ToME WikiMayLith: So Kaerracred, my RANDOMCOMP1 character, has just cleared Orc Town and gone on to Moria 36. I had been going to recall (pack full), but there was a superb feeling, so I poked around a bit. Sure enough, there's a troll pit.... easy XP and piety, plus a chance at decent loot, so I stick around.
I sectioned off the area with 'dunna hrassa' (which is rapidly becoming a favorite for me; I'm a long time user of 'ure nimir', but never bothered with dunna before), and went to town with my 3-piece rod of Gondolin.
About halfway through clearing the pit, I'm in the corridor around the pit. I successfully disarm one trap, then trip another trap...
- You set off the unknown trap!
- You notice something falling off the trap.
- You hear a noise, and then its echo.
- You have no room for a Broad Sword (3d5).
ID....
- On the ground: The Broad Sword 'Aranruth' (3d5) (+20,+12) (+4).
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's a crying shame she's a Haftedmaster.... but still... how's that for luck?!!!
(Btw, for those who don't know... that was a Trap of Acquirement. And apparently, after it triggered, it reset itself into a different kind of trap, because after I triggered it it turned into a broken daggers trap.)
BurbLulls: "Well, that's weapons sorted out for the rest of the game; who's up for a sandwich?" Woo! And all I find are piety drainers... my brand of luck is finding un-egoed equipment early in the Barrow-Downs that's way deeper; one character started with a scythe and mithril plate mail.
VelKrov: I found a Dragon Scale Mail in the Barrow-Downs. Is that normal (I mean possible)? I would have thought the possibility of finding one at so low a dungeon depth is zero.
SimonSorc: assuming normal luck, you can get a level 70 item at dungeon level 1. It's a 1-in-70 chance for an out of depth item. So you can get one of the later maces even at level 1, but if not a fixed artifact the (+X,+Y) bonus will be lower.
Out of depth items are cool. Extremely out of depth items may be ultra-super-megacombo-hyper-cool unless they don't fit your class or they simply get a nasty ego.
GreyCat: One of my hobbit characters (who seems to have a really high natural luck bonus, because he's always finding ego items) got this piece:
an Elemental Broken Dagger of the Thunderlords (1d1) (+5,+6) (+2 to searching) Acid, electricity, fire and frost brands. Poisons. Xdragon, slay evil. Free action. Resist acid, electricity, fire, cold, poison, nether and nexus. Fly. Sense dragons. Slow digestion. Regeneration. Drains mana. Induces random teleportation. Cannot be harmed by acid, cold, lightning, or fire. You found it in the remains of a Cave orc on level 9 of Barrow-Downs.
"You shoulda seen it before it got broken!" 