This wizard was definitely ascension material. But my own laziness prevented this.
In Orcus town, after killing off Orcus and his minions, I deliberately jumped through an hole. Instead of walking four squares to the staircase. Wielding a cockatrice. *sigh*
It was a good game. The RNG was appeased by disintegrating my only SDSM by overenchanting, so the RNG left me alone.
There were two funny details worth mentioning. As I was swinging the cockatrice corpse in Orcus town, I hit a glass golem, who transformed to a stone golem. Never seen this before.
And Vlad isn't as intelligent as one would think. He zapped a wand of cold at me, it whizzed by me, hit the wall, whizzed by me again and killed Vlad. :-)
Goodbye Sloterdijk the Wizard...
* 2 1461111 Sloterdijk-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha turned to stone in * Gehennom on level 40 [max 41]. Petrified by a cockatrice corpse {59669}. 205 [205]
Patric Mueller <bh...@bigfoot.com> wrote: > There were two funny details worth mentioning. As I was swinging the > cockatrice corpse in Orcus town, I hit a glass golem, who transformed > to a stone golem. Never seen this before.
Raisse the Thaumaturge <rai...@valdyas.org> wrote:
> On Monday 14 June 2004 21:49 Patric Mueller (bh...@bigfoot.com) wrote:
>> Goodbye Sloterdijk the Wizard...
> Why the name?
> Raisse, killed by a wand
Back in '99, when I got my first linux box, I started trying to ascend in Nethack again. I first tried only wizards and thought that appropriate names would be names of philosophers. There are just not enough wizards in the real world and Copperfield is just a silly name.
The names are chosen randomly from a file. Although I don't agree on many issues with Sloterdijk, his name is in this file because he is a contemporary philosopher.
I didn't change the names when I switched to valkyries so my first ascension was a Valkyrie named Wittgenstein. :-)
A YANI would be a philosophers race. How would a philosopher like Kant or Plato act in Nethack when he wants to be true to his philosophy?
My new promising wizard is named Schopenhauer. As in real life he was quite a misanthropist I don't think he would mind to hack his way through the dungeon.
Jukka Lahtinen <juk...@despammed.com> wrote: > Patric Mueller <bh...@bigfoot.com> writes:
>> In Orcus town, after killing off Orcus and his minions, I deliberately >> jumped through an hole. Instead of walking four squares to the >> staircase. Wielding a cockatrice. *sigh*
> You obviously already know this, but as a warning for others:
I knew this even before it happened. I only wield the cockatrice corpse because I already had the level mapped out and there were a lot of monsters Orcus' had summoned. I cleared the level quickly and then my brain must have stopped working as I decided to jump through the hole.
>> NEVER move while wielding a cockatrice. ONLY wield it when you are going > to hit somebody with it, and ALWAYS unwield it before taking a step. > Especially if you are burdened (or worse).
My usual practice is to kill them from a safe distance, check if I wear any gloves and take the corpses and put them into a bag, where they can rot doing no harm.
Jukka Lahtinen wrote: > NEVER move while wielding a cockatrice. ONLY wield it when you are going > to hit somebody with it, and ALWAYS unwield it before taking a step. > Especially if you are burdened (or worse).
I think my biggest groan came when I fell downstairs *onto* the rubber chicken that I had (wisely, I thought) not taken upstairs with me. -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
In article <lzwu29hqch....@bhaak.xodox.com>, bh...@bigfoot.com says...
> And Vlad isn't as intelligent as one would think. He zapped a wand of > cold at me, it whizzed by me, hit the wall, whizzed by me again > and killed Vlad. :-)
I don't think anyone is under the impression Vlad is intelligent or anything but a complete and utter winp. I'm impatiently waiting for the DevTeam to soup up Vlad to a 3*Rider-combo which will generate a massive amount of YASD posts (Yet Another *Surprising* Death).
Eskimo
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On Tuesday 15 June 2004 01:56 Patric Mueller (bh...@bigfoot.com) wrote:
> Raisse the Thaumaturge <rai...@valdyas.org> wrote: >> On Monday 14 June 2004 21:49 Patric Mueller (bh...@bigfoot.com) >> wrote:
>>> Goodbye Sloterdijk the Wizard...
