Hahaha, that was fun. Died within minutes, after picking up some gold. How many others did the same mistake, despite the lovely chap's ominous warning?

Nothing initially. But when I went down the other ladder, all my health ran away and I died. Was fun though =)

I'm too used to being a loot-whore in RPGs :p

I fell for this twice, first time I played the demo and the second time I began play a few months back. Explore as much as possible, it's a great game. :)

I could just tell that this was going to be the game's way of telling you that you ought be cautious, but I decided to take the gold anyways just to see what would happen. I did notice before I died that the gold hadn't been added to my counter, but to my inventory as individual stacks, but I didn't have time to drop it all before it killed me. Pretty sure that that would've saved me had I been quicker. :3c