YASD: Had no idea what a doom hound is doing


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Post Tuesday, 30th November 2021, 13:33

YASD: Had no idea what a doom hound is doing

I had this terribly strong Ghoul Fighter of Okawaru, who was steamrolling the game so far (after stabilizing during the first few levels). I made it to U1 and felt strong enough to enter the Vestibule of Hell. No problem there - I had a potion of attraction, and that kept Geryon in the range of my axe, and even smashed Murray, when he decided to show up, too.

I went up to heal, and entered again for mopping up, with the same effect. Some doom hounds showed up, and I didn't pay much attention to them, as much stronger stuff was still around. When my health went down again, I left once more, followed by one doom hound, plus a bone dragon. I felt still confident while bashing the bone dragon when suddenly, out of the blue, a Tzitzimitl shows up. Then another bone dragon, and another Tzitzimitl. I realise too late that I am in trouble, and try to jump away. Had I known what doom hounds are all about, or what the "howl" status does, I could have avoided that death.

https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/Majang/morgue-Majang-20211130-130524.txt

And, as a bonus, the Wiki-page about doom hounds:

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Doom_hound
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Slime Squisher

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Post Thursday, 2nd December 2021, 13:49

Re: YASD: Had no idea what a doom hound is doing

I knew what doom hounds do, but they're still pretty horrible: http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/dame ... 125003.txt

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Post Friday, 3rd December 2021, 01:26

Re: YASD: Had no idea what a doom hound is doing

Doom hounds in the Vestibule?! Great. I wőnder what is next, an ancient lich is Lair or something.

I also wonder if the doom hound's appearance there was intentional or just a bug. Another reason to never play trunk.

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