Pet green slime

[Alexis]

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One of my pets ate a green slime corpse in Gehennom, so I now have a pet
green slime.

I've never had much to do with green slime; I've heard such bad things
about them on rgrn that I treat them like mindflayers and try to kill
them from a distance. Is a pet green slime of any use, or should I just
dump it somewhere?

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Alexis wrote:
> One of my pets ate a green slime corpse in Gehennom, so I now have a pet
> green slime.
>
> I've never had much to do with green slime; I've heard such bad things
> about them on rgrn that I treat them like mindflayers and try to kill
> them from a distance. Is a pet green slime of any use, or should I just
> dump it somewhere?

Well, you can practically slime anything with Conflict on, even riders.
Even yourself. Unfortunately, anything hostile slimed, is still
hostile. And they can slime you.

I consider it a 'neat trick to use in rare and odd situations', like
sliming the riders, and then taming them. More of an amusement value
than anything else. I say dump it somewhere or poly it to something
else.

-K

 

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"Alexis" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

> Is a pet green slime of any use, or should I just
> dump it somewhere?

Be wary. They are something like the evil twins of gremlins, since
they keep cloning (in this case, by sliming other monsters) but -
whereas you'd end up with lots of friendly gremlins - you get lots of
*hostile* slimes.

P.

 

[Alexis]

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find_my_real_address@CL4.org wrote:
> "Alexis" <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Is a pet green slime of any use, or should I just
> > dump it somewhere?
>
> Be wary. They are something like the evil twins of gremlins, since
> they keep cloning (in this case, by sliming other monsters) but -
> whereas you'd end up with lots of friendly gremlins - you get lots of
> *hostile* slimes.

I'm playing a Healer in this game and have the Staff, so they're not a
huge worry. I got bored of dragging my pet slime around, so tried
zapping it with a /oPoly, and ended up with an Olog-hai, so I'm
reasonably happy.

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The Prophet Alexis known to the wise as me@privacy.net, opened the Book of Words, and read unto the people:
>One of my pets ate a green slime corpse in Gehennom, so I now have a pet
>green slime.

I once had a pet green slime. It was worse then useless. It and my pet
naga went up against something relatively harmless, and the
something got slimed, then slimed my naga, so I had _two_ pet slimes.

I hate pet slimes.

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D. Jacob (Jake) Wildstrom, Math monkey and freelance thinker

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-Alfred Renyi

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University of California or math department thereof.

 

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"Kremti" <kremti@gmail.com> writes:

> Alexis wrote:
> > One of my pets ate a green slime corpse in Gehennom, so I now have a pet
> > green slime.
> >
> > I've never had much to do with green slime; I've heard such bad things
> > about them on rgrn that I treat them like mindflayers and try to kill
> > them from a distance. Is a pet green slime of any use, or should I just
> > dump it somewhere?
>
> Well, you can practically slime anything with Conflict on, even riders.

When I tried this once in wizmode with dozens of pet green slimes,
I couldn't even slime one of the three riders. Not even after
polying myself into green slime, leveling up and trying to hit them.

Was this just bad luck?

Best,
Jakob

 

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Jakob Creutzig wrote:
<snip>
> When I tried this once in wizmode with dozens of pet green slimes,
> I couldn't even slime one of the three riders. Not even after
> polying myself into green slime, leveling up and trying to hit them.
>
> Was this just bad luck?

Well, apparently, it takes patients. It was done here as a player
polyed into a slime:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/browse_thread/thread/a756532fbc438449/c996e034156419b5

You could be right though. A pet slime (as oppose to player slime)
might take forever (or even impossible) to hit the riders and you might
just have to do it yourself...

-K

>
> Best,
> Jakob

 

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"Kremti" <kremti@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jakob Creutzig wrote:
> <snip>
> > When I tried this once in wizmode with dozens of pet green slimes,
> > I couldn't even slime one of the three riders. Not even after
> > polying myself into green slime, leveling up and trying to hit them.
> >
> > Was this just bad luck?
>
> Well, apparently, it takes patients.

No, that's for nurse dancing.

Richard