YASD - third death in the same place

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Kamen wrote:
> I hate wereloves. My 4th rogue now bit the dust, and he's the second
> that's killed by the same pack of wolves in a bones file in Minetown.
> Funny thing is, this is my 3rd character to be killed there, the
first
> one by an angered cross-aligned priest. The second was killed by a
> werewolf that summoned help twice and filled the level with wolves.
>
> Now, that bones pile contains an obscene amount of dwarvish armor and
> daggers, plus a pair of +1 speed boots (randomly generated), and
amulet
> of reflection (from Sokoban) and an amulet of ESP (random). There is
> also a lot of uncursed equipment, because the last rogue dropped his
> sack somewhere near the stairs.
>
> Rogues are fun to play, but are too fragile before you load them with
> mithril, dwarvish shield and any other armor you can find. So, the
next
> Rogue that stumbles on that bones file is dead, unless he has
negative
> AC and is expert in dagger. OK, time to start another Rogue...
>
> --
> Kamen K.

Although with fighter classes I normally do the mines then sokoban, in
this case I would do sokaban first then, with a nice stack of daggers
(pref enchanted), and some hand wands (teleport, digging are the 2 best
ones for escape), Id try and take them from a distance, and if things
got too much use one of the wands to escape, heal up, and try again.