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Here's a situation I encounter from time to time and haven't identified a reliable way of addressing. It occurs when I go down a stair and find myself on an open level with all three down staircases entering the level very close to each other. Close by, and awoken by my arrival, are one or more mons...

daetrin wrote:I believe that poem is the origin of the word 'vorpal' so we already owe that much to Caroll.

New unique proposal: Alice.

I imagined that turning invisible in front of monsters would impair their ability to detect you. Perhaps not immediately (since you're still in the same place) but after a small number of turns, and all the more so if you have high stealth - since if they can't see you and you're quiet and sneaky th...

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe

New monster proposal: Jabberwock.

I've had my ass kicked while invisible recently, in situations where I didn't think it would be. (Admittedly I'm a very bad judge of risk, hence all my YASDs.)

Has invisibility been nerfed in some way?

There's a special "Strangers' Corner" section of the Tavern for people who speak foreign languages. Please don't use languages other than English on the main board.

Grimm wrote:I didn't know Alexei Sayle had ever been funny.

I think he was always hit and miss, and mostly miss. Rather like me playing Crawl.

New class proposal: Jester. Featuring the new Jokes skill, he defeats monsters with his wit, either winning them to his side or making them collapse in a storm of guffawing. But you could be in big trouble if your Badinage level isn't high enough. See, for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn...

New Special proposal: Andrei.

Special attack: sculpting in time.

New monster proposal: Solaris. Takes the form of a whole level that "attacks" you by sending ghosts of your former lovers to unknowingly torment you until you are forced to destroy them. The Solaris itself is indestructible.

absolutego wrote:(don't care much about tarkovsky.)

Sacrilege! We need a new god just so you can endure his wrath following that statement.

New branch proposal: Chernobyl, a.k.a. The Zone. Highly mutagenic, perimeter patrolled by soldiers, and full of wild animals, but offers the possibility of finding weird alien artefacts. New class proposal: Stalker (Russian ed.). Enters the Zone to find said artefacts. Suggested reference points for...

Grimm wrote:New branch proposal: Gulag. 46 levels of human prisoners.

If you kill Pikel, Ivan Denisovich goes free.

bobross419 wrote:Although having your starting potion replaced with a bottle of vodka does come in handy.

Your potion of confusion freezes and shatters!

Yet Another Stupid Noob wrote:>you enter the Russian winter...
>You can't move (x30)

rC++ is very useful in Russia.

Grimm wrote:New race proposal: Russian. Cannot use t command.

When you try to take off jewellery using R, it happens backwards.

Grimm wrote:They don't have taxes in Russia?

In Soviet Russia, state pays you taxes!

An accountant who casts Spider Form will not become a spider but an insect: a boring beetle.

Casting: Tax Avoidance
Confirm with . or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells.
You feel a surge of power! You cast Tax Evasion by mistake!
You are in trouble.

New class proposal: accountant. (Open to non-human players only.)

bobross419 wrote:Why do I have the feeling that I"ll be getting a DWoElec from Trog in the very, very near future?

Your view of the cruel ironies of this game is less pessimistic than mine. In this situation I would have the feeling that I would meet with YASD in the very, very near future...

You better watch out. I hear Trog's vengeance is pretty nasty.

Grimm wrote:That's it! That's what happens when you emerge from the dungeon with the Orb! You storm heaven.

DCSS II: The War Against the Gods

Lemme tell you, when we got there I'd be the first to find that Xom and smack him one - right in the kisser! We'd see how much that amused him!

bobross419 wrote:Just found this for sale lol...

the cursed +0 ring mail of the Suburbs {Dex-3 Int-3} 35 gold

Yep... sounds about right.

Not interested. Now, if it was the same spec but instead of a ring mail it was the lounge suit of the Suburbs... then we'd be talking.

Grimm wrote:Are you suggesting, sir, that the gods conspire against us?

Perhaps it's time we began to conspire against the perfidious gods...

One of the passages in Zin's Recite ability mentions specifically that he hates Xom and his followers. That's interesting - but there's no actual manifestation of this in the game. For example, there's no "Zin likes it when you destroy altars to Xom" (nor the capacity to do so). Anyway, F...

Grimm wrote:Though I agree that they are up there playing Crawl. What else is there to do with one's spare time.

