Massively Botched Rescue

[nubnub]

Something very strange just happened on the main server. I was handing out semi-worthless stuff from running around on 1200ft (+3,+2 broadswords and things like that). Suddenly, some low level players who were running around on 300ft were both killed by a Dreadmaster.

A Dreadmaster on 300ft. Knowing that a Dreadmaster was bad (it had the word "dread" in it's name), but not knowing just how bad it was, I decided to offer a rescue. They accepted, and I recalled down and killed it. As soon as I killed it, both of them shot up roughly 20 levels. One of them was level one to begin with (I think it was from experience drain). Oops.

I didn't know that Dreadmasters were that EXP-valuable. I went on to clear a small pit filled with surprisingly difficult monsters (they took 10 heal potions). I assumed that the monsters in the pit just had cool sounding names and weren't worth much EXP. Luckily, I was right on that. The pit didn't have much of an impact on the other people's experience (or maybe I missed it, I was preoccupied with not dying).

I'm just posting this topic to say that this wasn't a case of powerleveling, it was an honest mistake. None of us knew that these things gave so much EXP. I know that all the mods here are pretty cool when it comes to the RNG trying to get nubnub banned, but I just want to make sure that everyone knows what happened. It was pretty awesome, but it was unintentional.

[Allona]

hey bud, wish I was therre..

but you did no harm its like when I found out how much experience you get from forest wights it was a plast from the bast.

:I

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[nubnub]

Allona, get thee to the nunnery.

[Billsey]

Sounds like you had something like the "Miniature Cell" Vault. It's a lesser vault, and so can show up pretty early in the game, but it contains five '8's, which are monsters/treasures that can be 40/20 levels out of depth. At 300' that means monsters from 2300' and items from 1300'. Dreadmasters fit that description, IIRC.

[nubnub]

I managed to get a screencap of the aftermath. Unfortunately, I didn't think of getting one earlier.



There was a glaubrezou, a hezrou, a nine headed hydra, a lich, Bill the Stone Troll, Wormtongue, and some other horrible things, like that Dreadmaster.

[Billsey]

That's a "Zoo of Concentrated Death (Death by spam, lucky 13x13...)", also a lesser vault, but with *25* 8s instead of the 5 in the smaller vault. It's one of Chris Atenasio's vaults, defined in the source, along with two others, as "# Vaults designed to kill you".

[Warrior]

It's super rare to see vaults like that so shallow and it's not a problem that the guys gained a few levels, RNG keeps those situations rare enough for it not to have an impact beyond being a really great story and fun for those involved :)

[Allona]

I thought RNG was playing doom rogue like