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With these _three_ abuses I got in the abuse-alignment range of 30..49, *irreversibly*. [...]
Practically that means that my Monk can now kill and eat what he likes,
it cannot really get much worse for practical purposes?
I have noticed in the source code that killing the quest leader will
have [persistent] negative effects on _luck_. Since I anyway won't
get the quest artifact with that massive "abuse record", and killing
the quest leader would have yet more irreversible disadvantages
there's no point in fighting the overly tough quest nemesis, right?
Out of interest; can Master Kaen be defeated (as in Nethack/Slashem)
using a boulder fort and missiles or is that quest made even harder
in EvilHack? (If so, what would the preferred tactics be? I suppose
Elbereth and a scroll of scare monster won't reliably work for all
the E and X that will pass a boulder fort, or is at least the scroll
a safe place? - With the E's new engulfing attack it anyway appears
to be a quite unattractive place even without Master Kaen.)
You'll need to either return the quest artifact to the quest leader
or kill the quest leader, otherwise the Bell of Opening won't work
for the invocation. I don't understand what you mean by "no point in
fighting the overly tough quest nemesis". You still need the Bell of
Opening.
[ Master Kaen ]
In Evilhack, scare tactics like the E-word or scare monster or a
tooled horn don't work on mindless monsters. I think boulder fort +
magic missile can work against Kaen, but I'm not completely sure.
Hopefully one of the monk specialists can say more. Personally I've
always waited until my AC and HP were good enough to just straight up
melee him.
Ah, right. Sorry for not having explained the background thought.
Given the experience thus far about new features of unexpected
fatal deaths I am quite sure right now already that I won't finish
that game; either by such an unexpected death event or by annoyance
that I cannot fix any effectively essential property. So I probably
just explore that game a bit more - maybe trying the Ice level -
and then quit and try out another variant.
What I now fear in this variant is that he (or some other monster)
zaps striking and opens the boulder fort that way.
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