Wednesday, January 30, 2008

YAAD (=yet another annoying death)

2 197521 Cica-Bar-Orc-Mal-Cha died in The Dungeons of Doom on level 16 [max 19]. Killed by an iron golem. Hp [max] - [145]

What a disgrace to be killed by an irom golem after such a glorious adventure. But as said before, if NetHack wants you dead, you're dead... well, that's not actually true at least in this case. I was going to write how there was absolutely no way to escape, but I just realised I could have dug a hole in the floor when I was surrounded with the monsters such as Couatl :-D Bugger. Damned be my idle mind.

Anyhow, I consider the game quite a success. I scored with some succubi (plural of succubus for those unaware), and also for the first time, managed to kill them afterwards! Boy, am I good.

I also managed to gather up quite a collection of intrinsicts, money and diamonds as well as other objects, and I was in good standing with my god - although, at the final precisive moment he refused to return me my hitpoints and thus condemned me to death (he thought it be better just to uncurse the towel I was wearing around my head - how stupid can a god get?).

But god forbid if ever again I'm going to go as long without telepathy as I did in this game. It was pure torture.

Monday, January 28, 2008

Real life NetHack

What do you want to eat [tAF or ?*]

A – parmeggiano pasta

You’re having hard time getting it all down. Continue eating? y/e
y

You’re finally finished.


Satiated

Down and down we go...

The diabolical aspect of NetHack never ceases to amaze me.

It’s enough that you have to handle with everyday problems of NetHack, such as trying not to be burdened all the time and staying properly nourished, but then something unexpected happens, maybe just the smallest thing, and everything starts to go downhill.

I started playin a game I saved a couple days ago, and didn’t quite remember what I’d been doing. Nevertheless I rushed into business, and decided I needed to get back to the shopping mall level few levels eralier, as my lamp had run out of oil.

On the mall, I bumped into a leprechaun, that turned himself invisible with a wand, and stole all my money (not too much though, just above 600 zorkmints, but enough to be annoying). As I hadn’t eaten a floating eye yet, I decided I needed to locate one so I could go on chasing the leprechaun.

I started searching the levels, and suddenly stepped into a level teleport trap, teleporting two levels down onto an unknown territory. I started climbing up again, but got into trouble on the way back. First I run into a rust monster, that rusted my +1 iron shoes and +2 dwarvish iron helm. A little while later, I stepped into a polymorph trap, and turned into a glass piercer, losing in the process my +2 bronze plate mail. Argh.

Apparently the piercers are also blind, as I am unable to see anything.

Maybe I just should have picked up the Excalibur few levels earlier, no matter the alignment and cursedness. At least I might have found the traps before stepping into them.

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Later on:

I managed to gather up some armour (pretty good as well) and went to the bottom of Gnomish mines and back - still no floating eye though. (Or there were a couple but they didn't leave corpses, maybe daggers tear them up too badly?)

Picked up the Excalibur on the way back to the Dungeons of Doom and got zapped. Twice. The journey continues...