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Lavos Registered user Cardiovascular Endurance Last page view: 7307 days, 2 hours and 16 minutes ago. |
If you've ever died it some times says that you unnaturally aged X years. It has probably happened to one of your characters if you have ever gone down to that undead level in CoC (: |
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Iridia Moderator on this forum YASD Last page view: 3966 days, 14 hours and 53 seconds ago. |
Re: Item destruction Happens all the time, with bolt or ball spells, as well as vortices and dragon/lizard/etc. breath. Acid is most likely to cause item destruction, followed by lightning, fire, and last of all ice, which tends to destroy only potions. Die Gedanken sind Frei [Edited 1 time, last edit on 7/15/2003 at 22:00 (GMT -5) by Iridia] |
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Verdagon Registered user Atharian Dragon Last page view: 7785 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes and 52 seconds ago. |
So all I have to do is cast a fire bolt at a wand on the floor, and it will be destroyed and go off? I dont understand... I wouldnt be holding it. When people say "wrenching final charges" out of wands, they do mean destroying it, right? "What is this 'brain' that you speak of? Where can I get one?" "BoW, LeSsEr OnE!" "You're still alive??!! But I paid them so much..." |
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Warlord Registered user Wanderer of the Wastes Last page view: 7743 days, 14 hours, 1 minute and 45 seconds ago. |
Wrenching out the final means that you try to zap a wand with 0 charges. You eventually get to shoot the last one, but the wand will disappear after that. - May the blood of thine enemies stain the ground - |
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J. Registered user You'll never get rid of me Last page view: 5875 days, 11 minutes and 3 seconds ago. |
Items don't always get destroyed when they're hit with something. Se on fifty/sixty chänssi. But it's quite likely(and annoying) that when you blast firebolts with your wizard in a vault that all sorts of nice spellbooks which are piled under other stuff and you can't see are getting burnt. If you're feeling happy, don't worry, it'll go away. Originally posted by noob: "I'm everytime amazed how you people know to exploit every single little bug (or not-bug) for elaborated scumming tatics even if the feature seems completely useless or bad." |
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KillerClawLobster Registered user Ancient Chaos Lobster Last page view: 6671 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes and 13 seconds ago. |
Ghost and their aging bring me to my most freaky, alibi memorable and sad, death... After my L50 Dwarf Paladin triumphantly battled Fistanrius and his kind friends on D:50, closing the gate, and started his most triumphant march to the surface to leave the Draklor Chain (and provide me with my all time 2nd win!) and look forward to his well earned retirement, when he run across a lowly ghost on the Graveyard level (don't even ask why I didn't just take the shortcut) and being the mighty Paladin he is, decides to kill this lowly undead pest, when low and behold the Ghost ACTUALLY hit me! Once! And of course killed me due to aging. I hadn't realized exactly how much those darn Ghost Lords on D:50 had aged me... Oh, the humanity! The All-Powerful Ancient Chaos Lobster is here. Boil some water and melt some butter! |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 9 days, 3 hours, 31 minutes and 53 seconds ago. |
Actualy I think I read about someone who actualy died from "natural" old age in ADOM once (or maybe I just dreamt it)... Well some ghosts where obviously involved. Basicaly the char was aged to within a year of death from old age (probably a troll running into an early ghost or someting), and I guess he had one of those early birth signs, because a bit into the game it was like "Happy Birthday!" "You die" (well I asume the whole grim reaper thing came first)... I bet the first time anyone ran into the "exploding frog death" they where very "WTF!" too :P Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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Maelstrom Registered user The Knight of the Black Rose Last page view: 3328 days, 45 minutes and 55 seconds ago. |
Self-shot, the female hurthling archer, broke her leg on a wall - didn't know that was possible... A pessimist sees a dark tunnel. An optimist sees a light at the end of that tunnel. A realist sees a train. And the train driver sees three idiots on the tracks. |
