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[BeefontheBone]

Dangit. It's pretty embarassing to be killed by poison because you're a moron and forgot you weren't carrying ANY healing potions, right? Poison delivered by creeping adamantium coins, too. That character was rather promising, as well. Grr.

[A. J. Raffles]

Gah, another one of my characters just died at level 5 or so.
Is there any way of changing the settings so you can navigate with the arrow keys, by the way? One of the things that annoy me most about this game is the awkward navigation.

[BeefontheBone]

Arrow keys run by default - personally I like the numpad because you get diagonal movement that way. No idea about changing the default binds; they're probably definied in a text file though I'dve thought.

[A. J. Raffles]

BeefontheBone, on Sep 14 2007, 06:29 PM, said:

Arrow keys run by default - personally I like the numpad because you get diagonal movement that way. No idea about changing the default binds; they're probably definied in a text file though I'dve thought.

Hmm, I'll have to try the numpad, then.

By the way, Beef, do you have any tips on how to deal with greater hell beasts? I just ran into one, and I can't seem to hit it often enough to kill it (basically I miss so often, it usually heals in the meantime).  It doesn't seem to do anything either, it just keeps "gazing" at me, but it's a bit of a nuisance because it keeps following me around the dungeon and I'd quite like to get rid of that stupid thing. I can't really see how I'm supposed to do that, though...

[Havell]

As far as I can tell, the Greater Hell Beast is sort of an in-joke; designed to just be annoying.

It's intentionally damn-near impossible to kill, and killing it is regarded as something of an achievement.

[Frodo]

A. J. Raffles, on Sep 15 2007, 06:09 PM, said:

...  It doesn't seem to do anything either, it just keeps "gazing" at me, but it's a bit of a nuisance because it keeps following me around the dungeon ...

Maybe it likes you.  

[chumloofah]

Some genius put homer simpson sounds in...
Just downloaded the game, started it up then "d'oh!", turned it straight off.
Probably try again without the sounds when the fury wears off  

[A. J. Raffles]

OK, this is probably a stupid question, but is there anything I can do to avoid deities randomly deciding to paralyse my characters and/or blasting their weapons when they gain a level? Am I doing something wrong or is that just another one of the game's charming little quirks?

[A. J. Raffles]

Ha, my character just hit level 13 and is still alive! That's certainly a first...

[A. J. Raffles]

Yay, I found my first artifact. I think...

[DakaSha]

A. J. Raffles, on Sep 18 2007, 11:46 AM, said:

OK, this is probably a stupid question, but is there anything I can do to avoid deities randomly deciding to paralyse my characters and/or blasting their weapons when they gain a level? Am I doing something wrong or is that just another one of the game's charming little quirks?

dont play a chaos knight or whatever

[A. J. Raffles]

Hmm, it's a bit late for that now... Oh well, at least things won't get boring too soon.

[A. J. Raffles]

Killed by an orc shaman on level 8. Damn.

[BeefontheBone]

A. J. Raffles, on Sep 18 2007, 12:46 PM, said:

OK, this is probably a stupid question, but is there anything I can do to avoid deities randomly deciding to paralyse my characters and/or blasting their weapons when they gain a level? Am I doing something wrong or is that just another one of the game's charming little quirks?

Nope, those are among the nastier things Chaos deities can do to Chaos Warriors (and those with the awesome "Chaos patrons give you gifts" mutation). The positive things almost always outweigh the negative overall though. You can prepare for them by (as in all RLs) ensuring you have some escape methods - scrolls of teleport, the Teleport spell (it's in the first Chaos book), scrolls of word of recall, staffs of teleporting, trump weapons (though they can get blasted), some artifacts like Colannon, etc. Carry a scroll or two of Remove Curse (there's a mutation which gives you that power too).
When you make level 13 or a multiple thereof, the "gift" is more likely to be a nasty one, so try to do so in a quiet place and remove your equipment before you level up if you can. Conversely, 14 and multiples thereof are practically guaranteed not to be nasty.

The GHB is indeed something of a joke, though not remotely funny; it's only really irritating if it's generated on a level you know contains an artifact or something thanks to a level feeling, so you have to deal with it the whole time while you search. Yawn. It can be killed - you get the cursed artifact t-shirt "I killed the GHB and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" if you can be bothered. Best thing to help deal with it is good stealth - avoid waking it up and skirt round it unless you have to go into the area it's in. Lesser Hell-beasts are rather more dangerous

[A. J. Raffles]

Actually I quite like the randomness of the chaos warrior patrons...

My current character started out extremely lucky, by the way: the second time he entered the dungeon, the level generated was a "very bad feeling" one and contained two spellbooks, which I promptly sold for about 30,000 gold. I bet that character will die before reaching level 10...

Edit: Yep, just died at level 7. Killed by a bunch of spiders.

Edited by A. J. Raffles, 23 September 2007 - 11:52 AM.