ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Posted: **Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:44 pm**

So, perhaps this is just newbie-ness not understanding, but I feel like this might have been a bug? I had 2 lives remaining, and was fighting a skeleton. It murdered me (fine, okay, I wasn't expecting it to dash up to me), and I should have been able to choose to respawn or wait. Instead, I'm greeted with a message of suicide, and am being told that I need to make a new character.

http://te4.org/characters/7415/tome/fd7 ... 87d5889c54

Specifically what I'm looking at is:

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Deriaz the level 19 cornac archer was minced to death by Arotira the degenerated skeleton warrior on level 4 of Ruined halfling complex.
Deriaz hits Arotira the degenerated skeleton warrior for 6 blight, 6 blight damage (total 10.26).
Arotira the degenerated skeleton warrior hits Deriaz for 13 lightning, 40 physical, 7 nature, 2 temporal, 14 physical, 12 physical, 16 physical damage (total 100.45).
You have no more lives left.
Deriaz stops regenerating health quickly.
Deriaz stops wasting away.
Deriaz is not stunned anymore.
Deriaz deactivates Aim.
Deriaz killed Deriaz!
Saving done.
Saving done.
Saving done.
Saving game...
Deriaz the level 19 cornac archer was punctured to death by himself (the fool) on level 4 of Ruined halfling complex.
Deriaz killed Deriaz!
There is an item here: flaming dwarven-steel longsword of crippling (23.5-32.9 power, 4 apr)
From the brink of death you seem to be yanked to another plane.

Am I understanding this correctly, and my character ended up murdering itself without my command? Or what could have caused this?

Again, I'm new to roguelikes, so maybe I'm overlooking something. But my friends and I are at a loss after trying to understand what occurred, so I figured I would report it on the off-chance it is a bug. Apologies if it is simply a newbie misunderstanding.

If there's anything else I should add to the report, I can try to do so.

Posted: **Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:47 am**

Archers are a class of their own. Since their missiles don't travel at 100% speed, you can get hit by them after your turn. In your case, check the previous messages:
"Arotira the degenerated skeleton warrior performs a critical strike!
Deriaz is stunned!" (stunning effect -- *bad* for archers)
And then:
"Deriaz uses Steady Shot." (with stun on, I bet this chose yourself as target)
"Arotira the degenerated skeleton warrior performs a critical strike!
Arotira the degenerated skeleton warrior killed Deriaz!"
You get killed on the same turn, but the missile is still waiting to strike you.

This is clearly a bug. A dead character should be ported to the Eidolon plane at once. Of course, you would get hit by that missile upon returning...

Posted: **Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:18 am**

Ah-ha. So the joke one friend made about shooting myself in the face in panic wasn't exactly that far off. That would explain it.

It'd be nice to maybe see objects in flight continue moving or wipe when the player isn't in the zone anymore so something like that would be a bit more avoidable. (Even if I died again before going to the plane.) But then again, I know now for the future to be more careful should I be playing a ranged character.

Thanks! That makes a lot more sense to me now.

ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

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