DeathOnAStick
DeathOnAStick is a NetHack player who is famous in the NetHack community for playing a year-and-a-half-long game on nethack.alt.org, from 2004-04-17 to 2005-11-27. Much of this time was spent arduously polypiling rocks into gems and collecting an entourage of pet giants to carry the abundant bags of them.
After killing the Wizard of Yendor on dungeon level 1 and despite already being at Experience level 30, DeathOnAStick drank a potion of gain level found on the Wizard of Yendor's corpse. It was cursed, as it turned out.
Upon reaching the Plane of Earth and desperately checking their inventory, which indeed contained no gems, DeathOnAStick went idle for 38 seconds. A few of the giants had been close enough to also be dragged into the Planes, but they were either killed off or left behind at the inter-plane portals. Ultimately, the only gems being carried at ascension were 2 dilithium crystals found on the Astral Plane.
DeathOnAStick tried again years later, ascending after 405 hours on August 16, 2010 with over 8,000 gems.
