00:00 That's how I always play. 00:00 just lost my speed boots, dragon shirt and robe. going back to real life 00:00 rebatela: Haha, cute. 00:00 fuck 00:00 what to even do now 00:00 wrest this wish for new dragonhide robe i guess 00:00 or dragonhide cloak of mr 00:01 i'm tempted to keep playing. i hate when that shit happens and cloak and shirt get ripped! 00:02 i can pray in valley yes? 00:02 or is that gehennom 00:02 i have holy water but can't access bag no hands 00:02 castle i can pray 00:02 problem is i'll start playing and this chick will wake up lol 00:04 rebatela: Don't think you can pray in the valley either. 00:05 I'd get back to the castle. 00:05 [hdf-us] [evil] dbanethacker (Val Hum Fem Neu), 5336 points, T:6403, poisoned by a killer bee 00:05 i waited it out and drank holy water 00:05 but al i have left for armor is helm and gloves 00:05 -31AC tho not bad? 00:06 still ascendable 00:06 can wrest the wish for dragonhide cloak of mr then i can use the amulet and eyes slot for anything 00:06 hopefully find and enchant a shirt 00:07 make sure not to kick this basilisk 00:10 Woah, how do you get -31AC with just helm and gloves? 00:10 some of it is divine... prayer/donations 00:11 That only gives some 7 or 9 units... 00:11 dragonbane and dragonhide elven helm +7 00:11 Oooh, nice. 00:12 What were you at before ripping your tshirt and cloak? 00:12 i had dragonhide tshirt of drain resistance 00:12 it got shredded with the robe 00:12 my ac was just -55 00:13 Sad. -55 is still insane, though. 00:13 yeah i'll get some back just going to my stadsh 00:13 and i have a wish to wrest but i really wanted another death wand 00:14 [hdf-us] [evil] dbanethacker (Val Hum Fem Neu) had a mithril dwarvish spear entrusted to her by Odin, on T:1058 00:14 what time is it in australia now? 00:15 but as far as ac, if you altar camp you can keep getting protection 00:15 Floating eyes are the only instance of animate body parts in vanilla, right? 00:15 4:14pm. 00:15 i probably have 13 or 14 00:16 it doesn't cap at 9. just gets harder 00:16 rebatela: Ah, interesting. 00:16 the first giant i ascended had +20 00:16 you can keep donating too 00:16 it just gets much harder after the +9 00:17 Oh, darn. Don't know how I survived this... Ate a C-ration, which paralysed me... 00:17 And at THAT moment, an NPC arrived. 00:17 but if you kill the priest and donate to the next one, sometimes you get an extra point or two etc 00:17 or drain yourself. some people do that 00:17 As long as teh priest isn't co-aligned. 00:17 yeah don't kill your own priest! 00:18 what happens if you polymorph and eat those amulets of guarding? 00:18 is that capped? It must be like eating rings of protection and get harder and harder or whatever 00:19 can you even eat rings of protection? 00:19 i remember eating a bunch of increase damage rings once as a giant monk. got like +8 to get across 00:20 Ooh, woah. "Mike the invisible Joshu" is able to do 4 hits in one turn. 00:21 And melee is the only way I can play in this game. :( My ranged weapons and spells are crap. 00:22 Considering polymorphing him, but it'll poly everything he has, too, right? 00:22 Melee'ed him. All good! 00:25 -!- rebatela has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 00:33 EvilHack adds magical eyes to the family, right? 00:33 * Umbire is troping 00:33 -!- rebatela has joined #evilhack 00:35 *sigh*. Freaking stupid iguana getting in teh way. :( 00:35 This could've been The game. 00:35 But got distracted. :( 00:36 *one* turn. 00:36 Hmm, no real fancy loot, if this becomes a bones people will be a bit meh with it. 00:37 [hdf-au] [evil] Arahael (Mon Hum Fem Neu), 43511 points, T:11918, killed by an ettin 00:37 I always seem to do a YASD. 00:37 F 00:38 ...I should try for a playable ettin-like species 00:38 Maybe adapt the Taddol 00:38 And I didn't even have a sleepign girl on my lap with it. 00:45 oh man i wish i was kidding about that 00:45 it's a real problem 00:45 lol 00:46 i gotta wake her up and move her. plus i have her dog here and now he's waking up because my cat is playing with a toy 00:46 it's a real situation. i just want to play nethack but i just lost all my armor tryingt o do that so i probably shouldnt 00:47 my cat is teasing her giant golden retriever. they are going to wake her up and she's going to catch me playing nethack 00:55 [hdf-us] [evil] dbanethacker (Val Hum Fem Neu) had a splint mail entrusted to her by Odin, on T:2793 00:56 i need to just pick up whatver boots/cloak etc i find 00:57 now there's a cockatrice (still no boots) and an archon lol 00:58 yeah it's those damn weredemons that gave me the lycanrhtopy 00:58 those things suck! 00:58 i was just running through ignoring messages like an idiot 00:59 soooo just in theory here. i could ditch the amuelt and use the eye to go back to my stash and do a whole bunch of stuff and then come back and get it ? 00:59 i think i might actually do that 01:00 once i don't have the amulet i can use the eye, curse teleport. etc. 01:00 i need to replace the armor and haste myself if i'm not gonna have speed boots 01:02 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu) killed the Wizard of Yendor (5 times), on T:51242 01:13 [hdf-us] [evil] dbanethacker (Val Hum Fem Neu) destroyed nabru's ghost, the former Conjurer, on T:4052 01:14 rebatela: What's it like in demon form? 01:27 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu) wished for "blessed greased fixed wand of death", on T:52144 01:28 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu) entered the Planes, on T:52151 01:29 what's what like in demon form? 01:29 lol 01:31 still have the free action ring! 01:31 F those energy vortices maaaan! 01:33 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu) genocided two random monsters from class ;, on T:52341 01:33 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu) genocided two random monsters from class ;, on T:52341 01:35 You can still breathe, though 01:35 yeah that's right! because i've already DIED this WAY BEFORE !! 