Nethack

But if you eat something that wasn't killed recently or something like a kobold or a soldier ant you'll get food poisoning and die. That's why you have to be very careful

Hey, what's that item in the center of the room?

DJMcMayhem

Thonged club

quartata

All right, take that to the altar

DJMcMayhem

wtf is an aklys?

quartata

12:41 AM

Oh wait, the aklys is the thonged club

I was confused for a second

Anyways read the scroll

DJMcMayhem

How did I get mail? What's that about?

quartata

I sent you a mail in-game. I just wanted to demonstrate it

Unfortunately the mail system is slower than I thought...

If you hit the item's letter in the inventory you can see actions

DJMcMayhem

Hm. The aklys is not glowing

quartata

That means it's uncursed.

So don't bother with it.

It doesn't do much damage but if it was blessed you might be able to sell it

DJMcMayhem

How can I find out how much damage it does?

quartata

12:44 AM

The wiki.

It does 1d6

DJMcMayhem

what does that mean?

quartata

1 to 6

xdy is x dice with y faces

By the way, do you know how to _travel?

DJMcMayhem

Oh duh, I should have known that

quartata

Hit _ and then select a tile like far look. It'll take the shortest path for you.

This is helpful since I think the only room left to check is the top left one and walking is a pain

DJMcMayhem

What happens if there is a fight between?

quartata

12:46 AM

It'll stop.

Using 50s or a similar repeat will also stop when something interesting happens

(noise, monster, etc)

By the way, . skips a turn. Helpful when you're doing stuff like pet testing

@DJMcMayhem Hit ., not return

That used to get me all the time too

DJMcMayhem

Finally.

quartata

@DJMcMayhem That's a lichen. It's harmless and good to eat

Its corpse will keep good forever but it's not too nutritious

OK, take that door and let's see

DJMcMayhem

I think I'm gonna equip the aklys

quartata

@DJMcMayhem Why? Your long sword is objectively better

1d8 against small

DJMcMayhem

Oh. OK

quartata

12:50 AM

@DJMcMayhem Ha, secret door. Kick it open.

Although it doesn't particularly matter

CTRL-D

DJMcMayhem

How/

ty

Uh...

oh shit

Huh

I didn't realize that takes health

quartata

12:52 AM

That's probably the strongest secret door I've ever seen

@DJMcMayhem Also hurts leg and abuses dexterity (iirc)

When you get kicking boots you'll be able to one-shot doors like that :P

@DJMcMayhem No problem

Don't forget to use diagonal movement

DJMcMayhem

Oh lol the cat killed it for me

Wait wat?

o_O

quartata

Oh, I forgot to tell you that :P

DJMcMayhem

Yeah, that would have been nice to know

quartata

yubn does diagonal

Also check that kobold's body. The yellow background means there are multiple items

DJMcMayhem

y up left, u up right, b down left, n down right?

quartata

12:54 AM

Don't eat his corpse it'll poison you

@DJMcMayhem yes

Ooh, 14 darts. Might as well grab those.

@DJMcMayhem Yellow r is sewer rat. Those are usually in groups so they might be annoying

@DJMcMayhem Statues are harmless

DJMcMayhem

Can I kick it down?

quartata

Although they can be stoned to flesh to be brought back to life

@DJMcMayhem Don't think so

That's the down stairs by the way.

DJMcMayhem

k

Do you think I can take on all 3?

quartata

Yeah.

Don't move into the room.

Stay in the corridor (not the doorway)

They can only come at you one at a time

DJMcMayhem

down to 4...

quartata

12:57 AM

You're good. I would stay in the back of the room (away from the doorways) and do 20. to regen a bit then head down

DJMcMayhem

Should I eat?

quartata

Yes, absolutely. When you feel hungry eat

Really bad things happen when you get too hungry

DJMcMayhem

How do I go down?

quartata

>

DJMcMayhem

Oh duh, haha

Alright, this seems like a good stopping point.

quartata

12:58 AM

Wait go back up. You forgot your kitten

DJMcMayhem

I need to eat irl

quartata

The kitten only goes with you if it's adjacent

DJMcMayhem

Where is it?

quartata

It probably wandered off. Just slowly mash . until it comes back

Kittens are annoying like that. eventually you'll get a magic whistle which can summon it

Or a leash

DJMcMayhem

Jeez, why won't it come back?

quartata

1:00 AM

Because you haven't passed the turn

DJMcMayhem

I've waited 100 turns

quartata

Remember, nethack isn't real time.

DJMcMayhem

I hit . a bunch of times

quartata

Oh, huh.

Walk around the room a bit. Sometimes they won't enter the room until they see you.

DJMcMayhem

ty

There we go

quartata

1:01 AM

Np. Pets are weird

DJMcMayhem

3 mins ago, by DJMcMayhem

I need to eat irl

quartata

Hope you enjoyed your little taste of Nethack.

DJMcMayhem

Yeah, it's awesome so far!

It's like D&D meets vim

6

quartata

It only gets better. (And worse.)

@DJMcMayhem Haha, that's a great analogy

DJMcMayhem

Haha, thank you

Destructible Watermelon

1:20 AM

hi

Sherlock9

4:46 AM

@quartata @EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Out of curiosity, when the game says Shall I pick a character's race, role, gender and alignment for you? [ynaq], what does a do?

@DestructibleWatermelon You wanna play?

Destructible Watermelon

@Sherlock9 yes please

Sherlock9

What OS do you have?

Destructible Watermelon

Mac OSX

Sherlock9

Because Linux can do ssh nethack@nethack.alt.org straight out of the gate

Destructible Watermelon

lemme see if my unix terminal likes that

Sherlock9