ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

So I'm happily playing a barbarian, whacking at everything that moves. Since I also have the Everything is Unique addon running, I see lots of bosses. Mostly my reaction is something like 'oh, another purple one. Let´s switch on my offensive icon's, activate Eden's Guile and rush (charge) away'.

So far so good. Lately I've been running around in the Sandworm Lair. Cleared the first level just fine, slowly following the large tunnelers. Had no problems at the second level either. However, there were no stairs down. I went to every room, which took a lot of time. Then I tried teleporting a hundred times, and see if I got into a room I hadn't noticed before. No luck.

Thinking about a bug, I retreated with my character to the first level, removed the level 2 savegame and tried again. Again no stairs. Frustration started to get high. I searched this forum and google for clues. No luck. I retreated to the worldmap and removed both savegames for level 1 and level 2. No luck. Really starting to get frustrated, I started looking around in the source to see if I could at least print a message in the logfile where those $(@!#*$(#@!$ stairs were.

Before doing that, I again retreated to the world map. On going up, te4 asked me what I wanted to transmogrify. In anger, I pressed the wrong button and suddenly looked at my quest items.

I saw the Heart of the Sandworm Queen



What are your funnier dumb moments?

There are two versions of the sandworm lair. One with 4 small levels and the second with one large level with big tunellers and a second small level I think you are in this second version and as the second level is the last one, there are no stairs donw.
No bug indeed.
But the bug can be that you have not met the sand worm queen...