ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Are their any dangerous effects of chaotic weapons (normal and completely uncursed) that I should be worried about while playing a lost soul? I found a chaos blade that seems pretty useful, but I'm worried the earthquakes will move stairs out from under me, obscure the level, etc. Do they behave this way? On a side note, during one of the may incarnations of this character, a monster summoned some kind of higher demon that was friendly to me. Pretty soon the whole level was overrun with pet balrogs, pit fiends, and other summoning demons. I gained a lot of experience from all their kills and stumbled across the corpse of a great wyrm of law . Unfortunately, I died when I put on the palantir of orthanc and aggravated all but 4 of my demon horde , but I digress. How often does that kinda thing (friendly demons) happen, and has it ever happened to anyone else?

some of the effects of the blade are annoying but none of them are deadly. Earthquakes will not affect stairs so that isnt a problem.

With the friendly demons it can happen though it is rare. I take advantage of the hordes of monsters summoned when I play lost soul symbiants, but it isnt rare then but quite common.

Thanks, I've actually already used it for a while and haven't run into any annoying effects. Can anybody give me some good corpses (I need to be able to get them without dying) to possess around the deeper levels (80-98) of the Halls of Mandos and if there aren't any easy to obtain ones there, the rest of the dungeon? Right now I'm in an ancient blue dragon, which seems kinda weak to me, and I'd like something better. And would it be better to switch back to the player body, which has more hp and can wield the chaos blade, than to stay in the current dragon body?

Crap, I just died. I'd still like to know some good corpses, though.

I've been playing possessors lately (and just got my second win ever!). If I go with barehand I followed the advice I got on the forum and went for dragons, moving up the ranks slowly to Ancalagon or Glaurang eventually. If weaponmastery, I rather like Eol and thunderlords, gold thunderlords especially.

When do actually start using barehanded when you go the barehanded route, immediately or do you gain some experience first?

When I go barehand, I actually play as a regular loremaster (specialized in possessor). Matters how much damage I'm doing with a dagger at first.

playing a lost soul ... during one of the many incarnations

Sounds about right - they're fun, aren't they ?

Hell yeah they are.