some crazy luck:code:
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# ? Mar 23, 2009 22:52 |
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Haha 19 wishes, that's ludicrous. I had a game like that a while back where I was just flooded with magic lamps.
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# ? Mar 23, 2009 23:19 |
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Mini-caster Valk, nice. The first one is a very cool thing, so congrats. How the heck did Excal get to -3 anyhow? EDIT: Wow, didn't even see the Demogorgon kill. I didn't tango with him until many ascensions had passed. Very nice! Smash Daisaku fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Mar 23, 2009 |
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Cy posted:Yeeeeeeeeeeeesss my first ascension! I got some crazy luck: You killed Demogorgon on your first ascension? Wow, my hat goes off to you!
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# ? Mar 23, 2009 23:31 |
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How does a lock pick get rusty?
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# ? Mar 23, 2009 23:55 |
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JawnV6 posted:How does a lock pick get rusty? Fall in water I'd guess?
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# ? Mar 24, 2009 00:16 |
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Man, I hate floating eyes and they ALWAYS seem paired with some random monster.
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# ? Mar 24, 2009 05:52 |
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Brosef Stalin posted:Haha 19 wishes, that's ludicrous. I had a game like that a while back where I was just flooded with magic lamps. 3 wands of wishing + a magic lamp, haha. My second and third wands of wishing randomly exploded on me though, even though I was sure they weren't charged Smash Daisaku posted:Mini-caster Valk, nice. The first one is a very cool thing, so congrats. I engraved something with it for the hell of it since I didn't need it anymore. I had to kill Demogorgon. The high priest of moloch summoned him, and he took the amulet. Had to chase him down and kill him. I didn't even notice I killed him till a dragon dropped the amulet 5 squares away. And yeah I accidentally walked into water like 50 times, I'm lucky I didn't drown. But most of my scrolls blanekd from that.
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# ? Mar 24, 2009 06:55 |
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Wands have a small chance of exploding if zapped when cursed. If you feel like exploiting a bug you can engrave with your wand of wishing rather than zapping it because it won't explode if you do it that way. Also I've killed more woodchucks than Demogorgons
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# ? Mar 24, 2009 07:45 |
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You survived that much inadvertant dunking? And killed Demogorgon? This is ridiculously awesome, you know that, right? Personally, the mutual hatred between me and Nethack has gotten to the point where I'll never, ever have a chance at ascension, but for some reason I do go back to play a quick round every now and again. Most of my deaths come from impatience; unlike some people I do eventually get bored of exercising my wisdom in the dust and counting the turns I can safely flee from leocrottas in. I've never even gotten to Vlad.
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Shady Amish Terror posted:You survived that much inadvertant dunking? And killed Demogorgon? This is ridiculously awesome, you know that, right? That entire game was like proof that dumb luck can prevail. Two wands of wishing before sokoban, then a magic lamp in some dude's bones files around dlvl 13. The guy even got angry at me because it didn't give him a djinni, and he knew I already had two wands, haha.
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