Forum:Lost bell of opening
After killing The Dark One, I stashed the Bell of Opening on the Sokoban entry level under a boulder. There was also a locked chest (my primary stash) and a cursed item under the boulder. When I went to add the Candelabrum of Invocation to the same place, the Bell was not there.
I had a stupid moment at some point (cannot remember exactly when) when opening the stash chest (or something like that). I typo-ed an “apply” selection getting a wand of digging and then (stupidly) ignored the usual warning and broke it. I extracted the chest contents, relocated them, remove the chest from the pit, relocated it and refilled it. I think I also moved the other stuff in that pit to the new stash location. Then I used an uncursed scroll of earth to create boulders used to cover the new stash and fill most of the pits.
When I realized much later the Bell was missing, I used the “detect treasure” spell to see if I had accidentally buried the Bell. No sign. I dug up the hexes where I filled the bits from the digging wand destruction anyway. No Bell. Since then, I have searched for the Bell on every level down to the Valley of the Dead plus down/up all branches above that point. No Bell. I used up a wand of probing checking as many peacefuls as I could along the way.
The Bell is supposedly indestructible. Could the digging wand explosion have destroyed it anyway? Could I have accidentally buried it on the Sokoban entry level and be unable to detect it or find it by digging?
I have a very good human neutral Wizard game in progress and do not want to quit it. Do I need to keep searching down (and back up Vlad’s Tower) until it is the point where I need to do the Invocation and can’t? Can I find the game state files and somehow learn the Bell’s status/location from them. Or am I simply screwed?
JohnRDelaney (talk) 02:25, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
