NetHack, if you haven’t played it, is a classic computer game in the genre of Rogue. You play a particular race, gender, and class whose mission is to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor from the perilous Mazes of Menace (which are around 50 levels long) and offer it to your god. If you die in the game, that’s it, your character is permadead. The game also has a ton of different things that can happen, so there are many stupid ways to die. It took me several months of playing to get comfortable with it. I have beaten it once before, several years ago, but recently got the urge to play again. It wasn’t as hard the second time around, but I still needed the help of several strategy guides to get this far again. With that said, here was my final character (a female dwarf Valkyrie):
Inventory
cursed amulet of life saving (being worn)
blessed rustproof +6 Mjollnir
blessed burnt +3 oilskin cloak (being worn)
blessed rustproof +5 pair of gauntlets of power (being worn)
uncursed +1 dwarvish iron helm (being worn)
blessed +4 shield of reflection (being worn)
blessed burnt +5 pair of speed boots (being worn)
uncursed +5 gray dragon scale mail (being worn)
2 uncursed food rations
uncursed ring of free action
cursed ring of conflict (on right hand)
uncursed ring of regeneration (on left hand)
the blessed Orb of Fate (0:3)
an uncursed sack named FIX KIT
an uncursed towel
a blessed bag of holding named SECONDARY
a blessed bag of holding named LOOT
an uncursed skeleton key
a +0 unicorn horn
Attributes
You were piously aligned.
You were fire resistant.
You were cold resistant.
You were sleep resistant.
You were disintegration-resistant.
You were shock resistant.
You were poison resistant.
You were magic-protected.
You saw invisible.
You were telepathic.
You were warned.
You had automatic searching.
You had infravision.
You were invisible to others.
You were stealthy.
You caused conflict.
You could teleport.
You had teleport control.
You regenerated.
You were protected.
You were very fast.
You had reflection.
Your life would have been saved.
You were extremely lucky.
You had extra luck.
Good luck did not time out for you.
You survived.
Creatures vanquished
**Asmodeus
Baalzebub
Orcus
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (8 times)
Death
Pestilence (thrice)
Famine (twice)
an arch-lich
2 high priests
3 mastodons
Medusa
11 krakens
9 iron golems
10 master liches
7 storm giants
a titan
3 glass golems
4 balrogs
9 purple worms
6 gray dragons
3 red dragons
6 white dragons
an orange dragon
9 black dragons
8 blue dragons
6 green dragons
5 yellow dragons
14 minotaurs
6 jabberwocks
Lord Surtur
13 baluchitheria
19 Angels
…
8 demiliches
Vlad the Impaler
…
11 master mind flayers
16 Olog-hai
9 Nazguls
…
a shopkeeper
30 aligned priests
…
an archeologist
…
17 quantum mechanics
…
3660 creatures vanquished.
Genocided species
**
liches
demiliches
master liches
arch-liches
4 species genocided.
Voluntary challenges
You genocided 4 types of monsters.
You used 5 wishes.
You did not wish for any artifacts.
Final
Farvel Aken33 the Demigoddess…
You went to your reward with 5506702 points,
The Orb of Fate (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
Mjollnir (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
Excalibur (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
Fire Brand (worth 3000 zorkmids and 7500 points)
13 diamonds (worth 52000 zorkmids),
12 emeralds (worth 30000 zorkmids),
6 amethyst stones (worth 3600 zorkmids),
4 rubies (worth 14000 zorkmids),
4 jacinth stones (worth 13000 zorkmids),
3 agate stones (worth 600 zorkmids),
2 dilithium crystals (worth 9000 zorkmids),
2 aquamarine stones (worth 3000 zorkmids),
1 black opal (worth 2500 zorkmids),
1 amber stone (worth 1000 zorkmids),
1 topaz stone (worth 900 zorkmids),
4 amulets of life saving (worth 600 zorkmids),
1 amulet of ESP (worth 150 zorkmids),
1 amulet of unchanging (worth 150 zorkmids),
1 amulet of reflection (worth 150 zorkmids),
1 amulet of magical breathing (worth 150 zorkmids),
and 4294 pieces of gold, after 89832 moves.
You were level 25 with a maximum of 218 hit points when you ascended.
No Points Name Hp [max]
1 5506702 Aken33-Val-Dwa-Fem-Law ascended to demigoddess-hood. 218 [218]
2 31131 Aken21-Val-Dwa-Fem-Law died in The Dungeons of Doom
on level 9 [max 10]. Killed by a bolt of lightning. - [100]** **