---
title: Nethack
description: The dungeon crawler game
layout: single
tags:
- nethack
---

## Nethack

I have been an on and off [nethack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack) player since about 2008, and even though I am biased by this fact I will say that Nethack is just the best game one could ever play in its computer gaming life. Almost ten years later, I finally won my first game, after countless stupid deaths and so so many hours of fun.

- [first_ascension]({{< ref "first_ascension" >}}) : a lawful human Valkyrie ascended to demigodhood in december 2017.
- [second_ascension]({{< ref "second_ascension" >}}) : a lawful human Samourai ascended to demigodhood in june 2018.
- [third_ascension]({{< ref "third_ascension" >}}) : a chaotic elf ranger ascended to demigodhood in june 2019.

## Stupid deaths

Here are some of the deaths that I found a bit "creative" in their own way :
- Striking a sea monster that was holding me with Mjollnir while not being myself shock resistant.
- Talking to an aligned priest while my god was angry with me. The priest got angry and obliterated me.
- Thinking that because a monster stepped on a square it is safe for me to do so. In this case I was very low on HP when I killed a dwarf king, and when I went on his square to loot the corpse I triggered an arrow trap that the dwarf had escaped, and died.

## .nethackrc

Here is my [.nethackrc]({{< ref "nethackrc.md" >}}) configuration for nethack 3.6.