HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kavuri@lips2.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri )
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Bug in the code results in segmentation fault
Date: 17 Aug 92 00:02:06 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


     

 When moving the cursor to identify nurses, the game has
 segmented fault and crashes.  This, of course,does not 
 happen every time, but has occurred four times to report
 this possible cause of segmentation.  


   Surya
From: dif@bhprtc.scpd.oz.au (David Faulkner)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Genocide failed?!
Date: 18 Aug 92 06:58:54 GMT
Organization: BHP Steel, Sheet & Coil, Research & Technology Centre

lcl@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Lisa C. Lewis) writes:
>
>I previously genocided c and : with blessed scrolls.  So why is there a
>cockatrice on this level?  (I'm on a unix game, hard option set.)

It is probably a chameleon. Look the other way and it won't be a 'c'
any more.

Question: Has anyone ever polymorphed into a chameleon? What happens?

  -dif-

-- 
Dave Faulkner, Research Engineer                    (dif@bhpcpd.kembla.oz.au)
BHP Coated Products Division, Research and Technology Centre
Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia.
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: Buck Godot <bgodot@halcyon.com>
Subject: Re: Genocide failed?!
Originator: bbs@halcyon.com
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:36:34 GMT

> > Now a question of my own -- do people really find cockatrices to be
> > problem? I've never found them to be worth genociding. I always carry
> > around 2 or 3 dead lizards, but I can't remember the last time I
> > actually needed to use one. But, I do play a very conservative game,
> > and by the time I'm running into cockatrices, they're usually one- or
> > two-swing kills. The main danger I find from them is if I'm blinded
> > and ungloved, and accidentally feel one.
> > 
> > As for genociding, the things I take out are generally nymphs, nurses,
> > xans, and umber hulks. And after that I go for cockatrices, but when
> > was the last time you ever found more than 4 scrolls of genocide?
> 
> None of those things are that bad! Xans are easy, just wear boots. Unber
> Hulks are harder, but carry a unicorn horn and they become no more dangerous
> than a dragon. Nymphs are easy, hit them with a wand (sleep maybe, or a
 

I, personally, like to wield c corpses, they stone most anything 
instantly (except lizards, and acid blobs), say, what happens to a stoned 
stone giant/golem???
From: christb@infmuc (Christian Barmala)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Starvation
Date: 17 Aug 92 09:09:55 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


Often when I play hack or nethack, I die from starvation. ...No I don't 
miss breakfast lunch and dinner because I'm playing so long...
I'm very often in a situation where I cant find any food rations or
monsters to kill and eat. Am I playing something wrong, or is it just
my fate, that this happens so often?

Thank you, Christian
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: m@leland.Stanford.EDU (mike horansky)
Subject: A question for you Nethack vets
Summary: SPOILER ALERT
Keywords: Yendor, holding, bag
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 12:40:49 GMT




<Warning: Spoiler content above government-allowed maximum>





















I've been trying to figure out a strategy for getting the Amulet of Yendor away
from the Wiz without having to kill him. I know one can polymorph into a 
nymph and steel it from him, but I'd prefer avoiding that. It occurred to me
that I could zap him with a teleport ray while he was sleeping on the Amulet.
He and the amulet would be separately teleported to other random parts of the
maze. I then would use an object detect potion or crystal ball to locate the
amulet. Then I teleport myself to where it is, grab it, and head for the
stairway, using paralysis potions to slow the Wiz down. then I'm out of that
level and free from the Wiz's random attacks and item-cursing. Can anyone out
there test out this strategy? Maybe someone on a mac or PC whose copying his
save files?

Some other miscellaneous questions:
What is the lowest AC a character may have before value wrap-around occurs?
 My guy is at AC -48 on NH 3.0j on a Sun machine...

Is there a maximum number of items that can be put in a bag o'holding before 
something terrible happens, esp. when using the curse/bless bug to expand its
capacity?

What items should not go in a bag o' holding?
-- 
-Mike Horansky
 m@leland.stanford.EDU

I don't want to be President, but will serve if asked to by my country.
From: wrr3118@tamsun.tamu.edu (Rick Russell)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Tourists make the world go 'round (was Re: Best classes)
Date: 19 Aug 1992 18:42:24 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station

In article <91JqPB2w164w@cellar.org> madmax@cellar.org (Alex Strumpf) writes:
>Why bother kicking the chest with a priest chr.?  just <minor spoiler 
>follows..>
...
>Just have the priest force the lock with his mace.(the A can also do this 
>with the bullwhip)  Which is why(I agree with you on this point) I don't 
>worry as much about losing hp and wounding legs with A & P as I do with W,T,
>etc. 

