Ways to Die

[Grey]

I'm curious about this... How many ways can you die in ADOM? Must be a unique death line (ie being killed by a goblin or a titan is the same, but being roasted by fire breath gives a different message). Some I thought up:

1. Killed, simply killed. The message you get from most fatal melee attacks.
2. Aged to death.
3. Crushed by luggage.
4. Killed by acute blood poisoning.
5. Wasted away from the terrible black fever (killed by sickness).
6. Choking on your own vomit (paralyzed + sick).
7. Drowning whilst swimming.
8. Starving.
9. Collapsing dungeon from kicking the stairs.
10. Turned into a chaos being (too much corruption).
11. Transformed into a chaos wretch (non-chaotics killing Andy without wielding the trident).
12. Exhausted from casting too many spells (casting out of HP).
13. Roasting to death in the Tower of Eternal Flames.
14. Eaten by a slavering grue (doomed in darkness).
15. Wail of the banshee.
16. Petrified by a gorgon's breath.
17. Death rayed (actual message is "extinguished" I think).
18. Eating too many burb roots.
19. Sacrificed by an NPC.
20. Break your leg kicking a wall.
21. Break your neck in a pit trap.
22. Shredded by chaos pirahnas!
23. Magic missile yourself to death.
24. Lightning bolt yourself to death.
25. Kill yourself with a wand of death.
26. Whip yourself to death.
27. Blasted by an energy ray.
28. Roasted by fire breath.
29. Electrocuted by mighty lightning strokes (lightning vortex).
30. Drowned by a water breath attack.
31. Frozen to death by ice magic/breath.
32. Break neck whilst climbing (cursed climbing set).
33. Break neck falling down stairs.

There must be so many others, but this is about all I can think of (whilst checking out my high score list). Suggest more! I'll edit in all unique ones and we can see just how many we can rack up in total.

Edited to include:

34. Death from blood loss.
35. Died of old age (natural death).
36. Killed by psychic backlash (mindcrafters contacting undead).
37. Killed by corrosive fluids (fighting grey oozes unarmed).
38. Turned into an undead (stat-drained to death by a vampire/wight/wraith/shadow/shadow lord/shadow troll/shadow centipede/slow shadow/spectre/living wall/quasit).
39. Killed by an unaligned amulet
40. Crushed by a collapsing ceiling (stone block trap).
41. Scorched by a fireball trap.
42. Consumed by a torrent of acid (trap).
43. Punctured by an arrow trap.
44. Harpooned by a spear trap.
45. Frozen by an ice storm (ice vortex).
46. Roasted by a fiery explosion (fire vortex).
47. Consumed by acidic fluids (acid vortex).
48. Sacrificed self to the gods.
49. Trying too hard to become a great writer (using a writing set on low HP).
50. Electrocuted by lightning breath.
51. Dissolved by acid breath.
52. Blasting self into the afterlife with an alchemical experiment.
53. Killed when trying to combine the forces of chaos with the forces of law (dipping SoCR into PoRC).
54. Killed believing in the promises of chaos (potion of raw chaos exploding)
55. Blasted into oblivion by an angry deity.
56. Killed by shattering mirrors.
57. Falling down the Rift.
58. Digested by a giant slug/ankheg.
59. Shot to death (missile attack).
60. Exploding spellbook.
61. Shredded by an overloaded wand.
62. Petrifying self from eating a gorgon corpse.
63. Break your leg kicking the air.
64. Blasted by exploding runes (door trap).
66. Fried by a magical explosion (door trap).
67. Crushed by falling door.
68. Head smashed in by falling stone door trap.
69. Execute self with an energy ray (wand of far slaying).
70. Annihilated by Keriax (an energy ray only he uses I think).
71. Enter the plane of Primal Chaos (anyone entering unawares).
72. Sliced by an eternal Chaos guardian (fail the crowned test).
73. Shredded to pieces by the inhabitants of the planes of Chaos (fail the corruption test).
74. Devoured after failing the final test (not wearing the 3 required artifacts).
75. Drained by a wand of destruction.
76. Killed by an exploding frog (perhaps the oddest death of all).
77. Killed by mis-aligned armour.
78. Killed by drinking lamp oil.
79. Electrocuted by charged armour.
80. Squeezed to death for betraying the platinum girdle.
81. Killed by the kitty ring exploding.
82. Slaughtered by a barrage of magic missiles.
83. Aiming improved fireball next to yourself.
84. Killed by toppling stones from an earthquake.
85. Electrocuted by the background shock damage in the Air Temple.
86. Died of pneumonia (in D49 without cold resistance).
87. Roasted (drakeling heat death).
88. Badly aimed divine retribution (god trying to bolt an enemy when you're doomed).
89. Roasted putting the fire orb into the elemental anomaly on D48.
90. Dissolve self with a wand of acid.
91. Transform self into ashes with a wand of fire.
92. Freeze self with a wand of cold.
93. Exploding scroll of charging (trying to read it without any wands).
94. Roast yourself with crystals of fire used as missiles.
95. Exhaust yourself by overdoing the range on an improved fireball.
96. Terminally break a leg kicking a statue.
97. Killed by drinking a poisoned cocktail (potion of poison).
98. Bitten to death by a swarm of spiders (when struggling in webs).
99. Break neck in self-made hole (w5 with a wand of digging).
100. Exhaust self with a wand of wonder.
101. Death ray self with spell or wand of wonder.
102. Shot with a thrown coin.
103. Electrocuted by a faulty wand of lightning.
104. Killed by thorns growing from hands corruption.
105. Drained of life-force by strong magic (HP reduction from failed book-reading).
106. Killed by an enemy opening a booby-trapped door.
107. Transformed into a true servant of chaos (chaotics brashly entering the gate).
108. Killed by an exploding fluff ball.
109. Exterminated by vile kobold shaman magic.
110. Drained of all substance (killed whilst having physical stats drained to minimum).
111. Drained of all coherence (killed whilst having mental stats drained to minimum).
112. Exhausted from raising too many undead.
113. Poisoned by spiderbread.
114. Break leg kicking a tree.
115. Break leg kicking a forge.
116. Break neck in magically created pit (from spellbook failure).
117. Died of exhaustion before adventure started (low To char starting on Monday).
118. Break leg kicking an anvil.
119. Break leg kicking an altar.
120. Potion of boost toughness/strength/willpower wearing off on low HP.
121. Monster setting off fireball trap.
122. Killed by equipped iron item(s) as a mist elf.
123. Killed by a maggot erupting from skin (maggot corruption).
124. Killed by internal chaotic flames (non-C chaos knights).

(used the Hall of Fame and experimentation to get some exact messages - others I tried to put according to memory)

[spectre]

[34. Break neck falling down stairs.]
How do you get this one?

