Let's play "How will the RNG kill my character?"

[vogonpoet]

Ha, the perfect thread to tempt the RNG with... Luck be a Lady tonight.

So, I have a hobbit elementalist of variable fortune on the go at the moment - she has some 30s worn boots from an orcish vault in the early CoC, which is great, but no decent weapon, and terrible armour. Really terrible armour - at one point she found a [+0, +2] robe, but it got destroyed by a trap, then she found a standard (-1,-1) [-1, +3] studded leather armour, but it got promptly destroyed by a trap, so she was wandering around in a [+0, +1] robe all the way to level 16. Sad.

So, I am a dirty rotten scummer, and these days have fallen into the habit of getting a precrown before the pyramid if I can scrape the piety together. My hurthling lost her cooking set ages ago (I am thinking probably a trap ), but here we are at level 16, she sacs some corpses, a bunch of uncursed stoma, sells a pile of sis and all her crap, sacs the gold, and ends up at very close. Shit. I look around my inventory, and notice the black torc. Ha. The torc is definitely underrated IMO - its a fun missile to play around with, and not a bad piece of neck gear, but I decide to trade it with my God for a chance at the black tome. Saccing the torc gets me to extremely close, yay. I pray, and hallelujah, more robes. of resistance. A straight black torc for robes of resistance trade is a fine bargain as far as I am concerned. I can finally ditch my [+0, +1] robe. About bloody time.

Now I need to buy some lizards and head to the pyramid, and thus proceed with the game.

How will my Hurthling die?

[JellySlayer]

Threat room of living walls on the water temple level.

[vogonpoet]

@Jelly Slayer

Ha ha, holy shit, that would indeed be rough . Hell, with not a single invis pot I might die in the pyramid to an unfortunate combination of monsters - its always possible, if not necessarily likely.

[mackthaknife]

How will my Hurthling die?

..classic: death-rayed by Nuurag-Vaarn. @--*-

[moomoo]

How will my Hurthling die?

Aged to death by a ghost king in the cavernous levels of high kings tomb.

[Maul]

found a standard (-1,-1) [-1, +3] studded leather armour

To be precise, that is actually substandard.

[vogonpoet]

Well sure, it could have been (-1,+0) [-1,+3], but its close enough to standard for me. It was still a lot better than nothing, and didn't last long enough to be of any use whatsoever. I think the best studded leather armour I found recently was (-1,+0) [+2,+6], but that was a while ago now.

My hurthling should be safe from single ghost kings, what with the boots and firebolt, and I would count a Nuurag death as something of a success, as I have never obtained more than 1 orb with an elementalist before. I used to play them a lot when I was a noob, and I still send hundreds to their early deaths in the ToEF, but not tried a normal game with one for ages.

We shall see how she goes.

[JellySlayer]

Here's an easy one: doomed druid. Just about to get teleport wand, do Pyramid and Darkforge.

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DoomDruid     St:16  Le:20  Wi:24  Dx:24  To:36  Ch: 7  Ap: 7  Ma:18  Pe:14 NC
DV/PV: 32/31   H: 223(223)    P: 111(111)    Exp: 15/176143     DDL   Sp: 108
Burdened

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                                   Spells
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   Bless               :   418,   8pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Calm Monster        :   323,   7pp     (Effectivity: +6)
   Cure Disease        :   700,   8pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Cure Light Wounds   :   797,   5pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Divine Wrath        :   401,   9pp     (Effectivity: +18)
   Earthquake          :   169,  80pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Greater Divine Touch:   192, 100pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Hellish Flames      :   265,  10pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Know Alignment      :   229,  10pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Light               :  1022,   3pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Lordly Might        :   239,  10pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Minor Punishment    :    18,  13pp     (Effectivity: +9)
   Neutralize Poison   :   346,  10pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Petrification       :   292, 120pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Revelation          :   474,  33pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Seal of the Spheres :   250,   8pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Slow Poison         :   546,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Veil of the Gods    :   131,  10pp     (Effectivity: +0)

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Total weight: 3075 stones                Carrying capacity: 3250 stones

Head          : uncursed helm of mental stability [+0, +0] {Le+1}    [100s]
Neck          : cursed black torc [+4, +2] (+10 spd)                   [3s]
Body          : uncursed mithril chain mail (-1, -3) [-4, +5]        [320s]
Girdle        : blessed girdle of carrying [+0, +0]                   [15s]
Cloak         : uncursed cloak of protection [+0, +3]                 [20s]
Right Hand    : blessed yellow hand axe of devastation (+0, 5d6+6)    [50s]
Left Hand     : uncursed tower crystal shield (-2) [+13, +4]         [260s]
Right Ring    : blessed ring of damage                                 [1s]
Left Ring     : uncursed ring of minor elemental mastery [+0, +0]      [1s]
Bracers       : blessed bracers of toughness [+0, +0] {To+4}          [10s]
Gauntlets     : uncursed rusty black dragon-hide gauntlets (-2, +0) [+0, +2]
Boots         : uncursed light boots [+0, +1]                         [20s]
Missile weapon: uncursed long bow of accuracy (+10, +2)               [30s]
Missiles      : bundle of 9 uncursed arrows (+0, 1d6)                 [18s]
Tool          : heap of 6 blessed moss patches of mareilon            [12s]

[zsomkovacs]

He will be hit by the steel golem on the upper level of Darkforge down to 1 Hp, but he'll manage to descend. You'll teleport into the armor room. You'll find an eternium plate mail and put it on. It'll be a charged eternium plate mail and it'll deal exactly 1 damage as you put it on.

[mackthaknife]

that would be pure irony! but i doubt it is going to happen due to nice PV he has, and lightning resistance from yellow axe and rind.. being doomed can make that happen tho.