A Nethack moment: the Dev team thinks of everything

[hermitgeecko]

While playing Nethack last night, I whimsically renamed the standard miscellaneous fruit (by default, "slime mold") to "pickled octopus".

When I encountered two fruit, Nethack appropriately dubbed them "two pickled octopi".

Indeed, it is wisely written that the Dev team thinks of everything.

Comments

[uruz.livejournal.com]

Impressive.

[keshwyn]

One of my friends named the aforementioned fruit 'Longsword named Fire Demon' on his server, or somesuch. The same name as a magical artifact, anyway...

Another friend found one, was ecstatic, wielded it*, and then, got hungry. So he gave the program the usual command, and just accepted the thing at the top without looking...

"My, that was a yummy Longsword named Fire Demon."

The howl of outrage was apparently audible several floors down. ;)

* He didn't do much damage with it, but he didn't notice.

[unferth.livejournal.com]

I've done that for real when polymorphed into a xorn. Typed too fast - "That Excalibur was delicious!"

[beowabbit]

Oh, cool! Now I want to try naming it bliny (no singular) or gnocco or father-in-law. :-)

[inkylj.livejournal.com]

You can see the full plurals code, though whether this will spoil the magic or startle you with its completeness is up to you.

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

It's difficult to spoil the magic for me! I am a thoroughly spoiled Nethack player.

This answers another question that we asked today... would it recognize -ium/-ia? And the answer is yes. (Though the image of the adventurer chowing down on giant paramecia may be too much to resist....)

[cos]

*laugh*

[truthspeaker.livejournal.com]

The developers must be CDO (in alphabetical order, of course). :-)