[2. Aged to death.]
I am not 100% sure, but maybe dying out of old age (natural aging) gives a different entry?

I suspect there is also at least one unique way to die for mindcrafters confronting undead, but I don't play these much, so can't say for sure.

I also suspect there might be a different message for hitting corrosive jellies unarmed, with no gauntlets.

Two more from me:

35. Turned into an undead (Wight/Wraith etc.)
36. Get killed by a mis-aligned amulet
37. Most traps should give unique death entries. Stone block does this for sure, I'll have to check other traps, but it's kinda hard to get killed by door traps (most of the time they weaken severely and destroy what you need most at the moment).

[rmcin329]

[34. Break neck falling down stairs.]
How do you get this one?


Easy, start walking down stairs with the very strained status

[Jonas]

it seems you forgot the other vertices


so that would be another 2, one with something about shards of ice and the other with torrents of acidic fluids if I remember correctly, but I forget mostly.

[Terlob]

38) Sacrificing yourself

[gut]

You can kill yourself by writing too many
scrolls, with a magical writing set.

You can be melted by a dragons acid breath.

Blasting yourself into the afterlife with
an alchemical experiment.

Dipping an item into a potion of raw chaos,
results in an explosion sometimes.

Dipping a SoCR into a PoRC always results
in an explosion (I think), and yields a
message (kind of) like 'was killed when
trying to combine the forces of chaos with
the forces of law'.

Cursed climbing set can kill you while you
are mountaineering.

Smited by devine wrath.

Kicking the air lowers HP's, so there will
be a message for that too.

I think if you enter a room of mirrors, with
a low Ap stat ( I think less than 19 ) the
mirrors shatter. This also takes a few HP's
and yeilds the message 'was killed by
shattering mirrors'. I remember THAT one,
because of how unfair it was : (

I remember reading that you can be killed
by an exploding frog. I must remember to
do that one day, just for the novelty of it.

Falling down the rift.

There are loads more I don't remember.
Theoretically, you should be able to see
all of the 'death messages', by simply loading
the executable into a text editor.

[Laukku]

All death messages were posted in the exe way in RGRA some years ago. I'm not sure if it is right to post a link, so I won't. But I emember one thing: In earlier versions of ADOM, you could use Burning Hands to burn the webs you were trapped in. There was a chance to burn yourself a little in the process, which could lead to a death. Nowadays you can't use spells while webbed...

And being killed by a giant slug gives a special message (...was digested by a giant slug), not sure if it's melee or acid breath. Not sure if it counts as a diffenert way to die.

[riktikticheck]

executed himself with a lightningbolt - when dying to one of your own bouncing ightnings

[reich]

being killed by a missile weapon is a separate Cause of Death: "John, the human fighter, was killed by a battle axe thrown by a gnoll chieftain".

Another reason: spellbook exploding when read by a character not up to the task.

[theotherhiveking]

Another reason: spellbook exploding when read by a character not up to the task.


WHAT?! That can happen? Damn! No books from now! Only crappy tv programs!

[Elone]

Overcharge a wand.
Get eaten by a grue.
Anger Elone.
And other ways.

[Lich]

Killed by a psychic backlash
that's what happened when I fired a mind blast into a tension room that happens to be full of undead

[Grey]

I remember reading that you can be killed
by an exploding frog. I must remember to
do that one day, just for the novelty of it.

...What?! How do you make a frog explode?



Theoretically, you should be able to see
all of the 'death messages', by simply loading
the executable into a text editor.Hardly as fun as a community effort though.

Top post has been updated to include all suggestions.

[Laukku]

...What?! How do you make a frog explode?

When you're deaf and the frog quest giver jumps from a pool IIRC.

[Nezur]

...What?! How do you make a frog explode?

The details in the ADoM spoiler FAQ (http://web.ncf.ca/bk039/spoil.htm).

I noticed the FAQ is not listed in the ADoM links thread. Some spoilers in the FAQ may be outdated however.

[gut]

> 39. Killed by a mis-aligned amulet (anyone know the exact messages?)

" was killed by an unaligned amulet."

You can also by killed by mis-aligned armor.

Death by drinking a potion of oil yields the message
'was killed by drinking lamp oil.'

[Grey]

Yuck... I'm trying to think of other potions that might cause damage, or scrolls for that matter. Would be nice if we could get this to 100 :)

[Laukku]

Unaligned armour brings to mind that you can get killed by charged armour.

20 left...

[Grey]

And that's reminded me of two more - committing a chaotic act whilst wearing the platinum girdle and killing a cat whilst wearing the ring of the master cat. The former squeezes you to death and the latter explodes.

I'm trying to remember all the different spells that give their own messages too... Magic missiles is another I just remembered.

[warheart]

If you die in air temple due to that random shock dmg, do you get a different message, maybe?

[Laukku]

If you die in air temple due to that random shock dmg, do you get a different message, maybe?

Reminds me of D:49. Getting frozen by that coldness?

EDIT: And that reminds me of drakelings and their unique way to die (system overheating).

[Grey]

Did a search about damage on the cold level - the message is apparently "died of pneumonia"! Never had any damage there myself - I guess it's due to lack of cold resistance.

Added some more there, including a couple of spells you can kill yourself with (improved fireball and earthquake).

I seem to remember one other amusing death... if you're doomed and another monster crushes an altar the god tries to bolt it to death, but will miss and hit you instead. You get some message like "SORRY, MISSED!" Anyone ever had that?

[Jonas]

lol, pick me, pick me :D stupid god :D

[Maul]

-Power failure
-ADOM crashes

[Laukku]

I seem to remember one other amusing death... if you're doomed and another monster crushes an altar the god tries to bolt it to death, but will miss and hit you instead. You get some message like "SORRY, MISSED!" Anyone ever had that? Does your question mean "Does anybody know if that produces a different death message"? Well, it does.:) Add that to the list. And you don't seem to have noticed an edit in my previous post <_<

[Grey]

I didn't notice that edit - thank you.

[M_bowwarrior]

another dead : the flu....:(:(:(

[Grey]

89th added courtesy of Elone. So close to 100, and yet so far :/

[Elone]

I think that I found yet another way (or two) to die. I'll test before mentioning them here. We could possibly reach 100, but there's not much more left.

[Elone]

One of those methods was tested.

Test succeeded.

Subject died.

But hey, the test succeeded!

Anyway.


You dip the scroll of chaos resistance into the good potion of raw chaos. Both
the potion and the scroll are consumed by a huge explosion! You are
engulfed by the roaring flames! You die...

Nina, the gray elven wizard, was ripped apart when confronting Order and
Chaos.

Nina St:15 Le:29 Wi:16 Dx:18 To:10 Ch:12 Ap:20 Ma:22 Pe:17 N=
DV/PV: 11/3 H: -81(37) P: 74(74) Exp: 8/9225 WE LE: 1000


This is 90th, right? There's 91st too, but I need help testing it. Where's Grey when you need him?

