YASD - the most frustrating death in the world

[Big Al]

I was a clvl ~10 priest, down about 500' when something burnt up my one and only priest book.

No worries though, I just need to WoR back and get another one but - damn - I still haven't found any ?WoR.

No problem, I'll walk back to the surface. It shouldn't take too long. I start slowly making my way up. I get hungry around 400' and realise that I only have one food ration left. I eat it and continue on upwards. The stairs are just taking forever to find. I start panicking a bit as I'm nearly hungry and still six more levels to go.

Amazing luck, I find a copy of Godly Insights at 300' (which I've never ever seen before), but that doesn't help with the food problem. Carrying on, I get hungry again at 250'. I start stair scumming a bit (which I'd never normally do, but I'm in a tough situation here). Can't find any stairs, can't find any food. I eat a couple un-id'ed mushrooms I was saving, but they don't do much to stave of starvation.

I die of starvation at 50'.

Note to self: Next time, remember to pack extra food.

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23. 1603 Olas III the Dunadan Priest, Level 11
Killed by starvation on dungeon level 1 (max 10)
(User 0, Date 2007-10-24, Gold 1365, Turn 65030).
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The RNG strikes again!

[Mondkalb]

One of my heroes once died of starvation just a few steps from the general store. ^^

[Geofferic]

That used to be my most frequent cause of death. lol I'd dive really deep and something would burn up my ?WoR.

[Paffa]

I don't think I've ever died from starvation

Always carry at least 5 rations and pick up the food you find, it can be dropped again if you find something more valuable (In the lower levels, that is)

[Dragonboneman]

I only ever carry normal rations of food and/or mushrooms of restoring, but I eat slime molds, elvish waybread and any non-damaging mushrooms straight off the floor. There are times when my character eats so much it's more like Pac-Man than Angband.

Also, my Dunadan Warrior winner was gorged for almost his entire battle with Morgoth thanks to overdosing on potions.

[Daven_26d1]

You should carry waybreads and leave the rations for the rats.

[Djabanete]

The RNG strikes again!

If you were at depth 10, lacking the second priest book, without WoR, and without enough food to walk home... how was that the RNG's fault?

[Big Al]

If you were at depth 10, lacking the second priest book, without WoR, and without enough food to walk home... how was that the RNG's fault?

True that. I normally just dive at about clvl = dlvl, reading every scroll I find. The length of my first dive is normally determined by when I eventually stumble across a ?WoR.

[Djabanete]

I like your diving plan.

I guess next time just stock up on food some more!

[Magnate]

I don't think I've ever died from starvation

Always carry at least 5 rations and pick up the food you find, it can be dropped again if you find something more valuable (In the lower levels, that is)

I have, just the once. Drank an unID'd potion just after eating my last ration - it was Salt Water. Had no food and no potions. Recalled home but died on the way to the general store.

Now I make sure I have food available when I drink unIDd potions (at least until I've IDd Salt Water).

CC

[Big Al]

I have, just the once. Drank an unID'd potion just after eating my last ration - it was Salt Water. Had no food and no potions. Recalled home but died on the way to the general store.

Now I make sure I have food available when I drink unIDd potions (at least until I've IDd Salt Water).

Yeah, an early Salt Water potion was partially responsible for my starvation - though I still had ~6 rations left at the time, so I wasn't too worried about it.

[Jude]

How about THIS...character around level 8, death knight (Zangband), on the very first trip down into the dungeon. Only had one WoR and it got burned up so I was heading for the surface and got a special feeling on level 4 or 5...I figured it had to be the Phial. So I cruised around the level a while looking, to no avail. I had brought two scrolls of Teleportation for emergencies and already used one at a lower depth.

I can't recall the details but I think I might have read an un-ID'd scroll and it turned out to be Summon Monsters. Nothing too tough for me to handle if I could get them lined up in a hallway, but they were pounding me bad enough that I had to teleport, using my last scroll.

I ended up in a room with a small dead-end hallway going off it and some green jellies that I didn't want to go near because of the acid, so I killed them with bolts, but that took a while. Meanwhile I used up my last food ration...can you tell where this is going?

Anyway, I realized there were no visible doors out of the small area I was in. Started looking for one...no luck...poked around a bunch of the granite walls (that was all there was)...started to get hungry...got scared. There was another room literally one granite wall away, but I didn't have a shovel or anything...but I couldn't find any other doors for God knows what reason so I started trying to dig.


Kept digging still I died of starvation.

[ElectricPaladin]

One of my heroes once died of starvation just a few steps from the general store. ^^

Me, too. Marrow, my half Troll warrior, died inches from the general store. It was pitiful.

[will_asher]

..on the very first trip down into the dungeon. Only had one WoR and it got burned up so I was heading for the surface and got a special feeling on level 4 or 5...I figured it had to be the Phial..

I never go past dL4 without at least 3 ?WoR, I usually carry 5-7 of them. I usually die in much stupider ways..