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Umbire the Phantom: /* Quest */ no need for a subpage - on to dyna

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‎Quest: no need for a subpage - on to dyna

Umbire the Phantom: guards

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Umbire the Phantom: written for a diff. variant

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written for a diff. variant

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‎Skills: word choice

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pothole, etc.

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 ==Quest==
-{{main|Convict quest/UnNetHack}}
+{{main|Convict quest}}
 The Convict's quest sees them fight [[Warden Arianna]] for [[The Iron Ball of Liberation]], an [[artifact]] heavy iron ball that grants [[magic resistance]], [[stealth]], automatic searching, and [[warning]] while carried. [[Invoking]] The Iron Ball of Liberation chains the artifact to the Convict, unchaining any existing mundane iron ball if necessary, and grants [[phasing]] for 51-150 turns.

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	Convicts can train the flail skill while using a heavy iron ball as a weapon.		Convicts can train the flail skill while using a heavy iron ball as a weapon.
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		+	[[Watchmen]], [[watch captain]]s and [[guard]]s that see an unpolymorphed Convict will become hostile.

	Monsters of races that would normally be friendly to the hero will be generated hostile for Convicts.		Monsters of races that would normally be friendly to the hero will be generated hostile for Convicts.

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 Once free of the iron ball, a Convict will want a weapon that is less heavy, such as their initial sacrifice gift in Luck Blade.
 {{variant-343}}
 [[Category:Convict patch]]
 [[Category:UnNetHack roles|Convict]]

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 ==Quest==
 {{main|Convict quest/UnNetHack}}
-The Convict's quest sees them fight [[Warden Arianna]] for [[The Iron Ball of Liberation]], a heavy iron ball that grants [[magic resistance]], [[stealth]], automatic searching, and [[warning]] while carried. [[Invoking]] The Iron Ball of Liberation chains the artifact to the Convict, unchaining any existing mundane iron ball if necessary, and grants [[phasing]] for 51-150 turns.
+The Convict's quest sees them fight [[Warden Arianna]] for [[The Iron Ball of Liberation]], an [[artifact]] heavy iron ball that grants [[magic resistance]], [[stealth]], automatic searching, and [[warning]] while carried. [[Invoking]] The Iron Ball of Liberation chains the artifact to the Convict, unchaining any existing mundane iron ball if necessary, and grants [[phasing]] for 51-150 turns.
 ==Strategy==

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-Convicts start with no skill levels trained to ''Basic''. They use the intelligence stat to cast spells, and their [[special spell]] is {{+ of|teleport away}}.
+Convicts start with no skills trained to ''Basic''. They use the intelligence stat to cast spells, and their [[special spell]] is {{+ of|teleport away}}.
 ==Special rules==

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 {{tocright}}
-In [[UnNetHack]], the '''Convict''' is a [[role]] available to the hero that is incorporated from the original [[Convict Role]] patch against [[NetHack 3.4.3]] by Karl Garrison. The UnNetHack implementation of the Convict has perhaps the least amount of changes applied to the role from the original patch.
+In [[UnNetHack]], the '''Convict''' is a [[role]] available to the [[hero]] that is incorporated from the original [[Convict Role]] patch against [[NetHack 3.4.3]] by Karl Garrison. The UnNetHack implementation of the Convict has perhaps the least amount of changes applied directly to the role from the original patch.
 Convicts are always [[chaotic]], which overrides normal alignment restrictions, and can be played as [[Human (starting race)|humans]], [[Dwarf (starting race)|dwarves]], [[Gnome (starting race)|gnomes]], [[Orc (starting race)|orcs]], or [[Vampire (starting race in UnNetHack)|vampires]].

