User talk:NeonKow

Welcome! Here, I keep track of what I've played and where I've lost characters.

What I Play

Nethack 3.4

I got started on my linux box, not really knowing what I was doing. The first game I played, I didn't know what searching was, so after my Female Elven Ranger wandered around a single room with no visible doors, I went up the up stairs and remained very confused.

Eventually, after eating many bees and killing many rangers, I found the wiki and learned about E, but never really got past Mine Town.

NAO

While on the West Coast, I played a lot of NAO. Now on the East Coast, it's a bit laggy for me. Other than my config files, there's not much here.

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

Android Ports

[1] and UnNethack on my phone is pretty neat. I wish it were linked up to servers so I could get other people's bones and see scores, and sometimes get help, but they're both pretty amazing.

YASD

Stupid deaths

UnNethack

lvl8 Fem Elven Ranger named N'ara

N'ara loses her pet dog to rothes while decending the dungeons of doom. She then decides to put on a large shield without curse-testing it first and winds up with a -4 cursed shield of unhelpfulness, and being forced to drop a lot of extra projectiles to avoid being burdened. After being attacked down to 6 HP and successfully praying to escape death on dlvl6, she goes back up the levels to find that the itchy shield also prevents healing, which is why her god didn't restore her HP. Fortunately, she finds an armor shop, where she purchases leather gloves, and a pair of -1 cursed boots.

She heads down toward Minetown, slaughtering the gnome population as she goes, in hopes of creating holy water to remove the shield and cursed boots she is also wearing (AC 3 though). She gets there but a gnome decides to read an unfamiliar scroll that surrounds the both of them with about 6 other monsters, and she spends a good amount of time turning the resulting hostiles into hedgehogs of +2 elven arrows, even recruiting a large cat (which dies) and a pony (that she accidentally kills). Eventually, with her back against the wall in a room with one exit, N'ara faces off a naga. She brandishes her wand of striking and hits! only to also strike a Watchman in the background. Injured and unable to escape the angry man, and hoping to avoid murdering a peaceful, she zaps her wand of digging downward...

...where she attracts the attention of a number of dwarves and gnomes. She runs into a corner where she can only be attacked at range from two angles and write E in the dust a few times, preparing herself for another long fight. At which point she encounters an out-of-depth [archlich]! Fortunately, everyone respects the E-word. Unfortunately, the summoned [Captain] does not. After unsuccessfully trying to kill the @, she is decides to flee via wand of teleportation. She lands safely away from the crowd and immediately takes a step toward the up-stairs, whereupon the arch-lich teleports to her and kills her.

Lessons learned:

• When playing on a phone, zoom out far enough to see what else you will hit with your wands.
• Zap teleport at the captain if everyone else respects E. You're safe where you're at. Also, try emptying your wands of striking before using an escape item as random as teleport.
• Keep your pets alive
• BUC-test iron items as an elf. Or don't put them on at all.
• Why do Gnomes, Dwarves, and Hobbits hate elves?

Nethack 3.4

Numerous Dwarven Valks

Die to angering shopkeeper, or not paying attention to hit points. If she makes it past the early game, she will cut through everything like butter, until my poor valkyrie invariably dies to mind-flayer.

Numerous Elven Rangers

Yes, I know other rangers may be stronger, but I play this for flavor, and I like it! Usually my ranger die to my not knowing how to steer them well to deal with melee hostiles.