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So thats why my ghoul started to rot and lose health. I thought that he just needed something to eat.
Great, so thats why he died.
Mifio: Ghouls can eat rotten meat, and prefer it to non-rotten meat. The ghoul itself will start rotting if you don't eat enough, not because of eating bad meat. Also they can't become sick from eating meat that can cause sickness.
Generally speaking it's ok to eat meat that can cause sickness as you only get sick from it once in a while, I'd guess 1 in 5 or so chunks on average. This sickness goes away if you rest a bit and being sick just prevents your HP from regenerating and has a small chance of causing you to lose a couple of stat points temporarily, if any at all. Sickness causing chunks are pretty common so they'll often be your only choice other than precious non-perishable rations.
I've butchered hundreds of beasts, slain the most vile of trolls and orcs!
But I'm fucked if I try to boil an egg!
Oh, and should I not be killing every enemy I see?
I know you can mouse over them corpse, and it tells you what it does. I guess when it say "looks unplesant and can cause sickness" or whatever, then it's technically OK to eat?
Before you think I'm too cool, I was talking in Dungeon Levels.
My best Crawl was a Mountain Dwarf Paladin. He got to char lvl10 and dungeon lvl14. He was zapped by Eustachio.
He had no business being on lvl14 I believe, as I know I ran away from a scythe wielding Sigmund and probably skipped at least one other dlevel.
My most recent best was a lvl9 Mino SW on lvl9 of the dungeon.
Some times discretion is the better part of valor.
I was like HOLY CRAP!. I took down 5 orcs, including 2 priests, a bat and 2 snakes though
The guy's currently changing the original's skill/career system in GH1 to reflect that of the second, being able to assist in the evacuation of SLC at the end while everybody else's fighting that thing, is quite a change.
Anyway, he also has a job as an ASL English teacher, and I think he's been contacted to have something published, presumably the canadian conspiracy theorist one, the japanese sure love our conspiracy theories.
If you utilize game mechanics outside of the intended progession (e.g. 2 headed hydras --> 3 headed hydras --> Mature dragons), you can get a fairly high level character in under 30 minutes. Concerning items though, once I can get into Erebor, items really become a non-issue for me, especially if you can find a climbing set.
I went out with a bang, 7 killer bees, 3 orc priests and 1 orc regular. Summoned 5 demons, quaffed potions and ran for the stairs, died horribly, but got farther then ever. Found my niche
Minotar Chaos Knight with Makhleb.
Mountain Dwarf Fighter. Use axes. Worship Okawaru.
Vampire Chaos Knight, stay dry, Worship Xom.
** It's too bad everyone cries about ASCII though. I find it so charming.
I love ASCII. It must be some kind of weird connection between my brains Fun Center and Symbol Recognition Center.
Ever since I learned how to "read" ASCII games, it just clicks like no other graphics. I can tell very quickly all of the important things on a screen of most games with ASCII games, while with tiles I can sort of guesstimate.
Speaking of Gearhead, has anyone figured out how to get the 2d graphical version working?
I've tried myself, and it seems like you have to jump through hoops to get it running. The image file off their home-page doesn't come with any game executable, and I can't figure out what they want me to do.
The download I got from another site that's supposed to be complete just gives me an exception error when I try to run it. I suspect that i'm missing something crucial here.
I know roguelikes are supposed to be complicated, but I never imagined that just installing one would be this annoying.
I don't have an executable, though. There is no download for a compiled version of the game, for the graphics/SDL version. Only the ASCII version has executables as far as I can tell.
Edit: For referencing, i'm working with Gearhead 2 here, currently. I gave up on getting Gearhead 1 installed last night. Though, I still don't have an executable for that version, either.
I have learned that you can completely destroy the game if you play as a quickling thief.
bloody guy is unstoppable. Its as if everything but me is going in slow motion.
Grab the gh-1100-sdlwin off of Sourceforge at this link.
That's the version of Gearhead that supports graphics.
Now grab the GearHead1100.image.lzh at this link.
Drop the Image folder from the .image archive into the root directory for Gearhead sdlwin, and you should be good to go.
It took me a while to get it together too.
has it been getting updated?
Much obliged. It works now.
I only just got into it, so I'm not sure.
On the website looks like the latest version (1.16) was released in its final form just about a month ago
Happy to be of service.
Won't I never get health regen though?
No, but at least your sarcasm detector might start working :P
Hell. I started one anyway, first gift by Xom. Scroll of Random Uselessness...
This will end really quick with a painful death. I can tell.
I actually did, once. Sort of. It's harder than it looks, particularly if you try to do it in Flash.
I mean, dry enough to not get poisoned.
The scroll of Random Uselessness has a chance of casting Summon Butterflies, which is hella useful.
Died anyway.
How can I learn how to cast spells?
That one is pretty fun. All your/enemy limbs have their own health and stuff. Losing a limb isn't a rare occurance. Neither is picking up said limb turning it into meteroic iron and reattaching it resulting in a massive health/strenght boost to your character.
(r)ead (M)emorize.
No, I mean if I don't have the skill to memorize. I picked up a spellbook, and I can't learn them because I can't cast spells.
How can I get that skill.
"Here lies Sjorgheim. Killed by axing a hard object."
EDIT: You find it difficult to lift the Gnome Corpse. You are burdened.
The Gnome Corpse tastes terrible!
I don't know if this'll help whatever your problem may be, but here is an informative LP from somethingawful. Also, for boulders, you can squeeze through and push it back by dropping everything on you and in your inventory, going on to the space the boulder is and go through! This is useful if you can push the boulder to a intersection so from then on you could just avoid it diagonally.
Yeah, that will probably help a lot. I sort of lost interest already, though. I just can't do the whole ASCII game thing.
Just remember ASCII isn't obligatory with Nethack. I've used the standard graphical tileset for years.
In addition to undeinpirat's comment about boulders, don't forget to (s)earch. If you can't find the stairs down and there's a big gaping hole in your map then you can usually limit your search for hidden doors to the walls which border on the hole.