<ChrisS67> yikes
<ChrisS67> Gregg the Collector wields a long sword named Vorpal Blade!
<rschaff> uh oh
<ChrisS67> You wrap your bullwhip around Gregg the Collector's long sword named Vorpal Blade. You yank the long sword named Vorpal Blade from Gregg the Collector's hand!
<ChrisE> Who's the Collector now? :P
<Rodney> k21971 (Wiz Hum Mal Neu), 293822 points, T:24146, killed by a troll, while frozen by a potion
<k21971> wow
<billnye> k21971: U MAD?
<k21971> u mad bro?
<faibistes> I don't know the direction of the change you're planning, but as it stands, NPC's with wands at XP1=nearly impossible protection racket. And then it's a different game, not nethack anymore.
<someone> I cannot decide which one I like better: reflectoban or sokobag.
<Yeti218> For me it's like deciding whether I want the pilot of my plane to have a pilot license or if I want to sit 1st class.
<ais523> The saddled gray unicorn butts the kobold. The kobold is killed!--More--
<ais523> oh /right/, I forgot that could happen entirely
<ais523> DrNach: any advice for how to manage a room in which you have an important leader who you cannot possibly allow to die, a whole load of innocent bystanders, a sleeping kobold that everyone hates but you want to kill /personally/, and not just yet, and a unicorn you're trying to train to ride, when you need to shapeshift into an air elemental sometime, there's an angel with an implausibly good weapon slaughtering bats outside for fun, and you're
<ais523> planning to put on a ring that causes everyone to hate everyone else?
<ais523> it's the sort of problem that's never come up in my life before now, I thought it might have come up in yours
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<DrNach> place the kobold on the unicorn and train it to be used to the load, while also getting the kobold elsewhere, and hopefully it will eventually die in some unicorn horn related accident, and you can feel personally responsible since you introduced it to the unicorn
<ais523> that's a surprisingly good strategy
<DrNach> thank you