marcmagus | /dev/null/nethack 2008 wrapup (Reply)

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1hand - 3 uses
allergies - 4 uses
cabinet - 7 uses
calendar - 3 uses
chromium - 4 uses
computer - 3 uses
convention - 8 uses
cvd - 6 uses
dance - 24 uses
design - 2 uses
devnull - 3 uses
drugs - 3 uses
dw - 24 uses
encoding - 8 uses
food - 9 uses
games - 5 uses
gentoo - 3 uses
hair - 12 uses
hands - 10 uses
health - 4 uses
house - 3 uses
humor - 4 uses
internet - 3 uses
jlj - 4 uses
lenses - 3 uses
linux - 8 uses
lj - 12 uses
meme - 4 uses
music - 3 uses
navel-gazing - 6 uses
nethack - 4 uses
newport - 4 uses
noncon - 8 uses
pain - 3 uses
pinewoods - 2 uses
politics - 6 uses
polyphasic sleep - 8 uses
programming - 3 uses
quest prizes - 4 uses
rant - 8 uses
regency - 8 uses
science! - 6 uses
test - 9 uses
tools - 36 uses
tv - 4 uses
twitter - 3 uses
ui - 5 uses
vim - 5 uses
wtf - 3 uses
zelda - 7 uses

The /dev/null/nethack tournament will be ending in 10 minutes as I start writing this (it will probably be over by the time I'm done. Despite having to take a lot of time off to rest my hands, deal with life stuff, and for other reasons, I managed to meet my goals for the tournament!

I ascended three games. The first two (a knight and a valkyrie) were a streak (making a three-game streak, as my prior game over on NAO was also a win), then I had three wizards die and almost gave up due to time getting tight with only a couple of days left in the tournament before I got a solid game and started pushing myself to make enough time to finish it.

I was reminded today exactly how very good wizards are, and just how much use they can make of all sorts of spells, particularly post-Quest. Being able to casually cast finger of death whenever you don't feel like fighting something is quite a nice feeling, as is being able to use magic mapping on every level.

Results:

(Ascending at least one game from each gender and each alignment)
(Ascending at least one game from each gender; in consecutive games)
(Winning at least one game of ZAPM
(Defeating the necromancers Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde in the Challenge level)

It looks like I placed 3rd in the ZAPM Most Unique Deaths, a major trophy I was considering going for for a while, but ended up unwilling to put enough time into. I was the leader for a little while back in the first half of the month, but then I slacked off.

Overall, I had a great time playing in the tournament, both NetHack and ZAPM. Now it's time to return to trying to ascend all 13 roles over on NAO.