ghostwings

Haven't played Nethack in ages; my current laptop doesn't have a number pad, and I'm having difficulty getting the Mac version of Nethack to allow for movement using the arrow keys.

But I found an iPhone version on the App Store, and have been enjoying myself a great deal, except for the parts where I have a very promising character die from a mix of bad luck and my own poor choices. That's as disheartening as ever. (RIP wizard who got cornered by a unicorn in Sokoban and didn't have a good Elbereth-writing wand.)

(The worst loss I ever had was when I was playing Slash'EM--a variant of Nethack, with lots of added content and some other changes--with a monk character, and I'd just gotten the Amulet of Yendor, but I ran into some monster that kept turning the floor to water... and it drowned me just as I was getting out my boots of levitation. Days and days of playing, all gone!

Ah, the joys of roguelikes.)