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Murphoid

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Dec 15, 2005, 1:48:53 PM12/15/05
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And now I am randomly jumping all over the screen. I hope this will
go away. Any advice? Is there a way to remove this? I will live with
it if I have to I am almost 15th level and this is as far as I have
gotten in the game.

Elgar

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Dec 15, 2005, 1:54:08 PM12/15/05
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it wont just go away. There are ways to deal with it, or having it
removed, but ill let someone else spoil that :)

JH

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Dec 15, 2005, 1:56:13 PM12/15/05
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It won't go away on its own, there is one way to get rid of it but it is not
recommended.


However, if you get teleport control from a ring, then it can be extremely
useful.


--
-JH
Ascended V,A,W(x2),B,K,Ro,C,S(x2),H,T,Ra,P


hh...@thinksystem.net

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Dec 15, 2005, 2:09:12 PM12/15/05
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Just keep going. I once spent around 30000 turns that way, but the
character did ascend. By the way, is there any chance that you are
playing a monk or a wizard? If so, a couple more levels would be
helpful. Or, there is something you could eat, something you could
wear, something you could carry, and a couple of more complicated ways
of having this be less of a problem.

A good source for spoilers:
www.steelypips.org/nethack

--
-Harold Hill

Andrew Kerr

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Dec 15, 2005, 2:25:13 PM12/15/05
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In article news:<11q3f2e...@corp.supernews.com>, JH says...

> Murphoid wrote:
> > And now I am randomly jumping all over the screen. I hope this will
> > go away. Any advice? Is there a way to remove this? I will live
> > with it if I have to I am almost 15th level and this is as far as I
> > have gotten in the game.
>
> It won't go away on its own, there is one way to get rid of it but it is not
> recommended.
>
>
> However, if you get teleport control from a ring, then it can be extremely
> useful.

Or intrinsic teleport control from eating a tengu corpse. A single
corpse is unlikely to grant that intrinsic though.

Eat tengu!

Murphoid

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Dec 15, 2005, 3:01:21 PM12/15/05
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Ok, So what's this unrecomended option no one will tell me about?
Thanks JH and Elgar.

Kremti

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Dec 15, 2005, 3:02:19 PM12/15/05
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hh...@thinksystem.net wrote:
> Murphoid wrote:
> > And now I am randomly jumping all over the screen. I hope this will
> > go away. Any advice? Is there a way to remove this? I will live with
> > it if I have to I am almost 15th level and this is as far as I have
> > gotten in the game.
>
> Just keep going. I once spent around 30000 turns that way, but the
> character did ascend. By the way, is there any chance that you are
> playing a monk or a wizard? If so, a couple more levels would be
> helpful. Or, there is something you could eat, something you could
> wear, something you could carry, and a couple of more complicated ways
> of having this be less of a problem.

Or if you are playing a rogue...do the quest!

-K

Andrew Kerr

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Dec 15, 2005, 3:11:34 PM12/15/05
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ManaUser

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Dec 15, 2005, 3:18:05 PM12/15/05
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Murphoid wrote:
> Ok, So what's this unrecomended option no one will tell me about?
> Thanks JH and Elgar.

The teleporting intrinsic can be stolen be a gremlin at night. But they
can steal intrinsics you want to keep to, so it probably isn't a good
idea to stand around and let them hit you.

--
My email address: http://manauser.info/email.gif

Andrew Kerr

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Dec 15, 2005, 4:25:54 PM12/15/05
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In article news:<1134673496.0...@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Murphoid says...

> Ok, So what's this unrecomended option no one will tell me about?

Being hit by a gremlin at night has a chance of removing a random
intrinsic, most of which you won't want to lose.

Kremti

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Dec 15, 2005, 5:03:06 PM12/15/05
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As others have mentioned, gremlins at night can steal an intrinsic when
they hit you. Unfortunately, they will steal a random one each time
they hit you, so you are likely to lose bunch of useful intrinsics
(devine protection, resistances, telepathy, etcs) before you finally
get rid of teleportitus. It will be easier for you to just find a way
to aquire teleport control (which makes teleportitus rather useful,
since you can then teleport at will).

