YAFAP: thomas-Wiz-Elf
Thomas Conner Annandale
basement with my cousin visiting from Germany, on a shitty laptop
that I remember being quite impressed with. Our older cousin, a college
student, had provided us with the game, and impressed us with stories
about being all the way down to level TWENTY and finding some kind of
VAMPIRE.
I got back into nethack sometime late last semester, maybe three months
ago. When a server that a bunch of fellow computer science majors play on
updated to 3.4, I became obsessed with seeing my name in the top three,
and began playing nethack all the time. I wrote a program that rolled
characters for me to help me out. Eventually, my obsession turned to just
beating the game at all, so I started playing on my laptop to get rid of
the lag.
I started to hate the game. I just kept dying, over and over. I would
spend 10 or 20 hours on a promising character only to see it die -- a
single line on the top of the screen pronouncing my wasted efforts like it
was no big deal. Every time I died, I would feel stupid. I've read all
the spoilers. I've played this game for goddamn hours and hours. Why do
I keep making all these stupid mistakes? Why did I just attack that
priest?? Why did I eat that wraith corpse when satiated?? Why was I
standing on the cockatrice corpse when the dust vortex was approaching??
Am I some kind of goddamn retard?? I began to be embarrassed at how much
time I'd spent playing the game. Surely it doesn't take most people this
much time to win? What am I doing wrong? I played nethack so much that I
began to dream about it, and thought about it all during the day when I
wasn't playing. I played it almost all day, every day, for the past few
weeks before I beat it. I fantasized about the day when I could finally
make my YAFAP post and curse at all of you nethack players for being
hopeless fools, chained to this evil, horrible, mindless mockery of a
game, and swear to myself that I'm done with it forever.
But then I beat it, and it was sort of cool, and I mellowed out.
Anyway. My stat-roller gave me a wizard with a spellbook of identify and
intelligence of 20. Altar on level 2 gave me Magicbane. Sokoban gave me
a bag of holding. Found two magic markers and lots of cool scrolls laying
around. Fucked succubi to get to level 17 for teleport control, then ate
a leprecan. Quest was uneventful. Castle WoW (0:1) gave me gauntlets of
power, speed boots, helm of brilliance, and a ring of levitation. Got
Silver Dragon Scales from one of the castle dragons, and turned it into
Scale mail. Went back to mine town and killed the priest for his robe and
spellbooks. At about this point onward, nothing seemed to be able to do
any significant damage to me, and my natural HP regen seemed high enough
for me to not have to worry about it anyway. How exactly is HP regen
figured? And what's the formula for AC's reduction of chance-to-hit and
damage-caused? Gehennom went pretty fast with magic mapping and teleport.
After I found the vibrating square, I made some pots of full healing,
donated my gold, and was off. I only met the Wizard of Yendor at the two
times that were required, in his tower and on the plane of earth. Is this
unusual? Is it because I was blowing through gehennom so fast with
teleport? Earth was easy. Air was easy with ring of conflict. No one
seemed to ever attack me. Fire was easy with conflict and confused gold
detection to find the portal. Again, nothing attacked me. Water was easy
by virtue of me finding the portal randomly after not too many turns, but
how do people usually beat it? Just finding the portal randomly seems
like it might take a really fucking long time. The confused gold
detection just showed me the portal once, and that was it. Is there some
way to see the updated location of the portal each turn, without a zillion
?oGD or a crystal ball and scrolls of charging? Or would dropping a
single zorkmid on each square you stand on to see which ones you've
checked work? Anyway, as before, ring of conflict seemed to keep me from
ever being attacked.
On the Astral plane, I was shitting my pants. I took like a minute
between every single move I made, scared shitless that I would do
something wrong and die. The two angels that started off next to me took
an alarming number of turns to dispatch with just Magicbane, and I was
really scared that one of the riders would come after me and kill my ass
if I took too long. But they finally went down. I started on the left
side. Pestilence was left, Death middle. Pestilence is a much less
scarrier name than fucking DEATH, so I went left. Pestilence went down to
magic missile without even getting a hit off, even though he was right
next to me the whole time. Must've been the ring of conflict. The level
seemed like it would be 100 times harder without conflict. As it was, I
just slowly killed ants and weak priests and shit, making my way to the
altar with seemingly no one even trying to attack me. I never got to find
out what the special attacks of the riders do. Can someone tell me?
