9/28/07
Spivak explored Minetown, slew some gnomes, zapped a dwarf to become invisible which always pisses off peacefuls, killed and ate the dwarf and brought Spot down to Minetown.

Upon completing their descent there was another large cat entering the room which Spivak quickly tamed with a fortune cookie, of all things, and named Trinity. Her namesake being from a recent dream. G'wan and read I'll wait.

So Spivak bought out the little delicatessen across the way from the temple, threw a tripe ration at Trinity to increase her tameness and decided to check out the general store and sell off some stuff. Oh yeah, Spivak bought two spellbooks to add more magic to her repertoire.

Suddenly a brown apelike thing appears.

It's an owlbear. No worries, Spivak's accompanied by two large cats with vicious dispositions.

Spivak was crushed to death in Minetown. As you can see the cats were cats and did not come to Spivak's rescue. Of course Spivak didn't think of praying while in the clutches of this nefarious aberration.

Turns out that Spivak had a ring of slow digestion, the two spellbooks were for casting "light" and "jumping". The latter is like a minor teleportation spell.

Final Attributes:

• You were piously aligned.
• You were visible.
  • thanks to the mummy wrapping)
• You were held by an owlbear.
• You were lucky.
• You are dead.

Spivak wasn't a peaceful sort and the following beasts fell to her beatings.

2 small mimics
a leprechaun
a housecat
a gnome mummy
an orc shaman
a rock mole
a yellow light
a shrieker
3 gnome lords
2 gnomish wizards
3 kobold mummies
a guardian naga hatchling
a gray ooze
an elf zombie
a straw golem
2 little dogs
4 dwarves
a homunculus
a kobold lord
a rabid rat
a centipede
2 giant bats
4 werejackals
3 iguanas
2 acid blobs
a coyote
3 hobbits
15 manes
2 giant rats
5 cave spiders
a brown mold
2 yellow molds
a green mold
24 gnomes
2 garter snakes
a gecko
23 jackals
a fox
a kobold
8 goblins
a sewer rat
9 grid bugs
3 lichens
a kobold zombie
7 newts

153 creatures vanquished.

Spivak never genocided any monsters, never polymorphed an object, never changed form and used no wishes.

For some reason, Spivak ended up #14 in the top ten list. What the fuck?

#10 on the topten list is an incarnation of Kuresu who died in the Gnomish Mines from a boiling potion. Final score 36528.

The editor in chief celebrated heptapod.org's birthday by going out to dinner at the Asian Empire Buffet.

I was thinking of doing a level of experience a day in NetHack. Unfortunately once a character reaches level twelve, the character's advancement progresses slowly barring the consumption of wraith corpses or quaffing potions of gain level.

Reckon in October I'll start a dungeon level a day again. Probably with a combat-oriented character class like caveman (exempt from penalties from cannibalism and eating dogs/cats [I still think that the samurai class should not be penalized for eating dogs and cats, was re: racist stereotype]) or barbarian.

Knight is too fucking goody-goody, all the monsters have to be awake when attacking and attacking a fleeing monster is a Bad Thing^tm.

I'm already fixated on ascending a chaotic tranny dwarf valkyrie so I'll avoid that nonsense. My conduct monk is not an option and I've already ascended Kuresu the Samurai in 2005. Archaeologists, healers, clergy, rogues, tourists and wizards are too fragile for my tastes. Never had a desire to play a ranger in NetHack nor in regular Dungeons & Dragons.

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