So back at University a friend of mine had NetHack (3.0) and a lot of us played in it. I had a game where I simultaneously had the incredible luck to have my dog get polymorphed into a Xorn and then the bad luck to leave a bones file.
Quite a lot of people got wiped out by a pet Xorn.
Did your old xorn end up as part of their bones files, too?
I feel like I've seen this online at some point, where there were lots of ghosts because they were all getting killed by the same thing and then accumulating in new bones files.
Yeah, it was on a level where it was simultaneously quite deep but not deep enough that you stood a chance when it came through the walls (you didn’t exactly get much warning you were on a bones level).
But yes, quite a few people have experienced this by now.
Quite a lot of people got wiped out by a pet Xorn.