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  • ekolis
    Knight
    • Apr 2007
    • 921

    Originally posted by MattB
    QuzzlyWuzzlyWup
    Aww, what a cute little quyl... AAARGH! MY ARM!
    You read the scroll labeled NOBIMUS UPSCOTI...
    You are surrounded by a stasis field!
    The tengu tries to teleport, but fails!

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    • scud
      Swordsman
      • Jan 2011
      • 323

      Reader, I <s>married him</s> took the stairs.



      I didn't realise such out-of-depthery was even possible outside of vaults.

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      • donalde
        Apprentice
        • Jun 2007
        • 86

        Originally posted by scud
        Reader, I <s>married him</s> took the stairs.



        I didn't realise such out-of-depthery was even possible outside of vaults.
        That could be Disguised Checkerboard, I encountered one in dlvl 28, Ungoliath came out with +20 speed and promptly breathed darkness. Timo pointed out the discuised checkerboard to me, here is his post

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        • scud
          Swordsman
          • Jan 2011
          • 323

          Originally posted by donalde
          That could be Disguised Checkerboard
          Ah, that'll be it then.

          Originally posted by Timo Pietilä
          N:31: Disguised 2x2
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          N:32: Disguised Checkerboard
          X:7:15:11:25
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          Don't think I've encountered either of those before, although I guess I might have done at a CL/DL where it didn't seem unduly nasty.

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          • Derakon
            Prophet
            • Dec 2009
            • 9022

            They're relatively new (like, in the last year or so). Someone was feeling creative.

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            • scud
              Swordsman
              • Jan 2011
              • 323

              Heh, at first 'non creative' vault I encounter I...
              a) teleport away Ar-P and a Great Crystal Drake
              b) saunter into the now apparently highly do-able vault
              c) get teleported away by something unseen to the room containing Ar-P, sustaining damage
              d) teleport myself to the room containing the GCD, sustaining damage
              e) teleport myself back to the room containing Ar-P, sustaining damage
              f) teleport myself back to the room containing the GCD, sustaining a rather nasty dose of DEATH

              Have often idly wondered, is the 'bouncing between the same points' by design?

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              • Derakon
                Prophet
                • Dec 2009
                • 9022

                See the ongoing discussion here.

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                • Timo Pietilä
                  Prophet
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 4096

                  Originally posted by scud
                  Heh, at first 'non creative' vault I encounter I...

                  c) get teleported away by something unseen
                  That's usually Nexus Q. Fast enough that you usually don't get a turn before it gets at mid-game, empty-mind so no ESP-warning and IIRC invisible so no detect monster detects it and non-evil so detect evil doesn't do that either. Reveal monsters which detects invisibles too and detection detects that.

                  I hate those buggers, especially when one of those is in a room containing something interesting. If you can't detect its exact position before LoS it can take several tries to pinpoint where it is and kill it out of its LoS.

                  [edit] typo corrected
                  Last edited by Timo Pietilä; September 28, 2013, 00:31.

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                  • Nick
                    Vanilla maintainer
                    • Apr 2007
                    • 9634

                    Originally posted by scud
                    Have often idly wondered, is the 'bouncing between the same points' by design?
                    Yeah, you can go to the other thread and read all the "rational explanations" if you want - I prefer to think it's actually emergent behaviour of the RNG. Have you ever noticed how often it happens right after finding an OOD speed ring?
                    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                    • Therem Harth
                      Knight
                      • Jan 2008
                      • 926

                      Raal's Tome of Destruction at 150 feet.

                      In Neoband, of course, with an Assassin who can't use it. But still.

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