Left was the wrong altar, so I waded back through to try the middle. I
used the mass of Angels and priests as a barrier between me and Death, and
someone (not me) eventually killed him and his corpse was swarmed with
ants. Middle was the right altar. I stood on it for about five minutes,
just smiling to myself. I sacrificed. I ascended. Yay.
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Astral Plane $:0 HP:209(226) Pw:194(462) AC:-40 Exp:27 T:57965
What do you want to sacrifice? [zPT or ?*]
T - the Amulet of Yendor
You offer the Amulet of Yendor to Anhur... An invisible choir sings, and you are bathed in radiance...--More--
The voice of Anhur booms: "Congratulations, mortal!"--More--
"In return for thy service, I grant thee the gift of Immortality!" You ascend to the status of Demigod...--More--
Do you want your possessions identified? [ynq] (n)
Amulets
F - the blessed Eye of the Aethiopica (being worn)
X - an uncursed amulet of life saving
Weapons
w - the blessed rustproof +2 Magicbane (weapon in hand)
Armor
f - a blessed +5 silver dragon scale mail (being worn)
k - a blessed fireproof +4 pair of speed boots (being worn)
o - a blessed rustproof +4 pair of gauntlets of power (being worn)
q - a blessed fireproof +4 robe (being worn)
r - a blessed fireproof +4 small shield (being worn)
J - a blessed rustproof +5 helm of brilliance (being worn)
Comestibles
z - an uncursed lizard corpse named deadnigger
I - an uncursed food ration
P - an uncursed lizard corpse
S - 4 uncursed carrots
Scrolls
d - an uncursed scroll of taming
e - a blessed scroll of remove curse
V - a blessed scroll of genocide
Potions
a - an uncursed diluted potion of full healing
p - an uncursed diluted potion of full healing
u - an uncursed potion of paralysis
v - an uncursed potion of full healing
Rings
b - an uncursed ring of conflict (on right hand)
A - a blessed ring of levitation
H - an uncursed ring of free action (on left hand)
Wands
h - a wand of cold (0:4)
n - a wand of teleportation (0:2)
G - a wand of death (0:5)
K - a wand of cold (1:5)
N - a wand of teleportation (0:4)
O - a wand of cancellation named DONT BAG (2:6)
R - a wand of teleportation (0:4)
U - a wand of lightning (3:7)
Z - a wand of teleportation (0:4)
Tools
s - an uncursed stethoscope
t - an uncursed towel
B - a blessed bag of holding
C - a blessed magic lamp (lit)
L - an uncursed lock pick
Y - the Bell of Opening (0:2)
Gems
Q - a blessed luckstone named DONT BAG ME DUMBASS
Contents of the bag of holding:
a wand of teleportation (1:5)
a wand of death (0:4)
a wand of teleportation (0:3)
a tinning kit (0:66)
a blessed scroll of genocide
a wand of cold (0:5)
a wand of fire (0:7)
a wand of sleep (0:4)
a wand of digging (0:7)
a wand of fire (0:5)
a cursed wand of fire (0:4)
a wand of digging (0:2)
a wand of digging (0:7)
an uncursed scroll of blank paper
2 uncursed scrolls of remove curse
a cursed +2 ring of protection
an uncursed amulet of change
an uncursed scroll of teleportation
2 uncursed scrolls of enchant weapon
a wand of wishing (1:0)
an uncursed ring of slow digestion
an uncursed scroll of teleportation
2 uncursed scrolls of enchant armor
a cursed potion of gain level
a wand of polymorph (0:0)
an uncursed potion of enlightenment
3 cursed scrolls of enchant weapon
6 uncursed scrolls of enchant weapon
an uncursed agate stone
2 uncursed jacinth stones
an uncursed amber stone
3 uncursed amethyst stones
3 uncursed diamonds
3 uncursed fluorite stones
an uncursed black opal
3 uncursed diluted potions of full healing
a +0 pick-axe
a fire horn (0:4)
a wand of undead turning (0:5)
a blessed wand of light (0:11)
a wand of digging (0:8)
a wand of create monster (0:11)
an uncursed potion of paralysis
an uncursed amulet of life saving
2 uncursed potions of water
2 uncursed topaz stones
an uncursed jade stone
an uncursed black opal
a wand of enlightenment (0:13)
a wand of fire (0:5)
a wand of speed monster (0:5)
an uncursed spellbook of magic missile
an uncursed spellbook of protection
a wand of create monster (0:11)
an uncursed spellbook of fireball
a wand of fire (1:5)
an uncursed spellbook of confuse monster
an uncursed spellbook of magic mapping
2 blessed scrolls of remove curse
a cursed amulet of life saving
a wand of sleep (0:8)
an uncursed +1 ring of gain constitution
an uncursed spellbook of identify
3 uncursed topaz stones
an uncursed bugle
4 blessed scrolls of blank paper
a blessed wand of cold (0:0)
7 potions of holy water
3 uncursed potions of full healing
an uncursed sapphire
4 uncursed amethyst stones
an uncursed emerald
4 uncursed food rations
an uncursed sapphire
3 uncursed turquoise stones
a +0 unicorn horn
an uncursed pair of lenses
3 uncursed obsidian stones
a cursed scroll of blank paper
10 uncursed scrolls of blank paper
an uncursed ring of polymorph control
9 uncursed scrolls of remove curse
--More--
Do you want to see your attributes? [ynq] (n)
Final Attributes:
You were the Glory of Arioch.
