{"id":6849,"date":"2011-05-24T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T21:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=6849"},"modified":"2011-05-24T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T21:30:53","slug":"nethack-prey-then-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/05\/24\/nethack-prey-then-pray\/","title":{"rendered":"Nethack: prey, then pray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"6849\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/altar.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/altar.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"altar\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6852\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started a new game as an orcish barbarian. One thing I&#8217;ve run into early on is an altar. Your character can gain benefits from his god by sacrificing his kills on these things. 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But to then pick up your victims and lug them to an altar for brownie points just feels like taking out your recycling, and it&#8217;s about as much fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-diaries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nethack: prey, then pray - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/05\/24\/nethack-prey-then-pray\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nethack: prey, then pray - 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