CRAWL I HATE YOU TO DEATH

[gruff]

F******************CK

BEST CHARACTER EVER

WIELDS A DISTORTION WEAPON

UNWIELDS -> ABYSS

DIES WITHIN 100 TURNS TO A PIT FIEND

WHY DO PEOPLE SAY ABYSS CAN BE "BORING" I ALWAYS GET SLAUGHTERED THERE INSTANTLY

DISTORTION WEAPONS ALWAYS SEND ME TO ABYSS


IT WAS MY

BEST

CHARACTER

EVER

[Skeletor]

Hahahah.. 

[Chex Warrior]

Gruff, time heals all wounds. We've all lost someone close.

P.S. Hahaha

[gruff]

heh...

the rage has cooled somewhat...but srsly how the f*ck do you deal with the abyss?

[jim]

How to (possibly) survive the abyss, by Jim:

1. When you arrive, eat your food if it's safe to do so. Don't get caught hungry. Switch to gear that includes MR if possible. Levitation is also nice.
2. Keep moving at a slight angle. That is to say, go left 3 steps, then down-left and repeat; this covers ground expediently.
3. Do not stay and fight. If you see a Pit Fiend, move in the opposite direction if possible and try to lose your pursuers. Use the walls to your advantage. Fight only when it saves you time to do so. The longer you stay still, the sooner they'll close in from all directions.
4. When you inevitably get hedged in, teleport. It may take a while to kick in, so do what you can to stay out of LOS for smiters / hellfire-ers in the meantime. Remember that blink is almost worthless in the abyss. Keep your eye out for the portal - or rune!
5. Scream "Day shall come again!" with each sword stroke as they crowd in upon you. Die a heroic death.
6. (optional) If you find an altar to Lugonu, converting gives you the ability to instantly depart the abyss.

[gruff]

Tight, thanks brother. I'll save this for my next inevitable trip there. Maybe I'll survive next time.

Considered converting to Lugonu, but then I'd be stuck with him for the rest of the game - his punishment is to send you back to the Abyss. I wuv Okawaru.

[Xecutor]

It's probably strange, but I never ever died in the abyss.
Almost all my characters have at least swiftness.
Permanently flying kenku with swiftness can outrun anything in abyss
But I read 'how to escape abyss' guide very early
And prefer not to touch distortion weapon at all.

[corremn]

No one deliberately touches distortion weapons.  They just show up in you hand sometimes   Lugonu is generally the best way to escape. Unless you have boots of running or cheap speed spell.  Keep it up, abyss deaths are generally rare, unless you venture to early to elf or other places where you can be cast to the abyss.

[gruff]

Yeah the distortion weapon always catches me unaware. "Glowing orcish war axe" - sweet let me just give that a swing DAMN IT'S DISTORTION GAME OVER WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[Chex Warrior]

My turn... F**********************************************************CK this game!

...Greatest character, trapped in Orcish Mines (didn't know that could happen!) and starved to death! Starved to death! Its shameful, a minotaur fighter should go down in battle not in delirium and hunger!

[gruff]

My condolences on your loss...a moment of silence.

Got to be careful in the mines. Never take trapdoors or emergency stairs - only go down regular stairs. Never teleport. Clear one area at a time.

[gruff]

All right get this now.

2nd best character ever. Still alive as I write this.

MDFi, favoring axes and Okawaru.

Okawaru grants me a gift: pitted war axe.

I wield:
flame, +Rage, rElec, rPois, rN+, MR

Beautiful, right?

but

it's


-4, -4

[Chex Warrior]

That is very strange, sounds like a Xom thing to do.

[supified]

I quit crawl.

Why? Because this game takes difficulty to tedious.  In that you can end up in situations beyond your control.  Whats that? Second level of the dungeon and there are gnolls?  Too weak to handle? Move to another staircase and they're somehow there surrounding it. You die. 

People may say that what makes stone soup interesting is these chance deaths, but no, that is what makes this game suck.  Centaur on level 2?  You die.  Why is this bad? Because the game might as well take half of the chars you roll and just say you die before you even try to play.  This is not difficulty, this is just wasting my time.  I'm done with this roguelike because I'm starting to think it isn't hard, it is just random.

[Bear]

A lot more of those characters will survive if you try to avoid fights you can't handle.  Admittedly, you can't always do that, but "monster you can't kill = death" is a symptom of a newb mistake - trying to kill everything.