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From: steven@qubix.UUCP (Steven Maurer)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: Interesting Deaths
Message-ID: <1318@qubix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 10:51:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  8 10:51:22 1984
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    When I was still playing rogue regularly, I had a lot of games
    which got down to about level 17.   Then I would hit Umber Hulks,
    and die horrible deaths.

    Well, anyway, I had just gotten the amulet, and had worked my way
    up to level 23 or so, when I hit an Umber Hulk, which confused me.
    This was no end of pain, because I just saw the stairs when I got
    confused, but couldn't reach them in my state.  Pulling out my handy
    polymorph wand, I turned it into a Xorn (grr..), and then found the
    damned thing ran out of charges (grrr.. grrr...)

    So I tried moving, and through some incredible luck managed to
    get into a corridor before I was killed (7HP).  (Well, I would have
    preferred the stairs).  Using the old capital letter "feature", to
    run down the corridor sans "free" hits by the Xorn, I managed to get
    into a room that I had zig-zagged in search of the stairs before...
    Well, I still didn't have enough HP's to go tete-de-tete with the
    Xorn, so I moved out into the room, and the confusion went off.

    32 HP's, 2 Xorn hits from freedom.   I had to risk it.  Move one.
    The Xorn Hit.   14 HP's left.   That was bad.  Very bad.   I could
    quit, and claim a place on the high scorers list (albeit not a
    Total Winner).   But no, I decided to risk it.   Move two.  The
    Xorn Hit.   1 HP left.   I had survived.  I had won.   I happily
    ran to the door.

    I died.

    I forgot to zig zag, and was killed by a poison dart trap, I
    missed when I moved across the room before.

    *SIGH*

    Steven Maurer