[warheart]

You dip the scroll of chaos resistance into the good potion of raw chaos. Both
the potion and the scroll are consumed by a huge explosion! You are
engulfed by the roaring flames! You die...

Nina, the gray elven wizard, was ripped apart when confronting Order and
Chaos.

That one is there already, number 53 :(

[Elone]

Okay, so there's more than those two. I just rememebered another one (or, more like, noticed that it's not on the first page). Killing yourself with a wand of acid gives a different message.

Zap a wand.
Which direction [896321475, Z = ABORT]?
You engulf yourself in a stream of acid! You die...

Nina, the gray elven wizard, dissolved herself with a wand of acid.

Nina St:15 Le:29 Wi:16 Dx:18 To:10 Ch:12 Ap:20 Ma:22 Pe:17 N=
DV/PV: 11/8 H: 0(37) P: 74(74) Exp: 8/9225 WE LE: 1000

[Elone]

Yeah, it seems that I've read all those and only skipped #53 for some reason! Hmph! Can you blame me for trying?

And so, inspired by the last death, I wanted to try yet another wand. Fire, this time. I noticed that far slaying, lightning, and magic missile wands were included because they bounce. But you can still point other wands at yourself.


Zap a wand.
Which direction [896321475, Z = ABORT]?
You burn yourself with a cone of fire! You die...

Nina, the gray elven wizard, transformed herself into an ash heap with a
wand of fire!.

Nina St:66 Le:80 Wi:36 Dx:26 To:51 Ch:13 Ap:12 Ma:36 Pe:53 L+
DV/PV: 68/75 H: 0(377) P: 247(349) Exp: 23/1610951 WE M: 134183


Notice the typo, where there's a period right after the exclamation mark. It's not my typo, mind you! Message from wand of cold gives the same typo in the end, and is a separate death.

Nina, the gray elven wizard, froze herself with a cone of cold!.

It doesnt say 'wand', but is says 'herself', and you can only freeze yourself with a wand, and not with Frost Bolt spell or something. So it must be a separate death.


EDIT: Another death. Now, death #83 says "Suicidal use of Improved Fireball", and I dont know if it means that someone just killed self with the fire. But I know (thanks to Grey) that Improved Fireball drains additional 5pp per range. What I did, was to go into wilderness pains, use Farsight, and then cast Fireball from one side to the other, from HP (i also found out that you cant cast out of your range of vision, it just fails). Anyway, this is the message.

Nina, the gray elven wizard, exhausted herself by casting an improved fireball.

[Nezur]

Killed by something that is not arrows or quarrels (coin, rock, huge rock, orcish spear...) thrown by a foo.
The message will not be "...shot to death...". :)

Will this do?

[Grey]

Nina, the gray elven wizard, exhausted herself by casting an improved fireball.

This is just the message you get when killing yourself by casting out of HP (death no 12). Thanks for the other 3 though - forgot that you could aim those wands at yourself.


Killed by something that is not arrows or quarrels (coin, rock, huge rock, orcish spear...) thrown by a foo.
The message will not be "...shot to death...".

As I understand it in that case the message is just "killed by <foo>", is it not? Or is it something different?

I was doing some reading on smithing today, and found some mention of a critical failure when smithing can lead to you sustaining fire damage. Anyone seen that?

[Nezur]

As I understand it in that case the message is just "killed by <foo>", is it not? Or is it something different?

The message will be "<character> was killed by a <projectile> thrown by a <monster>" in the Hall of Fame.


I was doing some reading on smithing today, and found some mention of a critical failure when smithing can lead to you sustaining fire damage. Anyone seen that?

No, I haven't even heard of it.

[theotherhiveking]

I was doing some reading on smithing today, and found some mention of a critical failure when smithing can lead to you sustaining fire damage. Anyone seen that?


You hit yourself with a Burning hammer of hotness in the head... you die...

[Elone]

Yesterday I made a nice meaningful post, and then, instead of Crtl+A, I've hit Ctrl+W. I instantly logged out of everything, and started doing something else to supress frustration.

Anyway, what that post was supposed to say, is that death from an improved fireball is indeed a unique one. When you die from any HP casting, it says "died from casting too many spells". But when you die from improbed fireball, it says "died from casting improved fireball". That's because that spell drains you in 2 different ways. Once for the initial PP cost, and second time is 5 additional PP per range (thanks to Grey for telling me). If you die from the initial drain, it gives the same message as for any other spell. If you die from the secondary drain, you get a different message, and therefore a different death. For which I gave a clear example in a previous post. Period.

It would be very, very hard to keep smithing (and hp at the moment!) SO low, that you get an easier critical miss and die from it. I suggest fine-tuning your health with wand of far slaying which can damage for as low as 1d6, and also to wear armour that prevents regeneration. Oh, I have a mean idea - this may best be tested with an OutOfLuck character, if you know what I mean. I'd do it now, but I have to go do some things in RealLife(tm) tomorrow, so wish me luck, cuz it's a big day.

[Grey]

Hmm, interesting... Added 2 others as well - scroll of charging without wands (thanks to deepshock for discovering that for me) and throwing crystals of fire next to yourself.

[Elone]

Gotten close!

Please, do try to post death messages as precisely as possible; those small details is what makes them special.

[Laukku]

Yeah, it seems that I've read all those and only skipped #53 for some reason!
Hint: use Ctrl+F with different keywords on the first page ;)

What about ways to die that are possible in older versions? Do they count?

Also, does the arena master's stunning punishment cause damage?

[Jonas]

which reminds me, doesnt being frozen by an ogre mangus give a unique death, at least in the area fight 20?

[Baranor]

I don't know if it has it's own unique message, but angering the cute dog can generate a funny message when you die.

"The Cute Dog targets a critical area. You die." iirc

Anyone been killed by the cute dog recently?

Also can you be blasted to death by the water dragon?

[Grey]

which reminds me, doesnt being frozen by an ogre mangus give a unique death, at least in the area fight 20?

Not that I know of. I have "frozen by spells/breath" at number 31, but if there's any separation between them I'll gladly update it.


I don't know if it has it's own unique message, but angering the cute dog can generate a funny message when you die.

That's just it's critical message, whether it kills you or not. There's no unique death from the cute dog to my knowledge. Oh, and water breath attack is already in at 30.

I'm wondering if there's any other food corpses you can take damage from... None come to mind though.

[Jonas]

actually, any of the arena deaths will get you a unique message..... i think it is of the form:

"killed in the arena by <monster name>."

and getting killed by Li-Han-Kay when he uses the frost bolt on you yeilds:

"frozen to death by Li-Han-Kay, the ogre magus"

I am not sure if getting killed by a thrown rock yeilds a unique message yet

[spectre]

[I'm wondering if there's any other food corpses you can take damage from... None come to mind though.]

