<AmyBSOD\srn> "You hit the chickatrice. You turn to stone."
<AmyBSOD\srn> Of course the damn thing JUST had to come around a corner after I took off everything to be healed by this nurse, too.
<+jonadab> Right, you have to eat the lizard corpse immediately, not stand around doing other things while you turn to stone.
<+jonadab> And yes, being naked is dangerous in NetHack. You knew that.
<AmyBSOD\srn> Nah, if you punch one bare-handed, you simply die without a chance to save yourself.
<+jonadab> Oh, THAT kind of petrification.
<+jonadab> _Instant_ petrification.
<+jonadab> Yes.
<+raisse> it's avoidable
<+raisse> (unlike poison instadeath)
<+raisse> you have the choice not to punch it
<AmyBSOD\srn> poison instadeath seems pretty rare, and you can become resistant easily
<+raisse> define "easily" if there are dozens of Uruk-hai with poisoned arrows chasing you
<AmyBSOD\srn> they won't fire those arrows at point blank, so I just wait behind a corner :D
<AmyBSOD\srn> and for killer bees and stuff I can use the cheat code :P
<+raisse> AmyBSOD\srn: not all of us cheat
<AmyBSOD\srn> yeah but without the cheat code I'd just die
<AmyBSOD\srn> not sure what the strategy should be if you're chased by soldier ants that are faster than you, other than keeping them off with Elbereth
<[Demo][srn]> dying is a strategy
<[Demo][srn]> just saying
<+raisse\splat> yes, and? just don't tell people who don't cheat that it's "easy"
<[Demo][srn]> if elbereth is cheating then whys it in the game versions after it being fairly common knowledge?
<+raisse\splat> oh, I don't think elbereth is cheating, I thought amy had a real cheat code (as in: type xyzzy and blam! you're poison resistant)
<AmyBSOD\srn> naaaaah
<AmyBSOD\srn> I have to eat killer bee corpses and hope to become resistant, just like everyone else ;)