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Re: YANI: Fear Stormbringer

zana...@gmail.com — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:47:36 UT

Bullshit.
Stormbringer is the best weapon in the game*. It will steal your soul.
Yes, *your* soul. Besides that, its appearance is "runesword". This is
übercool. Its colour is black. This is übercool. It heals the player,
and deals over 9000 damage per hit against most monsters.
Stormy is a great weapons against the said Rodney, Riders and trolls.

Re: YANI: Fear Stormbringer

ralt...@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:02:40 UT

Wrongly. I'll happily use it if I'm given it.
Richard

Re: Never seen this one before. (not really YAFM)

leavemeal...@noemail.net (G-Mon) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:29:06 UT

Happens whenever you move into a creature with the M key. Great way to
avoid attacking peacefuls by accident and getting in or out of a shop
(and the shopkeeper keeps blocking the door), assuming you don't have
Stormbringer.

Re: Strange level setup

janis_papanag...@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:15:32 UT

Well, hard to tell. All the traps made the level very difficult to move
and exploration was slow. Occasionally there was a small heap with some
assorted scrolls or potions or wands etc., often (I think) covered by a
boulder. I expected to see some tombstone or ghost but failed to notice
any. So there wasn't the typical single unique bones heap where all the

YAAP - 5 conducts - athiest wishless polyitemless polyselfless - Pri Hum Fem Neu

martin.ja...@gmail.com (Jared) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:17:00 UT

Gonna keep this as short as I can (I tend to talk too much), I'm proud
of this enough to post but it's not impressive enough for a huge
writeup (by my standards anyway).
Started this character out only intending to keep athiest. Found a
magic lamp in minetown, intending to wish for the Eye of the
Aethiopica, got "You freed me!" Fell into a trap door in minetown (was

Never seen this one before. (not really YAFM)

franklin.sprin...@gmail.com (CountSpatula) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:49:19 UT

I know it's in the code, I'm certain of it. But I've never seen it
before.
"Pardon me, kitten."
Coming about when I'm accidentally moving into the place of my pet.
Nice! Thanks, devteam!

Re: Where is the save file in the Mac OS version?

rdbro...@gmail.com — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:31:33 UT

Nice job completely ignoring his question and delivering some
pointless lectures about cheating, everybody. Yes, we all play
nethack and realize the importance of permadeath. Sometimes we want
to try different things, go back and see previous areas, or return to
a certain game situation without having to use Explore mode.

Re: toys for Archons

no.m...@thank.you (7aboir kinoufo) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:48:07 UT

Derek Ray <de...@moot.its.only.a.spamtra p.org> wrote in
huh! you're most probably right!
That is something that I've seen previously (or think I've seen) on
rgrn, even if cannot find the reference. (both pet or coveteous monster
usage on way up).
Cause I've never tried it in real game, just right now on wizmode which

Re: Strange level setup

martin.ja...@gmail.com (Jared) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:22:55 UT

Was there gear on the level of any use?
-Jared

My (Geoduck's) alternate tile-set

geoduc...@gmail.com (Geoduck) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:01:07 UT

I (Geoduck) don't do much Nethacking or Useneting these days, but I
just got an e-mail about my tileset, so I thought I'd pop in and
remind everyone:
A few years back I created an alternate tileset for both NetHack and
SlashEM, which attempts to strike a balance between the
compactness/simplicity of the original ACSII and the added information

Re: Rotten Food Rations

ayka...@hotmail.com — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:41:07 UT

Old eggs are always rotten (in the "Ugh" sense) unless rejuvenated.

Re: A new message, for me, at least

joao.s.san...@gmail.com (JoaoSantos) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:39:03 UT

On Oct 10, 4:58 am, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanag...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
File pray.c, lines 739-762:
case A_CHAOTIC:
{
char swordbuf[BUFSZ];
Sprintf(swordbuf, "%s sword", hcolor(NH_BLACK));
if (class_gift != STRANGE_OBJECT) {
; /* already got bonus above */

Re: A new message, for me, at least

janis_papanag...@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:58:40 UT

The first message means that you've been crowned; that means you've
got some intrinsic resistancies and a crowning gift from your god.[*]
The second message means that you've got your gift - the runesword
Stormbringer - already by other means and are currently wielding it.
[*] There are some more implicit effects that I omit to mention now.

Re: A new message, for me, at least

leavemeal...@noemail.net (G-Mon) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:19:35 UT

After some quick searching, it looks like a special-case crowning
message for a chaotic non-Monk, non-Wizard character. I don't know
exactly how that message would get generated, but it definitely has
something to do with whether or not Stormbringer has been generated.

A new message, for me, at least

philh...@dont.spam (phil hays) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:58:04 UT

"Thou art chosen to steal souls for My Glory!" Your black sword hums
ominously!
Wonder what this means?