Just checked the guidebook, no corpses seem to deal damage upon eating.

Damn, just 5 more away from a nice, round 100 (-:

[Grey]

actually, any of the arena deaths will get you a unique message..... i think it is of the form:

"killed in the arena by <monster name>."

There's nothing unique about that - it happens with all the named monsters. The frozen to death message is the same as for all ogre magi freezings, just happens to be by a named NPC. Same goes for Keriax, Fisty and the rest.

[gut]

Kicking a statue, while having PV less than 4
causes damage. The death message is "terminally
broke his/her leg while kicking a statue"
How embarassing : )

Drinking a regular potion of poison inflicts
damage, yielding the death message "was killed
by drinking a poisoned cocktail".
For the adventurer who 'just couldn't take it
anymore'.

I will look through other old highscore tables
later, maybe I'll find some more.

[Grey]

Cheers for those, gut. Also added one more - you can get poisoned or even killed by swarms of tiny spiders when struggling in webs.

[Jonas]

do the ceiling trap and the stone block trap have different messages?

[Ars]

Death raying yourself.

[Nezur]

Breaking your neck in a self-made hole.
(Creating a hole on the spot which you are standing on with a WoD while you're on low health.)

Does drinking a potion of rust removal yield a special message?

[gut]

Nezur:
> Does drinking a potion of rust removal yield a special message?

Nope. It just states that you died of acute
blood poisoning.

Grey:
> you can get poisoned or even killed by swarms of tiny spiders
> when struggling in webs

Can't believe I forgot that one : )

[gut]

> Does drinking a potion of rust removal yield a special message?

No, it just says 'died of acute blood poisoning'.

Being killed by a shopkeeper's coin throw yields the
death message:

'was killed by a coin thrown by (who ever)'

Also, I think the 'thorns growing from your hands'
corruption causes damage.

[deepshock]

Transformed into a ~ (by being drained AND killed at the same time by that creature, such as with a wight, wraith, spectre, vampire, etc...)

[Jonas]

#38 that one is

[vogonpoet]

LIght blue kobalds - something about being killed by foul kobald magics, do we have that one yet? Will check my high score list later...

[Nezur]

I guess that killing yourself with a wand of lightning produces something else than the bouncing bolt thing.
EDIT: Nevermind. It seems to be in the list.

Dying to a rusty wand of lightning most likely generates a special message.

[gut]

I didn't see an update for:

> Being killed by a shopkeeper's coin throw yields the
> death message:

> 'was killed by a coin thrown by (who ever)'

> Also, I think the 'thorns growing from your hands'
> corruption causes damage.

[Grey]

Sorry, updated.

[Nezur]

'was killed by a coin thrown by (who ever)'


Are you sure this can be considered a special message? Isn't it just another form of "was killed by a rock thrown by a -foo-"?

[Sierim]

I don't know if this was covered in the 'exploding spellbook': "was drained of his life-force by strong magic" (death by reading a spellbook)

"was transformed into a shadow" (death by a Slow Shadow?)

[Grey]

Updated to now include the book-drain death (should have remembered that when the exploding book came up). "Transformed" has already been included, though I haven't listed all the enemies that can do so since there are many (even living walls, oddly enough).

[Sierim]

Just found another one:
"Broke his leg when kicking a tree."

I was curious about what would happen, so I tried it (it was a throw away character anyway).

[Ars]

Bringing this back up - I've got a new one.

Outlaw lead, the orcish paladin, was killed by vile kobold shaman magic.

[myrddin]

You can also die by wearing an amulet of order while chaotic or vice versa. If the damage done by doing so is greater then your regeneration rate it will eventually kill you if you don't take it off.

"You feel a burning pain around your neck. You die."

[Laukku]

That's already there - #39.

EDIT: Hey Grey, there's still no update for vile kobold magic!

[gut]

That reminds me, I found another one over the holidays.

"D, the gray elven druid, was killed by 8 ?, the kobold opening a
booby-trapped door."

His name is registered on my highscore table as an eight, then
a square, then a cross-symbol.

[Passionario]

Transformed into a true servant of Chaos. (I believe it happens if you enter the gate while below level 50)
Extinguished by an exploding fluff ball.
Died of exhaustion on a bad day. (Start as a spellcaster with Toughness 1 on Monday, and see if RNG hates you that much)

[Laukku]

Transformed into a true servant of Chaos. (I believe it happens if you enter the gate while below level 50)


IIRC that happens when you are chaotic and do not have the requirements for a special ending.

[Grey]

Died of exhaustion on a bad day. (Start as a spellcaster with Toughness 1 on Monday, and see if RNG hates you that much)

I thought that was a bug that got fixed? Can anyone confirm?

Cheers for the additions though.

[Passionario]

I got those from extremely ancient scores on my old laptop, so no idea whether they still exist.

*shrugs*

Oh, and there are a few extra special messages when you get killed by fire breath attacks, in addition to being 'scorched' and 'roasted' - my characters have been 'torched', 'ignited' and 'flamed'.

[Grey]

I know of the numerous fire deaths (and cold and acid too), but didn't consider them unique enough to warrant different death listings. A fire breath from an steel golem is the same as from a red dragon.

[Passionario]

Transformed into a ~ (by being drained AND killed at the same time by that creature, such as with a wight, wraith, spectre, vampire, etc...)
At one time, you could get transformed into Andor Drakon himself if he killed you this way. :)

AFAIK, if you get stat drained to zero by a non-undead monster in the current version, the message is "was drained of all substance by ~" for physical stats and "was drained of all coherence by ~" for mental stats.

[Sradac]

isnt there a way to be turned into a mindless husk? not sure if any enemies use mindcraft but maybe MC backfire or something??? I KNOW i've seen "~ was turned into a mindless husk by -foo-"

[Soirana]

AFAIK, if you get stat drained to zero by a non-undead monster in the current version, the message is "was drained of all substance by ~" for physical stats and "was drained of all coherence by ~" for mental stats.

Is it really possible to be drained to zero in current version?

[Sradac]

theres a few I didnt see on here.

Crushed to death by tons of equipment.
Mountain climbing accidents
Red water in the TotHK
Didnt it used to be possible to be struck by lightning in the air temple?
Dungeon fell on you from kicking stairs, I didnt see that either.

[Sradac]

Is it really possible to be drained to zero in current version?

yep happens to my caster characters with low DV and stats. been turned into a shadow/wight plenty of times in 1.1.1

[Ars]

theres a few I didnt see on here.

Crushed to death by tons of equipment.
Mountain climbing accidents
Red water in the TotHK
Didnt it used to be possible to be struck by lightning in the air temple?
Dungeon fell on you from kicking stairs, I didnt see that either.