OK, assuming you are not plaing wizards, monks, or rogues, your best
bet is:

1. Identify all of your unknown rings, see if any of them a ring of
teleport control.

2. Find/Identify your scrolls of genocide, find a way to curse it, or,
write cursed one, and reverse-genocide tengu in a non-teleport level
(Castle, Ludios, Sokoban, etcs), kill and eat the corpses.

3. Wish for a ring.

You will eventually want to do option #2, since Teleportitus + Teleport
Control combo is very useful, and if you have the intrinsic teleport
control, it'll free up your ring slot to wear something else.

Good luck!

-K

Kremti

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Dec 15, 2005, 5:23:52 PM12/15/05
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Oh yeah, I forgot another possibility. If you don't find the right
ring or scrolls, try polypiling as well.

-K

Douglas Henke

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Dec 15, 2005, 5:45:02 PM12/15/05
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"Murphoid" <Murp...@gmail.com> writes:
> [ got teleportitis; how to get rid of it? ]

> Ok, So what's this unrecomended option no one will tell me about?

At night, gremlins have a chance of stealing random
intrinsics. Letting them do that intentionally is typically a poor
option, because by the time you encounter a gremlin, you've likely got
lots of other intrinsics you really want to keep.

Ladies and gentlemen of rec.games.roguelike.nethack,

Eat tengu.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, eating tengu would
be it. The long-term benefits of tengu-eating have been proven by
experienced tournament-decorated players, whereas the rest of my
advice has no basis more reliable than my own pigheaded, ignorant
biases and prejudices. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of the early game. Oh, never mind. You will
not understand the power and beauty of the early game until you're on
the fifteenth level of Gehennom with no magic mapping and bored out of
your skill. But trust me, in 25000 moves, you'll look back at how
excited you were about finding a +2 orcish helmet on Dlvl 1.

Don't worry about Astral. Or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to kill an Olag-hai behind a boulder by throwing
rocks at it. The real troubles in your game are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you when
you're in the middle of a summoning storm and some Herzou with a
bullwhip swipes the someone-else's-quest-artifact that's your only
source of MR. Do one thing every day that annoys your god.

[a]pply flutes.

Don't be reckless with cockatrice corpses. Don't put up with soldiers who
pick them up and swing them at you.

Make poison resistance an early priority.

Don't waste your time on score. Sometimes you end up on the list,
sometimes you don't. The race is long and, in the end, it's only among
the players bored enough to hang out all bloody day killing the
endgame riders over and over. Remember conducts you kept. Forget the
YASDs. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old
scorelists. Throw away your old bones files.

Push boulders around on Soko until your strength is reasonable.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what class, race, gender or
alignment you want to play. The most interesting people I know just
let the game pick, or use a script to try random combinations they've
not yet ascended. Hoard plenty of K-rations. Make good use of your
starting pet. You'll miss him when he's gone. Maybe you'll get
crowned, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll raid Ludios, maybe you
won't. Maybe you'll put on a ring of conflict in the middle of the
room with your Quest Leader for the pure hell of it. Whatever you do,
don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either
(unless you blew up your bag of holding). Your choices are half
chance. So are everybody's else's, except for Marvin's.

Enjoy your controlled self-polys. Use them every way you can. Don't be
afraid of the variety of really cheap abuses you can pull this
way. Eating rings and amulets is the best pre-run gimmick since altar
squatting.

Run knights, even if you keep getting called "Caitiff!" for attacking
a creature that smacked you just previously.

Read the Guidebook and do what it damn well says. You think the Dev
Team wrote that just to hear the sounds of their own keyboards?

Don't read unID-ed scrolls. What, are you trying to die on purpose?

