Bribe
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Certain monsters can be bribed. Bribery comes in different forms:
- Demon princes will ask you for a bribe when they first notice you, if you have gold in open inventory; refusing to bribe them will turn them hostile and they will not ask for a bribe again unless pacified, whereas bribing them will prompt them to disappear for good, along with their entire inventory (except the invocation items).[1][2]
- If you have no gold in open inventory the demon prince will be hostile and will not ask for a bribe.
- If you are polymorphed into a demon, the demon prince will remain peaceful without requiring a bribe [3] and will attempt to teleport away.
- If the prince is carrying the Amulet of Yendor, he will ask for more gold than you have, thus ensuring that he won't disappear from the game with the Amulet. [4]
- Wielding Excalibur at demon creation time or near the demon prevents bribing.[5]
- Chaotic demons (Orcus) cannot be bribed.
- Soldiers can be bribed by #chatting with them, but soldiers are rarely threatening once you are in melee range, so this is rarely an effective tactic. Bribed soldiers become peaceful. (On the Castle level, it is occasionally helpful to bribe a soldier to block a corridor for you. This can be helpful because monsters don't route past peaceful monsters. In this case, you would not care about the soldier himself, but about the other monsters in the level beyond him.) [6]
- Alternatively, one can attempt to bribe them by throwing a suitable quantity of gold at them:
- X + ((gold left in inventory) + (1-5 times your experience level)) / charisma)
- where X is 150 for soldiers, 250 for sergeants, 500 for lieutenants, and 750 for captains. They only have a two in three chance of accepting the offer.[7]
- Angry shopkeepers will also accept bribes via the #chat command, or by throwing the necessary amount of gold at them. If you can afford the asking price, the shopkeeper will become peaceful again. [8]
- Beware throwing gold at peaceful shopkeepers: they have a chance to become hostile.
- Temple priests sell protection. This isn't normally called bribing.
Bribery always requires that the gold to be used is in open inventory; gold in containers cannot be acessed during the transaction.
References
- ↑ The amount requested is always smaller than the amount in your wallet; you may offer less than the requested amount, but in this case the bribe may fail.Source:Monmove.c#line398
- ↑ Source:Sounds.c#line761
- ↑ minion.c#line161
- ↑ minion.c#line183, Source:Mon.c#mongone
- ↑ makemon.c, line 1050 for level generation and minion.c, line 147 for meeting
- ↑ dokick.c#line319
- ↑ dokick.c, line 299
- ↑ dokick.c#line281, shk.c#line1299
