theta's speed ascension - 5456 turns?!?
ste...@nycap.rr.com
speed game by 90 or so turns, I was casually trying to post a better
mark. Then I looked this morning and saw theta ascended in 5456
turns. OMG!
Hey, theta, how about describing your fastest (ever?) ascent? Was
there some early wishes or a really good bones file? Or are you just
that good?
Congratulations on an incredibly fast game.
--
steveyo
James Willson
Minetown bones file had an ascention kit. :)
(Three graves on that level, all from spuds)
Should be recorded by the devnull system, for those interested.
My record without early bones/wishing wand is 7726, here
http://alt.org/nethack/ttyrec/Theta/2007-05-06.02:21:20.ttyrec.bz2
--
Christian Bressler
: [Holy cow! theta ascended in 5456 turns. OMG!]
: Hey, theta, how about describing your fastest (ever?) ascent? Was
: there some early wishes or a really good bones file? Or are you just
: that good?
Theta (James Willson) is just that good, at least in my unworthy opinion.
: Congratulations on an incredibly fast game.
Congtrats too, and complete the monty please.
: --
: steveyo
Marvin
hh...@thinksystem.net
> stev...@nycap.rr.com wrote:
> >Holy cow! Since behiker57w posted a 9142-turn game, and only beat my
> >speed game by 90 or so turns, I was casually trying to post a better
> >mark. Then I looked this morning and saw theta ascended in 5456
> >turns. OMG!
>
> (Three graves on that level, all from spuds)
>
OK, I have finally picked my jaw back up again after seeing that
number of turns for an ascenesion.
Now I want to know: what the heck was in Minetown that was able to
kill off at least one well-equiped adventurer and two others?
My guess: a chameleon posing as a Minotaur. That's what ended one game
of mine. (And nearly a second when it left a bones file.)
(A second guess is the imfamous gnome with a death wand, but I would
have expected a well-equiped adventurer to have reflection or magic
resistance.)
--
-Harold Hill
James Willson
"hh...@thinksystem.net" <hh...@thinksystem.net> wrote:
>
>Now I want to know: what the heck was in Minetown that was able to
>kill off at least one well-equiped adventurer and two others?
>
A priest, his own ghost, and a grue.
--
Linden
>
> My guess: a chameleon posing as a Minotaur. That's what ended one game
> of mine. (And nearly a second when it left a bones file.)
> -Harold Hill
Thank you for mentioning this.
I lost a promising Valk to a Minotaur in the mines last night.
(Promising for me -- still working on getting a star by the end of
today.) I'd never seen one outside of my short stint below Medusa's
level two years ago.
Now I suspect it might have been a chameleon.
--
Linden
Rast
James Willson (jk...@yahoo.com) wrote:
>
> ste...@nycap.rr.com wrote:
> >Holy cow! Since behiker57w posted a 9142-turn game, and only beat my
> >speed game by 90 or so turns, I was casually trying to post a better
> >mark. Then I looked this morning and saw theta ascended in 5456
> >turns. OMG!
Congrats theta!
> My record without early bones/wishing wand is 7726, here
> http://alt.org/nethack/ttyrec/Theta/2007-05-06.02:21:20.ttyrec.bz2
Wow. I'm going to have to watch that later.
--
"Sometimes I stand by the door and look into the darkness. Then I
am reminded how dearly I cherish my boredom, and what a precious
commodity is so much misery." -- Jack Vance
Henry J Cobb
Zap it with just about any wand.
Sleep is nice.
Then kill it before it gets all lichy on you.
-HJC
hh...@thinksystem.net
A grue you say? Well, that is a lesson for you kids ... always keep a
have a source of light when exploring the Dungeons of Doom.
--
-Harold Hill