Not to step on the toes of the mighty Clan RGRN, but I thought I'd just mention that Clan DYWYPI welcomes all DevNull tournament players! Just send me a message for an invite. We do have some organizing principles, however, and if you join we expect that you will:
1. Die in at least one game of nethack. 2. There is no #2.
We take this obligation with great seriousness of purpose, since it causes the name of our clan to be printed for all the world to see! Members who ascend every game they play during the tournament will be given a stern talking to for shirking their duties!
Bleeko Bleeko wrote: > Not to step on the toes of the mighty Clan RGRN, but I thought I'd just > mention that Clan DYWYPI welcomes all DevNull tournament players! Just > send me a message for an invite. We do have some organizing principles, > however, and if you join we expect that you will:
> 1. Die in at least one game of nethack. > 2. There is no #2.
At the moment that's a hindrance for me. But it's merely a matter of time, certainly. ;-}
On your page you write: >> >> I'd also like to post a one line quote of your favorite way to die >> in nethack :-)
Interesting. I browsed through my log and pondered about that. Obviously "killed by Famine (with the Amulet)" is an unlikely candidate for a "favourite" death; proceeded far and died (most likely due to stupidity or inattentiveness) at the gates of glory. <gasp>
I think any "favourite" candidate would be something that reflects the inevitable fate, one where you even don't know how exactly it happened, maybe "killed by a wand" (or some other unspecific death like that).
BTw, another puzzling discovery from my logfile were those two entries: "killed by a dart" and "poisoned by a little dart" Hey, there are darts and little darts? Didn't notice that, yet.
> Bleeko Bleeko wrote: > > Not to step on the toes of the mighty Clan RGRN, but I thought I'd just > > mention that Clan DYWYPI welcomes all DevNull tournament players! Just > > send me a message for an invite. We do have some organizing principles, > > however, and if you join we expect that you will:
> > 1. Die in at least one game of nethack. > > 2. There is no #2.
> At the moment that's a hindrance for me. But it's merely a matter of time, > certainly. ;-}
> Not to step on the toes of the mighty Clan RGRN, but I thought I'd > just mention that > Clan DYWYPI welcomes all DevNull tournament players! Just send me a > message > for an invite. We do have some organizing principles, however, and if > you join we > expect that you will:
> 1. Die in at least one game of nethack. > 2. There is no #2.
> We take this obligation with great seriousness of purpose, since it > causes the name > of our clan to be printed for all the world to see! Members who ascend > every game they > play during the tournament will be given a stern talking to for > shirking their duties!
Well I've already had a few DYWYPIs this tournament, so I can manage the requirements - and the combination of have accepted both the Grue Challenge and the PacMan challenge can leave you with a nearly unavaoidable death-trap if you've no source of light. As for favourite death, well neither were so funny at the time, but it's got to be either 'choked to death on a fortune cookie' - I was in the castle, had just eaten a black dragon and had just 1 wafer-thin fortune cookie more. The other candidate was my wizard who was running down through Gehemmon. I entered a new level, I meant to cast magic mapping, but I knew I'd failed to hit the right key to cast the spell. I stopped and thought, 'well hitting escape won't hurt'. I then found out the hard way that I'd hit 'finger of death' and that hitting escape basically targets yourself and unlike a bounce, the effect will work through a CoMR.
phragmites - ZAPM challenge completed, hoping for at least a birdie this year (got a plastic star).
On Nov 4, 5:40 am, Matthew Reid <m4tth3w.r...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> As for favourite death, well neither were so funny at the time, but > it's got to be either > 'choked to death on a fortune cookie' - I was in the castle, had just > eaten a black dragon and had just 1 wafer-thin fortune cookie more.
That's a great one ... right up there with choking on a wraith! (Curiously Insubstantial!)
I think my "favorite" was my caveman who was killed on the Plane of Earth by Earthlink (connection drop while trying to recover from a previous drop) although technically I suppose it wasn't really a DYWYPI. (http://www.dave.org/nethack/caveman_earthlink.txt)
Just a quick note for anyone playing in the tournament. I have whipped together a little perl to grab and munge the devnull logs, so it is no longer necessary to email me about Clan DYWYPI.
All you need to do is die, and I will automatically (within a day) send you an invite to Clan DYWYPI
How's that for service folks!
(Of course, you can still email me with your Fake Bio and preferred death so that I can post them on the members page)
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