The mystery of e missing pants

[Tiktacy]

Body, shoes, gloves, cloak, helmet, but no pants? What happened to all the pants in the world of dungeon crawl?

[Kramin42]

The boring explanation: pants are included in your body armour.

[Grimm]

The sexy explanation: everyone goes commando in the Dungeon of Zot.

[nicolae]

The twist-ending explanation: What do you think is inside the Orb of Zot?

[Kramin42]

In a dungeon ... without pants ... One Adventurer must crawl below the monsters ... to retrieve the ultimate leg-wear ... and walk free ...
It will not be easy .. Bwaaam
It will not be pretty .. Bwaaam
Sacrifices will be made .. Bwaaam
Loot will be obtained .. Bwaaam

This. Is. Dungeon Crawl.

[ontoclasm]

In Nethack it was determined that:

• Your character must be wearing pants, since you can sit on a cockatrice corpse without turning to stone, but
• The pants must be magic, since unlike every other piece of clothing they don't burst off you when you transform into something larger.

In Crawl's universe I'm gonna have to say that not only are you going bottomless, but pants don't actually exist - if you could wear pants, Ashenzari would expect you to wear cursed ones.

e: Body armour can't include pants since you can put armour on while wearing cursed boots. ...or maybe everyone in Crawl wears utilikilts.

[Confidence Interval]

New shop proposal: Pants shop. There's a whole untapped market there.

[Grimm]

Are we talking about pants or are we talking about trousers?

[Mankeli]

The sexy explanation: everyone goes commando in the Dungeon of Zot.

The unrated explanation: sexy elf dreams.

[Confidence Interval]

Are we talking about pants or are we talking about trousers?

Since Crawl uses British-English rather than one of the colonial variants I presume we are talking underwear.

[Grimm]

Crawl uses Australian English, so the answer resides with our aggressive cousins to the south.

[Confidence Interval]

TIL

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

The hairy adventurer explanation: the rite of passage to the Dungeon of Zot includes making pants out of your own hair -- and nothing made of your own body parts counts as clothes.

The scary adventurer explanation: not out of hair.

[I want to believe]

The larry adventurer explanation: You bought some magic pants from a guy named larry.

[Confidence Interval]

I think I know where Larry gets them.

[BlackSheep]

Get rid of chunk eating and instead, all characters must fashion pants out of meat.
Discuss.

[Confidence Interval]

You'd like to see all players in edible pants...

[wizzzargh]

Get rid of chunk eating and instead, all characters must fashion pants out of meat.
Discuss.

The Kingdom of Loathing called, they want 10 million meat as restitution for your shameless plagiarism

[varsovie]

Why pants, don't you guys have robes?

[Grimm]

We play pure melee builds.

[Grimm]

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[Confidence Interval]

Has this whole thread just been ripped off from somewhere else, from the start?

[nicolae]

Has this whole thread just been ripped off from somewhere else, from the start?

Well, the pants discussion is probably about stripper breakaway pants, since it's so easy to rip off.

[chukamok]

In Nethack it was determined that:

• Your character must be wearing pants, since you can sit on a cockatrice corpse without turning to stone, but
• The pants must be magic, since unlike every other piece of clothing they don't burst off you when you transform into something larger.

Maybe they are Hulk pants, in which case they all eventually turn purple.

[varsovie]

In Nethack it was determined that:

• Your character must be wearing pants, since you can sit on a cockatrice corpse without turning to stone, but
• The pants must be magic, since unlike every other piece of clothing they don't burst off you when you transform into something larger.

Maybe they are Hulk pants, in which case they all eventually turn purple.

So in Crawl they use glaives as pants?

[Confidence Interval]

in Crawl they use prunes as pants

ftfy

[Grimm]

Just like real life then. Certain parts of it anyway.

[Confidence Interval]

Whatever you do, do not google "prune pants". You have been warned.

[Grimm]

I just did and it's no big deal. Google must have learned your preferences and shown you disgusting stuff.

[Confidence Interval]

There was nothing disgusting, there was just a bunch of random stuff about coloured trousers. And who needs that?

[Grimm]

hahaha

[Confidence Interval]

And anyway, whose business is it but mine if I have a taste for what some might consider disgusting?

[Grimm]

Let it go. The moment has passed.

[Confidence Interval]

That depends on how you experience time.

[Siegurt]

Let it go. The moment has passed.

As long as the prune pants themselves haven't passed. That's a google image I do *not* want to find.