ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

My Doomed character got his text upon entering level 4, slaughtered all the orcs, but Golbug is nowhere to be found. I've dug passages into most walls to see if he zipped into a hidden room or something - no luck yet. I'm loving this Doomed so far, but I'm thinking it's game over.

Shouldn't happen, but there is A hidden room. It's just south and a tile or 2 east of the room golbug is normally in (Or just south and a tile or two west of the room the portal is normally in) that you'll have to dig to get to. Golbug shouldn't be in there, but you can check. Backup guardian spawned in there on someones run the other day, so I suppose it's possible.

Yeah, that's the first place I checked, with no luck.

Something similar happened to me the other day.

It looked like he didn't spawn, so I crashscummed and tried again. I have "save on entering level" on, so I wasn't optimistic. Used a movement infustion to see if he was there, and he was. I only aggro'd and handled the first line of orcs, then moved in to aggro him and he was gone, with a random item where he had been, but no orb. Both times the first door behind him was open.

Another crashscum, and aggro'd everything, and he lived until I could kill him.

Maybe something to do with him spawning on top of a random floor item?

Hrm, his spawning on top of a random floor item may make sense. There's a nice stalagmite (i.e. "interesting terrain" feature) pretty much right where I usually find him.

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