IVAN was my first roguelike, and I sort of knew the controls before I even read the command list. creepy. @Somagu: my friends played for a while, but would only play in wizmode now after a nasty death involving wands of teleport, striking, door creation and a couple of green slimes...

Here's a tragic death... He was a badass. His gear was completely badass. Mithril chain mail +5, Helm of Understanding +5, phoenix feather CoFR, GoD, BoS, BoC, all +5. Sal'thul +10(!!) in one hand, mithril short sword +11(!!) in the other. 25 INT, lots of DEX and AGI and such things. About the only stat I was lacking in was END, because everythign was dying too fast. Many critters were being delimbed and then decapitated, if not outright killed in one melee round. It's quite funny to watch a werewolf approach, only to have both arms go flying, followed by both legs, and then the head, all in three rounds total. Take Guss for example... that's where I got the mithril short sword. Guss took a sapphire dagger +3 (which was worth only 37 or so gold for some reason... 'tarded) to the face. His steel helm wasn't quite enough. I tried to store and preserve his head, but at some point I left it unattended on a prior level, forgot about it, and then it got eaten when I passed through the level on my way to the UT for some mining work. Yeah, the enner beast did for me in the end... After a couple teleporting rounds, I managed to get in the same corridor as him, myself already hasted; I slowed him, 'ported to melee, and shanked him twice. I believe I removed one of his limbs. Regardless, he panicked. Then he screamed and I died. If I had only thought to use combat wands. I'm very confidant he would have been a corpse if I'd just shot him once or twice with a wand of Striking before closing for the killing blow(s). Saal'thul +10, ye shall be missed.

found a steel spear +5 in UT1. then an broken octiron quarterstaff +1 in UT2. turned into veteran dwarf by fountain, and started mining UT4. came out with 5 crystal, 1 ruby and 1 blue light crystal stone. defeated Mom in melee combat in just 6 rounds. then I got the stupid idea to kill all the plants in the level. got bitten to death while crossing a plant filled corridor. :evil:

Dwarves are not my favorites any more.
Aaarrrgghh! "11905 : Vendi Idol, killed by a land mine in gloomy cave level 4". My best carachter this far, equipping a Turox +2 (if I remember correctly), arcanite chainmail +3 (weight 1200 or so, AC 10+!!), Ommel hair gauntlets of dex, boots of agi and cloack of fire resistance +5! Also starring a mithril belt for AC10 and a ring of searching. Killed Rondol for first time, regenerated him and went scouting the dwarven minefields. I'll NEVER, EVER do that again. Boom-ga-wonga, three in a cluster, the one under me was the bigger one. And I was going to kill the Enner beast with my great selection of wands (20 or so; sold a few extras already)... ='( Propably the first time I got out of UT without finding any bones-files. I'm happy. They're numerous, you see... EDIT: Oh yes, I just remembered... Smart people carry the amulet of life-saving in their inventory, right? "Ernomouse beats the wall with his head" "The wall breaks!" "Ernomouse tries a bit harder"

You should always, ALWAYS when you go to mine field read detect material scroll and detect iron. Then every empty spot is mine or a trap, so you can come next to it and just press s few times and find those nasty mines. Ofcourse you must be reeealy carefuly. If you miss step or two you are going to be nice black meal to wolfs.

Tell me something I don't know. Last time I was safe with my ring, and came out with pretty good gear... With a wand of polymorph --> polypiling of course. I'm so pissed! Arr! Even though it was yesterday. *eats a dwarf*

ehh, I was getting ripped apart by the plants and I ran and unluckly slipped on a banana peel and died, Didin't know that could happen at the time. another play time, I made it out of the UT and was doing well, fine and mighty...then my wand of teleportation broke and landed me on a land mine and killing me.

The most gruesome death for my character would be when my character suicide bombed himself with the bag of gunpowder infront of Decos. It was so much fun! :) Too bad only the slave girls were blown into pieces... Another gruesome death was when my guy got killed by the parasite.

killed by a hedgehog that was poly-ed into an orc officer. while I was turned into a hedgehog.

=D Can you hear Mr. Murphy rolling in his grave, Dalboz? Too many university entrance exams this week, I'll post you more cruelty when I finally have time to die again next week.

Uhh, darn. Guys, I not-so-long-ago died. I had a lucky char - meteor steel chainmail +2, mithril mace and mithril swords, a bit magiced. Totally awesome I found ommel stuff. I found a lamp, got wand of cloning. And found scroll of charging. If You can't figure that I had 24 AStr on GC3, stop reading... Anyways I was walking on the minefield, checked my Inv, and thought "Oh mine! Backpack full of gunpowder! I forgot to dro... a no, it may be useful yet." Then 3 steps, door locked, Highway Star (my char) kicks the door and kaboom. Stupid death. Don't booo.

Agian, all high and mighty....run into my ghost, killed it, A kamikazi dwarf blew me up after I killed my ghost...it was just one big bloody field. I had my right arm decapitated by a zombie while I had the zombie with no legs...so, in disrespect, I kicked it, took damage so I picked my sword up, and killed it...then started to slash my way through the mushrooms then my left arm fell off from illness(Damn zombies).....so, I just ran and kicked everything in my way then got cought on the a web, chocking, blacking out, getting ripped apart, then had one leg left, bleeding too death...eventually, I tried to get out agian...chocked agian and blacked out...then was finished off by a spider.

It was the 1 st time i cheated (Not wizardmode or anything i hacked the game scripting) :D and i went in the dungeon and killed my dog, then found 3 scrolls of wishing :D , so i wish for 3 holy bananas :D , after walking for a bit i found a life saving thing and put that on :D , then i saw that really powerfull wizard dude :( , so o said to myself "I gotta get outta here!" I take 3 steps, he zaps me, then clones me, then sommons golems around me, then finally makes me explode, that sets off my 3 holy bananas, i died :cry: , then was brought back to life only to die in the next minute because clones and the golems. :cry:

Once upon a time, a former banana growler, promising young adventurer Viljo entered the Gloomy Caves. He had average gear and plenty of money... In GC2 he met a werewolf with his wolves, and started slashing the post-human with his good quality whips. In no time, he lost a leg to an ordinary wolf, but got a iron replacement from Legiferus (the smithing-type?). After a while, the wolf bites another leg off. Viljo was by now starting to feel rather uneasy, as the werewolf hadn't died yet, despite his furious slashes. So he quickly formed a cunning plan to teleport away, heal his wounds and try again in a tunnel, with his rear free and only one opponent at a time. But what happened next? Suffering from mean cuts in torso and groin, he gazes in horror as the wolf crushes the knee of Viljos former leg in its jaws and throws it aside, and quickly browses through the small chest in his backback for some wands. He grabs two; teleportation, and a wand of lightnings for future use. He hadn't drank the healing potions, since that's a serious risk in combat... As the werewolf hits him for the last time hard to the side in fear of losing his prey, Viljo crabs the first wand he took from the chest, points it at himself and dies from a lightning. And so, the werewolf and the members of his pack had a nice feast that night, as they gnaved the unlucky and clumsy adventurer from his partly melted chainmail... But many more adventurers were to follow, many that ended as a toast like Viljo, but one day a hero will arrive and slay the mighty werewolf.