Barbarian game, Dlvl 11 and not a single altar, not a single general
store... :-( I'd like to bless my 2 scrolls of ID, but no holy water;
The mines altar is not coaligned :-( *sigh*
Yes, I'm far too newbie for anything else than vanilla NH :-)
I've polymorphed once my pet, just to try it, but I don't see how
it's related to converting an altar ?? Or may be you mean getting a
strong enough pet to kill the priest.
Actually, I could also go there
with a cockatrice corpse (for the priest) and levelport may be...
Got to think about it.
On 11.02.2022 17:49, Isidore Ducasse wrote:
Barbarian game, Dlvl 11 and not a single altar, not a single general
store... :-( I'd like to bless my 2 scrolls of ID, but no holy water;
The mines altar is not coaligned :-( *sigh*
That happens. If there's no altar until the Castle your one choice is
to convert the mis-aligned mine-town altar using one of the standard
methods. My personal favorite method, while simple from the setup and
quite effective, is the polymorphed pet; you need a magic whistle (or
magic resistance) and a polytrap.
If, OTOH, you feel ready to do the quest, there's also an altar at the
bottom of your Barbarian's quest level.
(In Slashem there's a guaranteed co-aligned altar around level 15-19,
but surviving until then isn't a given. But I suppose you're anyway
playing Vanilla Nethack?)
Janis
On 11.02.2022 20:19, Isidore Ducasse wrote:
Actually, I could also go there
with a cockatrice corpse (for the priest) and levelport may be...
Got to think about it.
Your Barbarian doesn't want to kill a peaceful creature unnecessarily
to not get penalized. But you're not liable for what your pet does.
Janis
On 11.02.2022 20:19, Isidore Ducasse wrote:
Actually, I could also go there
with a cockatrice corpse (for the priest) and levelport may be...
Got to think about it.
Your Barbarian doesn't want to kill a peaceful creature unnecessarily
to not get penalized. But you're not liable for what your pet does.
With the right ring, a cockatrice is a working approach, though. With the
right wand, even a corpse will do as starting point. One doesn't usually
want a (strong enough with stoning-protected hands, possibly hostile)
monster picking up and wielding such a corpse, of course... ;-)
Interesting, my Barbarian is chaotic, so I can kill the priest without penalty ?
And I've got a teleport control ring, and there's a levelport
trap (no polymorph trap), so... :-)
Which wand are you suggesting ? undead turning to resurrect the
cockatrice ? Never used such wands so far...
With the right ring, a cockatrice is a working approach, though. With the right wand, even a corpse will do as starting point. One doesn't usually
want a (strong enough with stoning-protected hands, possibly hostile)
monster picking up and wielding such a corpse, of course... ;-)
With the right ring, a cockatrice is a working approach, though. With the
right wand, even a corpse will do as starting point. One doesn't usually
want a (strong enough with stoning-protected hands, possibly hostile)
monster picking up and wielding such a corpse, of course... ;-)
Interesting, my Barbarian is chaotic, so I can kill the priest without penalty ?
And I've got a teleport control ring, and there's a levelport
trap (no polymorph trap), so... :-)
Interesting, my Barbarian is chaotic, so I can kill the priest without
penalty ?
It's been a long time now that I've (unnecessarily) done that.
While luck penalty is not an issue for chaotics you get a huge
alignment penalty which may or may not be an issue depending on
your game; usually it is, especially early game. The altar's god
will also strike you with lightning if you attack the priest,
possibly destroying rings and wands. (I'm not sure at the moment
whether reflection or shock resistance helps here.) After years
of playing and because of all that bad experiences, I resorted
to the simpler pet-based methods that impose no risk, penalties,
or bad side effects in the first place.
And I've got a teleport control ring, and there's a levelport
trap (no polymorph trap), so... :-)
I'm not sure what you are thinking here how that would help.
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