01:35 magical breathing ftw 01:36 [hdf-us] [evil] dbanethacker (Val Hum Fem Neu) had a long sword entrusted to her by Odin, on T:5532 01:41 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu) killed Pestilence, on T:52674 01:42 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu) murdered his faithful black dragon, on T:52678 01:42 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu) killed the saddled White Horse, on T:52680 01:44 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu) murdered his faithful black dragon, on T:52702 01:44 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu) put the invisible Death down for a little nap, on T:52719 01:45 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu) destroyed the saddled Pale Horse, on T:52722 01:45 [hdf-us] [evil] dbanethacker (Val Hum Fem Neu) destroyed the invisible SurferOfButthole's ghost, the former Lookout, on T:5955 01:45 oh grand tour 01:45 not gonna make it 01:45 fuck 01:47 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu) killed Famine, on T:52778 01:47 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu) killed the saddled Black Horse, on T:52778 01:47 [hdf-us] [evil] rebatela (Mon Elf Mal Neu), 3447158 points, T:52792, ascended https://www.hardfought.org/userdata/r/rebatela/evilhack/dumplog/1614432087.evil.html 01:48 Well done you 01:48 yo* 01:48 aaaand the girl is still sleeping. thank god 01:50 How ya feelin'? 01:51 amazing 01:51 how are you? 01:52 Troping and mulling over ideas 01:52 YASI: mind flayers should take double damage from cold attacks 01:52 and/or take slight damage from eating icy monsters' corpses 01:54 i keep teleporting anything... that was my old vanilla astral strategy too 01:54 just don't teleport the riders 02:11 congrats rebatela 02:14 thanks! 02:38 -!- Umbire has quit [Quit: Leaving] 02:40 -!- rebatela has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 02:53 What happens if you teleport the riders? 03:22 -!- Not-3d3e has quit [Excess Flood] 03:24 [hdf-au] [evil] Arahael (Mon Hum Mal Neu) killed Aphrodite, on T:2640 03:24 Finally. 03:27 -!- rebatela has joined #evilhack 04:54 -!- stenno1 has joined #evilhack 05:47 -!- mobileuser has joined #evilhack 05:51 !lastasc rebatela 05:51 mobileuser: [hdf-us] https://www.hardfought.org/userdata/r/rebatela/evilhack/dumplog/1614432087.evil.html 05:51 congrats rebatela! 06:15 thanks 07:19 -!- rebatela has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 07:25 [hdf-eu] [evil] mobileuser (Rog Elf Fem Neu) wished for "fixed magic marker", on T:36353 07:36 -!- amateurhour has joined #evilhack 07:44 [hdf-eu] [evil] mobileuser (Rog Elf Fem Neu) genocided two random monsters from class L, on T:36365 07:44 [hdf-eu] [evil] mobileuser (Rog Elf Fem Neu) genocided two random monsters from class L, on T:36365 08:04 -!- mode/EvilBot [+RZi] by EvilBot 08:04 -!- card.freenode.net changed the topic on #evilhack to: EvilHack: a NetHack variant ¤ https://github.com/k21971/EvilHack ¤ version 0.6.0 availble for public play on #hardfought ¤ see https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/EvilHack for gameplay information ¤ Bug tracker and future development ideas - https://www.hardfought.org/etherpad/p/EvilHack 08:04 -!- aosdict has joined #evilhack 08:04 -!- jonadab has joined #evilhack 08:11 [hdf-eu] [evil] mobileuser (Rog Elf Fem Neu) killed the Abominable Snowman, on T:36727 08:12 -!- rebatela has joined #evilhack 08:14 wow rebatela, an elf monk. impressive 08:14 ty 08:16 i decided to wear EotA for telepetathy since i had lost see invisible? but that meant i had to levitate and i forgot to 08:16 and walked right into lava burn out my speed boots then got lycanthropy and burst through shirt and robe 08:16 quite the adventure 08:16 not good 08:16 but it all worked out 08:17 it's a way more satisfying win though 08:17 i don't like that losing see invisible bit 08:18 i had that game paused for a while with the amulet because it was bothering me! 08:18 good thing something didn't cast a spell at you before that to make you vulnerable to fire! 08:18 i don't mind that so much 08:19 but that goes away 08:19 I had the exact same thing happen, levitating and forgetting to put it back on 08:19 oh i see 08:19 yeah 08:19 instadeath 08:19 i'm so used to flying 08:19 i decided to go for dragonhide water walkers in case of that sort of mistake 08:19 yeah :-) 08:19 i was surprised it wasn't instadeathj 08:19 this was a few hours ago when i was going up 08:19 but it's all about not being able to see invisible with the EYES OF THE OVERWORLD 08:20 hint hint 08:20 that is ridiculous 08:20 you have these all-powerful eyes, EXCEPT... 08:21 i guess it's not a concern in vanilla because it's really unlikely you'll lose see invisible 08:22 in my game, demogorogon showed up early last night and i nearly died. finally managed to get some full healing and eucalyptus out of my bag and build a boulder fort 08:22 oh nice! 08:23 first thing he did was unbless my unihorn 08:23 i wasn't expecting him so hadn't prepared at all 08:23 i've had him show up early twice before both times in the VOTD! 08:23 lived once, splatted once 08:23 still not sure how he was summoned either time. it wasn't bones 08:23 yeah it's crazy when you aren't expecting it like that 08:24 and you're not on the stairs or anything... 08:24 well this was on his level, but i'm a giant so i guess my natural aggravate monsters woke him up 08:24 oh ok 08:24 i've messed up and gone UP to his level like from the vs level and woke him up and died 08:24 yeah i was well away from the stairs 08:25 that acid attack he has is nasty and then you get stunned and sick and all that lol 08:25 my usual strategy is make a boulder fort then quaff cursed invisibility and take him down with ranged attacks 08:25 it can get bad fast 08:25 yeah me too 08:25 i go off to the left and make a boulder fort 08:26 also i'd been tossing mjollnir around like crazy, then this one time upon return it took out my wands of death and cancellation and my ring of teleport control :( 08:27 yeah that's why i never use it 08:28 i usually don't throw it but it was working so well 08:28 mjolnnir can be such a game changer when you get it though depending 08:28 i always play monks so i forget 08:29 fortunately i was carrying a backup ring 08:29 running out of fta slots in evil... 08:30 elvish ranger? 