Threat/Tension Room Horror Stories
I think today I cleared one of the nastiest threat rooms I've ever had the misfortune of encountering. I was playing a doomed ranger, about level 20, exploring the area around the Banshee level. I open a door and find a dark room. I step into the threshold, and instantly get stat drained multiple times. I retreat, and suddenly greater fucking daemons start teleporting everywhere around me. I don't have controlled teleport myself, and while I'm somewhat fast (120ish speed), it doesn't exactly do much good when you're surrounded. I take a bunch of stat drains as I attempt to retreat to the stairs. Get trapped a couple times and need to use a wand of digging to open escape routes. Eventually get to the level above with a few daemons in tow. Kill these guys off with missiles. I decide that I might as well try to clear as many as I can, since I'm going to have to deal with them now or when I come back with the Fire Orb. So I use the stairs to pull a few at a time up and kill them with missiles above. Taking lots more stat drains. I killed about 16 or so before my St, To, and Dx were reduced to single digits and I needed to call it quits because I wasn't strong enough to kill them anymore. Spend 10 minutes doing herbs and St training, then went back and cleared the rest of the bastards. (Promptly died three levels down to a frost giant).
I can't decide if this was worse than the time I had to kill 45 minotaur mages on the Mana Temple level. On the one hand, that time I had nasty confusion problems to worry about. On the other hand, I was playing a caster, so I had more option to clear them. Still had about a 10 point stat loss across the board on that one.
Any one else got some memorable threat/tension room horror stories to share? What's the worst you've ever seen?
Hoping to win with every class, doomed. Archer, Barbarian, Bard, Beastfighter, Druid, Elementalist, Farmer, Fighter, Monk, and ULE Priest down.