The Acquirement lottery

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  • Sideways
    Knight
    • Nov 2008
    • 896

    #91
    You bought a Scroll of *Acquirement* for 30000 gold.
    [...]
    You feel something roll beneath your feet.
    You have no more Scrolls of *Acquirement* (j).
    You see a Light Crossbow (x3).
    You see a Long Sword (2d5).
    You see an Iron Helm [7].
    On the ground: an Iron Helm of Regeneration [7,+3].
    You see a Long Sword (2d5).
    On the ground: the Long Sword 'Ringil' (4d5) (+22,+25) <+10, +1>.
    You see a Light Crossbow (x3).
    On the ground: the Light Crossbow 'Cubragol' (x3) (+10,+14) <+10>.

    No more speed problems ;-)
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    • Nick
      Vanilla maintainer
      • Apr 2007
      • 9634

      #92
      Originally posted by Sideways
      You see a Long Sword (2d5).
      On the ground: the Long Sword 'Ringil' (4d5) (+22,+25) <+10, +1>.
      You see a Light Crossbow (x3).
      On the ground: the Light Crossbow 'Cubragol' (x3) (+10,+14) <+10>.
      You are so dead.
      One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
      In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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      • Derakon
        Prophet
        • Dec 2009
        • 9022

        #93
        Feature request: one in every million *Acquirement* uses should spawn every single remaining artifact in the game all at once.

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        • debo
          Veteran
          • Oct 2011
          • 2402

          #94
          Originally posted by Derakon
          Feature request: one in every million *Acquirement* uses should spawn every single remaining artifact in the game all at once.
          Only if it simultaneously does the same with remaining uniques.
          Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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          • Grotug
            Veteran
            • Nov 2013
            • 1635

            #95
            As far as 1 in a million requests go, I thought this one was pretty good: http://angband.oook.cz/fun/jelly.php
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            • Derakon
              Prophet
              • Dec 2009
              • 9022

              #96
              Originally posted by debo
              Only if it simultaneously does the same with remaining uniques.
              We can do that with summoning spells instead.

              Boldor, King of the Yeeks summons reinforcements! The Tarrasque breathes fire. Azog, King of the Uruk-Hai dies. Vecna, the Emperor Lich shrugs off the attack. You have died.

              Boldor, King of the Yeeks moons you!

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              • Sky
                Veteran
                • Oct 2016
                • 2321

                #97
                ^dude, you got some messed-up sense of humor.












                this run i've been stashing my scrolls. looks like the DL at which you read the scroll influences the result, same way that chests work. i thought of doing this with chests as well, and tried, but due to the massive weight of chests i found it practically impossible to do.
                "i can take this dracolich"

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                • Derakon
                  Prophet
                  • Dec 2009
                  • 9022

                  #98
                  Originally posted by Sky
                  this run i've been stashing my scrolls. looks like the DL at which you read the scroll influences the result, same way that chests work. i thought of doing this with chests as well, and tried, but due to the massive weight of chests i found it practically impossible to do.
                  You're not the only one that does this, and I'm not gonna say you're wrong, but you'll much more likely to get a useful item the earlier you read them. Reason being, all Acquirement does is guarantee an ego-item or better at the depth you read it at. In the late game you're swimming in ego-items. Early on you don't have as many. Given that the game difficulty curve roughly matches the player power curve from 2000' onwards (varying depending on class and dive speed of course), you're statistically more likely to get something that helps at all if you read them early.

                  Odds are you'll just get junk in any case.

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                  • Sky
                    Veteran
                    • Oct 2016
                    • 2321

                    #99
                    well, with Aqu i managed to get zero drops (whatever it was, it was squelched). With *Aqu* i managed to get twice a ring of power, and an interesting stack of artefacts. However, most of the time it's junk, and i guess i dont read the scrolls when i find them because i dont want to get junk.
                    In this last game, a Aqu was gave me a dungeon feeling 9 around DL30. i figured, if i read it now, i'll get a shield of elvenkind and a spear of slay evil, so i stashed until DL70. But i get what you are saying.
                    "i can take this dracolich"

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                    • Werbaer
                      Adept
                      • Aug 2014
                      • 182

                      Originally posted by Derakon
                      Boldor, King of the Yeeks summons reinforcements! The Tarrasque breathes fire. Azog, King of the Uruk-Hai dies. Vecna, the Emperor Lich shrugs off the attack. You have died.
                      Don't worry, Azog isn't really dead. He survived that breath attack with 0 HP left.

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                      • kandrc
                        Swordsman
                        • Dec 2007
                        • 299

                        Originally posted by Sky
                        well, with Aqu i managed to get zero drops (whatever it was, it was squelched). With *Aqu* i managed to get twice a ring of power, and an interesting stack of artefacts. However, most of the time it's junk, and i guess i dont read the scrolls when i find them because i dont want to get junk.
                        In this last game, a Aqu was gave me a dungeon feeling 9 around DL30. i figured, if i read it now, i'll get a shield of elvenkind and a spear of slay evil, so i stashed until DL70. But i get what you are saying.
                        I'm usually *very* happy to have a shield of elvenkind at dl30.

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