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| − | In the Gulf of N'Kai in the Neutral Quest, you can encounter a number of peaceful merchants. If you [[chat]] to them while wielding an artifact in your main hand, they will offer to take it from you, giving you a "thought" in return. You may have up to three thoughts in your head at once. | + | In the Gulf of N'Kai in the Neutral Quest, you can encounter a number of peaceful merchants. If you [[chat]] to them while wielding an artifact in your main hand, they will offer to take it from you, giving you a "thought" in return. You may have up to three thoughts in your head at once. The thoughts can be wished for, but are only active when you have sufficiently high insight (similar to what is needed to see the merchant). |
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Revision as of 22:14, 17 June 2020
Insight is a feature specific to dNethack. It represents the player's ability to see beyond the veil. Players with a high insight will encounter creatures they would otherwise never see.
Methods of Changing Insight
| Change | Method |
|---|---|
| +1 | Successfully reading the Necronomicon |
| Successfully reading the Book of Lost Names | |
| Gaining telepathy from a corpse while hallucinating | |
| Drinking a cursed potion of enlightenment | |
| Drinking a cursed potion of see invisible (1 in insight chance) | |
| Seeing an insight-granting monster up close for the first time | |
| +X | Killing an insight-granting monster for the first time. X is the monster's difficulty/10 - 1. |
| -1 | Drinking a cursed potion of hallucination |
| -X% insight | Amnesia (X is typically 10) |
Insight Creatures
| Creature | Insight to See Creature |
|---|---|
| Bright walker | 10 |
| Lurking One | 20 + rn2(21) |
| Blasphemous Lurker | 40 |
| Blessed | 40 |
| Mouth of the Goat | 60 |
| The Good Neighbour | 40 |
| Hmnyw Pharaoh | 40 |
| Polypoid being | 40 |
| Parasitized Doll | rnd(20) |
| Living Doll | rnd(20) |
| Kuker | rnd(20)+rn2(21) |
Insight Merchants
In the Gulf of N'Kai in the Neutral Quest, you can encounter a number of peaceful merchants. If you chat to them while wielding an artifact in your main hand, they will offer to take it from you, giving you a "thought" in return. You may have up to three thoughts in your head at once. The thoughts can be wished for, but are only active when you have sufficiently high insight (similar to what is needed to see the merchant).
| Merchant | Insight to See Merchant | Related Thought | Thought's Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bestial dervish | 20+rn2(10) | clockwise metamorphosis | +30% maxhp |
| Ethereal dervish | 20+rn2(10) | anti clockwise metamorphosis | +3 speed (+25% of normal speed) |
| Sparkling lake | 18+rn2(9) | arcane bulwark | magic resistance |
| Flashing lake | 16+rn2(8) | dissipating bulwark | shock resistance |
| Smouldering lake | 11+rn2(6) | smoldering bulwark | fire resistance |
| Frosted lake | 12+rn2(6) | frosted bulwark | cold resistance |
| Blood shower | 14+rn2(7) | blood rapture | heal 30 hp on sneak attacks |
| Many taloned thing | 16+rn2(8) | clawmark | +30% increased sneak attack damage |
| Deep blue cube | 10+rn2(5) | clear deeps | poison resistance |
| Pitch black cube | 22+rn2(11) | deep sea | physical damage reduction |
| Prayerful thing | 25+rn2(13) | communion | +25% carrying capacity |
| Hemorrhagic thing | 15+rn2(8) | corruption | lifesteal when injured below 30% hp |
| Many eyed seeker | 17+rn2(9) | eye thought | 2x death drop frequency |
| Voice in the dark | 19+rn2(10) | formless voice | +30% max power |
| Tiny being of light | 13+rn2(7) | guidance | heal when attacking those that hurt you |
| Man faced millipede | 5+rn2(3) | impurity | physical damage reduction for pets |
| Mirrored moonflower | 10+rn2(5) | moon | +30% XP gain |
| Crimson writher | 14+rn2(7) | writhe | sneak attacks restore 30 energy |
| Radiant pyramid | 12+rn2(6) | radiance | +30% magical healing |
