Re: I think we learned an important lesson today.
Posted: Saturday, 19th February 2011, 00:04Then watch as the door creaks shut...
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Posted: Saturday, 19th February 2011, 00:04Re: I think we learned an important lesson today.
Posted: Saturday, 19th February 2011, 08:39What is a wizlab? I keep hearing that term.
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Posted: Saturday, 19th February 2011, 10:39danr wrote:What is a wizlab? I keep hearing that term.
the wiki is still good for some things
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Wizard_Laboratory
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Posted: Sunday, 20th February 2011, 20:28That totally awesome vault you've never been able to teleport into might actually be a gate to hell.
Chei saved my tail with several slouches.
Chei saved my tail with several slouches.
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Posted: Sunday, 20th February 2011, 23:01Playing cards from an ornate deck can pay off big time. To the tune of two free levels and 15k XP.
Crawl I love you again. I take back those nasty things I said about you.
Crawl I love you again. I take back those nasty things I said about you.
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Posted: Sunday, 20th February 2011, 23:42Summoned horrible things won't follow you into the Labyrinth.
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Posted: Monday, 21st February 2011, 00:03er I mean abominations
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Posted: Tuesday, 22nd February 2011, 00:45The flames on Vehumet's altar are not purely decorative
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Posted: Tuesday, 22nd February 2011, 17:24Gloorq can Torment multiple times a turn. Especially if you're slowed after Berserk. Ever been tormented four times by the same creature by just taking a single step? I would have avoided him entirely after that, but he seemed rather reluctant to step away from his rune...
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Posted: Tuesday, 22nd February 2011, 21:15Zot traps and packs of Death Yaks can both appear even as high as Lair:5.
At the same time.
At the same time.
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Posted: Tuesday, 22nd February 2011, 21:18minmay wrote:Tornado is an insanely powerful spell, able to kill the largest swarms of the toughest monsters in mere turns. It turns out this is a bad thing in Tomb:3.
Xom finds self-induced mummy-death hilarious.
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Posted: Tuesday, 22nd February 2011, 21:23Also: Hydras make the best undead thralls, bar none.
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Posted: Wednesday, 23rd February 2011, 04:33Wizard games leave morgue files. Who knew? I just noticed the other day I got 50 or so guys named wiztest in there.
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Posted: Wednesday, 23rd February 2011, 12:48Reading scrolls of curse weapon/armor/jewellry (and I guess other harmful/useless scrolls) is a cheap way to victory dance your way towards gaining Spellcasting.
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Posted: Wednesday, 23rd February 2011, 13:47Spending the whole game up to that point wearing a ring of teleport control will suddenly seem worthwhile when you run into an awake Mennas on Snake:1 and all you have is Blink.
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Posted: Wednesday, 23rd February 2011, 17:06Don't change armor near unexplored territory, even if you're at full HP, because a swarm of killer bees is waiting right at the edge of your vision.
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Posted: Wednesday, 23rd February 2011, 18:17zasvid wrote:Reading scrolls of curse weapon/armor/jewellry (and I guess other harmful/useless scrolls) is a cheap way to victory dance your way towards gaining Spellcasting.
...................why did I never think of that?
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Posted: Wednesday, 23rd February 2011, 18:41Crystal Ball of Energy can really KILL you.
...just lost a very powerful character due to stat death (-3 intelligence).
...just lost a very powerful character due to stat death (-3 intelligence).
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Posted: Thursday, 24th February 2011, 00:56TwilightPhoenix wrote:zasvid wrote:Reading scrolls of curse weapon/armor/jewellry (and I guess other harmful/useless scrolls) is a cheap way to victory dance your way towards gaining Spellcasting.
...................why did I never think of that?
If you have a weapon of holy wrath, curse weapon can't curse it, but you still spend the exp towards spellcasting.
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Posted: Thursday, 24th February 2011, 01:04Tiber wrote:TwilightPhoenix wrote:zasvid wrote:Reading scrolls of curse weapon/armor/jewellry (and I guess other harmful/useless scrolls) is a cheap way to victory dance your way towards gaining Spellcasting.
...................why did I never think of that?
If you have a weapon of holy wrath, curse weapon can't curse it, but you still spend the exp towards spellcasting.
... and if you are unarmed, curse weapon can't curse your arms, but you still spend the exp towards spellcasting!
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Posted: Thursday, 24th February 2011, 01:09If you manage to successfully blink away from the Lernaean Hydra, do not think that you may as well go back and try and kill it again.
Lost my best character ever (L18 KoBe with boots of levetation and randart amulet of cFly that pwned the rest of the lair and had cleared all but the final level of shoals) to that damn thing.
Lost my best character ever (L18 KoBe with boots of levetation and randart amulet of cFly that pwned the rest of the lair and had cleared all but the final level of shoals) to that damn thing.
