Lucky chain of events

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I started a new tourist and was in Sokoban at clvl 1 17 hp AC -3 with a
large cat and little dog. I dropped a cursed pair of gloves at the
beginning of the hall leading to the pits so the pets wouldn't block
the passage. Everything was going fine. Some gnomes spawned, and my
pets were able to take them out without a problem. As I was pushing a
boulder toward the pits, a giant bat spawned next to me. I applied the
expensive camera, but it was out of charges. I expected the cat to
take it out quickly, so I just continued pushing. I stupidly neglected
to pick up the cursed gloves as I passed, so the bat followed me but
the pets wouldn't. Luckily I had taken a wand of polymorph off a
leprechaun I'd seen zap himself into an iguana, so I figured this was
my last hope barring killing it myself. The first zap resulted in a
grey ooze which killed me, but wait - the unidentified amulet I'd been
wearing since dlvl 1 turned out to be an amulet of lifesaving. I
zapped again and the ooze turned into a blue jelly. My little dog
turned into a silver dragon and eventually came along and killed the
jelly.

 

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Well, I finished Sokoban with my silver dragon, went back to let him
snack on shopkeepers on dlvls 2 and 3, then headed for minetown. After
the dragon had killed all the shopkeepers there, I had about zk24k, so
I locked myself in the temple to buy protection. I couldn't believe
that after making so many zk400 donations I ended up with only naked AC
-1! I was so angry, I unlocked the door and let the dragon in to eat
the priestess of the Lady. Now I've got my money back, and I wonder if
I might try to find another priest(ess) before I advance to clvl 2. I
think the chances would be rather slim. If only the priestess had left
a corpse and I had had wands of teleportation and undead turning, I
might have been able to teleport the dragon away and bring the
priestess back so I could start buying protection again.

 

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"Philip Bollom" <philip_bollom@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> think the chances would be rather slim. If only the priestess had left
> a corpse and I had had wands of teleportation and undead turning, I
> might have been able to teleport the dragon away and bring the
> priestess back so I could start buying protection again.
>
Revived temple priests come back as ghouls, IIRC. This wouldn't have
worked, even if the priest *had* left a corpse.

Justin Hiltscher

 

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Justin Hiltscher wrote:

> Revived temple priests come back as ghouls, IIRC.

Maybe in Slash'em, but most certainly not in vanilla NetHack.

--
Boudewijn Waijers (kroisos at home.nl).

The garden of happiness is surrounded by a wall so low only children
can look over it. - "the Orphanage of Hits", former Dutch radio show.

 

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Boudewijn Waijers wrote:
> Justin Hiltscher wrote:
>
> > Revived temple priests come back as ghouls, IIRC.
>
> Maybe in Slash'em, but most certainly not in vanilla NetHack.

It appears that Justin is correct. Here is what I believe to be the
relevant source code from cant_create() in read.c:

/* SHOPKEEPERS can be revived now */
if (*mtype==PM_GUARD || (*mtype==PM_SHOPKEEPER && !revival)
|| *mtype==PM_ALIGNED_PRIEST || *mtype==PM_ANGEL) {
*mtype = PM_HUMAN_ZOMBIE;
return TRUE;

 

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Philip Bollom wrote:

> Boudewijn Waijers wrote:
>> Justin Hiltscher wrote:
>>> Revived temple priests come back as ghouls, IIRC.
>>
>> Maybe in Slash'em, but most certainly not in vanilla NetHack.
>
> It appears that Justin is correct. Here is what I believe to be the
> relevant source code from cant_create() in read.c:
>
> /* SHOPKEEPERS can be revived now */
> if (*mtype==PM_GUARD || (*mtype==PM_SHOPKEEPER && !revival)
> || *mtype==PM_ALIGNED_PRIEST || *mtype==PM_ANGEL) {
> *mtype = PM_HUMAN_ZOMBIE;
> return TRUE;

Perhaps Justin was correct in spirit, but a zombie is not a ghoul.

--
Benjamin Lewis

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of
oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate
commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover