Sometimes the game is just cruel. It's a tough love sort of thing, I think. I've had a similar unlucky experience like yours, I should think. On an AoSh run I saw an armed nuke, a dozen former humans and an archvile right off the bat on level 23. I had previously used my lone homing phase device in the previous level, an arachnotron cave with 3 arachnotrons surrounding me and the exit (i was 3 tiles from the exit). I should have ran, but me and my damnable foresight! I used my two regular phase devices, but the first one brought me to a baron of hell, the second one brought me back to where I was. I tried to run, but I couldn't make it.
Mortem:
--------------------------------------------------------------
DoomRL (v.0.9.9.4) roguelike post-mortem character dump
--------------------------------------------------------------
Dwango, level 9 Cacodemon Corporal Marine,
nuked himself. on level 23 of the Phobos base.
He survived 124885 turns and scored 60464 points.
He played for 2 hours, 38 minutes and 38 seconds.
He didn't like it too rough.
He killed 547 out of 560 hellspawn. (97%)
He held his right to remain violent.
He was an Angel of Shotgunnery!
He saved himself 22 times.
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 10
Levels visited : 1
Levels completed : 1
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
Armorer Silver Badge
Skull Bronze Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
###########################################################
...====......................=X===.........................
..=====.......................====.........................
.=...=..........................===........................
.==...............==............===........................
..=............=.==............====........................
...=..........===..............=.=.........................
.......>......==.............................===...........
.............=.==...........................=.==...........
....=........====...........................===............
....=====.====.==............................====..........
.....=>====.....=..................=...........==..........
......=.==.........................==......................
....................................==.....................
....................................=......................
...................................=.=.....................
....................................=.=....................
.....................................==....................
.....................................====..................
###########################################################
-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/70 Experience 34966/9
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +0 ToDmg Ranged +2 ToDmg Melee +2
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Ironman (Level 1)
Tough as nails (Level 1)
Son of a bitch (Level 2)
Reloader (Level 2)
Badass (Level 1)
Shottyman (Level 1)
Army of the Dead (Level 1)
Iro->Bad->Rel->Rel->SM->MAD->SoB->SoB->TaN->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] nothing
[b] [ Weapon ] modified assault shotgun (8d3) [6/6] (P1)
[c] [ Boots ] Enviroboots [0]
[d] [ Prepared ] shell box (x86)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] modified double shotgun (8d3)x3 [2/2] (T1)
[b] modified green armor [1/1] (38%) (A)
[c] modified blue armor [2/2] (56%) (T)
[d] shotgun shell (x50)
[e] shotgun shell (x19)
[f] small med-pack
[g] small med-pack
[h] small med-pack
[i] large med-pack
[j] thermonuclear bomb
[k] hatred skull
[l] tactical boots [1/1] (100%)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 0% torso 0% feet 100%
Fire - internal 0% torso 0% feet 100%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
90 former humans
56 former sergeants
14 former captains
89 imps
40 demons
189 lost souls
8 cacodemons
11 barons of hell
11 hell knights
4 former commandos
18 pain elementals
6 arch-viles
6 mancubi
2 revenants
2 bruiser brothers
1 agony elemental
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 8 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
On level 9 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 15 he encountered the Phobos Hellgate.
On level 16 he found the Enviroboots!
On level 17 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
He left level 22 as soon as possible.
On level 23 he encountered an armed nuke!
On level 23 he finally nuked himself..
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You use a phase device. You feel yanked in an non-existing direction!
You use a phase device. You feel yanked in an non-existing direction! You
dodge!
You dodge! You dodge! You dodge!
The former human fires! Boom! The former human fires! The missile hits the
former human. The former human fires! You dodge! Boom!
You start running!
You dodge! You dodge! You are engulfed in flames!
You dodge! Your red armor is damaged! You dodge!
You dodge!
You are engulfed in flames! Your red armor is damaged! You dodge!
You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed. You are engulfed in
flames! Your red armor is completely destroyed! You are engulfed
in flames! You are engulfed in flames!
You are engulfed in flames! The barrel explodes! The barrel explodes! You
die!... Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
27 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
24 of those were killed.
1 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 2 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Let's hope fate will be kinder to us both in future.
[thelaptop: Please use mortem tags for mortems. Currently the button to add these are missing -- please refer to this (http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,561.0.html) to see how to add the mortem tags manually before posting.]