Title: The Nethack story of Sery the tourist | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 15 November 2020 | |
Tags: nethack gaming | |
Description: | |
First episode of maybe a serie! | |
Let's play NetHack and write a story along the way. I find nethack to | |
be a wonderful game despite its quite simple graphics. In this game, | |
you can do more actions than in any modern games. I can dip a towel in | |
a fountain to make it wet, and wear it on my head. Maybe it would | |
protect me from heat? Who knows. | |
As this leaves a lot of place for the imagination, every serious | |
nethack game I play, I create a story in my head and try to imagine the | |
various situations, so maybe I could write them down? | |
**Welcome to the underworld Gehennom, you will read the story of Sery | |
the human female neutral tourist and her dog. She has to find the | |
Amulet of Yendor and come back to the surface, for some reasons.** | |
`@` is Sery and `d` is her dog. | |
## Arrival - first floor | |
`{` is a fountain, `#` a sink, `-` an open door and `+` a closed door. | |
In her inventory, she has 875 gold, tourists are rich! 24 darts to | |
throw at enemies, 2 fortunes cookies, some various food (goblin meat in | |
tin can, eggs, carrot, apple, pancakes...), 4 scrolls of magic mapping, | |
2 healing potions, and expensive camera and an uncursed credit card. | |
``` | |
---+--------- | |
|......{....- | |
|@.........#| | |
|d..........| | |
------------- | |
``` | |
She went to the closed door but it resisted, after kicked it three | |
times, the door opened! After walking around in tunnel, she only found | |
empty rooms, leading to others tunnels. | |
`#` are corridors (when they are not sinks in a room). | |
``` | |
-------- | |
# .. | | |
#| .. | | |
#| .. | | |
#---|---- | |
# ## | |
########### | |
## # | |
# # | |
# # | |
----------|---### ##d@## | |
| # # ### | |
| | #---.--------- | |
| -#######|..... { - | |
| | |<.... #| | |
| | |..... | | |
-------------- ------------- | |
``` | |
At the end of a corridor, Sery was stuck but after searching around for | |
some secrets passage, she found a hidden passage to the first room. | |
Back to square one. | |
``` | |
-------- | |
# | | |
#| | | |
#| | | |
#---|---- | |
# ## | |
########### | |
## # # # | |
# # ####### | |
# # # # | |
----------|---### ############ #d | |
| # # ### @ | |
| | #--- ---------# | |
| -#######| {....-# | |
| | |< ......#| | |
| | | ........| | |
-------------- ------------- | |
``` | |
After she heard some noise in a corridor, she stumbled on a boulder | |
`\`` but it is impossible to move it to clear the corridor. | |
A new room was found, with a large box `(` in it. What could be in this | |
box? | |
``` | |
------ | |
|....| | |
##d.@..+ | |
###|....| | |
## |....| | |
##`|.(..| | |
# |....| | |
# ------ | |
``` | |
While walking toward the box, her dog suddenly disappeared, falling in | |
a trap door! Sery shorten her exploration of the first level after | |
opening the box to look after her dog. | |
The large box was locked, without weapon or tools to unlock it, Sery | |
kicked the large box a dozen time so it opened. What a disappointment | |
when she was it was empty! | |
## Second floor | |
``` | |
---------- | |
|......@.| | |
.........| | |
|........| | |
|....>...| | |
|.....$..| | |
---------- | |
``` | |
Sery jumped into the trap to descend to the level below, her dog wasn't | |
in the room though. There were five gold to loot and stairs to descend | |
to the third level. She needed to find her dog before continuing | |
exploration to third level. | |
In the adjacent corridor, the dog was found sound and safe! | |
After continuing the exploration, a room was found with enemies! | |
`F` lichen, `o` goblin and a `:` newt! That was a lot of enemies for a | |
simple tourist. She wanted to pull them into a corridor and let her dog | |
take care of the enemies. This was a good spartiate strategy after all! | |
``` | |
---------- | |
| | | |
# | | |
#| | | |
#| > | | |
#| | | |
#---------- | |
# | |
# | |
-------- # | |
|....... # | |
.......F| -------# | |
|:....o.@d#####......|# | |
|.......| | # | |
|....... | | | |
|...... | | | |
------- ------- | |
``` | |
Unfortunately, when a lichen is in contact with you, you can't escape. | |
It took a while for Sery to kill the lichen and retreat in the | |
corridor, she receive a few hits from the lichen and the goblin (HP | |
6/10). She heard some noises while staying in the corridor, after | |
coming back in the room, the dog finished to kill the newt and the | |
