I think you can defeat Xinroch

Both of those guys have better Perception than you + Infravision, that's why they were able to follow you. Others might have ESP + high intelligence.

70-80 HP with good equipment seems like enough for them to be spawned. The game I was just playing, I think I had 87 HP and Sherry was spawned and killed me before I even realized she was there (I had phoenix feather & mithril equipment, 2 whips of thievery +11, and ommel hair limbs).

In my experience, bosses are usually spawned at a point BEFORE you are ready for them. Where you would die instantly if you tried to take them on. There would be no challenge if you were ready for a boss when s/he first appeared.

Best instinct is to run, hang around the previous levels for a while, then go back. Lots of tactics on the forum for dealing with them, I usually go with a row of mithril bear traps.

Usually when I find myself in a bad situation, I just try to hack my way out of it and end up dying. You'd think after beating the game several times I'd know to keep cool when bad things happen, but nope. I have tactics for dealing with expected bad situations, but the unexpected ones always get me, especially early in the game when I feel like "oh well I can just start over"

I was in GC2, had a decent character who had been really lucky so far. Helm of Understanding, decent equipment, permanent telecontrol from blink dogs, horn of bravery. The only thing he was missing was boots

Ran into a nasty orc who must have had an enchanted weapon. With no boots, my legs were quickly dismembered, but I kept hacking away as usual and found myself with only 1 arm, panicked, orc, mutant bunny, and blink dog all surrounding me.

This time I realized I should actually try to figure a way out of this. I broke my wand of teleport, and since I had telecontrol, stayed where I was knowing that the other guys would disappear. Then blew the horn of bravery. I had no healing liquids... tried rubbing my lamp which i had been saving just in case, but unfortunately no genie. Prayed to Legifer and Atavus and got 2 limbs but was still missing a leg (and the other was made of glass). I tried running for the staircase but by then the bad guys had caught up again. I polymorphed the bunny... into a mistress. Oops. Then the wand was out of charges, so I broke it. I transformed into a werewolf, orc I think was unaffected. But as a werewolf I was able to escape. Unfortunately just as I was reaching the other staircase I met a real werewolf, who finshed me off.

It was a good learning experience though I've never gone to such desperate lengths to save a character this early in the game before.

I don't know how well crowdfunding for IVAN would go, just being realistic

I think we're all agreed that whoever out of us is the first to be a millionaire will fund IVAN development themselves though. Right?

Nice game

I don't think you can clone ommel fluids though. At least not the bottles? Maybe the cerumen

Also I don't think wearing 2 rings of fire resistance helps anymore than wearing 1, somebody correct me if I'm wrong


Good point about eating corpses. Is there related behavior that you can do to gradually become more lawful?

I think the only non-human zombie heads I've seen were dwarves

To get the chaotic alignment, the next best thing after books is to find altars and offer sacrifices for items they would like. This can get you there pretty quickly.

Thanks Eagle The space/bandwidth is actually incredibly cheap... I have several dozen GB of photos stored between my various websites and it's only about $3 per month. The main downside with attachments is you can't add them inline with text... yet

Trying this. Seems like I can't wish for armor without it being "of great health"

What do you do when you're bloated?

Also, can I wear this ring of poison resistance?

Update: that high Endurance wasn't helping. Hattifattener + Kamikaze dwarf in UT2 offed me. Kind of a gruesome challenge! Lots of blood and vomit everywhere

Taking OCD to the next level

Update: Suffered basically the same fate as Erno, stuck on UT3, not allowed to leave because of OCD and not allowed to heal because of ADHD, surrounded by plants

Well I had one really lame one so far where charisma was the only high stat. Died before I even got hungry.

New one has Alcohol Dependent, Dyslexia, ADHD, Savant, and OCD. Guess I should be careful what i wish for