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  • [evilhack] No artifact on crowning an Archeologist?

    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 23 17:37:47 2024
    My Archeologist prayed, got crowned the Hand of Elbereth, and got
    nothing. The discoveries list shows not a single artifact listed.
    And the #conduct says: "You have never touched an artifact." and
    "You have used no wishes.". Before the crowning all altar #offers
    provided only mundane gear. Is it normal to not get any artifact?

    Janis

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  • From Ron Nazarov@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Wed Apr 3 21:41:50 2024
    Janis Papanagnou <[email protected]> writes:

    My Archeologist prayed, got crowned the Hand of Elbereth, and got
    nothing. The discoveries list shows not a single artifact listed.
    And the #conduct says: "You have never touched an artifact." and
    "You have used no wishes.". Before the crowning all altar #offers
    provided only mundane gear. Is it normal to not get any artifact?

    Were you wielding a long sword when you were crowned? Lawfuls get their
    long sword converted to Excalibur if wielding it while crowning,
    otherwise they get no gift. This is vanilla behaviour.

    Since Excalibur is only obtainable by fountain dipping for knights in
    EvilHack, you now have no way of getting Excalibur except bones and
    wishing. I think that lawful crowning should unlock Excalibur dipping
    but that has not been implemented (yet).

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Ron Nazarov on Thu Apr 4 05:49:21 2024
    On 03.04.2024 22:41, Ron Nazarov wrote:
    Janis Papanagnou <[email protected]> writes:

    My Archeologist prayed, got crowned the Hand of Elbereth, and got
    nothing. The discoveries list shows not a single artifact listed.
    And the #conduct says: "You have never touched an artifact." and
    "You have used no wishes.". Before the crowning all altar #offers
    provided only mundane gear. Is it normal to not get any artifact?

    Were you wielding a long sword when you were crowned?

    I don't recall the specific situation in that game any more, so I
    cannot tell.

    Later I got artifacts, though; probably from many more sacrifices.
    At least I know that I died with the blessed +6 Grayswandir in my
    hand.

    Lawfuls get their
    long sword converted to Excalibur if wielding it while crowning,
    otherwise they get no gift. This is vanilla behaviour.

    Don't recall Vanilla; I've not played it for years. And all these
    variants I meanwhile played had so many differences that I cannot
    tell them apart with all their subtle or also grave differences.

    Thanks.

    Janis

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