Get to know the sources. You never know when you'll be playing on a
box with no 'net connection and no local copy of the source tree. The
code is your best link to the Dev Team and will amuse you as much as
the game itself.

Understand that silly front-ends come and go, but nethack is really
all about textmode. Work hard to learn hjklyubn, because you'll be
prepared when you want to play on a laptop, or a BTC-5100 mini, or
edit a file in vi.

Play Angband once, but quit before you convince yourself you actually
like all style and no substance. Play Larn once, because that's
probably all it'll take for you to win. If anyone tries to get you to
play an MMORPG, hit them in the noise-hole with a thick InterLISP
manual.

Accept certain inalienable truths. Ants are fast and spawn in
groups. Nymphs wake up at inopportune times. The watch captain is
always in your way when you want to move northwest. You, too will die
YASD. And when you do, you'll fantasize about how easy the end game
would have been with that -53 AC you had, and wonder why it had to be
on a no-bones level.

Respect Izchak.

Don't expect anyone on the 'froup to agree with you. Maybe you think
that disenchanters are annoying. Maybe you think the sky is blue. But
don't be surprised when you get flamed for saying it.

Don't #adjust your inventory too much or you'll end up with a
cockatrice corpse as "y". Be patient with other Usenet posters and
remember that there's a living person behind the words on the
screen. Unless they're some mouth-breathing cretin who didn't bother
to try something in wizmode before spouting off about it.

But trust me on the tengus.

(Attribution, dammit: Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune)

Gary Olson

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Dec 15, 2005, 6:33:30 PM12/15/05
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Dangerous, this can be.
Annoying, certainly it is.
Train you must; your greatest ally a teleport can be.

robin

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Dec 15, 2005, 6:29:23 PM12/15/05
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In message <x6vexq9f...@kharendaen.krall.org>, Douglas Henke wrote:
..

> (Attribution, dammit: Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune)

That was _really_ good.

Thanks,
-robin

BTW: I don't know who Mary Schmich is, but that reads just like the Three Dead
Trolls in a Baggie (see <http://www.deadtroll.com>) song called
"The Sunscreen Marketing Board Presents".


Adam Thornton

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Dec 15, 2005, 7:44:54 PM12/15/05
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In article <11q3vah...@corp.supernews.com>,

Gary Olson <gary...@pobox.NOSPAM.com> wrote:
>Dangerous, this can be.
>Annoying, certainly it is.
>Train you must; your greatest ally a teleport can be.

Yeah, but you can only get the TC intrinsic by eating Yoda if you're
playing Slashem.

Adam

Jym

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Dec 15, 2005, 7:00:39 PM12/15/05
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:03:06 +0100, Kremti <kre...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Murphoid wrote:
>> And now I am randomly jumping all over the screen. I hope this will
>> go away. Any advice? Is there a way to remove this? I will live with
>> it if I have to I am almost 15th level and this is as far as I have
>> gotten in the game.
>
> As others have mentioned, gremlins at night can steal an intrinsic when
> they hit you. Unfortunately, they will steal a random one each time
> they hit you, so you are likely to lose bunch of useful intrinsics
> (devine protection, resistances, telepathy, etcs) before you finally
> get rid of teleportitus. It will be easier for you to just find a way
> to aquire teleport control (which makes teleportitus rather useful,
> since you can then teleport at will).
>
> OK, assuming you are not plaing wizards, monks, or rogues, your best
> bet is:
>
> 1. Identify all of your unknown rings, see if any of them a ring of
> teleport control.

price-iding before will drastically reduce the number of ring to id/test.

> 2. Find/Identify your scrolls of genocide, find a way to curse it, or,
> write cursed one, and reverse-genocide tengu in a non-teleport level
> (Castle, Ludios, Sokoban, etcs), kill and eat the corpses.

Definitely the best way, of course. But ring is a good medium-term way
(that is until you can reverse geno tengus).

> You will eventually want to do option #2, since Teleportitus + Teleport
> Control combo is very useful, and if you have the intrinsic teleport
> control, it'll free up your ring slot to wear something else.

