My Tourist explored the whole dungeon and just prepared to get
the Book, fetch the Amulet, and do the home run. And I noticed
that up to now I have gone wishless. Something quite uncommon
in my Slashem games at that stage; usually I at least talk to
Gypsies to obtain a wish, or go for a fountain or throne wish
to obtain something crucial that I am missing. My "problem" is
that I am Neutral and I often have swarming incidents by Angels
of all ranks at the Plane of Air, and these are usually deadly.
One preparation for that is a wish for a c'trice corpse as soon
as I am at the portal to Air. Entering the Plane and making the
decision for a wish then means to lose two or three turns which
may already be fatal in these experienced summonings cases. But
having a wishless Slashem game in my ascension list is tempting.
Hmm... - Any other [wishless] options to mitigate the risk?
Janis
On Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 10:06:19 AM UTC-5, Janis wrote:
My Tourist explored the whole dungeon and just prepared to get
the Book, fetch the Amulet, and do the home run. And I noticed
that up to now I have gone wishless. Something quite uncommon
in my Slashem games at that stage; usually I at least talk to
Gypsies to obtain a wish, or go for a fountain or throne wish
to obtain something crucial that I am missing. My "problem" is
that I am Neutral and I often have swarming incidents by Angels
of all ranks at the Plane of Air, and these are usually deadly.
One preparation for that is a wish for a c'trice corpse as soon
as I am at the portal to Air. Entering the Plane and making the
decision for a wish then means to lose two or three turns which
may already be fatal in these experienced summonings cases. But
having a wishless Slashem game in my ascension list is tempting.
Hmm... - Any other [wishless] options to mitigate the risk?
Janis
I use wand of teleport, even on plane of air in vanilla nethack. It
saves turns gets things away and makes a path. [...]
I would suggest you do some experimentation on the plane of air in
explore mode. And with angels in explore mode. Find our what makes
them tick before you try to go wishless.
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