(DCSS = Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup)
Found a suspicious vault locked by crystal doors (can only be opened by the player), read a scroll of revelation to see what’s inside.
Holy shit. A storm dragon, a hell knight, a deep elf annihilator?! Even on a fully cleared floor this party will kill you outright.
Mean game.


With all the new orbs I completely forgot about the orb of mayhem to the point that I was shocked to see it in one of my recent games.
Yara’s Violent Unraveling reasons B)
To be honest, the main reason I linked to that wiki page is that I had opened it to try to find out whether orbs of mayhem are still in the game. 🙃
Would not have surprised me, if they tweaked the design a bit with 0.34 and then gave them a different name, but at the same time, well, I did just describe that they have upsides and downsides, which is how the devs like to design things…
Amusingly, mayhem is a unique orb brand because all the other brands scale heavily with evocation skill nowadays yet mayhem still has a fixed effect. But it’s the one the most likely to backfire so that makes sense.