Is There A Penalty for Eating Leprechauns on St. Patrick's Day?

alex webb

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Mar 17, 2003, 10:00:19 AM3/17/03

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Well, is there? (And on a Full Moon!)

Alex

-- Happy enough to get to Sokoban, let alone pass it

(And why is the Knight the best equipped to train and steal from shops?)

Mike Stevenson

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Mar 17, 2003, 11:59:53 AM3/17/03

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:00:19 +1100, alex webb <a...@mira.net> wrote:

>Well, is there? (And on a Full Moon!)

if you consider teleportitis a penalty, then yes. otherwise, not
really.

>(And why is the Knight the best equipped to train and steal from shops?)

i've often wondered about this irony myself in between sessions of
cleaning out pakka pakka's general store.

Rob Ellwood

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Mar 17, 2003, 3:27:51 PM3/17/03

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alex webb wrote:
>
> [Is There A Penalty for Eating Leprechauns on St. Patrick's Day?]

Don't just stand there, code it up.

-1 luck for eating a leprechaun on St. Patrick's Day, with
a message to hint that it was a bad idea.

Sometimes +1 luck for eating a leprechaun on other days. Give
it the same odds as for gaining an intrinsic. Plus a message to hint
that something good happened.

--
Rob Ellwood

Dylan O'Donnell

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Mar 17, 2003, 4:30:25 PM3/17/03

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Hmm. I think charisma would be more themely than luck; it'd be a
pain to make one effect intrinsiccy and one not, so I haven't (and
so the effects are more extreme to compensate; charisma isn't important
enough that this'd be a problem. Maxing out CHA from one leprechaun
hall: so what? (Especially since you're almost certain to acquire
teleportitis in the process.))

diff -ur nethack-3.4.1/include/extern.h nethack-3.4.1bis/include/extern.h
--- nethack-3.4.1/include/extern.h Sun Feb 23 14:43:20 2003
+++ nethack-3.4.1bis/include/extern.h Mon Mar 17 20:55:17 2003
@@ -740,6 +740,7 @@
E long FDECL(yyyymmdd, (time_t));
E int NDECL(phase_of_the_moon);
E boolean NDECL(friday_13th);
+E boolean NDECL(st_pats);
E int NDECL(night);
E int NDECL(midnight);

diff -ur nethack-3.4.1/src/eat.c nethack-3.4.1bis/src/eat.c
--- nethack-3.4.1/src/eat.c Sun Feb 23 14:43:26 2003
+++ nethack-3.4.1bis/src/eat.c Mon Mar 17 21:17:37 2003
@@ -909,6 +909,16 @@
}
if(is_giant(ptr)) gainstr((struct obj *)0, 0);

+ if (pm == PM_LEPRECHAUN) { /* can also grant intrinsic */
+ if (st_pats()) {
+ if (adjattrib(A_CHA, -rn1(3,2), TRUE))
+ You_feel("less eloquent today.");
+ } else {
+ if (adjattrib(A_CHA, 1, TRUE))
+ You_feel("the gift of the Blarney!");
+ }
+ }
+
/* Check the monster for all of the intrinsics. If this
* monster can give more than one, pick one to try to give
* from among all it can give.
diff -ur nethack-3.4.1/src/hacklib.c nethack-3.4.1bis/src/hacklib.c
--- nethack-3.4.1/src/hacklib.c Sun Feb 23 14:43:27 2003
+++ nethack-3.4.1bis/src/hacklib.c Mon Mar 17 21:23:50 2003
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
long yyyymmdd (time_t)
int phase_of_the_moon (void)
boolean friday_13th (void)
+ boolean st_pats (void)
int night (void)
int midnight (void)
=*/
@@ -597,6 +598,13 @@
return((boolean)(lt->tm_wday == 5 /* friday */ && lt->tm_mday == 13));
}

+boolean
+st_pats()
+{
+ register struct tm *lt = getlt();
+ return((boolean)(lt->tm_mon == 2 /* March */ && lt->tm_mday == 17));
+}
+
int
night()
{

--
: Dylan O'Donnell http://www.spod-central.org/~psmith/ :
: "Zao bi ercio pase e garst nith dus carab olet paro :
: se volto. Ro se ilsh, se garst ithi." :
: -- Zarf, "Lighan ses Lion" :

bd

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Mar 17, 2003, 5:43:59 PM3/17/03

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Hm. What if the player's hallucinating? :)
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SomeDumbWizard

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Mar 17, 2003, 5:47:02 PM3/17/03

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If you do gain luck by eating a leprochaun, you should get the message:

"You glimpse pink hearts, blue moons, yellow stars, and green clovers"

OR

"The leprochaun was magically delicious!"

"You see red hearts, blue moons,
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Dr. Richard E. Hawkins

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