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

[Setremedes]

In the tower, all your fireproof blankets will burn, except for one. That last one will be lost to a random acid trap. Without the blankets, your methods of disabling the wyrm will all burn. You will be forced to fight the Wyrm without disabling him. You will barely be able to survive that fight, but only at the cost of becoming highly corrupted. While you are busy surviving the fight, most of your food will burn too, because you have no fireproof blankets. One of the corruptions will be poisoned hands, which helps you defeat the wyrm and other baddies, but increases your later food problems. When you walk out of the tower, severely corrupted, with only 1 HP left and no food or prayers, you're hungry. In the wilderness you ambush a pack of jackals, desperate for food. You manage to collect some corpses, but they are all poisoned. Since you still are low on HP, you die from food poisoning.

Damn, that's a masterpiece. It's honestly pretty likely that the tower will kill me, too - if only because it's never killed a character of mine before. I tend to overprepare for it a bit (as in, I will not enter the tower without two blessed rings of ice unless the 90 day limit is approaching or I'm extremely, extremely bored).

EDIT: hasn't killed me yet, but the greater daemon got the demented ratling. I had a RoDS for khelavaster, too...

[jamm]

well, my barbarian managed to close the gate ;-) will post yavp ater tonight. i knew barbies were powerful, but did not realizaed it is that much...

anyway, i am so frustrated with ge wizards. i think that they got some magicacademies produce wizards with sole purpose for me to kill them. i get by early game all right, pyramid, griffyyard, water temple, even tower. and then i have to do something monumentally stupid. like melee doppelganger king. got crushed by tons of luggage. execute myself with mm. and kill them. and start again. and kill. i geuss i get overconfident with them. and do not know why i have this strange idea that is good idea to 'save' castings for later (even when i have 1k+ i every possible bolt spell). and try to melee monsters...

[vogonpoet]

Well that's easy to fix - just equip two shields and your problems are solved.
Ok, that won't protect your wizard or my elementalist from killing themselves with mm, but still.
You can always book cast if you suffer too much from spell loss paranoia, although really, it shouldn't be necessary - rather than kill weak normal mobs, just teleport around them.

[ChaosMuffin]

hurthling merchant, got 1/4staff of dev from smc next to the stairs at *lvl1*, got battle axe of pen and rolfs shield for tdoin darkforge, lvl15 at mo heading of to do pyramid then graveyard then df, herb stats up to 26.

how will i die..

[Silfir]

PC loses teleport control from the pools and becomes doomed. During the battle to still escape Darkforge in order to remove dooming, the axe gets burned. Killed by steel golem critical hit.

[gut]

> rolfs shield for tdoin darkforge

hmm?


anyway, you dip a scroll into a PoRC, it transforms into an education scroll. You read,
and you get alchemy. A few missed keys, and bam, half dead. That was kinda scary,
and you don't wanna to be tempted by more chaos potions, so you immediately drink
all you have. Wonder pots give cure light wounds and magic missile. Thinking to heal
more quickly, you try for CLW. Your fat fingers screw you again though, and you die via
badly aimed magic missile. Gauranteed.

[ChaosMuffin]

nah upto toeflames now, poeducations have given me alertness, concentrate and dodge.
lvl 20, found amulet of lifesaving somewhere, got a wand of paralyzation for the wyrm and ring of ice so hopefully this char wont roast

(rolfs shield was the best shield ive found so far)

ToeF was easy, got purifier from casino, ring of cat lord, had a huge stash of MagicMaps so cut to surface to get the cow axe as well, ring of djinn got me find weakness, i think this ones a winner

[ChaosMuffin]

oh god famous last words....
was lvl 23, crit down to 2 hp by a greater moloch on lvl 43 coc, teleport to otherside to heal and land next to a beserker emperor who finished me off.

sigh.

[fazisi]

Couldn't have just switched to Coward tactics and walked away?

[ChaosMuffin]

could have done alot of things, like equip that aols...
ah well better luck with my gnome wizzy, shes doin well... so far