chaostrom
Zayre |
Dec 5, 2007, 12:33 am |
| On IVAN, I had gotten very close to fighting Elpuri. Having struggled so hard to get this far, I was being rediculously careful... Too careful. I stumbled across Vladimir The Giant Carnivorous Mutant Bunny, and foolishly, hit him with a Wand of Striking. It didn't end well. I suppose this teaches me to look at the enemies closely, instead of being Zap-Happy. |
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capristo |
Dec 5, 2007, 2:18 am |
| Hmm, there are so many. I think the worst ones would have to be when I get to GC9, thinking I'm ready to take on Elpuri, but when I get there the mystic dark frog teleports away my body armor / weapon / ESP ability. So with the first two I'm pretty much helplessly torn to shreds, and with the last one the mystic dark frog usually electrocutes me to death (at least in the past, when I didn't used to get a cloak of elec. res.) while I blindly flail about hoping to get a lucky hit and kill it. I know, I should eat floating eye flesh or something to make it more permanent, but unless there's one on GC8 I can't be bothered to go looking for one. Or, the other bad ones are where you think you're good enough for GC9 but you really aren't, even with all of your equipment. |
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slob |
Dec 5, 2007, 4:13 pm |
| I've tried repeatedly to take on on the mages and necromancers in the octiron room beyond the portal - it's never gone well. Half the time I don't even get the damn door open before I am killed by repeated explosions and zaps. Has anyone ever cleared it or do you just teleport to the stairs and move on? | |
capristo |
Dec 5, 2007, 4:22 pm |
| I've only been there twice. The first time I was pretty much instantly destroyed, the second time I started fighting my way through and then I thought better of it and just teleported to the stairway. The middle level is the hardest (the one where they're all stuffed into one tiny room). The third level is actually pretty easy, and it's safe to take your time and clear it out, as is Oree's Lair. |
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Unknown_Entity |
Dec 10, 2007, 2:50 am |
| Probably getting one shotted by Shererax. I thought I could take her and got utterly owned. Although that made sacrificing Ivan to her so I could escape my next game all the more satisfying. |
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Caz |
Dec 20, 2007, 11:20 pm |
| In my furthest game, I was doing well. In excess of 100hp... many scrolls and items... though no food. I ate the corpse of a mutant ass to stave off hunger. Near the end of the level I saw a giant cat, and moved in for the kill. "You polymorph into a small carnivorous rabbit!" ... |
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Full_Metal_Wolf |
Dec 21, 2007, 1:57 am |
| Oh, let's see...um, I know! I have two: 1-I tried to kill Kenny in the beginning, and, um, Kenny killed me. Stupid dog. 2-I was doing alright in UT1, but, I ended up getting nut-shotted by headless zombie. Just my luck. |
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Unknown_Entity |
Dec 21, 2007, 4:20 am |
| I almost completely cleared that mage room past the portal once. Then one of them destroyed one of my legs, so I ran like hell. >_> |
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Sticky |
Jan 2, 2008, 7:16 pm |
| I've got a bunch. One was where I was drinking out of a fountain and a dark frog popped out and befriended me. Later on in UT2 or 3, the Dark Frog was fighting something off screen and I ran in to help. The attacker took my leg off, and I was dissolved in Dark Frog blood. Another one was where I was completely raped by a pack of blink dogs in UT2. And of course, my favorite, I was attacked by an entire company of Kamikaze Dwarves. In UT3. I wish I was joking. |
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Unknown_Entity |
Jan 5, 2008, 5:42 pm |
| I believe you man. I got attacked by Ischaldirth on UT2 once. I just kind of laughed when I saw the death message. | |
Full_Metal_Wolf |
Jan 6, 2008, 5:53 am |
| Well, this one's embarrassing, actually. I was doing good in UT, until I lost my arm. Then, I prayed to a god. I got an Ommel Hair arm, and began kicking butt. Then, I somehow got killed by nutshot from a kobold with a balsa spear. That's sad, to be able to kill hedgehogs and zombies with ease, only to get my balls torn to shreds by a spear made of a weak wood. | |
makron666 |
Jan 9, 2008, 1:14 am |
| Alot of the time i'll get to ut2 and get blown up by one of those kamakaze dwarfs (I think that's what there called). | |
BDR |
Jan 11, 2008, 7:02 am |
| Bleh. Probably either one of my zero-point 'in soviet russia kenny kills YOU' games, the game where a lucky as shit hedgehog beheaded me in UT1, or my most recent game where even having a cloak and a ring with fire resistance, as well as having arcanite plate mail on UT2, were not enough to save me from the ravages of a big mine + a nearby normal one. At least in the last case I have a chance of benefiting from the experience.. T_T BTW, if you're curious how I got arcanite plate mail on UT2, it was a gift from Atavus... I really liked the way that game was going. *sniffle* |
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Somagu |
Jan 11, 2008, 7:42 am |
| Don't underestimate big mines. Just don't. On another note, in case you didn't know, enchanting fire resistance cloaks makes them more effective. | |
BDR |
Jan 11, 2008, 12:18 pm |
| Well, you see, the part that makes me feel really stupid is that I had a ring of searching, and that not too long before splatting I'd said to myself to be careful not to think I'd found all the mines in the minefield even after I'd seen and grabbed everything in it. Then I actually finish, sigh in relief, take a few steps and... "You hear a faint thump." It was almost like a scene straight from a sitcom or Saturday morning cartoon. Also, thanks for the enchanted cloaks tip, though I found it in another topic not too long after finding this site. ;_; |
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Sticky |
Jan 12, 2008, 6:07 am |
| This one is so retarded. I was running around GC2, and was doing awesome. I was doing a run through a room for purposes of finding useful items. Suddenly, the game stops. It says "You hear a faint click underfoot. You look down to see that you stepped on a HUEG MIEN! LOLZ! SUX2BU!" I basically went "Ah, fuck!" and I hit the spacebar to continue, hoping I could teleport away. No such luck. The mine exploded and completely raped me. Destroyed most of my items, and broke my wand of mirroring. Suddenly, I'm surrounded by doors. I'm still alive! Then my character just drops dead. How'd he die? Burned to death by a lit scroll. |
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chaostrom |
Jan 12, 2008, 5:14 pm |
| Haha, burning scrolls hurt you? |
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Unknown_Entity |
Jan 12, 2008, 9:45 pm |
| ...Not in the version I have. Is that in LIVAN or something? Or maybe a wand of fireballs exploded. | |
Sticky |
Jan 13, 2008, 4:05 am |
I rechecked. I just died from the landmine. GC2 is as far as I've gotten.  |
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Norrock |
Jan 26, 2008, 3:44 am |
| I had one in LIVAN where I was doing great,had all sorts of stuff,but little did i know you shouldn't carry around around a mustard gas grenade without the intention of using it quickly.The slave I picked up in Attnam stepped on a big mine in GC 4.That's not what killed me though.The slave was instantly raped,but I had a cloak and ring of fire resist.the explosion barely hit me,but it was apparently enough to set off THAT damn mustard gas grenade. "Norrock,killed on GC 4 from fatal exposure to mustard gas." Damn you Victor the slave. |
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Fluffy_Bot |
Jan 27, 2008, 6:13 am |
| Mine involved my brother turning off the power to my computer on accident. Not really in the exact spirit of things, but it was indeed infuriating. | |
Apple |
Jan 27, 2008, 1:52 pm |
| I've got two. First was when I played IVANT and found Dagron as a random spawn (bug ^^) I had 3 life savings, so I was pretty comfident. By dual wielding Saal'Thul and Vermis I hitted him couple of times and then my Vermis teleports him away. Nice tactic I felt. Well, after 5-6 teleports I used stetoschope on him to see how much HP did he have. 68/2000! OMG! I quickly switched off my Vermis, so i wouldn't teleport him away. Got one hit on him and... Blam! Beheaded. Funny thing was that i had AoLS on, and 2 on inventory, but it didn't activate because i ended having no neck! *sigh* Second one was so horrible that i almost deleted IVAN from my comp. I was damn lucky, and had these safely in my chest: 1 Scroll of Enchant Weapon 10 Scrolls of Enchant Armor 3 Scrolls of Harden Material 5 Scrolls of Charging 5 Scrolls of Taming 2 Scrolls of Repair 3 Wands of Mirroring 2 Wands of Cloning I also had couple of strikings, lightnings, many healing liguids etc. Then I wen't to GC5. I couldn't find stairs anywhere, and had hard time staying alive. Whoops, enner in front of me. Aaah crap all my wands are in box *looks for them* When I got them, enner was standing in front of me. Oh crap. I ended up being 1 or 2 shotted by scream. *gg* But what can I say? IVAN is cruel.  Mammoth post o.O |
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Norrock |
Jan 27, 2008, 2:21 pm |
| Speaking of Mammoths,I just got pwned a little while ago when I was on UT 2 and I found a wand of polymorph...I saved it,went to Jenny on UT 3,and zapped her with it.She turned into a goddamn mammoth.It stopped the plants from spawning as I recall,but started the brutal face-chewing from the mammoth.Needless to say,I died. | |
The Obsidian Knight act 2 |
Feb 6, 2008, 3:04 am |
| Not really the most worst death Ive had, but definably the most depressing. I found a vermis on UT2, and after kicking Jenny's ass, I left and delivered the note to the high priest, and went down to the gloomy caves, where I immediately found another vermis, and dual wielded them until I got eaten by a puppy while trapped in a spider web. |
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Ischaldirh |
Feb 6, 2008, 6:19 am |
| Apple -- Did you have any armor worth enchanting? CoFR, gauntlets or boots of statboost, belt of carrying, helm of statboost, decent armor? Generally speaking if you have anything worth enchanting there's no real reason to have more than 5 of any given type of scroll (HM, EA, EW), since that's as many as you can clone/mirror at a time. Regardless... ouch. :/ |
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Apple |
Feb 6, 2008, 12:43 pm |
| Well, I had helmet of brilliance, carrying, mirthil armors, vermis (saal'thul?) and that kind of stuff. |
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Ischaldirh |
Feb 10, 2008, 8:13 pm |
| SADNESS! I was geared to the MAX. I was pretty sure I was going to get Elpuri's head finally and win. Twin phoenix feather whips of thievery +5, phoenix feather CoFR +5, phoenix feather belt of carrying +10 (yeah, don't ask). Mithril helmet of understanding +5, gauntlets of dexterity +5, boots of agility +5, and full plate +1. Intelligence was getting up towards 30. I was tearing through all SORTS of shit. Mithril golems, mistresses, dark knights, chameleons, bears, mammoths... And then ONE mistress got a lucky hit with a whip to my head. Knocked me unconscious. She then proceeded to tear my head the rest of the way off. I was on GC7. Rondol, Guss, the Enner, were all dead. I had enough wands to pave New Attnam. I had 5 SoEW, SoEA, 8 SoHM, two SoGC (I was planning to attack Elpuri with two octiron golems at my side). SADNESS AND ANGER. |