These are all included, just look closer!

[Laukku]

Hm, Grey updated the list with the list - but there STILL isn't "vile kobold magic"...

[vogonpoet]

Dont feel bad about it - I first mentioned the kobald magics death way back in post 57 of this thread... I think Grey is just blind to kobalds in general, which must make negotiating tension rooms of the buggers bizarre...

"You hit the
The misses you
You block the with your shield.

WTF???"

[Grey]

Whoops, missed that somehow... Can anyone verify the stat-drain thing?

[Sami]

Andor Drakon, the invisible ElDeR cHaOs GoD critically hits you. You feel
weak! You feel exhausted! You feel corrupted! You die...

Delmar, the orcish archer, was drained of all coherence.
H:-13(279)


So indeed that can happen but not by an invocation. I think only perception score were >1 at that point but at least 6 of the attributes were 1 already and he kept trying to drain those.

[Sradac]

grey i can verify it for wights and shadows. I dont have any on this laptop but on my old PC I had a few characters that were turned into wights and shadows.

is the cat ring exploding in there?

[Ars]

It is, just [s]earch the first post.

[Soirana]

technically scroll of vermin control should explode on bunny level. I do not know if that does damage to char. Well, my test char had over 50 toughness may be some naked one could get himself kiled.

[psy_wombats]

Few deaths I didn't notice:

Exhausted from animating too many undead
Poisoned with spiderbread
Quit prematurely (Does this count?)
Break leg kicking tree,forge (same as wall?)
Falling down stairs (strained!)
Magically created pits (spellbooks)
Ripped to pieces by trying to claim power not meant for oneself (Yeah, right)

[Grey]

Ripped to pieces by trying to claim power not meant for oneself (Yeah, right)

Heh, if only... Added the others, except the stairs one as that was already present.

[Moeba]

I just found a new death in my high score: transformed into a shadow troll :)

[Epythic]

I just found a new death in my high score: transformed into a shadow troll :)

?!

How could that happen?

[Ars]

38. Turned into an undead (killed by a vampire/wight/wraith/etc)

[JellySlayer]

When you get pricked by the mad doctor, you lose a small amount of HP. Is it possible to die from this?

[DeSt]

When you get pricked by the mad doctor, you lose a small amount of HP. Is it possible to die from this?Nope... Character survives even with 1 hp.

[CheatMan]

The exact message of death ray self with wand of wonder is:

Thrul, the gnomish wizard, drained his life away with a death ray.

[Ars]

The exact message of death ray self with wand of wonder is:

Thrul, the gnomish wizard, drained his life away with a death ray.

That's the message with spell and wand of death too.

[Loudhy]

ADOM is still a new game to me but I've found a special way to die too, I think.

I was killed by Sraxx. I stood on his altar in a dungeon and attacked an orc when the orc suddenly yelled a prayer to his god and Sraxx burned me to ashes. (Lvl 12 Monk).

A nice surprise.

[nathrakh]

ADOM is still a new game to me but I've found a special way to die too, I think.

I was killed by Sraxx. I stood on his altar in a dungeon and attacked an orc when the orc suddenly yelled a prayer to his god and Sraxx burned me to ashes. (Lvl 12 Monk).

A nice surprise.

"19. Sacrificed by an NPC."

Tsk tsk! ;)

Ma~ ma~... Be extra careful when dealing with altars. Humanoids may sacrifice you.

Question: Does it matter what alignment the altar is? I have a feeling that you never get sacrificed at lawful altar. Can anyone confirm?

[Laukku]

I *think* the rules for monsters sacrificing you are the same as for you sacrificing monsters - lawfuls and neutrals can't kill anyone of the same alignment, but chaotics can.

[Evil Knievel]

I *think* the rules for monsters sacrificing you are the same as for you sacrificing monsters - lawfuls and neutrals can't kill anyone of the same alignment, but chaotics can.

I *think* dopplegangers are different... they imitate your alignment, when sacrificing you. However, when you sacrifice them, they are always chaotic..

[RndmNumGenerator]

I can't manage to get the frog one. I'm trying it with a deaf female, sipping pools in Darkforge, and I got this twice:

A little frog jumps up out of the pool.
The frog stares at you intently for a few moments.
The frog jumps back into the pool.

[smylah]

can you wish for death? not that anyone would :)

I love how you can break your leg kicking thin air!!!

If it's not been included, how about removing a worn item that is crucial to keeping you HP above 0? or drinking a potion of exchange to achieve the same effect?

[Xanthine]

Stats can't go below 1, so you can't have negative To.

[vogonpoet]

This death is out of our range, this death is out of our range, this death is out of our range.
I'm a negative creep, I'm a negative creep, I'm a negative creep,
And I'm stoned!

/paraphrased

[boris_pankov@inbox.ru]

what about shredded to pieces by chaos piranhas?

edit
missed... it is in the list

[F50]

can you wish for death? not that anyone would :) Yes, it is unnatural aging, apparently enough to kill a PC (from the GB).


If it's not been included, how about removing a worn item that is crucial to keeping you HP above 0?

Exactly how would that happen? If you gain or loose To, you loose max hitpoints, but no hitpoints are lost unless you are over max hitpoints.

[sgeos]

Yes, it is unnatural aging, apparently enough to kill a PC (from the GB).
Someone should try this with an elf just for kicks.

[Maul]

Death puts you at very old if you are not unnaturally aged - I heard this, anyways.

[RndmNumGenerator]

Someone should try this with an elf just for kicks.

Just tried it with a Grey Elven Druid(Complete with the Long-Lived talent)

Before Wishes:
Age: 255

First Wish(Death):
Age: 3227(very old, 2972 years of unnatural aging added in)

Second Wish(Death):
Age: 3227(very old, 2972 years of unnatural aging added in)

Third & Fourth Wish(Longevity - Potion of Longevity x6):
Age: 3227(very old, 2972 years of unnatural aging added in)

Fifth Wish(Death)
Age: 3390(very old, 3085 years of unnatural aging added in)

It certainly scales to the lifetime of your character, but it seems the wish itself can't actually kill you.

[Ars]

Death on your next birthday

[Soirana]

Someone should try this with an elf just for kicks.

Once in random character competition i aged dwarf naturally. Nothing copypasting could not handle...

[rmcin329]

Anyone checked to see if theres a unique message to getting killed by the elementalist's lvl 32 ability? I also wonder if their lvl 50 ability could kill you if you were very hungry/starving but still had enough pp to use it. If you don't know what those abilitys are, then read the manual.

[Evil Knievel]

87. Roasted (drakeling heat death).

I want to add, that this does not only apply to drakelings:

Onk, the trollish barbarian, was roasted.

[Laukku]

Grey miswrote the drakeling heat death, it's really something like "was killed by system overheating". Onk the troll was killed by the fire directly, but drakelings can be killed indirectly.

