I have a funny story to tell you about my brother's game as a gnomish monk. He spent 94 days in the game looking for an amulet of life saving or a ring of djinni summoning because he really wanted to save Khelavaster. I was telling him to just go on, since he was not going for an ultra anyways. He drained all the pools in Darkforge (there were only 4), all the pools he had found in many different levels, killed 750+ animated trees, scummed the big cave and the Tomb of the High Kings (and picked many pockets), and even took the risk of digging up all the great treasure graves in the Dwarven Graveyard and the CoC graveyard. He still did not find what he needed to save Khelavaster.
However, he happened to reach floor 21 and luckily found a pool. He started drinking from it carefully, and he finally got a wish. He was so happy that he pooped his pants. He wished for an amulet of life saving, and dipped it in holy water right away to decrease it's chances of being destroyed. He continued to descend so that he could give the amulet to Khelavaster. He reached the banshee floor, and started to wonder where the heck Khelavaster was, since neither he nor I remember him being so far down.
This is the point where he tried to remember if he had ever met Khelavaster at all. Neither I nor he remembered seeing him, and it was odd that he had gotten to the Water Temple without seeing him. This was the point that he checked the guidebook to find that Khelavaster was supposed to be on D:16. However, he had never seen him for some reason. He went back to floor 16 to look for him, only to find that the room with the stairs down to 17 was dark. I told him to check his monster memory for dying sage, and there he was, worth 167 experience points. I told him to look at his kills list, and there he was, 1 dying sage. He had searched for 90+ days, only to had previously splattered him in a dark room. He said "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!". Well, might as well equip it.
Has anyone ever had such a silly thing happen to them before?