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 Convicts start with knowledge of the [[skeleton key]], the [[grappling hook]] and any applicable racial equipment.
-Convicts also start each game [[punished]], with a [[heavy iron ball]] chained to them.
+Orcish Convicts are exempt from the extra [[food]] given to orcs of most other roles, since there is no equipment replaced (as they barely have any at all).
 The Convict's default starting pet is a [[sewer rat]] named Nicodemus.
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 ==Skills==
-Convicts have the following [[skill]]s available to them:
+Convicts in UnNetHack have the following [[skill]]s available to them:
 {| class="prettytable"
 ! colspan="2" style="font-size:larger" | Convict skills
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 ==Special rules==
-Convicts start the game with a [[alignment record]] of -10.
+Convicts start the game [[punished]], with an [[alignment record]] of -10.
 Convicts start each game with 200 [[nutrition]], and they burn nutrition at half the normal rate while they are at least hungry.
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 ==Gods==
 {{main|Religion}}
-The Convict pantheon is based on deities worshiped by the human inhabitants of Faerûn in the ''Forgotten Realms'' campaign setting of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. Their first gift is [[Luck Blade (UnNetHack)|Luck Blade]], which is the closest to its implementation in the original patch, though it is not an [[intelligent artifact]].
+The Convict pantheon is based on deities worshiped by the human inhabitants of Faerûn in the ''Forgotten Realms'' campaign setting of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. Their first gift is [[Luck Blade (UnNetHack)|Luck Blade]].
 * Lawful: [[Ilmater]]
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 ==Quest==
-{{main|Convict quest}}
+{{main|Convict quest/UnNetHack}}
 The Convict's quest sees them fight [[Warden Arianna]] for [[The Iron Ball of Liberation]], a heavy iron ball that grants [[magic resistance]], [[stealth]], automatic searching, and [[warning]] while carried. [[Invoking]] The Iron Ball of Liberation chains the artifact to the Convict, unchaining any existing mundane iron ball if necessary, and grants [[phasing]] for 51-150 turns.
 ==Strategy==
-As in the original patch, Convicts start the game on the verge of becoming hungry, with no food in their inventory and no ability to [[pray]] for food until they raise their alignment record. Their ability to descend through the dungeon looking for food is also limited by the [[heavy iron ball|iron ball]] chained to them, as they face death from falling down the stairs. It is advisable to always wield the ball before attempting to descend, as that will reduce the damage to 1-9 (average 5) instead of the 1-26 (average 11) you will take if the ball falls on you. You should wield the iron ball most of the time anyway, as it makes a superb weapon, doing d25 damage (average 13), which is higher than any non-artifact, even a [[dwarvish mattock]] – if you can hit with it. For a convict (and a convict only), fighting with the iron ball advances flail skill, which can eventually reach expert.
+{{todo|Tailor to be most applicable to more current versions of UnNetHack.}}
 The [[early game]] is dominated by a desperate search for food. It is therefore critical to get the most out of any food they do find. Convicts burn nutrition at half the normal rate while hungry or worse, meaning that you should wait to eat food rations and the like until you are at least weak with hunger. Convicts are also [[Immunity to sickness|immune to sickness]] from level one, enabling them to eat [[tainted]] corpses. In particular this allows them to eat corpses left by zombies and mummies, and to finish every last bite of their kills without worrying about how long the corpse has been lying there.

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 In [[UnNetHack]], the '''Convict''' is a [[role]] available to the hero that is incorporated from the original [[Convict Role]] patch against [[NetHack 3.4.3]] by Karl Garrison. The UnNetHack implementation of the Convict has perhaps the least amount of changes applied to the role from the original patch.
-Convicts are always [[chaotic]], which overrides normal alignment restrictions, and can be played as [[Human (starting race)|humans]]s [[Dwarf (starting race)|dwarves]], [[Gnome (starting race)|gnomes]], [[Orc (starting race)|orcs]], or [[Vampire (starting race in UnNetHack)|vampires]].
+Convicts are always [[chaotic]], which overrides normal alignment restrictions, and can be played as [[Human (starting race)|humans]], [[Dwarf (starting race)|dwarves]], [[Gnome (starting race)|gnomes]], [[Orc (starting race)|orcs]], or [[Vampire (starting race in UnNetHack)|vampires]].
 ==Starting inventory==