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  • [ndnh] blade of mercy

    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 8 17:47:08 2023
    In a shop I found a "split-bladed short sword" (444 zks. @ Ch:18).
    In the objects.c list it's identified as a _blade of mercy_.
    In the Nethack Wiki I only found a FIQHack property names mercy:
    "Mercy: autocurses and converts damage to healing, healing the
    opponent the equal amount as it would otherwise have damaged"
    which sounds very disadvantageous.

    Can anyone shed some light on that notDNethack non-artifact sword?

    Janis

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  • From Ron Nazarov@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Wed Oct 18 12:44:57 2023
    Janis Papanagnou <[email protected]> writes:

    In a shop I found a "split-bladed short sword" (444 zks. @ Ch:18).
    In the objects.c list it's identified as a _blade of mercy_.
    In the Nethack Wiki I only found a FIQHack property names mercy:
    "Mercy: autocurses and converts damage to healing, healing the
    opponent the equal amount as it would otherwise have damaged"
    which sounds very disadvantageous.

    Can anyone shed some light on that notDNethack non-artifact sword?

    It is an insight weapon that has nothing to do with the FIQHack
    property. Its effects are described in the commit message that added
    it[1], as well as on the Insight wiki page, but the description in the
    commit message is more complete.


    [1]: https://github.com/Chris-plus-alphanumericgibberish/dNAO/commit/89477b8ab6ceb0e576a6c1997175952e91ebcb79

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