So, I wanted to knock off a quick vicious run before I went to bed and, seeing the PQI asking me to do Gorgon Warmonger in Vicious Steel (NOPE), I figured I might just do the gorgon victory for that dungeon (still dreading the Vampire one...). Went with the traditional Binlor + Dragonshield Gorgon cheese (hey, it's 4:00am, I don't feel like straining myself too much here
), got a fantastic Pactmaker early so I was settled for resists via Body Pact, and to top it off I got a platemail in the shop, Dwarven Gaunltes a bit later, and the gold-filled secret subdungeon. I guess I got a bit careless, because while The Indomitable fell pathetically quickly and got me close to level 7, I was running low on blackspace and piety. I figured I ought to ding to 7 to refill after getting one shot off BlahBlah, so I get to munching popcorn, and I realize that I still have the Platemail on so I'm getting debuffs from illusions and triggering body pact.I decide I should keep it for BlahBlah, set my Piety to 10 exactly, kill one last popcorn...
*Binlor does not forgive those who fall behind! May your obstacles strike you with full force!*Yeah, even though I had clearly noticed that my popcorn was triggering body pact, I somehow didn't register that it would trigger before the level up penalty. I was left with 5 magic resistance, completely unable to tank a hit from BlahBlah and little means to generate more piety. And that's when I decided it was time to go to bed!
(It's not imposible that the run was still winnable by a tiny margin, but I certainly didn't have enough brainpower left to attempt it!)