From: pullen@wolf.cs.washington.edu (Walter D. Pullen) Newsgroups: rec.games.hack Subject: It's here! A Nethack Purity Test! Summary: How much have you really done in Nethack? Keywords: nethack, purity, test Message-ID: <13772@june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 18 Nov 90 07:10:14 GMT Organization: University of Washington Computer Science Lines: 225 Have you played nethack so much that it seems like that you have done everything under the sun that it is possible to do concerning it? Or maybe you just want to know how you really compare to those people next to you on the hi-score list. Well, I had a few spare hours the other day, so the result is "The Nethack Purity Test". Yeah, I know, I know, if you consider yourself a nethack purist, or this post to be a complete waste of bandwidth, then feel free to hit 'n' now, or to answer yes to questions 131-132. The test is in three sections, and the questions start out normal and tame and get progressively worse (or better) as the test goes on. The first section deals with standard achievements ("Have you ever gotten this far"), the second deals with tales of woe ("Has this ever happened to you"), while the last section deals with all the devious things that hackers have been known to occasionally do ("Have you ever done this"). Note that many of the things I haven't done myself, but I do know of others who have done them, or that at least that it is possible for them do be done. (Last chance to hit 'n'. Possible *spoilers* in the questions, of course.) _________________________________________________________________ Behold mortal: The *_NETHACK_ _PURITY_ _TEST_* (150 questions) ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ################ Section 1: THE GOOD ################ 1: Have you ever played Nethack? 2: Have you ever make it past dungeon level 5? 3: ... level 10? 4: ... level 20? 5: Have you ever played Nethack for more than 4 hours continuously? 6: ... 10 hours? 7: ... 24 hours? 8: Ever been on the hi-score list? 9: ... in the top five on the hi-score list? 10: ... number one on the hi-score list? 11: Have you ever got more than 1000 points? 12: ... 10,000 points? 13: ... 100,000 points? 14: ... a million points? 15: ... 10 million? 16: Ever had more than 100 hit points? 17: ... 200 HP? 18: ... 1000 HP? 19: Ever been on experience level 10? 20: ... level 20? 21: ... 30? 22: Ever had stats of 18 or more in everything? 23: Have you ever killed the Medusa? 24: Ever been in Hell? 25: Ever encountered the Wizard? 26: Ever heard an invisible choir sing? 27: ... on Pl9? 28: Have you ever converted an altar? 29: Ever gotten a named weapon from your god? 30: ... Mjollnir or Stormbringer? 31: ... The tune for the drawbridge? 32: ... Hand of Elbereth? 33: Ever gotten a wish from a magic lamp? 34: ... a throne? 35: ... a fountain? 36: ... a potion? 37: Ever get a wand of wishing from anyplace other than the Stronghold? 38: Ever "make" Orcrist or Sting? 39: Ever "make" Excalibur? 40: Ever accessed Explore/Discovery mode? 41: Ever accessed Debug/Wiard mode? 42: ... Do you know what it is? 43: Have you ever played nethack version 2.3 or earlier? 44: Have you ever compiled nethack? 45: ... Did it run successfully the first time? 46: Do you subscribe to rec.games.hack? 47: Ever posted an article to rec.games.hack? 48: Ever make or be responsible for additions to a spoiler file? 49: Is your name in the nethack "history" file? 50: Are you part of or do you wish you were part of the "Dev Team"? ################ Section 2: THE BAD ################ 51: Have you ever missed a class while playing nethack? 52: ... intentionally? 53: Have you ever been killed by an acid blob? 54: ... a Shopkeeper? 55: ... from system shock? 56: ... from panic? 57: ... by holy wrath? 58: ... by a ghost? 59: ... by your own ghost? 60: ... by your pet? 61: ... from kicking a wall? 62: ... from starvation? 63: ... from an iron ball? 64: ... from a potion of levitation? 65: ... by Medusa? 66: ... by a cockatrice? 67: ... by The Wizard of Yendor? 68: Have you ever died in the Endgame? 69: Ever die by choking on level 15 or higher? 70: Ever die by drowning on level 15 or higher? 71: Ever die by eating a rotted corpse on level 15 or higher? 72: Ever have the game crash on level 15 or higher? 73: Ever touch a cockatrice corpse without gloves on level 15 or higher? 74: Ever fall down the stairs wielding one of the above? 75: Ever been seduced by a Nymph? 76: ... had one steal an artifact or a wand of wishing? 77: ... had one steal your stuff and then fall though to the next level? 78: Ever have "time stand still" while lying in a "monster's" arms? 79: Ever overenchant an artifact and have it evaporate? 80: Ever genocide Rust Monsters with a scroll you didn't know was cursed? 81: Ever zap a wand of digging at the floor in a shop? 82: Ever teleport while inside a creature? 83: Ever misspell "Mjollnir" or something else when making a wish? 84: Ever "have enough tries" when wishing or genociding something? 85: Ever genocided "@"? 86: ... with an amulet of live saving thinking you could get away with it? 87: Ever waste a wish on a wand of wishing, magic lamp, or the Amulet? 88: Ever waste time trying to get a wand of wishing or magic lamp from a polypile in one of the recent Patchlevels? 