You were piously aligned.
You were fire resistant.
You were cold resistant.
You were sleep resistant.
You were disintegration-resistant.
You were shock resistant.
You were poison resistant.
You were magic-protected.
You saw invisible.
You were telepathic.
You were warned.
You had infravision.
You were invisible to others.
You caused conflict.
You could teleport.
You had teleport control.
You were protected.
You were very fast.
You had reflection.
You had free action.
You were extremely lucky.
You had extra luck.
Good luck did not time out for you.
You survived.
--More--
Do you want an account of creatures vanquished? [ynq] (n)
Vanquished creatures:
Asmodeus
Baalzebub
Orcus
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (twice)
Death
Pestilence
a high priest
Medusa
4 iron golems
a ki-rin
2 titans
a glass golem
2 balrogs
3 purple worms
3 gray dragons
2 silver dragons
a red dragon
2 white dragons
2 black dragons
3 blue dragons
2 green dragons
3 yellow dragons
6 minotaurs
4 jabberwocks
The Dark One
5 baluchitheria
10 Angels
Vlad the Impaler
11 stone golems
2 Olog-hai
3 Nazguls
3 pit fiends
a hell hound
4 titanotheres
a trapper
22 vampire lords
5 skeletons
20 aligned priests
6 captains
4 shades
a clay golem
a nurse
3 ice devils
4 nalfeshnees
5 lurkers above
2 Aleaxes
3 frost giants
an ettin
2 golden nagas
7 black puddings
30 vampires
4 lieutenants
a watch captain
39 ghosts
3 queen bees
3 winged gargoyles
a mind flayer
4 giant mimics
5 zruties
3 fire giants
an ogre king
3 ice trolls
10 rock trolls
5 flesh golems
5 Elvenkings
a doppelganger
4 hezrous
6 bone devils
3 wumpuses
a fire vortex
a baby long worm
a baby purple worm
5 long worms
7 couatls
13 stalkers
13 air elementals
4 fire elementals
3 earth elementals
8 water elementals
a hill giant
4 giant mummies
4 black nagas
13 xorns
22 giant zombies
5 elf-lords
10 sergeants
6 barbed devils
8 vrocks
6 wargs
6 winter wolves
2 hell hound pups
12 small mimics
a glass piercer
10 warhorses
6 steam vortices
6 xans
4 ettin mummies
2 ogre lords
6 quantum mechanics
18 trolls
4 sasquatches
2 wood golems
3 erinyes
2 mariliths
3 djinn
2 gelatinous cubes
5 pyrolisks
3 large dogs
3 freezing spheres
4 flaming spheres
3 shocking spheres
3 large cats
4 tigers
4 gargoyles
a dwarf king
12 tengu
8 ochre jellies
7 leocrottas
7 energy vortices
a mountain centaur
7 stone giants
2 elf mummies
2 human mummies
2 red nagas
3 green slimes
20 pit vipers
a python
19 cobras
45 wraiths
11 carnivorous apes
19 ettin zombies
2 leather golems
a Grey-elf
48 soldiers
4 watchmen
4 horned devils
9 succubi
7 incubi
3 chameleons
6 crocodiles
31 giant beetles
6 quivering blobs
15 cockatrices
12 wolves
17 winter wolf cubs
2 lynxes
5 panthers
30 gremlins
52 leprechauns
2 orc-captains
6 iron piercers
3 mumakil
10 giant spiders
5 scorpions
3 horses
3 ice vortices
4 black lights
57 vampire bats
6 forest centaurs
4 gnome kings
2 orc mummies
6 dwarf mummies
6 ogres