Sigh. Tourists have credit cards, which can be used to unlock chests
without messing around with forcing or what-have-you. Takes about 1/10
the time, and makes much less noise.

As a side note, who thinks tourists are the most fantastic characters
ever? I love tourists, because:

1) They start with lots of food, so they won't starve before reaching
the nutrient-rich lower levels of the dungeon.

2) The ever-useful credit card and infinite-charges expensive camera
are fantastic.

3) Who else starts with a nifty, impressive-looking Hawaiian shirt?
NOBODY!

4) Tourists usually have a pretty good distribution of abilities.
Constituition and Charisma are usually high; intelligence and strength
are good, dex and wisdom occasionally cause problems.

5) If they find a shop early in the game, they can instantly become kick-ass
characters, because most start with about 800 gp!

Well, I've raved enough for now.

>madmax@cellar.org
>PREFERRED mailpath: madmax%cellar@tredysvr.tredydev.unisys.com
>
>"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."
>
>Doctor Who, ROBOT

-- 
# Rick Russell    | TAMU Meteorology   | wrr3118@tamsun.tamu.edu (Internet) #
# "Snow Goons are bad news." - Calvin  |                                    #
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: weapon questions
From: chris@astro1.phya.utoledo.edu (C. Strom)
Date: 21 Aug 92 04:57:52 EST
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

akuma@netcom.com (Steven E Barnes) writes:
: 
: I am playing a Barbarian, and I've created an Excalibur.  I thought
: Excalibur was lawful.  Is it OK to use it?  Also, I now have two enchant
: scrolls, and I am wondering whether to create a chrysknife, or
: enchant Excalibur.  Is there any way to create Stormbringer?

_Anyone_ can create Excalibur via #dipping; however, only Lawful
characters may become the Hand of Elbereth.  Go ahead, knock yourself
out.  Perfectly all right to use any artifact, no matter what your
alignment (idea for the dev team, perhaps.. make penalties for using
non-aligned weapons.)
As far as the crysknife/enchanting decision, _personally_ I'd go for
enchanting Excalibur.  Artifacts are better than crysknives... well at
least Excalibur definitely is.
There are two ways to get Stormbringer that I know of... Wish for it
(natrually) and #offer sacrifices to your good old Morrigan.  There's no
telling how long or how many sacrifices it will take.  Some games, I
have sacrificed until my brain melted, and my luck soared, but no
Stormy...  Other times, I've started a game, killed a newt, dragged the
corpse over to the handy-dandy altar of <insert your favorite chaotic
god here> that just happened to be on the first level, and CLANG..
Stormbringer!
Of course.. a first level character with Stormbringer still gets munched
pretty easy...

--
      christopher strom
    department of physics and astronomy
  university of toledo
chris@astro1.phya.utoledo.edu

Dyslexic agnostics are Waiting for Gdo.
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: jwk3@po.CWRU.Edu (John W. Kale)
Subject: Re: A stupid question _after_ the castle [level teleport spoiler]
Reply-To: jwk3@po.CWRU.Edu (John W. Kale)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 04:42:45 GMT


In a previous article, lsnyder@mango.ucsb.edu (Snyder) says:

>The continuing saga of LoveChunks, the cross-dressing Valkerie:
>
>Now he is down on 29, wondering
>what that post was about intentionally level teleporting.  TP is not
>a problem, nor is TPC.  Is LC supposed to be confused or what?
>
>PS> I could not find a level teleport trap anywhere.
>

	Being confused while reading a scroll of teleportation will
work, and so will reading a cursed scroll of teleportation. As far
as I know, there is no way to level-teleport at will, by way of the ^T
command.
-- 
Looking down the barrel of a loaded gun  |       John Kale          ''''
Just to see where the bullets come from! |   jwk3@po.cwru.edu       -o-o
        -Screaming Blue Messiahs         |                   ---UUU---U--UUU--
   --->SUSPICION BREEDS CONFIDENCE - Dept. of Records' Motto, "Brazil"<---
From: heinz@rene.ma.utexas.edu (Martin Heinz)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Wasted by Wizard (SPOILERS)
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:32:27 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at Austin Mathematics

DAVIS@licra.dn.mu.oz.au writes:

>SPOILERS IN FOLLOWING QUESTION:




>I am currently playing the best game I have had to date, although 
>admittedly not without using save files!  Still, it's my conscience, and 
>that's another issue anyway.  When I finally beat this game I'll go back 
>and do it honestly.

