Shadow_Rider: taking suggestions for what to start as
Luxidream: Red mold
<@nabru> Archon?
<@ais523> aren't they sessile?
Shadow_Rider: taking decent suggestions for what to start as
<@Noisytoot> @Shadow_Rider lichen
<@ais523> jabberwock should be fairly good
<@ais523> and yet limited by inability to wear most armour
Shadow_Rider: listen you guys
Shadow_Rider: i’m willing to play some hot garbage but make it playable
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Shadow_Rider: ok ill just go down the list of suggestions
Shadow_Rider: first stop red mold
<@Noisytoot> I suspect you won't get very far
<@Noisytoot> @?red mold
<@Beholder> red mold (F) | Lvl: 1 | Diff: 2 | Spd: 0 | Res: fire poison | Confer: fire poison | MR: 0 | Gen: gehennom dungeons | AC: 9 | Atk: 0d4 passive fire | Align: 0 | genocidable, breathless, mindless, infravis, vegan
Shadow_Rider: well thats that
cathartes: most wizards are startscums
riker: so yeah, no, tha'ts probably startscums included
riker: (i'd guess that less people bother startscumming gnomes, orcs, wizards if they're not gonna be 'optimal' combos anyway)
Loggers_VIII: 3M elf wiz… yeesh
cathartes: yeah I have 4.58 million wizards in the xlogfiles from nao
xdminsy: Holy so many elf wiz.
riker: 3.1M elf wiz is more than the number of humans period
riker: it's just 2.9M humans of all roles combined LMAO
xdminsy: Lol and I play only humans.
Loggers_VIII: Same lol
cathartes: those elf wizards are partially explained by a single startscummer
Loggers_VIII: I kind of dislike elf wiz
xdminsy: Though I see them little advantages.
cathartes: select count(*) from nhgames where server="nao" and role="Wiz" and race="Elf" and name like "StellaAuto%";
cathartes: 942565
Umbire: >Stella
Umbire: goddamnit aoei
riker: LMAO
riker: goddamnit yeah those are all hte fucking bot
<@ais523> my terminal has a bug where the cursor doesn't show up if it's over a character location that contains the "50% shaded" character
<@ais523> …and guess which character 3.7 curses uses for corridors by default?
<@ais523> even when I change symset to DECgraphics it's still used for doorways
<@ais523> so it was an interesting minigame, when I was turned invisible by a magic trap, to figure out exactly which doorway my character was in when travel stopped
<@Grasshopper> last game on NAO 3.6.7, I was rocking a +9 increase damage ring, and I had a +7 inc damage on the other hand
<@Grasshopper> +9 is the max theoretically possible - you can get +1-3 from a ?o charging, and the chance of ring exploding is (prior enchantment)/7
<@Grasshopper> so, with +6 already I charged it up... and it stuck
<@ais523> what would you have done if it blew up? went without?
<@Noisytoot> I wouldn't do that unless I had spares and enchanted the less enchanted one
<@Grasshopper> ais523, I would've had 2 x +7 rings, as I had another +7 backup
<@Grasshopper> there are rules to how one does these things
riker: i'll have you know i go for quality over quantity
riker: anybody who gets MY bones piles should go "oh sick i wonder what epic shit riker died with", then "how the hell did he die he has 4 wishes on his body????"
riker: not "oh goddamnit k2 died to another boulder trap. well, here's a cursed expensive camera and a -2 elven cloak i guess"
<krm26> lkjkljglkjfgfgfg
<krm26> what is it now, too dumb to pick what monster to polymorph into?
<krm26> drank a potion of polymorph wearing a ring of polymorph control, chose xorn, and became a new centaur (and gained a level i didn't want too)
<krm26> i dont understand, i am cursed
<krm26> do you need a 13 int to successfully choose a polyform too?
<K2> no
<K2> just bad rng roll
<krm26> you're a bad rng roll! ggrrrrr
<K2> i've been called worse
<dbanethacker> Hmmm, that could be put on a license plate.
<dbanethacker> BAD RNG
<K2> lol
<K2> knowing Florida, it's already been taken
<+rld> <@fredriq> my tame pet killed a gas spore, killing me in the blast radius
<+rld> <@fredriq> gee thanks
< hothraxxa> a good dev would fix that
<+Beholder> [hdf-eu] [fh] FIQ (Wiz Gno Mal Neu), 20273 points, T:1460, killed by a gas spore's explosion
<+rld> <@fredriq> I thought I already had 😛
<+rld> <@fredriq> in my quest of "make pets less annoying"
<aosdict> if I get called up for jury duty I'm definitely doing it, I would love a state sanctioned excuse to get out of work
<qt> if you pull a really interesting case let me pretend to be you and show up to the courtroom in your place when the trial starts
<aosdict> sure, maybe we can get the judge to let us share a jail cell too
<qt> many writers and artists throughout history have created powerful works from a jail cell, but none have ever tried pair programming
<qt> the resulting xnethack update would be the best ever
<qt> a prison update that introduces the new Meins branch
<qt> or the 120 Days of Sokoban
<qt> the Pisan Cant_reach_floors
<qt> Demogorgon Profundis
< Homage> The nymph takes off a T-shirt. You see here a chest.
< Homage> Something is written here in the dust. You read: "Am?}irg chest ahecd".
<aosdict> I don't really like the player's ability to assume that if they just keep sacrificing long enough they will get the specific artifact they want
<mobileuser> yeah me neither. I prefer the dnh solution.
<aosdict> which is?
<aosdict> I guess 2343987348 artifacts so you have no chance of getting any specific one you want?