Started a random char, got a gnome barbarian.
Nothing remarkable till I got to Dwarftown. After proving myself to the dwarven elder by slaying a rat that presumably had pestered his missus, I chug some sulphur and read an ID-scroll. And lo and behold - I possess an amulet of life saving! Now, I know how rare these are, and I have mabye found 3 of them in my entire career. And I do not think I've found any before dwarftown, or Khelevaster, for that matter. I have made a few with a wish from a pool or ring, but never found me own. I am well equipped after doing all starting caves + UD and a wand shop (doing a wand shop - hm) so I decide to save that old geezer once and for all. Almost forget to get the next quest from elder, but remember just in time. DH 1 is of course, a piece of cake. Just to lure me. DH:2 - is not.
Long hallways, empty rooms..downstairs are past some hidden door somewhere illogical place. And now I've got trouble, A troll chief and a black slayer has me cornered in a hallway. After a round of melee with the slayer I try my luck against the chief, and hold my own, but cannot kill him quickly enough to escape the wrath of blackie. So. This is normally when I go down in a blaze of glory, or gore, but somehow that amulet makes me think. I can, of course, put it on...it is sitting in my backpack to lessen chance of accidental destruction...got a amulet of luck instead...but then I remember something about wands. I tend to gather wands and never really use them much. I try a fireball one, but it only had a charge and didn't help much. But then I see I can dig my way out of trouble. And I do. More trouble, ratling disarmers and stuff, but I somehow manage to 'stave' them off. I escape and run through animated forest instead, realizing just how bleeding easy THAT is if your char is half-decent.
So. All set. Run down two more stairs, and there it is - the room with the white guy and the red basturds. Victory is mine....
A chaos servant steps on a hidden brick.
*CLICK*
A fireball covers the area.
Oh he is still alive, trap is in the corner, back away..."You hear a thundering explosion"
Well they are called chaos servants for some reason.
And later I get, for the 3rd time, crowned as a barbarian with Deaths blade. I think I'll commit hara-kiri with it.
-M