08:32 reading back what you said, yeah giants aggravate monster all the time 08:33 evilhack elves are delicate because iron 08:33 yeah the early game is a bitch... 08:33 eg keys are base iron iirc 08:33 something multishots some crossbolt bolts and dywypi 08:34 the object materials helps.. i mean it's easy to find like a stone or bone orcish helm or whatever right off the bat 08:35 tell that to all my dead wizards and valks who got taken down by zombies 08:35 but their constitution is maxed at like 16 or someting and str at flat 18 08:35 before finding a stupid hat 08:35 the cons cap is brutal 08:35 i kept saying if i ascend this elf, i'm going back to giant! 08:35 i missed boulders... 08:35 strength i don't find so much a problem 08:36 giants have so few choices in the game though 08:36 giant you can get straight up 25 strngeth and 25 con i think 08:36 i always stone to flesh/poly for blssed spinach tins and get to 25 08:36 yes i finally got my giant to str 25 08:36 nice 08:36 it's hard because you can't eat giants obviously 08:37 as a valk i can't cast bugger all 08:37 i mean i guess you can 08:37 you already aggravatae monster 08:37 what is the penalty for annibalism? just luck ? 08:37 you lose esp 08:37 ahh that sucks 08:37 like murder 08:38 neutral giant is fun or chaotic because they have that cool ring you can wish for 08:38 wait i'm confused. hot me with a unihorn 08:38 hit 08:38 lawful has no good artifacts 08:38 you don't lose esp, that's for murder 08:39 yeah 08:39 I have done that as giant, collect lots of tins of giant meat and take the luck penalty once 08:39 magic mirror is great for a giant but king arthur is tough 08:39 right 08:39 i learned all about polypiling food from oh6 08:39 he'll have excalibur if it's not already in the game 08:39 getting to 25str is easy peasy 08:40 Can't Valkyrie's cast spells in theory? With a robe at least? 08:40 helm of brilliance? 08:41 yes i can actually cast repair armor because i have a staff of matter 08:41 in evil there are those staves 08:41 staffs 08:41 whwatever 08:41 they drop the fail % in HALF 08:41 brilliance not much help and a giant wants to wear a helm of speed 08:41 so 99% fail finger of deateh goes to 50 08:42 i think if i take off everything i can also cast healing at about 25% or so 08:42 but you gotta wield the staff 08:42 i love those staffs 08:42 i was casting poly at 0% as a giant 08:42 oh i can also cast restore ability when naked 08:43 yeah 08:43 is that like your special spell or somethign? 08:43 wiat what are you again? 08:43 giant valk 08:43 oh nice 08:43 lawful :( 08:43 yeah you've been playing for a bit 08:43 oh 08:43 snap 08:44 almost no choice in how you kit out 08:44 so what does a lawful giant valk do for MR? the amulet is the only choice? 08:44 magicbane? 08:44 well if i could have gotten the mmom... 08:44 i would do +7 magicbane 08:44 solves both mr and reflection 08:44 and just never unwield it 08:44 no thanks 08:44 hehe 08:44 i have excalibur 08:45 it's too bad you can't dual weapon grand master martial arts and magicbane... 08:45 what is the mmom? 08:45 i have to wear a shield of reflection so no dual-weapon 08:45 oh mirror 08:45 it's reflection now though! 08:45 right 08:45 which obviously makes sense it's a mirror derp. i get it 08:45 but it sucks 08:45 oh no mr i forgot 08:45 that there's no artifact for lawful to wish for for mr 08:46 don't wish for magicbane if you haven't got MR yet 08:46 lawful giant is a challenge in evil for sure 08:46 Tim the wizard will kill you with touch of death :-) 08:46 ahh that too 08:47 monks have it easy actually because the QA gives mr... neutral can wish for either eye (or pyec!) 08:50 pyec ftw 08:51 twoflower is not too hard 08:51 hehe 08:51 such a joke 08:53 pyec is a great wish 08:53 i'm gonna play a giant 08:56 have you ever wish for the eota? 08:56 neferet? is not like twoflower... 08:57 she is like fighting kaen or something 09:06 hmmm lawful and chaotic human monk are left. i should do those i guess 09:09 amateurhour needs to play evilhack again,.. plays monk with all the conducts and such 09:10 fighting twoflower should make you have to fight the Luggage, and good luck with that one 09:32 hi 09:32 Hello K2, Welcome to #evilhack 09:37 dragonbane issues should be resolved, patch is live 09:49 -!- ghostpapper has joined #evilhack 10:02 thx K2, that was a lot of refactoring and fixing! 10:03 "The invisible Kathryn the Ice Queen partially disintegrates!" yet no HP reduction... 10:04 she may have regenerated already 10:04 i tested that, it works 10:04 the damage isnt a lot 10:04 yeah, second time there was a little bit of damage 10:05 I may be paranoid, but my BDSM feels more effective at the moment 10:05 it is 10:05 \o/ 10:05 the % chance of things happening was all over the place 10:06 now its all inline across the board 10:06 if black dragon, 1 in 6 chance an object hitting it will disintegrate, 1 in 20 chance you/monster will disint if attacking bare-handed/etc 10:07 if BDSM, its 1 in 12 / 1 in 40 for same 10:07 hi guys 10:07 the scales dont have the full power of the dragon itself 10:07 hi ghostpapper 10:08 Miss of MIRC, 3 years without entering 10:08 ? 10:10 [hdf-eu] [evil] mobileuser (Rog Elf Fem Neu) defeated the invisible Kathryn the Ice Queen, on T:37444 10:11 nice mobileuser 10:18 \o/ thx 10:23 I may be paranoid, but my BDSM feels more effective at the moment <--- just be aare, that goes both ways :) 10:23 *aware 10:23 also, other elemental passive damage was being suppressed. dunno if this was a vanilla bug or done on purpose, but I opened it up 10:24 so hitting a fire elemental bare handed while wearing leather gloves, you run a risk of damaging the gloves 10:24 etc 10:37 hooray I started with sleep spell 10:37 * amateurhour realises it starts with 88% fail rate 10:37 ah 10:37 monk? 10:37 yeah, human 10:37 hooman 10:44 guess that's because you raised sleep's level to 2 10:44 might just start scum for healing then, sleep is a no-go and protection is ass 10:45 did you start with low wisdom? 