I was never able to keep a permanent pet (they always get lost, or instagibbed by something), but having a lyre of charm is an absolute blessing. Just charm a bunch of meat shields, and you will have a much easier time.

A "drawback" of levitation is its rarity. You can only get it from two items, both of which need to be wished for (or you do the Sumo quest).

I don't think the unability to pick things up would work in IVAN. In NetHack, levitation items are often cursed, which makes that inability an interesting problem. In IVAN, you would just take off the belt over each and every item, and be very annoyed.

I kinda like the increased knockback. That could be fun.

BTW, levitation is even better that you'd think. It also gives you a sizeable bonus to dodge chance.

I saw that bit of green over the shoulder and thought it looked pretty close to elven cloth.

Very nice!

Is the cloak elven cloth, or ommel hair?

You have to deliver the encrypted scroll to Petrus. He's in the Cathedral, in the big throne room, at the end of the red carpet and a bit to the left. An old man with two servants around him. Talk to him and he will give you your next quest.

You have to talk to him twice, once to turn in the scroll, second to accept the next quest.

It's just the ommel bone/tooth, because they are ommel materials.

Every material is theoretically edible, the creature just needs the correct flags to be able to digest a given material type. SPOILER ALERT. Click here to see text. Try polymorphing into an imp and see what you can eat.


Actually no, that's a bug! Otherwise, canines, bears and necromancers can eat bone.

And petrified dragon bone is classified as a mineral, so bone-eating will not help you there.

puppy
AStr  5
Agi  15
End   8
Per  18
Int   5
Wis   5
Will  5
Cha  15
Mana  0

Sorry about that, the imps are not correctly removed after death in the current version. There is an as of yet unmerged fix here.

We could theoretically have an option for an all-dungeons-open, no-highscore game, though.

Well, it would be easy to keep the other quests open rather than lock you out, but the locking out is done for balance purposes. There's a limited amount of gear you can find in each of the quests, but if you had access to all three, the scrolls of enchantment etc. would add up.

I think that was one of the problems with CLIVAN, where you had mutiple new areas full of loot, all freely accessible, and you were severely overpowered in the end game. I won CLIVAN with all gear made of valpurium or GEF, enchanted to +6 at the least, stats through the roof and unlike vanilla IVAN, it wasn't hard or lucky to get to that point. I just had to explore everywhere.