ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I am playing a Paradox Mage and decided to cast Dimensional Step onto the stairs, not minding that the stairs were in a middle of a sea of flames. What happened? Instadeath.. why? The game decided to give 117 fire damage for each tile I teleported across .. for a grand total of 1100+ damage.

The way the spell/ability is worded, it says "teleport to a visible tile" .. in actual fact, if I get damage for each burning tile I tp across, then it is not a teleport, it is levitating quickly across the tiles, absorbing any flame aoe effect and possibly projectiles as well?


Fortunately I still have one life left.. but I feel cheated by this unfair death.

This happened in the ruined tower /basement quest, after you give up the orb to the crooked mage.

Uh... In the code it's marked is_teleport = true, and it uses the the random teleport command. Besides, I think if you used rush you would still only take one damage for a tick. You only take the fire damage ONCE per global turn, so your circumstance of death is quite odd.

yeah, as mic pointed, its more of a fire bug, rather than the step bug.
the projectiles deal instant damage to anything they connect with. and they may or may not continue afterwards.
tiles, i am pretty sure, are supposed to be over time. so if you do not spend time on that tile, it SHOULD not affect you.

but just to make sure... when you got the 1100+ damage, did it said from the flames?

yes, I died only from the flaming floor. Another possibility is that maybe that tile had the flaming aoe effect stacked more than 10 times or something. All I know is that I tp to the tile and I died before any monster action..

I wish there was a way to examine a tile to see how much aoe damage is stacked there. I am a bit new to this game (but not new to roguelikes) .. All I know is that I died purely to the flaming floor, instadeath on tp.


Also, the game gave me a funny message . I forget the exact wording.. something about being doing some masochistic ritual experiment that didn't work out too well.

You're sure you died from fire? The death message you said you got seems to point to self-inflicted damage.

Yes, i am sure that I died from fire . The message log said something like 117 fire , 117 fire , 117 fire , 117 fire, 117 fire, 117 fire ... (1107 total damage)..

It was self inflicted in that I voluntarily teleported onto that tile... my question now is.. can aoe flaming tile stack 10x ? if it can, that is what happened.

It can happen, but we would be able to say more if we had some of the combat log.