gremlins

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The dev team didn't really think of everything when it came to gremlins.
Yes, I cite the original 1984 movie where the protagonists went about
killing gremlins with the flash from a camera. My monk's expensive camera
only blinded them.

Heck, if gremlins are going to multiply in water I think it'd be only fair
to make them susceptible to bright flashes of light.

As always, nothing is impossible to the man who doesn't have to do it
himself and I remain grateful for Nethack.

 

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In article <Xns96C2BB2F0D5Aheptapodyahoocom@216.196.97.142>, Haakon
Studebaker says...
> The dev team didn't really think of everything when it came to gremlins.
> Yes, I cite the original 1984 movie where the protagonists went about
> killing gremlins with the flash from a camera. My monk's expensive camera
> only blinded them.
>
> Heck, if gremlins are going to multiply in water I think it'd be only fair
> to make them susceptible to bright flashes of light.
>
> As always, nothing is impossible to the man who doesn't have to do it
> himself and I remain grateful for Nethack.
>
Were they killed? I thought they were blinded, stunned and scared.

Making a flash stun or scare a gremlin should be an easy thing to code.

 

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Andrew Kerr <andykerr@SPAMGUARD.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in
news:MPG.1d7f15dbc6faee8f9896d3@news.blueyonder.co.uk:

> Were they killed? I thought they were blinded, stunned and scared.
>
> Making a flash stun or scare a gremlin should be an easy thing to
> code.

I'm thinking of the flasher gremlin in the bar. When she used the polaroid
on it, its bones fell to the floor with some goo.

 

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Haakon Studebaker <heptapod@gmail.com> writes:
> The dev team didn't really think of everything when it came to gremlins.
> Yes, I cite the original 1984 movie where the protagonists went about
> killing gremlins with the flash from a camera. My monk's expensive camera
> only blinded them.
>
> Heck, if gremlins are going to multiply in water I think it'd be only fair
> to make them susceptible to bright flashes of light.

This is already implemented; broken wands of light do (charges+1)d4
damage in addition to the usual explosion damage, while cameras do a
straight d4-1 (but will never kill the gremlin outright).

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Dylan O'Donnell wrote:
> Haakon Studebaker <heptapod@gmail.com> writes:
> > The dev team didn't really think of everything when it came to gremlins.
> > Yes, I cite the original 1984 movie where the protagonists went about
> > killing gremlins with the flash from a camera. My monk's expensive camera
> > only blinded them.
> >
> > Heck, if gremlins are going to multiply in water I think it'd be only fair
> > to make them susceptible to bright flashes of light.
>
> This is already implemented; broken wands of light do (charges+1)d4
> damage in addition to the usual explosion damage, while cameras do a
> straight d4-1 (but will never kill the gremlin outright).

Do exploding wands of light affect vampires in any way? As far as I can
tell, they do not. I know vampires are supposed to be only adversely
affected by _sun_light, but I would like to see wands of light become
more useful.

Sam

 

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But would an exploding wand of light generate UV radiaton?

 

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"Canageek" <Canageek@gmail.com> wrote in news:1125848097.849236.133560
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> But would an exploding wand of light generate UV radiaton?
>
>

I don't think that it's the UV radiation which is bad for vampires. It's
the fact that the sun represents divine radiance, something which they are
separated from, which will destroy them.

 

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"Canageek" <Canageek@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1125848097.849236.133560@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> But would an exploding wand of light generate UV radiaton?
>

all light has UV, just a matter of how much is the question: the black body
radiation curve is a bell curve.

 

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chucko@nil.car wrote:

> "Canageek" <Canageek@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:1125848097.849236.133560@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>
>> But would an exploding wand of light generate UV radiaton?
>
> all light has UV, just a matter of how much is the question: the black
> body radiation curve is a bell curve.

When most people say "bell curve", they're referring to the normal
distribution which, among other properties, is symmetrical, unlike the
black body radiation curve.

Not all light is "black body radiation" (most is not), and not all light
contains UV.

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are held by most to be the lunatic fringe of Foil Deflector Beanie science.

 

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On 2005-09-05, chuck wrote:
> "Canageek" <Canageek@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:1125848097.849236.133560@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>
>> But would an exploding wand of light generate UV radiaton?
>>
>
> all light has UV, just a matter of how much is the question: the black body
> radiation curve is a bell curve.

Nonsense. Black body radiation has an upper limit on the frequency. And
since when does all light stem from black body radiation? I imagine the
spectrum of a brass lantern would be quite discrete.

Ohle

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"Sammiel" <lowrysam@gmail.com> wrote:

> Do exploding wands of light affect vampires in any way? As far as I can
> tell, they do not. I know vampires are supposed to be only adversely
> affected by _sun_light, but I would like to see wands of light become
> more useful.

More useful? /oLight are already very useful. They're particularly good
for a character who doesn't have a lamp or the spell yet but wants to go
into the mines. And they're quite nice to create a bright spot around
the stairs if their room happens to be dark. Also for marking the
straight route and Vibrating Square in Gehennom.

Richard