Tourist/SLASH'EM

In SLASH'EM, the Tourist, abbreviated as Tou, is one of the roles from NetHack that is available to the hero.

Tourists can be humans, doppelgangers or hobbits, and always start as neutral.

Starting equipment

Each Tourist starts with the following equipment:

• 1000-1499 gold pieces
• 21-40 +2 darts (quivered)
• a +0 Hawaiian shirt
• 12-24 random comestibles
• 6 non-cursed scrolls of magic mapping
• 2 non-cursed potions of extra healing
• an uncursed expensive camera with 30-99 charges
• an uncursed credit card
• a chance of one of the following uncursed tools:
  • a ¹⁄₂₅ chance of a tin opener (4%, wielded); otherwise
  • a ¹⁄₂₅ chance of a leash (effective 3.84% chance or ²⁴⁄₆₂₅); otherwise
  • a ¹⁄₂₅ chance of a towel (effective ~3.85% chance or ⁶⁰¹⁄₁₅₆₂₅); otherwise
  • a ¹⁄₂₅ chance of a magic marker (effective ~3.85% chance or ¹⁵⁰²⁴⁄₃₉₀₆₂₅)

The Tourist's default starting pet is a little dog or kitten with equal probability.

Intrinsics

Tourists gain the following intrinsic properties upon reaching the given experience levels:

• XL 10: Searching
• XL 20: Poison resistance

Attributes

The Tourist's starting attributes are distributed as follows:

Attributes	Strength	Dexterity	Constitution	Intelligence	Wisdom	Charisma	Remaining
Minimum attributes	7	7	7	10	6	10	28
Distribution percentages	15%	15%	30%	10%	10%	20%
Mean w/ standard deviation (human)	11.60±1.99	11.31±1.94	15.28±2.10	12.89±1.65	8.89±1.66	15.29±1.86

Skills

Tourists have the following skills available to them:

Tourist skills
Max	Skills
Basic	Weapons: axe, pick-axe, broadsword, long sword, two-handed sword, mace, morning star, flail, hammer, quarterstaff, polearms, spear, trident, lance, bow, sling, crossbow, shuriken, boomerang, whip, paddle Combat: riding Spells: divination, enchantment
Skilled	Weapons: knife, scimitar, saber, unicorn horn Combat: bare hands, two weapon combat Spells: body
Expert	Weapons: dagger, short sword, dart

Tourists start with Basic skill in darts and no other weapon or spellcasting skills. They use the intelligence stat to cast spells, and their special spell is clairvoyance.

Techniques

Tourists can learn the disarm technique by reaching Skilled in any weapon, but do not gain any techniques from their role.

Special rules

Shopkeepers recognize Tourists that are below experience level 15 as suckers and charge them an extra ¹⁄₃ markup when buying, and only offer ¹⁄₃ the base price of sold items—this does not stack with the same extra markup for heroes that are wearing a visible shirt or dunce cap.

Tourists have a -1 penalty to casting emergency spells.

Rank titles

The status line displays one of the following ranks for the corresponding experience levels:

• XL 1-2: Rambler
• XL 3-5: Sightseer
• XL 6-9: Excursionist
• XL 10-13: Peregrinator/Peregrinatrix
• XL 14-17: Traveler
• XL 18-21: Journeyer
• XL 22-25: Voyager
• XL 26-29: Explorer
• XL 30: Adventurer

Gods

The Tourist pantheon is based on the pantheon of the Discworld. Their first sacrifice gift is Whisperfeet.

• Lawful: Blind Io
• Neutral: The Lady
• Chaotic: Offler

Quest

The Tourist's quest sees them fighting the Master of Thieves for The Platinum Yendorian Express Card, an artifact credit card. The Platinum Yendorian Express Card grants magic resistance, telepathy and half spell damage while carried. Invoking the Card can charge objects like a scroll of charging, with an effect partly dependent on the Card's beatitude: Tourists can invoke the blessed Platinum Yendorian Express Card to charge objects in the same way as a blessed scroll of charging, and otherwise the artifact only charges as an uncursed scroll does.

Strategy

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