YALO: dangerous pet (spoily)

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Yet Another Late Observation....

Usually, I think of a dangerous pet as one
I don't want to meet in a bones file, but I just picked up one who's
caused me some grief just walking around next to me.

I just fed a chameleon corpse in minetown to one of my dogs, who became a
chickatrice. Handy, I thought, and the shopkeepers are still safe for a
while. As soon as we went down to the next level we encountered one of my
favorite mines monsters, and things went very wrong.

Piker bites the paper golem.
Piper touches the paper golem.
The paper golem solidifies...
Now it's a stone golem.
The stone golem hits Piker.
The stone golem hits!

so I've dashed back upstairs a moment to heal and test some wands....

--
"We are setting a standard for the rest of the world in the treatment
of people who may have loyalties to an enemy nation. We are protecting
ourselves without violating the principles of Christian decency."
Milton S. Eisenhower, "Japanese Relocation" (1943 propaganda film)

 

[Manuel]

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Yashichi wrote:
> Piker bites the paper golem.
> Piper touches the paper golem.
> The paper golem solidifies...
> Now it's a stone golem.

I would have never thought that a non-flesh monster could
be petrified by a cockatrice.

 

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On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:59:24 GMT, Yashichi <devnull@127.0.0.1> wrote:

>I just fed a chameleon corpse in minetown to one of my dogs, who became a
>chickatrice. Handy, I thought, and the shopkeepers are still safe for a
>while. As soon as we went down to the next level we encountered one of my
>favorite mines monsters, and things went very wrong.
>
>Piker bites the paper golem.
>Piper touches the paper golem.
>The paper golem solidifies...
>Now it's a stone golem.
>The stone golem hits Piker.
>The stone golem hits!

Yeah, I remember the first time I attacked a horde as a cockatrice
after a nicer-than-usual polymorph accident. In my case it was a flesh
golem, but the principle's still the same: you go from 'no problem' to
'uh-oh...' in one hit.


--
Keiran

 

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Yashichi <devnull@127.0.0.1> writes:

> I just fed a chameleon corpse in minetown to one of my dogs, who became a
> chickatrice. Handy, I thought, and the shopkeepers are still safe for a
> while.

Why would that be of importance? Price-id?

> As soon as we went down to the next level we encountered one of my
> favorite mines monsters, and things went very wrong.
>
> Piker bites the paper golem.
> Piper touches the paper golem.
> The paper golem solidifies...
> Now it's a stone golem.

I would classify this as a bug. Unless the paper
golem is made from acid-free paper, maybe..

Best,
Jakob