I pulled a Dumb one

[Shadow Knight]

Just the other day I was just taking another run through I think was level 4 and I was level 9 nothing could hurt me much and I walk into a room with like 14 spiders all along a wall and thought "Hey look free Exp!" and ran into the spiders and started attacking killing one instantly but then I went into the crowd a little more and was surrounded by spiders when ever I attacked (or tried persay) the spiders took there turn 8 where around me in a few turns I went from 140 so hp to 32 and was like "Oh my god!" so i tried to escape but it was too late my health quickly dropped when I tried to leave the group of spiders and and in what was about 15 seconds I lost my level 9 half-troll warrior worst part was I never made it to the surface that was my original intention but I got greedy and wanted to collect more stuff to sell when I got up anyone have the same problem happen or anything similar?

[Angband 3.0.9 Character Dump]

Name BoB Self RB CB EB Best
Sex Male Age 21 STR: 18 +4 +5 +0 18/90
Race Half-Troll Height 91 INT: 10 -4 -2 +0 4
Class Warrior Weight 225 WIS: 10 -2 -2 +0 6
Title Soldier Status 1 Dex: 15 -4 +2 +0 13 12
HP -2/134 Maximize Y CON: 14 +3 +2 +0 18/10
SP 0/0 CHR: 10 -6 -1 +0 3

Level 9 Armor [14,-10] Saving Throw Fair
Cur Exp 368 Fight (+26,+5) Stealth Bad
Max Exp 368 Melee (+26,+5) Fighting Superb
Adv Exp 456 Shoot (+26,+0) Shooting Excellent
MaxDepth Lev 5 Blows 2/turn Disarming Fair
Turns 148930 Shots 0/turn Magic Device Poor
Gold 1035 Infra 30 ft Perception Poor
Burden 138.6 lbs Speed Normal Searching Fair

Your mother was a Stone-Troll Clan Chief. You have puke-yellow eyes,
dirty bright red hair, and white ulcerous skin.



abcdefghijkl@ abcdefghijkl@
Acid:............. Blind:.............
Elec:............. Confu:.............
Fire:............. Sound:.............
Cold:............. Shard:.............
Pois:............. Nexus:.............
Fear:............. Nethr:.............
Lite:............. Chaos:.............
Dark:............. Disen:.............

abcdefghijkl@ abcdefghijkl@
S.Dig:............. Stea.:.............
Feath:............. Sear.:...+.........
PLite:............. Infra:.............
Regen:............+ Tunn.:.............
Telep:............. Speed:.............
Invis:............. Blows:.............
FrAct:............. Shots:.............
HLife:............. Might:.............


[Last Messages]

> The Cave spider bites you. <5x>
> The Yellow mushroom patch releases spores at you.
> You stand your ground!
> The Cave spider bites you. <2x>
> You are no longer bleeding.
> The Cave spider bites you.
> You hit the Cave spider.
> You miss the Cave spider.
> The Cave spider flees in terror!
> The Cave spider bites you. <3x>
> The Cave spider turns to fight!
> The Cave spider wakes up.
> The Cave spider misses you.
> The Cave spider bites you. <2x>
> You die.


[Character Equipment]

a) a Broad Sword (2d5) (+0,+0)
b) (nothing)
c) (nothing)
d) an Adamantite Ring of Searching (+1)
It increases your searching by 1.
e) (nothing)
f) a Lantern (4514 turns)
It usually provides light of radius 2. It cannot be harmed by fire.

g) Chain Mail (-2) [14,+0]
h) (nothing)
i) (nothing)
j) (nothing)
k) (nothing)
l) (nothing)


[Character Inventory]

a) 2 Rations of Food
b) 4 Pieces of Elvish Waybread
c) a Silver Speckled Potion of Slowness
d) a Chartreuse Potion of Speed
e) a Violet Potion of Heroism
f) a Scroll titled "solus navinfer" of Darkness
g) 11 Scrolls titled "quam thazam" of Light
h) 3 Scrolls titled "conor tersus" of Identify
i) a Scroll titled "regetro" of Summon Monster
j) 2 Scrolls titled "trum er caudam" of Object Detection
k) 2 Scrolls titled "cogo requeneo" of Detect Invisible
l) a Scroll titled "dialius sacum" of Blessing
m) a Tin-Plated Wand of Magic Missile (11 charges)
n) a Lead-Plated Wand of Wonder (16 charges)
It cannot be harmed by the elements.
o) a Lead-Plated Wand of Wonder (21 charges)
It cannot be harmed by the elements.
p) a Nickel Wand of Heal Monster (14 charges)
q) 14 Wooden Torches (3000 turns)
It usually provides light of radius 2, though this is reduced when
running of out fuel.
r) 2 Wooden Torches (0 turns)
It usually provides light of radius 2, though this is reduced when
running of out fuel.
s) a Lantern (5550 turns)
It usually provides light of radius 2. It cannot be harmed by fire.

