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| − | Konichi wa! I am a [[samurai]] on a quest to genocide all [[nymph]]s following a [[#Memoirs|recent incident]] in the Gnomish Mines. If you wish to join me on my quest, or simply to say hi, please feel free to [[User_talk:Crawldragon|speak to me]] via this scroll of... magic... something. I don't know. I'm also programming a [[patch]], so I might ask around for programming help. - [[User:Crawldragon|Crawldragon]] ([[User_talk:Crawldragon|talk]]) 05:08, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
| + | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiGnome G] Despite having played NetHack for several years, I'd still consider myself something of a newbie. I'm in love with the richness and depth of the game as well as its [[Pun|humor]] [[Yet Another Funny Message|value]]. I'm also something of an amateur programmer, so I do occasionally like to [[Source diving|fiddle]] with the [[source code]]. If on my adventures on this wiki you'd like to chat with me, feel free to check in on my [[User_talk:Crawldragon|talk page]]. - [[User:Crawldragon|Crawldragon]] ([[User_talk:Crawldragon|talk]]) 08:33, 28 March 2015 (UTC) |
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| | + | I have an active [[nethack.alt.org]] user account: {{NAOplayer|Crawldragon}} |
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| | + | You may also find me in [irc://irc.freenode.org/%23nethack #NetHack] as Crawldragon. |
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| | If I seem to you to be pedantic about grammar, it's only because I'm a bit of a bibliophile, which is largely the reason I love NetHack so much :-) | | If I seem to you to be pedantic about grammar, it's only because I'm a bit of a bibliophile, which is largely the reason I love NetHack so much :-) |
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| − | == Memoirs == | + | ==Source Diving Resources== |
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| − | My NetHack experience is full of [[Yet Another Stupid Death|YASD]]s and [[lessons learned the hard way]], and I thought it would be funny to catalog some of the more memorable ones.
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| − | * 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 [[mimic]]s can turn into {{white|>}}s.
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| − | * I had an argument once with a friend over whether or not [[monk]]s can destroy [[boulder]]s 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...
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| − | * ...and yes, I have died by kicking walls searching for hidden passages...
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| − | * ...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.
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| − | * 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 <code>[[Options#showrace|showrace]]</code> turned on, I got a scroll of genocide and decided to see if a player dwarf still counted as {{white|@}}. Apparently it does.
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| − | * 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-[[Pet#New_pets|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 [[Archeologist|archaeologist]]), two identical [[cat]]s, 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 [[headstone]]s 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.
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| − | * 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 [[slime mold|fruit]]). Surely the last thing you would want to do to calm a frightened horse is feed it a hot pepper, right?
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| − | * Today (05:08, 20 October 2014 (UTC)) I was playing a [[Samurai]], one of my favorite classes in the game, and basically murdering my way through the [[Gnomish Mines]]. Suddenly I stepped on a magic trap, and was simultaneously seduced by two [[nymph]]s at the same time. One stole a third of my inventory and the other stole another third, leaving me with no armor and almost none of the two dozen items I'd been carrying. Royally cheesed off, I went on a rampage through that level of the mines looking for a wood nymph and a mountain nymph, with no ranged weapon (''of course they stole that'') and no light source. This is what I get for not buying anything from [[Izchak]], because every time one of the little fiends got within my line of sight they immediately stole something else off of me and teleported away. Eventually I managed to punch the wood nymph to death. The mountain nymph, on the other hand, still had some annoying left in her, and she kept teleporting away even after I had emptied my inventory into a box to keep from being robbed. Finally, I got sick of it and grabbed a [[wand of wishing]] (thank the [[DevTeam]] for [[explore mode]]) and genocided all nymphs. It was not a glorious victory, but it was a very satisfying one. Nothing annoys me more than enemies that steal things and then teleport away.
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| − | More to come as I think of them.
| + | * German Martin's (oh so slightly out-of-date but still useful) [http://members.shaw.ca/rob.ellwood/sources.txt Beginner's Guide to NetHack Sources] |
G Despite having played NetHack for several years, I'd still consider myself something of a newbie. I'm in love with the richness and depth of the game as well as its humor value. I'm also something of an amateur programmer, so I do occasionally like to fiddle with the source code. If on my adventures on this wiki you'd like to chat with me, feel free to check in on my talk page. - Crawldragon (talk) 08:33, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
I have an active nethack.alt.org user account: Crawldragon on NAO (stats, games, deaths, dumplogs, ttyrecs)
You may also find me in #NetHack as Crawldragon.
If I seem to you to be pedantic about grammar, it's only because I'm a bit of a bibliophile, which is largely the reason I love NetHack so much :-)
I have never ascended...
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