Mist Elf Wizard, fell to the Chaos Archmage in the Mana temple due to sheer stupidity.
My first time playing a wizard and really enjoyed it - will try it again in the future. Overall had a very good game with some great moments:
- pickpocketing ~3 SoCR, 1 RoDS
- Wand of Wishing (4 charges)... Died with 2 charges and 2 RoDS back in storage
- Lots of spells, Khelly saved, on his way to attempting an archmage
- Scroll shop (???) 2 levels above Mana temple
- 60ish PV (found a threat room of chaos knights so was swimming in eternium gear)
- Cleared Minotaur Maze for the first time - 6 PoGA and Black Thumb... I had 10 PoGA in my stash when I died.. didn't have enough holy water to bless them all
And some really stupid moments:
- Fireballing a dwarven child in Dwarftown by hitting the wrong key (Ruun saw and did nothing!)... luckily nobody seemed to care
- Sacrificing elemental gauntlets to a Neutral Altar when chaotic (wanted to sac 10 gold to move back to N).. whoops. Probably would have hurt my chances at an archmage
- Not my fault, but completely shafted by RNG as far as artifacts.. UGV containing Artifact gauntlets of peace and Cloak of Oman, nothing (even good mundane items) found in an early raided DF, Black Thumb
And for the kicker, after having my mana drained and trying to lead the Chaos archmage out (don't ask me what I was thinking at 2 in the morning) through the trap hallway AWAY from the damn eyes he destroyed me. He had confused me earlier for one turn so I swapped my RoHK for ring of mental stability (somewhat pointless really, as I had ~50 Wi). As he turned the first corner he cast darkness on me, and dropped me from 197 HP to -10 with a freezing blast. I had a white dragon scale mail on that an annihilator ate 100 turns before (whoops!), so switched to normal eternium mail, and forgot to switch back rings for -Cold
What a shame. Next time I'll improved fireball those damn eyes through the wall. Also, if anyone has any tips for finding copious amounts of water I'm all ears - every game I play I end up running low. You'd think the character could pour out useless potions and fill them up at a river