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minstrel wrote:...when you're playing an octopode of chei and run into a herd of Death Yaks on L:6...

...while swimming in deep water, with nothing but deep water all around you...

...and mephitic cloud and poisonous cloud memorized.

Choices, choices.

Though it's not in the spirit of the thread, the answer to that is Poisonous Cloud. Mephitic does work on death yaks sometimes, but you can waste a lot of time watching them shrug it off.

That being said, watching them drown is priceless.

Stormfox wrote:Though it's not in the spirit of the thread, the answer to that is Poisonous Cloud. Mephitic does work on death yaks sometimes, but you can waste a lot of time watching them shrug it off.

That being said, watching them drown is priceless.

I ended up experimenting with both, in the name of science of course.

They worked about equally, because while poisonous cloud was more of a sure thing, they just stood there in the mephitic cloud turn after turn and eventually got confused and turned into tasty floating meat piles. (I was also wearing an amulet of the gourmand, num num).

Your +2 dwarven shield of reflection reflects the iron shot!
The iron shot hits the lich.
You destroy the lich!

You start up a MDAr named "Go Nemelex" and find a D:3 Okawaru altar and proceed to worship him instead.

...centaur spawn right next to you on D:3 as a melee class. Easy xp!

You find a centaur barding on a centaur. And on D:3 to boot.

I am so gonna die now

I come down the stairs to find a necrophage right next to me...

...and I'm worshiping Fedhas.

You go down the stairs to crypt 2 and land just in sight of a Greater Mummy.

You start lobbing firey magic at him (bandages seem awfully flammable, right?) and Boris comes around the corner from the other side.

You decide to dodge down a side corridor so that you can nail them both with area effects and run smack into Khufu. :shock:

You blink, quaff a potion of brilliance, wield a staff of wizardry and find that you can finally cast Fire Storm. :!:

Oklob plants are *wonderful.*

(yeah, I know I can just circumvent it by going at a plant on the other side, but still...

I hate to double-post, but this time it seems apropos.

I love it when I'm standing over my stash as a worshipper of Nemelex and I accidentally press p instead of , to pick my items up.

*sigh* I really, really love it. So much.

..my enchanter finds a randart +8/+6 dagger of holy wrath on D5. As a vampire. Instant (un)life tilt.

the newflesh wrote:...centaur spawn right next to you on D:3 as a melee class. Easy xp!

Similarly: I stumble upon a sleeping worker ant on D:1... and I'm a Naga Transmuter.

...Sigmund spawns on D:10. Actually, the deepest Sigmund I've seen was on D:15. I left him alone in case it was some kind of mimic or shapeshifter or something like that.

I don't think shapeshifters can mimic unique monsters.

Although a unique shapeshifter that mimics other uniques might be a fun addition...

Sometimes you get OOD monsters, and sometimes you get OOD items. NEcronomicon on D:4 anyone?

Is a D:4 Necronomicon (or other high-level book) really that much of a prize, though? No character is even close to being able to use it at that point, and if you die after that, it has also has the afterthought of "Damn, I never even got to use my Necronomicon..."

Blade wrote:I love it when I'm standing over my stash as a worshipper of Nemelex and I accidentally press p instead of , to pick my items up.

If you are going for Nemelex, always mark your first stash object with !p:

Code:: !p prompt before sacrificing a stack containing an item with this inscription; if the answer is "No", the whole stack will be skipped, and no items will be sacrificed

You start up a crossbow-using DSHu, and through two ammo spawns (one runed) and a nice pile of EW1 scrolls acquire a nice pile of 53 +4 crossbow bolts. By D:2. I imagine that I'm not running out of ammo anytime soon. Or at all.

Happy Corner wrote:Is a D:4 Necronomicon (or other high-level book) really that much of a prize, though? No character is even close to being able to use it at that point, and if you die after that, it has also has the afterthought of "Damn, I never even got to use my Necronomicon..."

Course not. It's just hilarious.

It rocks when you get an altar to your chosen god adjacent when you step onto D:2.

Rounded a corner on D:3 and found a spore and ballistomycete, already in explosion range. I figured I was screwed anyway and poked it. I survived with 1 HP, but 500 exp more than makes up for it. I gained 2 1/3 levels on a demonspawn (making me level 6) and 6 skills gained a level.

I love it when...

I get to V:6 before it occurs to me that not only have I not cleared the Orcish Mines, I don't even know where the stairs are.

...this happens!

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Well good thing I ended on top of the stairs, I guess...

EDIT: I now noticed that these are UP stairs... -_-

I love it when you're playing a DDAr and you decide to go Kiku, thinking "I can hold off baddies until I get enough draining." The most fun is when this results in an incredibly frustrating struggle of burning out your max mp to heal yourself as a necromancer, and when you can barely cast agony twice. Perhaps I should have gone mak or trog upon seeing the temple on D8.

Maurice has a cloak of preservation.

Delicious. Absolutely delicious.

When you're playing a merfolk and encounter Wiglaf in the swamp, next to a big pool...

I love it when I'm playing a Fire Elementalist and I encounter lots of OOD melee threats. D:6 troll? Sticky Flame. D:8 Hill Giant? Sticky Flame. D:9 Guardian Serpent who casts Teleport Other first turn in LoS? Sticky Flame. A few turns later: You feel more experienced.

Mostly I just love sticky flame.

