Forum:Punished in Minetown

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Hey folks!


Due to a careless sacrifice (a wereperson; I forgot it was human=my race) in the middle of battle, I succeeded in getting my god angry at myself, the altar converted to chaotic, and I received the ball and chain as punishment. That was before I entered the Gnomish Mines. I still made it to Minetown and even managed to get a Master Mind Flayer as pet (but don't ask me how, it was just there suddenly). The altar was cross-aligned. I left some money there for 5 points of protection, then my MMF proceeded to suck the priest's brains out and hand me my money back. My problem, however, is that I still have the punishment. None of the cures in the wiki (Polymorphing into nymph/metallivore/amorphous... monster; wand of opening; bell of opening; drawbridge etc.) are available to me. Praying isn't an option, I think, since I already got Crom to curse my secondary weapon when I tried that. (I didn't mention that, but due to a stupid primary/secondary switch of mine I also ended up with the cursed short sword in hand. You see, I'm a newbie :-) My idea was to wait for more monsters in minetown and sacrifice them in the now empty temple. I already succeeded in converting the altar to Crom. But I suppose I need a lot more corpse to make him happy with me again, and with the ball-and-chain it is difficult to carry the corpses back in town. Of course, there are loads of pick-axes and mattocks lying around, but I can't dig straighter routes to the temple since the sword is welded to my hands. Oh, and I also have uncontrolled teleportitis.

On the upside, I have a Master Mind Flayer, a large cat, a large dog, and several giant rats as pets. So I'm in no immediate danger until the food from the Minetown food store runs out.

If any of you have suggestions for something that could help me, I would be very thankful!


--89.244.100.66 00:45, August 19, 2010 (UTC)