Why can't I hit myself?
Mark Healey
I'm a tourist and I've made it as far as Medusa without doing the quest
or finding Ludios. Right now the main problem seems to be that my two
magic types or armor are rotting/rusting. I need some cursed scrolls of
destroy armor. I have no unholy water. I have some uncursed scrolls of
remove curse and I had a scroll of confuse monster. I read the scroll of
confuse monster and tried "F." and got the invalid direction key
message. I was trying to slap myself in the hopes that I could read the
remove curse scroll while wielding some water to get unholy water with
which I could curse my destroy armor scrolls and a unicorn horn and
prevent my magic armor from being further eroded.
Fortunately an Umber Hulk showed up and I was able to use a ring of
conflict to get him to confuse me.
But, why couldn't I hit myself?
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Mark Healey
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rpresser
> But, why couldn't I hit myself?
It's just not programmed for it. The only way you can hit yourself is
to use a swingable item (pick-axe, dwarvish mattock, axe, battle-axe,
maybe a few others) and aim it at yourself. While it does do damage to
yourself, it does not activate the confuse monster spell on yourself.
hcobb
You could also throw up. What happens if you try that with
Magicbane? (Don't do it!)
-HJC
G-Mon
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m:
> You could also throw up. What happens if you try that with
> Magicbane? (Don't do it!)
Too late, tried it in wizmode. Usual effects of being hit by MB
(probing, etc.), plus whatever damage you take from chuching a +x
athame into the air.
ayk...@hotmail.com
> I'm a tourist and I've made it as far as Medusa without doing the quest
> or finding Ludios. Right now the main problem seems to be that my two
> magic types or armor are rotting/rusting. I need some cursed scrolls of
> destroy armor.
Bear in mind that confused cursed destroy armor will not repair the
damage already done, but only prevent further erosion.
> I have no unholy water. I have some uncursed scrolls of
> remove curse and I had a scroll of confuse monster.
Cursed confuse monster will confuse yourself. You could also eat
tripe, eggs (has its own risks), quaff booze, use a crystal ball, etc.
Dipping uncursed water into a fountain may silently curse it.
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Canceling ones self can be very bad.
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> Canceling ones self can be very bad.
Not if you take care to drop anything you don't want cancelled. It's
not as if you cancel *yourself* -- your intrinsics don't vanish.
Sometimes I wish they did; starting over to get things like poison
resistance is vastly preferable to teleportitis and aggravate monster.
Raisse, killed by an invisible goblin
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hcobb
> Not if you take care to drop anything you don't want cancelled. It's
> not as if you cancel *yourself* -- your intrinsics don't vanish.
> Sometimes I wish they did; starting over to get things like poison
> resistance is vastly preferable to teleportitis and aggravate monster.
Goto Sokoban (at the right time) and read the right scroll.
Do you need to doff your cloak?
If only there was a fountain there...
-HJC
funcrunch
> You could also throw up. What happens if you try that with
> Magicbane? (Don't do it!)
I intentionally level-drained myself with Stormbringer that way once.
It was kind of fun. Also burned off slime with FireBrand.
- funcrunch
s · reservoir
> Sometimes I wish they did; starting over to get things like poison
> resistance is vastly preferable to teleportitis and aggravate monster.
Inspired me to produce this piece of code:
--- nhw/src/zap.c 2008-09-30 01:10:37.078726055 +0000
+++ nhc/src/zap.c 2008-12-14 00:44:51.261970205 +0000
@@ -2247,6 +2255,29 @@
flags.botl = 1; /* potential AC change */
find_ac();
}
+
+ {
+ int i;
+ for (i = 1; i <= LAST_PROP; ++i)
+ u.uprops[i].intrinsic &= ~INTRINSIC;
+ u.uhunger = 900;
+ if (Upolyd) rehumanize();
+ if (Punished)
+ unpunish();
+ u.ulevel = 1;
+ u.uexp = 0;
+ u.uhp = u.uhpmax = 1;
+ u.uen = u.uenmax = 0;
+ u.ublessed = 0;
+ u.uspellprot = u.usptime = u.uspmtime = 0;
+ flags.female = flags.initgend;
+ u.uluck = 0;
+ }
}
/* now handle special cases */
Also resets character to XL1, rehumanize, reset hunger, gender, luck,
lose any protection, unpunishes, cancelly stuff.
Of course, the reset to XL1 might make some not want to self-cancel.
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"That's it. That's all there is."
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David Damerell
The reset to 1HP, too. Why not reroll starting HP?
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rpresser
Eat what? a - the +3 blessed rustproof Magicbane
You stuff yourself and then vomit voluminously. --more--
Your intestinal flora are cancelled! --more--
You are starving to death even though your stomach is full! --more--
You die ...
OK, now I have to do this for Dudley's Dungeon ...
Link
> confuse monster and tried "F." and got the invalid direction key
> message. I was trying to slap myself in the hopes that I could read the
> remove curse scroll while wielding some water to get unholy water with
> which I could curse my destroy armor scrolls and a unicorn horn and
> prevent my magic armor from being further eroded.
Uncursed confuse monster scrolls do not work on @. However, if you
were polymorphed into a non-@, then read an uncursed confuse monster
scroll, then you would have been automatically confused (I just tested
this in wizard mode).
s · reservoir
> Quoting =?ISO-8859-1?Q?s_=B7_reservoir?= <rot13.fe...@gmail.com>:
>> + u.uhp = u.uhpmax = 1;
>> Of course, the reset to XL1 might make some not want to self-cancel.
>
> The reset to 1HP, too. Why not reroll starting HP?
To discourage self-cancellation. Though one could change it to
+ u.uhp = u.uhpmax = rn1(8,8);
or something similar if one wants.
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"That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe"
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Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
David Damerell
>David Damerell wrote:
>>Quoting =?ISO-8859-1?Q?s_=B7_reservoir?= <rot13.fe...@gmail.com>:
>>>+ u.uhp = u.uhpmax = 1;
>>>Of course, the reset to XL1 might make some not want to self-cancel.
>>The reset to 1HP, too. Why not reroll starting HP?
>To discourage self-cancellation.
Arguably being XL 1 with XL 1 hitpoints is scary enough.
[28 line signature excised - lose that monster!]
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