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DoomRL => Mortem Archives => Post Mortem => Pre-0.9.9 => Topic started by: 007bistromath on May 31, 2008, 15:24

Title: What a Man Can Do With a Knife: The Post Mortem that Never Was
Post by: 007bistromath on May 31, 2008, 15:24

Until literally 30 seconds ago, I was doing an AoB run. I had accidentally skipped the Chained Court.

By dint of dumb luck and unprecedented acts of cowardice tactical prowess, I made it to Hell.

I thought it was all over when I saw this.

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 Guts Man                   Armor : red armor [4/4] (100%)                     
 Health: 73%  Exp:  5/44%   Weapon: combat knife (2d5)                         
 cautious                                                    Phobos Hell  Lev7 
Note the stairs, then note the arch-vile.

Result: I stabbed an arch-vile to death. Later, (as I was attempting to write this very post, actually) I was here.

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Run - direction...                                                             
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 Guts Man                   Armor : blue armor [2/2] (100%)                     
 Health: 2%   Exp:  5/64%   Weapon: combat knife (2d5)                         
 tired                                                       Phobos Arena       
I arrived here with several sets of armor, one large medpack, three phase devices, and the knife that had brought me all this way. Dodging between the Cyberdemon's rockets, I met him toe to toe. Long story short, I'm behind the red block, with just the armor on my back, 2% health, and my quarry just three steps away.

There is a weird AI bug. I sat behind that block and I waited. And waited. And waited. He just sat there, mooing at me. I moved around behind the block a little bit. I could hear him stomping around, matching my steps, but he made no move to close the distance. He just. Kept. Mooing. MOOOOOOOOOO

Just as I was steeling my resolve for the final descent into oblivion, a severe thunderstorm restarted my computer.

The Random Number God giveth, and he taketh away. The powers that be chose not to show us this brave marine's final fate, but whatever it was, let it be known: he had Guts.

Title: Re: What a Man Can Do With a Knife: The Post Mortem that Never Was
Post by: Potman on May 31, 2008, 23:44

Wow, that's nice. But why didn't you go to Unholy Cathedral?

Title: Re: What a Man Can Do With a Knife: The Post Mortem that Never Was
Post by: 007bistromath on June 01, 2008, 00:33

I don't think I ever found the stairs for it, due to the aforementioned boundless cowardice. If I had, I probably still wouldn't have gone in, since I've never survived that with a chainsaw, three sets of armor, a stack of meds, and all the traits I need. I've only been in there at all once.

I mean, I know that I had no chance of winning without the LS, but that was hardly the point, since I was going to die anyway no matter what. I just wanted to be able to say that I knifed Cybie.