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sPlatH |
Feb 11, 2008, 3:18 pm |
| God, I think it's been too long since I've played IVAN. Or since I posted some shit here too btw. Too much to do I tells ya all. | |
sPlatH |
Feb 11, 2008, 3:20 pm |
Norrock wrote Speaking of Mammoths,I just got pwned a little while ago when I was on UT 2 and I found a wand of polymorph...I saved it,went to Jenny on UT 3,and zapped her with it.She turned into a goddamn mammoth.It stopped the plants from spawning as I recall,but started the brutal face-chewing from the mammoth.Needless to say,I died. The face-chewing thing reminds me of Alien versus Predator somehow. |
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Apple |
Feb 22, 2008, 2:03 pm |
| I had 110 hp when I left Attnam, and was doing fine with my ommel hair gauntlets. I made to GC 4, where I ended running away from an arcanite golem, and mistakely hitting a floating eye. Then, a mistress came by, starting to beat me silly. Luckily my 110 hp saved me, and I managed to start drinking Can full of Healing Liquid. "Start" is a perfect term to use here. Before I finished my drinking, the mistress tore off my head. | |
AtukkA |
Feb 25, 2008, 1:39 pm |
| Once i had a great hero. He was called ¨The Great Hero¨, until he was sliced into bits after vomiting on the High Priest. I was supposed to press SHIFT+C not SHIFT+V GODDAMNIT | |
slob |
Feb 25, 2008, 6:59 pm |
Haha! I'm sure the devs made the vomit command just for that reason. They easily could have made vomit a lower case V but then you would puke on doors you were trying to close and not Petrus  |
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chaostrom |
Feb 26, 2008, 1:39 am |
| Hahaha awesome death AtukkA XD | |
mistifilio |
Feb 26, 2008, 3:27 am |
| Step 1, stand on an altar Step 2, eat a large corpse Step 3, "You are about to choke on this stuff. Continue eating? (Y/n)" Y Step 4, Vomit is spilled all over you...the vomit suddenly changes direction and hits you in the head. Your head is disolved. You Die Flex, killed by a flying lump of vomit in underwater tunnel level 2 |
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Norrock |
Feb 26, 2008, 3:38 am |
| Lawl,a flying lump of vomit.Classic. | |
chaostrom |
Feb 26, 2008, 3:40 am |
| We have a winner! | |
Batman? |
Feb 26, 2008, 3:19 pm |
| Had my best char ever going. Loaded with equipment wands killer armor and weapons. Descend to GC4, bones file. It looks familliar. hmmmm Next thing I know Im side by side with a werewolf wielding an octiron quarterstaff +5 i was toast before i could move. | |
chaostrom |
Feb 27, 2008, 3:34 am |
| Wait, werewolves pick up weapons? | |
slob |
Feb 27, 2008, 3:41 am |
| when they are in human form | |
Apple |
Mar 14, 2008, 3:42 pm |
| Oh. My. Fucking. God. I could rip off all the hair on my head. I had cloning with 3 charges. 4 chargings. Watch the picture:  After some hardening, enchanting and science talking I had about 32 INT. Then, I wasted some scrolls to get it up, and found a oil lamp --> Genie, got Helm of Brilliance. And how it ended? The game crashed on ATTNAM, leaving NO AUTOSAVE! And so I got NO BONES! Other stuff I had: Saal\'Thul +10, Mithril Long Sword +5, Belt of Carrying +7, Mithril armors +7, Cloak of Fire Resistance +7... And a frigging stack of those frigging 16 SOCMS!!! |
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Ernomouse |
Mar 14, 2008, 4:58 pm |
| ....winner. Apple, killed by Bill gates at Attnam. |
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chaostrom |
Mar 15, 2008, 5:21 am |
| I feel your pain, Apple. My most promising character ever got nailed by Bill Gates too... | |
Z |
Mar 15, 2008, 5:07 pm |
| Maybe you should have called yourself Microsoft instead of Apple. | |
Ischaldirh |
Mar 16, 2008, 4:57 am |
| But Billyboy kicked Apples ass too. | |
Cerumen |
Mar 21, 2008, 11:10 am |
The first time I ever killed Enner Beast (and by "I" I mean those lovely ladies sent to me by Nefas) on LIVAN, I got a lethal crash, repeated everytime I reloaded the autosave (autosaving every turn seems to do more harm than good). I consider this a fate worse than death  Another day as I was pillaging the kobold town in IVANT with my trusted slave (armed to the teeth), I accidently kicked him as he stepped over a chest. Somehow, I have assumed that the slave would have a "masochist" property and not fight back. Guess what, he did. I had an AoLS on me, and its only noticeable effect is that I've died two painful deaths one after another instead of one. |
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Apple |
Mar 24, 2008, 1:16 pm |
| Well well well, I had plenty of scrolls in my chest, just waiting to get a cloning/mirroring. Enner was a piece of cake, but something much more horrific awaited in his level. A mistress. Armed with +8 and +6 whips. Theres really nothing you can do there, especially when the game won't want to warn you with "You sense danger". | |
slob |
Mar 25, 2008, 12:31 am |
| A way to avoid this is to (l)ook at enemies and then hit "c" to examine them and you would have seen what she was wielding. I do this often and it has saved my ass many times. | |
Cerumen |
Apr 4, 2008, 8:22 am |
Once, my character had run into a Turox-wielding skeleton and kicked the bucket. The next time, I encountered a bone level of that guy, prepared this time, and the Turox-wielding skeleton kicked the bucket, earning me a Turox.  |
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Ninja Panda |
Apr 11, 2008, 9:00 pm |
| Hai!, Im new to the forums and fairly new to IVAN too Anyhow I think my worst death was when I was happily drinking from a fountain when suddenly those green slimes popped out and surrounded me I started trying to kill them with my trusty sword and when I realised I couldnt I proceeded to drink from the fountain as fast as I bloody could hoping to get the effect where Im sucked through the fountain unfortunately the green slimes managed to rip off all my legs and arms as I kept getting "The water tastes good!" messages, Finally I teleported leaving behind my missing limbs and let out a sigh of releif which quickly turned to surprise then to annoyance as I realised I had just teleported next to a Jackel. Needless to say the Jackel made quick work of my groin with one bite I was dead and gawped at my screen in shock at my unlucky turn of events, I then looked at my missing body parts and laughed realising I would of been screwed anyhow and proceeded to make a new character, hoping this time, just maybe, I would make it past UT3, I got outside the starting area with my trusty lantern and my pet Dog Geoff and was devoured by a Zombie... Awesome I just love the way I can die in this game and laugh even though that means I have to start again  Anyhow I'll shutup now  |
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Cerumen |
Apr 12, 2008, 10:01 pm |
| You are hit by waves of high sound. You vomit. You die. Death message? Vomited himself to death while unconscious. (what's funny is that this happened during an enner beast encounter) |
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Comrade |
Apr 13, 2008, 2:28 am |
| I hate the inner beast, he always gets me, ALWAYS! | |
Apple |
Apr 20, 2008, 7:04 am |
| Ah, the cruelty of IVAN. I was at the wolf level, and was just clearing the place before letting the wolves out from their locked room. Just in case I prayed for Nefas, getting a mistress. After this, I went to kick the door open. Couple of kicks and wham! Booby trap exploded. Well, you might think that how could someone possibly die to that? Well, the story didn't end just there. The explosion broke my Wand of Teleportation, teleporting me inside the chest room inside the rock. Cheers, I found the chest! The next thing I mentioned was a big mine under my feet. This explosion wouldn't have killed me yet, but another big mine next to me did as it exploded at the same time. |
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capristo |
Apr 20, 2008, 4:24 pm |
| Not my most horrible for sure, but a recent bad one: I attempted UT3 and retreated to UT2 after Genetrix nearly killed me. Then I spent a shitload of time polypiling and enchanting and hardening my gear, and finally returned to UT3. I had two chameleon whips, and so far neither one had polymorphed anything it hit. Back on UT3, I hit a kobold which promptly polymorphed into an iron golem. Pretty shitty, but also pretty easy to outrun, so I started retreating. Then suddenly a carnivorous plant popped out, blocking my way. The iron golem was still a few steps behind so I had time to kill the plant and continue on my way... or so I thought. The whips decided to activate again, and turned the plant into a phoenix feather golem. Stuck between two golems I decided to just drink my sulphuric acid rather than get beaten to a pulp |
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Apple |
Apr 20, 2008, 5:51 pm |
| If I'm correct, chameleon whips polymorph stuff less if Scabies hates you. I only take chameleon whips when I'm lawful, and it seems to work. | |
slob |
Apr 20, 2008, 10:15 pm |
| The more you use them the more scabies likes you AFAIK. Same with Whips of Thievery and Cleptia. | |
RickVoid |
Apr 25, 2008, 9:23 pm |
| I dunno about horrible, but it was pretty frigging hilarious. I was on UT 2 when a rat bit my head off. Because I was wearing an amulet of esp, I got the removal message "You feel a strong urge to remain yourself" (or something like that) in between the "Your head is severed" and "You are dead" messages. I took a screenshot, I'll try and upload it over the weekend. |
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slob |
Apr 25, 2008, 10:54 pm |
| That is pretty hilarious. Wearing an AoLS and then getting decapitated by a rat. Death awaits you with big sharp pointy teeth |
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Zareth |
Apr 27, 2008, 6:33 pm |
| Managed to get permanent (or at least pretty long lasting) polymorphitis going without polycontrol... Ran into the lowest carnivorous plant, and of all things get turned into a human flesh golem. 0 endurance, 6 hp. Instantly pegged me in the head, making it fly off >_>; Edit: had an AoLS on at the time too... anything with a neck and I woulda revived |
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Pyk3 |
May 6, 2008, 9:49 am |
| I hope I didn't get you angry with my questions. Thanks for your patient answeres and I try to read all the topics when I have more time. Okay, I accidently deleted Ivan and highscores before and I'm sure I had some better deaths, but here is some I have had recently: I had cloak of invisibility when I stepped into GC 6. Level was full of nasty golems and other hard enemies so I decided to get into GC 7 as soon as possible. Suddenly I saw veteran kamikaze dwarf of mellis, but of course it couldn't see me. Then suddenly electric burst ripped the cloak in pieces and I was visible again. Dwarf was still two steps away from me, so I tried to zap it with wand of striking which I had used to kill Enner. Of course it didnt work anymore. One step and I would be dead but I had wand of teleport which I had also used couple of times. I could have applied it, but no I had to zap dwarf and yeah nothing happened... My most horrible death in drawen minefield was when I went there with two mistresses. I had clone too, but I left it in level before. I thought he can survive since he is the "original". Anyway first mistress hit the mine pretty close the exit and died. Me and the another mistress continued deeper. My ring of searching found mine, but I didn't step away from it, I decided to go past it. Of course damn mistress stepped on mine. Suprisingly I was still alive after explosion, but my HP was low. I remembered seeing bottle of healing liquid before and went back. I thought I was lucky when I got next to healing liquid bottle without encountering more mines/enemies. I stepped in same square with bottle so that I could have drinked it, but of course there had to be one more mine... One of my many polymorphing deaths was when I polymorphed rocks into better stuff. Wand didn't zap anymore, so I decided to break it. First I used wand of fireballs with walls to get more stuff to polymorph. I stepped middle of rocks and breaked the wand of polymorphing. I polymorphed into a large spider and was so suprised that I accidently stepped one step right. Broken bottle of poison wouldn't have caused any problem to me in my normal form, but to spider it was deadly. |
