Bones! This blog is dieing!
by Tim Faircloth on Jan 28, 2008, 3:45 pm
Damnit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a geek.
Sorry for the extra-long haitus, folks. I tend to ignore things when I’m away for the holidays, and I guess I just never got back into the swing of things.
My holidays rocked, btw. I got some cool stuff and got to see family. My cousin Robert asked me to be his Best Man.
In other news, My grandfather turned 90 last Monday. Happy birthday, Pa!
Now on to more important stuff. I have news from the land of geek. YASGoN (Yet Another Stupid Game of Nethack).
I’ll start out in the middle of the action. I had a blessed greased +3 silver dragon scale mail, a blessed rustproof +2 pair of speed boots, the blessed rustproof +0 Magicbane (hadn’t gotten around to enchanting it to +2 yet), a blessed bag of holding, and a blessed luckstone. I was poison resistant, fire resistant, cold resistant, and telepathic. I had plenty of food and supplies (pretty much everything I would need), and my original pet (my loyal cat Felix) was still alive and following me around.
I was top shit, buddy. I was struttin’ around killin’ monsters left and right. Golems, Nagas, worms, vortexes… whatever was thrown at me, I kicked its ass with no difficulty.
So, I’d traveled through Sokoban, then down through the mines and back up, and I had just gotten the money to get a bit of protection… so I headed to minetown.
After systematically killing off all the shopkeepers, I finally got one to leave a corpse. Since I was Chaotic, I thought I’d convert the (lawful) town altar with a human sacrifice. Anhur should have been so proud.
I didn’t stop to think about the situation. Perhaps I should have killed the priest first and offered his corpse on the altar. Instead, I waltz in with my shopkeeper corpse, do the whole #offer thing, and I see this:
Your sacrifice is consumed... Anhur is displeased The priest of Ptah accepts...
Wait a minute. Wait just a gal-darned minute. I just sacrificed a human corpse on a lawful altar and the priest thought that I was offering my allegiance to Ptah? I was trying to piss him off!
In any event, I was turned into a Wiz-Elf-Mal-Law instead of a Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha. Since the game only allows one alignment conversion per game, I’ll never be able to complete my quest, and thus I’ll never ascend.
Son of a biscuit eater.
The best game I’ve ever played and I couldn’t even beat it.
Well after that I got mad and killed the priest, which angered my (new) god. Anhur would have been proud, but goody-two-shoes Ptah labeled me a murderer.
The rest of the game I just didn’t care anymore. At some point I found a succubus and just let her have her way with me, and when she came down with a headache so I killed her and refused to put my armor back on. Later, a leocrotta came by and put me out of my misery.
1 196415 nova20-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Law died in The Dungeons of Doom
on level 22 [max 23]. Killed by a leocrotta, while
helpless.
Damnit. Just damnit.
