The run was going awesome! +2 Blazing Hand Axe on a statue, +1 Leather from the Ghost, and wand of Lightning just sitting on the floor (cursed but also a Scroll of Remove Curse) All on floor 2. Then I died a minute later...
I jumped into a well room and spawned the wraith. Rather than hit it with my Cleric spell, I stupidly zapped it with my Wand of Lightning at point blank range while at 3 HP. ☠️ Literally killed myself. Could have drank my water after jumping. Didn't. Could have passed a few turns to digest. Didn't.
The seed was such a good start that decided to copy the seed and try again. (DNK-CWK-VJR, btw)
And then I died a second time within 6 tiles of my first death! I was at 2 HP and starving put me at 1, so I ate food. Why use my water when I can heal from food, right? Well, I forgot how long it takes to eat food and the snake in the room reached me and killed me.
Time for a third try! It was such a great start. I want to see how the rest of the seed turns out.
LOL, that's a good one :-)
I love (in a weird way) how unforgiving SPD can be. I've died more times due to my own mistakes than to the game beating me.
Recently I was trying to win the game with five challenges. I was having a great run, near the end of the caves, going swimmingly. Having "on diet" on, I was at about 20% HP. I found a wand of corrosion, and I said, it's quite unlikely to be cursed, I'm just gonna zap that DM-200 over there.
Needless to say, the wand was cursed, it created some sort of huge lightning bolt, I was dead and my great run was over. All because I was unwilling to wait to verify the wand was not cursed.
Wow, I'm not familiar with that effect. I usually regret cursed wands when they trigger the Anti-Entropy and freeze my target and set me on fire. That hurts!
Yeah, I think that's the only time I've only seen that effect.