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Ernomouse |
May 6, 2008, 11:09 am |
| x) That third one is hilarious... And no, we didn't get angry. Asking is not only accepted, but adviced. | |
Pyk3 |
May 6, 2008, 5:38 pm |
Quote x) That third one is hilarious... And no, we didn't get angry. Asking is not only accepted, but adviced. Thanks, I have hundreds of questions... Just kidding, but if something comes in my mind I will ask it. |
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Zareth |
May 13, 2008, 9:06 pm |
I have, found, a new most horrible death. UT1, basic, unleveled stats, barely any decent armor. A kobold with -vermis- pops up. I lasted 3 stabs >_> Edit: It happened again. |
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chaostrom |
May 14, 2008, 7:51 am |
| Haha, ouch. That's as bad as a skeleton with a mithril two-hander |
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Apple |
May 14, 2008, 9:31 am |
| I had the same thing on UT2, and had 4 bones on the same level. | |
Cerumen |
May 14, 2008, 2:18 pm |
| Remember my story of a Turox-happy skeleton in UT? Heh. | |
Azhael |
May 22, 2008, 5:49 pm |
| Well I would say.. 1. With a good character and two angels to aid (cloak of electricity resistance +5 i think) in the zombie level a master necromancer which I couldn't see beheded me with a burst of lightning. It was horrible because although I had Amulet of Life Saving I didin't had my second life as he destroyed my head. :S I guess the electricity resistance didn't cover my head also... 2. Polymorphed into a cave bear in UT2 (500hp) and when entered UT3 Izzy appeared and owned me completly. |
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Apple |
May 23, 2008, 5:08 am |
| Woah... that second one is... pretty horrific... I had good gear in UT5, and downed enner easily. I had Neerc-Se'Ulb +13, crappy belt of carrying +3-5, Phoenix Feather boots and gloves of strength +8, Meteoric Steel Helmet +5, AoLS, AoESP, Cloak of Fire Res +6, some rings and a Phoenix Feather Armor of Great Health +8. It became my doom. Once carelessly stepping down the stairs, (I hadn't taken off my body armor --> +200hp.) and spawned Danny. Freaked out, and ran upstairs, he followed. Zap! Teleported myself away, and had an idea. Since I had about 30 int, wand of polymorph and ring of polycontrol, I polymorphed myself in Danny. After all, my gear was better. But dumbass me didn't remember that once you poly, you don't have any of the past weapon skills! So, he totally ripped me apart. |
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Azhael |
May 23, 2008, 9:38 am |
| So i guess you learned the lesson... Do not use an armor of great health, as it actually means great enemies xD Here go two more: Killed by a phoenix feather golem's dirty attack below the belt in UT2 (can't explain why it spawned such a powerful monster, guess I was polymorphed before or something). Electrocuted by his own thunder hammer in UT2. |
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Hanuman |
May 24, 2008, 10:40 pm |
| I had such an awful death. A giant magpie stole my wand of invisibility so I decided to go after it figuring I would be able to kill it like the last time I faced one of them. Boy was I surprised when it morphed into some sort of bad ass female warrior and cut off my right arm and leg. After a little bit it changed back to it's true form and flew away. By this point I was ridiculously injured and exhausted and starving. As I was trying to make my way back to the surface I got stuck in a spider web and starved to death. Oh boy! What a horrible way to die. The last character I played with ran into the ghost of this guy and died after being touched by them two times. |
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Ischaldirh |
May 25, 2008, 12:38 am |
| That reminds me of something... "The ghost of Michael Jackson touches you in the groin!" |
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capristo |
May 25, 2008, 2:04 am |
hahaha  |
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slob |
May 26, 2008, 8:00 pm |
| I had apretty funny early game death yesterday. I had a good character who trained Agi and Int/wis easily - he had a +1 Agi, +2 wis, and +1 int (and +2 Cha) just by sci talkig with the banana growers for the first 800 turns. this is the kind of char that get 50 Int/wis with ease. I went into UT after telling my puppy to "Stay!", and there was a fountain by the stairs. So I asked myself" Do you feel lucky? Well do ya, huh, punk?" and the answer was yes. I got a few stats boosts and then I got "an uncomfortable uncertainty" aboutwho i really was. So I kept drinking. Next a dark frog spawned and I thought "oh shit, no armour, no weapons, I'm fucked" but I actually beat him fairly easily. So I kept drinking. Fool. Then a conical green momo slime spawned and vomited acid all over me. I knew I was toast but I started wailing on the slime with my bare fists as the flesh melted from my bones. my arms and legs melted off and just when i thought i was doomed I morphed into a black unicorn. After a few swift kicks the slime exploded and I climbed the stairs and headed for the healer. Partway there i changed back to a legless one armed (grey-striped) human and rolled into the healers. 40 gp got me a couple of new legs but i only made it 4 more steps before my head dissolved. | |
chaostrom |
May 27, 2008, 4:46 am |
| Haha, "rolled into the healers". Awesome death |
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Ernomouse |
May 27, 2008, 11:34 am |
| xD Fluffy scores the first prize of the week! EDIT: Ehh, I meant slob of course. Blame Fluffy for being too awesome. And me for being too slow for these kind of things. EDIT2: bolb ---> slob. FÜCCKAMGOAJENB. Jab. Period. Now, move along, there's nothin to see here. |
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chaostrom |
May 27, 2008, 2:09 pm |
Ernomouse wrote xD Fluffy scores the first prize of the week! ... Wrong thread  |
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Kyselina |
May 27, 2008, 3:52 pm |
| Hmmmm.... Could be ut 1 skeleton with artifact wep. The next guy to get there was killed by the same skeleton..... | |
Ernomouse |
May 27, 2008, 6:31 pm |
chaostrom wrote Ernomouse wrote xD Fluffy scores the first prize of the week! ... Wrong thread Ehh... Why? Oh... I just typed in a wrong name. Fluffy is just so awesome! |
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Kyselina |
May 27, 2008, 6:41 pm |
| Blob? You play The Blob too much. | |
capristo |
May 28, 2008, 2:34 am |
| Where is blob anyway. I don't think he's been on here for a while | |
Ernomouse |
May 28, 2008, 5:29 am |
| I think he moved on to further adventures... He hasn't posted here much. | |
chaostrom |
May 28, 2008, 5:39 am |
Kyselina wrote Blob? You play The Blob too much. ... Insta-fail. Out. Now. capristo wrote Where is blob anyway. I don't think he's been on here for a while No, he hasn't. He's busy I believe. Last I heard he spends what free time he has with friends and on MSN. |
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chaostrom |
May 29, 2008, 9:41 am |
| Just had a horrible death yesterday. I found leather armour, a steel sword, a scroll of something and a wand of mirroring right off the bat. 10 turns later, me and Kenny got tag-teamed by a hedgehog and a pair of kobolds with an iron mace and an iron dagger. Kenny died instantly, I died soon after. | |
Cerumen |
May 29, 2008, 9:53 pm |
For some reason, I found the following funny: It turned out the actual cause of death was mustard gas, but there were quite a few more messages below that, and that\'s how the final three lines looked like. I only learned how I really died from the score list... |
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Azhael |
May 30, 2008, 1:52 am |
| [quote=\"Cerumen\"]For some reason, I found the following funny: It turned out the actual cause of death was mustard gas, but there were quite a few more messages below that, and that\'s how the final three lines looked like. I only learned how I really died from the score list... Hahaha yes it\'s really nonsense if you only read that 3 last lines. \"Killed by a new leg given by Seges in...\" |
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Cerumen |
May 31, 2008, 1:46 pm |
| Today was probably my most frustrating and horrible death to date: Transformed into a werewolf while flying over the sea with a belt of levitation. I presumed the priestess of Silva in New Attnam could cure lycanthropy. I won't find out now  (at least I managed to kill Merka in this game) |
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Apple |
May 31, 2008, 3:05 pm |
Haha! Win, you deserve 5 kiwis!  |
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slob |
Jun 1, 2008, 3:30 am |
| yes she can for a mere 20 gold | |
chaostrom |
Jun 2, 2008, 3:57 am |
Cerumen wrote Today was probably my most frustrating and horrible death to date: Transformed into a werewolf while flying over the sea with a belt of levitation. I presumed the priestess of Silva in New Attnam could cure lycanthropy. I won't find out now (at least I managed to kill Merka in this game) That reminds me of the time I polymorphed into a skeleton while levitating to New Attnam... |
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Konradexius |
Jun 7, 2008, 7:43 pm |
| Had a character get warped to GC 4 through a pool form GC 1. On my way back up, I went up the stairs that should've brought me to GC 2, but instead I found myself standing in the octiron room on the golden portal that leads to Oree's lair. After staring flabbergasted at the screen for several seconds, I went through the portal and was disemboweled by mistress warladies with +6 whips before I got a turn. Oh, and the turn-into-a-werewolf-while-over-water-with-a-belt-of-levitation thing has happed to me as well. -_- |
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Yuzzi |
Jun 18, 2008, 7:37 pm |
| Just had one not so nice death. I was in GC2 or 3, fighting wolves. I managed to kill several of them, but then I panicked. I had managed to run from most of the wolves and dark frogs, and when necessary, I used a wand of teleportation. Then I was cornered to a room with dark frogs, and unable to attack anything. I got an idea of breaking the wand of teleportation. I thought I was safe, teleported in a big room. I walked around in the room for quite a while, all ok; until I saw the sign telling me I was in an experimental dwarven mine field. On that moment, I knew I was dead. I tried to find the door, and as I was walking by the walls, I stepped on a big mine. Damn land mines. | |
Cerumen |
Jun 18, 2008, 7:45 pm |
| Hello, the search command |
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RickVoid |