goblin seemed to ran away. | |
``` | |
-------- | |
|.....o. | |
........| | |
|.....d.@ | |
|.......| | |
|....... | |
|...... | |
------- | |
``` | |
The dog was then attacking the goblin and killed it rather quickly. | |
This was really fortunate that Sery was in company of her dog. | |
After walking a bit to continue the exploration, Sery stumbled on a | |
sewer rat, she got hit rather hard and didn't had much HP left! While | |
retreating to the last room, looking for the dog who stayed back eating | |
the goblin corp, the dog came back to her bringing a iron skull cap | |
certainly found on the dead goblin. In one bit, the dog killed the rat. | |
After some rest to recover a few HP, Sery went back to the exploration. | |
The exploration was quiet and easy, rooms with unlocked doors, she | |
found the stairs to go upstairs. Nothing of interested was to be found, | |
so it was time to go to the third level. A newt and a lichen were | |
encountered in the corridors but opposed little resistance to the dog. | |
``` | |
--------- ---------- | |
| | |........| | |
| | ---------- #.........| | |
| | | | #|.d..@...| | |
| | | | #|F...>...| | |
| | | | #|........| | |
- -|--- -# ###- | #---------- | |
### #### ## | | # | |
# `##`### --- ------ # | |
### ### ## --------- # | |
##### # ##### | | # | |
---------|-## ###### ## | -------# | |
| |# -- ---|----- # | -###### |# | |
| |# | | ### | | | # | |
| |# | | # | | | | | |
| -# | #### | | | | | |
| < | ------------ --------- ------- | |
----------- | |
``` | |
## Third floor | |
The room where Sery arrived in the third level had an enemy, a huge `x` | |
bug and some money in a corner near a door. | |
``` | |
-------------- | |
|...@........| | |
|....d.......| | |
....x.......$| | |
|............+ | |
-------------- | |
``` | |
The door required two kicks to be opened. | |
In the next room, Sery saw a bug before entering, so she immediately | |
swapped her place with her dig in the corridor to let her defender do | |
their job. | |
`<` are upstairs stairs. | |
``` | |
-------------- | |
| < | | |
| | | |
| | |
| ## | |
-------------- # | |
## --+- | |
##[email protected]..| | |
.$| | |
. | |
- | |
``` | |
As usual, the dog took care of the enemies. A new room was found, | |
multiples windows, some opening in previous rooms wasn't explored yet | |
too. There were lot of exploration to be done in this area. | |
``` | |
-------- | |
|......+ | |
|......| | |
+>.{...| | |
-------------- |......| | |
| < | |....@.| | |
| | -----.-- ... | |
| ###### | |
| ## ##### | |
-------------- # # | |
## ---|- | |
#### | | |
| | | |
| | |
----- | |
``` | |
While exploring, Sery got to fight a giant rat, she didn't know where | |
her dog was so she had to fight for real this time. | |
``` | |
-------- | |
---- | + | |
.... | | | |
.. ######################-> { | | |
r #-------------- | | | |
#@##### #| < | | | | |
# # ###| | ----- -- | |
## ### | ###### | |
# ## | ## ##### | |
# ## -------------- # # | |
# # ## ---|- | |
## ##### #### | | |
#- ------ #### | | | |
+ | # | | |
| > ### ----- | |
| |### | |
| | | |
-------- | |
``` | |
Thinking about her inventory, she panicked and used her camera. The | |
flash blinded the giant rat and he ran away! Unfortunately, another | |
giant rat came from the left corridor. She tried to use her camera | |
again but it didn't work as expected as the giant was still standing in | |
the corridor. The blinding effect didn't seem very effective because a | |
few seconds later, the first giant rat was back again! | |
``` | |
---- | |
.... | |
.. | |
r | |
r@##### | |
# # | |
``` | |
## | |
She had no choice but run away, maybe at least fight then but one at a | |
time in a corridor. She want backward, suffered from a giant rat bite | |
and found her dog on the way, who came to the rescue. While she let her | |
dog fighting, a third rat came from behind, this one, she really had to | |
fight, no escape was possible with the dog fighting two rats in the | |
corridor on the other side. | |
Camera flash, it worked! Time to throw darts, one dart was enough to | |
kill the rat but she missed it a few times. The rat never missed a | |
bite, Sery was in poor health at this moment. | |
The dog killed the two rats and she was safe, for now. | |
While walking around to find her way, she got surprised by a giant | |
zombie `Z` who hit her hard. She had only 1 health point left. Death | |
was close. What she could do? Try the camera flash, drink a potion, | |
escape until her dog run and try to bite the zombie? | |
