Will player style magic resistance help a pet resist conflict

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I equipped a Djinni with a spare GrayDSM and an amulet of reflection, so I'm sure she's good to go. But I'm nearing the point of fighting Rodney for his book, and after that,… Lotsa monsters. She's pretty high levelled (L14), but I'm not clear on how the formula using MR, ML, etc. is affected by conflict or if player MR helps at all (the wiki doesn't specify in any of the relevant articles). It would be nice to use conflict provided she doesn't turn on me. Does the GDSM help?

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Magic Resistance does a great job of stopping beams, polymorphs, and death magic, but is not known to be effective against mind altering enchantments. What it covers is enumerated in the link above.

Magic Cancelation is effective against the magical side effects of physical blows. So no help here.

All in all, Conflict is incompatible with pets.

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Does magic whistling a pet out of a trap count as untrapping

No. Using a magic whistle simply removes a pet from a trap, without any of the additional effects that untrapping has. From the source code, use_magic_whistle() in apply.c:

if (mtmp->mtame) {
    if (mtmp->mtrapped) {
        /* no longer in previous trap (affects mintrap) */
        mtmp->mtrapped = 0;
        fill_pit(mtmp->mx, mtmp->my);
    }

(fill_pit() deals with the possibility that teleporting your pet resulted in a boulder being left on top of a pit trap.)

Will a pet arch lich still be covetous

Looking through the source for monster movement yields this:

/* my dog gets special treatment */
if (mtmp->mtame) {
    mmoved = dog_move(mtmp, after);
    goto postmov;
}

...

/* and the acquisitive monsters get special treatment */
if (is_covetous(ptr)) {
  ...

In other words, movement for tamed monsters is handled before the covetous check, meaning that as long as the arch-lich stays tame it shouldn't bother you.

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