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Zaknafein Unregistered user |
The most annoying death I've experienced in ADOM was with drakish fighter. it was right after I had cleaned up the D:50 and started going upwards. There had passed only 83 days in the game time and this guy would surely have made a new astonishing record of mine. But, Alas! When going upwards from the icy lvl, my poor Draco was close to hypotermia, and everyone knows that it doesn't do any good to drakeling's speed. So, right after arriving on D:49, a &%@¤ing ghost king appeared! I of course tried to kill it but it hit me like 10 times against my 1. And after few turns had passed, my dear Draco was aged to death! After the shock had passed and I had forced my mouth shut again, I seriously considered throwing either my computer or myself out of the window. Luckily things didn't turn out that way... The only consequence was that drakeling chars didn't seem too pleasant to play for a LOOOONNGG time... |
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Ekaterin Moderator on this forum Last page view: 5976 days, 10 hours, 52 minutes and 3 seconds ago. |
Make yourself invisible next time! Ghosts can't see invisible, so you could have walked away and warmed yourself up before returning to kill it (or just fleeing). Having said that, I've died from old age far too many times. Once I lost a wonderful Orcish Assassin to a horde of ghost kings. I wore a ring of invisibility and fought them one at a time, but it only took one critical hit to kill me. |
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Jenda Unregistered user |
Not my freakiest death but yesterday I was very disappointed when I had descended to the 6th level of puppy cave (I had quite promising char), locked Kelly so that he couldnt fight with me (do you do it too?) and then started to clean the zombies´ vault - after a while I found an elven chain mail (10s). So I moved to a room which I considered safe and put on the new armor (sometimes I cant stand curiosity). It was purely the same as the chain mail (0,+5) I wore before. I kept fighting but suddenly after an attack of a ghul my new mail was damaged -> (0,+4). That annoyed me, things like that usually occure to me much later in the game. I decided to keep the new mail as a backup and wanted to shift... I put off the damaged mail... and a ghul was next to me... you know what followed when I had no armor:-( hate paralyzation#@%^$& All I could think of in next 10 minutes of anger was that such situations cant be accidental... and that TB must have figured them out and somehow implemented into the game:-) |
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ArcticWolf Registered user Karmic Popsicle Last page view: 7630 days, 13 hours, 55 minutes and 42 seconds ago. |
Adom has something personal against me, or at least my latest character, a dwarven archer. I had a promising start, killing the raider lord, and then getting healing skill from the elder quest, but I was really short on quarrels. Not to mention I had lost 3 crossbows already (stone block trap, 2 explosion traps), so I decided to go into ID. Got diseased by the first giant rat I met, but no worries, I managed to crawl back to Jhared for healing. Back to ID I go, and again, giant rat on level 2 diseased me. Again I managed to get healed, and I was feeling very lucky (even though I had no bolts or arrows and my gear was just bad), so I decided to try the little girl quest. Sadly, there was a little room that helped spawners spawn faster. And there was a green worm in there. And then two green worms. And at this point I screamed out in frustration, tried to run, ran into an eye, got paralyzed by the fluids when killing it, and got swarmed by the worms that, yes, diseased me. At this point, I quit. Imagine a carmic popsicle - First it is red and tastes like strawberry. Then it turns blue and tastes like blueberry. And if someone takes it from ye, he or she gets cursed and doomed. |
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Iridia Moderator on this forum YASD Last page view: 3966 days, 14 hours and 53 seconds ago. |
Hmmm.... ten minutes? Maybe you need anger management therapy, 'cause I'm so used to losing promising characters that I got over the loss of a level 21 character in less than two seconds today. Sometimes I think that after so much ADOM, if I ever find myself in a plane crash or something, my last thought will probably be, "Figures." Die Gedanken sind Frei |
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Jurne Registered user Last page view: 6875 days, 17 hours, 21 minutes and 41 seconds ago. |
