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.