BARB SMASH!
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This is a collection of 21 NetHack games featuring successful "protection 
racket" openings... as Barbarians! This is the role which plays this opening 
the least. (The most common PR roles are Hea Arc Tou Wiz: for a complete
breakdown by role see http://www.codehappy.net/nethack/data.htm)

The games are presented in compressed ttyrec format. ttyconcat logs are
also provided for more detailed summaries (these are the other .txt files.)

If you are interested in the PR opening, these games are particularly
interesting examples, as Barbarians have no special advantages (besides
perhaps poison resistance) that make them conducive to the opening. If
you're doing the protection racket even as a Barbarian, you're probably
experienced or at least very confident with the opening. 

A few of these games are pacifist conduct attempts, but most are simply
just unusual play-style. Here are brief summaries of the games:

27b6-0078	A pacifist attempt; killed by a minotaur
27b6-0107	Failed pacifist attempt (killed Medusa by reflection); ascended non-pacifist
27b6-0194	A pacifist attempt; killed by an air elemental
27b6-0211	Successfully ascended pacifist.
anselmus-0008	Not a pacifist attempt, a 'regular' protection racket; went to heaven prematurely (gave up after a long break)
cow9-0082	Not a pacifist attempt, a 'regular' protection racket; killed by a wand
cow9-0095	Not a pacifist attempt, a 'regular' protection racket; ascended
durron597-0226	Not a pacifist attempt, a 'regular' protection racket; ascended
efot-0769	Not a pacifist attempt, completed Sokoban first; ascended
efot-0924	Not a pacifist attempt, a 'regular' protection racket; ascended
grieg-0013	Not a pacifist attempt, a 'regular' protection racket; killed by a minotaur 
healthy-0050	Not a pacifist attempt, an XP 2 protection racket; ascended
rphoffm-0060	Not a pacifist attempt, a 'regular' protection racket; ascended
wizard44-0040	Not a pacifist attempt, an XP 2 protection racket; ascended
yumyum-0220	Not a pacifist attempt, a 'regular' protection racket; ascended
yumyum-3858	Not a pacifist attempt, a 'regular' protection racket; ascended
yumyum-3907	Not a pacifist attempt, a 'regular' protection racket; ascended
yumyum-4392	Not a pacifist attempt, a 'regular' protection racket; ascended
yumyum-4620	Not a pacifist attempt, a 'regular' protection racket; ascended
yumyum-5706	Not a pacifist attempt, an XP 2 protection racket; ascended
yumyum-5756	Not a pacifist attempt, a 'regular' protection racket; ascended