Yesterday I got eaten from the outside in. By a snail. That will always hold a special place in my stomach, lol. You wish to kill me? Good thing I brought my psychic hamster named Hamster with me... |
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Lamaros Registered user The sieve Last page view: 7379 days, 16 hours, 25 minutes and 38 seconds ago. |
I was in bad shape with my Diety, so I decided to offer some stuff to him. As a Dark Elf I thought, they like books and I'm illeterate anyway so I offered one... a cursed one... The summoned creatures wasted no time offering me up. The number of time I've forgotten to re-equip my weapon after dancing with ratling fencemen and then found my bloody fists inefficent in halting my untimely deaths is also creeping up on me. Teleportitis and shops isn't a fun combination either... especialy when you missed noticing you had it. |
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 Arancaytar Registered user Pyromancer Last page view: 779 days, 8 hours, 42 minutes and 48 seconds ago. |
My two favourites are still dying from kicking empty air, and causing an explosion while mixing two potions of water. ;) Move the cursor to the desired position and press [SPACE] when done. Impossible. Suddenly you stand elsewhere. You see an ancient altar of black obsidian. The goblin rockthrower suddenly shouts a prayer to his gods! You are consumed by a roaring column of flame! |
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Lavos Registered user Cardiovascular Endurance Last page view: 7307 days, 2 hours and 16 minutes ago. |
Well my new level 18 PC was just eaten by a grue. It sure does seem like that happens a lot with a 1/10000 chance. (: |
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Arancaytar Registered user Pyromancer Last page view: 779 days, 8 hours, 42 minutes and 48 seconds ago. |
It's 1/1000 IIRC. And you know what happens in a roguelike when you have 1/1000 of a chance to die. Try it 50 times, and you'll survive about once. It should be another aspect of Murphy's Law ;) Move the cursor to the desired position and press [SPACE] when done. Impossible. Suddenly you stand elsewhere. You see an ancient altar of black obsidian. The goblin rockthrower suddenly shouts a prayer to his gods! You are consumed by a roaring column of flame! |
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Lavos-notlogged Unregistered user |
lol! |
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J. Registered user You'll never get rid of me Last page view: 5875 days, 11 minutes and 3 seconds ago. |
I remember the first time I died to a grue. It was one of my first games and the first time I made it to the end-game(I savescummed then). I hadn't read the guidebook or anything so I was pretty stupid walking around cursed/doomed(didn't know much about them). So, my lvl 50 barbarian descends the stairs from D:49 to D:50 and gets eaten by the grue. It made me wonder what did I do wrong and how do you beat the game if you get autokilled when entering the last level:) Hmm, come to think of it, that's probably the only time I've died to a grue. If you're feeling happy, don't worry, it'll go away. Originally posted by noob: "I'm everytime amazed how you people know to exploit every single little bug (or not-bug) for elaborated scumming tatics even if the feature seems completely useless or bad." [Edited 1 time, last edit on 8/2/2003 at 11:11 (GMT -5) by J.] |
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Lavos Registered user Cardiovascular Endurance Last page view: 7307 days, 2 hours and 16 minutes ago. |
Now that sucks. Thats all i can say,\. (: |
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Arancaytar Registered user Pyromancer Last page view: 779 days, 8 hours, 42 minutes and 48 seconds ago. |
Well, it's lucky he'd savescummed, so he'd a backup of the char. That's a kind of death where it's IMHO morally correct even for roguelike purists to reload. :P Move the cursor to the desired position and press [SPACE] when done. Impossible. Suddenly you stand elsewhere. You see an ancient altar of black obsidian. The goblin rockthrower suddenly shouts a prayer to his gods! You are consumed by a roaring column of flame! |
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Iridia Moderator on this forum YASD Last page view: 3966 days, 14 hours and 53 seconds ago. |
