Hehe, Elona does have a few fun ways to mess with you. One of the most memorable for me was my first char, a dwarf warrior. I had already learned that wells hated me, and would only nick my stats or mutate me. So I just stopped drinking from them altogether. Well the game still screwed me with a well...
I had just returned after a grueling ordeal in the puppy cave... well it wasn't that hard, but getting the puppy out alive was the problematic part. Anyways I was walking triumphantly up to the kids house with his puppy and my lil girl following close behind me. As I was walking through town just mere steps from the kids house, my lil girl decided to drink from the well near his house. And out pops a bunch of monsters, Vanity of course sees them, and charges them. He promptly smites all of them which in turn brings forth the end of days... you can guess what happens from there.
That was the end of my first char as I turned Elona off in disgust and watched tv for awhile. Would come back later that night, and roll up a new char though. I now also, empty out all wells by dipping empty bottles into them.