Jun 18, 2008, 11:44 pm |
| This funny post was caused by a death. I ended up with one of my really old bones files getting loaded. Not a bad haul, but that's not where the funny comes from. The ghost was from a character I'd named rickvoid. And I got this line: Rickvoid touches you in the groin. You are not hurt. Very, very creepy.  |
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Cerumen |
Jun 18, 2008, 11:53 pm |
| Oh, don\'t worry. There\'s also \"awfully touches\" message possible, so you didn\'t get the worst fate Not a death, but I found it funny:  |
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Yuzzi |
Jun 19, 2008, 10:52 am |
I sure wouldn\'t want to die like this. I still wonder how I managed to get the following: I was panicked, I had no arms and one leg, and my lantern was broken, so I couldn\'t see.. Ow. Oh, and I was caught in spider web.. And on top of that, it was a spider that killed me...  |
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capristo |
Jun 19, 2008, 11:08 pm |
Yuzzi wrote Just had one not so nice death. I was in GC2 or 3, fighting wolves. I managed to kill several of them, but then I panicked. I had managed to run from most of the wolves and dark frogs, and when necessary, I used a wand of teleportation. Then I was cornered to a room with dark frogs, and unable to attack anything. I got an idea of breaking the wand of teleportation. I thought I was safe, teleported in a big room. I walked around in the room for quite a while, all ok; until I saw the sign telling me I was in an experimental dwarven mine field. On that moment, I knew I was dead. I tried to find the door, and as I was walking by the walls, I stepped on a big mine. Damn land mines. In that case I would try sitting in the same spot and resting for as long as possible. There are usually not any monsters that spawn in the dwarf room for a while. Then once you get your health back, walk very carefully. Usually searching (press 's') about 3 or 4 times per step will detect most traps |
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Yuzzi |
Jun 21, 2008, 8:10 pm |
| Thanks. Again, an awful death. I was doing great, had a genie serving me, had a good weapon. I was on GC2. I found another even better weapon, a mace named Turox. I had never seen it before, and equipped it. The first enemy after that I encountered was a spider. I bashed it, and Turox decided to show its power to me. (spoilers) It exploded like a wand of fireballs. Not just that damaging me, it broke my wand of polymorph, turning me, from all possible monsters, into a GIANT MUSHROOM. What then? I wasn't able to do anything, and I kept vomiting from some reason. I vomited until I died. The end... |
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Kyselina |
Jun 22, 2008, 8:51 am |
| You were poisoned XD | |
Yuzzi |
Jun 22, 2008, 11:42 am |
| I don't think I had poisoned status at that moment. | |
Kyselina |
Jun 22, 2008, 12:54 pm |
| But you vomit because you are poisoned. | |
Ernomouse |
Jun 22, 2008, 7:25 pm |
| Poisoned or not; Vomiting mushrooms? | |
Yuzzi |
Jun 22, 2008, 8:46 pm |
Ernomouse wrote Poisoned or not; Vomiting mushrooms? The vomiting mushroom's groin was also bleeding. I checked the highscores, it said I died from poisoning. |
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Sylverone |
Jun 23, 2008, 1:20 am |
| Mushrooms should have a special case for poison. "You secrete slime unhealthily." rather than vomiting. |
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BDR |
Jun 23, 2008, 1:58 am |
| That *would* be a good solution, but then there'd have to be a new fluid; mushroom slime. |
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Sylverone |
Jun 25, 2008, 1:46 am |
| Mushroom Slime! A healthy alternative to other less efficient weight loss products! I'll repeat the death I just had here, because it was my best character so far, and because it was somewhat extreme. I already have it in my sig. I ate a grey unicorn corpse in GC2, got teleportitis, blinked into a minefield, and set everything off, igniting my gunpowder backpack and breaking my wand of fireballs. Luckily, I was wearing two rings of fire protection, so despite my demise I was relatively unhurt. I lost no limbs. That was the end of Tripwire. It seems I named him well. [UPDATE!] I just had a newbie die in a much more suitable way to be mentioned in this thread. For the first time I got the holy banana. Shortly afterwards, one of my legs got ripped off by a bear trap. I picked it up and began on my trip back to town when I encountered a skeleton, which hit me for vital damage in the head. I panicked and began to run, but it promptly ended that by hacking my other leg off. I was overloaded, and knew that it would probably kill me during the turn that I dropped my stuff, and even if not, I'd never get away from it without dying. So I pulled out my banana. No, the other one. I decided that since trying to escape would certainly get me killed, I'd go out with a bang, and if I was incredibly lucky, I might even survive! BANG! The skeleton died almost immediately, blown into pieces. Then my head was completely destroyed, ending all hopes of continuing this character. Both my arms bled out as well. But that wasn't the end! Oh no! Then the explosion damaged the very banana I'd just fired. It ruptured, releasing the rest of its charges on me. It ripped both arms off at once, as if to finish the job in an explosion of sadistic irony. Thus ended the life of Ripcord, yet another appropriately named character. |
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Cerumen |
Jun 25, 2008, 7:33 am |
| Wow, you can explode the holy banana. I never knew |
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chaostrom |
Jun 25, 2008, 12:06 pm |
| Haha! It's been a while since we've heard of a good death Sylverone wrote Then my head was completely destroyed, ending all hopes of continuing this character. About that though, we've had someone survive the loss of their head, so that doesn't necessarily end your game. Only if you lose it while biting a hedgehog. |
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Sylverone |
Jun 25, 2008, 2:06 pm |
chaostrom wrote About that though, we've had someone survive the loss of their head, so that doesn't necessarily end your game. Interesting... I should research this phenomenon... Wow, I can just imagine beating enemies to death with your own head. Can the priestess heal that? |
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Cerumen |
Jun 25, 2008, 3:48 pm |
| Heh heh. I'm not sure, but polymorphing into a zombie should let you lose your head and survive. Also... does amulet of life saving work against decapitation (I'm not convinced)? If so, it would theoretically be possible to lose your head and be able to pick it up. | |
Konork |
Jun 25, 2008, 4:32 pm |
Cerumen wrote Also... does amulet of life saving work against decapitation (I'm not convinced)? I don't think so, can't wear an amulet without your head |
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Ernomouse |
Jun 25, 2008, 8:04 pm |
| Cerumen, it doesn't. | |
Cerumen |
Jun 25, 2008, 9:16 pm |
| Thanks. As I said, I wasn't convinced it does, but didn't really know (oh well... you can always clone yourself to get a spare head) |
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chaostrom |
Jun 26, 2008, 9:46 am |
| Aside from the afore mentioned and overlooked bug, the only way to survive the loss of your head is if you're a zombie. Upon which it is entirely possible to get a head of an unconventional material. I have gotten a marble head once. | |
capristo |
Jun 27, 2008, 12:45 am |
| Are you stuck as a zombie then though? Or when you return to your human form do you retain the marble head | |
chaostrom |
Jun 27, 2008, 4:10 pm |
| You're not stuck as a zombie, and you don't retain the marble head. | |
capristo |
Jun 27, 2008, 11:19 pm |
| Well, I didn't mean stuck as a zombie forever, I meant, if you want to keep the marble head do you have to remain a zombie. Which I take it is a yes | |
Sylverone |
Jun 28, 2008, 11:54 pm |
| I suppose that if you return to normal when you're a headless zombie, you die, correct? If by some fluke not, then you could return to normal, then have your head replaced. You really ought to maintain those things when you return to normal, simply because it's more interesting. Also, I know that zombies can pick their own head back up and put it on. Is this limited to their own head, or can it be any head? It would be rather cool to go around with a tiger's head. If you could retain it when you returned to normal, it would be even cooler. |
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chaostrom |
Jun 29, 2008, 6:35 am |
| No. As you know, zombies are spawned with random limbs and/or head. The same thing happens when you polymorph into a zombie. You may or may not have all your limbs or head. So it makes no difference if you have a head or not as a zombie, when you change back you'll be back the way you were before you polymorphed. As for zombies reattaching limbs/heads, they can do that with any limbs/heads. I once filled the library with zombies, and when I came back one had the head of the librarian |
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Cerumen |
Jul 29, 2008, 7:36 pm |
| This one is kinda lame, but: After massacring whole on New Attnam (yes - whole) and being equipped with Decos' stuff, mithril armour, an AoLS, and with a help of a steel golem and one tame shop guard, I assumed I could take on the other three... Guess what, I didn't. *sigh* Still, seeing New Attnam ripped apart by Silva's wolves is a lifetime experience. Killing Decos early can get you some nice gear. |
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Eagle V |
Nov 29, 2008, 8:07 pm |
| Was testing my own theory that if you get levitation before UT3, you can return to lower Attnam and levitate to the greater continent. I had to leave my dog alone, but it worked - i found land and descended to the ground. Stranded on an uninhabited island...  EDIT: it is actually possible... Got to GC 1 with a leather belt, an iron dagger, a tele scroll and a can of banana...  |
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Mraedis |
Nov 29, 2008, 9:10 pm |
| Fail Eagle |
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Cerumen |
Nov 30, 2008, 7:55 pm |
| Eagle V - that's hilarious. You beat my werewolf-polymorph-caused-you-to-remove-levitation-belt-over-the-ocean death XD | |
capristo |
Dec 3, 2008, 1:49 am |
| haha, that sucks Eagle! |
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Eagle V |
Dec 4, 2008, 4:55 pm |
| Not half as funny as the previous one, but yet... Vomiting on Valpurus' Altar seemed to be one of my worst ideas yet... |
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Cerumen |
Dec 12, 2008, 7:39 pm |
| I got caught by an iron trap in a Merka shop. Here\'s what happened afterwards:  |
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4zb4 |
Dec 14, 2008, 4:11 am |
| I was happily levitating around the dwarven minefield, when the levitation suddenly ran out. Luckily I didn't land on a mine, so I spent a few turns pressing s incase any mines were around, which it seemed there weren't, so I took one step towards the side of the room and... BOOM!! blown into little bits... but all was not lost! My wand of resurrection broke shortly after I died and resurrected me! So I made my way around the now empty mine field, when kenny the large rat (yes i polymorphed him) ran over to one of my blown-off arms and started eating it. After he was done and I was just about to get to the door, he ran over to me and stepped on a mine that had miraculously not been set off by the chain reaction earlier, and blew both me and him sky-high. So a tip for you folks: Don't take pets into the minefield. Lock the door behind you if you can. |
