Welcome, Splasher! You are a neutral (fe)male human tourist. Pick up your mighty ), don your trusty [, and descend into the dungeons with your adorable, loyal d to seek your destiny. The wimpy : and the frail F will offer you little resistance, but beware the might of the D and the fatal magic of the L. --- Written entirely in C and created decades ago, NetHack is still nevertheless one of the deepest, most impressive video games ever made. It is almost surprisingly pivotal: Diablo is essentially a graphical (and less fun) port of NetHack. NetHack is easy to learn, nearly impossible to master. Almost every situation is solvable with creativity, innovation, and a hint of luck. After all -- in how many other games can you beat the final bosses by throwing oranges at them? NetHack is not an adventure for the faint-hearted. Many will descend into the Dungeons of Doom; few will make it out alive. Will you be one of them? Will you be the one to ascend to demi-god(dess)-hood?