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    Default Describe your first death

    I can still remember my first death in ADOM.

    I was playing an elven wizard, I went off to the VD dungeon and was wondering around the dungeon killing things when I ran out of food. I started to make a mad dash for the town, as I remembered seeing the food store there, but I was already in the red and starving. On my frantic rush back I killed a kobold and saw the corpse drop. I had already eaten goblin and orc before and I thought thank god something to eat, and that now I might have a chance to make it back to the store. So quickly I ate the kobold corpse, and then instantly realized that I just doomed myself. I only made it a few more steps in my already weaken state before dying. That's when I knew I would like this game.
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    I just downloaded the game and immediately began playing, it didn't end well. I picked a troll barbarian and moved left until I found jackals which surrounded me and slowly tore me apart. I decided to print and read the manual at that point, I probably spent 2 days reading every part of it. This was the summer of '97 or '98 I think.

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    I think my first death was due to starvation cause I didn't know about the whole food thing, it was a first for me in games.
    Don't remember specifically, it must have been 20 years ago.
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    I was in the third or fourth floor of the village dungeon and read the IBM Guild Manual - starved to death waiting for the confusion to wear off.(didn't know it was permanent and didn't know prayers did anything but heal at the time.) version 1.1.1

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blasphemous View Post
    I think my first death was due to starvation cause I didn't know about the whole food thing, it was a first for me in games.
    Don't remember specifically, it must have been 20 years ago.
    Same here, I don't remember, but it was likely one of my many starvation deaths. I didn't realize you can pray for satiation and spent way too much time in the wilderness.
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    It seems starvation may be a common first death, but a lesson quickly learned and not that hard to adjust for.
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    Looking at the weekly challenge games output, there are some funny death messages

    Your rusty horned helmet melts away!
    Your bandage is burned to ashes!
    You notice a slurping sound in the distance.
    You die...
    The last thing noticed in your mortal life is some giant spider splorting out a web.

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    No idea but from what I recall of playing this in the 90s it was either starvation or wilderness encounter.

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    A ghul paralysed me and then slowly killed me, 1 HP at a time...

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