She decided to try the health potion and then, support enough hits from | |
the zombie to blind it while the dog behind it was killing the undead | |
living. It was a good idea, at the moment she dunked the healing | |
potion, the zombie hit her, losing one health point, she would be dead | |
if she didn't drink that potion, then the dog killed the monster and | |
our duo leveled up! | |
It was time to finish exploring and get deeper in the underworld. A `=` | |
ring was on the ground in the last room. It was silver ring. | |
``` | |
-------- | |
-------------- | + | |
#. | | | | |
#| | ######################-> { | | |
#-- ----------- #-------------- | | | |
######### #| < | | | | |
# # ###| | ----- -- | |
# ## ### | ###### | |
-----------# # ## | ## ##### | |
|.......=@.# # ## -------------- # # | |
|.........| # # ## ---|- | |
|......... ## ##### #### | | |
|....`....| #- ------ #### | | | |
|.. .....| + | # | | |
--- ------ | > ### ----- | |
| |### | |
| | | |
-------- | |
``` | |
It would be foolish to wear the ring without identifying it first, it | |
could be a cursed ring you can't remove that makes you blind or provoke | |
some unwanted effects. | |
## Fourth floor | |
Arriving at the fourth floor, Sery found a green gem. Feeling this | |
floor would be quite complicated, she decided to read one of her | |
mapping scroll. | |
``` | |
------- | |
-- | --- --- -… | |
| -- | ------ --- ---- -- ---- -- --… | |
| -|-- | | | --- -- --- -- | ---- … | |
| --| | | ---- -- | | > … | |
| || ---------- -- | --------------- -- | --- … | |
| | || ------- | -- | --- -- -- --- … | |
| |--| ------- --- | ---- --- -- … | |
| | | -- --- | | |---- -- … | |
| -- | -- ------- ---- -- - -- --- -- | | … | |
-- --| | | -- | |-- --- --- --- … | |
| |-- | --- | -- -| --- -------- … | |
| | | --------- ---- | -- -- --| --- … | |
| -- | |.....--.@-- -- | ------ |-- -- -- | … | |
---| | ----.......| ------ | |- | ---|- -- | … | |
-- | --......-| -- | -- | --- | -- -- … | |
--- | --........| -- | | | | --- ----- | |
-- -- |.........| | -- --- -- | ---- | |
| -- |......--.| | -- |--- --- | | |
-- | --.|.------ ---- ------ ---- | |
---- ----- --- | |
``` | |
After the whole map got reveal in her mind, she got face to face with a | |
dwarf `h` wielding a dagger. He really didn't seem friendly but he | |
didn't attack her yet. | |
The whole area was very dark, without a torch or a light source, | |
exploring this level would be very tedious. | |
After exploring the room, looking for interesting loots on the ground, | |
the dwarf attacked her. This was a very dolorous stabbing. Sery | |
retreated back to the upper stairs, she wanted to reach the level below | |
through the other stairs on this level. In the room, she found her dog | |
which stayed behind, fighting a gecko and a giant rat. | |
She started to feel hungry, hopefully she went to the underworld with a | |
lot of food. She decided to eat a fortune cookie. When cracking it, she | |
found a paper saying: *They say that you should never introduce a rope | |
golem to a succubus*. This didn't make much sense to her though. | |
While walking toward the other stairs, Sery found a graffiti on the | |
ground: *??urist? we?r shirts loud enougn to wake t?e ?e?d.*. As for | |
the fortune cookie, this didn't make much sense. | |
On her way, she fought various enemies: red mold, newt, rats, found a | |
banana. Descending the stairs, she was surprised to see they didn't | |
lead to the forth floor with the dwarves, it was a parallel fourth | |
floor. Could it be possible?? There were a newt and money in the room, | |
it wasn't dark. | |
``` | |
-- ----- | |
.....@.. | |
|....d.| | |
|...:.$| | |
-------- | |
``` | |
She was angry. | |
The dog jumped on the newt and killed it. The duo got experience to | |
reach level four. The dog, being a little dog, did grow up into a dog. | |
After a short rest to eat and recover health, Sery went back in | |
corridors to find a way and continue her quest. | |
``` | |
-------------- | |
|............| | |
#.@...........+ | |
#|............| | |
#|..>...$.....| | |
#-------------- | |
### | |
# | |
## | |
# | |
# | |
# | |
# | |
-- -----# | |
< # | |
| | | |
| | | |
-------- | |
``` | |
In the room she found stairs to go in the level below, would it be a | |
good idea to descend now or should she explore the area first? She had | |
lot of money, finding a merchant to buy armors and weapons would be a | |
good idea. | |
## To be continued | |
It's all for today! Please tell me if you enjoyed it! |