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Re: YASD

2009-11-09T00:55:01Z

Pat Rankin <ran...@pactechdata.com> wrote in
No, as *soon* as it's stolen. If the player was paralyzed or asleep, the
wererat (and company) would have killed him before he recovered.
No, it's already doing it's attack - stealing the armor.
Yes, but my point remains: The Nymph stole 5 items without disappearing

Yendorian Dungeons safety measure

2009-11-09T00:19:43Z

A Yendorian Dungeons safety measure...
"You see here a scroll of fire. A gush of water hits you!"
Janis

Re: YASD

2009-11-08T23:56:11Z

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That should say "and you _start_ taking off your armor."
I'm sure it's just a typo in the post rather than a message
bug in the program. Note that the nymph has caused the hero
to begin doing something; she's no longer doing that herself.
Only if the hero is able to move. Taking off the suit

Re: YASD

2009-11-08T23:51:20Z

And avoid to wake up the nymphs in the first place; leave them alone.
Do no door/chest/item kicking; that will wake up sleeping monsters on
the same level, even if they are far away. That was probably the result
of a home-made situation. In case you are importuned by a gang without
own support, flee into some corridor where you can take them one by one,

Re: YASD

2009-11-08T23:13:22Z

Máté <matthew.li...@gmail.com> wrote in
How did the nymph re-appear? They teleport away once they've stolen
something.
That's 6 teleports *before* the wererat killed you. *Very* doubtful that
the nymph reappeared in time *each* time.
If you were on a non-teleport level, you just back through a doorway and kill the nymph. A simple two attack kill at worst.

Re: YASD

2009-11-08T22:46:50Z

(snip)
(sewer rat muncies snipped)
Next time you're in this situation, an E-word might help you: nymphs
and werecreatures in nonhuman form respect it. Write it in the dust, if
you have to; you have about a 73% chance per attempt of getting it
right, and you'll get a much-needed breather if it works.

YASD

2009-11-08T21:55:58Z

Hello!
I started to play nethack for a few days ago, and i noticed, a nymph
and a wererat can be deathly dangerous:
You hit the wererat.
The wererat bites!
The beautiful mountain nymph seduces you and you taking off your
armor.
Th mountain nymph pretends to be friendly.
The wererat summons help!
The wererat bites!

Re: [Tournament] Problem with accessing record

2009-11-08T21:08:17Z

Thanks for the clarification.
I might get a plastic star this year so I'd have hated for
my game to be lost! ;)
Cheers,
chlorine

Re: Clan DYWYPI in DevNull Tournament

2009-11-08T01:03:35Z

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!

Re: NetHack Poll 2009

2009-11-07T23:28:35Z

While reading the comments in this thread, and after having taken the
online poll, I realized that you might think that "when did you learn
about nethack" (question #10) has some relation to when the respondent
started *playing* nethack. In my case it didn't; I first heard about
nethack in college (around 1996-97) in connection with the Luggage

YASD

2009-11-07T21:46:38Z

a YASD worth to mention: I was wrongly thinking that pit next to water
should be filled in. Well apparently not the "trap" pits...
...while on top level of wizard tower in front of the moat while weilding a
handy rubber chicken, and just stoned that stupid monster that was probably
trapped in the pit. That was my first shot to devnull this year. I wonder

Re: [Tournament] Problem with accessing record

2009-11-07T18:45:01Z

The games are being saved (we don't use the record file); this is a
stale lock file coming back, as the servers are saying.
(The usual cause of this is creative players trying to intentionally get
the Trickery trophy by crashing the game in various ways. ;-)
I went through 7 of the servers this morning clearing those out; I'm

Re: NetHack Poll 2009

2009-11-07T17:05:03Z

The "Shiren the wanderer" series of roguelike games is quite popular, if
not quite mainstream, in Japan, and it's a commercial product.
Although they preserve the idea of permanent death, they have made
some concessions to being commercial and having mainstream gamers
expect to win with just a few weeks of effort. So you get inheritances.

[Tournament] Problem with accessing record

2009-11-07T10:46:17Z

Hello,
just wanted to report something that has already been reported
here, but on another server (lost the original thread, sorry).
At the end of my game, instead of being presented with the high
score list, I got a series of messages:
'Waiting for access to record. (59 retries left).'
for all values of 59 retries to 1.

Re: NetHack Poll 2009

2009-11-07T05:38:47Z

Or read the group... duh.