Dudley's dungeon -- Tuesday, 30 November, 2004

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Violist	November 30, 2004 07:19
First comment: 25 June, 2004	206 comments written
Yes, I actually follow pacifist conduct 100% of the time when I'm not fighting... amazing, isn't it.
Schnee	November 30, 2004 07:42
First comment: 10 November, 2004	76 comments written
How do you do a pacifist game, anyway? I mean - aren't there monsters that have to be killed (the questMany, possibly most, Tours are organized as a Quest. This is like a large-scale treasure hunt, with clues scattered all over the continent, a few false leads, Mystical Masters as game-show hosts, and the Dark Lord and the Terrain to make the Quest interestingly difficult. [...] In order to be assured of your future custom, the Management has a further Rule: Tourists, far from being rewarded for achieving their Quest Object, must then go on to conquer the Dark Lord or set about Saving the World, or both. And why not? By then you will have had a lot of practice in that sort of thing and, besides, the Quest Object is usually designed to help you do it. [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. monster, for example, VladVlad Dracula the Impaler was a 15th-Century monarch of the Birgau region of the Carpathian Mountains, in what is now Romania. In Romanian history he is best known for two things. One was his skilled handling of the Ottoman Turks, which kept them from making further inroads into Christian Europe. The other was the ruthless manner in which he ran his fiefdom. He dealt with perceived challengers to his rule by impaling them upright on wooden stakes. Visiting dignitaries who failed to doff their hats had them nailed to their head. Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details., and so on)?
Mantar	November 30, 2004 08:16
First comment: 17 June, 2004	197 comments written
You need a really good pet, for starters. Conflict helps, too.
Coffee Zombie	November 30, 2004 08:56
First comment: 11 June, 2004	18 comments written
In theory you could have your pet dragonIn the West the dragon was the natural enemy of man. Although preferring to live in bleak and desolate regions, whenever it was seen among men it left in its wake a trail of destruction and disease. Yet any attempt to slay this beast was a perilous undertaking. For the dragon's assailant had to contend not only with clouds of sulphurous fumes pouring from its fire breathing nostrils, but also with the thrashings of its tail, the most deadly part of its serpent-like body. [ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ] "One whom the dragons will speak with," he said, "that is a dragonlord, or at least that is the center of the matter. It's not a trick of mastering the dragons, as most people think. Dragons have no masters. The question is always the same, with a dragon: will he talk to you or will he eat you? If you can count upon his doing the former, and not doing the latter, why then you're a dragonlord." [ The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. kill them I beleive... you'd have to quaff some potions of gain level though, to get to the questMany, possibly most, Tours are organized as a Quest. This is like a large-scale treasure hunt, with clues scattered all over the continent, a few false leads, Mystical Masters as game-show hosts, and the Dark Lord and the Terrain to make the Quest interestingly difficult. [...] In order to be assured of your future custom, the Management has a further Rule: Tourists, far from being rewarded for achieving their Quest Object, must then go on to conquer the Dark Lord or set about Saving the World, or both. And why not? By then you will have had a lot of practice in that sort of thing and, besides, the Quest Object is usually designed to help you do it. [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. level!
Coffee Zombie	November 30, 2004 09:03
First comment: 11 June, 2004	18 comments written
Invisibilty and stealth would help too. Will your pet get lost if you're invisible? Hm! Does anyone know that - without having to look in the source files? ;-)
Schnee	November 30, 2004 11:25
First comment: 10 November, 2004	76 comments written
If I had to make a guess, I'd say no, it doesn't, but I'm not 100% sure.
Crawler	November 30, 2004 13:53
First comment: 24 August, 2004	57 comments written
I guess charm monster type spells would be interesting too to provide temporary "pets"...or a #chat action that uses charisma to convince intelligent creatures to follow, Ã la NWN...does that exist in NetHack?
Schnee	November 30, 2004 19:20
First comment: 10 November, 2004	76 comments written
No.
Mothra Larva	December 1, 2004 00:51
First comment: 1 December, 2004	1 comments written
(I hear that.)
jtpk	December 1, 2004 07:11
First comment: 11 May, 2004	29 comments written
IIRC, most pets will not act differently if you are invisible... I believe the going theory is that they use their sense of smell to know where you are.
E	December 1, 2004 16:59
First comment: 2 September, 2004	34 comments written
IIRC pets, like most creatures other than humans, have infravision and can "sense" other creatures within a certain radius
jtpk	December 2, 2004 09:14
First comment: 11 May, 2004	29 comments written
Hmm... my elven chars can't 'see invisible' by default, but can see any non-invisible non-mindless creature within line-of-sight in the dark. So, no, I don't think it's infravision.
	May 24, 2005 01:14
First comment: 1 April, 2004	431 comments written
There's a difference between 'invisible' and 'ininfravisible.' You can be simply invisible but still giving off/taking in heat, and thus infravisible, or you can be 'completely' invisible such that you actually need 'see invisible.' At least, that's the way I think it is...
Kernigh	July 26, 2005 18:30
First comment: 6 April, 2005	349 comments written
The Newt(kinds of) small animal, like a lizard, which spends most of its time in the water. [ Oxford's Student's Dictionary of Current English ] "Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble." [ Macbeth, by William Shakespeare ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. Comics (16) http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20041129 Previous http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20041203 Next
Fathead	April 13, 2006 00:56
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
Dude, Mr Kernigh, you don't have to mark all the NCs.
Grognor	April 7, 2007 05:41
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
Senor No Name up there is right.
HK	June 20, 2007 17:42
First comment: 1 June, 2007	309 comments written
The comments are getting off topic.
JonMW	January 11, 2009 17:03
First comment: 26 December, 2005	6 comments written
In Slash'EM I've recently had two characters that wereIn 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province, "notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase." The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears, had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from eating infants on a fast day. [ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. permanently invisible. The first one, while he posessed infravision, could not see his catWell-known quadruped domestic animal from the family of predatory felines (_Felis ochreata domestica_), with a thick, soft pelt; often kept as a pet. Various folklores have the cat associated with magic and the gods of ancient Egypt. So Ulthar went to sleep in vain anger; and when the people awakened at dawn - behold! Every cat was back at his accustomed hearth! Large and small, black, grey, striped, yellow and white, none was missing. Very sleek and fat did the cats appear, and sonorous with purring content. [ The Cats of Ulthar, by H.P. Lovecraft ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. that he'd zapped with a wand of'Saruman!' he cried, and his voice grew in power and authority. 'Behold, I am not Gandalf the Grey, whom you betrayed. I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no colour now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council.' He raised his hand, and spoke slowly in a clear cold voice. 'Saruman, your staff is broken.' There was a crack, and the staff split asunder in Saruman's hand, and the head of it fell down at Gandalf's feet. 'Go!' said Gandalf. With a cry Saruman fell back and crawled away. [ The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. make invisible (thus teaching me the power of invisibility). My second character who made himself invisible (with a blessed potionPOTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific -- and without science we are as the snakes and toads. [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. of invisibility) but not his pets has them follow quite happily as does a visible character... by which I mean that the pet is just as much a pain as usual.

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