6 brown puddings
8 rust monsters
15 owlbears
3 yetis
3 werewolves
2 Green-elves
15 lizards
4 chickatrices
6 dogs
2 dingos
a housecat
5 jaguars
4 dwarf lords
3 blue jellies
4 white unicorns
6 gray unicorns
7 dust vortices
11 ravens
6 plains centaurs
11 snakes
16 water moccasins
19 apes
23 human zombies
4 rope golems
27 soldier ants
12 fire ants
19 bugbears
3 imps
2 lemures
10 quasits
5 wood nymphs
7 water nymphs
4 mountain nymphs
5 Mordor orcs
9 Uruk-hai
3 orc shamans
10 rock piercers
4 rock moles
7 ponies
11 fog clouds
20 yellow lights
a shrieker
3 violet fungi
22 gnome lords
7 gnomish wizards
6 kobold mummies
a red naga hatchling
5 gray oozes
5 barrow wights
10 elf zombies
18 ghouls
3 straw golems
5 paper golems
57 giant ants
3 little dogs
15 floating eyes
4 kittens
30 dwarves
6 homunculi
3 kobold lords
2 kobold shamans
19 hill orcs
26 rothes
5 rabid rats
a centipede
12 giant bats
6 monkeys
20 orc zombies
16 dwarf zombies
5 wererats
a werejackal
13 iguanas
61 killer bees
20 acid blobs
23 coyotes
6 gas spores
11 hobbits
17 manes
4 large kobolds
17 hobgoblins
12 giant rats
14 cave spiders
2 brown molds
3 yellow molds
5 green molds
3 red molds
73 gnomes
9 garter snakes
16 gnome zombies
15 geckos
19 jackals
6 foxes
6 kobolds
9 goblins
6 sewer rats
15 grid bugs
20 bats
17 lichens
11 kobold zombies
23 newts
2216 creatures vanquished.
--More--
Do you want a list of species genocided? [ynq] (n)
Genocided species:
hobbits
dwarves
bugbears
dwarf lords
dwarf kings
mind flayers
master mind flayers
liches
demiliches
master liches
arch-liches
garter snakes
snakes
water moccasins
pit vipers
pythons
cobras
umber hulks
jellyfish
piranhas
sharks
giant eels
electric eels
krakens
24 species genocided.
--More--
Do you want to see your conduct? [ynq] (n)
Voluntary challenges:
You genocided 24 types of monsters.
You never changed form.
You used 4 wishes.
You did not wish for any artifacts.
--More--
Goodbye thomas the Demigod...
You went to your reward with 2318590 points,
Magicbane (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
The Eye of the Aethiopica (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
The Bell of Opening (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
7 amethyst stones (worth 4200 zorkmids),
5 topaz stones (worth 4500 zorkmids),
3 diamonds (worth 12000 zorkmids),
3 turquoise stones (worth 6000 zorkmids),
3 fluorite stones (worth 1200 zorkmids),
3 obsidian stones (worth 600 zorkmids),
2 jacinth stones (worth 6500 zorkmids),
2 sapphires (worth 6000 zorkmids),
2 black opals (worth 5000 zorkmids),
1 emerald (worth 2500 zorkmids),
1 amber stone (worth 1000 zorkmids),
1 agate stone (worth 200 zorkmids),
1 jade stone (worth 300 zorkmids),
3 amulets of life saving (worth 450 zorkmids),
1 amulet of change (worth 150 zorkmids),
and 0 pieces of gold, after 57965 moves.
You were level 27 with a maximum of 226 hit points when you ascended.
You made the top ten list!