[Grey]

Number 13 :P

Pretty sure the drakeling message is "roasted" too.

[Evil Knievel]

Number 13 :P

Pretty sure the drakeling message is "roasted" too.

;) ok.. 10chARS

[RndmNumGenerator]

Anyone checked to see if theres a unique message to getting killed by the elementalist's lvl 32 ability? I also wonder if their lvl 50 ability could kill you if you were very hungry/starving but still had enough pp to use it. If you don't know what those abilitys are, then read the manual.

The Lv32 ability just fired off random bolts - only the lightning variant could kill you(the others can't bounce), and that would be difficult because Elementalists are resistant to lightning. If it did kill you, I don't see why the message would be any different then killing yourself with a normal lightning bolt. As far as the level 50 variant, you do know that energy points is speed related, not food related, right? If anything you would just starve to death, the same as if you tried to pickaxe a wall while starving.

[Dorten]

I found "sacrificed self", but where is "was sacrificed"?

Whoops, didn't notice

[Soirana]

is whipped himsefl to death included?

[vogonpoet]

no. 26.

'Ctrl F' may be of use in future :-p.

[Sadface]

Okay, maybe I'm just unawares of some kind of other function of altars or something, but, how does one get the "sacrificed self to the gods" message, no. 48?

[JellySlayer]

Okay, maybe I'm just unawares of some kind of other function of altars or something, but, how does one get the "sacrificed self to the gods" message, no. 48?

I believe if you stand on an altar with no items in your inventory and hit sacrifice, it will ask if you want to sac yourself.

[Grey]

Have to be naked with empty pack. And coaligned with altar I think. There's an amusing message if you try doing it whilst wearing an amulet of life saving :)

[Soirana]

iirc, worn equipoment is okay,. just empty pack.

[Ars]

Yeah worn equipment goes... Otherwise it would be kinda hard to have that AoLS too.

[JellySlayer]

I think you missed petrified by gorgon breath on the list.

[Grey]

Number 16.

It never fails to amaze me how stupid people are at spotting these. Ctrl+F isn't hard to use :P

[JellySlayer]

I used ctrl-f. I just looked up "petrify" and "gorgon", neither of which turned up.

[vogonpoet]

Dude, what about that message you get from most fatal melee attacks? Its just like killed or something. You totally missed that one !!1eleventy! lol.

[Conundrum]

I used ctrl-f. I just looked up "petrify" and "gorgon", neither of which turned up.


16. Petrified by a gorgon's breath.

gorgon would've shown up unless you failed :)

[Grey]

And don't forget also:


62. Petrifying self from eating a gorgon corpse.

Should have returned both "petrify" and "gorgon"! :P

[Ars]

101. Death ray self with a wand of wonder (doesn't normally work with the spell).

This is wrong btw - you can kill yourself with the spell. Cause it bounces. But the message is same from spell and wand iirc.

[RndmNumGenerator]

Note, it is still possible to die of exhaustion on a bad day. I just had that happen...

[Laukku]

Note, it is still possible to die of exhaustion on a bad day. I just had that happen...

That must have been the quickest death ever. I've tried to do that a couple of times, but always started with too many HP.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

I have reviewed this thread and just noticed that my death message in the League of Ghosts is missing.

It was:

"was transformed into a shadow troll".

I don't know the exact conditions to be transformed into a shadow troll rather than just being killed by a shadow troll, though.

[Laukku]

I have reviewed this thread and just noticed that my death message in the League of Ghosts is missing.

It was:

"was transformed into a shadow troll".

I don't know the exact conditions to be transformed into a shadow troll rather than just being killed by a shadow troll, though.

That's just a generic "transformed into [something]", which happens when the monster takes your toughness or strength to 0.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

That's just a generic "transformed into [something]", which happens when the monster takes your toughness or strength to 0.

Oh, OK, that's nice to know. Anyway, that generic "transformed into X" message is not on the list either.

Edit: Are you sure? Look at this death here: http://ancardia.ath.cx/adom_users/sorear/drormi02.flg

No stats at 0.

[JellySlayer]

If you are killed by an undead, the message will typically be a transformation type message, even if it isn't stat-drain related.

I seem to remember that if a player is killed by ghosts (by taking damage), you still get the message "-player- was aged to death by a ghost". I think the character I was playing when this happened was a high elf who was killed by a tension room of ghosts--presumably he wasn't actually aged to death.

[Grey]

Death number 38. Anyone want to compile an exhaustive list? I know it can include some odd enemies like living walls.

[JellySlayer]

On a weird note, you can't kill yourself using the Petrify spell.

[ragface]

What message do you get if you die to:
"hundreds of tiny spiders suddenly swarm all over you, you are bitten dozens of times"

I didn't find it in the list...

[Al-Khwarizmi]

What message do you get if you die to:
"hundreds of tiny spiders suddenly swarm all over you, you are bitten dozens of times"

I didn't find it in the list...

98. Bitten to death by a swarm of spiders (when struggling in webs).

[Epythic]

"hundreds of tiny spiders suddenly swarm all over you, you are bitten dozens of times"

*shudder*

theres not many things i hate more than spiders (irl, in adom they are pretty tame)

[EpicMan]

Death by the platinum girdle should be "squished by the mark of the failed paragon"

[Superteeth]

Kharz, the Dwarven Necromancer, terminally broke his leg while kicking a statue.

[Sami]

Kharz, the Dwarven Necromancer, terminally broke his leg while kicking a statue.



96. Terminally break a leg kicking a statue.


And 10 chars...

[Grey]

Every time I see this thread revived I think "Ooh, a new type of death", only to be disappointed by people that can't use the search function in their browser :(

[gut]

Hey, there's the exploding fro- Oh, nevermind : )

[Twinge]

...Weren't all possible death messages known like 5 years ago? ;P

[gut]

That's what I thought up until I was killed by
a monster opening a trapped door.

[flibble]

Maybe if a companion gets sickened and you get paralyzed, you can choke to death on their vomit.

[Dudley]

Yep, you didn't put the "choked on his own vomit" death... paralysis while sick.

[zasvid]

Yep, you didn't put the "choked on his own vomit" death... paralysis while sick.

Yes, yes he did:



6. Choking on your own vomit (paralyzed + sick).

[Dudley]

my bad... didn't see that.

[Twinge]

Shrug. I'll toss on two more then - you can also painfully kick anvils and altars.

[ragface]

He/She was burned from within by acidic herbs:)

[Sami]

18. Eating too many burb roots.

+ 10 chars

[Grey]

Added potion of boost toughness wearing off whilst on low HP to the death list, and included strength and willpower (since they also increase HP). If anyone could get me the death message from the flg/high score for this I'd appreciate it.

