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Hey, all! I've been using the wiki for a while, it's a great resource.

Anyway, recently I've been playing what I call an "accidental extinctionist" game... Neutral human wizard. Interesting early game, no bag of holding all the way through the Castle, a few other key things were rare or non-existent. I had caches all over the place. After the Castle I had pretty much a full ascension kit but was still conserving wishes, holding out for a BoH and some nonessential armor. Then on the second level of Vlad's I hit an old bones file of mine: YASD (choked on a winter wolf cub) with a ''full'' ascension kit.

So at that point I had two ascension kits and ''finally'' had a BoH. I also had +7 Mjollnir. But what I ''really'' wanted was Grayswandir. Unfortunately, in this game I already had found or been given quite a few artifacts, so the chances of wishing for it were slim (although I did try, wasting many wishes in the process). So how to get Grayswandir? Repeated sacrifice, natch.

So I have a nice altar with a boulder fort, and I've been summoning for a while. Building up a huge stock of stuff, 40+ !oFH, etc. Level 30, natch. I've been playing with polypiling rings, looking for protection and increase damage, then enchanting them to +2 (with PYEC from an early wish) and eating them.

I had my AC down to -52. Back at the altar, I started to lose focus and all of a sudden I sacrificed a nurse. "The altar is stained with human blood!" My god is angry, no problem; a few sacrifices take care of that. But I went from AC -52 up to AC -34. Yow. My level was 30, so there wasn't enough gold left in the game to buy even 10 points of protection from a priest, and I'd already eaten my stash of rings.

What to do? At first I was going to have a pet kill the priest and use the money to pay another priest... but if I did that I knew I would soon run out of priests!

Finally I realized the obvious solution (which I had read long ago [http://www.nethack.de/spoiler/pets_and_conflict.txt here] and forgotten about:

I found a leprechaun and tamed it. Brought it into the temple using my magic whistle. Put on my handy ring of conflict. Then... well, here you go:

: "e - a blessed ring of conflict (on right hand)."
: "The leprechaun hits the priest of Thoth."
: "The leprechaun steals some gold from the priest of Thoth."
: "The leprechaun suddenly disappears!"
: "You produce a strange whistling sound."
: "You were wearing a blessed ring of conflict. You finish disrobing."
: "The leprechaun drops 127643 gold pieces."
: "You have much trouble lifting 127643 gold pieces."
: "You rebalance your load. Movement is difficult."

Donate, rinse, repeat!

Still looking for Grayswandir, though...

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-Hey, all!  I've been using the wiki for a while, it's a great resource.
+Hey, all! I've been using the wiki for a while, it's a great resource.
-Anyway, recently I've been playing what I call an "accidental extinctionist" game... Neutral human wizard.  Interesting early game, no bag of holding all the way through the Castle, a few other key things were rare or non-existent.  I had caches all over the place.  After the Castle I had pretty much a full ascension kit but was still conserving wishes, holding out for a BoH and some nonessential armor.  Then on the second level of Vlad's I hit an old bones file of mine: YASD (choked on a winter wolf cub) with a ''full'' ascension kit.
+Anyway, recently I've been playing what I call an "accidental extinctionist" game... Neutral human wizard. Interesting early game, no bag of holding all the way through the Castle, a few other key things were rare or non-existent. I had caches all over the place. After the Castle I had pretty much a full ascension kit but was still conserving wishes, holding out for a BoH and some nonessential armor. Then on the second level of Vlad's I hit an old bones file of mine: YASD (choked on a winter wolf cub) with a ''full'' ascension kit.
-So at that point I had two ascension kits and ''finally'' had a BoH.  I also had +7 Mjollnir.  But what I ''really'' wanted was Grayswandir.  Unfortunately, in this game I already had found or been given quite a few artifacts, so the chances of wishing for it were slim (although I did try, wasting many wishes in the process).  So how to get Grayswandir?  Repeated sacrifice, natch.
+So at that point I had two ascension kits and ''finally'' had a BoH. I also had +7 Mjollnir. But what I ''really'' wanted was Grayswandir. Unfortunately, in this game I already had found or been given quite a few artifacts, so the chances of wishing for it were slim (although I did try, wasting many wishes in the process). So how to get Grayswandir? Repeated sacrifice, natch.
-So I have a nice altar with a boulder fort, and I've been summoning for a while.  Building up a huge stock of stuff, 40+ !oFH, etc.  Level 30, natch.  I've been playing with polypiling rings, looking for protection and increase damage, then enchanting them to +2 (with PYEC from an early wish) and eating them.
+So I have a nice altar with a boulder fort, and I've been summoning for a while. Building up a huge stock of stuff, 40+ !oFH, etc. Level 30, natch. I've been playing with polypiling rings, looking for protection and increase damage, then enchanting them to +2 (with PYEC from an early wish) and eating them.
-I had my AC down to -52.  Back at the altar, I started to lose focus and all of a sudden I sacrificed a nurse.  "The altar is stained with human blood!"  My god is angry, no problem; a few sacrifices take care of that.  But I went from AC -52 up to AC -34.  Yow.  My level was 30, so there wasn't enough gold left in the game to buy even 10 points of protection from a priest, and I'd already eaten my stash of rings.
+I had my AC down to -52. Back at the altar, I started to lose focus and all of a sudden I sacrificed a nurse. "The altar is stained with human blood!" My god is angry, no problem; a few sacrifices take care of that. But I went from AC -52 up to AC -34. Yow. My level was 30, so there wasn't enough gold left in the game to buy even 10 points of protection from a priest, and I'd already eaten my stash of rings.
-What to do?  At first I was going to have a pet kill the priest and use the money to pay another priest... but if I did that I knew I would soon run out of priests!
+What to do? At first I was going to have a pet kill the priest and use the money to pay another priest... but if I did that I knew I would soon run out of priests!
 Finally I realized the obvious solution (which I had read long ago [http://www.nethack.de/spoiler/pets_and_conflict.txt here] and forgotten about:
-I found a leprechaun and tamed it.  Brought it into the temple using my magic whistle.  Put on my handy ring of conflict.  Then... well, here you go:
+I found a leprechaun and tamed it. Brought it into the temple using my magic whistle. Put on my handy ring of conflict. Then... well, here you go:
 : "e - a blessed ring of conflict (on right hand)."
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 : "The leprechaun suddenly disappears!"
 : "You produce a strange whistling sound."
-: "You were wearing a blessed ring of conflict.  You finish disrobing."
+: "You were wearing a blessed ring of conflict. You finish disrobing."
 : "The leprechaun drops 127643 gold pieces."
 : "You have much trouble lifting 127643 gold pieces."
-: "You rebalance your load.  Movement is difficult."
+: "You rebalance your load. Movement is difficult."
 Donate, rinse, repeat!
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 : Last time I tried, the priest killed my leprechaun in one whack as soon as I put on my ring of conflict. [[User:Tjr|Tjr]] 11:37, 5 May 2009 (UTC)