Blade wrote:I love it when I'm playing a Fire Elementalist and I encounter lots of OOD melee threats. D:6 troll? Sticky Flame. D:8 Hill Giant? Sticky Flame. D:9 Guardian Serpent who casts Teleport Other first turn in LoS? Sticky Flame. A few turns later: You feel more experienced.

Mostly I just love sticky flame.

Running my first FE right now and gotta give it up to Sticky Flame!

Blade wrote:I love it when I'm playing a Fire Elementalist and I encounter lots of OOD melee threats. D:6 troll? Sticky Flame. D:8 Hill Giant? Sticky Flame. D:9 Guardian Serpent who casts Teleport Other first turn in LoS? Sticky Flame. A few turns later: You feel more experienced.

Mostly I just love sticky flame.

Actually, the correct answer should be Conjure Flame, then Sticky Flame. If burning them once per turn is good, twice is better.

I love it when I have 10 minutes before work and go clear all of snake. All hail the mighty TrBe of TAB!

Sigmind evaporates and reforms as a giant newt!

I love it when you load an old character to kill him off/quit to clear the names, and you by an act of Okawaru, manage to survive the unwinnable situation you had so frustratedly quit the character on weeks ago.

I love it when you clear more ogres than fit on your screen by repeatedly casting Fireball.

I also love it when you die to a single unique (Aizul) later.

When a blessed trishula of reaching turns out to be exactly as much fun as you expected.

<Elynae> Xiberia:
<Henzell> Moose the Shatterer (L15 TrBe) entered the Swamp on turn 31109. (Lair:5)
<Xiberia> sup
<Elynae> look what I just acquired on d:8
<Elynae> _r - an uncursed demon whip of reaching (weapon)
<Xiberia> neat

(2 minutes later)

<Elynae> Xiberia: just found another demon whip wtf
<Elynae> As you grasp it, you feel a great hunger. Being not satiated, you stop.
<Elynae> m - a vampiric demon whip
<Elynae> omg
<Gretell> Kaffee (L4 HEWr) killed the ghost of Silty the Skirmisher, a weakling DgFi. (D:3)
<Henzell> Brittlesworth the Conjurer (L8 DECj) killed the ghost of firemonkey the Cleaver, an experienced MDBe of Trog on turn 7490. (D:7)
<Xiberia> haha

Gotta love it when you:
Encounter Ogres or Orc Warriors at D2.... and you have curare. :mrgreen:

Not that lovable when you:
Encounter an Ice Beast instead.

I love it when I find an incredibly difficult spider's nest with a horde of 12 giant centipedes and a similar amount of scorpions guarding the entrance, plenty of tarantellas, jumping spiders, wolf spiders, redbacks, and trapdoor spiders, and a couple of demonic crawlers and emperor scorpions for good measure, resulting in the use of 5 charges of a wand of lightning, 10 from a wand of cold, 5 from a wand of digging, a scroll of blinking, and the exhaustion of my entire MP supply and most of my HP three or four times over.

I mean, even if I didn't find much loot in there, that nest was fun. Props to whoever designed it.

That layout's basically a giant middle finger to anyone who doesn't have rPois.

/Tried it without rPois.
//Died
///Was more because I made too much noise than anything.

Tiber wrote:That layout's basically a giant middle finger to anyone who doesn't have rPois.

/Tried it without rPois.
//Died
///Was more because I made too much noise than anything.

I was a mummy with poison immunity, and it was still terrifying. And awesome. The noise I made was a major issue, because they kept coming to investigate and driving me back further and further into corners.

You gotta be careful in that death trap; even with rPois, most of the critters hit for loads of damage(esp. the Emperor scorpions). Plus, some spiders can move faster than you. The jumping spiders have a bad habit of hopping behind you and blocking your escape path... doesn't help that there's almost no one-space corridors there too, they'll swarm you fast if you make noise. :twisted:

I love it when, after a litle over six hundred games, I finally find a Wizlab.

It was Zonguldrok, and it was way cool 8-)

[edit: I've only ever seen one Volcano, too.]

Eaki Godsbane wrote:You gotta be careful in that death trap; even with rPois, most of the critters hit for loads of damage(esp. the Emperor scorpions). Plus, some spiders can move faster than you. The jumping spiders have a bad habit of hopping behind you and blocking your escape path... doesn't help that there's almost no one-space corridors there too, they'll swarm you fast if you make noise. :twisted:

Olgreb's Toxic Radiance makes very short work of most spider nests, if you can keep the bugs out of range for about five turns per sighting. But yes, if they get close enough to hit you they can still shred you even as they're dissolving from the inside out.

I never even see that spell in a lot of games. And the one really awesome game I had going where I found the staff of olgreb in a shop, xom summoned a swarm of demons when I was already near death, when I was maybe 50 gold shy of buying it.

I love it when I find a trove of jewellery instead of random junk for once. Netted me four randarts and 8 other pieces of jewellery, none of which I had identified. 8-)

When I emerge onto level 3 of the tomb, worshiping TSO, clutching 4 scrolls of Holy Word...

Ahhh, hahaha ahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa how I laughed.

There is a gateway leading out of the Abyss here.
You pass through the gate.
Welcome back to the Elven Halls!
You remove your ring of teleportation.
w - a ring of protection from magic
Oh no! You have blundered into a Zot trap!
You are cast into the Abyss!
To return, you must find a gate leading back.

I mean, what can you even say to that? Xom, I salute you.

Xom gives me a large number of well enchanted javelins after I left him, always as a spriggan of course.

...my character dies, so I can start a new one

...you gain a level while resting back up.

...I find this when playing a Troll.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

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