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- From: hsu_wh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (William H Hsu)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
- Subject: Suggestions II: Armor
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:59:30 -0500
- Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
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- Now, how about armor? I'd like to see the Chaos Shield of The Elric
- Saga implemented -- get it off a fire giant, or have a "Mordaga level" complete
- with life draining tree-spirits and 144 soldiers (!), depending on how powerful
- you want it to be. You could also be granted a polished silver shield named
- Aegis by Athena or Lugh. In _The Silmarillon_, a vampire named Thuringwethil
- had an interesting cloak. I suggest that she be placed in Vlad's Tower as a
- consort and automatically carry a cloak of invisibility.
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- If anyone has read the Pliocene Exile saga plus _Jack the Bodiless_ by
- Julian May, what do you think of CE interface armor? Pretend for the moment
- that telepathy in Nethack is a low level equivalent to metapsychic suboperancy.
- CE helmet, CE suit (the generator might cause problems -- "there is a CE rig
- here, but you cannot carry anymore" :-) I think maybe just the helmet. I know
- that telekinesis has been bandied about as a use of "Pw" which has hardly been
- pushed to its full potential. PK + EE (AC -30 astral projection, if you get
- "killed" you pop back into your body minus all current Pw) + ultrasenses (a
- Meta-key ;-) that lets you perform the function of a stethoscope) + creativity
- (enhance AC temporarily with high drain on Pw) + coercion/redaction (since
- there are no "psionic" attacks in NH as it is except possibly paralysis by
- floating eye, stun/confusion by demon lords, and seduction, these functions
- would be hard to implement). You might make only a certain small percentage
- fully operant (via intrinsic), something that can't be gained as the intrinsic
- if you don't enter the game with it, but if a torc is found...
- Real operants are automatically telepathic, but the minimal level of latency
- required to be raised by a torc (Amulet of Metapsychic Operancy) requires
- telepathy. Without it, the hapless hacker undergoes black torc syndrome
- (Sickness) and will need divine assistance just to remove the amulet. CE armor
- is only useful as regular armor (doing a bit of damage when you put it on), but
- worn by an operant (even a torced one), it doubles Pw and greatly increases
- the effects of metafunctions. Oh, and of course farsensing operants don't need
- a blindfold to get the monster-detection effect.
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