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Posted: Thursday, 24th February 2011, 01:47zasvid wrote:Tiber wrote:If you have a weapon of holy wrath, curse weapon can't curse it, but you still spend the exp towards spellcasting.
... and if you are unarmed, curse weapon can't curse your arms, but you still spend the exp towards spellcasting!
Didn't know that one. I remember seeing curse armor curse stuff I wasn't wearing, so I assumed curse weapon worked the same.
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Posted: Thursday, 24th February 2011, 03:54Also, a mummy curse will fail to affect a weapon of holy wrath.
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Posted: Thursday, 24th February 2011, 22:02Some more from my last YASD:
- Don't leave a pile of scrolls on the ground right next to a room that is spewing flame columns. The flames can spread farther and torch all your scrolls that you thought you'd left in a safe place
- Being burdened slows you down and even if you have space between you and a hydra, it can kill you if you start going up stairs, even with a spriggan.
- shadow creatures can summon whole elf armies including deep elf knights.
- Don't leave a pile of scrolls on the ground right next to a room that is spewing flame columns. The flames can spread farther and torch all your scrolls that you thought you'd left in a safe place
- Being burdened slows you down and even if you have space between you and a hydra, it can kill you if you start going up stairs, even with a spriggan.
- shadow creatures can summon whole elf armies including deep elf knights.
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Posted: Thursday, 24th February 2011, 22:11Dropping potions to protect them from mummy curses is generally a good idea.
It's a bad idea to do so in an ossuary though, at least those wide open ones. Losing a few potions to decay when you kill the mummies is unfortunate, but being forced to retreat from a crowd of mummies you can't kill, leaving all your potions inside? That's just awful.
It's a bad idea to do so in an ossuary though, at least those wide open ones. Losing a few potions to decay when you kill the mummies is unfortunate, but being forced to retreat from a crowd of mummies you can't kill, leaving all your potions inside? That's just awful.
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Posted: Thursday, 24th February 2011, 22:56mageykun wrote:Dropping potions to protect them from mummy curses is generally a good idea.
It's a bad idea to do so in an ossuary though, at least those wide open ones. Losing a few potions to decay when you kill the mummies is unfortunate, but being forced to retreat from a crowd of mummies you can't kill, leaving all your potions inside? That's just awful.
Dropping them on the gateway before going into the ossuary (or an ice cave) is quite safe (though you gotta be extra careful without potions).
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Posted: Friday, 25th February 2011, 02:43lesson of today :
Don't think that because your human gladiator is doing extremely good in close combat with some nice items, and have killed several slime creature that suddenly you can decide to fight them in a corridor without a problem.
You're just forgetting they will merge together in such situation ...
Don't think that because your human gladiator is doing extremely good in close combat with some nice items, and have killed several slime creature that suddenly you can decide to fight them in a corridor without a problem.
You're just forgetting they will merge together in such situation ...
Annihilated by a titanic slime creature (87 damage)
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Posted: Friday, 25th February 2011, 10:13lesson for today if u find a wizlab entrance dont wait till whole lvl is clear or u might find empty archway when u come back 
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Posted: Friday, 25th February 2011, 12:40Sprinter wrote:lesson for today if u find a wizlab entrance dont wait till whole lvl is clear or u might find empty archway when u come back
Works for pretty much any portal vault.
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Posted: Friday, 25th February 2011, 12:58Does the Treasure Trove work the same way? (with timing?)
I've stumbled on it a couple of times, but never had enough gold for the entrance fee.
If I pay the "deposit", i'll have to go look for what the imp wants, and I've always wondered if I don't pay will it stay around?
I've stumbled on it a couple of times, but never had enough gold for the entrance fee.
If I pay the "deposit", i'll have to go look for what the imp wants, and I've always wondered if I don't pay will it stay around?
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Posted: Friday, 25th February 2011, 13:10If the imp locks the trove, it stays.
I think that, in current trunk, troves are permanent but always require a cost in items, not in gold. There was even a trove that required a Horn of Geryon to open
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I think that, in current trunk, troves are permanent but always require a cost in items, not in gold. There was even a trove that required a Horn of Geryon to open
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Posted: Friday, 25th February 2011, 16:10Zicher wrote:Sprinter wrote:lesson for today if u find a wizlab entrance dont wait till whole lvl is clear or u might find empty archway when u come back
Works for pretty much any portal vault.
Sure in some way all are temporal but other portals last till i clear level around them except maybe labyrint but there ur warned it closes soon.
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Posted: Friday, 25th February 2011, 16:28When in the middle of creating a FAQ (see one danr's post], DO NOT ever touch Backspace.
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Posted: Friday, 25th February 2011, 16:57Zicher wrote:When in the middle of creating a FAQ (see one danr's post], DO NOT ever touch Backspace.
Not sure what u used to write FAQ but try CTRL+Z( undo)
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Posted: Friday, 25th February 2011, 17:06Sprinter wrote:Zicher wrote:When in the middle of creating a FAQ (see one danr's post], DO NOT ever touch Backspace.
