User:Crawldragon

Roguelikes are my favorite games to play (and develop) and NetHack is quite possibly the best Roguelike that's ever existed, so I thought it was logical to come here. Crawldragon (talk|nao|wiki) 03:08, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Fun fact: I got a NetHackWiki account three years before my Wikipedia account. That probably says a lot about me.

Crawldragon on NAO (stats, games, deaths, dumplogs, ttyrecs)

Embarrassing NetHack moments

My NetHack experience is full of YASDs and lessons learned the hard way, and I thought it would be funny to catalog some of the more memorable ones.

• I once encountered a staircase in a shop and for some reason had a moment where I was going "I wonder where that leads?" This is how I learned that mimics can turn into >s.

• I had an argument once with a friend over whether or not monks can destroy boulders by kicking them. I swear I got this to work once. Just to show him, I created a new monk character and started kicking the first boulder I saw. This is how I learned it's possible to die by kicking something...

• ...and yes, I have died by kicking walls searching for hidden passages...

• ...but I would say my most embarrassing character death has to be the one where I kicked a pony corpse trying to move my knight's fallen steed away from a staircase so I could find it later. This was before the days when NAO could highlight hidden staircases. I don't know why I thought a level one knight of all things would be able to move something as large as a horse by kicking it, but I didn't want to bother with carrying it and I figured it was worth a shot.

• When I learned that it was a bad idea to genocide @, for some reason I took this as a challenge. While playing as a dwarf with showrace turned on, I got a scroll of genocide and decided to see if a player dwarf still counted as @. Apparently it does.

• Sometimes bones files do strange things. On one occasion I died in combat a few levels in. Story of my life. Then later I found the bones level with my ghost, my stray pet, and my loot. Then I was promptly killed by a combination of a pet I couldn't re-tame (due to a lack of snacks) and a fresh swarm of new monsters. Then I loaded up a new character and found the same bones level again, this time with two identical ghosts (at this point in my hacking I only ever played as an archaeologist), two identical cats, and two headstones. Then I died again, and the long story short is I had a bones file containing three ghosts, three identical cats, and three headstones with loot just begging to be plundered. I decided to just run to the next level rather than get killed again by my past lives.

• This one is less embarrassing and more just a case of Yet Another Funny Message. On one occasion I was stuck in a pit and being assaulted by a pony. Since I wasn't in a position to kill a pony this early in the game, I decided to try taming it, but the only viable option I had was a habanero pepper (at the time my custom fruit). Surely the last thing you would want to do to calm a frightened horse is feed it a hot pepper, right?

The pony devours a habanero.

More to come as I think of them.