But then you're missing potentially interesting content, and those prompts don't *always* mean instadeath--in fact, in this case I had three of them that most notably did *not* mean death. If they'd added a fourth pillar you had to inspect to raise the demon lord, with some very obvious "You really don't want to do this unless you're ready" foreshadowing text, I'd have been happier.

Incidentally, I had a separate game running on my laptop where I was trying another Alchemist run, and I cleared three out of four tier 2 dungeons and got to Daikara at level 17 before getting trapped between a nasty stone giant boss and a Thunderer. Seems lightning damage in one form or another is often what gets me!