Talk:Enlightenment
I'm working on a VERY BIG table for this
Enumerating all possible messages and their meanings.
Didn't realise quite how many there were when i started...
--Rogerb-on-NAO 00:12, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
This has rather stalled and it seems others want to contribute, so I'm putting the work to date here. It can be put on the main page when it's completed.
--Rogerb-on-NAO 10:31, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Attributes Displayed
Enlightenment will give you information about the following attributes. If you do not have a particular attribute, no message will be displayed.
| attribute | message | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Crowning | "You are the Hand of Elbereth" | You are crowned and lawful |
| "You are the Envoy of Balance" | You are crowned and neutral | |
| "You are the Glory of Arioch" | You are crowned and chaotic | |
| Alignment record (always displayed) |
"You are piously aligned" | Your alignment record is 20 or more |
| "You are devoutly aligned" | Your alignment record is 14 to 19 | |
| "You are fervently aligned" | Your alignment record is 9 to 13 | |
| "You are stridently aligned" | Your alignment record is 4 to 8 | |
| "You are aligned" | Your alignment record is 3 | |
| "You are haltingly aligned" | Your alignment record is 1 or 2 | |
| "You are nominally aligned" | Your alignment record is 0 | |
| "You have strayed" | Your alignment record is -3 to -1 | |
| "You have sinned" | Your alignment record is -8 to -4 | |
| "You have transgressed" | Your alignment record is -9 or less | |
| Fire resistance | "You are fire resistant" | You have fire resistance |
| Cold resistance | "You are cold resistant" | You have cold resistance |
| Sleep resistance | "You are sleep resistant" | You have sleep resistance |
| Disintegration resistance | "You are disintegration-resistant" | You have disintegration resistance |
| Shock resistance | "You are shock resistant" | You have shock resistance |
| Poison resistance | "You are poison resistant" | You have poison resistance |
| Level drain resistance | "You are level-drain resistant" | You have drain resistance |
| Sickness resistance | "You are immune to sickness" | You have Sickness resistance and cannot get food poisoning or disease |
| Magic resistance | "You are magic-protected" | You have magic resistance |
| Acid resistance | "You are acid resistant" | You have acid resistance |
| Stoning resistance | "You are petrification resistant" | You have stoning resistance |
| Invulnerability | "You are invulnerable" | You have invulnerability |
| Food appraisal | "You can recognize detrimental food" | You have food appraisal |
| Hallucination resistance | "You resist hallucinations" | You have hallucination resistance |
| Hallucination | "You were hallucinating" | You were hallucinating when the game ended |
| Stunning | "You were stunned" | You were stunned when the game ended |
| Confusion | "You were confused" | You were confused when the game ended |
| Blinded | "You were blinded" | You were blind from a cause other than wearing a blindfold or being polymorphed into a blind monster when the game ended, or would have been blind had you not had astral vision |
| Food poisoning | "You are sick from food poisoning" | You have food poisoning |
| Disease | "You are sick from illness" | You are diseased |
| Turning to stone | "You are turning to stone" | You are stiffening |
| Turning to slime | "You are turning into slime" | You are slimed |
| Strangulation | "You are being strangled" | You have the strangulation property |
| "You are buried" | You have the strangulation property and are buried (deferred feature) | |
| Slippery fingers | "You have slippery foo" | You have slippery fingers |
| Fumbling | "You fumble" | You are fumbling |
| Wounded legs | "You have wounded foo" | You have wounded legs |
| restful sleep | "You fall asleep" | You have restful sleep |
| Hunger | "You hunger rapidly" | You have the Hunger property |
| See invisible | "You see invisible" | You have see invisible |
| Telepathy | "You are telepathic" | You have telepathy |
| Warning | "You are warned" | You have warning |
| Warned of monster type | "You are warned of orcs" | You are warned of orcs |
| "You are warned of demons" | You are warned of demons (nothing currently warns of demons). This message can only appear for players who are not warned about orcs | |
| "You are warned of something" | Catchall default. This message can only appear for players who are not warned about orcs or demons | |
| Warning of undead | "You are warned of undead" | You are warned of undead (nothing in Nethack currently warns of undead). Note this is a separate property to warning of monster type |
| Searching | ||
| Clairvoyance | ||
| Infravision | ||
| Detection of monsters | ||
| Confusion of monsters | ||
| adornment | ||
| Invisibility | ||
| Displacing | ||
| Stealth | "You are stealthy." | You have stealth |
| Aggravation of monsters | ||
| Conflict | ||
| Ability to jump | ||
| Ability to teleport | ||
| Ability to control teleport | ||
| Levitation or flying | ||
| Ability to walk on water | ||
| Ability to swim | ||
| Need to breathe | ||
| Ability to pass through walls | ||
| Riding | ||
| Engulfing by monsters | ||
| Holding by monsters | ||
| To hit bonus | ||
| Damage bonus | ||
| Slow digestion | ||
| Regeneration | ||
| Protection | ||
| Protection from shape changers | ||
| Polymorphitis | ||
| Polymorph control | ||
| Polymorphed form | ||
| Unchanging | ||
| Speed | "You are fast." | Your speed is 16. If you are polymorphed into a slower monster, even a blue jelly, and have intrinsic speed, this will still be displayed even though it will not actually do anything. |
| "You are very fast." | Your speed is 20. If you are polymorphed into a slower monster and have quaffed a potion of speed or are wearing (if possible) speed boots, this will still be displayed even though it will not actually do anything. | Reflection |
| Free action | ||
| Sustaining abilities | ||
| Life saving | ||
| Twoweaponing | ||
| Death | "You were dead." | Self-explanatory. This will never be shown in present tense, for obvious reasons. |
| Luck | "You are extremely unlucky." | You have -10 luck or less |
| "You are very unlucky." | You have between -9 and -5 Luck | |
| "You are unlucky." | You have between -4 and -1 Luck | |
| "Your luck is zero." | Self-explanatory. This message will only be seen in wizard mode | |
| "You are lucky." | You have between 1 and 4 Luck | |
| "You are very lucky." | You have between 5 and 9 Luck | |
| "You are extremely lucky." | You have 10 or more Luck | |
| Extra Luck (the effect of extra Luck is reflected in the Luck messages above) |
"You have extra luck." | You have three extra Luck, obtained by carrying a noncursed luckstone, or an artifact with the same effect. |
| "You have reduced luck." | Your Luck is reduced by three points, due to carrying a cursed luckstone, or an artifact with the same effect. | |
| Luck timeout | "Good luck does not time out for you." | Positive (>0) base Luck is not reduced with time. |
| "Bad luck does not time out for you." | Negative (<0) base Luck is not reduced with time. | |
| God's anger or ability to pray (Always displayed during a game, never after it has completed) |
"Deity is angry with you." | Your god's anger is between 1 and 3. |
| "Deity is very angry with you." | Your god's anger is between 4 and 6. | |
| "Deity is extremely angry with you." | Your god's anger is 7 or more. | |
| "You can safely pray." | You may safely pray to your god. Note that this can be misleading for neutral players polymorphed into undead - there is a random chance that is recalculated each time NetHack checks if it is safe to pray. | |
| "You can not safely pray." | There is a condition (other than your god's anger) which means you cannot safely pray. It may be because your prayer timeout is not low enough, but all other conditions, such as whether you are in Gehennom, are checked as well. |