I don't think so... not for the purists. The only reason to reload is a computer crash, power outage, whatever--because those are absolutely unavoidable, no matter how strong your character is. Just because it's an instadeath doesn't mean a death from grue attack isn't preventable. First, you can just not get doomed in the first place; second, you can carry a light source into dark rooms if you do get doomed. If you wanted to exempt grue attacks, you'd have to exempt all instadeath situations... death rays, gorgon petrification, (near-)permanent paralysis, et cetera. And if you did that, you wouldn't be a purist anymore. Die Gedanken sind Frei |
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J. Registered user You'll never get rid of me Last page view: 5875 days, 11 minutes and 3 seconds ago. |
I agree with Iridia: the only proper reason to reaload a backup is if the game crashes, you have a power shortage cutting your game off or something that is not your fault. I might even allow cats jumping on your keyboard causing you to step on an altar and getting sacrificed. But if you reaload for any other reason then it's cheating. Also getting yourself eaten by a grue is a very big, stupid, idiotic, newbieish mistake. Everybody ought to know the effects of dooming and not go walking around in the dark while doomed. I might even say that everytime you get yourself killed while doomed you've done something wrong and should have known better than go walking around begging for trouble with bad luck(as in cursed/doomed instead of lucky/fate smiles). If you're feeling happy, don't worry, it'll go away. Originally posted by noob: "I'm everytime amazed how you people know to exploit every single little bug (or not-bug) for elaborated scumming tatics even if the feature seems completely useless or bad." [Edited 1 time, last edit on 8/3/2003 at 12:24 (GMT -5) by J.] |
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Arancaytar Registered user Pyromancer Last page view: 779 days, 8 hours, 42 minutes and 48 seconds ago. |
"Cats jumping on your keyboard causing you to step on an altar and getting sacrificed." Lol, the cat is lucky that you're an ADOMer then, who is strictly opposed to killing any sort of feline... :p Btw, is it actually possible to be killed by a non-aligned amulet, like Amulet of Order for a chaotic? Never happened to me... Move the cursor to the desired position and press [SPACE] when done. Impossible. Suddenly you stand elsewhere. You see an ancient altar of black obsidian. The goblin rockthrower suddenly shouts a prayer to his gods! You are consumed by a roaring column of flame! |
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J. Registered user You'll never get rid of me Last page view: 5875 days, 11 minutes and 3 seconds ago. |
Yes it is. Now where is Dougy(was it dougy?) with his "all the ways you can die in adom" list? It's somewhere on these boards but I'm too lazy to search for it. If you're feeling happy, don't worry, it'll go away. Originally posted by noob: "I'm everytime amazed how you people know to exploit every single little bug (or not-bug) for elaborated scumming tatics even if the feature seems completely useless or bad." |
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Lavos Registered user Cardiovascular Endurance Last page view: 7307 days, 2 hours and 16 minutes ago. |
yeah, its happened to me, i was at a low level (like 10) and wasnt paying attention to what it said. Soon enough i got my hitpoints low and there it was, killed by an unaligned amulet. (: |
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Ekaterin Moderator on this forum Last page view: 5976 days, 10 hours, 52 minutes and 3 seconds ago. |
Dougy's list is on the Web here. |
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J. Registered user You'll never get rid of me Last page view: 5875 days, 11 minutes and 3 seconds ago. |
Woooooo! Great, thanks! I'll bookmark the page for further reference(I had it on the old computer but not this one). If you're feeling happy, don't worry, it'll go away. Originally posted by noob: "I'm everytime amazed how you people know to exploit every single little bug (or not-bug) for elaborated scumming tatics even if the feature seems completely useless or bad." |
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Maelstrom Registered user The Knight of the Black Rose Last page view: 3328 days, 45 minutes and 55 seconds ago. |
"He died of exhaustion on a bad day... (born with 0 or less initial hp (on a monday))" This one sucks! You die before you even start :D A pessimist sees a dark tunnel. An optimist sees a light at the end of that tunnel. A realist sees a train. And the train driver sees three idiots on the tracks. |
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