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chaostrom |
Dec 14, 2008, 1:32 pm |
| Or rather, send them into the minefield and await the symphony of explosions... | |
Somagu |
Dec 14, 2008, 1:41 pm |
| More like cacophony. | |
Ernomouse |
Dec 14, 2008, 6:23 pm |
| =D Good one 4bz4! | |
Cerumen |
Dec 14, 2008, 9:57 pm |
| *sigh* Let me share with you this sad story. I had a lovely character, who became a champion of Valpurus still in the UT, and ran around with a valpurium shield, helmet of brilliance, mithril warhammer +5, and the lawful gods were at his side. Oh, and I had two pet werewolves "I'll kick Elpuri's ass", I thought in my pride.Then, as I got past enner (no problem), I decided to stay in the big room level for a bit too long, fighting baddies. So a kamikaze dwarf kills me, and causes an explosion of a wand of polymorph (why did I keep it after polymorphing that damn chest at all?), turning me into a carnivorous mutant bunny. Oops. Well, since I still had my 44 HP and a helluva agility, I decided to run around avoiding enemies. I even decided to run up one level, but ended up surrounded by monsters, so I just went down, killed that blink dog, and kept on running. Then I got exhausted, then I got fainting, then I got killed. So it goes. |
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mistifilio |
Dec 24, 2008, 3:49 pm |
| Reading Modour Pass, stepped away from computer, came back character starved to death. The pass has no reading duration, if you don't move or get attacked and choose to stop reading it, you eventually die of starvation. Not exactly a horrible death, actually I think it is kind of cute in an IVANish sort of way...to wit even reading can kill you in IVAN. |
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Fluffy_Bot |
Dec 24, 2008, 11:12 pm |
mistifilio wrote Reading Modour Pass, stepped away from computer, came back character starved to death. The pass has no reading duration, if you don't move or get attacked and choose to stop reading it, you eventually die of starvation. Not exactly a horrible death, actually I think it is kind of cute in an IVANish sort of way...to wit even reading can kill you in IVAN. Can't help but think of World of Warcraft, the equivalent of this phenomenon IRL. [EDIT] ... if you're korean. |
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Rotinaj |
Dec 24, 2008, 11:29 pm |
| Today I had one of my best characters ever, good armor and such strolling through the Gloomy Caves. I saw a goblin butcher up ahead and didn't think he stood a good chance at doing any damage to me. To my surprise right as I got up in his face I received the message "Your Ommel Bone Armor of Great Health +6 rots completely." Quickly followed by "The goblin butcher hits you critically in the chest with his iron mace +2!" "The goblin butcher hits you critically in the chest with his iron mace +2! You die." |
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chaostrom |
Dec 25, 2008, 10:23 am |
| Haha, what are the chances it rots away completely just as you face an enemy |
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capristo |
Dec 25, 2008, 7:43 pm |
| Oh yeah I've been seduced by ommel bone armor before |
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Eagle V |
Mar 29, 2009, 9:33 am |
| I just got this message (UT2)... \"The zombie stabs you with it\'s runed spear named Vermis\" \"You die\" |
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Somagu |
Mar 29, 2009, 9:56 pm |
| I got a mistress after exploring about a quarter of UT1. She had an iron spear +2 (or something to that effect) and the only thing of worth that I had found was a wand of haste, no armor or weapons. I would have ran away but she kind of bumped into me while I was taking a nap in a room and she killed me right quick. Not necessarily my most horrible, but I thought it was worth mentioning. |
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Comrade |
Apr 7, 2009, 8:42 pm |
| [quote=\"mistifilio\"]Modour Pass I saw this a few times, never used, what does it do? |
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taraN |
Apr 7, 2009, 8:58 pm |
| [quote=\"Comrade\"]I saw this a few times, never used, what does it do? Take it to the mysterious stranger in New Attnam while holding it in your inventory and he\'ll mark the location of Monder on your map, a town with a shop and a dungeon with 4 levels and a neat bossfight at the end. Completing the Monder quest is pointless though, the reward you get from the master assassin is bugged and instead of the Whip of Thievery named Gleipnir you only get a spider silk whip of thievery The dungeon is nice for the loot though. |
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capristo |
Apr 8, 2009, 3:40 am |
| hmm I thought I got Gleipnir when I played LIVAN a while back. Those assassins have way too high dexterity or agility or something, because often I miss them 60+ times before getting a hit. But props to lampshade, Mondedr really adds more depth to the game with more places to explore. | |
taraN |
Apr 11, 2009, 3:44 pm |
| The assassins seem to be bugged, as even with 600 dexterity you miss just as often as with 30 dexterity. | |
Cerumen |
Apr 11, 2009, 6:18 pm |
| And of course their corpses have minus weigh, beating sol stones dozens of times. | |
Comrade |
Apr 11, 2009, 11:30 pm |
| Yes i noticed those too... Sol stones just remove 1000kg right? | |
Apple |
Apr 12, 2009, 6:25 pm |
| [quote=\"Comrade\"]just remove 1000kg Just? To answer your guestion, yes, they only remove 1000g. |
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BDR |
Apr 13, 2009, 3:59 am |
| You can use a scroll of change material to make them decrease your total weight even more. | |
Eagle V |
Apr 15, 2009, 9:20 pm |
| Started with 12/13 of almost every attribute GC 2 Kicked shopkeeper\'s door, shopkeeper angry. As i had 5 chaotic gods \'extremely pleased\', my personal angel guard quickly disposed of the shopkeeper and his homies. Got away with all the shopkeeper\'s stuff, but all angels were killed in the process. To give you an idea of my inventory, I had 3 Saal\'thul\'s (bone files ) and was burdened with only extremely valuable stuff, LS 19 and Belt of Carrying +54 hours had passed since my last round of prayers, so everything was safe to pray again, hoping for a new angel guard. I prayed, got haste, prayed again, bottle of troll blood, and then i prayed to Infuscor. \'I like you,\' she said, \'And because you always served me well, i will transform you into an extremely mighty and ferocious beast of which legends to come shall speak for eternity\'. \'You are transformed into a dark frog\' \'A gray unicorn appears\' ... I didn\'t even have the chance to use a potion. But god, I want that bone file. |
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Ischaldirh |
Apr 16, 2009, 1:52 am |
| [quote=\"Apple\"]Just? To answer your guestion, yes, they only remove 1000g. I just noticed what Apple was referring to in this post, actually. There is a large difference between a 1000 grams and 1000 kilograms. |
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Comrade |
Apr 16, 2009, 2:18 am |
| That\'s a pretty story Eagle V. | |
Cerumen |
Apr 16, 2009, 10:03 pm |
Quote But god, I want that bone file. A bit off-topic, but is it possible to get a bone file with Merka dead? I believe I\'ve never seen that. |
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Ischaldirh |
Apr 16, 2009, 10:46 pm |
| [quote=\"Cerumen\";10147]A bit off-topic, but is it possible to get a bone file with Merka dead? I believe I\'ve never seen that. No, I don\'t believe so. Altering certain level features -- i.e. killing a bossmonster (Jenny, the Enner Beast, etc) or disturbing certain rooms (dwarven minefield, the \"hidden\" rooms) prevents a bones from being generated on that level. |
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chaostrom |
Apr 17, 2009, 7:50 am |
| I coulda sworn I once hit a bones file where Jenny was dead... | |
Eagle V |
Apr 17, 2009, 8:05 am |
| I had a bones file where Jenny was teleported and Silva had earthquaked the level once... Does that count as \'Altering Certain Level Features\'? | |
Ischaldirh |
Apr 17, 2009, 9:02 am |
| I think on UT3, only killing Jenny prevents bones generation. Moving her doesn\'t. To be perfectly honest I don\'t know what exactly it takes for a level to be bones-able, I\'m just reciting what I recall reading somewhere at some point. |
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chaostrom |
Apr 18, 2009, 7:59 am |
| Me neither, it\'s been ages since I hit a bones anyway :/ | |
slob |
Apr 19, 2009, 2:30 am |
| you can get bones with or without genny, moved or not. | |
pfloom |
Apr 20, 2009, 1:56 am |
| Well, I\'ve only just started, but: I had a character going pretty well, had all phoenix feather limbs, relatively decent armour etc. I\'d just taken out the enner beast for the first time, and I thought I\'d pop down to the next level to check it out. There was some invisible critter hitting me pretty hard, which I lured back up the stairs and control teleported around to heal up and then came back and hit it until it died. Turns out it was the spider silk golem (I checked out the wiki), which was nice, I picked up the armour and the scroll and wands(hint hint), and went back down the stairs. I cleared most of the level out, and I had started to pick up some loot, when I ran into this squat, cranky looking creature. Too late, I realised that this was a kamikaze dwarf (veteran, judging by the size of the bang). All my limbs were blown off, and I think I died to the blast, but luckily I was wearing an amulet of lifesaving, which did its job. Unluckily, I also had a bag full of wands that chain exploded, blowing all my limbs off again, and killing me again (?? - I think so anyway). HOWEVER, I wasn\'t done yet, as I must have had a wand of resurrection or something; whatever happened, when all was said and done there I was, a mistress torture chief, with a clone, and the message \"something is calling you back from the afterlife\" (I\'m not sure if I got that exactly right or not). I got off the level quickly, and just as well, as when I reverted to human I was limbless and down to near dead in all my vital organs. Loricatus was kind enough to donate a bronze leg which allowed me to hobble back to New Attnam (all the other gods were angry with me for some reason - I lost an arm to Sophos just after I\'d grown it with my last full healing potion - Mellis wasn\'t giving me anything either) and get my limbs back, and I\'d cloned enough scrolls of change material to convert them all into phoenix feather again. So, back into the gloomy cave I went, careful of all things with beards, and got down to level 7. Here I found a giant dark frog, one of which I\'d killed before, so without a thought I went up and hit it. It wasn\'t pleased, and bit my head so hard that I was knocked out, then proceeded to bash me to death. This was a bit surprising, as I was wearing a super snazzy helmet and all (enlightenment, I think it\'s called, 5 too). I can only say, the game lived up to its name. |
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chaostrom |
Apr 20, 2009, 5:45 am |
| That\'s grand |
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4zb4 |
Apr 20, 2009, 7:02 am |
| Nothing beats getting enner\'ed whilst holding 20 bottles of sulphuric acid and if you must know, I had that many so I could throw them at that stupid meteoric steel wall between me and that socm chest. |
