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From: "Roy Stead" <hagbard@callnetuk.com>
Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack
Subject: Slash'Em Monks - safe foods to eat
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 01:49:05 +0100



Someone recently asked about the "You feel guilty" message on eating a
corpse in Slash'Em while playing a monk.

Well, here I sit with *way* too much time on my hands, so here's a
spoiler on safe foods for Slash'Em monks to eat:-

In Slash'Em, a Monk can eat any non-"meaty" corpses, a complete list
of which is given below, without attracting an alignment penalty.
Eating any other corpses (even tins of other corpses) causes your
deity to get progressively more and more annoyed with you. This is
signalled by the message "You feel guilty" on eating the taboo corpse
or tin.

NB/ Some of these creatures may rarely, if ever, leave corpses (yellow
lights and fog clouds spring to mind), while others (such as violet
fungi) are generally Bad Things To Eat in any case. Moreover, many
others are poisonous. The only criterion for a corpse being listed is
that eating it carries no alignment penalty for a Monk in Slash'Em
4E5.

Here's the list:-

* fog cloud
* Juiblex
* all blobs:
      acid blob
      quivering blob
      gelatinous cube
      jiggling blob
      lava blob
      static blob
* all jellies:
      blue jelly
      spotted jelly
      clear jelly
      ochre jelly
      yellow jelly
      orange jelly
      rancid jelly
* all fungi:
      brown mold
      yellow mold
      green mold
      red mold
      shrieker
      violet fungus
      disgusting mold
      black mold
* all mimics:
      small mimic
      large mimic
      giant mimic
* all lights:
      yellow light
      black light
* all puddings:
      gray ooze
      brown pudding
      moldy pudding
      black pudding
      green slime

Disclaimer: The above list is based on the source code. Since
Nethack's source is so huge, however, it might be an idea for some
kind person (who has even more time on their hands than I ;-) ) to
check out the list in Wizard/Explore mode. 'Specially since it's
nearly a decade since I was a professional developer (or, as we were
called in my day, "programmer").


I have to say that I was surprised that it 's apparently safe for
monks to eat mimic corpses, not to mention Juiblex...

HTH

Sine Cera,
Roy