>Anyway, I cleared out the castle and amongst other things I wished for a 
>blessed +3 gray dragon scale mail, and received a black mantelet which is +
>3 and did very good things for my AC.  I worked up from lvl 50 and found 
>the Wizard on lvl 43.  I can kill him, but he always gets me with his 
>finger of death, and even if I survive the first battle it is usually at 
>the cost of my amulet of life saving.  He then gets me next time which is 
>soon after.

>I was under the impression that +3 GDSM gave anti-magic protection.  Was I 
>wrong?  Should I have wished for a cloak of magic resistance?

>Ian Davis                             DAVIS@licr.dn.mu.oz.au



My guess is that you typed GDSM wrong when you wished for it.
A GDSM will not appear as black mantelet!!!! ( If that's what you got
in that wish.)
So in fact you DO NOT HAVE THE GDSM, I suppose.


Good luck.
-- 
Martin Heinz
University of Texas at Austin
heinz@math.utexas.edu
*****************************************************************************

                           I HATE car-alarms

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Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER)
Subject: Re: "I win! I win it *ALL*!!"
Reply-To: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:06:31 GMT

It's also nice to have a cloak of displacement and a shield of reflection.

(a bones level w/ 3 empty wands of wishing from the days when I didn't know
that you can squeeze one more out. Got me 3 scrolls of charging. Whee)
From: chris@astro1.phya.utoledo.edu (C. Strom)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: polymorph (was Re: Genocide failed?!)
Date: 21 Aug 92 10:33:37 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

annak@microsoft.com (Anna Korra'ti) writes:
: In article <1992Aug18.214808.13420@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti) writes:
: >
: >My friend & I were just thinking that it would be nice to have an
: >item that would let you control the polymorphing of other creatures.
: >That way, you could turn your pet into that <insert favorite monster>
: >that you've always wanted.  How about it, Dev Team?  A very rare
: >wand of 'polymorph with control' with only a few charges max?
: >
: 
: The spoiler swings!
: 
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: One wonders whether wearing a ring of polymorph control and zapping something
: with a wand of polymorph would not accomplish the purpose here. Somebody
: want to check on this?
 
Good thought.. Just went and checked it.
The answer?  Nosiree...
Zapping _yourself_ with a wand of polymorph while wearing a ring of
polymorph control gives you control over what form you take on; however,
zapping _creatures_ while utiziling both of these items (even if both
are blessed) gives you no more control than normal.
Looks like the dev team were on their toes on that one...

--
                                         christopher strom
I got Gray Dragon Scale Mail!               university of toledo
I got Stormbringer!                            chris@astro1.phya.utoledo.edu
I got a rock...
Newsgroups: wixer.games.nethack,rec.games.hack
From: trav@wixer.cactus.org (traveller)
Subject: weird scroll message
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 07:09:19 GMT

i read a scroll just now and got the message "you feel materially poor"
does anyone know what this was? i didn't lose any gold and didn't nitce
any possessions missing afterwards..

trav

-- 

trav@wixer.cactus.org  |   In Austin, Tx:
     The Traveller     |      The city that made being a slacker an
                       |      acceptable alternative lifestyle.
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: jwk3@po.CWRU.Edu (John W. Kale)
Subject: Re: wishing (was Re: Sacrificing)
Reply-To: jwk3@po.CWRU.Edu (John W. Kale)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 01:26:30 GMT


In a previous article, rhelbig@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Roger Helbig) says:

>In <10429@scott.ed.ac.uk> sophia@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Sophie Cormack) writes:
>
>>Try three blessed glowing potions (that works).  I don't know what the
>     ^^^^^
>
>Why do people wish for three of something when wishing for multiple
>items? (three blessed scrolls of charging, etc.)  Do the chances of
>success go down if you wish for more, in the same way that weapon
>or armor enchantments do?  I think I can remember asking once for 3 of
>something and only getting one.  Maybe someone with the source can
>enlighten us.

	Yes. Your chances of getting 4 or 5 things are low, and
you >can't< get 6 or more, just like the weapon/mail enchantments:
wish for a +3 something, and you will likely get it. Wish for a
+4 or more something, and you are pushing your luck.

