Killed by a fall onto poisoned spikes ...

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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 19:25:23 +0000 (UTC), Cyde Weys <cyde@umd.edu>
wrote:

>I think it would be cooler if eating a rabid rat gave you rabies. Instead
>of dying immediately you'd get a slow wasting disease ... gradually you'd
>lose intelligence and control over your actions and eventually you'd lose
>total control over your character where he just sort of runs around in a
>blind rage, and then dies.
>
>To keep game balance somewhat, rabies wouldn't be curable ... it'd
>essentially give you a 500 turn timer (or whatever) in which time you'd
>have left to Ascend, or else you'd die from it.

....but if rabies were so incurable your deity couldn't help, how could
ascending yourself save you?

Or would we simply see more frothing-at-the-mouth demigods about the
Ascension Bar?

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Keiran

 

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On 2005-03-03, Keiran <furyqba_spamtag@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>I think it would be cooler if eating a rabid rat gave you rabies. Instead
>>of dying immediately you'd get a slow wasting disease ... gradually you'd
>>lose intelligence and control over your actions and eventually you'd lose
>>total control over your character where he just sort of runs around in a
>>blind rage, and then dies.
>>
>>To keep game balance somewhat, rabies wouldn't be curable ... it'd
>>essentially give you a 500 turn timer (or whatever) in which time you'd
>>have left to Ascend, or else you'd die from it.
>
> ...but if rabies were so incurable your deity couldn't help, how could
> ascending yourself save you?
>
> Or would we simply see more frothing-at-the-mouth demigods about the
> Ascension Bar?

More to the point- if you are within 500 turns of ascension, you
pretty much have to have the amulet already, and are mostly likely
on the planes-- so the chances of encountering a rabid rat are
rather small, and the chance of having any desire to eat it are
even smaller (hungry? why not snack on that tasty dragon over there-
it'll fill you up much better than a measly little rabid rat...)
--
Andrew D. Hilton
UPenn Phd Student

 

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Cyde Weys <cyde@umd.edu> wrote:

> I think it would be cooler if eating a rabid rat gave you rabies. Instead
> of dying immediately you'd get a slow wasting disease ... gradually you'd
> lose intelligence and control over your actions and eventually you'd lose
> total control over your character where he just sort of runs around in a
> blind rage, and then dies.
>
> To keep game balance somewhat, rabies wouldn't be curable ... it'd
> essentially give you a 500 turn timer (or whatever) in which time you'd
> have left to Ascend, or else you'd die from it.

Problem: in order to ascend, you have to either already be on Astral, or
go through the Plane of Water. One of the important effects of advanced
rabies is severe hydrophobia.

Richard

 

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On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:52:09 GMT, rlb@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard
Bos) wrote:

>Cyde Weys <cyde@umd.edu> wrote:
>
>> I think it would be cooler if eating a rabid rat gave you rabies. Instead
>> of dying immediately you'd get a slow wasting disease ... gradually you'd
>> lose intelligence and control over your actions and eventually you'd lose
>> total control over your character where he just sort of runs around in a
>> blind rage, and then dies.
>>
>> To keep game balance somewhat, rabies wouldn't be curable ... it'd
>> essentially give you a 500 turn timer (or whatever) in which time you'd
>> have left to Ascend, or else you'd die from it.
>
>Problem: in order to ascend, you have to either already be on Astral, or
>go through the Plane of Water. One of the important effects of advanced
>rabies is severe hydrophobia.

That's right - no using holy water (or any water-based potion),
either.

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Keiran

 

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Richard Bos wrote:

> Problem: in order to ascend, you have to either already be on Astral, or
> go through the Plane of Water. One of the important effects of advanced
> rabies is severe hydrophobia.

The kind of hydrophobia you get freom rabies is no phobia in the
psychological sense (just as haemophilia is no philia). You are just
unable to drink (or speak) due to a paralysed throat. So no potion
quaffing and no #chatting.

Lars