'Twas not to be. A draconian shifter banished me, and Zot had
incinerated all my means of teleportation. I was running well, but
got confronted by balrug (can't flee because it can smite) and some
hell knights (can't flee because they can haste). I turned to take
them down, and in the process allowed myself to get surrounded by a
crowd so thick I simply could not cut my way through it.
My flawed approach: try to cut cut way through it anyway, using
greater and moderate healing when needed to stay alive. There was no
way I was going to cut my way through that crowd. Ely piety drained
away until I couldn't use greater healing. I tried to conserve the
moderate healing by using all the charges in my wand, but that only
lasted so long, and then I was back to burning piety to stay alive,
and it wasn't going well.
What might have worked: the only solution was to stay alive until the
Abyss reformed around me. I had plenty of food, so I should have used
the zero-piety-cost lesser healing as my principal staying-alive tool,
healing more and fighting less. Melee when used should have been used
not against the weakest neighbors along one side to try to thin it
out, but against the strongest ones to keep myself surrounded ideally
by a ring of harmless 5s and flying skulls. Wands of cold were
appropriate to try to punch through the crowd to hit the smoke demons
to reduce smiting. Going defensive like this, I might have held out
until the warp saved me. Food would probably have been the limiting
factor.
Proximal cause of death: I was watching HP too closely, and not quite
enough time elapsed to lose that particular battle of attrition.
Instead, I wasn't looking at stats, and let the nexies eat my brain
even while I still had piety for one last restoration. Alas.
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