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0011434 [DCSS] Bug Report major have not tried 2018-04-04 13:50 2018-04-04 13:51
Reporter NormalPerson7 View Status public  
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Priority normal Resolution open  
Status new   Product Branch 0.22 ancient branch
Summary 0011434: Ghosts with the amulet of the acrobat get the EV+15 bonus.
Description I was playing a speedrun game and encountered a ghost with in excess of 25 EV on D:4 (Rlgrobin GnWn morgue: https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/rlgrobin/morgue-rlgrobin-20180404-111920.txt) [^] and checked out the morgue file to investigate how such a ghost could be generated. The screenshot shows the ghost's description and my Sequell queries in the bottom left to try to ascertain what caused this.

It would appear that characters wearing the amulet of the acrobat always get the EV+15 bonus, irrespective of whether their last action was a move/wait, although I have not tested this -- nevertheless it does not seem fair that such an item can turn a ghost (which is already an annoying enemy for players to deal with) into an enemy which cannot be killed at all. I think that bones files should completely ignore acrobat amulets.

In this example I missed every single attack that I made, even through a potion of berserk rage, and hence was forced to ctrl-q the speedrun.

I shall also note that the ghost had quaffed !resistance, and it is arguable as to whether ghosts should be affected by temporary buffs in any way whatsoever, because they are mostly used for escape and the ghost is supposed to reflect the power of that character generally.

I have not tested how acrobat amulets play with ghosts generally due to the difficulty of generating such ghosts in the first place. It is possible that the fact that this ghost was paralysed caused some unusual behaviour here.
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Attached Files png file icon 2018-04-04 Acrobat amulet ghost interaction.PNG [^] (274,294 bytes) 2018-04-04 13:50

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NormalPerson7 (reporter)
2018-04-04 13:51

That link is broken because of the final parenthesis. Here is the correct link: https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/rlgrobin/morgue-rlgrobin-20180404-111920.txt [^]

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2018-04-04 13:50 NormalPerson7 New Issue
2018-04-04 13:50 NormalPerson7 File Added: 2018-04-04 Acrobat amulet ghost interaction.PNG
2018-04-04 13:51 NormalPerson7 Note Added: 0032160


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