[Soirana]

xxx "died due to physical exhaustion."

Same for all.

[Dudley]

can you die from D:49 fire anomaly?

[nathrakh]

can you die from D:49 fire anomaly?

I think you can, atleast if RotMC explodes too. :P

[Dudley]

That one was already included, i was thinking : fire damage.

[Dudley]

Tried... the message is rotfl worth :
was toasted when opening the lock of elemental fire.

EDIT : YAY first real contribution.

[Laukku]

Tried... the message is rotfl worth :
was toasted when opening the lock of elemental fire.

EDIT : YAY first real contribution.


89. Roasted putting the fire orb into the elemental anomaly on D48.

Here ya go.

[Dudley]

Well. i got the message right actually :(
thought i lookd at it well, and anomaly didn't give any result:confused: weird.

[JellySlayer]

I'm still trying to figure out a way to kill yourself by being drunk...

[Grey]

Being drunk near the pirahna lake is a bad idea ;)

Personally I think there should be a new way to die - getting cramp when trying to swim whilst bloated, and thus drowning.

[da1edwin]

Personally I think there should be a new way to die - getting cramp when trying to swim whilst bloated, and thus drowning.

YES.

Unless you have water breathing.

This would be way better than the stupid Sick+Paralyzed death.

[Dudley]

#67
should be : crushed by a toppling door.

[Sami]

Death due to an unknown reason.
See "samim - ttyrec-Tue-Feb-16-14:00:26-2010" on the server and flg at http://ancardia.ath.cx/adom_users/samim/swialtos.flg.
I restored the game and before my first turn I had -5 hp and the only message in the message buffer was "You die...".
The line that should show the reason of the death is just "Swialtos, the drakish barbarian, .".

[Grey]

Seems like a bug to me :P I've seen that happen to others before - I think the last time was due to a monster setting off a trap which killed the player.

[Sami]

I checked the records and found what caused that weird death. That gnoll next to me killed me but for some reason the game crashed after my death and the emergency save succeeded, so I had a saved game where the PC had negative HP.

[psy_wombats]

What death generates the phrase "died due to physical exhaustion?" I know I've seen if, that exact wording, but I'm not sure what causes it.

[JellySlayer]

What death generates the phrase "died due to physical exhaustion?" I know I've seen if, that exact wording, but I'm not sure what causes it.

I think that was just discussed earlier in this thread. It's when you get bonus HP from a potion of boost toughness (or something similar), and the loss of those HP due to the To decay causes death.

[psy_wombats]

Okay, thanks.

Another death: "drained of life force by strong magic" - We have the deaths for spellbook pits and spellbook fireball, but not spellbook health drain.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

I think that was just discussed earlier in this thread. It's when you get bonus HP from a potion of boost toughness (or something similar), and the loss of those HP due to the To decay causes death.

Also being killed by a Monday, if I remember correctly?

[JellySlayer]

Also being killed by a Monday, if I remember correctly?

Monday produces no proper death message IIRC. I think it just says:
"foo the hurthling merchant, killed by, ."

[Grey]

Okay, thanks.

Another death: "drained of life force by strong magic" - We have the deaths for spellbook pits and spellbook fireball, but not spellbook health drain.

"105. Drained of life-force by strong magic (HP reduction from failed book-reading)."

:)

[psy_wombats]

Monday produces no proper death message IIRC. I think it just says:
"foo the hurthling merchant, killed by, ."
Believe it's "Died of exhaustion before adventure started."


"105. Drained of life-force by strong magic (HP reduction from failed book-reading)."

:)
Ha, okay. Now, I'm tempted to say we have them all... So, are you aiming to get all of the "exact" high score death messages up there?

Also, "100. Exhaust self with a wand of wonder." <- I habitually use up all uses on Wands of Wonder at 0 PP. It doesn't drain health, or even prompt with the "Do you want to exhaust yourself..." prompt. It just casts the spell without damage. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what this death is?

[Grey]

Someone gave me a screenshot of them dying from a wand of wonder once. Not sure how, but apparently it can happen. Hmm, perhaps it was an improved fireball...

[nathrakh]

Someone gave me a screenshot of them dying from a wand of wonder once. Not sure how, but apparently it can happen. Hmm, perhaps it was an improved fireball...

I'm pretty sure you can't cast improved fireball from wand of wonder.

[Sami]

I'm pretty sure you can't cast improved fireball from wand of wonder.

You can...

[gut]

> Someone gave me a screenshot of them dying from a wand of wonder

I don't remember about a screenie, but I
mentioned this topic years ago at brinkster.

[psy_wombats]

> Someone gave me a screenshot of them dying from a wand of wonder

I don't remember about a screenie, but I
mentioned this topic years ago at brinkster.
What was brought up about it?


You can...
I've never had it happen, but there's no reason why it couldn't happen. But anyway, dying by overcasting Improved Fireball would generate the Improved Fireball death message, so it wouldn't exactly be a unique way to die.

[Theym]

what about was killed by "thorns growing from hands", it causes damage when it happens iirc

[gut]

> What was brought up about it?

To my knowledge, I was the one who discovered
the improved fireball range damage factor. Of
course, I didn't test it thoroughly, and I may
have been discovering hot water, as others may
have discovered it previously. Here's a snippet
from Silfir's druid guide thread.




> Invoked Devastation

If my memory serves, there is something especially
dangerous about this spell. The PP's cost that
is listed in your spell inventory, doesn't
accurately reflect the actual PP's cost for
casting the spell. I'm 99% sure that the PP's
cost is DRASTICALLY increased, as the distance of
the spell is increased. This is deadly, because
the listed cost may be 50 PP, and you may have
45. So you decide to cast out of your HP's. You
cast the spell half-way across the screen, and
go from 170 HP's down to -20. Very depressing.
That's also worth remembering, if you get one
of these from a wand of wonder, in the early game.



The full post is here: http://adom.brinkster.net/forum/messages.asp?thread=5984&start=57702&page=1&tmp=57744

[Theym]

what about whipped himself to death?

[Dudley]

what about whipped himself to death?

26. Whip yourself to death.

SORRY

[Theym]

what about was killed by "thorns growing from hands", it causes damage when it happens iirc

and no one awnsered this one

[zasvid]

and no one awnsered this one
well, it seems that thorns indeed do cause some damage when they appear. wonder what the message is if they kill the character. might be hard to obtain, because they do about 4 dmg.

[Aielyn]

well, it seems that thorns indeed do cause some damage when they appear. wonder what the message is if they kill the character. might be hard to obtain, because they do about 4 dmg.

Shouldn't be *that* hard to manage. Potion of Raw Chaos or cursed PoCC or SoCR should do the job... in fact, the Orbs would work, too... the only reason to use the former is that you could use them earlier in the game, meaning less work to get to the necessary point and less HP needing to be lost before using them.