t) Soft Leather Armour [4,+0]
u) a Sling (x2) (+0,+0)
v) 32 Iron Shots (1d4) (+0,+0)


[Options]

Adult: Maximize effect of race/class bonuses : yes (adult_maximize)
Adult: Randomize some of the artifacts (beta): no (adult_randarts)
Adult: Auto-scum for good levels : no (adult_autoscum)
Adult: Restrict the use of stairs/recall : no (adult_ironman)
Adult: Restrict the use of stores/home : no (adult_no_stores)
Adult: Restrict creation of artifacts : no (adult_no_artifacts)
Adult: Don't stack objects on the floor : no (adult_no_stacking)
Adult: Preserve artifacts when leaving level : no (adult_no_preserve)
Adult: Don't generate connected stairs : no (adult_no_stairs)
Adult: Monsters chase current location : yes (adult_ai_sound)
Adult: Monsters chase recent locations : yes (adult_ai_smell)
Adult: Monsters act smarter in groups : yes (adult_ai_packs)
Adult: Monsters learn from their mistakes : no (adult_ai_learn)
Adult: Monsters exploit players weaknesses : no (adult_ai_cheat)
Adult: Monsters behave more intelligently (broken): no (adult_ai_smart)
Score: Peek into object creation : no (score_peek)
Score: Peek into monster creation : no (score_hear)
Score: Peek into dungeon creation : no (score_room)
Score: Peek into something else : no (score_xtra)
Score: Know complete monster info : no (score_know)
Score: Allow player to avoid death : no (score_live)

Looks like i gotta be more careful huh?

[Big Al]

Moral of the story: Never let yourself get surrounded by anything. Fight monsters (especially quick monsters) from hallways. You could have quaffed your potion of speed and perhaps have had a chance to run away, or better yet, always carry scrolls of phase door (or teleport) to get out of this situation.

Also, the use of the punctuation mark known as a period would be most appreciated. It'd make you sound like less of a highschool girl (no offense ).

EDIT: Also,

Originally Posted by Shadow Knight

[Character Equipment]

a) a Broad Sword (2d5) (+0,+0)
b) (nothing)
c) (nothing)
d) an Adamantite Ring of Searching (+1)
It increases your searching by 1.
e) (nothing)
f) a Lantern (4514 turns)
It usually provides light of radius 2. It cannot be harmed by fire.
g) Chain Mail (-2) [14,+0]
h) (nothing)
i) (nothing)
j) (nothing)
k) (nothing)
l) (nothing)

It's a well known tactic to sell your starting equipment (the broad sword and chain mail) for a couple hundred gp, and take that money to buy much better starting equipment: buy a whip or a main gauche (or as light a weapon as you can find), and you'll get three attacks per turn instead of just one. Also sell the mail and you can buy some Soft Leather Armour, Leather Boots, Leather Gloves, a cloak and a cheap helmet of some kind, and you'll have the same AC, much less weight to carry around and more gold.

[Character Inventory]

c) a Silver Speckled Potion of Slowness
f) a Scroll titled "solus navinfer" of Darkness
i) a Scroll titled "regetro" of Summon Monster
p) a Nickel Wand of Heal Monster (14 charges)
q) 14 Wooden Torches (3000 turns)
It usually provides light of radius 2, though this is reduced when
running of out fuel.
r) 2 Wooden Torches (0 turns)
It usually provides light of radius 2, though this is reduced when
running of out fuel.
s) a Lantern (5550 turns)
It usually provides light of radius 2. It cannot be harmed by fire.
t) Soft Leather Armour [4,+0]
u) a Sling (x2) (+0,+0)
v) 32 Iron Shots (1d4) (+0,+0)

There's absolutely no reason to be carrying any of the above - it's only waying you down. Most of the above is harmful to your char, and the rest is useless.

[Djabanete]

Originally Posted by Big Al

There's absolutely no reason to be carrying any of the above - it's only waying you down. Most of the above is harmful to your char, and the rest is useless.

Probably this was a death dump and all the crap was unID'd stuff in the backpack.

Probably.

[Big Al]

Good point - I normally read/quaff/zap any unidentified scroll/potion/wand that I find in the early levels, so I wasn't thinking of that. At any rate, there was no need for the *16* torches and the lantern.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by Shadow Knight

Looks like i gotta be more careful huh?

Yup. If you can learn one thing every time you die, and not repeat your mistakes, you'll end up winning.

