Starved to death while using holy symbol to gain piety after reading IBM guild manual
edit: guess I should mention this was a dwarf duelist.
Man, this game was a doozy. Especially Thrundarr's second quest. I checked out DH:1 and saw a black unicorn about two spaces away, so I got the hell out of there. I managed the first trip through the animated forest fine, but on the way back, I was surrounded completely by hostile trees pretty early (like 1/15-1/10 of the horizontal distance) [I actually wonder if this was an unintended change. I've never been surrounded by nine (five, yes [wall on one side]) hostile trees before]. I had to heroically fight my way back to the down stairs, praying about 3 times, and was forced to go the DH route. DH:2 had nothing, but I had a lot of trouble getting around the black unicorn in DH:1, mostly it wasn't too close, though I did have to pray one time when I got between it and two monsters. One the way to the upstairs, I took a wrong turn and had to fight my way past a shadow troll, on my right, while fighting a floating eye on my left that was blocking the black unicorn, along with a cat and another floating eye. As I got to the upstairs room, I found like 6-10 chaos spawns and just groaned out loud. I managed to get to the upstairs after picking up just one corruption (babbling mouth) and using just one more prayer (after which the ground rumbled). Breathing a sigh of relief, I headed back to DT, sacced a couple thousand gold to get back to pleased and went off to clear ogre cave and then the arena.
In the arena, I got a cat. After about 8 charges of a wand of trap creation later (somehow managing to get only 2 corruptions traps, 2 water traps, a snake pit trap, a fireball trap and two pits). After considering I probably could not take on a WMOPC [even one w/ low hit dice] (slowing attack would get me for sure if one hit connected), I decided to dip my identify scrolls in holy water and see what else in my inventory could be of use. After somehow pressing 'D' instead of..'G'? 'H'? (doesn't matter, I guess, just know it was really really wrong), I read...an IBM guild manual. I tried praying, but of course I hadn't noticed my HP wasn't full, and after all my other prayers, this used up all my piety.
But wait, I had a holy symbol, I thought, I'll just use this on coward until I have enough piety. After being bored quite quickly, I decided to start pasting in lots of use commands. Unfortunately, after being even more frustrated at how long this was taking, I decided to paste in a truly monster command (probably like 500) without considering I was burdened and had been below Satiated for quite some time. All I could do was watch helplessly as my status quickly changed to Hungry, then Overburdened, then Hungry! then Starving! and--finally--a merciful death.
and now I know how grah feels
Last edited by SirTheta; 01-17-2013 at 09:33 PM.
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