10:45 no 10:45 yeah its lvl 2 now but you'd be able to cast it fairly soon 10:45 lower than possible sure, but in another one I just quit it started at 82% fail 10:46 I'd rather just start with 0% failure on healing 10:46 sleep spell really should be level 3 or even 4 given how powerful it is. i felt if i went any higher than 2 i'd get a stern talking to 10:46 maybe monks should start with basic in whichever spell they start with? idk I guess people would be angry at no longer having basic in healing 10:47 maybe better to not change it 10:52 forgot about the gnomish wizards, walked around corner, instantly lost all my healing potions 10:54 gnomish wizard op! nerf gnomish wizard! 10:54 if they didn't stun lock they'd be alright, just gotta remember to drop all your stuff before finding them 10:54 i have seen exactly one scroll of charging in this game, and i had to poly 5-6 times to get that 10:55 amateurhour: i have started leaving all my potions and scrolls on the floor above minetown if i don't have a container 10:56 that's a good idea 10:57 also, idk if i just have rotten luck or maybe it's my imagination, but gnome wizard stun seems to last forever and they usually get in a second one before it expires 10:57 yeah, that happens to me a fair bit 10:57 supposed to be 4d4 but i swear it lasts longer 10:58 of course it happens most in minetown with a peaceful nearby so you just have to stand there and take it 10:59 can't just take wild swings because the watch captain wants to be cozy 10:59 "hi sailor! new in town?" 11:18 [hdf-eu] [evil] amateurhour (Mon Hum Mal Cha) acquired the luckstone from Mines' End, on T:3502 11:19 -!- stenno1 has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 11:22 sucks when the stairs are in a really random part of the map 11:22 in the evilhack mines 11:23 I wonder if it's placing them on a random patch of shallow water 11:23 so when a river goes through and some of it is randomly shallow, it has new places to put the stairs 11:24 just a guess K2 but might be worth checking if it just checks for valid teleport destination or something^ 11:25 that'd somewhat explain how we can sometimes find the stairs totally surrounded in water 11:28 -!- stenno1 has joined #evilhack 11:31 so i have 6 tins of tengu. i'm about to go find the vs. should i try the tengu lottery? 11:32 you feelin' lucky? 11:32 you forgot to say punk 11:32 you feelin' lucky punk? 11:33 FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC 11:33 new xnethack random scroll label? 11:33 :) 11:33 heh 11:34 it's from discworld 11:34 not a scroll label, it's in xnethack as a random engraving 11:37 You consume homemade tengu. You feel in control of yourself. 11:38 You consume homemade tengu. You feel very jumpy. 11:38 yeah, it does help mentally when you move from eating takeout all the time to cooking your own food... 11:39 it helps enormously and not just mentally. my own cooking is way tastier, not to mention healthier 11:39 too bad your own cooking is only worth 50 nutrition 11:39 just means i get to eat more of it! 11:40 [hdf-us] [evil] post163 (Wiz Orc Mal Cha) performed his first genocide (orcs), on T:1 11:40 also now i can wear slow digestion so it goes a lot further 12:03 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) killed the Wizard of Yendor, on T:57196 12:03 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) acquired the Book of the Dead, on T:57198 12:10 [hdf-us] [evil] post163 (Wiz Orc Mal Cha), 0 points, T:1, killed by a scroll of genocide 12:23 [hdf-eu] [evil] amateurhour (Mon Hum Mal Cha), 14507 points, T:6043, killed by an elven king 12:23 whoops 12:56 [hdf-us] [evil] post163 (Wiz Dwa Mal Neu), 0 points, T:1, killed by an unsuccessful polymorph 13:01 -!- ghostpapper has quit [Quit: Leaving] 13:07 [hdf-eu] [evil] amateurhour (Mon Hum Mal Cha), 36 points, T:140, killed by touching Snickersnee 13:09 noooo 13:11 punching red moulds smoulders gloves 13:11 that's pretty annoying 13:12 -!- rebatela has quit [Quit: Konversation terminated!] 13:12 -!- rebatela has joined #evilhack 13:13 did you see the earlier message about mines stairs K2? 13:13 yeah 13:14 stairs surrounded by water isnt a bug 13:15 [hdf-eu] [evil] amateurhour (Mon Hum Mal Cha), 1028 points, T:855, killed by a hobbit, while fainted from lack of food 13:15 hobbit eat all your food? 13:15 I think he was angry because I had loads of food, wasn't sharing it, and mocking them by not eating it 13:16 what do you mean stairs surrounded by water isn't a bug? 13:16 it was elevensies 13:16 did you intend for that to happen? 13:16 you were like 'it would be great if the stairs would be in a random corner of the map surrounded on all sides by water'? 13:16 did i specifically say to myself 'ooh lets make all the stairs in the mines be surrounded by water' ? no 13:16 but if it happens, its not a bug 13:16 its jyst the way the river generated 13:17 *just 13:17 I think it adds the river, finds a random position that could be stood on, and puts the stairs there 13:17 but the river adds random squares in almost inaccessible places 13:17 the way I think it works - level is generated first, then the river 13:18 so you could say, not find the upstair, dig down, find stair up 13:18 the river checks for stairs so as to not put water on actual stairs 13:18 come up to find it totally surrounded by water in the middle of nowhere 13:18 ok 13:18 that's not a bug 13:18 doesn't matter to me if it's a bug or not, it's just janky and weird 13:19 call it what you like, a bug, an unhappy feature, doesn't matter 13:19 it adds an extra layer of difficulty. use your brain to figure out a way around it 13:20 you should make that a general feature of the main dungeon 13:20 no 13:20 the stairs can randomly be in a corner unconnected from the rest of the map 13:20 doesn't even need water surrounding it, but maybe sometimes it does 13:20 just the mines is fine, but thanks for the sugegstion :) 13:20 it adds an extra layer of difficulty 13:21 u mad bro? 13:21 :P 13:21 use your brain (or a glass orb) to figure out where the stairs are 13:21 I just think it's a bug 13:21 amateurhour: 'I died. this is bullshit, fix it' 13:21 that's not me at all 13:21 you sure? it sounds like it right now 13:21 stairs in a random place is BS, I didn't die because of that 13:21 check my ttyrecs 13:22 the stairs would be in that spot regardless of whether a river formed or not 13:22 it just happens that the river forms in such a way that it happened to surround the stairs 13:22 in that one case 13:22 and you don't think it's worth making sure they're connected in some way 13:23 not really, no 13:23 if i said 'cry me a river'... is that too much? :) 13:23 okay well I was just giving feedback, thanks for Amyfying your response 13:23 ^ knew that was coming 13:24 yeah of course it was coming you just did the exact same thing 13:24 18:21 <@K2> amateurhour: 'I died. this is bullshit, fix it' 13:24 where did that come from 13:24 you 13:24 see your name there? 