Deathticles [Hank's Gallery of Immortals]

We started to play Diablo 2 again by making hardcore characters.  In hardcore, you can’t play the character again if you die…and it’s too easy to die.  After playing a character for a few days, collecting items and meticulously planning skill points – when you die, it sucks.  Hours and hours spent working on a character amounted to nothing but that little picture above this paragraph in your character select screen.  It’s not even a good picture.  It should show him with a big keg and Jesus high-fiving him in Diablo Heaven.  No, it doesn’t do that.  So, I give you Hank’s Gallery of Immortals, a series of posts that commemorates the characters that have given the ultimate sacrifice while trying to keep me and my friends entertained.

Deathticles was a good guy…let me tell you.  He didn’t loot SHIT.  Imagine playing with a guy who helped you kill things but didn’t take any of the loot?  Like a Zen Pirate.  He was going to be a summoner Necromancer and had 9 skeletons at his disposal at the time of his death.

He died in Act III in the jungle.  He was just standing there minding his own business (while the skeles did their business) when one of those Shamans that shoot a stream a fire came up and killed him within milliseconds.  He went from living and being cool to DEAD…INSTANTLY.  Sure, he was pretty young…and he was the first death, but it still stings a little inside when something like that happens.  Next time, he should have Bone Armor up all the time or I don’t know, stay away from monsters when he doesn’t melee them anyway.

It’s possible he was in a drunken stupor, though…that’s all he did.  He didn’t loot, he didn’t melee (, he didn’t cast bone armor…), he didn’t sell.  It all makes sense now.  Maybe a busy character won’t die as much.

Well, Deathticles, this bud’s for you.