Actually, I even start to eat nymph food asap since it's so useful later.
Early teleportitis is not such a bad deal, especially if you have a magic
whistle with you.

--
Hypocoristiquement,
Jym.

Jym

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Dec 15, 2005, 7:08:05 PM12/15/05
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Eating Yoda gives the "put words in wrong order" intrinsic. Then, it's
easier to 'mispronunce the magic words' than to read a bloody
scroll/book/E-word/... correctly.

"In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in
proper order why can't he ?"
(random unix-fortune)

--
Hypocoristiquement,
Jym.

Josh Rambo

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Dec 15, 2005, 7:08:40 PM12/15/05
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hmmm... Methinks Marvin has far more of a claim to be the local Yoda
than yourself...

nikolai kingsley

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Dec 15, 2005, 7:43:07 PM12/15/05
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>>However, if you get teleport control from a ring, then it can be extremely
>>useful.
>
> Or intrinsic teleport control from eating a tengu corpse. A single
> corpse is unlikely to grant that intrinsic though.
>
> Eat tengu!


i have no joke here

i just like saying

KFT, mmm-mm!

alex...@gmail.com

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Dec 15, 2005, 10:01:03 PM12/15/05
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robin wrote:
>
> BTW: I don't know who Mary Schmich is, but that reads just like the Three Dead
> Trolls in a Baggie (see <http://www.deadtroll.com>) song called
> "The Sunscreen Marketing Board Presents".

She was a columnist for the Chicago Tribune who wrote a very famous
graduation speech:

http://www.freemaninstitute.com/advice.htm

Read them each once, then compare them side-by-side. I've seen
that speech parodied many times before, but this was brilliantly done.

--
Alex

Douglas Henke

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Dec 15, 2005, 10:45:02 PM12/15/05
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robin <use...@unrated.net> writes:
> In message <x6vexq9f...@kharendaen.krall.org>, Douglas Henke wrote:
> > [ Eat Tengu. ]

> > (Attribution, dammit: Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune)
>
> That was _really_ good.

Thanks.

> BTW: I don't know who Mary Schmich is, but that reads just like the
> Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie (see <http://www.deadtroll.com>) song
> called "The Sunscreen Marketing Board Presents".

That's because 3DT and I are both pardoying the same original source,
which ISTR was a speech to a graduating class.

Andrew Kerr

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Dec 16, 2005, 4:33:33 AM12/16/05
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In article news:<1134684185.9...@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
Kremti says...

> 1. Identify all of your unknown rings, see if any of them a ring of
> teleport control.

1a Gain a new ring from each sink by kicking it.

1b As Kremti says elsewhere, rings can be polypiled.

1c It may be possible to eat a ring of teleport control by polying into
a Xorn, depending on its description. Each ring consumed has a (IIRC)
1/3 chance of granting the intrinsic.

Murphoid

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Dec 16, 2005, 9:43:25 AM12/16/05
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Thank you for the note.

It did not fall on deaf ears.

I will eat every tegu and squat every altar.

Regards,
Murphoid.

Elizabeth Funderburk

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Dec 16, 2005, 10:16:59 AM12/16/05
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Douglas Henke wrote:
> "Murphoid" <Murp...@gmail.com> writes:
> > [ got teleportitis; how to get rid of it? ]
> > Ok, So what's this unrecomended option no one will tell me about?
>
> At night, gremlins have a chance of stealing random
> intrinsics. Letting them do that intentionally is typically a poor
> option, because by the time you encounter a gremlin, you've likely got
> lots of other intrinsics you really want to keep.

I will chime in and agree with the recommendations that it's really
stupid to let gremlins eat your intrinsics. However, my current arc
got teleportitis - and *nothing* but teleportitis - stolen by one of
about 50 gremlins on Medusa's level. It does work, just realize that
if it does, you've just used up all the luck the RNG is willing to
grant for a long time.

