The Hengband Screenshots Gallery: From a thrush, I learned... (spoiler!) by <namelessman@nowhere.in.jp>

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The Bloodthirster misses your Lord of Change called +27(riding). <x2>          
You open a dimensional gate. Choose a destination.                             
Select a point and press space.                                                
You enter a maze of down staircases.                                           
You activate it...                                                             
The star shines brightly...                                                    
You are surrounded by a white light.                                           
Your Lord of Change called +27(riding) concentrates on its body.               
The wall turns into mud!                                                       
You have 23 charges remaining.                                                 
Your Lord of Change called +27(riding) concentrates on its body.               
Your Lord of Change called +27(riding) misses the Giant white tick.            
Your Lord of Change called +27(riding) claws the Giant white tick.             
The Giant white tick looks confused.                                           
Your Lord of Change called +27(riding) misses the Giant white tick.            
You hit the Giant white tick.                                                  
You have slain the Giant white tick.                                           
You hear a door burst open!                                                    
You sense the presence of traps!                                               
You activate it...                                                             
Your amulet exhibits the truth...                                              
Probing...                                                                     
Smaug the Golden ... align:evil HP:2000/2000 AC:100 speed:+10 exp:xxx sleeping 
You now know more about Smaug the Goldens.                                     
your Lord of Change called +27(riding) ... align:evil HP:3500/3500 AC:150      
 speed:+37 exp:xxx                                                             
That's all.                                                                    
You have no more Black Arrows of Bard (8d4) (+30,+19) (266/266).               
The Black Arrow of Bard (8d4) (+30,+19) (266/266) hits Smaug the Golden.       
Smaug the Golden shouts, 'AAAARRRGGGHHH!!!'                                    
Smaug the Golden dies.                                                         
                                                                               
[Press 'p' for older, 'n' for newer, ..., or ESCAPE]                           
From a thrush, I learned... (spoiler!)
The hacked code on this special case! ...Okay, I agree with you that samurais and imitators can cause instakills a lot more.

Posted on 6.7.2005 19:17

Related character dump:
Lucky Simon, L50 Skeleton BeastMaster



Comments?

On 6.7.2005 20:48 Mars wrote:
How do you take a screenshot like this in Heng when the game is expecting input? The ')' key doesnt work there?

(following is mildly spoilerous)




Hey that's cool, didn't know that either. You do need all 3 things right to get that x15 (if i read source correctly ^^) multiplier tho, the bow, the arrow, *and* the monster. That can be a bit hard sometimes. And tbh, I hardly ever carry 'the' arrow around. (maybe i should :p)

I did some source diving earlier and did find out some other things, e.g. a hidden use for 'Golden Hammer' and 'Nothung'. No world shocking things but still nice little extras that make Heng Heng :).

On 6.7.2005 21:23 wrote:
If you are playing this game with the Windows binary, you can choose "O)ptions > HTML dump" from the menubar. I'm sorry I don't know about other platforms.

On 6.7.2005 21:47 wrote:
And I agree that the arrow is not that useful, but I've always wanted to do this anyway!

On 6.7.2005 21:52 ahorowitz@bellsouth.net wrote:
Okay, okay, out with it. What's the Golden Hammer and Nothung trick? :)

Neat that this will "extra" stays faithful to the Hobbit. Always thought that arrow should do something special against dragons (besides its regular multipler).

On 6.7.2005 22:50 Mars wrote:
Thanks, didn't even suspect such a feature in the menu; I only use it to open savegames! :D

As for the extra's: (spoiler again!)

Nothung is apparently the sword that Mime used to kill Fafner. It got a nice x15 multiplier against him.

The Golden Hammer, I don't know the origin but the code implies that if you attack a monster with it (and it doesn't die), you can steal items from it. So far I didn't test it, but I think this also works on uniques. So, it may be abusable: attack a unique a few times with the Hammer to get some objects, and let it live to fight another day on another dungeon level. (note that this will only work if the game doesn't remember unique monsters globally; the 'monster inventory' pointer IS updated).



Seen 1983 times.


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