![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) simont |
Thu 2005-12-15 09:19 |
I'd just attained XL 5 as a Valkyrie, and immediately hightailed it to the nearest fountain to acquire Excalibur. On the first two dips my sword just got rustier. On the third, it surrounded me with snakes. I decided to risk one more dip before attempting to escape, and amazingly turned up a water demon who granted me a wish! I decided "sod Excalibur" at that point and wished up Mjollnir instead; unfortunately the snakes then killed me.
Annoyingly, I realised afterwards that I'd had a wand of digging I could have pointed downwards as a means of escape. On the one hand it's kind of encouraging that almost all my recent deaths have been avoidable in retrospect; on the other, it strongly suggests I ought to be paying better attention. I must get out of the "panic now" mindset and cultivate a reflex of instinctively stopping to think, check my inventory, etc. before I do anything irrevocable. Antelope mentality, in fact. |
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