Forum:Boulder on down stairs ... in a corner...
In an early game I have found what is possibly an impossible situation. Hope someone can help with ideas.
My ranger character has only been to the second level... there was an altar on the first level so when she found some elven mithril armour on level 2 she popped upstairs (leaving dog behind) to quickly check whether it was ok to wear.
However, in her excitement to make her way back to the altar, she accidentally pushed a boulder over the down staircase, which is in the corner of a room. So it's stuck. (She thought actually that it would just roll down the stairs, but it did not and is now blocking her way off level 1.)
Being a starting character, she's got no obvious way of dealing with this situation. Other than ranger starting equipment plus uncursed elven mithril, she's got 4 unknown potions, 4 unknown scrolls, a cursed unknown ring, a spellbook of healing (and knows the spell but has no chance of success as yet), and having been lucky finding food has 6 cram rations, 3 food rations and a tripe ration. Definitely no spell of force bolt or wand of striking, and definitely no means of digging or polymorphing into a giant.
Since food is plentiful and she's got the altar, her first thought is not to worry too much and camp at the altar for a while. The tripe can be saved to re-tame the dog when the time comes.
But that still leaves the question of how to get downstairs eventually without having to leave all inventory behind...
Ideas welcome please!!!!
