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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
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12:06 pm - somewhat on topic
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korvac
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I'm giving SLASH'EM a try but I really hate the tileset. I've spoiled myself with the absurd 128x128 tiles for a long time in regular NH - is there a way to use that tileset for SLASH'EM?
Or, if not, can anyone recommend a decent-sized set that isn't 3D?
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| Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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4:37 pm - What should I wish for?
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| Saturday, October 13th, 2007
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4:57 pm
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korvac
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Well, my Wizard died today, on the Astral Plane. Nothing sucks more than being within sight of the end, Amulet in hand, and just not being cool enough. (maybe next time!)
This was the first Wizard I've run that didn't suck, but I'm still not very comfortable playing a non-fighter character. Throwing fireballs is pretty sweet, but man, I'd blow away in a stiff breeze.
The stats:
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| Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
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1:04 pm
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eksvsevan
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If it's one thing I hate it's a djinni with a bad sense of humor.
I rub a lamp that I bought in Mintown, a djinni pops up and offers me a wish. I wish for a +3 blessed gray dragon scale mail. What do I get?
A cursed -4 gray dragon scale mail. And he disappears.
I swear, when I find him...
current mood:  irritated
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| Saturday, July 14th, 2007
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2:38 pm - London roguelike meet
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citizenpsmith
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The next London roguelike meet will be at 14:00 on Saturday 28 July in the Pembury Tavern (http://www.individualpubs.co.uk/pembury/). We plan to (e)at, (q)uaff and #chat about roguelikes and related topics. Look for people who are either wearing NetHack T-shirts, or just looking generally geek-like.
[This was historically a rec.games.roguelike.nethack meet, but has since expanded its scope to be a general nattering about roguelikes; I'm crossposting the announcement here to see if there are any non-Usenet types who'd be interested in turning up.]
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| Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
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7:36 pm - Nethack: the valkyrie continues
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| Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
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6:11 pm - YAAP
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| Sunday, March 25th, 2007
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6:15 pm - I r newb.
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moonmage
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Soo. Hi. I have a pretty funny story to tell about a long time ago when I was new to nethack. I'm kidding, this happened last month.
So, I was playing around, not really sure of what I was doing. I started polymorphing, got a baby white dragon, spider, and snake so that was interesting. Then.. I found the Sokoban level. Now at the time I had no idea what I was doing, so I just moved things around. I also thought that leaving and coming back would fix things. Not so much. Heh. Thinking you supposed to actually finish that puzzle (smart I'm not), I just let that character die. For the sixtieth time. Yeah, for some reason that character wouldn't die. I feel silly though, because I feel I could've done so many stupid things with an undying character.
Luckily I have found that spoiler page and now know that you don't really have to finish Sokoban, so that's good. I'm still not the best player ever but I'm learning. Maybe one day I'll get to dungeon level twenty..
current mood:  amused
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| Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
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10:11 am - Eulogy of a personal best.
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relsqui
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1 2557065 relsqui-Val-Hum-Fem-Law died in Gehennom on level 36
[max 44]. Killed by a baluchitherium. - [242]
Figures. Two Wizards of Yendor and a master lich on the level, and the baluchitherium gets the kill.
Really it was my fault, though. I wasn't paying attention to my health--one of the Wizards stole the Orb of Fate, so I was taking about twice as much damage as I was used to. That's what I get for playing first thing in the morning, I guess.
To give you an idea of how good that game was for me, keep in mind that this was the first game in which I'd ever reached the quest level--much less received and finished the quest; killed Medusa; reached, entered, and cleared the Castle; killed Asmodeus, Juiblex, Baalzebub, and Orcus; and cleared the Tower and killed the Wizard of Yendor. (It shouldn't be terribly surprising that I used ten wishes over the course of this game.)
You know what's sad? There were TWO amulets of lifesaving in my inventory. The amulet (reflection) that I was wearing was cursed, though, so there's nothing I could have done about it.
