are you playing as a secret character?Elysium wrote:I'm so annoyed right now. I'm on level 182, and there is a monster blocking the only entrance to the stair room, and he WON'T FOLLOW ME. He only comes out 2-3 spaces from the door (in a hallway) and then turns around and goes back to guarding the door. I can't actually hit him, and I don't have any way to move him, so I can't get in. Used all 6 of my scrolls of teleportation hoping it would put me in the room. I'm just at a stalemate until I run out of my 64 rations of food...
182 is the deepest I've heard of, impressive. I'm guessing the hallway leads into a catacomb, monsters often won't follow you into them. These are my suggestions:
1) find a pit trap and fall into it
2) let it hit you then it might follow you into the catacombs, especially once he is further away from the door
3) any wands of polymorph, transport, or cornucopia?
4) what kind of monster is it? if it's a vamp and you happen to have a potion of blessing, you could throw that
5) you could try a potion of confusion or blindness and see if they get confused enough to get out of the way and you can sneak past
if those don't work i'll think about other options...