ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Thanks everyone. I guess I need to start paying more attention to the message log.

What is the small white pillar in the screenshot? Autoexplore always stops there and tells me it is interessting terrain but I don't know what to make of it.

Wow, i totally overlooked precognition. So far it has helped me a lot. Two questions about it: 1) Asuming I do the exact same things both times, do random events (like exact damage numbers or saving throws) play out in the same way during and after using precognition? 2) During the 'unfolding space-...

Is there a trick to survive the first ~10 levels in the infinite dungeon? I seem to have no heal, no escape, little health and low damage. I die to pretty much anything in the first vault I open. Should I just skip vaults until later? Or retry until I get a really lucky start?