So, I'm on my second adventurer ever, an axeman, and I pretty much went on a quest to go kill an Ettin. I think "Ok, I've done this before, should be a peice of cake." I bring along my longtime companion spearman, who's now a legendary wrestler by fighting beasties, I go to the site, find the cave entrance. I descend down into the cave sneaking, and kill off two gremlins on the way. I find an ettin, easily dispatch of it without it ever seeing me, and then make my way out of the cave.
But then I double check my Adventure Log. I apparently killed the wrong ettin. I turn myself around and go back into the cave. A few levels below the first ettin is a second one. I easily dispatch of this one too, without a scratch on me. Once again I turn myself around and exit the cave, to see if my spearman buddie is still with me. He is, and as I turn to leave again, I realize I STILL haven't killed the right ettin. By now I'm thinking how the hell can there be so many ettins here?!
So I go down even further into the cave into the underground. I turn a corner, and BOOM, another ettin. He interrupts my sneaking immediately and grabs me. In the struggle I somehow lost hold of my battle axe. I fade in and out of conciousness several times, and after realizing I have lost the ability to stand, I crawl away as my spearman catches up. Then a
fourth ettin shows up! By now I'm quite sure this adventurer will not last much longer. I crawl away as fast as I can drag myself, but, soon enough, my spearman has killed both ettins!
I immediately travel away to the city that sent me on this god awful quest. I go to bed, and now that I have woken up I am mostly better, just a broken, infected toe. (Are infections certain death? I don't know...) I need to find something nasty to do to the jerk warlord that sent me there.
The best part is that my first adventurer died to an ettin.