Black market (UnNetHack)
In UnNetHack, the black market is a special level with one or many shops which offer a wide variety of goods at extremely high prices. Specifically, magical items cost 25 times what they would in a normal shop, and non-magical items cost 15 times normal.[1] Additionally, in the newer versions of UnNetHack, Conflict has no effect within the Black Market, and scrolls of earth might not be as helpful as you would expect.
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Monsters
One-eyed Sam
| @ One-eyed Sam File:One-eyed Sam.png | |
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| Difficulty | 28 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 4d10 |
| Base level | 25 |
| Base experience | 891 |
| Speed | 24 |
| Base AC | -8 |
| Base MR | 50 |
| Alignment | -2 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Unique |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | death magic, poison, fire, cold, sleep, electricity, petrification |
| Resistances conveyed |
sleep (100%) |
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One-eyed Sam:
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One-eyed Sam is in charge of the black market, and is very difficult to kill, even for ascension-ready characters. She wields the deadly sword Thiefbane and is equipped with most of an ascension kit (well-enchanted magic dragon scale mail, a shield of reflection, and speed boots, as well as an amulet of life saving).[2]
If you anger Sam for any reason, iron bars drop from the ceiling around the magic portal, blocking it. If you manage to kill her, the bars around the portal will disappear. It is still possible to escape without killing her, if you dissolve the iron bars with acid or eat them as a metallivore.
If you attempt to teleport Sam away, there is a 12/13 chance she will be placed 3-4 squares away from you, assuming there is an open square.[3] In the remaning 1/13, she will be teleported normally, to a random square on the level.
Black marketeers
@ black marketeer 
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| Difficulty | 23 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 4d10 |
| Base level | 20 |
| Base experience | {{{experience}}} |
| Speed | 20 |
| Base AC | -5 |
| Base MR | 40 |
| Alignment | -2 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | sleep, petrification |
| Resistances conveyed |
sleep (100%) |
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A black marketeer:
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Black marketeers are weaker versions of One-eyed Sam. In the second version of the black market, each of the nine shops has a black marketeer in place of a shopkeeper. Each black marketeer wields an enchanted long sword, and has a 50% chance of wearing each of the following: magic dragon scale mail, a shield of reflection, speed boots, and an amulet of life saving.[4]
Assistants
One-eyed Sam has nine assistants that are generated with the level. They are initially asleep and peaceful, but they will awaken and become hostile if you anger Sam for any reason. Sam will also become angry if you attack one of her assistants.
The assistants are:
- A pit fiend named Hilvuuloth
- A rock troll named William
- A balrog named Njalnohaar
- A cockatrice named Simon
- A wood nymph named Daphne
- A salamander named Izzy
- A rock troll named Thomas
- A cockatrice named Wilbur
- A frost giant named Goliath
Angering any named monster (or even previously named) in the black market will anger Sam, her assistants, and all black marketeers on the level. Therefore, one should be very careful in using the #call command in the black market.
Maps
A user has suggested improving this page or section as follows:
"mention that not entire shop is filled (at least in first version) (stock_blkmar function), calculate expected number of items, maybe also expected number of artifacts?"
There are two different black market layouts. Both have undiggable and unphasable walls, and teleport is not allowed.
In both layouts, the marked monsters are One-eyed Sam's assistants.
First version
The first version is laid out exactly the same as SLASH'EM's black market. Everything besides the narrow passage on the left is one large shop, with One-eyed Sam as the shopkeeper. The entire level is lit.
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Second version
In the second version, One-eyed Sam is not a shopkeeper, she is merely a peaceful monster on the level. The black market is made up of nine shops: a general store, and one each of scroll, potion, wand, ring, armor, tool, weapon, and book shops. If you anger any of the black marketeers or One-eyed Sam, all nine black marketeers will also become hostile and leave their shops to attack you.
The magic portal is placed randomly in the round room on the left. The round room and the shops are lit, and the rest of the level is unlit. There are three muggers placed in the unlit passages
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---T..............--- |.shop..|...............|.shop....|.....shop....|
--H..................-- |.......|..-----------..|......----+--..........|
--.....................--|.......|..|.........|..|......|.....|..........|
--:......................-|.......|..|.........|..|......+..{..-----------|
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--c......................-|.......|..|.........|..+........|..------------|
--.....................--|.......+..|..shop...|..|..shop..|..+...........|
--T..................-- |.shop..|..|.........|..|........|..|...........|
---&..............-----|.......|..-----.....|..--......--..|...shop....|
----c........----|...|.......|......|.....|...--------...|...........|
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Stealing
Most of the strategies for stealing from SLASH'EM's black market do not work in UnNetHack, since Sam resists poison, flies, and can break boulders, so surrounding yourself with boulders or pits will not protect you, and there's no chance of instakill with a poisoned dart or arrow. As a result, getting items from the black market without paying is quite a bit more difficult, but still possible. Here are a few options.
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"Figure out more strategies!"
Credit cloning
One option to at get anything you want from the black market is to use credit cloning. If you wander around the black market long enough, eventually some sort of baby dragon will be generated. If you drop your gold in a shop, it will pick it up and follow you outside, where you can kill it and take back your gold. With a wand or spell of undead turning, this process can be repeated many times, as baby dragons will always leave a corpse to revive. It is possible to build up hundreds of thousands of zorkmids in credit, more than enough to buy even a wand of wishing or a magic lamp.
Indirect theft
A user has suggested improving this page or section as follows:
"Does taming work in the new black market?"
Pets cannot follow you through the portal to the black market, nor can they follow you out. It is still possible to acquire pets in the black market by feeding a domestic animal, waiting for an egg to hatch, or applying a (blessed) figurine, but taming monsters through magic will not work here. Once you have a pet, you can clear out the shop in the normal way, but this is a rather tedious procedure, given the size of the market.
Killing One-eyed Sam
One-eyed Sam is a formidable opponent; her Thiefbane drains your life and each hit has a 10% of decapitating you, killing you instantly. It is unlikely you would win against Sam in melee. If you have a powerful ranged attack (for example, expert bow with highly enchanted arrows) and start attacking her from maximum range, you may, with luck, kill her before she gets the chance to kill you first. Keep in mind, however, she has an amulet of life saving, so you need to kill her twice.