Originally Posted by Big Al

Also, the use of the punctuation mark known as a period would be most appreciated. It'd make you sound like less of a highschool girl (no offense ).

Maybe Shadow Knight is a high school girl. Did you you think of that? Huh?

I didn't think so.

[Seany C]

Heh, from now on, I'm reading every post in a "Clueless" style SoCal accent...

"So I was like, "Hey, Morgoth" and he was like "Die, puny mortal" and I totally pulled out Ringil and he was like "Ouch, that hurts"... "

[Shadow Knight]

Ha I died again today -by getting surrounded, but by my scroll of summon monster. I was almost out of the blue when my health dropped from around 30 to 0 at least I had my guy up to level 12 this time and I made it to around floor 9 I will play again later and use the advise thanks

[myron]

Originally Posted by Shadow Knight

Ha I died again today -by getting surrounded, but by my scroll of summon monster. I was almost out of the blue when my health dropped from around 30 to 0 at least I had my guy up to level 12 this time and I made it to around floor 9 I will play again later and use the advise thanks

...now when reading un-ID'd ?s you might want to be in a hallway...

[Shadow Knight]

lol good Idea btw I just made a new char and sold my gear Im buying my stuff and heading into the dungeon deeps I will tell you all what happens later.

(I know you can't wait right?)[/sarcasm]

I got my guy to level 9 and was on floor 5 when i started using unI-ed scrolls one was of light the other made 3 pretty powerful creatures 2 strong the other unique (very strong to me) I took out a novice thing and almost the other creature then tried to run at 30 life made it up the stairs with 1 and died of poison on level 4 just on the stairs lol I will try again later it seemed like a good strategy to me cause I leveled up quite fast.

[Pete Mack]

Originally Posted by Shadow Knight

lol good Idea btw I just made a new char and sold my gear Im buying my stuff and heading into the dungeon deeps I will tell you all what happens later.

(I know you can't wait right?)[/sarcasm]

I got my guy to level 9 and was on floor 5 when i started using unI-ed scrolls one was of light the other made 3 pretty powerful creatures 2 strong the other unique (very strong to me) I took out a novice thing and almost the other creature then tried to run at 30 life made it up the stairs with 1 and died of poison on level 4 just on the stairs lol I will try again later it seemed like a good strategy to me cause I leveled up quite fast.

The best strategy for a pretty quick start is to try to go down fairly quickly and avoid being overwhelmed. The quicker you go down, the less chance you have of making a mistake or getting unlucky on any one level. A warrior should be safe down to dl 20 or so.

Specific points:
1) sell the longsword. Most warriors can get 3 or 4 blows at the outset. (4 blows for Dunadan, High-elf, or (barely) Half-Orc if you get your strength and dex just right.) Start with a dagger, main gauche, or possibly a Rapier. If you can't find one of those, even a whip is better than the long-sword.
2) With the money you get, buy a scroll of Recall, and possibly a !CSW (cure serious wounds), and a scroll of phase door or two. You can also sell !Berserk and buy !heroism instead.

With that equipment, you should be able to kill Bullroarer at cl 2 or so. Go down fast, and start picking up wands to sell. As a warrior, you can go to dl 7 (or even 10) just by taking every stair, and killing a few monsters. It is easy. Stay away from big groups of orcs and orc uniques, because they can easily overwhelm you until you get a higher-damage weapon.

Once you get a few valuable wands, and maybe a useless ego weapon*, recall, sell them, and buy the following as quickly as you can:
1) CCW (10 or more is good; 5 is enough to start). You can't afford to be confused, and you need a way to fight strong monsters.
2) Phase Door. You need to be able to escape for a little breather, or avoid being surrounded.
3) !Heroism (just a few). You need to avoid fear attacks, and it is useful against uniques to get a noticeably better chance to hit.
4) Damage-enchantment on your melee weapon. Even a dagger+5 does a lot of damage if you are getting 4 blows.
5) A good longbow. If you don't find one on the floor, buy one and enchant it up. You want to get both weapons to +7 damage ASAP. Later, get it to +7 to_hit as well.
6) 3-5 scrolls of recall. 1 to go down, 1 for the return trip, and some spares in case of fire/acid attacks.
7) A staff of teleportation, and any scrolls of Teleportation and Teleport Level that show up in the black market.

Don't bother buying any kind of armor, unless you see some Dwarven or Resistance (very unlikely) . You will find plenty in the dungeon. Don't bother enchanting it much; just stay away from acid attacks and replace it with what you find in the dungeon when it wears out.


*Useless ego weapons are "Slay" weapons that don't give you your maximum number of blows. What you really want is a lightweight branded weapon (the *Thancs are great early), or a +attacks weapon, where even a broken dagger is good.