Who is mr. Cerebov?

[mandor]

I suddenly became interested in Cerebov`s background. Most uniques have mythological or popular cultural origin, which can be googled. All I have on Cerebov is that his name sounds slavic. Is it Linley, who thought him out, or did he appeared more recently? Any other interesting facts?

[Jeremiah]

AFAIK, all the named Pan lords are made up/unique to Crawl, unlike the Hell lords who originate in various mythologies. I don't know if they originated with Linley or were later additions; I haven't been around that long.

[Grimm]

I seem to remember that "Cerebov" is a deliberate misspelling of "Cerebus", the Canadian demigod of misogyny (whose name is itself a misspelling of Cerberus), but I can't recall where I read it. Maybe I imagined it.

[wizzzargh]

I always thought it might have been a reference to Chernobog...

[dassem]

I think I subconsciously assumed it was a corruption of Cerberus.
I like the suggestions above.
I am not clear on the history - I did play Crawl back when Linley first released early versions, but lost touch with the game at several points during the subsequent development.

[Jabberwocky]

I seem to remember that "Cerebov" is a deliberate misspelling of "Cerebus", the Canadian demigod of misogyny (whose name is itself a misspelling of Cerberus), but I can't recall where I read it. Maybe I imagined it.

That would be hilarious if it were the case, but I doubt. I remember reading those as a wee little kid.
Also,

The 6000-page story is a challenge to summarize

summarizes the story perfectly.

[Confidence Interval]

More to the point, who is Mrs Cerebov?

[Jabberwocky]

Doesn't exist. The devs don't want to have little cerebovs scampering around, getting under cerebov's feet, and eventually turning into big cerebov's.

[Stormfox]

Besides, we all know that Cerebov's sword is just compensating for something. (And it's useless anyhow.)

[nicolae]

Doesn't exist. The devs don't want to have little cerebovs scampering around, getting under cerebov's feet, and eventually turning into big cerebov's.

All cerebov wants is someone to love... I bet if you brought him something nice he would be overwhelmed with emotion and let you have the rune

[cerebovssquire]

shit. my secret for success is out

[Jabberwocky]

More to the point, who is Mrs Cerebov?

And when Cerebov does have certain... desires, they do have a convenient squire removing the need for a Mrs Cerebov.

[Grimm]

And when Cerebov does have certain... desires, they do have a convenient catamite removing the need for a Mrs Cerebov.

ftfy

[nicolae]

Perverts! All of you!

[Confidence Interval]

And when Cerebov does have certain... desires, they do have a convenient catamite removing the need for a Mrs Cerebov.

ftfy

I commend you on your excellent use of the word catamite.

Next up: omnifutuant

[Grimm]

Don't look this up if you are tender of constitution:

Spoiler: show

Sigmund the Irrumator

[BlackSheep]

[Confidence Interval]

I more typical think of him as Sigmund the Onanist, or some variant thereupon.

[Grimm]

I more typically think of him as Sigmund the Onanist, or some variant thereupon.

ftfy

Spoiler: show

literally

[mandor]

All this joking reminds me how we used to joke about particulary dreadful professor back in my student days (catamites and twisted swords and all this stuff). So I suggest we add pan lord like 1.5 times more dreadful than cerebov and call him Barilovich. He could drain intelligence on industrial scales among other things.

Even better, given he taught thermodynamics, he could throw fire and ice storms in turns.

[Grimm]

new unique: Maxwell's Demon. Sits near a vault entrance and arbitrarily lets you in or not.

[mandor]

new unique: Maxwell's Demon. Sits near a vault entrance and arbitrarily lets you in or not.

Like not letting you in the ice cave if you have any rC. And vice versa with volcano.

[Grimm]

That wouldn't be arbitrary.

[mandor]

Just like actual Maxwell`s demon

[Grimm]

Oh right yeah, my memory failed me there pretty badly. Doesn't help I only know it from a novel.

[mandor]

Actually, I had to check wiki to be sure, so I don`t feel much superior

[Grimm]

.

[cerebovssquire]

schrodinger's felid - will simultaneously respawn and not respawn

[Confidence Interval]

New weapon proposal: atomic bomb.

Similar in effect to Lugonu's Corrupt ability except that it affects all of every level and inflicts non-cureable degeneration, rot, and glow on all creatures, living and non-living, including the original wielder. These effects time out eventually but certainly not until after you're long dead.

[Grimm]

new class: death, the destroyer of worlds

[Confidence Interval]

You hit death.
You kill death!
You wonder what happens now.

[cerebovssquire]

The ogre hits you with a giant spiked club! You leave the dungeon in shame...

(I can't be bothered to find the original post to quote but yeah, it's been discussed before)

[Confidence Interval]

Grimm! Grimm!! Did you see what he just did there?!

[Grimm]

Don't you have a sporran to flense or something?

[tcjsavannah]

New weapon proposal: atomic bomb.

Similar in effect to Lugonu's Corrupt ability except that it affects all of every level and inflicts non-cureable degeneration, rot, and glow on all creatures, living and non-living, including the original wielder. These effects time out eventually but certainly not until after you're long dead.

New playable species: Giant Cockroach

[Confidence Interval]

New race proposal: Wall-E

[Grimm]

new unique: Ms. Cerebov

[Confidence Interval]

new unique: Ms. Cerebov

Pursued by player ghosts unless she picks up the Orb, in which case she can eat them for bonus points.

[BlackSheep]

Pursued by player ghosts unless she picks up the Orb, in which case she can eat them (or fruit) for bonus points.

ftfy

[Grimm]

Fruit does need to be given a pivotal role in the game. It's probably the most pressing issue in crawl development.

[Confidence Interval]

And the most overlooked. Where are the playable fruits we spent so long debating and refining? Never implemented, that's where. I just hope the moment is not lost forever.

Meanwhile other games are way ahead of us in the fruit/ exploration/ combat genre. Not for the first time, we risk losing market share for entirely avoidable reasons.

[Grimm]

playable fruits

playable fruits

playable fruits

playable fruits

[Grimm]

Mais où sont les playable fruits d'antan?

[Jabberwocky]

Choko gladiator
Pear assassin
Snozzcumber death knight

[Grimm]

No! We've got to think bigger - much bigger! Not a "choko gladiator" - a choko.

[Jabberwocky]

They're axing classes? DEATH TO THE DEVS!!!

[Confidence Interval]

I've just one word to say in response to that: carrot.

This time it's not just fruit!

[Jeremiah]

New item: amulet of resist fruit.

[Grimm]

Are you insane? That would be like adding a "win now" button.

[Confidence Interval]

New Demonspawn Mutation: Fruity Guardian

Summons one or more friendly fruits to aid you temporarily. Only occurs when tension is high, and dismisses them when tension drops. Higher mutation levels require higher tension to activate. This is a bad mutation to have when worshipping Fedhas, especially when you only have one level of it: weak fruits will appear unbidden just when they are most likely to be killed, which Fedhas deprecates.

Rank 1: Weak fruit (Grape, Sharon Fruit, Raspberry). Rank 2: Medium fruit (Tangerine, single Banana, bunch of Grapes). Rank 3: Powerful fruit (Bunch of Bananas, Coconut, Watermelon)