It's my first game as a wizard and it's going well. I'm neutral (this
is important later). Started out with a ring of teleport control so I
was able to get out of several close scrapes easily... Found a +2
cloak of displacement from a bones pile which also greatly increased

So I stupidly trapped a monster between a boulder and a pit.
After expending my supply of daggers without killing it, I
was headed back downstairs to try to find some other way to dispatch
whatever it was.  Of course, something (I think it was a Gnome Lord)

Yeah, I know, it's a valk, I'm not bragging about ascending her.
That over with, this is the luckiest game I've had in my life. I got
Excalibur early on, and hit two bones piles soon after, both of which
had magic markers and a good assortment of scrolls, and even a cloak

This idea came to me at 3am in the morning, so forgive me if it's a
little sketchy:
The shopping cart is a tool that resembles a leash and a container
mashed together; it's a portable storage space that you can have

I was curse testing items in a shop and trying to price ID a
Cornuthaum (turns out it was), so i tried on the uncursed items and
when i went to take them off because i wasn't sure if it was worth the
gold yet:

It all started with the accidental death of a pudding farmer
(milleria) on nethack.alt.org, dungeon level 22, announced on
#nethack. Rolled a dwarven archeologist and began digging in the hope
of encountering the bones. Happened upon the first level of sokoban on

Does destroying a boulder with the pick axe worsen luck as well?

After decades of mostly wandering around and dying, I'm ready to start a
formal course of study.  So, I'm trying to locate the ttyrecs of the
legendary 23 Ascensions of Mrivan.  The last time this came up (November
2008), people seemed to be finding them at NAO in the "before the ...

I'm a level 15 Orcish Dark Knight in Sporkhack, and am pretty well
outfitted. I've got
1) A black dragon mount: Slow, even after zapped with speed monster,
but I don't have any means of levitation or water walking at the

I'm not a demigod or nothin, but I had the Bell of Opening a few times
and died at the castle twice. I experienced the Waiting for Record
error recently, and wondered what file(s) can produce the error, and
if there are any easy fixes besides reinstalling? Are there any easy

I'm still pretty new to Nethack. I started playing about 6 months ago but
stopped and have recently picked it back up again. I've noticed that I
always lose my starting pet about Dlvl 3 or 4. I'm not very good at
keeping him around. I never really rely on him to kill anything, ...

My best game so far (I'm still pretty much a Nethack newb). I got lucky
early on and quaffed from a fountain and got a wish, wished for SDSM,
converted an altar around Dlvl4 and got Magicbane. Got a number of useful
intrinsics: see invisible, invisibility (ring and ate a stalker ...

Download at here
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/_zf_xLAdp9rYUcPV7rkrZg
It is based on another tileset which is too large for me.
I scale it down, and make it look better on LCD screen.

So yeah, been working on my Knight, Quixote, and just ran into an
interesting situation that has never happened before. On my way back
up from the Mine King's level I found a magic trap. Since I had fire
resistance & a bag now, I decided to try raising my charisma by

in my current game as a priest, I managed to polymorph my two pet
soldier ants into something useful, at last, after first turning them
into such menacing beasts as a lichen, winter wolf cub, dwarf zombie
and small mimic (and losing my original cat, which turned into a