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OK, I'm officially "into" roguelikes, or at least Dungeon Crawl. My first character died in mere minutes, and it was during hint mode so his death was never even noted. My second guy, a minotaur berserker named Cacw, descended into the first branch, reaching the Lair after a bit over 2 hours (8,400ish turns) where he was immediately in over his head and killed by a pack of Blink Frogs that he'd waited too long to run away from. Overconfidence was his folly. Truly, a death of classical tragedy.
Cacw was followed by a hill orc monk named Kragk who accepted the dark god Beogh when a cave orc priest called out and invited him to join their religion. The once hostile cave orcs joined him in his quest until he descend another level and got into it with another band of orcs who didn't recognize him as one of their own. Kragk tried to flee their dark magic, but was struck down before he was able to regroup with his gang. Together, they might have been victorious. Alone, Kragk was no one.
Kragk's life in the dungeon was much shorter than Cacw's. I don't have the obituary in front of me, but it was minutes, not hours. I was less attached to him, but his death felt sadder, in a way. He foolishly thought all the cave orcs would be his friends, once he accepted their religion. He was an overzealous convert who didn't even realize he had joined a sectarian religious war. When the other orc magicked him to death, he was called a heretic. From zealot to heretic in an instant.
@ink_slinger My wandering mind went from that last post mentioning SCTV to Rick Moranis to imagining you narrating your roguelike experience in the style of the Keymaster