No Points Name Hp [max]
1 2318590 thomas-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha ascended to demigod-hood. 209 [226]
2 356062 thomas-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha was poisoned in The Dungeons
of Doom on level 21 [max 23]. Poisoned by a poisoned
blast. - [138]
3 65670 thomas-Bar-Orc-Fem-Cha died in The Gnomish Mines on
level 7 [max 14]. Killed by an invisible priest of
Crom. - [100]
[(LAPTOP) ~]
--
Thomas
www.boredatheist.com
bd
> Q - a blessed luckstone named DONT BAG ME DUMBASS
LOL!
<snip>
> You made the top ten list!
>
> No Points Name Hp
> [max]
> 1 2318590 thomas-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha ascended to demigod-hood. 209
> [226]
> 2 356062 thomas-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha was poisoned in The Dungeons
> of Doom on level 21 [max 23]. Poisoned by a poisoned
> blast. -
> [138]
Isn't that redundant?
> 3 65670 thomas-Bar-Orc-Fem-Cha died in The Gnomish Mines on
> level 7 [max 14]. Killed by an invisible priest of
> Crom. -
> [100]
> [(LAPTOP) ~]
>
>
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Rast
in article <acpkj7$qre$1...@news-int.gatech.edu>:
> Anyway. My stat-roller gave me a wizard with a spellbook of identify and
> intelligence of 20.
Dude, WEAK.
> and a ring of levitation.
I dunno. I hate to waste a wish on something piddly like this. I bet you
found several more in Gehennom.
> and my natural HP regen seemed high enough
> for me to not have to worry about it anyway. How exactly is HP regen
> figured?
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=86g06xeifj.fsf%40strackenz.spod-
central.org
> And what's the formula for AC's reduction of chance-to-hit and
> damage-caused?
(I think I have this right) If your AC is negative, each time you are
attacked the calculation uses a random number between 0 and your
actual AC. But it ALSO reduces this amount of damage as well. So if you
have -40 AC, the average monster hit on you does 20 less damage. That's
why AC is so good.
> I only met the Wizard of Yendor at the two
> times that were required, in his tower and on the plane of earth. Is this
> unusual?
Somewhat
> Is it because I was blowing through gehennom so fast with
> teleport?
Yes.
> Water was easy
> by virtue of me finding the portal randomly after not too many turns, but
> how do people usually beat it? Just finding the portal randomly seems
> like it might take a really fucking long time. The confused gold
> detection just showed me the portal once, and that was it. Is there some
> way to see the updated location of the portal each turn, without a zillion
> ?oGD or a crystal ball and scrolls of charging? Or would dropping a
> single zorkmid on each square you stand on to see which ones you've
> checked work? Anyway, as before, ring of conflict seemed to keep me from
> ever being attacked.
You can see the portal if it's in the same bubble as you and there's
nothing on top of it, and you've previously detected it. Just wander
around a while and wait for it to come to you, and look out for items
lying around which might have the portal underneath.
> The level
> seemed like it would be 100 times harder without conflict.
Well, the insect summoning makes it a bit easier. Conflict or taming are
great for getting a low-HP character through.
> I never got to find
> out what the special attacks of the riders do. Can someone tell me?
Famine: Lose nutrition. Get satiated on the Plane of water and he's a
pushover.
Death: Lose MAX HP. Could get really ugly. Also I think he does the
touch of death (no worry since you have magic resistance. I'd love to
see YAAP from someone who did the entire planes with no MR)
Pestilence: Sickens you. Causes quite a number of YASDs.
> snakes
> water moccasins
> pit vipers
> pythons
> cobras
Ah yes, the deadly S :)
> 2 356062 thomas-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha was poisoned in The Dungeons
> of Doom on level 21 [max 23]. Poisoned by a poisoned
> blast. - [138]
WTF? Green Dragon breath?
--
NOTE: Bubble Bobble doesn't work in this release. We are aware of that.
Use Bobble Bobble or Super Bobble Bobble instead, they work much better
than Bubble Bobble ever did.
Thomas Conner Annandale
> Ah yes, the deadly S :)
Heh. I was on the plane of water with three blessed genocides left, so I
thought, what the heck?
>> 2 356062 thomas-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha was poisoned in The Dungeons
>> of Doom on level 21 [max 23]. Poisoned by a poisoned
>> blast. - [138]
> WTF? Green Dragon breath?
Yup. :P I guess I erroneously thought that I'd acquired poison
resistance at that point in the game. The post-mortem ID showed a
WoW(0:3) in my bag too, heh.
--
Thomas
www.boredatheist.com
Dayv!
