Pendrake got trolled. Hard.
Basically, I was trying to scrounge up a wish for a dragon egg. I had used up the wand, so I quaffed the smoky potion I had. I get polymorphed into a silver dragon, which would be fan
tuckingfastic if I had gone ahead and chosen a female knight at character creation. Instead, attempts to #sit state "male dragons can't lay eggs!" So close, yet so far.
So I go ahead and explore the next floor as a silver dragon. Things are going good, I kill a rabid rat and keep moving. Then I find a troll. My lack of AC and speedy gear let the troll score tons of hits on me, but I kill him...then he rises from the dead a few turns later and traps me in a corner. He kills me, and I revert back to human form, wearing only the dragon scale mail and facing an almost full heath troll in a corner.
I zap a wand of sleep, and kill the troll while he's asleep, losing some honor but at the plus of still being alive. I suit up and keep exploring, and walk right into, oh look,
another opulent effing throne room. I make a hasty retreat after trying to hold out in the doorway due to some monsters getting lucky hits and actually costing me my amulet of life saving. Yep, otherwise I woulda died there.
Going back up a floor, I sit in the corner and wait for my health to recharge, Pendrake shakily wondering how things went to hell so fast. In retrospect I
really should have engraved Elbereth on the floor. After killing a squad of gnomes no problem
another troll wanders into the room and lumbers toward little ol' me, with less than half my health regained.
I throw darts at the troll like he's a poorly painted wall in the back of the bar and I'm the drunk who chugged 3 pan-galactic gargle blasters. After nailing some "hits!" the troll makes a beeline for a spare unicorn horn lying around in the room. I, fearing that the troll will zap himself with it and heal, dumbly move in to engage.
The troll wields a unicorn horn!
The troll hits!
You die...A troll finished me off with the unicorn horn...the same unicorn that I had previously attempted to saddle and tame and ultimately killed because the thing got pissed at me for throwing carrots at it. If I had avoided it, maybe the troll wouldn't have killed me...with the
unicorn horn of all things. FUUUUUUUUUUU-
some unidentified gear I was carrying included a cursed ring of free action, a ring of slow digestion which I was wearing to try and get myself to digest faster, ironically, a cursed amulet of strangulation, and two magic markers which had some 100 charges combined along with blank scrolls and books. also countless wands. other quality gear included a unicorn horn, gauntlets of power, boots of speed, Excalibur and Fire Brand, my +1 staring lance, a blessed saddle, silver scale dragon mail, and a dented kitchen pot.
Apparently I was very fast, poison and fire resistant, reflective, and also unlucky probably due to that lawful unicorn I whacked previously.
I was lvl 12 at Dlvl 19, deepest level I had reached being 21 or so, and some notable kills include six dragons, a mind flayer, multiple giants, an Elfenking, 3 cockatrices, and twenty frikin trolls. also 17 bugbears, 14 quasits, 9 woodland elves, 23 killer bees, many orcs, and a total of 447 creatures vanquished in all.
123135 points, 13651 moves. maximum health of 75. Top o' mah scoreboard, with over 10000 more points than my previous champion.
Not bad for my first knight.
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