Let's play "How will the RNG kill my character?"

[Mogri]

Just a couple of days ago I lost a perma-invisible drakish farmer to a titan on DH:1. (This was totally my fault and preventable twice-over: I should have checked if titans could see invis *before* I ran across him, and I should have read a scroll of darkness when he noticed me. I also should avoid the DH generally because I have never once survived it. Stupid death.)

So let's play "How will the RNG kill my character?" Either post your character or tell someone else what gruesome fate lies in store for his character. Or both. It's yer choice.

My character: Elsa, L15 HE Wizard. Large selection of spells, just entered the pyramid. One of my best characters so far; the only one that's gotten further is a gnomish elementalist who cleared out the Pyramid and is still alive on another computer. (But that's a story for another post.)

Here are Elsa's vitals:

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                            Character Information
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Elsa    St:15  Le:21  Wi:17  Dx:21  To:11  Ch:14  Ap:20  Ma:22  Pe:15  N=
DV/PV: 39/20   H: 63(63)   P: 147(149)   Exp: 15/138130   M: 32366



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                            Background Information
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Name: Elsa                Race: female High Elf     Class: Wizard
Eye color: amber          Hair color: black         Complexion: pale
Height: 6'                Weight: 121 pounds
Age: 213 (grown-up)
Star sign: Tree           Birthday: 1/Tree (day 331 of the year)


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                                Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon           Lvl   Hit   Dam   DV   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Pole arms                7    +7    +3   +6   skilled              839

Shields                Lvl   DV               Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---              -------------  --------------
Shields                  5   +10              skilled              262



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                                   Spells
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   Acid Ball        :   156,  27pp     (Effectivity: +5)
   Acid Bolt        :   453,  11pp     (Effectivity: +9)
   Bless            :   446,   7pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Burning Hands    :   233,   4pp     (Effectivity: +17)
   Calm Monster     :   515,   6pp     (Effectivity: +7)
   Cure Light Wounds:   353,   4pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Darkness         :   388,   4pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Fire Bolt        :   654,   8pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Fireball         :   414,  15pp     (Effectivity: +6)
   Frost Bolt       :   713,   9pp     (Effectivity: +9)
   Invisibility     :   726,   8pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Light            :  1036,   3pp     (Effectivity: +4)
   Lightning Ball   :   225,  24pp     (Effectivity: +3)
   Lightning Bolt   :   277,   9pp     (Effectivity: +8)
   Magic Missile    :   492,   5pp     (Effectivity: +14)
   Slow Monster     :   681,   6pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Strength of Atlas:   638,   8pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Stun Ray         :   537,   7pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Web              :   837,  10pp     (Effectivity: +4)


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                                   Skills
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  Alchemy ..............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Climbing ............. 61    (good)         [+1d5]
  Concentration ........100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Dodge ................ 41    (fair)         [+1d5]
  First aid ............ 50    (fair)         [+1d5]
  Haggling ............. 22    (mediocre)     [+4d4]
  Healing .............. 91    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Herbalism ............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Listening ............ 66    (good)         [+3d3]
  Literacy .............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Pick pockets ......... 23    (mediocre)     [+3d4]
  Stealth .............. 70    (good)         [+1d3]
  Ventriloquism ........ 50    (fair)         [+1d5]



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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 1696 stones                Carrying capacity: 1500 stones

Head          : blessed bone helmet [+0, +1]                          [40s]
Neck          : uncursed amulet of defense +2                          [3s]
Body          : uncursed mithril splint mail (-2, -4) [-2, +10]      [360s]
Girdle        : uncursed leather girdle [+1, +0]                       [5s]
Cloak         : uncursed hooded cloak [+1, +0]                        [40s]
Right Hand    : uncursed orcish spear (+2, 1d8+4)                     [75s]
Left Hand     : uncursed medium adamantium shield [+7, +5]            [72s]
Right Ring    : uncursed ring of damage                                [1s]
Left Ring     : uncursed ring of mental stability [+0, +1] {Le+1}      [1s]
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : uncursed blue dragon-hide gauntlets (-2, +0) [+0, +2] [10s]
Boots         : uncursed iron boots [-1, +1]                         [120s]
Missile weapon: uncursed short bow (+1, +0)                           [20s]
Missiles      : bundle of 13 uncursed arrows (+0, 1d6+1)              [26s]
Tool          : uncursed holy symbol                                   [5s]


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                               Killed Monsters
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1509 monsters perished under her attacks. No cats so far.

How will the RNG kill my character?

[taickyto]

Overconfidence in your melee skills ?
Something too fast for you (as you don't have teleport)
Accidentaly kick stairs ?

A wizard with such fair stats and good spells who survived the early game has no reason to die too soon.

[moomoo]

In an attempt to avoid DH by passing through animated forest Elsa gets surrounded by hostile trees.

Being a clever girl she is she roasts the trees with burning hands left and right thus horribly angering the whole forest! She tries to escape in vain and is MAULED to death by angry trees - who will wear hers intestines as decorations.

[gut]

An out of sight troll kills a baby dragon on a black altar. You
enter the room, see the gold, plan to pick it up and kill the
troll, said troll then sacs you for just enough piety to crown.

[Grey]

With that low To you could die from a lot of things...

Personally I'll go with getting sickened by a mummy in the pyramid and then killed by one of the baddies up there - possibly a fire vortex.

[JellySlayer]

Instakill critical hit by a steel golem in darkforge.

Unless you're doing some zany challenge game, there's no reason that you should still be walking around with only 11 To and 63 HP at this point in the game. You should have at least double in both of those stats. Find some morgia roots...

[Al-Khwarizmi]

She will accidentally magic missile herself around D:20 or so. By the way, this game sounds fun

[Mogri]

Instakill critical hit by a steel golem in darkforge.

Unless you're doing some zany challenge game, there's no reason that you should still be walking around with only 11 To and 63 HP at this point in the game. You should have at least double in both of those stats. Find some morgia roots...

This seems like the one most likely to actually happen, but I have to say that gut's answer is the cleverest. It also sounds like something he's experienced firsthand.

The steel golem is still easy enough to prevent: web, darkness, invisibility. That assumes I see him coming, though...

I have a pair of morgia roots in my backpack, so I must have found a bush in the Big Room. It's overrun with monsters, IIRC -- not a threat, but still a major annoyance because of message spam, exacerbated by having to wait for the bushes to regrow. I haven't found any moss bushes, which is annoying, but I think my Dx is high enough for now.

[JellySlayer]

The steel golem is still easy enough to prevent: web, darkness, invisibility. That assumes I see him coming, though...

Steel golems are immune to all three IIRC.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

Steel golems are immune to all three IIRC.

Not to Web. They do shrug them off often, but I have cleared Darkforge with low-level wizards many times thanks to Web.