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[Slash'EM] YAAD - Want to sue the canning company...
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wumpus
May 20, 2013, 12:42:38 PM5/20/13
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Howdy,
My latest lycanthrope is dead - long live the (next) lycanthrope. This one was well on his way to ascension, having found a large jewelry store on level 3. I was eventually able to lift not only poly control but also free action (though no slow digestion) from it (and pay the shopkeeper to identify it as well). This seems to have burst the dam of polymorph control; I found three more rings of poly control before even starting the Quests. (Which, of course, means that I won't find another for dozens of games.)
I'd done all the Quests except the Rogue Quest (no cursed teleport scrolls or sources of polymorph). I'd made it down as far as the Spider Caves (on 28), but was having to come back to Lawful on 16 to use the altar for beatitude checking, which works up an appetite. Better use up some of these tins... It's nice being a lycanthrope, as you can eat unfamiliar things without risking cannibalism or pet eating. Of course, I suppose I should be more careful (he thinks after eating yet another unfamiliar tin successfully) - I could run into cockatrice meat, I think, though wouldn't that smell like cockatrices, as I've killed a bunch of them?
(Funny side story about tins - I found another way to be screwed. While dipping for water in the moat of Grund's, I got hungry. OK, let's kill off some tins... Ooops, fried food! There goes Bat from Hell into the moat! Luckily I had an amulet of magical breathing, so I could retrieve it.)
Anyway, so...next tin up - smells like snakes. That's safe enough, I've been poison resistant forever. You turn to stone - DYWYPI? Who the @$#% is tinning asphynx?!? I guess in Slash'EM you've got to watch out for tins that smell like lizard as well? (Could be basilisk?) Really, really don't need more ways to instadie in Slash'EM. (And the moral of the story is NEVER eat anything unfamiliar or snake or lizard or bird smelling unless you are going to die of hunger anyway.)
Argh,
Alex
My latest lycanthrope is dead - long live the (next) lycanthrope. This one was well on his way to ascension, having found a large jewelry store on level 3. I was eventually able to lift not only poly control but also free action (though no slow digestion) from it (and pay the shopkeeper to identify it as well). This seems to have burst the dam of polymorph control; I found three more rings of poly control before even starting the Quests. (Which, of course, means that I won't find another for dozens of games.)
I'd done all the Quests except the Rogue Quest (no cursed teleport scrolls or sources of polymorph). I'd made it down as far as the Spider Caves (on 28), but was having to come back to Lawful on 16 to use the altar for beatitude checking, which works up an appetite. Better use up some of these tins... It's nice being a lycanthrope, as you can eat unfamiliar things without risking cannibalism or pet eating. Of course, I suppose I should be more careful (he thinks after eating yet another unfamiliar tin successfully) - I could run into cockatrice meat, I think, though wouldn't that smell like cockatrices, as I've killed a bunch of them?
(Funny side story about tins - I found another way to be screwed. While dipping for water in the moat of Grund's, I got hungry. OK, let's kill off some tins... Ooops, fried food! There goes Bat from Hell into the moat! Luckily I had an amulet of magical breathing, so I could retrieve it.)
Anyway, so...next tin up - smells like snakes. That's safe enough, I've been poison resistant forever. You turn to stone - DYWYPI? Who the @$#% is tinning asphynx?!? I guess in Slash'EM you've got to watch out for tins that smell like lizard as well? (Could be basilisk?) Really, really don't need more ways to instadie in Slash'EM. (And the moral of the story is NEVER eat anything unfamiliar or snake or lizard or bird smelling unless you are going to die of hunger anyway.)
Argh,
Alex
G-Mon
May 20, 2013, 9:37:17 PM5/20/13
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On 20 May 2013, wumpus <wum...@comcast.net> wrote in
news:68ec12f2-1c2a-4328...@googlegroups.com:
> Howdy,
>
> <game description snipped>
without a warning. Speaking of which, unsafe tins are a good reason to
carry a fat stack of blessed scrolls of food detection: you'll be
warned (once) if you're about to eat something potentially unsafe (e.g.
poisonous corpses if not poison-resistant). Be careful, though--it
won't warn of stunning or hallucinogenic corpses, or if you're about to
eat a Rider (but that last one falls under "Don't do that"). You can
also use the detect food spell, if you can reach Skilled in divination
spells.
More at the wiki: http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Food_appraisal
--
ATTENTION:
Our trolls are kept on a very strict diet.
Please do not feed them.
The Management,
REC.GAMES.ROGUELIKE.NETHACK TREASURE ZOO
news:68ec12f2-1c2a-4328...@googlegroups.com:
> Howdy,
>
> <game description snipped>
>
> Anyway, so...next tin up - smells like snakes. That's safe
> enough, I've been poison resistant forever. You turn to stone -
> DYWYPI? Who the @$#% is tinning asphynx?!? I guess in Slash'EM
> you've got to watch out for tins that smell like lizard as well?
> (Could be basilisk?) Really, really don't need more ways to
> instadie in Slash'EM.
Such things are why I don't play SLASH'EM: too many ways to instadie
> Anyway, so...next tin up - smells like snakes. That's safe
> enough, I've been poison resistant forever. You turn to stone -
> DYWYPI? Who the @$#% is tinning asphynx?!? I guess in Slash'EM
> you've got to watch out for tins that smell like lizard as well?
> (Could be basilisk?) Really, really don't need more ways to
> instadie in Slash'EM.
without a warning. Speaking of which, unsafe tins are a good reason to
carry a fat stack of blessed scrolls of food detection: you'll be
warned (once) if you're about to eat something potentially unsafe (e.g.
poisonous corpses if not poison-resistant). Be careful, though--it
won't warn of stunning or hallucinogenic corpses, or if you're about to
eat a Rider (but that last one falls under "Don't do that"). You can
also use the detect food spell, if you can reach Skilled in divination
spells.
More at the wiki: http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Food_appraisal
--
ATTENTION:
Our trolls are kept on a very strict diet.
Please do not feed them.
The Management,
REC.GAMES.ROGUELIKE.NETHACK TREASURE ZOO
rpresser
May 20, 2013, 10:23:25 PM5/20/13
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Commercial games want you to win.
NetHack doesn't care if you win or lose.
Slash'em wants you DEAD.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/v-m55ENZx_0/GpGiOch4wZMJ
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