> Ladies and gentlemen of rec.games.roguelike.nethack,
>
> Eat tengu.

<snip fantastic parody advice>

Also, this is brilliant!
Anybody up to do a "Choose Nethack" speech, a la Trainspotting?
<wicked grin>

-Elizabeth

dogscoff

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Dec 16, 2005, 11:43:14 AM12/16/05
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Elizabeth Funderburk wrote:

> Douglas Henke wrote:
> > Ladies and gentlemen of rec.games.roguelike.nethack,
> >
> > Eat tengu.
> <snip fantastic parody advice>
>
> Also, this is brilliant!
> Anybody up to do a "Choose Nethack" speech, a la Trainspotting?
> <wicked grin>

Choose Nethack. Choose a Class. Choose a race. Choose a gender. Choose
a fucking big weapon, choose +0 rusty orcish helms, cursed blindfolds,
fumble boots and tins of stir fried kobold. Choose poison resistance,
magical breathing and uncontrolled teleportitis. Choose bags of holding
so stuffed with worthless gold pieces you can barely lift them. Choose
Izchak. Choose elven armour and matching weaponry. Choose reading
scrolls of enchant armour on dragon scales in a range of fucking
colours. Choose putting on an unIDed ring of polymorph and wondering
what the fuck you are twelve turns later. Choose sitting on that altar
#offering up festering, stinking corpses by the legion to some fucking
ingrate of a deity. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, fighting
your last as a bones file ghost, nothing more than an obstacle to the
doomed, desperate YASDs-in-waiting you rolled to replace yourself.

Choose your alignment.

Choose nethack.

Kristoffer Björkman

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Dec 16, 2005, 12:53:43 PM12/16/05
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In news:<x6vexq9f...@kharendaen.krall.org>, Douglas Henke
<he...@kharendaen.dyndns.org> says...

> Ladies and gentlemen of rec.games.roguelike.nethack,
> Eat tengu.
<snipsnipsnip>

Wow. Wonderful. Thanks! :)

/Kristoffer

--
This cookie has a scrap of paper inside. It reads:
Gurl fnl gung vs lbh fyrrc jvgu n qrzba lbh zvtug njnxr jvgu n urnqnpur.

Kristoffer Björkman

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Dec 16, 2005, 12:54:54 PM12/16/05
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In news:<1134751394....@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>, dogscoff
<dogs...@eudoramail.com> says...

> Choose Nethack. Choose a Class. Choose a race. Choose a gender. Choose
> a fucking big weapon, choose +0 rusty orcish helms, cursed blindfolds,
> fumble boots and tins of stir fried kobold. Choose poison resistance,
> magical breathing and uncontrolled teleportitis. Choose bags of holding
> so stuffed with worthless gold pieces you can barely lift them. Choose
> Izchak. Choose elven armour and matching weaponry. Choose reading
<snipsnipsnip>

Also very nice reading, thanks! :)

/Kristoffer

--
This cookie has a scrap of paper inside. It reads:

Gurl fnl gung vs lbh gryrcbeg gb urnira lbh'er cerfhzrq gb or qrnq
nyernql.

Rast

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Dec 16, 2005, 1:13:44 PM12/16/05
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Douglas Henke wrote:
> Ladies and gentlemen of rec.games.roguelike.nethack,
>
> Eat tengu.

Robin's right: that was *really* good.

But I think "wear conflict" is even better advice.

--
"Ruleless 'law' will be a political weapon and control of the
judiciary will therefore be a political prize. 'Democracy' will
consist of the chaotic struggle to influence decision makers who are
not responsive to elections." -- Robert Bork

Douglas Henke

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Dec 16, 2005, 2:15:03 PM12/16/05
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"Murphoid" <Murp...@gmail.com> writes:
> I will eat every tegu and squat every altar.

