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I think this one shall go down in my personal annals of Utterly
Humiliating Nethack Deaths. And trust me, there's quite a lot of those.
(Like attacking the cockactrice while polymorphed into a xan the other
day, but I won't even go there.)
So, this afternoon, out of boredom, I crank open a game. Play a human
wizard.
First room! Altar! Crossaligned, but hey. I make a note of it so I
can go back and convert it later.
Go south. Next room. See the downstairs. And another altar. This one
coaligned. Am rather jazzed about that.
Continue exploring level. Find ANOTHER coaligned altar in the opposite
corner of the level. Yes. That's three altars on Dlvl 1, ladies and
gentlemen.
I'm thinking.... The RNG is gonna kill me in some spectacularly horrible
way.
So I walk around, kill some things, decide to make a sacrifice or two on
the altar by the downstairs, just on a whim before I head down further.
FIRST sacrifice, I get Magicbane. It was, like, a rat corpse or something.
I doubly know about the fact the RNG will kill me horribly.
Go downstairs. See a wand sitting in the middle of the first room on
Dlvl 2.
Pick it up, go to engrave ID it..... and lo and behold, it's a fully
charged wand of wishing.
SDSM, speed boots, helm of brilliance, a magic marker (used rather
quickly to write a spellbook of identify), a ring of slow digestion, and
a couple other things I can't even totally remember later...
I die in dungeon level three while hallucinating, hiding in a shop,
accidentally attacking the shopkeeper instead of the other monster that
wandered in, and then compounding my idiocy by not running the hell away.
This is me banging my head on my desk repeatedly. Not that I didn't
deserve it.
--
Erin
I'm being nibbled to death by cats.
I think this one shall go down in my personal annals of Utterly
Humiliating Nethack Deaths. And trust me, there's quite a lot of those.
(Like attacking the cockactrice while polymorphed into a xan the other
day, but I won't even go there.)
So, this afternoon, out of boredom, I crank open a game. Play a human
wizard.
First room! Altar! Crossaligned, but hey. I make a note of it so I
can go back and convert it later.
Go south. Next room. See the downstairs. And another altar. This one
coaligned. Am rather jazzed about that.
Continue exploring level. Find ANOTHER coaligned altar in the opposite
corner of the level. Yes. That's three altars on Dlvl 1, ladies and
gentlemen.
I'm thinking.... The RNG is gonna kill me in some spectacularly horrible
way.
So I walk around, kill some things, decide to make a sacrifice or two on
the altar by the downstairs, just on a whim before I head down further.
FIRST sacrifice, I get Magicbane. It was, like, a rat corpse or something.
I doubly know about the fact the RNG will kill me horribly.
Go downstairs. See a wand sitting in the middle of the first room on
Dlvl 2.
Pick it up, go to engrave ID it..... and lo and behold, it's a fully
charged wand of wishing.
SDSM, speed boots, helm of brilliance, a magic marker (used rather
quickly to write a spellbook of identify), a ring of slow digestion, and
a couple other things I can't even totally remember later...
I die in dungeon level three while hallucinating, hiding in a shop,
accidentally attacking the shopkeeper instead of the other monster that
wandered in, and then compounding my idiocy by not running the hell away.
This is me banging my head on my desk repeatedly. Not that I didn't
deserve it.
--
Erin
I'm being nibbled to death by cats.
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