Castle

Two of the following are BingeHack-unique Castles. For information and general strategy on other original Castle level, see the NetHack Wiki.

Hall of the Titan King

The king must have let his pet dragons too close to his rock garden, because now he has a lava garden. Additionally, the moat diggers went a little overboard on building security; not only is the moat damned wide, it now contains sharks, jellyfish, giant eels, AND electric eels, all for your adventuring pleasure.

There is only a 25% chance that the king titan will be home when you make a house call, but at least one of his vampire advisers will be there. They don't get many visitors, so they'll be asleep unless you've done something to wake them up.

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The Troll King's Dungeons

This Castle is ruled by an evil troll, whom, since it's your first time here, you will have to fight. He uses his castle, besides as a place to store his armies, dragons, and all the usual accouterments, as a dungeon for his enemies. He's a badass who lives on the edge, and had his slaves build him a moat made of god-damned lava to prove it. Teach him a lesson in humility and use his own lava moat to perma-kill him so he doesn't auto-revive.

The room up top marked "HIGH SEC" is the High Security Prison, where the biggest and meanest enemies of the evil troll king are kept. In it you'll find a Fire Giant who would be grateful to be let free, and a mean-ass sleeping ochre jelly who is more likely to attack you than his captors. The bottom-left rooms contain human prisoners, who are similarly split in how they'd react to being freed after such a long time imprisoned.

Note for archers: You may find a very small number of pretty good bows and arrows.

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