First time for everything...

[JellySlayer]

Been playing doomed for months, first time I've ever seen this:

"It's dark here! Oh, no! You have walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue! You die..."

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DoomHealer    St:19  Le: 5  Wi:16  Dx:11  To:24  Ch:12  Ap: 8  Ma:15  Pe:14 LN
DV/PV: 28/5    H: 0(109)      P: 38(38)      Exp: 8/8838        DD: 1 Sp: 105
Burdened Coward
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              His achievements during his adventures:
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DoomHealer, the drakish healer, was eaten by a slavering grue.
He scored 0 points and advanced to level 8.
[Ok, to be honest: he scored -6889 points!]
He survived for 0 years, 3 days, 17 hours, 55 minutes and 58 seconds (3772
turns).
DoomHealer visited 9 places.
His perception score was modified by +1 during his career.
He ended his adventuring life in a sinister dungeon on level 1.
84 monsters perished under his attacks.
He possessed the following intrinsics:
  He was cold resistant (gained through an item).
  He was doomed.
He had the following talents: Alert, Miser, Treasure Hunter.
He had a final speed score of 105 (final base speed: 110).
He was hated by Sssracht.
He asked for 14 divine interventions.
He was lawfully aligned.

[Overheat]

Getting glass amulets in ID does not work when doomed, eh?

[JellySlayer]

Not worth the effort, honestly. I've rolled through hundreds of doomed PCs; they have typical lifespans of<10 minutes. The fact that one of them died to a grue is unique, but in terms of the statistics it's as likely to happen as death by gorgon or power outage. Not really things worth being concerned about. The things are also really fragile, which isn't really that helpful either.

It'd be more worthwhile to scum for amulets of free action, if anything, since ghul/mimic/carrion crawler/staring eye/gelatenous cube related deaths probably make up ~30% of the total.

[fazisi]

I tried some Doomed PCs to emulate my hero, JellySlayer, and even experienced a sleep-death from a homonculus.

[vogonpoet]

Well this was just a matter of time

I got eaten by a grue in the water temple once, about 3 turns or so after casting darkness... I guess I was pretty unlucky