Was playing Nethack for the first time today.
I read a scroll, which chained an iron ball to me.
I then fell down some stairs.
See where this is going?
It just keeps hapening?In other news, I sent a small squad back to deal with a threat my (also a noob) opponent sent about a minute before departure, and I didn't want to have to deal with the potential butterflies of just changing my past orders, because they were part of a defensive force, so I didn't want them to mess anything up.
I sent them back, they destroyed the pre-attack, then I sent them over to where they departed so that they would still arrive in time enough to fight off the attack in the present. I spend a while reorganising the defense around to cover some weak spots, when a time wave passes and I notice my defensive forces have moved with it. But not just little shifts like I'd expect. They were mostly in one corner of the now half destroyed base, the rest ineffectively trickling through the gaps in the buildings and getting picked off.
Turns out that the team I sent out to deal with the past-attack had got caught up trying to navigate the base and I hadn't checked, so it messed up my entire defense. The pathing is so broken ;_;
[spoiler]Achron.
The pathing really is so incredibly broken. The Resequence engine is good though, so it has that.