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  • [evilhack] Strategy and tactics WRT the quest artifact (with abused ali

    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 20 10:02:56 2023
    My Monk prepared to face Master Kaen; a blessed scroll of light,
    a blessed scroll of earth, a scroll of scare monster, a potion
    of full healing, a ring of conflict (not worn), a couple wands
    of magic missile, and some physical missile weapons. - Then it
    got strange...

    Lighting the area (okay), creating the boulder fort (okay). But
    somehow the boulder fort got "opened" and Master Kaen adjacent!
    A single hit with my Sword of Annihilation - Master Kaen dead.
    Hmm.., okay. But then a couple non-native monsters appeared; a
    mind flayer that ate my brain (free action doesn't help in this
    variant, obviously). A small dragon who came from the other
    side just stepped into the boulder fort (thereby the boulder
    disappeared). But okay. Together with my great Pegasus - BTW,
    how to keep that pet alive when veggy food is rare? - the area
    was easily and cleared quickly.

    So now I got the Bell and the Exes and returned to the portal.

    Now what shall I do with my bad abuse alignment record? - Give
    it back to the quest leader? - Take it with me to use it, and
    come back later to uncurse the Bell? Or kill the quest leader?
    Or something else? - Any opinions or experiences?

    Janis

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to G. Raznop on Wed Apr 26 11:08:34 2023
    On 20.04.2023 13:16, G. Raznop wrote:
    On Thursday, 20 April 2023 at 11:11:43 UTC+1, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    [... I want to keep my Pegasus alive, and I think I'd need
    to not delay progress and exploration by altar-camping; I have to
    find quite some amount of veggy food in the dungeons before doing
    the enduring status restoration, I think.

    Food for herbivores grows on trees ;-)

    And can be found in water. - I've very recently descended to Gollum,
    and my Pegasus flew over the sea to eat some kelp fronds. :-)

    Janis

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  • From RecRanger@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Tue May 2 23:15:13 2023
    On Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 5:08:39 AM UTC-4, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    On 20.04.2023 13:16, G. Raznop wrote:
    On Thursday, 20 April 2023 at 11:11:43 UTC+1, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    [... I want to keep my Pegasus alive, and I think I'd need
    to not delay progress and exploration by altar-camping; I have to
    find quite some amount of veggy food in the dungeons before doing
    the enduring status restoration, I think.

    Food for herbivores grows on trees ;-)
    And can be found in water. - I've very recently descended to Gollum,
    and my Pegasus flew over the sea to eat some kelp fronds. :-)

    Janis

    Medusa level often has a lot of trees. So do quest levels. First level of the monk quest has a LOT of trees. And while most Ice Queen trees are dead,
    there are several that are alive.

    They can be 'k'icked for bees and fruit one time each.

    Until you find a decent amount of food, wait until your horse becomes
    hungry. 'C'hat with them until they whinnie or are confused from hunger.
    Leave them on a level, by themselves, for about 100 turns. Return to the
    level and it will either be feral and be hostile or peaceful. Feed them food and it will restore their nutrition to full. Whereas a simple pear will only give
    a small amount of nutrition if fed as a pet. Save fruits like oranges for this purpose as they (horses) will not normally eat them as a pet, unless very hungry.

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