an easy mistake to make, I recently had a nice char die from an already-discovered mine because I wasn't looking at the screen.

Yeah, well, I haven't done this in as sarcastic a way before... I was thinking a while earlier, that from now on, I won't make hesitated desicions in IVAN any more, but rather try my best with each charachter, as good or bad as it turns out in the underground tunnel. So to say, I was trying to get far with each character and get rid of the deaths caused by stupidity, I-don't-care desicions and mistakes I have already learned of.

I just got blasted by an elder dark mage on UT3. I suspect magical mushrooms were involved. GRR.

my dual-shield wielding guy kicked a object at my once-friendly angel during battle...

Gruesome Death
Hi everyone, I'm brand new at this game but I've already had a humorous gruesome death. You see, I was having some really good luck, I had gotten some really good equipment in the UT, and even a lamp that gave me a genie! I decided to keep the genie as a servant and even took the nice sword that he gave himself. I slayed the plant boss in UT3 with such ease, I couldn't believe how well things were going for me. Then, suddenly, tragedy struck in GC1, and it kept striking over and over. I was lured in with a false sense of hope when I found ANOTHER lamp that produced a genie, I also opted to keep this one as a servant, but I didn't bother taking it's weapon. By this time, my original genie was only equipped with a steel battle axe, but since he was still doing very well, I decided it didn't matter. Feeling really pumped, I charge into a room. And step directly on a land mine. BOOM. In an instant, I no longer have legs or a right arm. As I lay bleeding on the ground, I decide to pray to the only god I know; Scabies. He grants me new limbs that "somehow seem different" (I'm not quite sure what that means). Anyways, my confidence is back, I pick up my old items and continue. I walk into a room with a locked chest. I decide to try and kick it open like I've done many times before, except this time I kicked it directly into one of my genies. The very well equipped genie. Well my origninal genie tried to protect me from the other now hostile genie, but i knew his steel weapon wouldn't last long against the other genie's awesome sword, so I start to run. I run down a hallway and right into a beartrap. I don't remember what kind of beartrap, but it ripped my leg off. I had a potion of healing on me so I didn't worry too much, I wanted to get to safety before I drank it though, so I hop a few more steps down the hall and right onto a small landmine that blows my other leg off, AND breaks my only potion of healing. So now I'm slowly dragging myself down a long hallway, and before too long, my former genie servant catches up to me and takes my head as a trophy. Normally I would have been mad, but I was just laughing too hard at all those horrible turn of events. EDIT: Fixed 2 typo's.

Hahaha ! Holy lord. Well this is my all time favorite gruesome death. So ironic and horrible death hehehe. Congratulation, you are the unluckiest guy ever. And quite persistant: only the third trap was enough to finish you.

So, I was planning on using the tips from the thread inthe Tips and tricks of training objects and whatnots...well, I got tired of my character, he was weak and everything...well, I placed a mine down and attempted suicide...I stepped on it...every ALLY rat around me, died, but I survived the blast, not even a limp decapitated. So, I was laughing while moving around the dungeon, then my left leg fell off without any reason. So I prayed to a god, not thinking much will happen but doom...bam! Leg of marble, boosts my leg strength to 30...So, in enjoyment, I decided to keep this character, eventually making to level 3 of the Underwater tunnel, thinking good luck..eventually, loosing my right arm, prayed to a god, got smacked, then prayed to another god, got a arm of cloth...Knowing this isn't going so well, and my uncontrollable, teleportations weren't helping me. Eventually, getting killed by a mutent rabbit. What luck...hahah!

Leprosy is a bitch. :D Do a search on leprosy in tips and tricks. There's a few different discussions on countering, preventing, and curing the disease. Mostly though, just avoid zombies.

Baby mammoths kick *hard*. Yeah, I tried to tame one. Might have been able to, except... Necromancers make a freaking lot of zombies. By the way, valpurium shields are awesome. One more note... it takes a looooong time for Valpurus to let you pray to him again after you get something from him. Like a reeeeaaaallll long time.

I had a really beefy guy train in UT3 against Giant Carnivorous plants for a while, and then took out Genetrix and left for Attnam. Attnam was really far away by normal standards, and especially so for my character decked out in steel plate. So I was "very hungry" when I got there. No way to get food, nothing to eat. Only god was Loricatus, and I didn't want to provoke him to start turning my gear into bananas. I manage to sell some of my possessions for money and check the bookstore. I was passing out from starvation by now, but I found a book of Silva, and prayed to her. I got filled back up to normal, and then I went wolf hunting. One of them panicked and ran away. I saved him for last. Bastard ended up baiting me onto Cathedral grounds, where I slew him. I stupidly ate him anyway, thinking the y/N dialogue was related to my being bloated and not realizing just how far out Petrus controls. So the whole town is now going berserk at me because I ate something I killed... 64 HP under steel platemail doesn't last long when you have a patrol guard and a normal guard hacking at your limbs. Neither does the Amulet of Life Saving my character had equipped.

Ok, here is mine: (Note: I have been lurking for a while and finally had to register. This game is...well. I guess you know.) My highscore list is now roughly 3 pages long (not counting minor deaths in UT1) and I have lost one list roughly 2 pages long to a crash. I have twice managed to reach the dark level, though only for a very short time...so I am not a veteran yet but I have had unspeakable things happening to me. Common experience here, I take it. Well, now for my favorite death: Sometimes I do amuse myself by providing my hero with a soundtrack, letting him speak to his enemies...though I have learned to do this aloud only when noone else is around. So I had this promising bananagrower (for a change _not_ starting with LStr 9) entering UT1. There he found a pair of ommel hair gauntlets, a broken dragon hide helmet and not only one but _two_ longswords. Iron and steel. Nothing else, no boots, no armour, not even a T-shirt. So we now have this hero naked except for his loincloth, two flaming red gauntlets, two loooong swords and a helmet that changes his grin into a hideous grimace. Graphically this could mean only one thing. I could not stop myself from imagining him shashaying down the (now empty) corridors, looking for trouble. Entering UT2 he found a mutant rabbit (oooh...BITE me!), by the time I found its mate I had to realise a certain masochistic streak in my hero (Yesss, that hurt! Now you die!), then he found a zombie (Sorry my love, I am not _that_ far gone yet!), all died in very short order. The next zombie had not that many flies buzzing around him, so I told him 'You might do - care for some tea?'. But his (or its) answer were two bites to the groin (!), killing me. him. Whoever. I admit that I had to stare at the screen for a few seconds not believing before breaking down howling with laughter.

Haha. Not bad. You added Roleplay to ivan : p Might try to add voice to hehe ( when nobody's around though, of course heh )

Sounds like a Lorena Bobbet situation to me :D

Yay i discover all kind of dirty stuff with you guys. Now i googled Lorena Bobbet. Looks like an interesting woman : )