( Other highlights, cut for length. )
Finally, I think it's worth noting that I started this Nethack game almost a year ago. Obviously most of that time was not actually spent playing it; it was spent being frustrated (e.g. not knowing how to get across the Medusa level) or nervous (afraid of screwing up my best game ever). Eventually I found the balls to play it, though, so I have that to be proud of regardless of how stupid my death was.
Now, to start another game . . .
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| Saturday, February 17th, 2007
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12:37 am - Roguelike fanworks
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calamarain
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I'm currently trying to create/compile a complete archive of all the fanart, fanfiction, fanmovies and whatever based on roguelike games. This includes Angband (and variants), NetHack, ADOM, Crawl, Rogue, Moria and any others. Therefore, if you have anything that you've drawn, written or made that you'd like to be included, please contact me! Each work is fully credited to the author and linked back to any site you choose - I host all the files locally so you don't have to worry about bandwidth :)
So if you're feeling... creative, why not make something to add, oh NetHack players?
The Roguelike Fanworks Archive - fan art, fan fiction and fan movies about roguelike games.
And now, my wizard (hereby renamed Lucky Git) has found a Wand of Wishing in Sokoban, and I intend to milk the situation to the max, to see if I can get all the leftover conducts besides wishless (veggie, vegan, polyself, polyitem, artiwish, genoless). Oddly, I've never ascended a vegan before. Even my monk that got close broke veggie by accident.
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| Sunday, January 28th, 2007
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10:23 pm - Another Silly Death
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luinthoron
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An absolutely great game with a Barbarian, just playing Sokoban. Then... A barrow wight with a wand of death. Oh, you might say, I'm wearing an amulet of life saving, so no problem? Wrong! The ray bounces back from the wall a couple of steps behind me and strikes me a second time...
current mood:  surprised
current music: "Weird Al" Yankovic - White & Nerdy
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| Thursday, January 18th, 2007
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11:10 pm - i love this picture
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gravilim
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Nethack reference
Originally uploaded by nascent.
Old but good. :) And now that I've had wine, I can't hack, so it's bedtime.
(crossposted because we for some reason have 'nethack' and 'nethackers'...)
current mood: amused
current music: Doves : The Last Broadcast - There Goes The Fear
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| Monday, January 15th, 2007
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9:09 pm - YAFAP!
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| Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
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1:02 pm - YAAP: Tourist
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| Monday, December 18th, 2006
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11:42 am - YAAP: Healer
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| Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
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8:31 am - YAAP: Archeologist
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| Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
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12:50 pm - black objects & monsters that are dark blue...
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| Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
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6:14 am - Bad Bone file days
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eksvsevan
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I've been offsite on a client zone lately and since there's no Internet there, it's been Nethack to keep me from going stir crazy :P
Now, a while back-I posted about my wand of poly adventures and ended up getting some nice effects on my pets when I zapped them. So chances are, I always have some obscenely powerful pet and I'm stuck at level 2, trying to make my way through to find a magic whistle somewhere to pet tank with but mostly end up dying when my pet wanders off or a trapdoor lands me in the middle of some horde who isn't pleased to see me :(
Anyway, a while back I had an Archelogist with a Marilith as a pet. Very. awesome.
Bad part is: she wreaked havoc on the whole of Minetown when I brought her down, killed all the guards and shopkeepers, armed herself with armor and a sword and for some stupid reason, brought a horde of Dwarves who dug up the whole town and she refused to attack any of them. No walls or shops ftl. Nowhere to hide. :(
Either way, loot right? Wrong.
Queue up my horrible luck and I get the crap beaten out of me by a pissed off gnome with a Wand Of Fire and everything in my inventory either exploding or burning me alive. So that's that right?
Wrong again.
6 games yesterday. SIX. And EVERY time I hit Minetown, there's that Marilith and that gnome waiting at the bottom of the stairs :( So I descend and WHAM-Die. Very. Painfully. Talk about aggravation right? And no wands of death or anything anywhere to be found. And this was a different character every time. So I can only imagine how many graves are down there...
*sigh* I love this game at time but it chooses the oddest of times to just throw the worst horrors at me eh? Anyone wanna trade bonefiles?
current mood: highly amused
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