Exceptionally lucky character

[BlitzerkidSix]

Hey all, I woke up this morning and my roommate shouted across the hall, "Have I got an ADOM character to show you!" Note he is not an experienced player, rather a recruit of mine from around the time of the crowd-funding campaign. I looked at his screen and saw an instance of ADOM, and one of Notepad with the following:



reminder from your f*&#ed up self,

your charchter has the following-
death ray resistance
paralyzation restistance
teleportation
teleportation control
and u got a wish,

all from the same pool


He explained he was playing a hurthling chaos knight, and had drunk 13 times from this very pool and got a total of three wishes. I am inclined to believe him, as he is wearing red dragon scale mail (+14 PV even), a tower eternium shield, and had a mace of destruction plus two spares. Have a nice day, everyone.

[plllizzz9]

Time to start betting on that YASD

[Knight]

Quick, does the color of the pool match the PC's eye color?!

[anon123]

Quick, does the color of the pool match the PC's eye color?!

What about intrinsic lucky and Fate smiles, plus ankh, plus two blessed rings of luck?

I like how he took note of it. I tend to play too fast to stop and write down interesting events :o

[BlitzerkidSix]

Character was L8, had lucky and Fate smiles from the pool, no special piety or luck items. I thought to report a "luck bug", but it was P10.

[plllizzz9]

Do not report, pools would finally be worth it :P

@edit

weren't those drunk at character's birthday by any chance?

[anon123]

Character was L8, had lucky and Fate smiles from the pool, no special piety or luck items. I thought to report a "luck bug", but it was P10.

I once made a blessed PC with intrinsic +Luck +Fate, the ankh, two blessed rings of luck and Ma 99 drink Darkforge dry, removing dooming as necessary, to verify that. I noticed no difference from usual results. But hey, maybe I should have swapped one of the rings for the RotMC, wielded Purifier and worn True Strength :p

[JellySlayer]

Luck modifiers have no effect on pools. Eye colour is, AFAIK, an unproved (probably false) urban legend.

[Knight]

I was kidding about the eye color thing, I think that's a legend. But urban? No. I'd classify it as an internet legend. *solemn nod*

[anon123]

I think the best ADOM-related complete fabrication Internet legend I've read was meeting Thomas Biskup when you enter level 2000 of the ID.

[_Ln_]

No one ever was doomed several times in a row from a pool when the closest altar is around 5 in-game days to reach? I know I was.

[gut]

I love those times when one travels across ancardia, gets undoomed, travels back to df, and the very first sip is doom again.

[Spellweaver]

I love them most when there is "flickering lights" room on the way. Though none of the 3 trespasses were letal.

[anon123]

Ever walked through a dark room and suddenly felt as if that wasn't a good idea twice in a row? I have.

[aerol]

Once I managed to actually get eaten by a grue. Imagine that.

[JellySlayer]

I love them most when there is "flickering lights" room on the way. Though none of the 3 trespasses were letal.

Yeah, flickering light rooms are scary as hell when you're doomed.

[plllizzz9]

torch/amulet of light worn will negate the effect [as in, give stable lighting]

[JellySlayer]

True, but not always available, esp. early in the game.

[plllizzz9]

I only drink from pools in early game if I really don't care for the character's survival :P

tbh. I hardly drink from pools at all lately, gear and corpses are much more reliable source of resistances, wishes and other effects. Last time I went poolsipping was to get AoLS for Khelly for the Ultras

[anon123]

I never drink from pools, unless I'm playing a boring PC tempting me to Shift+Q and there's one around. Most intrinsics are provided by guaranteed items and artifacts. -Acid is nearly guaranteed by the anthill in PC:2. Amulets of free action and petrification resistance are fairly common. Wishes are good, but the chance of getting them from a pool instead of cursing, dooming or losing hard-earned resistances is very slim, which makes the whole ordeal nor worth it for me.