Fun with a level teleport trap: RIP Wizzard!

Allow me to explain the above scene through the magic of Python-Vision:

>>> wizzard = Wizzard()

>>> wizzard.rings

['ring of teleport control', 'ring of slow digestion']

>>> wizzard.put_on_ring(wizzard.rings[0])

Okely Dokely

>>> wizzard.stumble_into_level_teleport_trap()

which level would you like to go to today, wizzard? 50

Okely Dokely

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WYLYPI?

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for the record, I didn't get as far as level 50, but I got far enough.

You feel deathly sick: RIP Orcish Barbarian

Level 12 Orcish Barbarian; fought his way down past dungeon level 20; even had a pet Gargoyle; and a Magic Cleaver; finally done-in by some tainted Jackal, while very hungry.

Well, I learned heaps on this game. I got careless in the end and read an unidentified scroll of punishment, hence the iron ball in the picture.

I feel I should persevere with Barbarian characters if I'm to stand any chance of Ascending, but I do find Wizards very fun to play.

Goblin

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Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones. They can tunnel and mine as well as any but the most skilled dwarves, when they take the trouble, though they are usually untidy and dirty. Hammers, axes, swords, daggers, pickaxes, tongs, and also instruments of torture, they make very well, or get other people to make to their design, prisoners and slaves that have to work till they die for want of air and light.
[ The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]

Yellow Mold

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Mold, multicellular organism of the division Fungi, typified by plant bodies composed of a network of cottony filaments. The colors of molds are due to spores borne on the filaments.
Most molds are saprophytes. Some species (e.g., penicillium) are used in making cheese and antibiotics.
[ The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia ]

Yellow Mold. My favourite mold. Two bonus creatures in this picture; White Rabbit and Christmas Tree Monster.

Welcome to Gnome Town

Nethack has a mall! This is me just hangin' with my Large Cat in front of the Lighting Shop. Shortly after this picture was posed we were both chased off by mall security.

Leocrotta

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... the leucrocotta, a wild beast of extraordinary swiftness, the size of the wild ass, with the legs of a Stag, the neck, tail, and breast of a lion, the head of a badger, a cloven hoof, the mouth slit up as far as the ears, and one continuous bone instead of teeth; it is said, too, that this animal can imitate the human voice.
[ Curious Creatures in Zoology, by John Ashton ]

By request. As you can see it is the size of a wild ass.

Giant Eel

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The behaviour of eels in fresh water extends the air of mystery surrounding them. They move freely into muddy, silty bottoms of lakes, lying buried in the daylight hours in summer. [...] Eels are voracious carnivores, feeding mainly at night and consuming a wide variety of fishes and invertebrate creatures. Contrary to earlier thinking, eels seek living rather than dead creatures and are not habitual eaters of carrion.
[ Freshwater Fishes of Canada, by Scott and Crossman ]

...And this is what finished my highest scoring game to date. I was surprised to say the least.