Reminds me of one of my favorite chars: dwarven bard. Taking Heir, Starting with 7LB, with lucky roll on music skill, ready to tame killer bugs off the bat.
So here's my char, lvl1, 2 killer bugs tamed at my side, plowing through CoC. Enter D4 or D5, "you step on a loose stone" - fireball trap.
"The killer bug does not seem to be amused" followed by only one "hits you" message, then death. Such an overkill.
Once they are extremely experienced, no bard is really safe when they get angry, I lost very high level chars to this too many times.
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."