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Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Started conversation Nov 10, 2003
pwb-Val-Dwa-Fem-Law died in the Dungeons of Doom on level 6 [max 7]. Killed by a touch of death.
How often do you meet an arch-lich on dungeon level 6, eh? 
(by the way, it's pwb rather than Angril 'cause I'm playing it on the computer society server)
YAAD
Orcus Posted Nov 10, 2003
Ahhh, that'll be another creature possessing a randomly generated wand of polymorph then 
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Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Posted Nov 15, 2003
And yesterday I bumped into an ogre with a wand of death on level 13... 
The annoying thing is, I could have wished for a grey dragon scale mail since I had a magic lamp, a couple of potions of water and a coaligned altar. 
YAAD
Orcus Posted Nov 17, 2003
Oops, yes some form of magic protection is *very* high on my priority list at the outset of a Nethack game.
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Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Posted Dec 19, 2004
Another wand of death 
and again I could have got GDSM.
1 240321 pwb-Val-Dwa-Fem-Law died in The Quest on level 13
[max 24]. Killed by a death ray. 173 [173]
Well, I had an uncursed magic lamp and a potion of holy water, but I decided to bless some scrolls of identify instead. Which paid off, as one of them identified pretty much everything I had, short of the gems 
Probably my highest score so far. Got down to Medusa, but decided to do the Quest first. I wonder if I'll ever get past her 
Oh, and hello again, this is my first post in over a year I think 
YAAD
Orcus Posted Dec 20, 2004
Hello again
You seem to be going through the same learning curve I went through. I've ascended twice at Nethack and one thing I've learnt is that eventually you will be able to identify everything if you stay alive for long enough. Hence staying alive is always the prime consideration. If you have the chance, get GDSM, it's possibly the most useful item in the game. Must say though that if I get the chance I prefer a cloak of magic protection with Silver dragon scale mail Magic protection + reflection, very handy for surviing both death and desintegration rays 
You'll get past Medusa - and then the game *really* begins
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- 1: Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat (Nov 10, 2003)
- 2: Orcus (Nov 10, 2003)
- 3: Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat (Nov 15, 2003)
- 4: Orcus (Nov 17, 2003)
- 5: Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat (Dec 19, 2004)
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