-- 
Looking down the barrel of a loaded gun  |       John Kale          ''''
Just to see where the bullets come from! |   jwk3@po.cwru.edu       -o-o
        -Screaming Blue Messiahs         |                   ---UUU---U--UUU--
   --->SUSPICION BREEDS CONFIDENCE - Dept. of Records' Motto, "Brazil"<---
From: wcpl@owlnet.rice.edu (Wing Chiu Peter Leung)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Wanted...
Keywords: Getting into the castle
Date: 17 Aug 1992 03:32:53 GMT
Organization: Rice University

In article <1992Aug13.205053.20730@u.washington.edu> angus@hardy.u.washington.edu (Angus the Demonchild) writes:
You sense the presence of spoilers. -more-


>In article <5454@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> lsnyder@mango.ucsb.edu (Snyder) writes:
>>Wanted: one musical instrument. Inquire at DLvl 28, LoveChunks, the
>>cross-dressing Valkerie.
>>
>>Other alternatives are welcome.  I do not have any water walking, but
>>I do have jumping.
>
>Try a wand or spell of opening.  They tend to have the same effect.
>Also, since you have jumping, you could try using a wand of striking,
>as was mentioned earlier.  Also, who needs water walking when you
>could levitate?

	Can also try the spell of cone of cold.  Cast it to the moat.

Peter
From: lcl@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Lisa C. Lewis)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Cursed items
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:51:21 GMT
Reply-To: lcl@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Northeastern University
In-reply-to: ksmith@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu's message of 11 Aug 92 16:44:07 GMT


   In article <kj3m1yk.akuma@netcom.com> akuma@netcom.com (Steven E Barnes) writes:
   >
   >I have this problem that my items sometimes become cursed for
   >no apparent reason.  Can somebody please tell me why this is
   >happening?  And is there a good way to uncurse them (besides
   >the obvious scrolls).
   >
   >-steve

Are there some kind of malignant-aura traps?  I keep getting things cursed
- and even after I came out of hell into the below-castle maze levels.
(Not above the castle yet, though.)  I had left behind both real and fake
Amulets of Yendor, just in case that was the source of my woe.  I haven't
been quaffing anything (besides, there aren't any fountains down there!) or
praying or doing anything else besides moving around when it happens.
Liches and golden nagas are genocided, and I have been alone most of the
time when it happens.  Darned annoying - especially when my bags of holding
get cursed.  Also nearly died applying a newly-cursed unicorn horn.  (But
for an amulet of life saving, there went I.)  Thoughts?  Cures?  Does
alignment help?  I've been using a helm of opposite alignment to be chaotic
in hell, having read someone's post that being chaotic was helpful (though
I don't remember why).  Should I convert for real?  Halp!

Many thanks in advance,
 Lisa Caroline, aka LisCaL, the puzzled priestess.

--
Lisa Caroline Lewis   		    Our country, right or wrong.  
lcl@csa.bu.edu      -or-	    When right, to be kept right; 
lcl@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu     when wrong, to be put right.
                  	             - Carl Schurz, January 17, 1872
From: dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Dave Beedle)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: How to maky your pet friendly...
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:30:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: rs6000.1992Aug13.213011.14678
Organization: Illinois State University


   The hints say that you can throw food to a wild dog to make them happy.  
How?  Say my poor kitty hits the trap door.  By the time I find it again it 
doesn't like me.  Anyway to make them happy again?
-- 
  Dave Beedle                                    Office of Academic Computing
                                                    Illinois State University
  Internet:  dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu                    136A Julian Hall  
  "Relax, don't worry!  Have a homebrew!"                  Normal, IL   61761
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG)
Subject: Re: Excalibur
Keywords: Elbereth, undead turning
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 12:11:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.080321.5927@u.washington.edu> angus@hardy.u.washington.edu (Angus the Demonchild) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.173027.562@cunews.carleton.ca> 
>wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG) writes:
>>I've just played several games games with a valkrie.  For the first
>>several games, I would wait until I got to xlvl 5, and then dip my
>>longsword in a fountain to get Elbereth.  Each time, it worked on the
>>first try.  On the last game I played, however, I dipped it in
>>fountains over and over, starting at xlvl 5 until I died (approx xlvl
>>11).  I never got Elbereth.  The only thing I could think of was that
>>the longsword was blessed.  Perhaps the 'Murkey hand' didn't feel like
>>blessing it again.  Any ideas?

