Tonight’s adventures in Nethack

[annathepiper]

One of the side effects of spazzkat playing all this Skyrim here at the Murk: I’ve totally gotten back onto a Nethack kick.

I had a great game going, and fired up the save file from yesterday’s run tonight. I was in Sokoban and died horribly, like ya do, ’cause, well, Nethack. I proceeded to have the following conversation with kisanthe:

annathepiper: I’m in the middle of Serious Nethack May Be Serious
annathepiper: Level 11 character currently in Sokoban
kisanthe: Ooh! Hope it’s the Bag of Holding Sokoban.
annathepiper: SHIT DEAD
annathepiper: Hallucinating and burdened and surrounded and then a damn incubus started taking my armor off!
annathepiper: Also, it was the amulet of reflection sokoban!
kisanthe: …okay, that’s not funny, but it is funny.
annathepiper: It was, really ;)
annathepiper: I was cheerfully sneaking through the final treasure room killing monsters one at a time and then a damn black light went off
annathepiper: And then suddenly HELLO EVERYBODY AWAKE!
kisanthe: You’d think a *black* light wouldn’t wake everybody up!
annathepiper: So I backed into a corner and started shooting everything in sight, until the incubus showed up!
kisanthe: So, assuming the black light affected the critters it woke up too… you died naked in a big murderous hallucinatory orgy?
annathepiper: Yeah pretty much XD
kisanthe: Best way to go! ;)

And now in my current game, I was hungry, so I whipped out a tin and discovered it contained pickled dwarf. There I am nomming it, and the next monster I see? A dwarf. And all I can think is AWK-WARD!

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Comments

[latheos.livejournal.com]

I was a long time rogue fan until I was introduced to Nethack (lo these several decades ago). Roguelikes are an addiction that I hope to never conquer. :)

In that vein, you ought to take a look at Dungeons of Dredmor (http://store.steampowered.com/app/98820/?snr=1_7_suggest__13) over on Steam. It's a wonderful little graphical roguelike that's been taking up my free time for the last month or so. It's terribly twisted ("You're out of mana! Drink more booze!") and the descriptions on things makes me laugh often. Plus, you don't gain gold, you gain zorkmids. Some damn smart homage-ness going on over there.

[annathepiper]

HA. I do a lot of my gameplay on my iPad these days, but I might actually have to check this out. And yay for the zorkmids reference!