Not sure what u used to write FAQ but try CTRL+Z( undo)
There's no undo if your browser does not remember what you did before that freaking mistype ....
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Posted: Friday, 25th February 2011, 20:39Branch-specific monsters will happily wander into adjacent branches.
Nothing like finding an Acid Blob when you're still pottering around Lair the first time...
Nothing like finding an Acid Blob when you're still pottering around Lair the first time...
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Posted: Friday, 25th February 2011, 21:26That super sweet artifact ring that gives you + 9 mana may have the un-identified property of dosing your (formerly) awesome HuWi with super mutagenic doses of glow.
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Posted: Saturday, 26th February 2011, 11:40Don't be surprised when a ghost of your former Draconian spits a draining attack. "What the heck? I'm pretty damn sure I never got that Draconian to learn Bolt of Draining!" You're right, but that's actually not a spell but just a simple Draconian breath. 
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Posted: Saturday, 26th February 2011, 22:18Troll Monks at XL 8 can easily be killed by bees, even when fighting in a corridor.
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Posted: Saturday, 26th February 2011, 23:57Grimm wrote:Troll Monks at XL 8 can easily be killed by bees, even when fighting in a corridor.
Seriously. Bees are no joke.
Also: remember to unwield your Rod of Destruction before victory dancing with sticks to snakes.
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Posted: Sunday, 27th February 2011, 22:39If you are glowing, Ugly Things can bask in your mutagenic radiation and change!
Maybe not an important lesson, but cool in a TDTTOE kind of way
Maybe not an important lesson, but cool in a TDTTOE kind of way
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Posted: Sunday, 27th February 2011, 22:48Also: if you hit 'u' instead of 'i' when you have very low HP, the game will not care that you have spent twelve hours of play on that character - you'll still move NE one space, and get mauled by the Ettin skeleton standing there.
Feeling pretty sick about that one, when I could have healed, teleported, blinked or Bjorgnor's Revivificationed my way out if I'd just looked at the freakin' keyboard
Feeling pretty sick about that one, when I could have healed, teleported, blinked or Bjorgnor's Revivificationed my way out if I'd just looked at the freakin' keyboard
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Posted: Monday, 28th February 2011, 00:37ha... and I was wondering if anyone plays ASCII using the hjkl movement keys
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Posted: Monday, 28th February 2011, 03:10Rupert really is the Sigmund of Lair. If Sigmund had berserk rage. And a great sword of electrocution.
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Posted: Monday, 28th February 2011, 03:20joellercoaster wrote:Also: if you hit 'u' instead of 'i' when you have very low HP, the game will not care that you have spent twelve hours of play on that character - you'll still move NE one space, and get mauled by the Ettin skeleton standing there.
Feeling pretty sick about that one, when I could have healed, teleported, blinked or Bjorgnor's Revivificationed my way out if I'd just looked at the freakin' keyboard
I tend to mess up the other diagonal- I try to hit y and get t all the time. If I'm not paying attention, I'll end up double pressing and shouting. That's a very dumb thing to do when you're attempting to sneak up the diagonal.
hyx wrote:ha... and I was wondering if anyone plays ASCII using the hjkl movement keys
I've learned to use yubn since switching to a laptop and losing my numpad, but I still hate hjkl. It doesn't affect crawl, but accidentally moving every time I try to (k)ick or (l)oot in nethack is infuriating. ...I need to go in and manually remap or something.
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Posted: Monday, 28th February 2011, 06:14whelen wrote:Rupert really is the Sigmund of Lair. If Sigmund had berserk rage. And a great sword of electrocution.
With a nice bit of confusion as the icing on the cake.
Still surprised I managed to escape that fight with 8hp.
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Posted: Monday, 28th February 2011, 10:12mageykun wrote:I've learned to use yubn since switching to a laptop and losing my numpad, but I still hate hjkl. It doesn't affect crawl, but accidentally moving every time I try to (k)ick or (l)oot in nethack is infuriating. ...I need to go in and manually remap or something.
You can (k)ick and (l)oot?
I never knew anything other than ctrl-d and #loot... something new, every day. I play with hjlkyubn because it's what I've always known, and also because I have no numpad on my laptop!
(For the younger members of our community, hjkl are also the original directional movement keys for vi, a text editor once amusingly described by Tom Christiansen as 'an early Roguelike game'
)*sigh* I think I've calmed down enough now to start a new character...
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Posted: Monday, 28th February 2011, 21:13If you ever come down the stairs in Orc:4, find Nikola, and flee back up the stairs (because you are XL 12 and have no rElec) without dying, for Pete's sake, put an Exclusion on the stupid staircase. If you are slightly ADD and play a game over the course of a few days, you will completely forget why you didn't finish Orc, blithely hop down the stairs, and get a very quick Chain Lightning death. (YASD)