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chaostrom |
Apr 20, 2009, 3:20 pm |
| Dude, you can use them as traps, you know. | |
Batman? |
Apr 20, 2009, 4:17 pm |
| how so? | |
4zb4 |
Apr 21, 2009, 4:00 am |
| Maybe by dropping/breaking them all over the place. Which is near impossible to do on the enner level... But great fun in new attnam. Easy way to get food and crappy armor. |
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chaostrom |
Apr 21, 2009, 5:47 am |
| Some critters will drink sulfuric acid. | |
HugeEgo |
May 14, 2009, 9:57 pm |
| Probably my luckiest/unluckiest character ever, 1 step away from the stairs entering UT I drank from a fountain and a genie appeared. I wished for Saal\'thul. Stepped in a Meteoric Steel bear trap and all limbs except for his left leg was severed off. | |
Eagle V |
May 15, 2009, 9:07 am |
| I was Champion of Valpurus in UT2, had Valpurium 2handed and an angel following, and then couldn\'t find any food... | |
HugeEgo |
May 15, 2009, 1:49 pm |
| [quote=\"Eagle V\";10715]I was Champion of Valpurus in UT2, had Valpurium 2handed and an angel following, and then couldn\'t find any food... Ouch @ starvation :/ I starve to death half the time and if I try to save something it rots D: |
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Ernomouse |
May 15, 2009, 3:38 pm |
| Eat everything that\'s not canned right away, so it won\'t rot. If you\'re bloated and can\'t eat more, you\'re fine anyway... | |
HugeEgo |
May 15, 2009, 7:52 pm |
| Thanks Erno, just got to the Enner before she blew up my bottles of poison and sulphuric acid <.< (Wasn\'t thinking about them) | |
Comrade |
May 15, 2009, 9:34 pm |
| [quote=\"HugeEgo\";10714]Probably my luckiest/unluckiest character ever, 1 step away from the stairs entering UT I drank from a fountain and a genie appeared. I wished for Saal\'thul. Stepped in a Meteoric Steel bear trap and all limbs This happens countless times when I get something worth while. |
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HugeEgo |
May 16, 2009, 9:20 am |
| [quote=\"Comrade\";10719][quote=\"HugeEgo\";10714]Probably my luckiest/unluckiest character ever, 1 step away from the stairs entering UT I drank from a fountain and a genie appeared. I wished for Saal\'thul. Stepped in a Meteoric Steel bear trap and all limbs This happens countless times when I get something worth while. But seriously, how can one manage to get his head stuck in a bear trap trying to get his leg out of it? <.< |
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BDR |
May 16, 2009, 11:12 am |
| That\'s easy: bear traps are sentient, bloodthirsty savages. They hide this fact until they are sure that their prey cannot escape their fatal bite either through noticing the change or pure speed, then chomp through the neck of those sentients who attempt to release themselves from the somewhat more benign leg-chomp. Until this time, they appear completely inanimate and may indeed be hibernating to save energy until something that is likely to put its neck close to the jaws of the trap in an effort to free itself comes along. | |
chaostrom |
May 16, 2009, 2:30 pm |
| Besides, if you think that\'s bad, try having all limbs disabled in an adamantine bear trap in UT3 while greater carnivorous plants are eating you alive. That was the fate of one of my best |
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Comrade |
May 16, 2009, 3:13 pm |
| [quote=\"BDR\";10721]That\'s easy: bear traps are sentient, bloodthirsty savages. They hide this fact until they are sure that their prey cannot escape their fatal bite either through noticing the change or pure speed, then chomp through the neck of those sentients who attempt to release themselves from the somewhat more benign leg-chomp. Until this time, they appear completely inanimate and may indeed be hibernating to save energy until something that is likely to put its neck close to the jaws of the trap in an effort to free itself comes along. That\'s deep... |
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4zb4 |
May 16, 2009, 10:42 pm |
| This reminds me of mimics, which I note are absent from IVAN. | |
BDR |
May 17, 2009, 5:02 am |
| I would love to see staircase mimics, which would have a chance of swallowing you whole if you try traveling to the next floor. I\'ve sometimes wondered where they are in other roguelikes, as they seem like the logical evolution of that particular style of dungeon denizen. (though there *are* floor mimics in some roguelikes) EDIT: Thinking about this *really* makes me want to repost an idea that got lost a while back in the ideas thread... |
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kylewalsh123 |
Aug 25, 2009, 6:13 pm |
| Today I had a character who had a helm of understanding +5, Arcanite Chain Mail +4, Angel Hair Cloak +5, Belt of Levitation +4, dual meteoric steel daggers +4, and 2 angels of loricatus following me. I got to the enner beast, detected his flesh, he\'s halfway across the level. I eventually get to him and try to zap a wand of striking at him, but it happens to be depleted at 2 shots. So I zapped my wand of lightning. Turns out I didn\'t have on my rings of electrical resistance that I had been saving for this exact moment, because the lightning bounced back and killed me. Hit one of my angels too, so I guess I would\'ve been murdered anyways, but it was a good character. | |
martys1103 |
Aug 30, 2009, 1:43 pm |
| it was when i was first time playing LIVAN, i had meteoric steel rapier and great axe, steel platemail and helm of brilliance on UT3, then got poisoned by rat, drinked healing liquid and died from vomiting to death. that was FIRST my character who could reach attnam. also i had scroll of wishing and i keeped it for bad moment, but i forgot to use it when i needed to | |
Apple |
Sep 2, 2009, 5:10 pm |
| By far my best character ever died because of such an unexpensive and easy-to-get item: Scroll of Detect Material. I had some ridiculously over-enchanted gear, my weapons being two Flaming Adamant Swords +15, and all my armor GEF or Valpurium, enchants varying from +6 to +12. I had a bit less than 400 HP, and about all my stats were over 20. Oh, and he took on Danny in melee and survived victor. After Ivan shamelessly stole my Elpuri kill, I proceeded past the portal. Everything went just fine until I reached the mage level, and was unable to skip it for I couldn\'t detect the damn staircase. I even got to the mages room, but I couldn\'t dispatch them in time. |
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Lordmushroom |
Sep 2, 2009, 8:27 pm |
| what i hate the most is dying by starvation... it\'s just so frustrating when you\'re doing really good and then cant find any food, happened last time while i was in UT 5 in LIVAN, I went to get spider silk armor and ofcourse I have two poison resistance rings... the only problem with that is that you miss out on what´\'s going on, I was poisoned, but i didn\'t loose any hp so i just kept on going forward and then.. *splat* dead. full hp, but empty stomach. Suxxors. | |
kylewalsh123 |
Sep 2, 2009, 9:12 pm |
| [quote=\"Lordmushroom\";12627]what i hate the most is dying by starvation... it\'s just so frustrating when you\'re doing really good and then cant find any food, happened last time while i was in UT 5 in LIVAN, I went to get spider silk armor and ofcourse I have two poison resistance rings... the only problem with that is that you miss out on what´\'s going on, I was poisoned, but i didn\'t loose any hp so i just kept on going forward and then.. *splat* dead. full hp, but empty stomach. Suxxors. Did you happen to have silva? Because I found out that if she likes you, she\'ll do the whole earthquake thing *and* fill your stomach. |
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capristo |
Sep 2, 2009, 9:23 pm |
| I haven\'t died from starvation in a long time. There\'s almost always food available. It might be something unpleasant, such as kobold flesh or mutant ass (if you don\'t have polycontrol), but it\'s better than the other option. You can also drink from fountains, if you\'re lucky they\'ll give you a lot of water which will help you for a short time | |
Lordmushroom |
Sep 3, 2009, 4:36 pm |
| Yeah, but i didn\'t notice that I was hungry because of the frustration of the webs I was stuck in so I just hardcore held down the go button ^^ |
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kylewalsh123 |
Oct 6, 2009, 11:08 pm |
| My farthest character ever, on GC 7 (Yes, I\'m aware of how sad that is), just died. I had phoenix feather everything, aside from my cloak which was angel hair, Helm of Brilliance +6, Belt of Levitation, dual adamantine daggers +5, 3 angels of Mellis following me, and an amulet of life saving. I was doing great, slowly getting to the staircase, when I guess one of my angels got turned invisible right before I fired a wand of striking at the frog. D\'oh. She started kicking my ass, until I was teleported away. I drank some healing liquid, found 2 of my other angels, who killed the invisible one, and they suddenly teleported away. Then, in 2 turns, an invisible mistress came up, whipped my groin to death, I came back, then whipped my head off. :{ |
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Alveradok |
Oct 7, 2009, 8:25 am |
| [quote=\"kylewalsh123\";12628]Did you happen to have silva? Because I found out that if she likes you, she\'ll do the whole earthquake thing *and* fill your stomach. If she likes You, she will always summon an earthquake, but will only fill Your stomach if You\'re very hungry/starving. So sometimes (like for example before leaving UT or GC to get downtown) it could be beneficial to actually wait unil the \'very hungry\' status. |
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Mindmaker |
Mar 9, 2010, 7:55 pm |
| Zombie level just got a pretty promising character of mine. Got lepropsy and my limbs started dropping rapidly. Before I could reach my chest, a mistress came and whipped my head of while I was defenseless. |
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Alveradok |
Mar 9, 2010, 9:19 pm |
| I know it well, a promising character of mine got like exactly the same at GC10 >.< | |
Mindmaker |
Mar 9, 2010, 9:27 pm |
| Hah. Evil genie at UT 1. Wand of Striking destroyed his arm and he lost hold of his arcanite two handed scimitar. \"Victory is mine!\" I thought when I picked it up and started hacking away. But then he bit me. In the groin. Critically. |
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Ernomouse |
Mar 9, 2010, 9:35 pm |
| xD Never underestimate the art of biting! | |
Eagle V |
Mar 10, 2010, 6:52 am |
| It is also rumored that groinbiting is the reason why Dwarves are such fearsome opponents. | |
Alveradok |
Mar 10, 2010, 12:28 pm |
| [quote=\"Mindmaker\";15157]Hah. Evil genie at UT 1. Wand of Striking destroyed his arm and he lost hold of his arcanite two handed scimitar. \"Victory is mine!\" I thought when I picked it up and started hacking away. But then he bit me. In the groin. Critically. This pretty much sums up IVAN |
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chaostrom |
Mar 11, 2010, 8:47 am |
| That\'s why you never try to humiliate your opponent with a forced blowjob. | |
Eagle V |
Mar 25, 2010, 5:23 pm |
