[Crawl] Huh?

Well, that was... unexpected. Is it a Xom's trick or just an extremely
out-of-depth monster?


Dungeon Crawl version 4.0.0 beta 26 character file.


Grue the Skirmisher

Race : High Elf Res.Fire : . . . See Invis. : .
Class : Chaos Knight Res.Cold : . . . Warding : .
Worship : Xom Life Prot.: . . . Conserve : .
Level : 1 Res.Poison: . Res.Corr. : .
Exp : 12 Res.Elec. : . Gourmand : .
Next Level : 14
Exp Needed : 2 Sust.Abil.: . Rnd.Telep. : .
Spls.Left : 0 Res.Mut. : . Ctrl.Telep.: .
Gold : 66 Res.Slow : . Levitation : .
Clarity : . Ctrl.Flight: .
HP : -16/12
MP : 1
Str : 12 Weapon : +2,+1 elf mace
Int : 13 Armour : +2 elf robe
Dex : 15 Shield :
AC : 3 Helmet :
Evasion : 11 Cloak :
Shield : 0 Gloves :
Boots :
Play time : 00:02:00 Amulet :
Turns : 559 Ring :
Ring :


You are on level 1.
You worship Xom.
You are not hungry.

Inventory:
Hand weapons
a - a +2,+1 elven mace (weapon)
(Original Equipment)
Missiles
g - 32 +0 orcish darts
j - 12 +0 darts
k - 19 poisoned +0 needles
Armour
b - a +2 elven robe (worn)
(Original Equipment)
Comestibles
c - 2 bread rations
Jewellery
h - a ring of protection from magic
(You found it on level 1 of the Dungeon)
Potions
d - 2 potions of healing
e - a potion of confusion
f - a potion of restore abilities


You have 0 experience left.


Last Messages

The dragon's blast of flame hits you!
A scroll you are carrying catches fire!
Ouch! That really hurt!
You die...

#........#
#........########
#####>...........
###..........
#..........
#.......?..
#...........
#...........
#..@!..!..D.
############


Vanquished Creatures
An ooze (D:1)
A giant cockroach (D:2)
A hobgoblin (D:1)
A giant bat (D:1)
A giant newt (D:1)
5 creatures vanquished.
--
|Don't believe this - you're not worthless ,gr---------.ru
|It's us against millions and we can't take them all... | ue il |
|But we can take them on! | @ma |
| (A Wilhelm Scream - The Rip) |______________|

At 13:26:48 Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Timofei Shatrov <grue.DeleteThis@mail.ru> said:
>
>Well, that was... unexpected. Is it a Xom's trick or just an extremely
>out-of-depth monster?
(...)
>You are on level 1.
>You worship Xom.
>You are not hungry.
(...)
> Last Messages
>
>The dragon's blast of flame hits you!
>A scroll you are carrying catches fire!
>Ouch! That really hurt!
>You die...
>
> #........#
> #........########
> #####>...........
> ###..........
> #..........
> #.......?..
> #...........
> #...........
> #..@!..!..D.
> ############

Ouch. I've been trying to get a Xom-worshipping Demonspawn Chaos Knight
to win for absolutely ages, and ridiculously out of depth things like
this aren't uncommon, I'm afraid. Recently on the first three or four
dungeon levels I've had centaurs; packs of tough orcs; a gila monster; a
great orb of eyes; a *shapeshifter* for goodness sake..

Empirically I think worshipping Xom makes for a higher chance that
unusually nasty monsters will turn up early, but also particularly good
items. I don't know whether the source code confirms this though.

Love from
Jennifer