13:24 this isn't even worth arguing over 13:24 you're right 13:25 this reminds me of a summer during OCS training several years ago. I was following a candidate during land nav training, he was having a tough time and needed some extra instruction. we were on track to get to the next point, he was doing well. next point was about 50 meters straight ahead, in between us was a nasty swampy patch 13:26 he stood there, looked around and started to go back the way he came. you could see the point he needed to reach just ahead past the swamp 13:26 i asked 'wtf are you doing candidate?' 13:26 'I dont want to get my boots muddy' 13:26 this reminds me of that story :) 13:26 ...how in the fresh hell is that related 13:27 are you trying to wind me up 13:27 you're presented with a challenge which you dont want to try and deal with. you want it to be easy all the time, every time 13:27 that isnt evilhack 13:27 no I don't, I just think it's jank and weird 13:27 -!- rebatela has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 13:28 it's like you're skimreading what I'm saying, changing some words, and trying to belittle me 13:28 not at all 13:29 you made an observation, thought maybe it was a bug. I stated it wasnt. you didnt like my answer and (again) compared me to amy/slex 13:30 only because of 13:30 18:21 <@K2> amateurhour: 'I died. this is bullshit, fix it' 13:30 so who's trying to wind up who? 13:30 you 13:30 oh you know forget it 13:30 -!- amateurhour has left #evilhack 13:30 * K2 sighs 13:33 the problem as I see it is you can get into an inescapable position. trapdoor brings you down without finding the >, you come back up to find the > in an inaccessible river cranny, explore the rest of the mines (possibly just mines' end if this happened on the level above) finding no pick or teleportation or anything. now what do you do, hope something spawns and drops the right item before your food 13:34 runs out? 13:34 I think the game should take care to avoid putting the player in a state of "wait for the right spawn/drop" 13:35 honestly, i'm not sure how to even manage that 13:35 ensure stairs are accessible from the rest of the map :) 13:36 I don't think FLAGS:inaccessibles would work here because the potential cranny isn't blocked off by walls 13:36 i wish it were that simple :) 13:39 hmm 13:39 maybe ensure any water tiles created around stairs were always shallow 13:39 or, forego rivers and just always make it sewage 13:40 or always shallow water and not just partial 13:40 but that then defeats the purpose of having the rivers to begin with 13:40 brb 13:41 the specific case under discussion here is so rare it's not worth any effort to correct 13:41 yeah, have to agree with hothraxxa on that 13:42 granted, it doesnt happen often 13:42 "finding no teleportation" would also be rare 13:42 monsters often drop tele scrolls 13:42 i agree it would be a pissoff, especially if it happened the way aosdict describes, but that would pbviously be even more rare 13:43 disagree, "level gen breaks and strands the player a small fraction of the time" is not something I consider okay to have 13:43 the problem isnt gen level, that's created before the rivers form 13:43 of course you are entitled to disagree, and you even have your own variant where you can make sure this doesn't happen 13:43 the river gets overlayed so to speak 13:43 mobileuser: that assumes pretty normal play though 13:44 this is one of those instances 'its not a problem, until it is' 13:44 and again, a small fraction is really an extremely small fraction 13:44 now i want to see if its even possible 13:44 definitely possible, happened to me at least twice 13:44 i've been presented a challenge and must face it 13:45 though at least one of those times was the < when I came down the stairs normally and could retreat 13:45 see i've played evilhack way more than you i think, and it's never happened to me 13:45 aosdict: i mean is it possible to make sure the stairs arent completely surrounded by pool/moat 13:45 i've had it happen to be 2 maybe 3 times 13:45 *me 13:46 i have found the stairs and one dry patch cut off but that's as close as i've come and that has happened no more than twice 13:46 I think the problem is that a) the level parser doesn't know where the stairs are, they're just created in the INIT_MAP directive, and 2) even if you surround the stairs with dry land that doesn't help because it could still be in some corner with the only connection to the rest of the level water 13:46 anyway what's the goal? enough dry land to dig down? 13:46 a) and 2) wow I'm on point today 13:47 hothraxxa: no, because in the trapped-in-mines-end scenario I described digging down won't do anything. (though if you have digging of any sort, you can probably escape) 13:47 hold on 13:47 level gen isnt the problem 13:47 i've had the upstairs and downstairs completely separated, that's almost par for the course 13:48 its after its made and the river then gets made after the fact. sometimes it can completely surround the stairs 13:48 not sure what we're talking about. i thought it was stairs spawning with only deep water surrounding them 13:48 having the up and down stairs cut off by a river, thats normal 13:48 exactly 13:48 hothraxxa: well, deep water and rock 13:48 right 13:48 yeah we're talking about the stairs being completely surrounded by deep water 13:49 no tile to step onto 13:49 sucks to be you 13:49 there's a lot of that