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Time for more NetHack.
I eat a nymph and get teleportitis. This is completely intentional and utterly stupid because it means I'll be teleporting around uncontrollably and at random. I'm doing this because last game I ate lots of teleportitis corpses and didn't get the intrinsic at all, which sucked as a wizard with teleport control... which I won't get until level 17.
Teleportitis in action. Notice there's nothing connecting the room I'm in to the rest of the dungeon, because I haven't explored those areas yet. By the way, the stuff in the center area is the Oracle, who isn't important.
Skill leveling! I am using a dagger because the core wizard weapon artifact is a dagger. I can't rely purely on spells because some enemies have reflection, so instead we get to participate in WIZARD KNIFE FIGHTS
Sickness due to rotten food. This is different to sickness from tainted food, which is what you get from eating corpses that are too old - which, unlike rotten food, is lethal. My skill in healing is too low to reliably cast cure sickness, but it's a bad spell because a unicorn horn does everything cure sickness does but better. I'll be blanking my cure sickness spellbook later to write the identify spell in it. When I can be bothered, that is.
I also level up my attack spells. I don't think it makes them hit harder but I certainly don't lack for skill points.
Teleportitis in action. I tried to eat this corpse and got teleported off it 
These fuckers. Unicorns stay a chess knight's move away from you (if you don't know what that is look it up) making it impossible to line them up to attack or hit with a spell. It's fortunate though - they hit like trucks at low levels.
Luckily this one's dumb and I catch it in a corridor. More importantly, I take its horn.
Having taken a unicorn down I feel pretty confident so I duck back into the Mines, since I need to hit up Minetown.
I kill some dwarves here because I need a pickaxe.
Pickaxes let me dig through walls, which is extremely helpful.
On the next level down I am hungry, and I could eat this corpse, but it would give me the aggravate monster intrinsic (because dogs/cats are pets). I would also get this for cannibalism, so no eating gnome corpses for me. I leave it alone.
I found a bag, and it's a bag of tricks. This summons an enemy every time I try to use it. I would normally just drop it but I'm hoarding items at the moment, having nothing better to do.
The next level down is Minetown, and I have a scroll of magic mapping to tell me where everything is. I teleported into the locked room and was constantly teleporting in and out of shops, which is incredibly dangerous because if I pick an item up to try and buy it, but instead teleport away, the entire Watch and shopkeepers will all go hostile. However, I do see an altar - I really hope it's neutral, because then I'll be able to sacrifice on it to get a gift.
Yup, neutral! If it had been lawful or chaotic I'd be in a bit of trouble, but it's not so I'll be able to sacrifice corpses on it safely.
I eat a spider and get poison resistance. I would have sacrificed it but my guy was hungry 
The other cool thing about altars - if you drop your items on it, you can get an amber or black flash depending on if the item is blessed or cursed respectively (no flash means uncursed). I see that the amulet I've been lugging around this whole time is cursed, so there's a 90% chance it's strangulation or restful sleep. A ring that I picked up is also cursed, so it's probably hunger or something else terrible. Not like I'm going to equip it to find out.
The last cursed potentially big-ticket item is one of my lamps. No idea if it's a magic lamp, and I don't want to waste my holy water on it until I know. I don't have any holy water though.
Now I have holy water 
I prayed to cure weakness or something I don't know. I'm using the bag of tricks that I found to create monsters so that I can kill them to be sacrificed. Never knew I could do that, but there you go!
I have telepathy from eating that floating eye, and while blind that lets me see all the enemies on the level that have brains.
Holy fucking jesus shit, I'm really lucky that I decided to packrat this run because I got a looking glass off that nymph I killed and used it to scare this giant cat. 7 attacks for every one of mine? I never even knew these things were dangerous 
Turns out that piece of cloth I was lugging around is a Harry Potter invisibility cloak. Cool!
At long last I'm finished sacrificing and get the wizard sacrifice gift, the athame Magicbane. Athames let me carve words into the floor - specifically, Elbereth, which makes enemies run away instead of attacking me.
That took a while, but it's done. Next time I'll check out some more of these shops.