THE NETHACK PURITY TEST Last modified: 22 March 1996 Well, now that there is a full-fledged NetHack Code, it seems only right and proper that we denizens of The Dungeons of Doom develop a quantitative way to show everyone what kind of impact NetHack has made on our lives. Hence we have Yet Another "purity" test. Instructions: answer all of the following questions, tally up your `yes' answers, and check the result against the scoring list at the end. SECTION 1: THE ADDICTION 1-1. Have you ever played NetHack (an `official' version)? 1-2. ..NetHack, The Next Generation? 1-3. ..NetHack Plus? 1-4. ..SLASH-Hack? 1-5. ..NetHack--? 1-6. ..some other variant? 1-7. Have you ever played NH for over 1 hour at a sitting? 1-8. ..over 3 hours at a sitting? 1-9. ..over 6 hours at a sitting? 1-10. ..over 12 hours at a sitting? 1-11. Have you managed to restrict a session of NH to an hour or less within the last 6 months? 1-12. ..the last 3 months? 1-13. ..the last month? 1-14. ..did you pull off a start-to-finish ascension in that hour? 1-15. Have you ever played NH instead of doing something more important? 1-16. Have you ever used NH as an excuse *not* to do something? 1-17. Have you ever played NH at work? 1-18. ..and did your boss catch you? 1-19. ..did you get in trouble for it? 1-20. ..did you get your boss hooked on playing, too? 1-21. Have you ever had to force yourself to stop playing NH for any reason? 1-22. Have you ever been forced to stop playing NH by another person? 1-23. ..did you ignore him/her anyway? 1-24. Has some real-life catastrophe happened to you because you wouldn't stop playing NH? 1-25. ..did you not notice? 1-26. Do you have a Unix account somewhere where NH is your login shell? 1-27. ..and it isn't nethack.bitech.com? 1-28. Have you ever dreamed about NH? 1-29. Have you ever thought about NH while in an intimate situation? 1-30. ..were you later confused that your partner wasn't a succubus/incubus? SECTION 2: GAME ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ODD WAYS TO DIE 2-1. Score 1 point for each character class you've ascended. Ascensions in different variants all count separately. 2-2. Score 1 bonus point for each `challenge' ascension (e.g. the vegetarian valkyrie). 2-3. Score 1 point for each earlier version of the game you played while that version was `current', all the way back to Rogue. 2-4. Have you ever been killed by a boiling potion? 2-5. ..by an exploding wand? 2-6. ..by an exploding rune? 2-7. ..by a burning book? 2-8. ..by an exploding tin? 2-9. ..by an exploding ring? 2-10. ..by falling on a sink? 2-11. ..by an iron ball in any way? 2-12. ..by an exploding drawbridge? 2-13. ..by drowning in lava? 2-14. ..by drowning in water? 2-15. ..by an exploding door? 2-16. ..by the wrath of some god? 2-17. ..by falling down while wielding a cockatrice corpse? 2-18. ..by touching a cockatrice corpse while blind? 2-19. ..by trying to tin a cockatrice without gloves? 2-20. ..by eating a cockatrice corpse? 2-21. ..by swallowing a cockatrice whole? 2-22. ..by Medusa's gaze? 2-23. ..by a piece of glass or a gem? 2-24. ..by hitting yourself with a pick-axe? 2-25. ..by an amulet of strangulation? 2-26. ..by a ghost of one of your former selves? 2-27. ..by a pet belonging to one of your former selves? 2-28. ..by a monster wielding an artifact weapon? 2-29. ..was it a beheading by Vorpal Blade? 2-30. ..by Mjollnir hitting you on the return? 2-31. ..by a burning scroll? 2-32. ..by genocide? 2-33. ..by biting a live cockatrice? 2-34. Have you ever survived the wrath of some god? 2-35. Have you ever made dragon scale mail? 2-36. Have you ever made a crysknife? 2-37. Have you ever hatched an egg that wasn't laid by you? 2-38. Have you ever encountered a demon lord that wasn't Asmodeus, Baalzebub, Juiblex, or Orcus? 2-39. ..did you bribe him? 2-40. ..did you kill him? 2-41. Have you ever swiped your quest artifact from the nemesis without killing him? 2-42. ..did you complete the quest without killing the nemesis? 2-43. Have you ever swiped the Book of the Dead from the Wizard of Yendor without killing him? 2-44. Score 10 bonus points if you went on to ascend and *never* killed the Wiz. (And then find yourself a harder variant to play. (: ) 2-45. Have you ever devised a "challenge" ascension? 2-46. ..did you post it to the newsgroup? 2-47. ..did you ever pull it off yourself? 2-48. ..did you suggest it *because* you pulled it off? 2-49. Have you ever ascended with your original pet? 2-50. ..was it still in its original form at the time? SECTION 3: NETHACK HACKING 3-1. Do you have a copy of the source code? 3-2. Have you ever examined it? 3-3. Have you ever examined it in order to find out game secrets? 3-4. Have you modified your personal copy of NH? 3-5. ..do other people on your system play it? 3-6. Have you developed a full-fledged variant of NH? 3-7. ..did you make it available for public distribution? 3-8. Have you ever sent a bug report to the Dev Team? 3-9. ..did you get a reply? 3-10. ..was it a bug they hadn't seen before? 3-11. Have you ever quoted source code on rec.games.roguelike.nethack? 3-12. Are you on the Dev Team? 3-13. ..is your name in the list of shopkeeper names? 3-14. If you're not on the Dev Team, have you received an offer to join it or playtest? 3-15. Have you written a spoiler file? 3-16. Have you written a FAQ? 3-17. Do you maintain a web/FTP repository of source, spoilers, and/or FAQs? 3-18. Do you peruse your logfile for interesting causes of death? 