>> Why the name?
[extensive explanation]
Oh! I thought you used names of Dutch railway stations, and we'd have Zwolle the Caveman, Colmschate the Priest and Hardinxveld-Giessendam the Archaeologist next :-)
Raisse the Thaumaturge wrote: > Patric Mueller (bh...@bigfoot.com) wrote: >> Raisse the Thaumaturge <rai...@valdyas.org> wrote: >>> Patric Mueller (bh...@bigfoot.com) wrote: >>>> Goodbye Sloterdijk the Wizard... >>> Why the name? >> [extensive explanation] > Oh! I thought you used names of Dutch railway stations, and we'd have > Zwolle the Caveman, Colmschate the Priest and Hardinxveld-Giessendam > the Archaeologist next :-)
Actually, I was thinking of hospitals. A large Amsterdam hospital is called the Sloterdijk hospital (or was it Slotervaart?).
Luckily, hospitals are often called after female saints, so naming your next characters would be easier (Elisabeth and Maria are our local hospitals).
-- Boudewijn Waijers (bwaijers at home.nl).
Even a mole-hill has a top. - Jac Verheul, petanQue magazine editor, commenting on Dutch "top" petanque players
> Jukka Lahtinen wrote: > > NEVER move while wielding a cockatrice. ONLY wield it when you are going > > to hit somebody with it, and ALWAYS unwield it before taking a step. > > Especially if you are burdened (or worse).
> I think my biggest groan came when I fell downstairs *onto* the > rubber chicken that I had (wisely, I thought) not taken upstairs > with me.
Ouch! I didn't know that! My last cockatrice surprise was when I killed on on an altar and tried to dispose of it by #offering. I didn't know I had to touch it to offer it! -- Wes The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
> Ouch! I didn't know that! My last cockatrice surprise was > when I killed on on an altar and tried to dispose of it by > #offering. I didn't know I had to touch it to offer it!
How exactly would you picture an offering where you don't touch the corpse?
Seraphim <g...@cornell.edu> wrote: > How exactly would you picture an offering where you don't touch the > corpse?
"Yo! Loki! There's a present for you on that altar!" -- Daniel W. Johnson panop...@iquest.net http://members.iquest.net/~panoptes/ 039 53 36 N / 086 11 55 W
>> Ouch! I didn't know that! My last cockatrice surprise was >> when I killed on on an altar and tried to dispose of it by >> #offering. I didn't know I had to touch it to offer it!
> How exactly would you picture an offering where you don't touch the > corpse?
Standing on the altar, on which the corpse is placed, and intoning "please accept my sacrifice, oh great one!"
At least, I was imagining something to this effect before I was bitten by this one. You can certainly sacrifice corpses that you can't lift, so apparently the sacrificial ritual involves some actual hand contact with the corpse.
-- Benjamin Lewis
The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency. -- Albert Einstein
Who do you want to chat with? The philoshper begins to drone..... The ogre falls asleep. The bugbear falls asleep... You feel wise! Do you want to continue chatting? Y The philospher speaks a discordant thought.... The elf hits! The bugbear grabs you! the giant hits.... You die...
>> Ouch! I didn't know that! My last cockatrice surprise was >> when I killed on on an altar and tried to dispose of it by >> #offering. I didn't know I had to touch it to offer it!
>How exactly would you picture an offering where you don't touch the >corpse?
If it's already on the altar, I'd think it'd be either setting the sacrifice aflame or spilling its blood (hey, look - another 'convenient even if grammatically incorrect' use of 'its'!); seems like those've been the most traditional forms of animal sacrifice.
Keiran <furyqba_spam...@yahoo.com> wrote in message <news:q193d09nochn12nj1oun8chuh9jv1467nm@4ax.com>... > If it's already on the altar, I'd think it'd be either setting the > sacrifice aflame or spilling its blood (hey, look - another > 'convenient even if grammatically incorrect' use of 'its'!); seems > like those've been the most traditional forms of animal sacrifice.
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