I like NetHack. I'm not very good at it, honestly, but I've played it a lot and generally enjoy myself ( Read more... )

Well, goddamn.

I was supposed to go visit Mel (PurpleKecleon) for two weeks, flying out Friday night and arriving Saturday morning. I managed to arbitrarily pick the date of a record-breaking snowfall in the DC area. My flight was cancelled, and I was put on a flight for this morning. Then that flight was cancelled, and now hopefully I'm flying ( Read more... )

I will let my bot tell the story.

20:25 < dywypi> Eevee just reached the Astral Plane, on turn 59477!
20:35 < dywypi> Eevee just wished for blessed partly eaten chickatrice corpse, on turn 59521.
20:47 < dywypi> Eevee just wished for blessed greased succubus figurine, on turn 59627.
20:47 < dywypi> Eevee just ascended to a higher plane of ( Read more... )

NetHack is a great game. You should play it, if you haven't. It's way cooler than this newfangled Modern Warfare 2 ( Read more... )

I forgot my only offensive spells, I lost the spellbooks, and my god is angry at me. I'm some 15 floors down and have yet to find an altar. I'm seeing cockatrices everywhere and barely holding them off with a dwindling collection of offensive wands.

Then I find a temple! But it's neutral.

Hm.

Hmmmmm.

You begin bashing monsters with your ( Read more... )