ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Ok.

Fighting The Master when he summons.
I get surrounded and can not run away.
So I teleport.

I hate to teleport on floors I didnt manage to clean out first.
At least I like to clean out 'the other side' first.

Stick track:

Once in ADOM I was in the Tower of Eternal Flames.
If someone do not know what this is, then I can say that it is one hell of a dangerous and annoying places in a Roguelike.
Constant fire that saps your life and burns your equipment to crisps, unless you are lucky to have protection enough.

There I dug a corridor to the Boss who is, needless to say, very nasty.
Suddenly things turn bad.
Im badly hit by his mental attack and my healing stuff runs out.
I must retreat.
But behind me sneaks a corrupting whatever it name is and I know I will die.
I browse my equipment, but this level is teleport free so chances are as great as a snowball in hell.
When suddenly this snowball gets his chance, maybe once in a lifetime.
I hit the corrupting enemy and I get corrupted enough to get a 1/20 corruption.
Unholy Aura.
The aura scares away friends and foes and can be a real drag, but this time the Boss panics and runs back giving me a chance to escape.
ADOM players will know this was an extremely lucky escape.

Back to ToME:
I teleport and end up in a room, full with archers, dakes, vampires and a wyrm coupled with drakelings.
The only door to the south is completely blocked with enemies.
I mentally give up, but then I remember the adom game and stops paniking.
I check my eq and my talents.
Is there a way?


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Well, I have a Movement Infusion.
And I have this handy Switch Place Talent.
So activate the infusion and run straight into the pack who doesnt close in.
The last drakeling I swap place with, open the door, and run down into the corridor.

Tom

A valuable lessons. When things are tight look at *everything* you've got and try and think of a way out.

So did you get the Master in the end?

Grey wrote:A valuable lessons. When things are tight look at *everything* you've got and try and think of a way out.

So did you get the Master in the end?

He is toast.
My problem now is

a) Should I open the vault that covers 1/3 of the floor.

b) How to deal with the encounter.

Tom

If you open the vault just remember your movement infusion

Of all the close calls I've had yet in ToME, there is one that I remember really made me think "ok, I'm done for" rather than "ok, I might be done for". That was the trap door quest, I was surrounded by assassins who were chasing after me, and out of the few resourced I had at that early point in the game. But I kept running waiting for my phase rune and regen infusions or whatever I had to recharge. I was barely clinging on to life, whenever I get some kind of healing I was quickly near death again, and whenever I phased, I seemed to end up right next to the Assassin Lord. It came to the moment when I knew that this phase was going to be my very, very last. And as if it was a miracle, I ended up inside one of those small "houses". All alone and able to rest and then face my enemies one at a time!

(back then I didn't know that the enemies don't attack directly, so I never knew I had the chance to position myself before starting the fight)

Nemesis1 wrote: (back then I didn't know that the enemies don't attack directly, so I never knew I had the chance to position myself before starting the fight)

I'm pretty sure they are automatically hostile to Anorithils and Sun Paladins. Everybody else gets to position themselves first.