In my XNethack game I have problems to get unholy water. Usually I use fountain dips to curse plain water, but in this game I dried out every fountain until Gehennom to no avail. So I wonder whether that featurePraying with the water placed on the wrong altar. >:-)
has been removed in that variant or whether I had just bad luck. What
other means would be feasible? Confused blessed scroll of remove curse
would be the next best option, asking spell-casters isn't advisable.
Is there any other option I forgot about?
20.08.23 14:22 — Janis Papanagnou:
[Getting unholy water]
Is there any other option I forgot about?
Praying with the water placed on the wrong altar. >:-)
I actually did this a few times (in vanilla Nethack); mostly early in
the game when unholy water wasn't available and I also had no divine protection to lose yet. Takes a bit of offering to get absolved again,
but with either the right altar available or the possibility to convert
the wrong one afterwards, it might be worth a try. It works on the
first attempt and I've had no negative experiences yet (other than
losing protection and having to sacrifice), but I might also have been
lucky here.
But: no risk, no fun… ;-)
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