ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

As usual, the Zombie Lord froze+stunned me to death, but this time I had used the BoL. When I came back, the GML was gone, but a ice storm was still in progress, so I teleported away. I could not find him (it?), so I figured that I had to come back to fight it again. When I did, I instead found a glittering sword by itself elsewhere in the level. I didn't bother searching the ENTIRE level, but I tried sense a bunch and didn't see the GML. Is there a unique-killed list? Is this the power of the BoL?

[LOG] Greater Mummy Lord killed Zoppy!
[THREAD] registering table: 0630A820 userdata: 090827C8
... (after death damage messages)
[ONLINE PROFILE] async rpc called http://te4.org/lua/profilesrpc.ws/SetConfigs
329 frames in 10.022 seconds = 32.8278 FPS
99 ticks in 19.124 seconds = 5.17674 TPS
334 frames in 10.015 seconds = 33.35 FPS
[LOG] #LIGHT_RED#The Blood of Life rushes through your dead body. You come back to life!
[LOG] Zoppy warms up.
removeTempVal stunned 1 :=: 200
delTmpVal stunned 1
removeTempVal frozen 1 :=: 201
delTmpVal frozen 1
[LOG] Zoppy deactivates Hymn of Detection.
removeTempVal on_melee_hit table: 06B0C810 :=: 174
delTmpValTable on_melee_hit 10 5.3871644959307
removeTempVal infravision 6 :=: 175
delTmpVal infravision 6
[LOG] Zoppy is free from the rotting disease.
removeTempVal inc_stats table: 048C7A08 :=: 197
delTmpValTable inc_stats 6 -6
[LOG] Zoppy's eyes tingle no more.
removeTempVal see_invisible 12 :=: 187
delTmpVal see_invisible 12
[LOG] Zoppy deactivates Chant of Fortitude.
removeTempVal on_melee_hit table: 09A00FD8 :=: 176
delTmpValTable on_melee_hit 9 5.9912829545676
removeTempVal combat_physresist 16.775592272789 :=: 177
delTmpVal combat_physresist 16.775592272789
removeTempVal combat_spellresist 16.775592272789 :=: 178
delTmpVal combat_spellresist 16.775592272789
[LOG] Zoppy deactivates Weapon of Light.
findFreeGrid using 97 47
[MOVE] actor moved without a starting position Zoppy 97 47
checkHit 12 12
=> chance to hit 50
checkHit 12 7
=> chance to hit 67.609125905568
checkHit 12 16
=> chance to hit 35.387196432176
checkHit 12 13
=> chance to hit 45.860731484177
checkHit 12 13
=> chance to hit 45.860731484177
checkHit 12 7
=> chance to hit 67.609125905568
checkHit 12 12
=> chance to hit 50
[LOG] #LIGHT_GREEN#Personal New Achievement: Unstoppable!
checkHit 8 16.742529703796
=> chance to hit 22.71717921967
101 ticks in 10.839 seconds = 9.3182 TPS
[PARTICLE] Loading from /data/gfx/particles/teleport.lua
[Identify] scroll of teleportation true

Clearly the mummy lord managed to kill himself somehow -- most likely on a trap while walking toward you.

I suppose that's possible, but it was already gone before I teleported...

Additionally, this sword won't recharge itself. Nor is it rechargeable at the store. Am I missing something?

If you received credit for the kill the information would be recorded and accessible by the Lua console: This is a table indexed by the name of each creature and the value is the number of kills for each name. If however a trap did manage to kill the unique off you have no way of knowing. I haven't experimented with the BoL, but maybe others have noticed: does using the BoL place you EXACTLY as before you died or has the game progressed say 1 turn? For some reason I remember seeing NPCs move once between the player dying and then resureccting, and if so this may explain what happened. Something could have killed the unique and you would not have seen it because you were no longer on the map (log messages check to see if you are within LOS). Was the unique low on life?

I'd bet money it was. Since there's no quest status message or the like when it dies, I wouldn't have been able to tell when it died if it was out of my LoS.

Actually, I could have been on top of it when I resurrected... I've been on monsters before... and after I teleported, it could have found a trap and died somewhere.

I died at level 26 yesterday (cave spider is crazy now), so it's a bit moot now.

Yah, the spider cave is much fun.