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I just returned to human form after being a storm giant. As an
experiment when I was a giant, I started picking up boulders and walking
around with them. I went over to a hole in the floor, "There is a gaping
hole under you. --More-- You don't fit". That figures, for a giant. Then
I pressed ">". "You jump through the hole" -- now, that *doesn't*
figure. I was carrying like 10 boulders, normally just one of them would
have plugged the hole. At the very least, I should have gotten "You
don't fit", or perhaps more appropriately a YASD or something like "You
try to jump through a hole carrying 10 boulders. --More-- The first
boulder plugs the hole. --More-- Your lower body is stuck in solid rock."
I started this game just to do experiments like this, doing stuff I have
never tried before. Right away the RNG gave me a wand of wishing and two
magic lamps. Great, now I could get the experiments going that much quicker.
I tried pudding farming for the first time -- cool. After a looong
while, I managed to reduce their numbers down to just one black pudding
again. I thought they had been too slow and too weak, so I decided to
beef them up a bit. Zapped wand of speed on remaining black pudding and
whacked it with rustproof -3 knife. Sure enough, both clones were
"fast". Killed off one of them. Then I zapped invisibility as well, just
to be evil, in case the level ever turned into a ghost level. I started
wondering if I could level it up as well, for more efficient offerings.
A pet will level up automatically, I thought, so I promptly charmed my
remaining pudding. Then a thought struck, what if clones were tame
too... pets make poor sacrifices. Whack -- two tame black puddings.
Grief! Well, I guessed I could leave them and come back when they had
turned feral, but not until they had leveled up some. I invited some
monsters for them to play with, and they would start to bite them, but
they did 0 points of damage, therefore aquiring no experience (damn it,
they had done damage to *me*, at AC -35, why not an unarmored gnome).
Before long they died, and I never found out how I should have behaved
to make them gain levels.
Being bored, I decided to say hello to Demogorgon. I have never met him
before and I was wondering how much trouble he could really be for my
accomplished character. Before I decided on this I had already disposed
of Jubilex, that left only Orcus to help me. I beat Orcus until he
escaped upstears, followed him up and promptly teleported to the
upstears where I burned Elbereth. I then started waiting around for
Orcus to do his bit. It took an awful long time, but eventually he
summoned Yeenoghu so I let them both hang around. Then one turn a nasty
black dragon was summoned and disintegrated Orcus. Some other monster
quickly picked up Orcus' wand of death and the death ray passed me and
hit Yeenoghu. Sigh. Elusive guy, that Demogorgon.
What now? From the early sacrificing and wishing I am so strong I can
easily ascend, but I want to try more cool stuff. Other than "Gehennom
ascii graphics", any other things worth doing? I don't have the patience
of an extinctionist. OTOH, I have 4 wishes left, in case the proposed
actions require specific items.
-Roar
I just returned to human form after being a storm giant. As an
experiment when I was a giant, I started picking up boulders and walking
around with them. I went over to a hole in the floor, "There is a gaping
hole under you. --More-- You don't fit". That figures, for a giant. Then
I pressed ">". "You jump through the hole" -- now, that *doesn't*
figure. I was carrying like 10 boulders, normally just one of them would
have plugged the hole. At the very least, I should have gotten "You
don't fit", or perhaps more appropriately a YASD or something like "You
try to jump through a hole carrying 10 boulders. --More-- The first
boulder plugs the hole. --More-- Your lower body is stuck in solid rock."
I started this game just to do experiments like this, doing stuff I have
never tried before. Right away the RNG gave me a wand of wishing and two
magic lamps. Great, now I could get the experiments going that much quicker.
I tried pudding farming for the first time -- cool. After a looong
while, I managed to reduce their numbers down to just one black pudding
again. I thought they had been too slow and too weak, so I decided to
beef them up a bit. Zapped wand of speed on remaining black pudding and
whacked it with rustproof -3 knife. Sure enough, both clones were
"fast". Killed off one of them. Then I zapped invisibility as well, just
to be evil, in case the level ever turned into a ghost level. I started
wondering if I could level it up as well, for more efficient offerings.
A pet will level up automatically, I thought, so I promptly charmed my
remaining pudding. Then a thought struck, what if clones were tame
too... pets make poor sacrifices. Whack -- two tame black puddings.
Grief! Well, I guessed I could leave them and come back when they had
turned feral, but not until they had leveled up some. I invited some
monsters for them to play with, and they would start to bite them, but
they did 0 points of damage, therefore aquiring no experience (damn it,
they had done damage to *me*, at AC -35, why not an unarmored gnome).
Before long they died, and I never found out how I should have behaved
to make them gain levels.
Being bored, I decided to say hello to Demogorgon. I have never met him
before and I was wondering how much trouble he could really be for my
accomplished character. Before I decided on this I had already disposed
of Jubilex, that left only Orcus to help me. I beat Orcus until he
escaped upstears, followed him up and promptly teleported to the
upstears where I burned Elbereth. I then started waiting around for
Orcus to do his bit. It took an awful long time, but eventually he
summoned Yeenoghu so I let them both hang around. Then one turn a nasty
black dragon was summoned and disintegrated Orcus. Some other monster
quickly picked up Orcus' wand of death and the death ray passed me and
hit Yeenoghu. Sigh. Elusive guy, that Demogorgon.
What now? From the early sacrificing and wishing I am so strong I can
easily ascend, but I want to try more cool stuff. Other than "Gehennom
ascii graphics", any other things worth doing? I don't have the patience
of an extinctionist. OTOH, I have 4 wishes left, in case the proposed
actions require specific items.
-Roar
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