in evilhack 13:49 if you have a means to dig, its a non-issue 13:49 how so? 13:49 oj. go upstairs, dig down 13:49 though, really there is potential for the trapped scenario to play out so long as the stairs are disconnected 13:50 sure, and sometimes some asshole gates in demo and you're dead 13:50 disconnected stairs are fine, pretty typical of evilhack 13:50 ^^^ 13:51 gehennom has the lava rivers 13:52 this is what we're talking about - https://www.hardfought.org/phpBB3/gallery/image/2574/source 13:52 see upstairs 13:54 this happens often and is A-OK - https://www.hardfought.org/phpBB3/gallery/image/2575/source 13:56 so the first picture. yeah. its rare. very rare 13:57 at least in that pic you have one safe tile to traverse 13:58 but now i'm curious if there's a way to tell the river making code 'if stairs, do this' 13:58 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) performed the invocation, on T:57213 14:02 see I guess I'm arguing that those two images are not fundamentally different in terms of the problem I describe 14:02 both make it possible to get trapped and waiting for the right thing to drop 14:02 through no fault of one's own 14:03 I mean, if you're fine with players sometimes #quitting due to things like that, then fine, but I want to avoid such things 14:04 i dont see the second picture as an issue at all 14:04 erm wait, no. they are fundamentally different; if the river in pic 2 were 2-wide, and deep, then my point would stand 14:04 in pic 2 you can just wade across, or even if there weren't shallow water jump in and climb out the other side 14:05 so right, pic 2 isn't a problem, but it would be if the river were wider 14:06 in pic 2, any river width is fine. its not an insurrountable issue 14:06 several ways to get across 14:06 pic one is more of an issue but still not impossible 14:07 there are several ways to get across in pic 1 as well. the problem is that players sometimes won't have any of those ways 14:07 correct 14:08 its really not much different than reaching the bottom level on the rogue quest 14:08 and thats more difficult than what we're discussing 14:08 that's why I say they're not fundamentally different; if the stairs are disconnected by a wide deep river you need items to circumvent, the game can put you in basically the same bind regardless of whether the river is wrapped around the stairs or just cutting the level in two 14:09 doesn't really matter how much open space is on either side 14:09 i disagree to a point. in the pic 2 scenario you have room to maneuver 14:09 things can happen 14:09 monsters can spawn, and drop what you need 14:09 and fwiw I consider the possibility of getting stuck in the rogue quest an even worse version of this 14:10 you hate the rogue quest end dont you 14:11 see, that is what I consider unacceptable. "monsters can spawn and drop things" as a dismissal of the problem is a lazy solution that will end up making some unlucky player quit 14:11 while I quite like the rogue quest, I don't like that aspect of the goal level 14:11 [hdf-us] [evil] post163 (Wiz Hum Fem Neu), 0 points, T:1, killed by a system shock 14:12 my opinion, the game doesnt owe the player anything. if they dont have the resources they need for a particular situation at that time, they can take it upon themselves to find them, or find some other solution 14:13 or they can quit if they feel the challenge is too great 14:13 quitting makes me sad, but not everyone likes a challenge I guess 14:15 it's not a challenge to sit there hitting n1000. repeatedly and fighting random spawns until one of the few helpful items death drops or you die to starvation 14:17 it's just unfun gameplay 14:17 unfun gameplay should be minimized, so the game should take steps to avoid allowing you to get in such a situation 14:17 thanks for coming to my TED Talk 14:18 :) 14:18 brb I have to parent for a bit 14:22 oh good that didnt take as long as i thought 14:25 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) killed the high priestess of Moloch, on T:57550 14:28 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) acquired the Amulet of Yendor, on T:57599 14:31 gl hothraxxa! 14:40 [hdf-eu] [evil] SeamusMcRed (Wiz Hob Mal Neu), 811 points, T:1218, killed by a piranha 14:49 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) killed the Wizard of Yendor (5 times), on T:58152 14:58 -!- elenmirie has joined #evilhack 15:07 [hdf-us] [evil] karibou (Rog Elf Fem Neu) had an elven dagger entrusted to her by Mog, on T:58588 15:17 [hdf-eu] [evil] mobileuser (Rog Elf Fem Neu) polymorphed her first object, on T:37958 15:21 [hdf-eu] [evil] mightyquinn (Arc Hum Mal Law), 4034 points, T:3687, killed by a plains centaur 15:22 -!- Umbire has joined #evilhack 15:22 omg i hate quickbooks 15:24 my brother-in-law is having issues with his copy of quickbooks, i had a look 15:25 i hate quickbooks 15:28 -!- rebatela has joined #evilhack 15:29 I like slowbooks 15:29 the kind you read :D 15:30 how did you get roped into providing free family tech support K2 15:31 heheheh 15:32 [hdf-eu] [evil] SeamusMcRed (Inf Orc Mal Una), 572 points, T:1661, killed by a giant spider 15:32 * elenmirie whirls the lasso... 15:32 [hdf-eu] [evil] mobileuser (Rog Elf Fem Neu) had Magicbane bestowed upon her by Mog, on T:38167 15:32 lol 15:33 can't do 2-handed without Dragonbane 15:33 which was I was scammed out of :-) 15:33 when people try to grab me for tech support I'm like "I write the software, I don't know how to configure facebook / your system settings / whatever" 15:34 I just go, gawd, I don't know! 15:34 aosdict: how did I let it happen is a better question 15:34 It's mostly true 15:37 if I had extra time to deal with your pathetic problems, I would have time to deal with my own pathetic problems first! And I don't so... see what I'm saying? 