Argh...

I started a great game of nethack recently, and it all came crashing down just now.

Started off with a wish in the first room from a released water demon freed by me drinking in a fountain. On the way down, I found 3 magic lamps, which I was eventually able to bless. I used two for wishes, and soon I had Mjollnir and a silver sabre, grey dragon scale mail, speed boots, gauntlets of power, a blessed bag of holding, and medallion of reflection. I was pretty much set. I bought protection from the non-co-aligned priest at Minetown, and was cruising through, trying to get high enough level to help my boy Norn out.

In Fort Ludios, though, it all came crashing down. I battled through all the soldiers (giving me a nice supply of food), and a red dragon, when all of a sudden an eel wrapped itself around my leg. The first turn, I tried to move away, but I couldn't because the eel was holding on to me, and then next turn, I was pulled under and drowneded. All that hard work gone in one turn. I had almost everything in the game identified, and a stack of over 20 blank scrolls, just waiting for a magic marker. Scroll of charging and a couple of enchant armors and weapons later, and I would have been pretty SOLID.

Fucking eel. I have a version of the game in my email somewhere (I needed to transport it at one point), but I have my pride. No save-scumming for me, as much as I want to. The lesson here, of course, is how dangerous eels are. No wonder people genocide ;'s at the first chance.

Ahhhh nethack. How I love thee...

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In other news, today is St. Patricks day. And I really don't care. I think I don't like St. Patty's day. I'm not Jewish, and no one bothers me on Rosh Hashanah. I'm not Irish, either, but yet people seem to care if I wear green or not. I will happily drink green beer, though, if the need arises. I'm opportunistic like that.

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We had a teambuilding today at work. This pretty much ruled. We played "Survivor" type games. One game was getting our team of 6 into pairs, so each tribe had three pairs of players. Of the pairs, one was blindfolded and had a soft foam ball. The idea was that that player was the Tank, and the other the Spotter. The Spotter had to direct the tank without touching anyone or anything, and get the Tank to peg someone on the other team. Last team standing won. A couple other games like that. Lots of good fun and laughing, and home from work around 5. Nice.