In terms of actual advice that's intended to be helpful rather than
fit the form of another work for parody's sake:

Don't eat every tengu; you're apt to give yourself teleportitis without
getting teleport control, which (as you've discovered) is annoying and
dangerous.

Eat them when you already have teleport control (intrinsic or not),
when you already have teleportitis, or when you have enough of them
all at once to have a good chance of getting intrinsic control.

One good method is to use a tinning kit. If you're desperate, a
cursed ?oGenocide on a non-teleport level can work too.

Richard Bos

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Dec 16, 2005, 7:53:41 PM12/16/05
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"dogscoff" <dogs...@eudoramail.com> wrote:

> Choose Nethack. Choose a Class. Choose a race. Choose a gender. Choose
> a fucking big weapon, choose +0 rusty orcish helms, cursed blindfolds,
> fumble boots and tins of stir fried kobold. Choose poison resistance,
> magical breathing and uncontrolled teleportitis. Choose bags of holding
> so stuffed with worthless gold pieces you can barely lift them. Choose
> Izchak. Choose elven armour and matching weaponry. Choose reading
> scrolls of enchant armour on dragon scales in a range of fucking
> colours. Choose putting on an unIDed ring of polymorph and wondering
> what the fuck you are twelve turns later. Choose sitting on that altar
> #offering up festering, stinking corpses by the legion to some fucking
> ingrate of a deity. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, fighting
> your last as a bones file ghost, nothing more than an obstacle to the
> doomed, desperate YASDs-in-waiting you rolled to replace yourself.
>
> Choose your alignment.
>
> Choose nethack.

That was a challenge, wasn't it? Oh, it wasn't? Well, too late now. Here
it is: <http://www.xs4all.nl/~rlbos/NetHackspotting.pdf>.

Richard

Jove

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Dec 16, 2005, 10:42:05 PM12/16/05
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Travel command research you should. (Yoda, a**hole he is.)


--
All the best,

Jove

BandC

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Dec 16, 2005, 10:42:15 PM12/16/05
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Hmm... It was suggested to eat a tengu to cure teleportitis right? Well,
my Barb didn't have teleportitis and I ate a tengu. I got a "You feel
very jumpy" message and teleportitis. Is this like an on/off switch
kinda thing? You eat a tengu and you either contract/cure teleportitis?

ManaUser

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Dec 16, 2005, 10:48:37 PM12/16/05
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No, what it will do is give you teleport control, so the telporting
becomes an asset instead of a liability. But as you've discovered, you
can get teleportitis from them too.

BandC

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Dec 16, 2005, 10:58:44 PM12/16/05
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Heh. So either teleport control or teleportitis. Well that sucks. I
didn't need to eat it. I ate it intentionally cos' I thought it could
give me teleport control not teleportitis. I guess, live and learn...

Kevin Wayne

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Dec 17, 2005, 9:59:45 AM12/17/05
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On 12/16/05 9:43 AM, Murphoid wrote:
> Douglas Henke wrote:
>
>>Eat tengu.

>
> Thank you for the note.
>
> It did not fall on deaf ears.
>
> I will eat every tengu and squat every altar.

*Now that you already have teleportitis* (that's what the "jumping
around" is called) it's a good idea to eat tengu, because that can give
you teleport control (you get to choose the square to teleport to, which
can simply be the square you're already on). Wizards and Monks also get
teleport control when they reach level 17.

With future characters, if you don't already have teleportitis, be aware
that eating tengu is a gamble, because it can give you teleportitis *or*
teleport control. So eating a single tengu can give you the same problem
you have now.

You'll notice that I trimmed and reordered the part of your post that I
quoted. It's customary in r.g.r.n. to trim quotes down to the actual
material you're responding to, and to place your response below the
quote. This makes for easier reading, especially when the conversation
gets complicated, with several participants and several levels of
quoting. It's also customary to repeat the content of your subject line
in the body of your post, so readers don't plunge into your post,
realize they're missing information, and have to refer back to the
subject line to figure out what you're talking about.