15:37 Go take a long walk off a short pier. 15:42 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) wished for "very historic fixed unlabeled thoroughly uncursed poisoned magic marker named this marker is not named", on T:59476 15:43 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) wished for "holy historic thoroughly rustproof diluted locked very magic harp named i used to be a magicflute but i stepped on a polymorph trap", on T:59476 15:48 lol 15:50 how about "very historic fixed unlabeled thoroughly uncursed poisoned magic marker named marker magic poisoned uncursed thoroughly unlabeled fixed historic very" 15:51 bonus points if you can rearrange the wish so the reversal becomes coherent 15:53 -!- Umbire_ has joined #evilhack 15:54 hah 15:57 -!- Umbire has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 16:01 -!- Umbire_ is now known as Umbire 16:04 [hdf-eu] [evil] mightyquinn (Arc Hum Mal Law), 1972 points, T:2514, killed by a gnome 16:13 [hdf-eu] [evil] mobileuser (Rog Elf Fem Neu) had Werebane bestowed upon her by Mog, on T:38327 16:14 mmm that one can be useful 16:19 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) killed the Wizard of Yendor (10 times), on T:59915 16:20 wtf rodney? why is he harrassing me? i haven't got the amulet 16:21 an npc swiped the amulet and crashed through the floor. i've been trying to chase her down and can't find her 16:21 then rodney shows up. why? is that supposed to happen? 16:28 -!- Not-ca25 has joined #evilhack 16:28 [EvilHack] k21971 pushed 1 commit to master [+0/-0/±3] https://git.io/JqWLE 16:28 [EvilHack] k21971 1637a45 - Encyclopedia entries for newer monsters/objects. 16:30 once you get the book, rodney can appear at any time 16:30 just the same as in vanilla 16:30 ^ 16:30 I think it applies to the amulet as well 16:30 I forget though 16:31 i have been on every level from 1 down to the valley. timo the fucking asshole is not anywhere. i can't see how she got that far down 16:35 [hdf-eu] [evil] mobileuser (Rog Elf Fem Neu) had Mjollnir bestowed upon her by Mog, on T:38528 16:35 ah, junk artifact sorted 16:36 found the bastard 16:36 oops, just read the backscroll 16:36 where was the bastard? 16:38 in slex 16:39 heh 16:39 damn, Mjollnir is iron 16:39 good norse steel 16:39 if only 16:39 except it's not steel because evilhack decided to make that its own thing 16:39 my elf doesn't like it 16:39 I guess it can be good norse steel, but not stainless 16:40 mobileuser: 5 levels below where she stole the amulet 16:40 Wait, isn't EvilHack supposed to avoid giving harmful gifts? 16:40 i don't know how i missed her on my first search 16:40 good to see you retrieved it 16:40 I feel like Mjolnir needs to be tweaked 16:43 at least valks can't be elves 16:43 mjollnir is historically made of iron 16:43 and its already been tweaked :) 16:44 Well fuck, I guess neutral elves will just have to suck it up then 16:44 so should elves receive one? 16:44 -!- stenno1 has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 16:44 if you wear gloves whilst handling mjollnir, you'll be fine 16:44 WHILST 16:45 Eh that works more than well enough 16:45 Hopefully you *find* gloves before it's gifted to you 16:45 the object material handling bit when sacrificing doesnt apply to artifacts, just regular items 16:45 K2: So when you say "already tweaked"... 16:46 the "uneasy" message I still get makes me paranoid 16:46 mjollnir is a heavy war hammer 16:46 one handed still, damge output on par with a long sword 16:46 no longer wimpy 16:47 excellent 'boop' weapon 16:47 uneasy 16:47 'I boop your nose with mjollnir' fear me' 16:47 while feeling uneasy 16:47 :-) 16:47 I uneasily feel uneasy' 16:48 boop! 16:48 lol 16:48 mumble grumble why'd you make a heavy war hammer and not just buff the regular one grumble mumble 16:48 because variety 16:48 lol 16:48 you haven't seen the heavy mace yet? 16:48 its heavy 16:49 if "variety" means two things but no one ever uses one of them, it's false variety. the thing that no one uses is just fluff, like so many polearms 16:49 hey 16:49 Hello K2, Welcome to #evilhack 16:49 we love our polearms 16:49 is that what the kids call it these days? 16:50 :) 16:50 two of the new demon bosses i made use them 16:50 bardiche and ranseur 16:51 Tiamat will have a chance to drop chromatic scales 16:51 woop 16:51 https://allthetropes.org/w/index.php?title=EvilHack&diff=1873277&oldid=1870566 16:51 sweet 16:52 [hdf-eu] [evil] mightyquinn (Arc Hum Mal Law) eschewed atheism, by dropping a pair of cloth combat boots on an altar, on T:4105 16:53 YANI: boots made from cloth should be referred to as 'slippers' 16:53 speed slippers 16:54 [hdf-eu] [evil] SeamusMcRed (Inf Ith Mal Una), 573 points, T:721, zombified by a diseased hobbit corpse 16:55 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) entered the Planes, on T:60936 16:56 https://allthetropes.org/wiki/NetHack/Characters 🤔 16:57 Feel like I'm missing some stuff but unsure what 17:01 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) genocided electric eels, on T:61045 17:03 -!- elenmirie has quit [Quit: Going offline, see ya! (www.adiirc.com)] 17:04 water plane took what felt forever this morning 17:04 go hothraxxa! 17:05 i don't think giants can get suffocated by the sea dragons. that's always nice 17:06 Too big to engulf 17:06 Big plus 17:06 exactly 17:06 so nice to not have to worry about that 17:08 i don't even bother searching for the portal anymore on water. just wait 17:08 [hdf-eu] [evil] SeamusMcRed (Inf Hum Mal Una), 770 points, T:1186, killed by a gnome 17:14 now that's some black rain 17:14 i forgot the speed wands 17:17 [hdf-eu] [evil] mobileuser (Rog Elf Fem Neu) had a leather cloak entrusted to her by Mog, on T:38769 17:18 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) killed the invisible Famine, on T:61213 17:21 those dragons will have cleared out a lot of stuff by now 17:22 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) killed the Black Horse, on T:61247 17:22 I used "woolly stampede" last time 17:23 those mammoths are hard to kill and do a lot of damage 17:23 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) put the invisible Death down for a little nap, on T:61277 17:25 why is the The high priestess of Tyr angry... 17:25 nice hothraxxa 17:25 no idea 17:25 Conflict? 17:25 Hit by a stray projectile? 