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  • Pet picking up and putting on cursed armor?

    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 15 10:55:09 2021
    This is an observation in Slashem, but maybe it's valid for NH-343 (and
    maybe also NH-36x)...?

    I lured a pet cat/dog onto a polytrap and it turned to a master lich.
    I saw it taking a pair of uncursed boots from a heap and putting it on,
    so I took a cursed mummy wrapping from that heap an dropped it on top.

    The master lich picks up a cursed mummy wrapping {3}.
    The master lich puts on a cursed mummy wrapping {3}.

    Is that a special case here? - Normally pets should not pick up cursed
    items (or step on them without reluctance).

    Janis

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  • From Pat Rankin@21:1/5 to Janis on Mon Feb 15 15:23:23 2021
    On Monday, February 15, 2021 at 1:55:12 AM UTC-8, Janis wrote:
    [...]
    Is that a special case here? - Normally pets should not pick up cursed
    items (or step on them without reluctance).

    This was discussed here last September in a thread initiated by
    you. In slash'em, tame undead and demons avoid blessed items
    and treat cursed ones as ordinary.

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Pat Rankin on Tue Feb 16 01:22:00 2021
    On 16.02.2021 00:23, Pat Rankin wrote:

    This was discussed here last September in a thread initiated by
    you.

    Argh, I see. Sorry for having picked up that same theme again. (You
    obviously have a much better memory that I have.) I had just in mind
    someone who was asking recently (in January) in a post about picking
    up cursed things, and I feared that I could have posted wrong details
    in January.

    Janis

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