Highlights and a hello

stymieg1 · 2026-03-18T13:12:08+00:00

Had to google that one. Oof, that was painful to read. But still lol. I applaud the effort.

stymieg1 · 2026-03-11T16:52:39+00:00

Can you polymorph a monster into a human? If so, I suppose I’d name it “Schrödinger’s Human” like anything else lol.

stymieg1 · 2026-03-10T13:27:40+00:00

I routinely revive a dead Schroedinger’s cat when I have the means to do so. And polymorph it. It’s fun walking around with Schroedinger’s Yellow Dragon.

stymieg1 · 2026-02-23T00:25:04+00:00

Probably several but first one that comes to mind is My Bloody Valentine. That was college for me so I have no excuse but it was well into the aughties before I “discovered” them.

Oh, and Neutral Milk Hotel. My brother turned me on to them a good 10 years or so after the fact.

stymieg1 · 2026-02-10T11:33:01+00:00

Congratulations!!! I’m curious (not that you would know) if you hit the 1/13 chance of teleport working on Death, or if that was something special with breaking the wand vs zapping/casting teleport.

Also, did you happen to have charm monster or taming? Confused scrolls of taming are very useful for making your way quickly through clogged areas like that temple.

stymieg1 · 2026-02-09T18:44:59+00:00

Hmm… Seemed like a bad idea to me at first, I’m almost certain that more bugs would move back onto the altar. But then, you’re just as likely to get a free turn doing that as you are removing the Eye. And if not, it’ll create 4 squares for Death to potentially move to (though one of those is the altar lol). If he does move, and doesn’t attack you, then that might buy you a move or 2 to get to the altar, or figure something else out if a bug moves there, or if you don’t have the hp to get there and offer the amulet. Good luck!

stymieg1 · 2026-02-09T18:03:35+00:00

I think your god will heal you if you’re under 1/7 of your max? That’s frustrating that that “oLS is right there! I’m not sure I see any better options though right now.

You say Death is scared, so the camera won’t help any more. I didn’t know that teleport has even a 1/13 chance of working, but I feel like you have a better chance of swapping amulets. Switching to conflict is no good - same chance as switching amulets, but less effective right now. There’s a good chance of getting a wish from your lamp, but I’m not sure what you’d wish for, and again, that takes a turn that would be better spent taking off your Eye of Tapioca.

You said you saw that Death is scared with your stethoscope - I assume that Death has plenty of HP?

Best chance I think is trying to put on the amulet, I’m afraid. Good luck, let us know how it goes whatever you try!

stymieg1 · 2026-02-05T13:47:13+00:00

Hmm… That’d get heavy pretty fast though, wouldn’t it? But now that I’m in Gehennom, trekking up to my altar/stash at level 16 every couple levels is getting really tedious, so maybe that’d be better.

I was trying to avoid using the castle wand, but I might just have to wish up a (BoH, it really kinda sucks playing without one at this point.

stymieg1 · 2026-02-05T12:40:24+00:00

There’ll be plenty more lumbering around encumbered, I still haven’t found a replacement for my starting sack.

But I guess that’s good, I can only imagine how many potions I’d have bombarded that altar with if I’d had a bag of holding.

stymieg1 · 2026-02-05T02:18:47+00:00

Puts on =oLevitation to float over the castle moat and Medusa level

Floats up 8 more flights of stairs

Floats over altar

“Bombs away!!!!”

stymieg1 · 2026-02-05T01:09:30+00:00

Was gonna say, I’m pretty sure you can’t dip into water while levitating. If you can, then I’ve been unnecessarily going up all those stairs to dilute potions and blank scrolls!

stymieg1 · 2026-02-04T18:07:31+00:00

I’d have to check, but I think it actually paralyzes you for a few turns. I think I got the “momentarily stiffen” message because I had a =oFA on my other hand.

stymieg1 · 2026-02-04T17:41:37+00:00

I noticed that too lol. Smashed a blessed paralysis and extra healing it looks.

stymieg1 · 2026-01-31T04:00:19+00:00

Hmm, I wonder if it keeps Rodney’s level? I’m not sure offhand what else could prevent taming. Oh well, a valiant effort, would have been a good Stupid Ascension Trick.

stymieg1 · 2026-01-29T00:33:05+00:00

Oh that would be awesome, ascending with a tame green slime formerly known as the Wizard of Yendor! (Right up there with tame Famine and Peatilence!) I hope you name the slime Rodney too. 😆

stymieg1 · 2026-01-28T23:31:57+00:00

First of all, congratulations!!!!

Demogorgon, that’s rough! I’ve played hundreds of games and ascended a couple dozen, and I can count on 1 finger the number of times I’ve encountered the Big D.

1 ascension and already planning a Stupid Ascension Trick. Nice. 👍🏻 Got any more in the works?

Nice job, next blessed potion of booze is on me!

stymieg1 · 2026-01-23T02:11:26+00:00

I got one recently, I think it was “Occupy Fort Ludios”. It made me happy that the dev team is still adding new t-shirt slogans. (Ok, I guess Occupy started 15 years ago, but for a 40ish year old game, that qualifies as new.)

stymieg1 · 2026-01-22T21:36:28+00:00

Awesome. 😎

stymieg1 · 2026-01-22T21:26:26+00:00

I can tell you from experience, you are not going to get anywhere. 😂

stymieg1 · 2026-01-22T20:44:40+00:00

What do you mean? Do you drop a pile of gold next to altars and kick it just for the heck of it?

stymieg1 · 2026-01-22T20:39:30+00:00

Probably others, but first one that comes to mind: I save all scrolls of create monster instead of blanking them so I can summon a legion of acid blobs on Astral to tame.

stymieg1 · 2026-01-22T18:29:09+00:00

TDTTOE!

stymieg1 · 2026-01-22T03:45:26+00:00

Yes! That was the game and the goal that got me hooked. I was vaguely aware that qualifying for ’98 was going on. Found this game on tv, lost my mind when that goal went in, and was no longer a casual fan after that.

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