Archon in Vlad's tower

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As per the subject, in my last game I encountered an archon in Vlad's
tower. Quite a strange sight. According to the spoilers archons
shouldn't be randomly generated in hell. Does Vlad's tower not reside in
hell?

PS. I succesfully tamed the archon. Quite an efficient pet. Sadly he bit
the dust on the plane of fire.

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Daniel Sjöblom <dsjoblom@mbnet.fi_NOSPAM> writes:
> As per the subject, in my last game I encountered an archon in Vlad's
> tower. Quite a strange sight. According to the spoilers archons
> shouldn't be randomly generated in hell. Does Vlad's tower not reside
> in hell?

Exactly so. "The heat and smoke are gone."

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Dylan O'Donnell wrote:

> Daniel Sjöblom <dsjoblom@mbnet.fi_NOSPAM> writes:
>> As per the subject, in my last game I encountered an archon in Vlad's
>> tower. Quite a strange sight. According to the spoilers archons
>> shouldn't be randomly generated in hell. Does Vlad's tower not reside
>> in hell?
>
> Exactly so. "The heat and smoke are gone."

Perhaps Vlad has installed air conditioning and HEPA filters.

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Daniel Sjöblom wrote:

> As per the subject, in my last game I encountered an archon in Vlad's
> tower. Quite a strange sight. According to the spoilers archons
> shouldn't be randomly generated in hell. Does Vlad's tower not reside
> in hell?

You draw the correct conclusion.

Note that you may also safely pray in Vlad's Tower, and that you get the
message "The smoke and the heat are gone" when you enter it.

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can look over it. - "the Orphanage of Hits", former Dutch radio show.

 

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Dylan O'Donnell wrote:
> Daniel Sjöblom <dsjoblom@mbnet.fi_NOSPAM> writes:
>
>>As per the subject, in my last game I encountered an archon in Vlad's
>>tower. Quite a strange sight. According to the spoilers archons
>>shouldn't be randomly generated in hell. Does Vlad's tower not reside
>>in hell?
>
> Exactly so. "The heat and smoke are gone."

Ah, yes. Of course. Another thing I noticed in that game was that every
level of gehennom apparently contains exactly one minotaur. Clever

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Daniel Sjöblom <dsjoblom@mbnet.fi_NOSPAM> writes:
> Another thing I noticed in that game was that
> every level of gehennom apparently contains exactly one
> minotaur. Clever

Each maze level (not just those in Gehennom) will contain between zero
and two minotaurs, in fact. Of course, this doesn't contradict your
statement with regard to your particular game.

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: "You boil it in sawdust: you salt it in glue: / You condense it with :
: locusts and tape: / Still keeping one principal object in view -- / :
: To preserve its symmetrical shape." [ Lewis Carroll, "THotS" ] :

 

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begin quoting Dylan O'Donnell <psmith@spod-central.org>:
>Daniel Sjöblom <dsjoblom@mbnet.fi_NOSPAM> writes:
>>Another thing I noticed in that game was that
>>every level of gehennom apparently contains exactly one
>>minotaur. Clever
>Each maze level (not just those in Gehennom) will contain between zero
>and two minotaurs, in fact.

And, if you're lucky, two free heaps of wizard bones.

Sorry. I'm still a bit smug about finding a second such pile purely by gut
feel in the tournament - found one heap on the level, and something tipped
me off to the utility of further searching.
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