--
Kevin Wayne

"What do they teach them at these schools? It's all in the FAQ."
--Professor Kirke

Sidsel Horvei

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Dec 17, 2005, 2:37:10 PM12/17/05
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As my ranger noticed recently; jumpy from a free range tengu so reverse
genocided tengu 4 times, and had to eat around 15 of them before she
finally got teleport control. *sigh*

Sidsel
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************************************************************
Web page: http://www.ii.uib.no/~sidsel/
I don't want to be right; I want to _get_ it right.
*************************************************************

Murphoid

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Dec 17, 2005, 3:31:53 PM12/17/05
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Ok since I had teleportitis I ate Tengu until I felt incontrol of
myself.

I now just teleport every so often and it asks me where I want to go.
It is now a terrific time saver.

I am now 16th level. Incidently I am heading back to the gnomish
mines. I finished my wizards quest and got an amulet. After reading a
bit about it I found a semi spoiler that said there was an artifact I
should have gotten there and I did not. Anyone willing to drop me a
hint about this will be more than welcome.

After controlling my teleportitis here are my Current Attributes:

You are piously aligned.
You are fire resistant.
You are cold resistant.
You are sleep resistant.
You are disintegration-resistant.
You are shock resistant.
You are poison resistant.
You are magic-protected.
You see invisible.
You are telepathic.
You are warned.
You have automatic searching.
You are clairvoyant.
You have infravision.
You are invisible to others.
You are stealthy.
You can teleport.
You have teleport control.
You are protected.
You are fast.
You have reflection.
You have fixed abilities.
You are lucky.
You have extra luck.
Bad luck does not time out for you.
Good luck does not time out for you.
You can safely pray.


Pretty neat huh? I have never gotten this far before and I am loving
it!

dogscoff

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Dec 17, 2005, 6:07:24 PM12/17/05
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Richard Bos wrote:
> [Big 'trainspotting' style poster of "choose nethack"]

Beautiful. Just... beautiful. *snif* Thankyou.

Ohle Claussen

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Dec 18, 2005, 11:24:51 AM12/18/05
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AOL on that! Now, off to the T-Shirt shop...

Brilliant. Just brilliant.

regards,
Ohle
--
Jann Ohle Claussen | GPG-Key-ID E7149169
http://www.stud.uni-goettingen.de/~s251251
"I think we agree, the past is over."
--dubya

Boudewijn Waijers

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Dec 18, 2005, 3:03:35 PM12/18/05
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Sidsel Horvei wrote:

> As my ranger noticed recently; jumpy from a free range tengu so
> reverse genocided tengu 4 times, and had to eat around 15 of them
> before she finally got teleport control. *sigh*

To pull this trick off, you'll need either a tinning kit or an amulet of
magical breathing, next to four cursed scrolls of genocide...

--
Boudewijn.

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't
got the guts to bite people themselves. - August Strindberg.


Boudewijn Waijers

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Dec 18, 2005, 3:08:07 PM12/18/05
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BandC wrote:

> Heh. So either teleport control or teleportitis. Well that sucks. I
> didn't need to eat it. I ate it intentionally cos' I thought it could
> give me teleport control not teleportitis. I guess, live and learn...

Could be even wierder. I recently ate a tengu (when I didn't have
teleportitis yet, I don't usually do that), and it gave me the poison
resistance intrinsic...

Sidsel Horvei

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Dec 18, 2005, 3:11:15 PM12/18/05
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On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:03:35 +0100, Boudewijn Waijers wrote:
> Sidsel Horvei wrote:
>
> > As my ranger noticed recently; jumpy from a free range tengu so
> > reverse genocided tengu 4 times, and had to eat around 15 of them
> > before she finally got teleport control. *sigh*
>
> To pull this trick off, you'll need either a tinning kit or an amulet of
> magical breathing, next to four cursed scrolls of genocide...
>

Or do one batch of 4-5 corpses at a time. Then wait a little, perhaps
cast some high level spells, and when approaching hungry again, read
another scroll for more tengu-food.

