Silence should not prevent sacrificing corpses


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Post Wednesday, 12th March 2014, 01:39

Silence should not prevent sacrificing corpses

Ideally, manual corpse sacrificing should go, except maybe for Fedhas with his special method of corpse disposal, for a number of reasons. (Some gods should just lose that aspect entirely; for other gods, having them take a portion of your kills automatically is cooler flavor IMO anyway, and certainly leads to better game play...)

But short of that beautiful day, can we at least make silence not block corpse sacrificing? In places like Vaults, Snake, and Elf, where there are lots of bodies, lots of reasons to use piety, and lots of reasons to use silence, it pushes a lackluster but generally tolerable part of game play with Lugonu, Okawaru, etc. into borderline unbearable. As any calls for a moment of silence to commemorate the beloved departed demonstrate, you can pray silently, and in some religious traditions that is actually the norm/preference!

EDIT: Apologies in advance if this was fixed very recently, I don't have latest Trunk compiled on this computer and it cannot be easily checked online.

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Post Wednesday, 12th March 2014, 02:09

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Post Wednesday, 12th March 2014, 02:20

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I love when that happens.
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Post Wednesday, 12th March 2014, 03:13

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You're a godsend, wheals!

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Post Wednesday, 12th March 2014, 04:40

Re: Silence should not prevent sacrificing corpses

and into wrote:You're a godsend, wheals!


But which god... and was wheals sent to reward devotion... or to punish heresy?
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Post Wednesday, 12th March 2014, 11:35

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Wheals would be a good name for a deity...
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Post Thursday, 13th March 2014, 05:04

Re: Silence should not prevent sacrificing corpses

there are no gods beginning with W aswell...
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Post Thursday, 13th March 2014, 08:57

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Yeah, otherwise it wouldn't be a good name for a Crawl deity ;) A lot of god proposals around these days...
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Post Thursday, 13th March 2014, 17:17

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it because Dith got in.
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Post Thursday, 13th March 2014, 17:42

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Post Sunday, 23rd March 2014, 11:42

Re: Silence should not prevent sacrificing corpses

Silence not blocking prayers makes all sorts of sense.

What I'll never get is this obsession with butchering, praying, etc. as an unjustified divine punishment.

Do you guys have no muscle memory whatsoever? Have you ever played any other sort of roguelike or, any other sort of computer game that produces corpses for that matter?

...or are you just a bunch of speedrunners who can't friggin get your turn counts any lower and that is your last resort?

Oh, I have to hit 'p' to offer these dead bodies to my deity, WHAT UNBEARABLE SUFFERING!!

People, just stop gluing thumbtacks to the 'c' and 'p' keys.
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Post Sunday, 23rd March 2014, 11:45

Re: Silence should not prevent sacrificing corpses

Just because a lot of games do things in terrible ways this doesn't mean we have to do them in terrible ways also.

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