Memory Lapse

I just launched Nethack again, took a look at my inventory, ate some food, then proceeded down the stairs that were next to me.

Words are burned into the floor..... uh oh.

This is deadly bones level you better run..... oh, crap.

It touches you.  You are covered in frost.  You die.

Not again.... sigh..... I just hope this bones level is gone forever.

ARE YOU %$@&* KIDDING ME?!!?

Really, Nethack?  Really?!!?  I mean, I understand last game.  Sometimes you have a little fun and rough us up a little.  It's fun for you.  We get it.  But to throw the same invisible Arch-Lich at me in two consecutive games is like shelling out $60 so that Peter Molyneux can savage me repeatedly.

Well, at least I got to capture the "deadly bones" message.  Plus, I'm not dead but I have no idea how I'm going to get past this.  Maybe the Gnomish mines entrance is accessible.  If it's not, I'm boned.

Some Days.....

Some days this game has it in for me.  I'm only playing as tourists now, so any significant success in the game gets my enthusiasm up.  This game, it seems like the game was toying with me.

First off, I found an artifact weapon in a weapon shop on level 2.  Magicbane?  Mjollnir?  Frostbrand?  No, Trollsbane.  Yay.

Next, I find another artifact on a corpse.  Firebrand?  Vorpal Blade?  No, Cleaver.  Double yay.

I cleared out the Gnomish Mines shop level without finding anything of note and ascended back to the Dungeons of Doom.  One level down, and what do I get?  Something about burning bones and I'd better run.  What?  I don't remember any message like that before.... One step into the room and suddenly there's an invisible Arch-Lich using touch of death on me.  Then there are two.  Then I am dead.

Could I have escaped?  Perhaps.  I might have had a wand of digging, come to think about it.  Meh.  This game had it out for me this time.  Time to start over.

This Will Make a Great Picture

Wandering down the hall as a tourist.....  suddenly, an Owlbear jumps out and grabs me!

"You are being crushed."  I know I have only a few turns left before dywypi.  I check my inventory for possible life-saving-ness.  Camera!  Could it work?

a. apply what?  an expensive camera.  Direction?  Right at the stinking owlbear.

Next turn the owlbear is nowhere to be seen.  Blinded by the flash, he wandered off into the darkness.  I found him later in another room and fed him +2 darts until he died.