> z - an uncursed lizard corpse named deadnigger
That's a bit tasteless.
--
-Dayv!
"I didn't even know Hitler *had* personal sex midgets!"
Darshan Shaligram
> Anyway. My stat-roller gave me a wizard with a spellbook of
> identify and intelligence of 20.
Rerolling? You do know that's cheating, don't you?
--
Darshan Shaligram dars...@aztec.soft.net
Nick vanRijn
<gte...@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
>I first played nethack maybe... seven years ago? It was down in the
>basement with my cousin visiting from Germany, on a shitty laptop
>that I remember being quite impressed with. Our older cousin, a college
>student, had provided us with the game, and impressed us with stories
>about being all the way down to level TWENTY and finding some kind of
>VAMPIRE.
How long was the college student playing?
>
>I got back into nethack sometime late last semester, maybe three months
>ago. When a server that a bunch of fellow computer science majors play on
>updated to 3.4, I became obsessed with seeing my name in the top three,
>and began playing nethack all the time. I wrote a program that rolled
>characters for me to help me out. Eventually, my obsession turned to just
>beating the game at all, so I started playing on my laptop to get rid of
>the lag.
>
>I started to hate the game. I just kept dying, over and over. I would
>spend 10 or 20 hours on a promising character only to see it die -- a
>single line on the top of the screen pronouncing my wasted efforts like it
>was no big deal. Every time I died, I would feel stupid. I've read all
>the spoilers. I've played this game for goddamn hours and hours. Why do
>I keep making all these stupid mistakes? Why did I just attack that
>priest?? Why did I eat that wraith corpse when satiated?? Why was I
>standing on the cockatrice corpse when the dust vortex was approaching??
>Am I some kind of goddamn retard?? I began to be embarrassed at how much
>time I'd spent playing the game. Surely it doesn't take most people this
>much time to win? What am I doing wrong? I played nethack so much that I
>began to dream about it, and thought about it all during the day when I
>wasn't playing. I played it almost all day, every day, for the past few
>weeks before I beat it. I fantasized about the day when I could finally
>make my YAFAP post and curse at all of you nethack players for being
>hopeless fools, chained to this evil, horrible, mindless mockery of a
>game, and swear to myself that I'm done with it forever.
>
Naive fool.
>But then I beat it, and it was sort of cool, and I mellowed out.
Mellow, man, eat a yellow mold, it's groovy.
>
>Anyway. My stat-roller gave me a wizard with a spellbook of identify and
>intelligence of 20. Altar on level 2 gave me Magicbane. Sokoban gave me
>a bag of holding. Found two magic markers and lots of cool scrolls laying
>around. Fucked succubi
Erm. That gives more mental images than "subbubus dancing"
> to get to level 17 for teleport control, then ate
>a leprecan. Quest was uneventful. Castle WoW (0:1) gave me gauntlets of
>power, speed boots, helm of brilliance, and a ring of levitation. Got
>Silver Dragon Scales from one of the castle dragons, and turned it into
>Scale mail. Went back to mine town and killed the priest for his robe and
>spellbooks. At about this point onward, nothing seemed to be able to do
>any significant damage to me, and my natural HP regen seemed high enough
>for me to not have to worry about it anyway. How exactly is HP regen
>figured? And what's the formula for AC's reduction of chance-to-hit and
>damage-caused? Gehennom went pretty fast with magic mapping and teleport.
>After I found the vibrating square, I made some pots of full healing,
>donated my gold, and was off. I only met the Wizard of Yendor at the two
>times that were required, in his tower and on the plane of earth. Is this
>unusual?
Yup.
> Is it because I was blowing through gehennom so fast with
>teleport? Earth was easy. Air was easy with ring of conflict. No one
>seemed to ever attack me. Fire was easy with conflict and confused gold
>detection to find the portal. Again, nothing attacked me. Water was easy
>by virtue of me finding the portal randomly after not too many turns, but
>how do people usually beat it? Just finding the portal randomly seems
>like it might take a really fucking
**looks restless** Er...
> long time. The confused gold
>detection just showed me the portal once, and that was it. Is there some
>way to see the updated location of the portal each turn, without a zillion
>?oGD or a crystal ball and scrolls of charging? Or would dropping a
>single zorkmid on each square you stand on to see which ones you've
>checked work? Anyway, as before, ring of conflict seemed to keep me from
>ever being attacked.
