Unholy aura question

[Overheat]

I have a good DE beastfighter going, and am ready to do ToEF. But I have the unholy aura corruption. Can I use the DT altar to make holy water or will the priest attack me? Also, can I get the mystic reward with the unholy corruption? I have no corruption removal.

[Grey]

The unholy aura doesn't always kick in straight away - it can take a few turns, so you can get lucky. It'd personally advise drinking a potion of invisibility before entering dwarftown and keeping away from the shop. You should be able to claim the mystic reward at least.

[Dudley]

DE beasties. don't like unholy auras. BE CAREFUL. Cloak of invi if you have.

[Erik Piper]

I've got Unholy Aura on the character I'm running right now. I've been living with it for now, because I don't want to get rid of it until the next mutation arrives, since all I have are SoCRs with their roughly 1.5 mutations a pop, and the mutation beneath it is Thin and Nimble. He went a pretty long time without angering anyone in Dwarftown, even repeatedly making use of the altar and heading to Garth for training with the condition. (On the other hand, he's invisible, has TC and teleportitis, and makes heavy use of a deliberately created teleport trap by the upstairs, so he's perhaps not a good proof of anything regarding typical effects of UA on Dwarftown.)

Be V-E-R-Y careful if the altar is lawful BTW, since all it takes one turn of one angry lawful NPC seeing you on the altar and it's game over. I somehow saw my alignment drop hyper-rapidly while clearing the CoC Graveyard today (even though I *hadn't* started digging graves or eating wights yet - just pickpocketing each undead from the level's initial spawn before killing it!!!) and slipped into NL without noiticing. When rats started pouring out of the Dwarftown altar during what was supposed to be a routine trip to unload loot, my whole life flashed before my eyes. When I started seeing red h's as I exited the temple room, it flashed before them *again.* Can't see how dropping stuff on an unaligned-altar message could alert the previously apathetic shopkeeper to me, but then, I can't see how he could have seen me in the altar room either. I guess my nascent theory that UA shopkeeper hate doesn't kick in if you don't enter the shop was wrong, and that he finally noticed me (but why only then? I'd already made an unsuccessful invisirob attempt long before!) just as I was entering the temple. If it's not that, then I really don't know. Note that the entire population of Dwarftown is still fine with me (I've made sure to never attack any denizens of Dwarftown even after the incident), except for the muscular dwarves who would leap on me in an instant if only they could see me. Even the shopkeeper has unlocked his door again and allegedly doesn't care about me, though he's wandering randomly and once gave a frightened-by-aura message, so I'm pessimistic about ever getting shopping rights reinstated.

Err, hi. My name is Erik Piper and I'm a digressionoholic. Sorry for hijacking your thread.

[_Ln_]

If you have means of controlled teleportation, you can get your mystic's reward and then deliberately angry Waldy. I doubt you'll have a lot of problems if you are going to ToEF. Kill his summons without regret and lure Waldy to OC or kill him - when he attacks you, just retreat, then quite quickly he'll got scaried and start running away - use missiles..

You're DE, he hates you anyway, so you're not losing a lot.

[Python]

The casino shopkeeper attacked my drakish monk for his unholy aura corruption although I was invisible. He brought me down from ~400 HP to ~50, so I equipped my AoLS and fled the shop one-shot killing the guards in my way. Later I lured him down a level (I was afraid of alignment loss from killing him), and collected the items in the casino. With this character and corruption I also made Waldenbrook hostile (I wasn't invisile when he attacked me), I simply used teleport to travel through dwarftown after it.

[JellySlayer]

I have a good DE beastfighter going, and am ready to do ToEF. But I have the unholy aura corruption. Can I use the DT altar to make holy water or will the priest attack me? Also, can I get the mystic reward with the unholy corruption? I have no corruption removal.

AFAIK, unholy aura will only have a negative effect on shopkeepers (it may also cause a crash if you try to talk to Thrundar...). Other NPCs can be interacted with normally and should otherwise ignore you, or, at worst, run away. Waldenbrook generally cannot see you from the stairs, and if you head south away from him, you should for the most part be able to avoid engagements in the city. You will probably want to invis/teleport to the altar though... getting there without being spotted by Waldenbrook is tricky.

Even if Waldenbrook goes hostile due to UA, the rest of the town probably won't anyway.

[Erik Piper]

AFAIK, unholy aura will only have a negative effect on shopkeepers (it may also cause a crash if you try to talk to Thrundar...).

Didn't for me. Maybe I was just lucky.

Even if Waldenbrook goes hostile due to UA, the rest of the town probably won't anyway.

To keep the job of not enraging Dwarftown simple, it's probably best to dual-wield shields on every trip through town once muscular dwarves have been summoned.

[_Ln_]

To keep the job of not enraging Dwarftown simple, it's probably best to dual-wield shields on every trip through town once muscular dwarves have been summoned.

If you scared Waldy and he summoned it's safe to kill muscular dwarves even in DT - nobody will turn hostile. Remember though, that if they get scaried and flee, they tend to lost hostile status - do not touch them in this case.

[Erik Piper]

So what you're saying is that there's a rich source of yummy XP on D:10 that I'm long overdue to exploit?!