In the Tournament, why aren't there awards for 2nd and 3rd highest
numbers of ascensions?  Or for 2nd and 3rd lowest scored ascensions, for
that matter?  Frankly, those are easily the most impressive categories,
as they're much better judges of skill than high scores, so why not ...

I've got an idea for a patch, and I just wanted to see if it's already
been done before I start mucking around in the code to implement it
myself.
A while back, my barbarian (Thvor; I'd started him before posting

Okay - this is both my first post to this group, and my first ascension.
I've been playing about 2 and a half months, and have learnt alot about
this game quickly, mostly due to the help of #nethack@OPN.  Nevertheless,
I had a comedy of errors along the way to my first ascension.

Hello Nethackers,
The character I asked about earlier finally ascended. Now I just might spend
some
time messing with Putty and that Finnish Tournament server, but I doubt I'll

At first I intended for shaitan to go extinctionist, but after a
couple of experiments killing specific creatures I decided to call it
a day, and just ascend the poor chap.
Life did not start un eventful for shaitan: I started out with =oSI

"The guard, confused, disappears."
That's a new one for me...

My first real illiterate ascension after losing illiterate and wishless
last month in a stupid Bell of Opening accident.  Lost polyitem while
IDing potions by dipping.  
The only remarkable thing about this game was the number of artifacts I

You look at an excel-sheet and think to yourself "There's a lot of food
around here". (This one occurs rather frequently to me).
Greetings,
Renata :)

Yipes - I may not have been playing Nethack for decennia, but I seem to
recall it not being a problem inserting a normal sack in a BoH...
My own server doesn't do that, nor any of my friends - and there goes my
wonderfully smooth valkyrie game... magic explosion -> #quit.

I just went through all the options offered on the current installation (3.4.2)
and activated almost all of them in the editor, so it should do pretty much
every option y'all need now.
And for the folks who've been getting errors in using it: we've got a

The firm of Pater, On, and O'Gorgon is delighted to announce
the completion of the Heck^2 project, bringing exciting
new levels to the otherwise unused labyrinthine real estate of
Gehennom. The imps have called a (foulmouthed) halt to

I've decided on this year's new Tournament feature: clans.  ;-)
Last year, a group a players decided to form what is probably the first
NetHack clan (from the Quake gamer name for player groups) and compete
in the Tournament as "Clan EIT".  They were among the first to register

Phew. Finally ascended.
I started playing about half a year ago, at first trying Knights, then from
time to time Samurais and Valkyries, with the odd Wizard inbetween. Once I
got to the plane of Air with a Valkyrie who was thoroughly underprepared.

Because Diomedes's cousin, the extinctionist wizard, was getting very
bored, a number of Diomedeses decided to do some exploring.  They had
heard the game got a little more interesting if they avoided various
things, including wishes, polymorphing, and hitting any monsters until

So normally when I play nethack over Putty, I have to run "TERM=linux
nethack", otherwise I can't get color. But this isn't available on the
tournament servers. How do you people get color? I couldn't get it to work
with Window's telnet, either. (Linux or WinXP solutions appreciated ...