| I have a new story to share, and my longest near-death so far. So i was this berserkerguy, having 12 and 13 strength from the start, steel battleaxe in each hand, and happily slashing my way through the levels, praying to cruentus and cleptia once in a while. So I was fighting this zombie, when my left arm falls off. How could I have missed that i have lepra? Anyway, I killed him with the other axe, and started making my way to town. However, before I get far, my other arm drops to the ground. Knowing I\'m screwed if I can only kick from here to New Attnam, I drink the bottle of trollblood Cruentus gave me. With two new arms, I travel on. And that\'s when I found the hedgehog. In one round of fighting, my left leg lepra\'d and my right was critically bitten of. So I slashed the motherfucker to pieces, and decided to sit and wait till praytime. Guess what? Before long, my arm lets go of my body once more. However, I make it to praytime with one arm left, and Cleptia hastes me while Cruentus blesses me, with a +1 on my battleaxe... Where is the troll blood? Well, only option left is to crawl back. So that\'s what I do. Only there\'s this huge rat at the entrance, and I keep missing him, until my other arm detaches itself. So I start reading the only thing left in my backpack: a scroll of teleportation. Sure enough, I get out of there before the rat kills me. But I am in a room, without limbs, without food, and with 2 hours to go before praying. So, I roll off to find some food. And get stuck in a spiderweb. Falling unconscious every now and then, choking in the web, the two hours pass quickly - though I\'m starving and barely conscious by the time I pray. Hurray! A bottle of troll blood! I drink it, and get a new arm and a leg. Two steps further, another web. I loose my leg. A spider. It bites me, and with my last efforts (and only limb) I smash it against the oposing wall, before the poison finally kills me... |
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capristo |
Mar 25, 2010, 5:39 pm |
| Haha, damn. That\'s intense. | |
Alveradok |
Mar 25, 2010, 9:46 pm |
| Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas | |
capristo |
Jun 6, 2010, 9:28 pm |
| Shit... this one was pretty bad. I had a TON of amazing stuff (Mjolak, levitation belt, ESP amulet, infra ring, understanding helmet, stocking up on carrots for high perception, permanent telecontrol), but polymorphed into a puppy. Was stressed and wandering around the world map waiting for the poly to end... didn\'t notice I was hungry until I was starving, and died. What a waste. All my inventory\'s lost, no chance of a Bones file either |
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isosika |
Jun 10, 2010, 2:04 pm |
| Maybe not most horrible but somehow I remember this death from long time ago. Use wand of lighting, bolt comes back to me. Thats didn\'t hurt me yet. But i have 2 bottles of Vodka with me. Killed by explosion of vodka in... |
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chaostrom |
Jun 10, 2010, 2:37 pm |
| Haha. Subtle. I like it. | |
ninjaspud |
Jun 25, 2010, 12:01 am |
| im kinda a newb at IVAN... but killed genatrix plant thingy with 2 whips got above ground and then starved | |
Eagle V |
Jun 25, 2010, 8:31 am |
| This is a common beginner mistake. Make sure you aren\'t already hungry when you leave the tunnels, and use (L)ook once you are aboveground to find the city first. That way, you don\'t waste your energy walking in circles. | |
ninjaspud |
Jun 25, 2010, 9:19 am |
ok i got a better one, stepped on a mine whilst i had a bag of gunpowder in GC1 (the ironic thing is i found a strongbox in one of the UT\'s but SOLD IT!!!  ) |
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ninjaspud |
Jun 25, 2010, 9:39 am |
would it be possible to die from an exploding health potion?  |
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chaostrom |
Jun 25, 2010, 1:31 pm |
| Only alcohol explodes. | |
Alveradok |
Jun 25, 2010, 1:52 pm |
| Lol, if You really need to carry gunpowder, leave it on the stairs each time |
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Ischaldirh |
Jun 26, 2010, 12:44 am |
| Also, please don\'t doublepost. Also, carrying gunpowder is a terrible idea, regardless. |
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BDR |
Jun 26, 2010, 2:59 am |
| The only good way to use gunpowder is as part of an explosion, and then you need to have either mines or a wand of fireballs to make it work, as well as a unique/really well armed/armored foe for the boom damage to not be wasted. Otherwise, really not worth the equivalent of putting a giant \"blow me to pieces\" sign on. | |
ninjaspud |
Jun 26, 2010, 3:18 am |
| yea i learnt from that 1 lol worst 1 I\'ve had, i had 3-4 mistresses 1 angel of scabies i was armed with two 2+ whips of thievery and i stepped on a mine Edited by Izzy. Please don\'t doublepost. got killed in UT1 by a greater dark frog wtf  |
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Repulsion |
Aug 5, 2010, 10:14 pm |
| Oh my god. I was playing LIVAN, it was my best character yet, and I had a dual steel swords each +1, soon to be meteoric, the archangel of Loricratus, a Meteoric steel golem, Mithril chainmail, iron helmet +4, belt of carrying +1, black leather boots of kicking, gauntlets of dexterity +1, and lots of other good stuff. Then, while I was doing the library trick, I accidentally kicked a scroll at a hunter, who arrived at that spot JUST at the right moment. I got mobbed and died... | |
ninjaspud |
Sep 27, 2010, 12:26 am |
| oh god that sucks P.S. if your gonna rob attnam, DONT GET CAUGHT |
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Pakhawaj |
Nov 21, 2010, 8:34 pm |
| Library trick? :3 I managed to get to the Dark Level for the first time, I was carrying five amulets of life saving. I decided to open a door only to be met with a huge horde of orcs, I was surrounded and couldn\'t keep up with them leaving me only enough time to put on another amulet. My character was brought back to life again and again only to die seconds later by thousands of brutal and vicious orcs. |
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Somagu |
Nov 21, 2010, 9:35 pm |
| Great Christ, where did you get FIVE amulets? | |
BDR |
Nov 22, 2010, 12:51 am |
| I bet he cloned them up. Pakhawaj: Library trick = step on the bookstore\'s doorway (the first place you can get the welcome message) and sell off any scrolls/books you\'re carrying, buy scrolls/books until you can afford no more, drop them on top of the stuff you had then move one tile up and kick the loot out of the shop. If you hit any roving citizens, you\'re probably boned and definitely are boned out of Attnam as a safe haven + the easiest win. Otherwise, rinse and repeat until you have all of Haathbar\'s stock and gold. |
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JoKe |
Nov 22, 2010, 7:14 pm |
| 22:12 < JoKe|> While levitating over an ocean: \"What do you wish to polymorph into?: black bear\" 22:12 < JoKe|> \"You drown.\" While this might not be my most horrible death, at least it was the most hilarious one in a good while. |
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Zulox |
Nov 22, 2010, 9:27 pm |
| CG7, Lots of undead orcs, just orcs, necros and Golgor-Dan. I got me some serious wounds, so I applayed (broke) my last wand of tele and teleported myself to the secret room to heal up. There were some mines inside (as usual, 3 big ones), but i\'ve got levitation belt so I didn\'t mind them. By wierd luck an orc standing next to me while I was breaking the wand got teleported also next to me. It would be okay, but he triggered a mine and that explosion have killed me. | |
Pakhawaj |
Nov 22, 2010, 11:44 pm |
| [quote=\"BDR\";17394]I bet he cloned them up. Pakhawaj: Library trick = step on the bookstore\'s doorway (the first place you can get the welcome message) and sell off any scrolls/books you\'re carrying, buy scrolls/books until you can afford no more, drop them on top of the stuff you had then move one tile up and kick the loot out of the shop. If you hit any roving citizens, you\'re probably boned and definitely are boned out of Attnam as a safe haven + the easiest win. Otherwise, rinse and repeat until you have all of Haathbar\'s stock and gold. That\'s hilarious, I\'m going to try that now! Also, I found every single one. I don\'t know how to use those wands of cloning or mirroring properly so I just sell them off. <.< |
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BDR |
Nov 23, 2010, 12:41 am |
| Pssssh. Wands of cloning, mirroring, and polymorph are simple (after a fashion). Step 1: Lay down the items you want to clone, mirror, or polymorph. For cloning and mirroring, you can get up to 5 items cloned/mirrored, and for polymorphing you can get up to 25 items polymorphed if you lay them down in a straight line, 5 per tile, over 5 tiles. Note: If you have more than 5 items in a tile you use one of these wands on, you\'ll only clone/mirror/polymorph the top 5. Code Polymorphing example: @*****. (@ = player, * = batch of 5 items, . = floor) Step 2: Stand next to the batch of items or on either end of the line you created, then zap the wand in the direction of the items/item line. Step 3: Reap the rewards. Note: when picking up from a stack you used a wand of mirroring on, you\'ll see (for example) a second stack of 5 scrolls underneath the first 5 rather than a stack of 10 scrolls - the top stack is the original 5 scrolls, and the bottom stack is made up of the mirrored copies; this is important because the mirrored copies have a limited shelf life and you really don\'t want to use up the wrong scrolls when mirroring things! Also: in the event you wish to clone/mirror yourself, you can lay items down on your square and reap the benefits of hitting them as well as yourself, but you count as one of the 5 items, meaning that you will only wind up with 4 clones/mirrored copies of whatever items are on your square. |
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Zulox |
Nov 23, 2010, 8:11 pm |
| The best way of mirroring stuff is to zap self while holding two items we want to mirror plus 4 on the ground under char\'s feet and then take copies from mirror image dude. This way it is possible to mirror up to 6 things for each shot instead of 5. | |
BDR |
Nov 24, 2010, 4:02 pm |
| I forgot about that extra bit. Thanks. | |
random |
Jan 7, 2011, 8:36 pm |
| I was in the minefield, minding my business. There was a cat around, setting off mines and stuff. So, to ensure my safety, I decided to dump dangerous stuff out of my inventory. For example, bottle of sulphuric acid. Mellis had gifted it to me, but it spilling all over me would have been really bad situation. So I pressed D, selected sulphuric acid and got rid of it. Final score was 5002. |
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Ischaldirh |
Jan 7, 2011, 9:04 pm |
| Mmmmm. Spicy. That\'ll put hair on your chest. | |
Batman? |
Jan 7, 2011, 11:23 pm |
| would 2 rings of acid resistance and a cloak of acid resistance heavily enchanted let you survive that? or are you a goner for sure? | |
Ischaldirh |
Jan 7, 2011, 11:46 pm |
| Pretty much you\'re done at that point. All of the acid ends up on (in) your head and chest (mostly your head I think), and your head has so few HP that it\'ll just melt away regardless of your acid resistance. AoLS won\'t help you here either. And it will last quite a while, too. I\'m going to run a quick wizmode test and see if I can survive an acidic cocktail... EDIT: After several tests it seems that even with a +15 cloak and two rings, a 10 end character will still run the risk of dying from consuming the acid. My torso got as far as red. My head took virtually no damage owing to the resistances; I believe less damage is applied to the head per tick from the acid. |
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chaostrom |
Jan 8, 2011, 4:08 am |
| You\'re forgetting the time slob survived acid down the hatch. | |
cowofdoom78963 |
Jan 8, 2011, 5:15 am |
| You can survive just about anything with enough healing potions | |
