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I know this is ancient by this point, but I've been meaning to check it out for a long time (read: since 2022) and I finally did tonight.

Managed to get to Dungeon 8 and kill Emacs as a chaos wizard, but once I did I wasn't sure what to do since I didn't see a further down staircase or an amulet of Yendor anywhere. Emacs felt like they were meant to be a final boss carrying the amulet, but maybe I missed something.

I mean, other than that you can eat corpses to heal, that would have been useful to have figured out before I had killed Emacs. :D

Anyway, loved the game and concept so much, and I'm not sure what it says about me that I had the most fun as the chaos wizard.

Avery Hiebert321 days ago

Thanks for playing! This is by far my most niche game, glad at least one other person was able to get the hang of it enough to get past the first couple levels.

ROT13 hint/spoiler for the end game: Gur svany qhatrba unf "uvqqra" ebbzf abg pbaarpgrq ol unyyjnlf, gur nffhzcgvba vf gung ol gur gvzr lbh trg gurer lbh pna gryrcbeg nebhaq oyvaqyl hagvy lbh svaq gur nzhyrg bs Lraqbe. Pna'g erzrzore vs gung'f qhatrba 8 be abg gubhtu, vg'f orra n ybat gvzr fvapr V znqr guvf.

karakiwi321 days ago

Nu, gung znxrf n ybg bs frafr, ohg tbvat onpx gb gur obggbz sybbe V sbhaq naq rkcybevat jvgu U, Y, 0, naq $, V qba'g frrz gb or noyr gb trg naljurer bhgfvqr bs gur znva nern. V nyfb unir rpubybpngr, juvpu vf fhccbfrq gb yrg zr trg gb flzobyf V pna'g frr jvgu s, ohg gelvat s" naq s> fgvyy qba'g gnxr zr naljurer.

I did notice earlier that at one point I used the o command to try to look at a pile of gold and it deleted it instead; I'm not sure if maybe something similar happened to delete what I was looking for on the last floor I found. I also noticed a fair number of incorrect things in the :help pages, but a few wrinkles are to be expected from a 7DRL game.

All in all, I really enjoyed it even if it took me a hot minute to get the hang of it. :)

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