Or yet another stupid chaotic act.
I'm not dead. At least, not yet. But the potential for my first-ever Paragon of Law character was quickly snuffed out today after encountering a tension room full of greater rust monsters down on D:44 today. At this point in the game I didn't really care about rust monsters; they were no threat to me, and I didn't use any iron equipment! Sling & rocks, artifact weapon & shield, dragon scale mail armor... if anything they would waste all their attacks attempting to rust my elemental gauntlets, right? I slew them all without paying much attention.
Que going down 1 more level. At D:45 I find a potion shop which has the ingredients I need to mix a much-needed potion of youth, after that greater undead vault. I hastily pick them up only to watch as an alarm bell goes off as I teleport out of the shop before I can pay.
...the rust monsters ate my amulet of teleport control.