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  • [ndnh] Shouldn't a killed leprechaun leave the stolen gold?

    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 8 17:12:07 2023
    In a notDNethack game (my character has a passive cold attack)...

    "You hit the leprechaun! The leprechaun hits!"
    "Your purse feels lighter. You kill it!"

    But there's neither a corpse nor my gold left.
    Shouldn't a killed leprechaun leave at least the stolen gold?

    Janis

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  • From Ron Nazarov@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Wed Oct 18 12:38:15 2023
    Janis Papanagnou <[email protected]> writes:

    In a notDNethack game (my character has a passive cold attack)...

    "You hit the leprechaun! The leprechaun hits!"
    "Your purse feels lighter. You kill it!"

    But there's neither a corpse nor my gold left.
    Shouldn't a killed leprechaun leave at least the stolen gold?

    "You kill it!" means that you killed an unseen monster and leprechauns
    teleport after their gold-stealing attack, so there are 2 possibilities:
    1. You killed the leprechaun with your passive cold attack after it
    teleported, meaning the stolen gold is somewhere on the level. This
    may be a bug (passive attacks triggering after teleportation).
    2. You didn't kill the leprechaun, you killed another unseen monster.

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Ron Nazarov on Wed Oct 18 13:52:28 2023
    On 18.10.2023 13:38, Ron Nazarov wrote:
    Janis Papanagnou <[email protected]> writes:

    In a notDNethack game (my character has a passive cold attack)...

    "You hit the leprechaun! The leprechaun hits!"
    "Your purse feels lighter. You kill it!"

    But there's neither a corpse nor my gold left.
    Shouldn't a killed leprechaun leave at least the stolen gold?

    "You kill it!" means that you killed an unseen monster and leprechauns teleport after their gold-stealing attack, so there are 2 possibilities:
    1. You killed the leprechaun with your passive cold attack after it
    teleported, meaning the stolen gold is somewhere on the level. This
    may be a bug (passive attacks triggering after teleportation).
    2. You didn't kill the leprechaun, you killed another unseen monster.


    I think case 2 may not be possible given the above quoted sequence of
    messages; it seems to have clearly happened in the monster's turn.
    So I suppose it's more like case 1. So maybe a time sequence bug, as
    you suggest. (Or there's no drop of gold in case of passive attacks?)

    Janis

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