Newbie Questions on Pets (and the zoo following me)
Aftermath Fan
and a scroll of taming, and at present am on Dlvl 7 with two dogs, a
house cat, a large cat, and a white unicorn as pets. This retinue has
proved quite handy for the leprechaun hall on this level. I have some
bananas and there are some Ys not far away so I might have some more
groupies soon...
Questions:
(a) Do pets need to be adjacent to follow you downstairs? I know this
is true for one pet, but what if you have a whole zoo? Getting them
all around me before going downstairs might prove a bit of a
challenge. I haven't found a whistle or leash yet.
(b) Is there a way to suppress the "you displaced your housecat"
messages? They seem pointless. Yes, I'm moving and my cat moved out
of the way...so what?
(c) If a cat/dog/unicorn/ape eats a leprechaun corpse, do they get
teleportitis?
Hmmm...wondering if your pet unicorn will get teleportitis after
helping you dispatch leprechauns. I love this game.
adam....@gmail.com
> (snip for brevity; wizard with a lot of pets)
>
> Questions:
>
> (a) Do pets need to be adjacent to follow you downstairs? I know this
> is true for one pet, but what if you have a whole zoo? Getting them all
> around me before going downstairs might prove a bit of a challenge. I
> haven't found a whistle or leash yet.
Yes. It gets difficult with multiple pets. Be prepared to make
many trips up/down stairs.
>
> (b) Is there a way to suppress the "you displaced your housecat"
> messages? They seem pointless. Yes, I'm moving and my cat moved out of
> the way...so what?
There may or may not be, but the messages can be important...
>
> (c) If a cat/dog/unicorn/ape eats a leprechaun corpse, do they get
> teleportitis?
No. As far as I know, pets don't get intrinsics.
>
> Hmmm...wondering if your pet unicorn will get teleportitis after helping
> you dispatch leprechauns. I love this game.
Me too.
Doug Freyburger
>
> I'm playing a wizard and started with a cat. I found a bunch of tripe
> and a scroll of taming, and at present am on Dlvl 7 with two dogs, a
> house cat, a large cat, and a white unicorn as pets. This retinue has
> proved quite handy for the leprechaun hall on this level. I have some
> bananas and there are some Ys not far away so I might have some more
> groupies soon...
>
> Questions:
>
> (a) Do pets need to be adjacent to follow you downstairs? I know this
> is true for one pet, but what if you have a whole zoo? Getting them
> all around me before going downstairs might prove a bit of a
> challenge. I haven't found a whistle or leash yet.
This limits how many pets are practical. At some point it's
time to pick some of the meaner ones and abandon others.
> (b) Is there a way to suppress the "you displaced your housecat"
> messages? They seem pointless. Yes, I'm moving and my cat moved out
> of the way...so what?
There's an easy way that you probably won't like - Zap
a wand of lightning. It might take a few tries. Firing
several daggers works, too.
It's part of the price of having pets. Let your first pet die
to hunger or abandonment and you don't have the problem.
> (c) If a cat/dog/unicorn/ape eats a leprechaun corpse, do they get
> teleportitis?
Nope. Pets don't get intrinsics.
Raisse the Thaumaturge
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:14:46 -0800, Aftermath Fan wrote:
>> (b) Is there a way to suppress the "you displaced your housecat"
>> messages? They seem pointless. Yes, I'm moving and my cat moved out
>> of the way...so what?
>
> There may or may not be, but the messages can be important...
AFAIK you can't disable the messages except by turning safe_pet off, which
is Not A Good Idea if you want to keep your pets.
>> (c) If a cat/dog/unicorn/ape eats a leprechaun corpse, do they get
>> teleportitis?
>
> No. As far as I know, pets don't get intrinsics.
And can you really tame monkeys or apes with bananas? I must admit that
I've never even thought of trying.
>> Hmmm...wondering if your pet unicorn will get teleportitis after
>> helping
>> you dispatch leprechauns. I love this game.
>
> Me too.
Unicorns have teleportitis already.
Raisse, killed by a black unicorn
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funcrunch
wrote:
> And can you really tame monkeys or apes with bananas? I must admit that
> I've never even thought of trying.
I think you can only do this in Slash'Em (from what I've read; I've
only played vanilla myself).
- funcrunch
Derek Ray
> On Dec 12, 12:59 pm, Raisse the Thaumaturge <rai...@valdyas.org>
>> I've never even thought of trying.
>
> I think you can only do this in Slash'Em (from what I've read; I've
> only played vanilla myself).
And Spork. But not carnivorous apes, of course.
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Boudewijn Waijers
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> (a) Do pets need to be adjacent to follow you downstairs? I know this
> is true for one pet, but what if you have a whole zoo? Getting them
> all around me before going downstairs might prove a bit of a
> challenge. I haven't found a whistle or leash yet.
What you probably need to do is either choose the most valuable pets and
leave the others behind, OR take your pets up and down levels in several
batches: wait until some are next to you, then move down. Wait until
they have moved away on the next level, then go back up yourself. Wait
until some other pets are next to you, and go down again. Wait until no
pets are next to you, then move up again. Rinse and repeat.
A magic whistle is almost imperative here, and is also almost a
necessity when your moving on a dungeon level, since not all pets will
be able to keep up with you around corners...
> (b) Is there a way to suppress the "you displaced your housecat"
> messages? They seem pointless. Yes, I'm moving and my cat moved out
> of the way...so what?
There is no way to suppress this specific message. However, if you're
prepared to suppress several other messages as well, you could set the
"silent" option. This will suppress various messages considered "not
very important" by the Dev Team.
> (c) If a cat/dog/unicorn/ape eats a leprechaun corpse, do they get
> teleportitis?
Nope. Pets don't gain intrinsics other than by polymorphing into a
monster that has these intrinsics (and will of course lose these
intrinsics then they would assume yet another form).
> Hmmm...wondering if your pet unicorn will get teleportitis after
> helping you dispatch leprechauns. I love this game.
Sorry...
Boudewijn.
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