3-19. Have you ever caused yourself to die by trickery? 3-20. Have you ever caused *someone else* to die by trickery? 3-21. ..did you get away with it without being found out? 3-22. Do you have wizard-mode privileges on some system? 3-23. Do you use wizard mode as an expanded explore mode? 3-24. Do you use wizard mode to check out the contents of bones levels? 3-25. ..do you knock off whatever killed the poor lost soul so that getting the loot is easier? 3-26. ..do you create nasties to make getting the loot harder? 3-27. ..do you strip the bones pile of particularly good loot before resaving it? 3-28. ..do you add loot to the pile? (see 5-12) 3-29. ..do you add `booby prizes', like +150 dragon scale mail, that are actually harmful to use? 3-30. ..do you scatter the loot so it doesn't *look* like a bones level? 3-31. Do you use wizard mode to test bizarre game situations? 3-32. Do you use wizard mode to get yourself killed in bizarre ways? (see section 2) SECTION 4: THE WIZARD OF YENDOR 4-1. Have you ever encountered the Wizard? 4-2. Have you ever killed him? 4-3. ..did you not notice at the time? 4-4. Have you ever killed the Wiz over water and lost the Book of the Dead? 4-5. ..did you retrieve the Book afterward? 4-6. ..did you fall victim to the Book-in-water bug? 4-7. Did the Wiz ever kill you? 4-8. Have you ever been Double Troubled? 4-9. Has the Wiz ever swiped an artifact from you? 4-10. ..did you get it back? 4-11. Have you ever quit the game in frustration because the Wiz stole the Amulet, fired off a wand of digging or read a cursed scroll of teleportation, and you couldn't track him down again no matter how hard you tried? 4-12. Have you ever trapped the Wiz in Vlad's Tower? 4-13. Have you ever frozen the Wiz with a paralysis potion? 4-14. Have you ever given the Wiz a wand of digging or cursed teleport scroll so he could `lose' himself? 4-15. Have you ever eaten the Wiz? 4-16. ..even though you were a human? 4-17. ..were you a purple worm at the time? 4-18. Have you ever polymorphed the Wiz's corpse into something you could eat? 4-19. ..something your pet could eat? 4-20. ..did you just let your pet purple worm swallow him whole? 4-21. Have you ever whacked the Wiz with a cockatrice corpse? 4-22. ..did you smash the statue afterwards? 4-23. ..did you polymorph the rocks into gems afterwards? 4-24. ..did you polymorph into a xorn so you could eat the rocks? SECTION 5: DIRTY TRICKS 5-1. Have you ever wished for a quest artifact? 5-2. Have you ever deliberately used a cursed bell to summon a nymph? 5-3. Have you ever deliberately used the cursed Bell of Opening to summon undead? 5-4. ..did you genocide other classes of undead so you'd get more wraiths? 5-5. ..did you keep going even after you got to level 30? 5-6. Have you ever wished for an athame or Magicbane just so you could engrave `Elbereth' endlessly? 5-7. ..did you not know that you can use a hard gem or a ring with a hard gem to do the same thing? 5-8. Have you ever polypiled? 5-9. ..more than 1 screen of items? 5-10. ..did you split up the piles so you wouldn't get golems? 5-11. ..do you genocide golems to facilitate polypiling? 5-12. Have you ever created a bones file in wizard mode for later use? 5-13. Have you ever backed up a save file for purposes other than crash recovery? 5-14. Have you ever done `the nurse dance'? 5-15. ..did you find a no-teleport level to do it? 5-16. ..did you reverse-genocide nurses? SCORING: 0: Human Zombie. "Huh, What? Where am I?" 1-10: Rogue. Everything was so much simpler in the old days. 11-20: Tourist. You bring plenty of munchies along, and sometimes find them more interesting than the quest. 21-30: Knight. You're equipped to play well, but you tend to fall down in practice. 31-40: Kobold Shaman. You point at the game and curse a lot. 41-50: Barbarian. "By Crom, there will be blood spilt today." 51-60: Purple Worm. You swallow anything that gets between you and a good game of NH. 61-70: Archeologist. Just a little deeper, and you'll find everything you're looking for. 71-80: Incubus. You think the game would look better with a few adornments. 81-90: Healer. Just a few more patches, and everything will be all better. 91-100: Wizard. Nothing stops you from defacing the game, except maybe time constraints. 101-110: Samurai. You've cut the game to ribbons in more senses than one. 111-120: NH+ Shopkeeper. You live in the dungeon and charge outrageous fees to tell others what you know about the place. 121+: Wizard of Yendor. "So when I die (ascend?), the first thing I will see in Heaven is a score list?" ADVERTISING YOUR TEST SCORE Add the PT entry to your NetHack code. Follow it either with your numeric score, or your score rating: e.g., PT:57 or PT:Incubus CREDITS Like NH itself, this test was examined, criticized, and improved by others on the net. Here is a list of people I would like to acknowledge: William Harris (1-11 through 1-13) Magnus Y Alvestad (1-14) Liz Stokes (2-3, 2-22, 2-33, 2-34, 3-18, 3-19) John Fouhy (1-5) Jukka Lahtinen (reworded Wizard of Yendor rating in the score list) (reworded 1-23 and 1-25) David Whitcombe (2-49, 4-3, suggesting section 5, 5-8, 5-9) Copyright 1996 by Erwin Mascardo . This test may not be reproduced without this copyright message. The Wizard of Yendor and non-humans are exempt from this restriction if you can prove you are one.