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title: "My Best Nethack Game (So Far)"
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date: 2022-11-24T09:13:15-05:00
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2023-12-18 11:22:14 -08:00
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description: A summary of my best-to-date game of Nethack.
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2022-11-24 12:15:15 -05:00
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categories: ["Games"]
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tags: ["Nethack", "Roguelikes", "Video Games"]
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resources:
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- name: wishing
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src: wishing.png
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title:
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- name: oracle
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src: oracle.png
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title:
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---
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I just finished my best ever game of Nethack. I earned 31,118 points as a level
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9 Valkyrie.
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Some highlights:
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I got all the way to the bottom of the Mines, fought several vampires and
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trolls, but somehow completely missed the luckstone. I did pick up a grey stone,
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but it ended up being a touchstone.
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I got a Wand of Wishing! I was zap testing wands in Minetown and the game asked
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me for a wish! I had no idea what to wish for -- it was my first time getting a
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wish 😱 -- but I had been watching [Adeon's Nethack speedrun][adeon] at the 2017
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Roguelike Celebration and remembered him wishing for some absurdly qualified
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dragon scale mail, so I ended up with a *+2 uncursed silver dragon scale mail*
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that brought my AC down to -10. It saved my butt later on when I ran into a
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bunch of winter wolf pups because it reflected their cold beams.
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{{< figures/image name=wishing >}}
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Later on in the mines, I stepped on a polymorph trap that transformed me into an
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ice dragon. That transformation caused my dragon scale mail to fuse into my
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body. When the transformation ended, I was left with simple dragon scales,
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which were still silver, but no longer had the big defense bonus. Boo. :( I did
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get to lay two eggs that hatched into baby ice dragons. Baby dragons are
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ravenous and indiscrimate.
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The baby dragons killed the Oracle. Whoops.
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{{< figures/image name=oracle >}}
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In the oracle level, I tried to dip my long sword into the fountains around the
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Oracle, hoping to find Excalibur. Just a few turns before, I'd fought a
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gelatinous cube that corroded my sword. I didn't notice at the time though, so
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dipping went horribly wrong... Not only did my corroded long sword become
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*thoroughly rusted*, it also eventually became cursed. Oddly enough, that sword
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was still the best weapon I had, and I used it to the very end. I need to figure
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out how to replace weapons that get degraded like that.
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I solved Sokoban with some help from the Nethack wiki for the first time. The
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puzzles are hard but I enjoyed thinking through them. The monsters in there,
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especially in the upper levels are *hard*: multiple elementals, several packs of
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winter wolf pups, yetis, apes, and a zruty. I got through the last level and
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discovered a mimic blocking the hallway to the zoo. It killed me.
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Near the end, I was testing amulets and put on an Amulet of Changing that caused
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me to switch genders. Boo.
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It's in my [logfile][logfile] now too.
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[adeon]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIB0y_kwFuY
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[logfile]: {{< ref "nethack" >}}
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