Memorable in-game messages

[Malak Darkhunter]

Down at a 1000 feet my Half-Troll encountered a carrion crawler.
The carrion crawler stings you-more- you are paralyzed! The Carrion crawler misses you! The Carrion Crawler stings you-more- you die. You are more paralyzed!

[Fenrir]

You are confused! You fall down a pit! You float gently to the bottom of the pit. You hear a door crash open! You feel yourself yanked upwards!

Now that's some confusion.

[Zikke]

You are confused! You fall down a pit! You float gently to the bottom of the pit. You hear a door crash open! You feel yourself yanked upwards!

Now that's some confusion.

Sounds like a night at the bar...

[Rizwan]

This is a visual one ... check it out
[edit] ahhh the level feeling didn't show basically it says This place seems reasonably safe.

[Arralen]

From Unangband 062beta2:

You climb the broken window.
You climb out of the broken window.
.. a "Q" is following me, tries to climb through the windows as well...
The Young Catoblepas gazes at itself.
The Young Catoblepas appears cross-eyed.
.. must have been a reflection in some shards of the broken window ..

[Daniel Fishman]

Not mine, but was posted on the NPP forums:

Pazuzu, Lord of Air hits you.
You are struck by electricity!
You have been knocked out.
You have a good feeling...

Unsurprisingly this was followed shortly by

Pazuzu, Lord of Air casts a mana bolt.
You die.

[Fenrir]

Selling a pair of leather sandals I found on dungeon level two...

"You sold a pair of leather sandals of speed [1 + 5] (+4) for 3 gold."

FAIL.

[buzzkill]

"You sold a pair of leather sandals of speed [1 + 5] (+4) for 3 gold."

That's what you get for not trying them on first.

[Pete Mack]

buzzkill's got it right, especially in 3.1 where you are extremely unlikely to get a sticky curse. (That's the whole point of the "magical" nomenclature. Sure it's a pain for magically damaged things, but the removal of the sticky curse more than makes up for it.)

[Fenrir]

That's what you get for not trying them on first.

But they weren't my size...!

No, really, I was playing warrior and should've only waited my two minutes for the pseudo ID. It's the first time I've even seen sandals of speed (and this early) -- for some reason I had the idea of that they could only be hard/soft leather or iron shod boots.

[PowerDiver]

But they weren't my size...!

No, really, I was playing warrior and should've only waited my two minutes for the pseudo ID. It's the first time I've even seen sandals of speed (and this early) -- for some reason I had the idea of that they could only be hard/soft leather or iron shod boots.

Even if you didn't have easy pseudo available, it would be a terrible mistake to sell them. For a paltry 3 gold pieces, you might use up a slot in the store's inventory that would not be available should the RNG wish to put boots of free action on sale.

Destroy them if you must, but don't sell them.

[Fenrir]

"The earth hound breathes shards. The vibration hounds howls in agony!"

Two packs of hounds got mixed up while trying to kill me and they would breathe on one another over and over.

"It breathes nether. Morgoth, Lord of Darkness resists somewhat."

Somewhat?

[buzzkill]

From Steamband...
Just after I summoned a pet, the first thing that happens is...

"The Chimpanzee picks up a .25 derringer (x2)."

Thank God he's on my side! Now, if I only had a banana.

a little while later...

"Phineas T. Barnum touches your Bobcat"

...and all I can think is 'Thank God he didn't touch my monkey!'

and later still...

"You have a Large Tool. (m)"

More from SteamBand

"Solarion, the Beautiful is suddenly very hot!"

[Obsilium]

Here is a funny bug which appears in V currently when you have a ring brand on a weapon with a different brand.
Your Ring of Acid spits! You zap the Dark elven warrior.

[Shin Majin]

Well, I can't top those, but I have this from Gumband:

You hear noise. It grunts with pain.
You hear noise. It dies.