Possible bugs in the tournament's Unique Deaths script

[Eva Myers]

These comments are based on the nethack.alt.org tournament which has
just finished, but the devnull tournament may have the same bugs.

The following deaths listed on
http://sartak.katron.org/nh/tourney/uniquedeaths.txt are completely
impossible to achieve:

.* with a fake Amulet
The game message has "with a fake Amulet" in brackets.

using a magical horn on (him|her)self
The correct message is "killed by using a magical horn on
(him|her)self".

poisoned by a poisoned blast
poisoned by a fall onto poison spikes
There is a comment in mon.c that "Poisoned by a poisoned ___" is
redundant, which makes these deaths impossible. During the
tournament, I was killed by deadly poison on poison spikes and the
death message was "killed by a fall onto poison spikes".

I believe that the first two deaths have been fixed on nao, but not
the second two as far as I know.
Eva.

--
Eva Myers, Computer Officer, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Email: erm...@cam.ac.uk WWW: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/
Ignorance and deception can't save anybody. *Knowing* saves them.

[Andreas Dorn]

Eva Myers wrote:
> The following deaths listed on
> http://sartak.katron.org/nh/tourney/uniquedeaths.txt are completely
> impossible to achieve:
>
> .* with a fake Amulet
> The game message has "with a fake Amulet" in brackets.

Also "escaped (with a fake Amulet)" isn't really a cause of death.

> using a magical horn on (him|her)self
> The correct message is "killed by using a magical horn on
> (him|her)self".

The script still contains some buggy killer-strings from old NH-versions
where the killer-prefix was missing.

(died of )?starvation
(killed by )?a scroll of genocide
(killed by a tower of flame|tower of flame)

Also there is the non-existent 'War' creature. And one of the Medusa
strings is old (Medusa's hideous countenance).

Also the choking-killers contain my very own slime mold :) so I'll not
complain about any weird uniqueness descisions in there.

> There is a comment in mon.c that "Poisoned by a poisoned ___" is
> redundant, which makes these deaths impossible. During the
> tournament, I was killed by deadly poison on poison spikes and the
> death message was "killed by a fall onto poison spikes".

In 2002 I got the "poisoned by a fall onto poison spikes" during the
devnull tournament, IIRC it used to work like this
- poison causes a little ordinary HP-damage
- death by this HP loss -> "killed by"
- death by poison instakill -> "poisoned by"

My own unique-death list still contains the "poisoned by a fall onto
poison spikes" so I must have missed some of the poison-source-changes.

Andreas