The Tavern

In what is best described as a pathological corner case, a character of mine was cast into the Abyss from Dungeon:1 on the first hit by a kobold wielding a whip of distortion (a very unusual brand at this stage in the game).


This represents the first time I've ever gotten banished in any non-test (e.g. not wizmode) game. Obviously, the character (XL2 VSNe) did not last much longer.

I've since edited my configuration file to interrupt on encountering a monster wielding a distortion weapon.

Have you had anything like this happen before?

Usually, the danger of this sort is just getting zapped to death with a whip of electrocution or lethally poisoned by a dagger of venom or somesuch. A whip of distortion could have killed you with damage too.

I've had a hobgoblin with a club OHK a spriggan before.

That's definitely true. A non-banishing hit that comes up as "Space warps horribly around you!" could alone have inflicted enough damage to be lethal. An extra 3-26 points of irresistible damage (biased towards 14.5) is likely to be high enough to one-shot something as frail as an XL2 Vine Stalker with just 13 HP (even after accounting for 6 MP from the spirit shield).