Tell me about your most heartbreaking death.
It's common knowledge that tragedy befalls the most promising characters. This morning, after ages of playing without a single legit win (including a few deaths on D:50), I come to realize that in ADOM, I am my own worst enemy.
In UD:7, I found a ring shop. He had a ring of ice (sweet, no stacking FR for the tower), and a RoDS! The RoDS was priced about 20k, so i would have to come back later- I didn't want to rob the guy, as my PC was in no shape to battle a shopkeeper and the dooming/cursing would surely kill me before I got to Dwarftown. So I figured I'd head out, stack up some gold and return later. no rush.
Then In Lawen~, I got another stroke of luck, and she shopkeep there was sitting on a pair of 7LB! Oh sweet baby Jesus, can this be true? Priced about 7k, i still didn't have enough, as i had sacrificed a good bit of cash earning favor with the man upstairs. Again, no matter. I headed over to the CoC to hit the Arena for money.
On D:2 there was a C altar, and i got my gear dusted trying to convert it... twice. Where I had previously had 51/23 DV/PV, I had enough spare gear to get back up to 23/7. Still not bad, certainly good enough for the arena. So onward i pressed. In the arena, I fought through a few rounds and was doing well, until I had a momentary lapse of judgment and ate a kobold corpse. I don't know why i did it- I guess I just wasn't paying attention. I wasn't even pressed for food, I had a bag full of lizards. I layed on the '.' key for a while, waiting for my sickness to wear off- but it wouldn't. So I figured as long as I was waiting, I could burn through a few more arena rounds- they're all easy fights, right? Well, they were, until I got sent up against a jackalwere. He summoned jackals who quickly surrounded me, and my already-lowered health started dropping fast. Here I started getting nervous. I didn't have any health potions, I was sick, and my god had forsaken me 3 levels up for fucking with that C altar. I set it to Coward, put on 2 shields and started chugging unidentified potions. Fortunately, i hit a stack of 3 invisibility potions, which i used to take out the surrounding jackals 1 at a time (I've got 8 hp left at this point).
I finished off the jackals with about 6hp, and figured I'm home free. All I have to do now is wait for my sickness to wear off and I'm back in the green, with a big pile of cash to go claim my 7LB. I waited, and waited.... And waited. And the final fit of sickness did exactly 22 damage to me, which happened to be the amount of health I had at the time. Reduced exactly to 0. The luckiest beginning I've ever had in *any* game, and I went and fucked it up, playing stupidly. I could have cried. No more ADOM for me today...
So let's hear it- which stupid death of yours was the hardest for you to take?
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