17:25 maybe got hit by the teleport wand 17:26 Yeah that'll do it 17:26 anyway, altar reached :-) 17:28 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law) wished for "holy blessed historic very historic thoroughly figurine of a woodchuck named king carl, ruler of all he surveys, duke of yendor, 27th of his name", on T:61305 17:29 "it supposedly transforms" lol 17:29 if carl is the Duke of Yendor does that make the Wizard of Yendor his Vizier? 17:29 [hdf-us] [evil] hothraxxa (Val Gia Fem Law), 5489958 points, T:61309, ascended https://www.hardfought.org/userdata/h/hothraxxa/evilhack/dumplog/1615152774.evil.html 17:30 congrats 17:30 wwwwooooo 17:30 congrats hothraxxa 17:30 thanks, that was a lot harder than it should have been 17:30 gratz 17:30 \o/ 17:31 brain farted and zapped teleport where death's corpse was 17:31 lol wew 17:31 yeah... so easy to do sometimes 17:31 soon as you do it you realize too 17:32 i was just trying to get rid of the pale horse 17:32 and i did, but... 17:32 been there done that :-) 17:32 bloody horses... 17:32 On the note of Death, busy adding the Riders to the NetHack character page 17:33 Remembered I could do collapsible sections for characters who're walking spoilers 17:33 yeah the horses special attacks did in my two giant monks who got to astral 17:33 that was early evilhack and giants had no way to get mc3 17:34 so every fucking special attack worked 17:34 how did you get the amulet of mr ? soko? or you had to poly/wish/find? 17:35 when i was doing lawful giant, at first it was hard to go for that amulet slot in soko beause i still wanted the tool! 17:35 soko 17:35 yeah 17:35 i almost never go for the tool 17:35 depends if i have a bag of holding or not 17:35 if i don't i definitely go for tool 17:35 even if 17:36 i almost always want the amulet 17:36 i've learned to play without markers obviusly 17:36 it's nice to get either reflection or mr 17:36 yes i almost managed to finish on just the marker from the sanctum 17:37 it was 0:92 17:38 nice 17:40 i wish for dragonbane a lot. feels like a waste to go for the amulet slot and get reflection only to wish for dragonbane 17:40 all depends though 17:40 there's so many amulets now 17:40 finding that mr one randomly is pretty tough... 17:40 but you can poly for it 18:03 hah this is awesome... 18:03 so i'm testing chromatic dragon scales 18:04 in unnethack, you have generic chromatic dragons - if you polyself while wearing chromatic dragon scales/scale mail, you'll just turn into a chromatic dragon 18:04 but evilhack doesnt have those, these scales you'll only be able to get from Tiamat 18:05 solution? if you polyself while wearing chromatic dragon scales, you'll randomly turn into one of the 5 dragon types Tiamat is made up of (black/blue/green/red or white) 18:05 this is fun 18:05 lol 18:07 can you sometimes 'break out of your armor' if you polyself while wearing dragon scales? 18:07 No, the scales merge with you 18:07 that's happening most times 18:07 but not everytime 18:07 hmm 18:07 In the case of DSM they revert to scales prior to merging 18:07 Iunno if they can "break" in vanilla 18:09 -!- mobileuser has quit [Quit: Connection closed] 18:09 so i got this - You feel a little strange. You merge with your scaly armor. You turn into a black dragon! 18:09 great 18:09 let myself 'die' and revert back to human form 18:10 chromatic scales still being worn, great 18:10 drink another potion of polymorph and get: 18:10 You feel a little strange. You merge with your scaly armor. You turn into a blue dragon! 18:10 Your skin returns to its original form. You break out of your armor! 18:10 weird 18:17 oh i see 18:17 the way i was doing the random bit 18:18 was confusing the routine 18:25 Ah, there ya go 18:25 Also: https://allthetropes.org/w/index.php?title=NetHack/Characters&diff=1873287&oldid=1873280 18:25 for now just going to have to stick to one dragon type 18:25 Thinking of doing a characters section for variants as well but not sure how to handle it *just* yet 18:25 Probably a New/Returning characters division 18:26 And in the latter note any changes from vanilla 18:27 orcus doesnt sit on a throne, he sits on the downstairs in orcus town 18:27 K2: Tell you what, you could possibly throw that in 18:27 lol that's the name of the trope 18:27 oh i see 18:28 (and he's specifically noted as an exception on the main trope page) 18:28 As for chromatic dragon scales, in return for all the perks they provide you could make it so that repeated polymorph is detrimental to you or the scales, given that Tiamat is a uniquely powerful monster 18:29 since those scales confer MR, the only way you'd ever polyself with them on is if you quaff a polymorph potion 18:30 -!- stenno1 has joined #evilhack 18:30 That's fine, yeah 18:31 Means you have to kinda go out of your way to break them 18:33 oops, forgot to flag Tiamat as G_HELL and G_NOCORPSE 18:34 Wait hol up 18:35 Is this Tiamat gonna have her own setup in Gehennom 18:35 she's a demon prince(ess) 18:35 yes 18:35 Or is this the renamed Chromatic Dragon 18:35 ah 18:35 -!- stenno1 has quit [Ping timeout: 265 seconds] 18:35 I forgot for a moment you planned to replace the Caveman quest nemesis 18:35 Any progress on that front, actually? 18:35 i did already 18:35 Ooh what with? o: 18:35 Annam the All-Father 18:35 I was gonna suggest a Brachiosaur 18:35 or just Annam 18:35 ...who dat 18:35 father of all giants 18:36 Nice! 18:36 That'll make the hill giant connection way more meaningful 18:36 should be afun and a challenge 18:36 Yeyeyeye 18:36 yes exactly 20:33 -!- rebatela has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 21:25 -!- Umbire has quit [Quit: Leaving] 21:54 [hdf-us] [evil] SurferOfButthole (Inf Ith Mal Una), 132 points, T:257, killed by a grid bug 22:01 -!- Umbire has joined #evilhack 22:31 -!- stenno1 has joined #evilhack 22:31 [hdf-us] [evil] SurferOfButthole (Inf Ith Mal Una), 2639 points, T:3152, killed by a dwarf 22:35 -!- stenno1 has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 22:44 -!- Umbire has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 22:49 -!- Umbire has joined #evilhack 23:33 [hdf-us] [evil] KingGizzard (Wiz Ith Mal Cha), 1519 points, T:3447, killed by a dwarf lady 23:48 [hdf-au] [evil] Arahael (Mon Hum Mal Neu) became literate by reading the fortune inside a cookie, on T:4497