NetHack quaffing game

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The Nethack (and SLASH'EM!) Quaffing Game is a simple and enjoyable method to share the experience of the utterly delightful trials and tribulations of a solid game of Nethack with a group, locally, online and/or both!

How to Play (The Short Version) Note: Main Article is Very Much Under Construction

1. Start a game of Nethack or Slash'EM by letting RNG choose your character for you ("y" at the prompt)
2. Take one drink of your beverage.
3. Take two more drinks of your beverage for not choosing a conduct to follow and announce that you're a turnip.
4. As a rule of thumb, if you do something interesting to help yourself (Wish, Pray, Sacrifice at an Altar, Steal from a Shop, Drink from a fountain, etc) you have to drink at least once, depending on how much it helped you. (Wishes are 5, Stealing is 2, fountain is 1). The opposite is true for doing something crazy that will probably get you killed or seriously disadvantaged, such as killing your own pet, purposefully equipping cursed items, or wishing for worthless items, etc) After doing the crazy act, announce it to the other players and request one of them take a drink.
5. Continue until you die. Drink twice for dying, then start over.
6. Review the rules below for specific things to do to give people drinks, or take a few more yourself if you so desire.

The Rules

If you are unfamiliar with the average rules of a Drinking Game, the following terminology will benefit you greatly. Drink: A sip of your beverage. Not an entire container of beverage, or even an entire glass (large or small) of beverage. Just a solid sip. Give Drink: Politely request that someone else playing the game take a Drink of the beverage they are drinking. Take Drink: Take a Drink of your beverage. That's not so hard, is it? Ante Up, McCheese.

Conducts

Now that you have appeared in the dungeon, take a look at your inventory before moving. Decide which Conducts and Unofficial Conducts you wish to participate in. If you choose not to participate in any Conducts or Unofficial Conducts, take two drinks and announce to the room that you are a turnip.

For each level gained while retaining any Unofficial Conducts Besides Survivor and Celebate give out a number of drinks equal to the number of the level you just gained. This only applies to levels gained for the first time each game (see the Level Drain Penalty).

For each level gained while retaining the following Official Conducts, you may also give drinks equal to your level.

• Foodless
• Pacifist
• Illiterate

If a player ever violates a conduct he has given drinks to other players for pursuing, he must immediately take five drinks and pursue the Inventoryless Unofficial Conduct for the remainder of that game in addition to other conducts he/she is pursuing. (Yes, this means dropping everything you are carrying, except your blindfold if Zen.) Any further Conduct violations result in 5+v drinks where v is the number of total violations that game.

Incentives and Penalties

During the course of a game, interesting events will befall every Hacker. In honor of these events, The Nethack Quaffing Game seeks to reward and punish the recipients and perpetrators of said events by allowing them to give out drinks or suggesting kindly that they take drinks based on the actual event that transpires. If something interesting happens to you that isn't on the list, add it to the list!

Newbie Level

Newbie Incentives	Result
Say "paxed" after you level up	Give 1 Drink
Eat a hobbit corpse, or a tin of hobbit meat	Give 1 drink
You feel a mild buzz.	Give 1 Drink.
Discover the BUC status of an item by having it curse you.	Give 1 Drink
Narrowly avoid Death	Give 1 Drink
Dig up a Grave	Give 1 Drink
Zap yourself with an unidentified wand (once per wand)	Give 1 Drink
Wear an Unidentified Amulet (once per amulet)	Give 1 Drink
Eat a Tin that smells unfamiliar.	Give 2 Drinks
Get Frozen by a Floating Eye	Give 1 Drink

Newbie Penalties	Result
Choosing your own character	Take 5 Drinks
You die...	Take 2 Drinks
Become Asleep, Paralyzed or Held	Take 1 Drink
Hurt your Pet	Take 1 Drink
Cast Identify	Take 1 Drink
Drink from a Fountain	Take 1 Drink
Zap a beneficial Wand	Take 1 Drink
Heal yourself with a Wand, Spell, Potion, Ring of Regeneration or Prayer	Take 1 Drink

Common Level

Common Incentives	Result
Quaff a potion of Booze	Give 1 Drink to everyone
Throw a Potion of Healing at a Monster	Give 2 drinks
Purposefully Wear a Cursed Blindfold (or Towel)	Give 2 Drinks.
Destroy a Player's Ghost	Give 1 Drink
Start Hallucinating	Give 1 Drink
Anger your Deity	Give 2 Drinks
Kill your Pet	Give 3 drinks

