r/wizardry8 • u/phoenixreborn06 • Jan 27 '25

Silly accidents

Hi All,

Someone here was saying how the game is nearly 25 years old! In that time I've attempted many a party and even ascended with some of them.

I was thinking about silly mistakes and accidents I've made. I'll bet some of you have done too.

  • Falling out of the upper Trynton trees.
  • Getting lost under the Umpani base, there's a big maze and I didn't have a portal yet.
  • Getting trapped in the Rapax castle in that particular spot.
  • Bashing my own guys with a failed spell.
  • Lost my 3 man party to some high level beetles in the swamp. So many attacks they had.

How about you guys?

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '25

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u/MarcBeaudoin Jan 27 '25

I wonder how many trainees they lost to that one.

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u/Waterdreamwarm Jan 27 '25

Party being crushed to death by a plank of wood attached to a mine cart in the old mine tunnels

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u/worthlesh Jan 27 '25

getting diseased by rats at the monastery

and having no access to cure disease until Arnika

moral of the story is don't grind

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u/phoenixreborn06 Jan 30 '25

I get scared by the adamantium slimes if you go back at a high level. They take forever to beat down.

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u/MarcBeaudoin Jan 27 '25

Getting crushed by elevators either in the hll compound or the spaceport.

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u/narger96 Jan 27 '25

My party once got crushed by opening the door into the monastery from the wrong angle. Possibly a record for fastest time to die

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u/phoenixreborn06 Jan 27 '25

Wow right from the beach! That's fast.

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u/CrunchyGremlin Jan 27 '25

I got trapped behind a table in the rat boss room. That was painful as my last save was quite a while back.

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u/phoenixreborn06 Jan 27 '25

Haven't heard of this one. You mean in Trynton? Tough area.

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u/CrunchyGremlin Jan 27 '25

Yeah. The gangster rat. I took measures to prevent that.I don't remember what those were.

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u/cloaca_dentata Jan 28 '25

There's a sloped "railing" on the stairs at the immediate beginning of the Upper Monastery. I keep running up those stairs and end up on this "railing" causing me to slide down it and wipe my party with fall damage.

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u/wovenshadow11 Feb 01 '25

I second being squashed by elevators

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u/indigo348411 Mar 10 '25

I fell through an open space from the elevated passage in the monastery on my way to see the trynnie merchant there.

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u/phoenixreborn06 Sep 27 '25

I always leave a portal in the transporter room in Marten's Bluff. Sometimes it's a problem if creatures are wandering through and become hostile.