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!!!!
--- Elenmirie (talk) 14:48, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
- If you get your inventory down low enough (i.e. drop anything heavy, especially armour), you can squeeze onto the square of the boulder. That'll let you continue the game, and with any luck you could find something that broke the boulder and reclaim your items that way.
- Alternatively, sometimes you can knock items downstairs via throwing other items at them. I'm not sure if you can knock a boulder downstairs that way, but if you can, that might be an alternative solution to the problem.
- I'd suggest that your best option is to throw most of your items onto the square with the boulder; even if the boulder doesn't fall, your items will. Then you can squeeze onto the boulder square, go downstairs, and pick your fallen items up. Ais523 (talk) 14:56, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
- You have some gold, don't you? It's hard to run out of coins. Throw individual gold pieces t1$ onto the boulder to knock it down the stairs. This works only if the gold pieces hit the boulder instead of the wall behind it. So test how far you can throw. E.g. if you can throw a coin 4 tiles, then stand exactly 4 tiles from the boulder. You might want to plan ahead in case the boulder falls down and blocks the upstairs. --Tjr (talk) 20:44, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
