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  • [ndnh] Artifact glowing black when sacrificing?

    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 9 00:39:53 2023
    In my notDNethack game I came across a strange situation where I
    sacrificed on my co-aligned altar a rothe corpse and my wielded
    artifact weapon turned black, i.e. got cursed. This is especially
    strange since I was also wearing an amulet versus curses. My next
    sacrifice was again okay. - What can have happened here?

    Janis

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  • From Ron Nazarov@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Wed Oct 18 12:34:39 2023
    Janis Papanagnou <[email protected]> writes:

    In my notDNethack game I came across a strange situation where I
    sacrificed on my co-aligned altar a rothe corpse and my wielded
    artifact weapon turned black, i.e. got cursed. This is especially
    strange since I was also wearing an amulet versus curses. My next
    sacrifice was again okay. - What can have happened here?

    Are you a vampire? Vampires are holy-haters and don't like touching
    blessed items. They are also weldproof, meaning they can remove cursed
    items and are not affected by some things such as cursed projectiles
    slipping. Instead of blessing equipment, gods will curse it for
    holy-haters.

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Ron Nazarov on Wed Oct 18 13:44:32 2023
    On 18.10.2023 13:34, Ron Nazarov wrote:
    Janis Papanagnou <[email protected]> writes:

    In my notDNethack game I came across a strange situation where I
    sacrificed on my co-aligned altar a rothe corpse and my wielded
    artifact weapon turned black, i.e. got cursed. This is especially
    strange since I was also wearing an amulet versus curses. My next
    sacrifice was again okay. - What can have happened here?

    Are you a vampire? Vampires are holy-haters and don't like touching
    blessed items. They are also weldproof, meaning they can remove cursed
    items and are not affected by some things such as cursed projectiles slipping. Instead of blessing equipment, gods will curse it for
    holy-haters.


    I'm quite sure that I was not a vampire (since I immediately #quit
    games where the random choice selects such a race for me).

    Janis

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