Oh, I've also got that banana, and 2 arcanite qstaves so far. I wonder if that banana can be used in other ways - I ate it when I was hungry and noticed my stats were rising, but that was then all.

Mmhmm. Thanks for the tips. Of course, I'm still dying - I had a mithril golem from UT2-ish last time, then a kamikaze dwarf ran into me, my wands broke, I polymorphed into a jackal, teleported elsewhere, then the wand of acid rain which broke dissolved my torso. Epic death, but watching the white guy top-right seems to help.

Vermis, helmet of understanding AV 16, some thunder hammer are among mine. Also, on UT1, just walking along happily,

"The zombie stabs you with his broken rune spear Vermis! You die."

I don't understand this game at all. Why is it that I get down to something like 30/40 HP, then a monster hits me, and without getting a severed head or anything, I die? HPs aren't worth crap if I may get killed at any moment.

Also,

1. How do I even avoid dying in an efficient way?
2. And how do I avoid getting beheaded? Had a character killing the werewolf with the slave equipped with an iron 2-handed scimitar among other things, then a wolf comes, attacks me and I'm beheaded. Okay.