A matter of ethics?

[memnus]

So I was standing in a pool of water, hitpoints rapidly diminishing to single digits from poison, when it became time to start quaffing the un-ID'd potions.

*** LOW HITPOINT WARNING! *** <20x>
There are no more Stinking Potions {tried}.
*** LOW HITPOINT WARNING! ***
error: attempt to call global `res_pois_lvel' (a nil value)   <string " ident=res_pois_lvel() ~= 0 and inc_poiso...": line 1>
Script for object: Metallic Purple Potion of Poison filed.
There are no more Metallic Purple Potions of Poison.
*** LOW HITPOINT WARNING! ***
You feel yourself moving slower!
There are no more Violet Potions of Slowness.
*** LOW HITPOINT WARNING! *** <3x>
The potion makes you vomit!
You are getting faint from hunger!
You are no longer poisoned.
error: attempt to call global `inc_paralyzed' (a nil value)   <string " msgf("the potion makes you vomit!") if pla...": line 1>
Script for object: Grey Potion of Salt Water failed.
There are no more Grey Potions of Salt Water.

Final hit point total: 4. Would killing this character off be the ethical thing to do? I got lucky and have made it to level 12, mostly because of some out-of-depth Giant Grey Rats when I was getting started... My biggest beef with Zangband so far is the difficulty of getting going (at least for magic users). You start with two SP, maybe three if you're lucky, can't swing a dagger for crap, and the stores are usually flat out of rounded pebbles, never mind arrows. Stepping out of the town is, of course, instant death.

Starting the book tonight, grading is done and tomorrow's a holiday. Perfect.

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Comments

[derakon.livejournal.com]

I would personally keep playing the character, but I wouldn't submit it to any high-score lists. After all, I'm playing to have fun, and if I felt that getting mages started was too damned hard, then I wouldn't throw away a character that was actually starting to look viable.

But then again, I also remove lice and AI_ANNOY from ToME.