June Nethack Tournament 2026

This year I played through all of the variants and got a trophy in
each one, then went back and played some games of 3.4.3.  Played a
tourist, then an Archeologist and was going to be done for the month,
but started a wizard just for fun.

The wizard game turned out to be the most oddball one that I've played
in a while.  First, there were no spellbooks -- only found cure
blindness.  Second, mines end had no luckstone, so I couldn't even
write spellbooks.  Did find an altar, so I had magicbane, and some
speed boots, but did the quest and then the castle with just force
bolt and leather armor.

Wished for a luckstone and started to sort myself out.  Sacfesting had
previously produced Trollbane and Orcrist, plus MB and the Eye made
four artifacts already in the game.  I needed to artifact wish for the
"broken conducts" clan competition, so I just wished for Stormy -- AND
GOT IT!

Proceeded down to VOTD and it was a bones level!  Someone wielding
Excalibur but without magic resistance had died to Touch of Death.
They didn't have much I needed but they did have a WoW (1:2) in open
inventory.  It was wild to find a bones so low!


Bleeko the Neutral Human Tourist
2026-06-19: Ascended in 40569 turns
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Bleeko the Lawful Human Archeologist
2026-06-30: Ascended in 47017 turns
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Bleeko the Chaotic Elvish Wizard
2026-06-30: Ascended in 47495 turns
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