RIP
Quts
Killed by a fall onto poison spikes


...while blind for good measure! The end was quick! But the cloak of invisibility was rocking it. Someone ask me why I was blind before I fell into the pit that insta killed me! Oh ill tell ya! cause I read a book. A bad bad bad book. Must have been elder porn with my mama or something cause I went blind! Narry a god would answer my prayers in that dank cave. And then going hungry and cut off I stumbled into a pit with... poison spikes! And there my cloak of invisibility rest for some brave gnome to find.



You made the top ten list!

No Points Name Hp [max]
1 3054 Quts-Val-Hum-Fem-Neu died in The Gnomish Mines on
level 5. Killed by a fall onto poison spikes. - [65]

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I must be a masochist to play this game. Everything is fricken cursed or poisoned.

I know nothing about net hack except it's stupidly hard. Is that top ten list national or local or what?

I friggin HATE the gnomish mines. I have to kill off my pet before I even head to that area because it tends to attack non-hostile humanoids on me, and then they chase my ass all over until they kill me.

I was doing exceptionally well the last time I played, was kicking ass and taking names, and then everything turned to absolute **** within 3 turns.

The worst is starving to death because you can't find any food at all, even a tainted tin of dog meat...

haha its client side =)_~ Just you....

I am cooking now! I got me a cloak of invisibility, elven mithril armor, a unicorn horn, an amulet of ESP, and a lamp to light my way. It felt good for a bit!

But there are a lot of rules that nethack likes to drop on you. Like:

Thou shall not eat kittens unless thou wants every monster to know where you are at at all times.

Who knew! I was gnawing on some kitten sammiches to avoid that hunger that dragonpyre was talking bout. And I think "wonder why it says I don't feel good bout eating kitten".

Truth is I have taken to making copies of the saves =)~ I got sick of walking around corners and finding new and interesting ways to screw up permanently. Like eatting kittens...

Oh, and the Bones levels... where everything seems oddly... familiar.

This game is an exercise in masochism to play! There are so many ways to die.

...and so few ways to win

As I got near the bottom of the gnomish mines, I have just learned that they are an offshoot of the actual main dungeon...

I have learned somethings though about the original DnD universe where mobs are just sprinkled around from the monster manual (of which nethack robs from a lot). When alone the idea of running up and fist fighting (not literally... I mean meleeing) every creature you see is dumb.

I eventually started throwing a napsack of daggers at anything strange that I saw and got a lot more successful than when I just ran up and said "lets brawl dude!". I reminded myself of this character one of my DnD group played that had throwing daggers everywhere. I mean... EVERYWHERE! That's how I was rolling. Until the ants got me....


So I think I will reroll this time emphasizing range attacks and identification. That kind of spells wizard. But I dunno. I experimented with priest with their auto-curse detection. That is phat. But their ranged attacks... not so much!