>                            Incidentally, receiving Excalibur should
>not be equated with being named the Hand of Elbereth.

Whoops, I was momentarily confused, and I really meant Excalibur,
not Elbereth.  At least I got the suject line correct.

Note that I'm pretty sure that my sword was blessed.

Christopher Allen
(wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca)


Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: silly@harry.ugcs.caltech.edu (Brad Threatt)
Subject: Knights
Summary: What's wrong with knights
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:28:55 GMT

Nethack has one annoying problem, which makes itself most evident in
the character of the knight.  Whether one wears nothing, or incredibly
bulky gray dragon scale mail, the ability to hit (dexterity) and 
strength of that hit (strength) are not changed.  This is unrealistic,
and, in the case of the knight, unfair.  The knight begins with a nice
array of armor, which is mostly worthless.  Presumably, a knight's stats
suck because it's wearing all that armor.  However, if a knight strips naked,
he still fights worse than a tourist.  In actuality, a knight should have 
stats more like a barbarian's than a tourist's.  If armor is 'bulky', there
should be an invisible hit modifier, not some lame character adjustment.
Adjusting a character to match the presumed armor is a lame fix for a "real-
world" consideration.

--
Brad Threatt | MISSING! Single white male Jesus look-alike in blue 
             | Members Only jacket.  Answers to the name 'Dave Gillespie'.
Safe sex is  | Last seen with roller-skating couple in Pasadena.  
for wimps.   | If found, please return to the cs10 lab immediately.
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER)
Subject: Re: Best classes (was Re: Genocide failed?!)
Reply-To: st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:28:39 GMT



about Archeologists: It's nice to be able to have a tinning kit from the 
start, since most of my deaths involve either starving to death, or being
driven to desperetly stupid actions by hunger (at least in the very begining)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: angus@hardy.u.washington.edu (Angus the Demonchild)
Subject: Re: Dragon Armour.
Keywords: Dragon Scale Mail
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:16:59 GMT

In article <714394898snx@paragon.folly.welly.gen.nz> 
parry_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>Okay.
>
>I can get myself some wicked armour (Dragon, of course! :) by doing a
>little constructive rule bending.
>
>I cannot work out how o do it legitimatley.  How?

Look out below! 

There's two ways to get a suit of dragon scale mail.  First, the easy
way: Wish for one.  Be sure to specify the color.  Gray is my personal
favorite.  Second, the hard way: Find yourself a dragon corpse.  Make
sure that nothing is on top or underneath it, then zap it with a wand
of polymorph.  You will then have an uncursed +0 suit of dragon scale
mail in whatever color the dragon was.

>BTW, anyone ever eaten a Yellow Light corpse?  Tricky, those wands of
>wishing...

Yep.  Pretty pointless, isn't it?

--
Disclaimer:  I could be wrong.  It wouldn't be the first time.

another fine product from the house of angst
From: cuffell@spot.Colorado.EDU (CUFFELL TIMOTHY MICH)
Newsgroups: wixer.games.nethack,rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: weird scroll message
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:47:37 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

In article <1992Aug13.070919.23075@wixer.cactus.org> trav@wixer.cactus.org (traveller) writes:
>i read a scroll just now and got the message "you feel materially poor"
>does anyone know what this was? i didn't lose any gold and didn't nitce
>any possessions missing afterwards..
>
>trav
>
>-- 
>
>trav@wixer.cactus.org  |   In Austin, Tx:
>     The Traveller     |      The city that made being a slacker an
>                       |      acceptable alternative lifestyle.

Spoilers, spoilers, everywhere!

you read a scroll of gold detection, but there was no gold on the level.
From: t9114145@phillip.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Genocide failed?!
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:29:25 GMT
Organization: RMIT (Bundoora Campus)

In article <1992Aug13.185908.11695@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, peg@cs.washington.edu (Peter Granger) writes:
> 
> Anyway, I've just moved to a system with 2MB RAM, so I can finally
> build 3.0, and find out about all this other neat stuff people are
> talking about.

You won't regret it, there's SO much more.

> -- 
> --------
>  Pete Granger                     "Emacs sucks. But you get used to it."
>  peg@cs.washington.edu              - anonymous
-- 

Adam Eberbach    Computer Science student, RMIT.   t9114145@phillip.edu.au
               "We don' need no stinkin' signatures!"