At the end, I did convert to using a blessed tinning kit though, as I
was getting rather tired of it...

To be performed in sokoban, preferably, to avoid the jumping around and
to keep the tins-to-be from wandering too far off.

Richard Bos

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Dec 18, 2005, 7:18:38 PM12/18/05
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"dogscoff" <dogs...@eudoramail.com> wrote:

It had to be done, didn't it?

By the way, if someone can point me towards a free, legal, good quality
Helvetica clone True- or OpenType font set with both normal and bold
weights, I could make that even better. As it is now, it's in Arial,
which is pretty similar, but by no means identical to Helvetica, which
is what was used in the original Trainspotting style.

(And by the by the way, why Class with a capital when race, gender and
alignment are in lower case?)

Richard

dogscoff

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Dec 18, 2005, 7:46:16 PM12/18/05
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Richard Bos wrote:

> "dogscoff" <dogs...@eudoramail.com> wrote:
>
> > Richard Bos wrote:
> > > [Big 'trainspotting' style poster of "choose nethack"]
> >
> > Beautiful. Just... beautiful. *snif* Thankyou.
>
> It had to be done, didn't it?

> (And by the by the way, why Class with a capital when race, gender and


> alignment are in lower case?)

I guess because I don't pay enough attention to these things.
Spell checkers make me laziy.

Little White Mouse

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Dec 19, 2005, 12:47:04 AM12/19/05
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:45:02 +0000, Douglas Henke wrote:

> "Murphoid" <Murp...@gmail.com> writes:
> Ladies and gentlemen of rec.games.roguelike.nethack,
>
> Eat tengu.

Now that I know the source, this is f*ing *brilliant*!

My favorite bit:

> berate yourself either (unless you blew up your bag of holding). Your
> choices are half chance. So are everybody's else's, except for Marvin's.

Absolutely brillianit. Marvin, of course, won 13+ games in a row on
dev.null this year. Brilliant!

Thanks :-)

--LWM

Kremti

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Dec 19, 2005, 10:06:00 AM12/19/05
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Murphoid wrote:
<snip>

> I am now 16th level. Incidently I am heading back to the gnomish
> mines. I finished my wizards quest and got an amulet. After reading a
> bit about it I found a semi spoiler that said there was an artifact I
> should have gotten there and I did not. Anyone willing to drop me a
> hint about this will be more than welcome.

After reading your list of current attributes, there is no reason for
you to go back to the Gnomish Mines.

-K

Ohle Claussen

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Dec 19, 2005, 10:19:11 AM12/19/05
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On 2005-12-17, Murphoid wrote:
> I am now 16th level. Incidently I am heading back to the gnomish
> mines. I finished my wizards quest and got an amulet. After reading a
> bit about it I found a semi spoiler that said there was an artifact I
> should have gotten there and I did not. Anyone willing to drop me a
> hint about this will be more than welcome.
>
Not all artifacts are weapons. The amulet you got at the end of the
quest is the artifact. You may have noticed that your PW regenerates
faster since you got it (if you haven't stashed it away). Also, try to
#invoke it. When you approach your quest leader, he should identify it
for you.


regards,
Ohle
--
Jann Ohle Claussen | GPG-Key-ID E7149169
http://www.stud.uni-goettingen.de/~s251251

BOFH Excuse #260:
We're upgrading /dev/null

Little White Mouse

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On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 03:58:44 +0000, BandC wrote:

> ManaUser wrote:
[snip eating a Tengu]


> Heh. So either teleport control or teleportitis. Well that sucks. I didn't
> need to eat it. I ate it intentionally cos' I thought it could give me
> teleport control not teleportitis. I guess, live and learn...

No, this is nethack. You bounce around a lot, lose your pets, get stuck
next to some big nasty, and get killed. Nethack: die and learn. Die
again and learn some more. :-)

--LWM

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