Common Penalties	Result
Steal from a Shop	Take 2 Drinks
Cure Hallucination	Take 1 Drink
Accidental Cannibalism	Take 2 Drinks
Pray	Take 2 Drinks
Die while passing turns quickly	Take 1 (additional) Drink
Take anything from a Bones level	Take 1 Drink
Enchant an Item	Take 3 Drinks
Kill a Unicorn	Take 2 Drinks
Quaff a potion of oil	Take 2 Drinks

Professional Level

"Professional" Incentives	Result
Dry up a Minetown Fountain	Give 2 Drinks.
Donate items to a shop without receiving payment from the shopkeeper	Give 1 Drink (Maximum 1 drink per shop per game)
Aggravate a Shopkeeper	Give 1 Drink
Aggravate the Oracle	Give 2 Drinks
Aggravate an Aligned Priest	Give 2 Drinks
Purposeful Cannibalism	Give 1 drink
Faint from Hunger	Give 1 drink
Purposefully Get Food Poisoning	Give 2 drinks
Destroy your own Ghost	Give 2 drinks

Professional Penalties	Result
Engrave Elbereth	Take 2 drinks
Find an Artifact	Take 2 drinks
Find a useful Artifact	Take 2 (additional) drinks
Sit on a throne	Take 2 drink
Polymorph Yourself	Take 2 drinks
Offer at an Altar	Take 1 drink
Convert an Altar to your Alignment	Take 2 drinks
Monster Hatches from an Egg in your Inventory	Take 1 drink
Pet Dragon Hatches from an Egg in your Inventory	Take 3 drinks
Polymorph into something that can walk through walls	Take 3 drinks
Murder an NPC (Oracle, Priests, Shopkeepers and Watchmen)	Take 5 drinks
Get blasted by an artifact	Take 2 drinks
Lose a Level	Take 2 drinks

Hardcore Level

Hardcore Incentives	Result
Equip the Amulet of Strangulation and Survive	Give 1 drink
Kill a Co-aligned Unicorn	Give 1 Drink
Engrave (not write in dust) insults about non-quaffers with your starting weapon on turn 1	Give 1 Drink
Purposefully Pray When your God is Angry	Give 1 Drink
Abandon your entire inventory (only applicable after Xp lvl 10 and only once)	Give 10 Drinks
Wish for something useless	Give 10 Drinks
Ascend Naked	Give 10 drinks
Ascend Public	Give 10 drinks

Hardcore Penalties	Result
Pudding Farm	Take 10 drinks
Use a Macro	Take 2 drinks
Wish for something useful	Take 10 Drinks
Write and unknown scroll or spellbook	Take 5 drinks
Finish the Quest	Take 10 drinks
Ask for Help	Take 5 drinks
Ascend "Properly Geared"	Take 10 drinks
Ascend as Mayor McCheese	Take 10 drinks
Ascend Local	Take 10 drinks

The End?

Die (or Win!) If you've fallen in battle (even if your life gets saved somehow) you drink twice to mourn your loss. Feel free to drink more than twice, dying can be rough.

For each Conduct (Official or Unofficial) retained unbroken upon death or Ascension, give out 1 drink.

If an Ascension occurs, the Ascending player first pays triple their Ante fee, plus any other drinks deemed reasonable/necessary by the other players (Non-Negotiable). Then, for the remainder of the evening, the Ascended player may wantonly deliver drinks to anyone, as they are a Demigod and that's how it goes.

Any and all Ascensions achieved whilst playing the Nethack Quaffing Game will be posted here to inspire future generations of Hackers.

To play again, simply pay your previous Ante cost plus your new ante cost. To clarify, If you paid seven on your first character and are paying 1 on your next character (more common than you might think) you take 8 drinks, but your Ante for this round is 1. Next run, you pay 1 for your last ante and whatever your current ante cost might be. That way we don't have too many Mayors McCheese strolling around and upsetting the citizenry.

Play Again? [ynq]

To play again, simply pay your previous Ante cost plus your new ante cost. To clarify, If you paid seven on your first character and are getting ready to pay 1 for your second character (more common than you might think) you take 8 drinks, but your Ante for the second round is 1. Round 3, you pay 1 for your last Ante and whatever your current Ante cost might be. That way we don't have too many Mayors McCheese strolling around and upsetting the citizenry.

Mayor McCheese

The term "Mayor McCheese" designates someone who plays the Nethack Quaffing Game (Or even Nethack itself) with the intent to bend the odds in their own favor to some degree, large or small. Perhaps because Nethack Quaffing Game is nothing short of RNG worship, even selecting your own race/role/gender/alignment is action considered grounds for instant Mayoral Election. "Mayors McCheese" (as they are called plurally) pay quite a bit more drinks to play than your average nameless Hacker as a consequence of the burdens of Cheesy office. See the Ante section for more information on the costs (In drink quaffed, silly!) to play Nethack Quaffing Game.