< dhalgren> You consume soup made from plains centaur.
< dhalgren> It tastes plain. :)
< Kanopus> Is there anything you can do with the tree in minestown?
< itsblah> kick them, cut them down
< itsblah> or complain about how they detract from the overall feeling of "dungeon"
< TauPan> You know what first thrilled me about nethack?
< TauPan> It was the silly description in the FAQ about how the devteam sacrificed a picture of a goat...
< TauPan> We sacrificed a goat. And a sheep. Well, a picture of a sheep. And an okapi, I think it was. Something striped. Then we burned Donny Osmond and Ozzy Osbourne records, both at once, it made these weird purple sparks, and the smoke formed an image of Elvis riding a whale.
< sawtooth> new Atkins Wraiths! With 0 grams digestable carbs!
< Rodney> Kiofhe (Cav Hum Fem Neu), 318163 points, killed by a fire elemental
< Rodney> Kiofhe reaches #1315 on the top 2000 list.
< greycat> hmm... crispy cavewomen.
< jilles> baked cavewoman yes
< greycat> I think this one was slightly overdone.
< koyaan> Something is written here in the dust. You read: "EkberethElbereto". that should count as illiterate
< Mucknert> well, nethack is not like angband, where you can hold a twohande weapon, a shield, a torch and a bow all at the same time ;)
< jilles> Mucknert, nethack characters have a built-in radius-1 light source though :)
< greycat> they glow in the dark! :)
< dhalgren> actually, i owe nethack my life
< dhalgren> i had a major depressive episode in my freshman year of college
< dhalgren> one day i woke up and thought 'i should just go walk in front of a bus'
< dhalgren> and i thought 'well that sucks, isn't there ANYTHING you'd like to do'
< dhalgren> and i thought 'yeah, i want to go down to the computer lab and play nethack'
< todsah> dhalgren: nethack helped me getting through when I just broke up with my girlfriend.. I could at least focus my mind on something else (ascending) then the breakup.
< todsah> helped a lot.
< todsah> omg, nethack is therapeutic :)
< itsblah> you gotta see this, dhalgren found art's bones
< itsblah> at least 15 artifacts so far
< itsblah> and you have to see this, a 153 page large box
< itsblah> what is stupid is how art died
< wastrel> choked?
< itsblah> he starved, yet he was sitting right on top of 600 food rations
< itsblah> and 135 pina coladas
< wastrel> opposite of choked heh
< wastrel> bug in his hackbot :]
< koyaan> whats that W in the top left corner?
< itsblah> nazgul, of course
< dhalgren> it is the Witch-King of Angmar
< dhalgren> No man may slay him
< dhalgren> lucky for me I'm an orc