If they are infinitely powerful then they may have infinite amounts of spare time. Perhaps they become devs.

Jeremiah wrote:They're probably playing Crawl and complaining about dying to centaurs on D:3.

True. That must be why Trog's gifts are always so awful: he's permanently distracted by trying to play a Spriggan Wizard.

I'd like to know more about the interaction between the gods. If you don't worship a given god then that god has no direct effect on your game - but wouldn't one god want to stop the follower of another god from getting the Orb? Right now if you worship one and then stop doing so, that god gets piss...

Sure, your SpEn can cast a spell and put that ogre to sleep.

But if the ogre wakes up just as you step close to slip in the blade, he can one-shot you for 32 damage. And then who's the dead one?

Grimm wrote:Speaking of Cthulhu and games: http://www.in-fi-del.net/static/cult-04/index.html

What's all this got to do with the proposal for beat poets to be a new class?!

This thread is descending into chaos. Chaos, I tell you!

All the same, there're only a limited number of ways to say "YASD". Yet another foolish demise. Yet another silly end. Yet another unintelligent murder. Yet another idiotic loss of life. Yet another scatterbrained massacre. Yet another nonsensical execution. Yet another ludicrous eternal ...

All the same, there're only a limited number of ways to say "YASD".

New race proposal: Thesaurus. Synonym the Wordfinder (level 5, -2/27 HPs) Began as a Thesaurus Wizard on Aug 16, 2011. Was the champion of Roget. Mangled by an orc warrior ...wielding a +5,+5 Book of Power (12 damage) ... on Level 5 of the Dungeon on Aug 16, 2011. The game lasted 00:21:14 (9208 tur...

Stormfox wrote:Who do you think is on the other end of a Malign Gateway, anyhow?

He whose name we dare not speak, of course.

I went through a phase of naming my characters in an alphabetical code: starting with Alan Andrews, then Alison Bishop, Angel Curtis, ... Absalom Zebulon, then on to Barry Alpha, Brutus Benson, etc. But after a few trips through the alphabet I began to get (a) get bored of thinking up new names, and...

Grimm wrote:Cthulhu's not fazed by getting Abyssed.

He (?she) would probably take over. Cthulhu tends to take charge wherever s/he ends up:
http://www.logicalcreativity.com/jon/plush/01.html

Possibly not, but over strange aeons you could fit in a lot of Crawl-deaths. I'm guessing Cthulhu is an Awful Player.

I knew it wasn't just a dream!

Actually I was thinking of this:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm294886912/tt0106856

But that cartoon is much more apt. Now I can imagine Cthulhu rolling up a Mountain Dwarf Fighter, getting killed by Grinder on D:4, and sulking about it.

Grimm wrote:"I'll definitely ascend this character."

With me it's usually more modest: "This character will definitely make it to the Temple!"

Do you ever get a strange sensation just before you ID something that you know what it's going to be? I don't get it with IDing but in any other contexts I often get a strange sensation that I know what the outcome will be before it's happened. Typical situations in which I get this include, for ex...

Does the existence on a level of a big, roughly square and inaccessible area in the middle of the level (taking up c. 1/4 of the total floor space) imply that there's something inside? What about levels with lots of smaller square areas? (If this either of those questions is yes, then the follow-up ...

DCSS: "The adventures of an ordinary man at war with the everyday world."

Zicher wrote:Well, to me and other console players Erolcha simply looks like an O .

Oh - I don't play console, I play the paper and pencil version.

Grimm wrote:The Square's gameplay is radically different from that of other classes. The Square sets up house on D:1 and never goes any deeper.

Although this does raise the question of why The Square came into the dungeon in the first place. Why didn't he just stay at home?

Not so square after all, I guess...

...that Erolcha looks like a man with a big moustache wearing a bikini? (Or possibly a woman in a bikini with a big moustache.)

Every time I see her this thought crosses my mind, and I run away. (Which is probably pretty sensible - better than getting banished to the Abyss.)

Grimm wrote:Yeah you guys, my proposals are totally serious.

I look forward to playing a Demonspawn Square of Yredelmenlul.

And I can't wait to play an Ogre Hippie of Zin.

MyOtheHedgeFox wrote:Shall we make a forum clan which destiny is to continually defeat and defeet other forum users in ridiculosity battles?

I see nothing ridiculous in what has been discussed in this thread so far.

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