YASD: Had no idea what a doom hound is doing
Posted: Tuesday, 30th November 2021, 13:33I 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
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