In the old tavern there was a topic named “Famous Last Words”, unfortunately the archive seems to be lost.
Recently a player made a post and said, “when i found that armor that bumped me from 23AC to 42AC i felt pretty much invincible.”
I knew what would happen afterwards…
And the word invincible very much begs for starting Famous Last Words again.
Bond fans already know this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXW02XmBGQw
I remember that topic, yeah. Can’t say I remember the contents but here’s one:
As a Troll using claws at around XL 14: “I bet I can outdamage that hydra head HP Regen”
And the classic “Huh. Sigmund is wielding a scythe of distortion.”
As a Red Draconian Conjurer who blew myself up with my own Fulminant Prism (should probably make a YASD post about that one):
“Okay, this should be far enough away.”
Looking back at the morgue. 46 damage. My gosh. I guess that staff + orb of Attunement combo really works.
https://crawl.dcss.io/crawl/morgue/MacLellan/morgue-MacLellan-20260524-085739.txt
“Apparently a gateway to Pandemonium can spawn in the Orcish Mines? Don’t see anything about that in the wiki. Needless to say I think I’m gonna skip this for now. I’m feeling good about this character and don’t want them to die a horrible needless death.”
[player name] the Metallomancer (L16 GrEE of Dithmenos), mangled by a naga (a +0 glaive) on Snake:4 on 2026-05-22 13:21:11, with 126599 points after 30561 turns and 2:03:49.
Uh, did you just find my quote and dig up my morgue for my post I made here? lol.
“Ice beast is so damn strong, I’ll kill Cerebov to prove it.”
Char died soon afterwards by miscasting summon ice beast.
lately my go to seems to be “those polearms won’t be accurate enough to kill me before i manage to fight my way up to them” and then i get pincushioned
Seriously. Lost my last character in Shoals to a bunch of merpeople so I feel you.
i play melee with my little coward daggers and by the time i get into range im minced by them! of course ive learned nothing and keep doing this
If you train a bit of throwing (6 is all it takes to get mindelay on darts), poison darts can help a lot.
“Oink oink”
Last words of a player I watched - after his char was transformed into a pig by Kirke.
“Please select your species.”
“I should have…”
There’s a “famous last words” entry in the learn database which I speculate is either modeled after the tavern thread you’re thinking of or was the think you were thinking of haha. It became apparent when you mentioned the ice beast one which is #14 in this list!
https://dev.dcss.io/learndb.html#famous_last_words
- according to the wiki
- Ah well. Unwielding Distortion on a Demon Whip shouldn’t be too bad, right?
- well, rF+ is enough for zot:5 right?
- Phew. Survived Vaults1-7. Vaults8 should be not much harder
- maybe I should do tomb for the xp
- What is this ancient lich thing
- punpun: four orbs of fire says I should probably run, but I am kind of close to the orb
- surely i can kill antaeus 1v1
- Oooh, rupert has a glowin exec axe
- hm, very large slime creatures are not that impressive
- < Brickman> But if I blow all my MP on it I’ll get him eventually
- hm, can you passwall through slime walls
- <snow_> im going to try to kill this cerebov person
- summon ice beast is so damn good i’ll kill cerebov with it to prove that Elynae the Summoner (L11 HuSu), worshipper of Ashenzari, killed by miscasting Summon Ice Beast on Lair:1, with 7605 points after 18288 turns and 1:21:04.
- fancy, orc with a distortion brand on D3… good thing I follow lugoni Sorbius the Skirmisher (L3 DsAK), worshipper of Lugonu, slain by an orc (a +1,+2 orcish spiked flail of distortion) on D:3
- i thought i was the other @
- shit i’m tied to it
- i’m going to golubria onto hellion island
- 123794 | Zot:5 | This is working better than I expected…
- If there’s a wall N of you and you try to blink N, will, oh, wait, I’ve an amulet of Stasis on
- haha wow, shatter on vaults:5 is handy
- I think I am going to wear it anyway
- i wanted to do elf for MR
- it was only a few gnolls
- [17:58:52] boots of running are just ridiculously good wow | [18:00:09] copt the Bludgeoner (L14 GrFi), worshipper of Okawaru, demolished by Eamonn14’s ghost on Orc:4, with 54541 points after 20326 turns and 1:14:38.
- Elf:1 can’t be that bad, can it?
- 90% of my deaths start with me saying “wellll…”
- Akett: Alright, Slime may not be THAT bad if I just blitz the thing.
- This is a relatively tame Vaults:5.
- I could have mentioned the *Tele mutation I picked up in Abyss I suppose. But I have a lot of good mutations and it hasn’t been much of an issue so far.
- : Isn’t Abyss much safer than Pan anyway? Going to check level 5, but for now I’m just tabbing here and everything dies.
- is there any way to survive fatal poison without cure potion?
- ooh i know i should read tele, immolation then corrupt
- They won’t have time to kill me if I get into a corner of this ziglevel and put on my rCorr armour. https://imgur.com/a/dqfCW
First words
I don’t want to get my hopes up but I might have my dream character here. This feels like the character I was born to play.
Last words
Ready to take my first character ever (I’m pretty certain) to the Depths!
[player name] the Warrior (L21 HuGl of The Shining One), blasted by a quicksilver dragon (bolt of dispelling energy) on Depths:4 on 2026-06-05 01:42:26, with 333468 points after 44465 turns and 3:56:45.
Lol yep. I’ll never forget that run.
I figured I was out of one-shot range of a single, non-threatening frost giant
pblur the Slayer (L22 OnWn of Okawaru), demolished by a frost giant (a +2 battleaxe of freezing) on Depths:3 on 2025-09-03 20:42:01, with 385478 points after 52228 turns and 1:52:47.