I am playing Nethack again. Being some sort of a veteran (What? Bragging about an ascension in Nethack? How geek can you go?), I wanted some challenge. So I dived into the dungeon as a vegetarian bare-handed monk [1]. Then it struck me; I understand that people like psycopathic barbarians, brave knights, furious valkyrians, and, well, clueless tourists who just stumbled there, end up fighting for treasuries against all odds, but what the hell are vegetarian monks doing there?

[1] I know; it's not that much of a challenge. The coolest conduct is of course a samurai that puts on a blindfold —samurais sometimes start with a blindfold— at first turn and never takes it off.