Forum:YASD - Started with a blessed scroll of genocide, ended up surrounded by monsters
I decided to start another NetHack game as usual (chaotic female human wizard) and opened up my inventory. One of the scrolls turned out to be a blessed scroll of genocide! I pocketed that scroll and climbed down, fighting monsters and picking up useful items.
At about B4 or 5, I was killing off some monsters when a rothe appeared. I force bolted it and tried eating its corpse when... another rothe appeared! At that time I had only 1 HP left, so I whipped out that scroll and genocided all q's (good grief; on an earlier run I lost a lot of health to a mumak and died trying to complete Sokoban level 3). I retreated back to a corner, spam-engraving Elbereth to exercise my wisdom.
Fast forward to descending to B7, despite having relatively little health left. There was some other monster plus a pony. As soon as I killed the other one, I tried throwing a food ration at the pony but apparently that doesn't work. I retreated into a corridor; luckily, there was a carrot sitting around in another room so I picked it up and threw it to the pony, letting it deal with the monsters there.
The pony promptly got slain, leaving an Uruk-hai, whom I force-bolted again. I decided to search out the corridors and opened a different door to the entering room, revealing a long worm. There was still a spare Uruk-hai standing there, and I wasn't sure if I could hold against it, so I decided to take the stairs up.
I retreated into a corner at B6, not far from the stairs down to B7, and spam-engraved more Elberethes while waiting to recover HP and power. But suddenly I turned into a wererat, reducing my 42 HP down to a mere 14, as well as crushing me under all the items I held and preventing me from spamming Elberethes. I decided to wait it out, hoping that I'd turn back into a human, but a jackal made its way into the same room.
I dropped all of my belongings, save for the ring of teleport control I was wearing and clawed that jackal. Another jackal came; I slew it too.
A raven came in. I decided to pray as a last measure. It was less than 400 turns since my last prayer, but Anhur seems to have pitied me and I became human again. I tried force-bolting the raven, but ran out of power and had to resort to melee. Big mistake again.
And somehow, the spawn rates hiked.
Got confused and blind from fighting ravens, and noticed from telepathy that every room and almost every corridor was filled with monsters, many of which I definitely wasn't prepared to deal with. I kept trying to fight ravens flying into my room, but because of my confusion I couldn't hit it. Meanwhile, my HP was running out.
And that's how my hope of at least completing Sokoban died again.
