Ranting Time
Do you sometimes play a game of ADOM where you feel everything goes out of its way to personally annoy you? Mind you, not kill - annoy. A list of things that happened to me in this game, just so you know what I'm talking about:
- Acid trap destroyed my elven chain mail. Mithril is supposed to be incredibly sturdy despite being lightweight. I mean, it doesn't melt, it doesn't rust, right? So what kind of hack elven armorsmith makes a suit of mithril elven chain mail that can be dissolved by an acid trap? And what kind of insane trapmaker makes an acid trap with an acid that is capable of dissolving mithril, for crying out loud, but is apperantly not potent enough to kill a gray elf?
In hindsight, maybe the acid trap maker was paid by elven armorsmiths, so adventurers would have to go and buy new elven chain mails...
- Anyway, I decided to rob Darkforge (with around 60 HP, no less), which this time around had exactly one suit of armor that wasn't total shit: A crystal plate mail. Sigh. Okay, I guess 11 PV is awesome and at least it's indestructable, right?
WRONG. Completely, utterly busted. A goddamn mummy took it down from 11 to 7 PV. Since I had found another suit of elven chain mail, I dropped the failure to all crystalsmiths of the world and wore that instead.
Kherab, do you put shitty armor in your vaults for fun, because you know that adventurers get in there all the time? In that case, my respect for you has just risen. It takes a special level of deviousness to fill these rooms with clothes and robes and crystal plate mails that break just to fuck with people. (Incidentally, the weapons were just as horrible.)
Also, kudos to that hardcore mummy. Must've been some kind of egyptian strongman in his life.
- Speaking of hardcore mummies. I don't know if it was a team effort, but in the fight against Rehetep and some of his guys in darkness their attacks sickened me six times or seven times in total. I mean, I knew that gray elves were frail, but what kind of physique is this? I had to keep healing up the HP lost due to the HP total reduction, and once I turned off Coward and attacked, I got sick again. I mean, I had enough curaria to go around and Rehetep ran away at some point (why is Rehetep always such a pussy?), but it was infuriating. I have to recheck my background, maybe I got one where I was terminally ill in childhood, youth AND young adulthood. It would explain a lot.
- Fuck you, Thrundarr. Better yet, try to find a displacer beast and fuck that one too, if you can figure out how. It took me hours of play until I found one of the damn things. I am onto you, though, I just know that you have a special dwarven ninja squad at the ready, and as soon as I leave my hat you call all of them and tell them to go and kill all the displacer beasts so I won't be able to find one. Curse you, dwarven ninjas! (I guess they didn't kill the one I found because it was in the midst of a spider factory deep in the most dangerous early game dungeon, located beyond a mountain range in the most remote northwest corner of the Drakalor chain, and they figured "Fuck this, we don't get paid enough for that." Well, guess what, I didn't get paid for that damn displacer beast at all, you pissants!)
- Blup, do you think I'm made of your goddamn carrot juice? Every bottle of it I give you, I have pried off the cold, dead fingers of some monster, or bought from a ridiculously overpriced potion shop with money I pried off the cold, dead fingers of even more monsters, and you have the audacity to gulp down all that liquid money like it's water? Oh, so you wanted BLESSED carrot juice! Silly me, how could I even consider that you would teach me anything or even like me if all I bring you is plain old regular carrot juice. No, it has to be GIVEN THE BLESSING OF DIVINE FORCES until you consider me likable enough to help you find your mother. No wonder she left you to rot in that human village; you must be the most repulsively spoiled brat I've ever seen.
Note: The game is still in progress, and despite the setbacks mentioned (and by no means exaggerated, all of this actually happened) above it's going rather well. Only thing I want to know: Can fire opal rings be rings of djinni summoning? I know already that rings of damage are ordinary rings in my game. I want to know the chances before I risk robbing the water dragon cave (which otherwise contains nothing remarkable, though I might have to get the wand of monster creation from there at some point).
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What I wanted to demonstrate was the absurdness of the situation.
Originally Posted by gut
