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[Sylverone]

I realize that Nethack is not Dwarf Fortress, but this was just too amazing not to show, and relates very strongly to DF.

I had just fought off a small platoon of Gnomes (the colored items are where their equipment dropped), when I got up from the computer to do something. My brother was the first to notice; he called be back to look at the screen and I froze in astonished awe at a scene I hadn't noticed before. It was an omen. Armok does not exist within the Nethack source code, but yet HE IS THERE...


@ is me    h is a friendly hobbit    % are gnome corpses   ) are said gnomes' equipment

"Engraved on your perception is an image of a human knight, a hobbit, dark caverns, gnomes, and a giant elephant. The human knight is talking with the hobbit. The gnomes are dead. The dark caverns, gnomes, human knight, and hobbit are in the shape of a giant elephant.
This is an Armok rendition of your impending doom."

I discovered Nethack very recently. It has made me very anxious to see what the future of DF Adventure Mode holds. So far I've never made it deeper than 9 levels.

For those who don't know about Nethack, almost every level is randomly generated, including this one. So it's insane that such a clear picture would emerge.

Because the game is just so profound and amazing (and shares much with DF's "losing is fun" slogan), I'm considering making a topic about it in the "other games" forum. Anyone who has played the game, please pipe up here. If there are enough, I'll start the topic and provide a link.

[Capntastic]

Oh my lord this is a terrible omen for you, and all else who see this.   Way to go; you've killed us all!

[Karlito]

I've played nethack and I love it.  Perhaps its the massive lack of sleep I'm getting but what exactly am I supposed to be seeing in that picture?

EDIT: Oh wait, I do see it!  How could I have missed such a blatant picture?

[ March 24, 2008: Message edited by: Karlito ]

[Dasleah]

Signs! Signs and portents!

*runs screaming into the hills*

[brainfire]

Another game with a similar play style, although slightly more... transparent in mechanics, is Tales of Middle Earth- ToME. http://t-o-m-e.net/

Don't get the alpha 3.0 version (I think- last I tried it it was vastly inferior to the current 2.0 release)

[Bullion]

i think i've missed the message.

[briktal]

quote:Originally posted by Bullion:
<STRONG>i think i've missed the message.</STRONG>

The visible portion of the level looks like an elephant, with the @ around where an eye should be.

[Bullion]

My. God.

that's it man, game over! man we're done! game over!

[Hyperturtle]

I had a near ascension once.  My steed was a jabborwock, and I used a dead cockatrice to defeat most of the devils and demons in the abyss area.  I had died 7 times and had a number of amulets of life saving and still had a few wishes left from my wand of wishes, and a blessed magic lamp.

My big problem was that my spellbooks were starting to fade, I didn't have a decent magic marker and my knowledge of Finger of Death was starting to become twisted, so I couldn't even write it down again from memory.  I saved the game, copied an image of the drive, and... started new, rather than fail!

[Deon]

Armok guides us all =).
Don't you notice, the game is just a promise of future awesomeness and Toady+bro are just his humble priests. And we're just cultists, worshipping him through the DF: unaware, possessed, zombified...

[Foul_Jester]

*stands in the back waving a sign reading "The end is nigh!"*

[thvaz]

All Dwarves, stay inside!

[Impending Doom]

quote:Originally posted by Sylverone:
<STRONG>This is an Armok rendition of your impending doom.</STRONG>

Youuu sssummoned meee massster?

[apache1990]

Yes...please direct yourself to the Bay Watcher Arena V2.0 thread, and repost your megabeast immediately.

*This has been a test of the Impending Doom summoning system*

[Nite/m4re]

quote:Originally posted by thvaz:
<STRONG>All Dwarves, stay inside!</STRONG>

Too late. They are already collecting the gnome's socks.