EDIT: In fact, a corruption trap would theoretically work, too. It would just require a little more care with setting it up, since it wouldn't cause as much corruption as the items, unless I'm mistaken - meaning, either you need a character that heals really slowly, or a lot of precision actions to get everything set up right.

[Theym]

so a level one grey elf mage? lol with super low toughness standing on a chaos trap?

[Dudley]

with whips, sickness (devil rose) ideal.

[zasvid]

Thanks for the idea about chaos orbs, Aielyn.

The message is:


was killed by thorns growing from her hands.


and now I notice that it was there already:


104. Killed by thorns growing from hands corruption.

[psy_wombats]

> What was brought up about it?

To my knowledge, I was the one who discovered
the improved fireball range damage factor. Of
course, I didn't test it thoroughly, and I may
have been discovering hot water, as others may
have discovered it previously. Here's a snippet
from Silfir's druid guide thread.


Yeah, that's what I thought you meant, but is that really a separate Wand of Wonder death or is that an Improved Fireball death?

[gut]

If you are asking whether or not a casted
improved fireball will also drain HP's, the
answer is yes. If you are asking if a casted
improved fireball generates a different
death message than a WoW generated one,
I don't know.

[Dudley]

82. Slaughtered by a barrage of magic missiles.
The actual message is blasted with magic missiles. or are those two different deaths?

[psy_wombats]

It's the same death, just monster Magic Missile spell. There are quite a lot deaths up there that aren't the exact message.

[Soirana]

barrage of glowing balls [monster spell] is not actually magic missile... More like fire balls into chars face. [You can look up my rumblings on this topic in wiki...]

[Dudley]

blasted with magic missiles. Obvious that's it's a bug that they're fire, duh. :)

[Theym]

flamed by a fire lizard

[Grey]

flamed by a fire lizard

28. Roasted by fire breath.

[grobblewobble]

122. Blasted into oblivion by a fatal exception.
123. Lost due to an unknown error resulting in the game freezing.
124. Shredded when Windows choked on its own vomit.
125. Exterminated by a power outage.

Just lost a character to 123. :(

[Unforgiven82]

126. Quitting because your cat jumps on the kb and presses Q -> y (yes this did happen to me once)

Edit: I've also quit several times when I was supposed to save.

[Elone]

That's kitty karma for you. You deserved it.

[Gheist]

I've had the program itself crash numerous times, fatally. It wouldn't even allow for the program to open again, until I cleared out all the files in the "adom_dat" folder (including saves - though I don't know if I needed to do that).


Does this constitute death?

Also, one for the comic pages...

Sacrificed, on an aligned altar (chaos when C-), because I forgot it was there and decided to start fletching a log... WOOT?

[JellySlayer]

I've had the program itself crash numerous times, fatally. It wouldn't even allow for the program to open again, until I cleared out all the files in the "adom_dat" folder (including saves - though I don't know if I needed to do that).


Does this constitute death?

Also, one for the comic pages...

Sacrificed, on an aligned altar (chaos when C-), because I forgot it was there and decided to start fletching a log... WOOT?

The only file you need to kill is the adom.prc file.

[Molach]

Feel like celebrating a one year hiatus for this thread - Like Jones said a long while ago: Deaths in the arena ARE unique.

I've got "killed in the arena by a cave bear on level 5 of the caverns of chaos"
So being killed in the arena is special. And most of the deaths on the list can probably be produced there. Haven't tested if dying by other means also gives the "in the arena" unique bit.

[Grey]

Hrm, I guess it deserves a special mention, but I'm not sure it justifies duplicating 90% of the death causes.

[Maul]

Well, you could just say "any death method in the arena" (provided that all other deaths also produce the message).

[grobblewobble]

23. Magic missile yourself to death.


This can be split into two seperate ones.

If you bounce a magic missile upon yourself, your death message reads "executed himself with a magic missile".
But if you aim it at yourself directly (choose 5 direction), you get another message: "magic missiled himself to death".

[_Ln_]

Is it time to update this glorious list?

[Blasphemous]

Burned by the poisonous touch of impure metal as a mist elf? Not sure if this wasn't mentioned already.

[kNightCrawler]

Also, having a maggot sprout from the PC's skin -- as per one of the new corruptions -- can damage him/her. Haven't yet witnessed any PCs die from this, though.

[Grey]

All true, but should be wait till we're out of pre-release or plough ahead with uncertain effects?

[Stingray1]

Well. I don't think this one is new to 1.2.0. Did a search and couldn't find it though.

', was transformed into a slow shadow.'

[anon123]

That one was already in 1.1.1. You can be transformed into a -foo- if a stat-draining hit reduces an attribute and kills you? Don't recall the specific criteria, but I do remember it can make you switch genders, as one of my very early PCs was transformed into a female vampire and...

http://i49.tinypic.com/206c193.gif

Holy crap, my old high score is still there!

Holy crap, I didn't always play wizards! :D

[Bodhi]

For my first and best post, you can be transformed into a shadow

http://www.adom.de/forums/showthread.php/1326-I-love-Adom-My-long-builded-troll-became-undead

Don't read me from here on out

[Grey]

Number 38 has these all covered...

[_Ln_]

I don't see why we should wait. All new deaths are present in 1.2p5 which is free for everyone.

122) Killed by equipped metal item(s) as a mist elf.
123) Killed by a maggot erupting from skin (maggot corruption)
124) Killed after converting from C as a chaos knight.

Don't know about the last one, but witnessed first two (maggot one deliberately).

And speaking about #38 - list of guys (all confirmed by me during testing) who turn the PC into one of them upon draining the last To/St:
living wall
quasit
shadow/shadow lord/shadow troll/shadow centipede
slow shadow
spectre/wight/vampire/wraith

[Grey]

All right, updated! Post any others you have here.

[anon123]

I don't see why we should wait. All new deaths are present in 1.2p5 which is free for everyone.

122) Killed by equipped metal item(s) as a mist elf.
123) Killed by a maggot erupting from skin (maggot corruption)
124) Killed after converting from C as a chaos knight.

Prerelease 5 doesn't have mist elves and chaos knights. :confused:


And speaking about #38 - list of guys (all confirmed by me during testing) who turn the PC into one of them upon draining the last To/St:
living wall

Haha, that's hilarious. The game should transform the @ representing the PC into a # of the same color when this happens, just like when you turn into a WMoPC. Could apply for other monsters too!

[_Ln_]

Prerelease 5 doesn't have mist elves and chaos knights. :confused:

Sorry, I didn't actually check and my memory is bleh. Oh well, it's done anyway :D
I've actually posted a bug report concerning some of these monsters. You can go there and vote negatively ;)

*off to watch GoT season 3, oh yeah!*

[Jelly2]

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[_Ln_]

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[Lars Rommel]

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