What do disenchanters, cockatrices, mind flayers, and stupidity have in common? They all led to my samurai's untimely end, very close to the bottom of the dungeon. With -36 AC, two-weaponing a +7 Frost Brand and a +2 katana, wearing gray dragon scale mail, speed boots, and gauntlets of dexterity, along with an amulet of reflection, =oWarning and =oTeleport Control. All intrinsics possible from corpses, other than TC. Also I've got a black dragon mount. This is the chain of events leading to my death, which occurred outside the lowest level of the Wizard's Tower.
Event 1: Disenchanter These guys are an annoyance. Have to take off my weapon and gloves to fight them. I've got an MC of 3 so they usually don't get through to my armor though. Punch to death, Frost Brand back on, #twoweapon.
Event 2: Cockatrice At this point in the game, I just roll through these guys. They can't get a stoning attack off before I kill them.
Event 3: Mind Flayer I don't even have grease on my helmet, so I tried to approach the MF cautiously and kill it from range. Lacking infravision, I put a towel on my head and use telepathy to see it. I'm shooting ya at it and backing away, and I realize it's catching up to me while I'm riding the dragon, so I dismount and try to regain some distance when I see "Do you want your items identified?" At first I thought it killed me with a brain suck, which would have been impressive since I was at 17 Int. But then it dawned on me... I'd stumbled blindly over the cockatrice corpse and I'd forgotten to put my gloves back on.
On Nov 5, 10:48 pm, hellshark <andykaise...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Event 1: Disenchanter > These guys are an annoyance. Have to take off my weapon and > gloves to fight them. I've got an MC of 3 so they usually > don't get through to my armor though. Punch to death, Frost > Brand back on, #twoweapon.
They're one of the main reasons why I'll try to have an attack spell or two, even as a fighter class. Otherwise... you've certainly seen enough arrow traps before now, in order to be able to spare a few.
hellshark wrote: > What do disenchanters, cockatrices, mind flayers, and stupidity have > in common? They all led to my samurai's untimely end, very close to > the bottom of the dungeon. With -36 AC, two-weaponing a +7 Frost > Brand and a +2 katana, wearing gray dragon scale mail, speed boots, > and gauntlets of dexterity, along with an amulet of reflection, > =oWarning and =oTeleport Control. All intrinsics possible from > corpses, other than TC. Also I've got a black dragon mount. This is > the chain of events leading to my death, which occurred outside the > lowest level of the Wizard's Tower.
> Event 1: Disenchanter > These guys are an annoyance. Have to take off my weapon and gloves to > fight them. I've got an MC of 3 so they usually don't get through to > my armor though. Punch to death, Frost Brand back on, #twoweapon.
I just switch to my pickaxe. (Or re-enchant my weapon if it gets too low. My recent Valk ascention [#1 woohoo] I had to re-enchant Excalibur twice up to +7 before I genocided them on my way up the dungeon)
On Nov 5, 1:48 pm, hellshark <andykaise...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Event 1: Disenchanter > These guys are an annoyance. Have to take off my weapon and gloves to > fight them. I've got an MC of 3 so they usually don't get through to > my armor though. Punch to death, Frost Brand back on, #twoweapon.
How about wielding a unicorn horn? Or a food ration? Or anything, really.
> What do disenchanters, cockatrices, mind flayers, and stupidity have > in common? They all led to my samurai's untimely end, very close to > the bottom of the dungeon. With -36 AC, two-weaponing a +7 Frost > Brand and a +2 katana, wearing gray dragon scale mail, speed boots, > and gauntlets of dexterity, along with an amulet of reflection, > =oWarning and =oTeleport Control. All intrinsics possible from > corpses, other than TC. Also I've got a black dragon mount. This is > the chain of events leading to my death, which occurred outside the > lowest level of the Wizard's Tower.
> Event 1: Disenchanter > These guys are an annoyance. Have to take off my weapon and gloves to > fight them. I've got an MC of 3 so they usually don't get through to > my armor though. Punch to death, Frost Brand back on, #twoweapon.
> Event 2: Cockatrice > At this point in the game, I just roll through these guys. They can't > get a stoning attack off before I kill them.
> Event 3: Mind Flayer > I don't even have grease on my helmet, so I tried to approach the MF > cautiously and kill it from range. Lacking infravision, I put a towel > on my head and use telepathy to see it. I'm shooting ya at it and > backing away, and I realize it's catching up to me while I'm riding > the dragon, so I dismount and try to regain some distance when I see > "Do you want your items identified?" At first I thought it killed me > with a brain suck, which would have been impressive since I was at 17 > Int. But then it dawned on me... I'd stumbled blindly over the > cockatrice corpse and I'd forgotten to put my gloves back on.
IIRC, it's been a while, but I do not think it would have mattered if your gloves were on or not. Blindly, with or without gloves, walking over a cockatrice corpse causes insta-stoning. If you are levitating then you are okay, though.
On Nov 9, 10:19 am, tenaya <tenayaten...@gmail.com> wrote: [...]
> IIRC, it's been a while, but I do not think it would have mattered if > your gloves were on or not. Blindly, with or without gloves, walking > over a cockatrice corpse causes insta-stoning. If you are levitating > then you are okay, though.
With gloves touching trice corpses is ok even if blind. solidsnail
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