Piety

FIQHack introduces a new player mechanic called piety which replaces the vanilla altar sacrifice / prayer mechanics. Piety is a measure of how much your god likes you (as opposed to alignment record, which is a measure of how faithful you are to your god).

Piety is implemented as a scale which can be positive or negative, similar to how luck or alignment work in vanilla. A positive piety value means your god likes you, a negative value means they are angry with you. Piety is increased by altar sacrifice. Piety is decreased by things like sacrificing your own race as a non-chaotic, or killing a pet.

You begin every game with a piety of 0.

When your piety reaches 10000 * ( 2 ^ # gifts given ), a sacrifice gift is given and your piety is reset to 2000.

If your piety is >= 15000 when you pray on an altar, you will be crowned. This resets your piety to 5000.

Altar sacrifices affect your piety as follows:

Item	Piety Increase	Notes
Gold	Amount / 2
Food ration	100
Huge chunk of meat	666
K-ration	133
C-ration	100
Other Permafood	Nutrition amount	Tins and eggs can't be sacrificed
Corpse	( Difficulty + 1 ) * 150	Unicorn +5 difficulty, assuming no conversion or angering altar god

Any prayer with zero timeout, a happy god and positive alignment will increase your luck by 1 if possible.

The chance of altar conversion is ( piety value / 12 )%. Failing to convert an altar always gives a minion, but will not reduce your luck.

If you sacrifice on an altar of opposite alignment and your alignment is changed, your piety (to your new god) is set to zero.

If you sacrifice your own race and you are not chaotic, your piety is reduced by 3000 (the other negative effects still apply). There is no piety change for sacrificing your own race as a chaotic.

Killing a pet decreases your piety by 1000.

The following mechanics generally work the same as in vanilla:

• Offering with nonzero prayer timeout
• Offering with a negative alignment rcord
• Offering an amulet.

Enlightenment

Enlightenment will show you your general piety level as follows:

Piety Range	Message
< -6000	<your god> is extremely angry at you
-6000 to -3001	<your god> is very angry at you
-3000 to -1001	<your god> is slightly angry at you
-1000 to 999	<your god> is noncommital
1000 to 1999	<your god> is slightly pleased with you
2000 to 2999	<your god> is pleased with you
3000 to 3999	<your god> is very pleased with you
4000 to 4999	<your god> is extremely pleased with you
5000 to 5999	<your god> favors you
6000 to 6999	<your god> favors you deeply
7000 to 7999	<your god> favors you very deeply
8000 to 8999	<your god> favors you extremely deeply
9000 to 9999	<your god> is exalted with you
9999 to 14999	<your god> is very exalted with you
>15000	<your god> is extremely exalted with you