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Welcome to NetHack! I used to play the shit out of this game as a child and now I'm playing it as a bigger version of that child.

The goon who abandoned his run (smile: was running on NetHack 4, which is an unofficial version. I am also using it because the official version hasn't been updated in TWELVE YEARS.



Here's the title page, with a bunch of options that I'm gonna ignore because I already set them and some other tertiary crap. As with all roguelikes, NetHack has permadeath - that means if I die, it's game over, we're done, can't continue etc.



I'm doing this run as a neutral male gnomish wizard. Neutral is because there's an artifact I want to get later which lets me teleport to any level I want, male because I'm suboptimal, a gnome because they're the highest-intelligence neutral class - I usually play chaotic so I can murder people but levelport is too good - and wizard because wizard is objectively the best class ever. Gnomes and dwarves will also be friendly to me because I am a gnome, which helps with one of the zones. As well as that, because I am neutral various other enemies which I always assumed were hostile will also be friendly.



I have a great deal of experience with this game, and am looking to get as far as possible and ideally ascend (which I admit I've never actually done). NetHack is infamously hard, but I'm hoping that as a wizard I will have access to a vast array of powerful spells and abilities (most of which normally require wands and scrolls) with which to defeat this game.





Thank you for joining me!