>
Those theories may actually be good to remember...
>On the Astral plane, I was shitting my pants.
**chews lower lip** Um...
> I took like a minute
>between every single move I made, scared shitless that I would do
>something wrong and die. The two angels that started off next to me took
>an alarming number of turns to dispatch with just Magicbane, and I was
>really scared that one of the riders would come after me and kill my ass
>if I took too long. But they finally went down. I started on the left
>side. Pestilence was left, Death middle. Pestilence is a much less
>scarrier name than fucking
.............
> DEATH, so I went left. Pestilence went down to
>magic missile without even getting a hit off, even though he was right
>next to me the whole time. Must've been the ring of conflict. The level
>seemed like it would be 100 times harder without conflict. As it was, I
>just slowly killed ants and weak priests and shit,
Okay, do most people curse like this on rgrn and I just didn't notice?
Yeah, dumbass.
Hmm, wonder when we'll be seeing the snipping of this...
Yeah, um, most people snip part of this by now...
You're new here, aren't you?
Only two?
Whaddya have against snakes?
Darshan Shaligram
> On Sun, 26 May 2002 03:25:27 +0000 (UTC), Thomas Conner Annandale
^^^^^^^^^^^
Was there any reason to drag this post out of the grave?
[snip hundreds of untrimmed lines from Thomas' YAFAP]
> Hmm, wonder when we'll be seeing the snipping of this...
A little verbosity in a FAP is excusable; you should have snipped them
yourself when following up. If you don't trim out unnecessary lines,
you make your post as objectionable as a top-post.
--
Darshan Shaligram dars...@aztec.soft.net
Dayv!
> On Sun, 26 May 2002 03:25:27 +0000 (UTC), Thomas Conner Annandale
> <gte...@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
<snip>
>>2 Olog-hai
>>3 Nazguls
>>3 pit fiends
>
> Hmm, wonder when we'll be seeing the snipping of this...
>
>>a hell hound
>>4 titanotheres
<snip again>
>>10 rock trolls
>>5 flesh golems
>>5 Elvenkings
>
> Yeah, um, most people snip part of this by now...
>
>>a doppelganger
>>4 hezrous
>>6 bone devils
<snip once again>
>>7 leocrottas
>>7 energy vortices
>
> You're new here, aren't you?
>
>>a mountain centaur
>>7 stone giants
<snip some more>
>>3 werewolves
>>2 Green-elves
>
> Only two?
>
>>15 lizards
>>4 chickatrices
<keep on snippin'>
You know, I think that if I really wanted to look like a hackass, one
of the first things I would do would be to complain about the length of
someone's post WITHOUT EDITING OUT ANY OF THEIR ORIGINAL TEXT. But that
might just be me.
Dayv!
>
> You know, I think that if I really wanted to look like a hackass,
Ooh, neat, I made up a new word.
Robert
"Nick vanRijn" <nvan...@home.com> schreef in bericht
news:3d5a5a0e...@nntp.rchrd.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
> On Sun, 26 May 2002 03:25:27 +0000 (UTC), Thomas Conner Annandale
> <gte...@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> >just slowly killed ants and weak priests and shit,
>
> Okay, do most people curse like this on rgrn and I just didn't notice?
>
"Fuck fuckerdie fuck fuck fuck. It doesn't hurt anybody."
- Cartman
Robin Johnson
[a response to a three-month old YAFAP, quoting the entire thing,
with a few original lines telling the original poster off for
swearing and not snipping his inventory/kills list. You quoted
nearly 700 lines and added 14 of your own. Do you want your
possessions identified?]
Please don't do that.
--
Robin Johnson
rj at robinjohnson dot f9 dot co dot uk
http://www.robinjohnson.f9.co.uk
Nick vanRijn
r...@NO-SPAM-PLEASE.robinjohnson.f9.co.uk (Robin Johnson) wrote:
>nvan...@home.com (Nick vanRijn) hypothesised:
>
> [a response to a three-month old YAFAP, quoting the entire thing,
> with a few original lines telling the original poster off for
> swearing and not snipping his inventory/kills list. You quoted
> nearly 700 lines and added 14 of your own. Do you want your
> possessions identified?]
>
>Please don't do that.
I officially ad humbly apologize to everyone I offended.