Alveradok |
Jan 8, 2011, 9:29 am |
| Agreed, in one of my better games I used up all of my potions (and I was a fervent Mellis follower), but managed! | |
capristo |
Jan 8, 2011, 3:48 pm |
| I hardly ever use my healing potions, I feel it\'s a \"waste\" and end up with several stashes of 20+ scattered around different levels. I\'m guessing at least 1/2 of my really good character deaths could\'ve been avoided if I\'d just taken some potions. | |
cowofdoom78963 |
Jan 8, 2011, 6:16 pm |
| Yeah they really pile up. Don\'t be too stingy with those, just about all of my deaths have been caused by one-hit-kills becuase I remembered to use em. | |
ninjaspud |
Feb 20, 2011, 1:48 am |
| me and a mistress managed to kill enner, then i ate him forgetting that i needed his head, so i thaught i may as well try nd kill all attnamese, but i failed epicly next game: killed by kenny the puppy!? |
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chaostrom |
Feb 20, 2011, 1:52 am |
| You don\'t need enner\'s head, that\'s Elpuri\'s you\'re after. You wasted a good game. | |
BDR |
Feb 20, 2011, 3:53 am |
| Not to mention that Elpuri\'s head specially detaches so that you can bring it back, unlike the enner\'s head. | |
Ischaldirh |
Feb 20, 2011, 4:52 am |
| I wish you could dismember corpses. That way if, say, you didn\'t want to eat the WHOLE goblin right now, and you want to save some for a snack later, you can cut off a leg or two first. | |
cowofdoom78963 |
Feb 20, 2011, 8:32 pm |
| that would be helpful if you wanted to eat a kobold. Though it would be nice if you could just eat a % of the corpse. |
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capristo |
Feb 20, 2011, 9:21 pm |
| Ninjaspud, you got the wrong head. You\'re supposed to find Elpuir\'s head not Enner\'s |
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ninjaspud |
Feb 21, 2011, 6:08 am |
| DAMMIT! im a frikkin newb (STILL) ahhh well it was still entertaining to see my mistress take on 3 guards and kill 2 |
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ninjaspud |
Feb 21, 2011, 7:30 am |
| [quote=\"cowofdoom78963\";18458]that would be helpful if you wanted to eat a kobold. who\'d wanna eat a kobold they put you to sleep oh wait used wen panicked in order to rest duuh |
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capristo |
Feb 21, 2011, 3:07 pm |
| [quote=\"ninjaspud\";18464]who\'d wanna eat a kobold they put you to sleep oh wait used wen panicked in order to rest duuh Interesting... I never thought of that. |
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Ischaldirh |
Feb 21, 2011, 6:48 pm |
| If you eat Kobold in small portions you won\'t fall asleep. E.G. if you eat a kobold head you\'ll stay awake. | |
cowofdoom78963 |
Feb 21, 2011, 8:39 pm |
| I really don\'t like how you cant rest while panicked. All that means is that you have to press the wait button over and over and possibly accidently die becuase you did. I get not being able to attack, but that is just poor design. |
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ninjaspud |
Feb 22, 2011, 4:11 am |
| [quote=\"Ischaldirh\";18469]If you eat Kobold in small portions you won\'t fall asleep. E.G. if you eat a kobold head you\'ll stay awake. are you sure cause i remember eating a leg in IVAN .50 and was out like a light! |
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Ischaldirh |
Feb 22, 2011, 5:12 am |
| [quote=\"ninjaspud\";18473]are you sure cause i remember eating a leg in IVAN .50 and was out like a light! Which is bigger: Your leg, or your head? |
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ninjaspud |
Feb 22, 2011, 6:22 am |
| [quote=\"Ischaldirh\";18474]Which is bigger: Your leg, or your head? Which \"head\" in soviet tunnels kenny kills YOU! |
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Arturion |
Mar 23, 2011, 5:39 pm |
| Well, I\'ve been away from here for a while, but recently got back into playing IVAN. Had to post this. I had an amazing run through the UT - found 3 scrolls of wishing , an oil lamp, cloak of electricity resistance, mithril helmet, helmet of attractivity +1, armor of great health +1, mithril dagger (though broken), lots of holy books from various gods, and some nice wands.I applied my oil lamp in Attnam, out of which popped a hostile genie. I watched the hilarity as all of Attnam swarmed the genie and beat it to death. Didn\'t get to keep the genie\'s belt and sword, though - I think Ikiros grabbed and equipped them before I could. So I\'m shopping in the library and decide to kick some scrolls out and trick the librarian out of his cash. Little do I notice the passing housewife, who is hit by a flying piece of paper and the whole town freaks out on me. I didn\'t make it out of the library alive. The worst part is that since I died in Attnam, I\'ll never come across that equipment again... |
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Alveradok |
Mar 23, 2011, 10:27 pm |
| If it was your first post, I\'d type some cliche stuff like \"Welcome to IVAN\", but you deserve a \"Welcome back to IVAN\". I personally think if someone wants to leave town and just holding down the down arrow key and vaguely notices the Y/N prompt and hits \'y\' before he notices that this is a hostile reaction prompt (and is screwed in the process), then it\'s acceptable if he kills the IVAN process and loads an autosave. I wouldn\'t consider that much of a scum. However doing the same after having some book-kicking done wrong isn\'t such a clear matter to me. And dying in Attnam sucks big time, my single best char, a miracle of bones, training and buffing wolves, died there too . Bah, nevermind my char. I suppose all of our best chars did! |
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chaostrom |
Mar 24, 2011, 4:57 am |
Not me. I lost one of my best to the blue screen of death. No saves, no bones.  |
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Arturion |
Mar 24, 2011, 3:51 pm |
| Yeah, Alveradok, I strictly forbid myself from savescumming. It was a stupid mistake I made, just because I was excited about how well I was doing and wasn\'t watching. | |
Zulox |
Mar 24, 2011, 10:00 pm |
| Savescumming is good only for checking things out in real game or strategy making. The only problem is the multiple generation of bone files with the same char, so it should be done on fresh copy of the game. | |
Ischaldirh |
Mar 25, 2011, 2:55 am |
| Or you should check things out in wizmode. Or just man up and risk your valuable character and learn a lesson from it... | |
Batman? |
Apr 7, 2011, 7:58 pm |
| [quote=\"Ischaldirh\";18455]I wish you could dismember corpses. That way if, say, you didn\'t want to eat the WHOLE goblin right now, and you want to save some for a snack later, you can cut off a leg or two first. cant you \"a\"pply a pickaxe to a corpse to break it up? |
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Somagu |
Apr 8, 2011, 4:05 am |
| Uhh... No. | |
4zb4 |
Apr 8, 2011, 7:59 am |
| Land mines and bear traps work better, but yeah, thing has to be alive first. | |
El_Nazgir |
Apr 17, 2011, 5:38 pm |
| Well, I\'m pretty new to IVAN, so it was the first time I ever got through UT (still my only time tbh). I got incredibly lucky I believe: I found a mithril 2handed sword, mithril chainbody, and I think about every god available. I prayed to the one of forbidden lust or something, and I got a torment mistress which absolutely slaughtered everything that came close to me, and after praying to the nature god(des) on UT3 I had an earthquake which removed the big plant to get out (can\'t remember her name). So, I was pretty confident in my survival odds by now, but on the way to the city I suddenly got the message that my left leg had fallen off... a bit later (in fact, right in front of the city) one of my arms fell off. I drank the healing potion I had gotten earlier from praying, and continued my way into the city, where I noticed the torment mistress had disappeared. I thought the potion would have cured the lepra, but no. In the cathedral (after getting a warning about not picking up items there when I tried to take a ruby, which I heeded), my leg suddenly fell off again... When I wanted to pick it up, I got a message asking for confirmation. I didn\'t realise it would treat my boot and left leg as an item of the cathedral too... The moment I picked up my leg I saw everything going towards me, apparently very hostile. I got teleported out of the cathedral, panicked and stressed, and soon I got the high priest and a a few angels after me. I fell unconscious right at their feet, and then got a beating from the high priest (who had some sword with a name with +16), and finally died at the hands of one of the several angels with him... No doubt my most spectacular and painful death yet... |
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Ischaldirh |
Apr 17, 2011, 8:01 pm |
| eeew a leper | |
Alveradok |
Apr 17, 2011, 11:08 pm |
| To make it more dramatic, you were pretty close to a healer in the cathedral, who can cure leprosy Got to get there the next time |
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Ischaldirh |
Apr 18, 2011, 12:25 am |
| One suggestion if youre in attnam with leprosy, to avoid losing useful gear, is to unequip everything prior to entering the cathedral. Then, if your leg falls off, your boots dont go with it into the church\'s possession. | |
4zb4 |
Apr 20, 2011, 4:20 am |
| You could\'ve cured your leprosy for 10x the average price |
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Ischaldirh |
Sep 13, 2011, 9:18 am |
| Lost a good character today. Dual spears, one ruby, one mithril. 331 HP or so (armor of great health +5... kept expecting to get one-shotted by a named baddy walking around a corner). Guy took a point-blank Enner scream without batting an eyelash, then butchered him in two rounds of melee. Would have been a lot more powerful if I had ever found a SoCM... I mean really, I used 3 AoLS in this game, but didn't find a single cloak of resist until GC5, and never found any SoCM. So I was cruising around the GC. Thought I had perma-telecontrol from an earlier encounter with blink dogs, didn't. Anyways, I waltz into GC6, fully aware that it's the zombie room, and plan on bee-lining to the exit, only deviating for exceptional gear. Survived two veteran kamikaze dwarves with no real damage. Spotted Xinroch... wasn't feeling confidant enough to take him on, so I teleported (this is how I discovered I didn't have control). Got out. It was close but not too bad. I sighed in relief, and went on to explore GC7. After a while, I noticed that my box of wands was gone! Odd. I figured I'd just left it behind on an earlier level for some reason or another. I continued exploring, fought off a lot of nasty golems (two arcanite, a few others) and dark knights and orcs and so forth. Suddenly a bunch of my shit is vanishing! What's going on?! Now I'm teleporting everywhere! Holy crap, where did this dragon hide golem come from! And an orc officer AND a veteran dark knight, all at once! And my glove is gone (followed by my arm a few turns later)! Yeah, it was quick from there. Got tore up fast, died, AoLS triggered, died again immediately. At first I wondered if my high HP had caused my namesake to spawn and visit unholy wrath upon me... but the marked lack of explosions made me think otherwise. Then I realized -- GC7? That's the mystic dark frog level. Fuck me! That should have been a cakewalk, if I'd been thinking right and paying attention to my status! I had sodm, and had left a telecontrol ring on a previous level somewhere. Final score: 39292. |
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