89: Ever escape the dungeon with a Cheap Plastic Imitation of the Amulet of Yendor thinking it was the real one? 90: Ever offer the Amulet to a god _not_ of your alignment? 91: Ever try polymorphing the Amulet? 92: Ever hit a polymorph trap and change into a Fungus? 93: Ever "feel like a new man/woman"? 94: Ever gotten a sex change in the dungeon? 95: Ever been called a "Cheapskate"? 96: Ever lose telepathy? 97: Ever accidentally kill your pet? 98: Ever have a ray accidentally kill yourself? 99: Ever die and then realize that that unidentified amulet in your inventory was life saving? 100: Ever had a maximum of one hit point? ################ Section 3: THE UGLY ################ 101: Have you ever played nethack for sole the purpose of beating someone else's hi-score? 102: ... your own hi-score? 103: Have you ever tried to get to a bones level and get those goodies before someone else does? 104: Ever zap a wand of undead turning at a bones file just so you could beat the crap out of that player? 105: Have you ever thought the game was over when you suddenly entered the Endgame? 106: Do you rob shops? 107: Have you ever killed the Medusa by any method other than a mirror? 108: Do you wield cockatrice corpses against the Wizard? 109: Ever polymorphed into a Xorn (perhaps before doing the above)? 110: Ever polymorphed into a leprechaun to steal the gold from a Shopkeeper? 111: Ever polymorphed into a nymph to steal the Amulet from the Wizard? 112: Ever use a ring of conflict to indirectly kill a Shopkeeper, Priestess, unicorn, or other peaceful monster? 113: Did you read all of the rumors and oracles directly from the file? 114: Do you play with a spoiler file next to you? 115: Do you copy save files? 116: Ever play where you could hide your screen in some form so that your boss won't get pissed? 117: Have you ever tried to leave some tough monsters in bones levels (e.g. summon Minotaurs on dlvl 4)? 118: Ever swear that you weren't going to waste time playing nethack any more and break your promise within a day? 119: Ever use debug mode to check out the bones files to see what's in them? 120: Ever wish for a +127 war hammer named Mjollnir in debug mode? 121: ... 2 billion gold pieces? 122: ... a blessed +127 ring of protection? 123: ... a wand of wishing (100)? 124: Ever done any of the above and then intentionally die so that a bones file will be created and then you can get the stuff in normal play? 125: Ever modify the source code? 126: Ever put something sneaky in the source code (i.e. if the person playing is named John Doe, put a wand of wishing in his inventory.) 127: Ever try to steal someone else's save file? 128: Is your logfile > 100K in size? 129: Did you know that "Yendor" is "Rodney" spelled backwards? 130: Did you learn of rec.games.hack from the fortune cookie? 131: Ever flame an article on rec.games.hack? 132: ... Did they deserve it? 133: Ever done the "dance of death" with a troll? 134: Ever read a cursed scroll of genocide and summoned Minotaurs? 135: ... Wraiths? 136: ... Nurses? 137: Do you prefer gauntlets of dexterity over gauntlets of power? 138: Do you prefer pet cats over pet dogs? 139: Do you think Elbereth is a wimp? 140: Do you play rogue? 141: Do you think Moria stands for "Man, Only Rejects play It Anytime"? 142: Ever play nethack while intoxicated? 143: ... Did you know the difference? 144: Ever #chat with a in/succubus because you couldn't find anyone in real life? 145: Do you wish that you could take some of the nethack goodies with you into real life (i.e. take that ring of conflict into your Psych final)? 146: Is your name Dave? 147: Have you ever had a dream about nethack? 148: Do you dream about nethack? 149: Are you reading this because you're looking for things you can do? 150: Do you consider yourself pure? ################ Section 4: SCORING ################ For section 1, add one point to your score for each YES" answer. For section 2, either subtract or add one point for each YES" answer, depending on whether you consider yourself a "purist". For section 3, either add or subtract one point for each "YES" answer, depending on whether you definitely _don't_ consider yourself a "purist". Once you have determined your total score, you can then determine how you rank in the nethack world: If your score is from -100 to -81, you are a: Grid bug If your score is from -80 to -61, you are a: Sewer rat If your score is from -60 to -41, you are a: Hobbit If your score is from -40 to -21, you are a: Rothe If your score is from -20 to -1, you are a: Hill orc If your score is from 0 to 19, you are a: Wolf If your score is from 20 to 39, you are a: Rust monster If your score is from 40 to 59, you are a: Shopkeeper If your score is from 60 to 79, you are a: Cockatrice If your score is from 80 to 99, you are a: Black dragon If your score is from 100 to 119, you are a: Minotaur If your score is from 120 to 139, you are a: Wizard of Yendor If your score is from 140 to 150, you are a: Demigod/demigoddess ------------------------------------------------------------------ #+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+# + Walter D. "Cruiser1" Pullen ! 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