The World of Layonara
The Layonara Community => Just for Fun => Topic started by: SuperMunch on November 10, 2006, 02:45:26 AM
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After 20 years, I have finally ascended in Nethack.
*sobs a little*
*shakes a fist at the DevTeam*
*pats his lucky blessed wand of polymorph on level 14 that gave him 3 wands of wishing*
Now... I'm going back to it, perhaps in another 20 years I'll ascend once again.
If you have no idea what I'm so happy about, move along, there's nothing to see here.
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well done only dabbles with it myself i prefer Angband.
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right...
*moves along*
Congrats, I think
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*claps you on the back* You're the first I've known to actually make it. I've been trying on and off for the past 8 years or so, still no luck *sighs*
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What's Nethack? Is that an old-school MUD like the one I used to play, AVATAR? I made it to Hero, my roommate Freshman year hit Lord, but we both dropped out before the re-moprh to Titan around when NWN PWs and college girls became an issue of contention. ;)
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Lonnarin, The Wiki is your friend...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nethack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nethack)
As I mentioned above, I've been playing it for the past 20 years (I played Hack until I found Nethack) and it's the only game that has replay value for me as it's fun, no matter how many times I've died (10 to 30 tries a year, you do the math) trying to ascend.
Oh, there are 3D clients that even have a soundtrack and sound effects but I prefer the standard x11 graphics.
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I've come so close, and failed twice.
Once, I made it to the astral plane with a gaggle of dragon pets, several restore mana potions, and a real effective knack for charming the various priests and acolytes to take care of the three horsemen. I saunter up to the middle altar and sacrifice the amulet... but due to a complete lack of presense of mind, I got my dieties confused and sacrificed the amulet on the wrong altar. I believe the score page gave me credit for escaping but not ascending, with the caption "escaped from the dungeon in celestial disgrace".
The other time I made it to the astral plane, I got cornered by "Famine", and was starved to death not more than 50 paces away from the altar.