You play well! I always die in slashem before I can find any lich.
Yes, lich is hard to hit. I looked up "lich" in the slashem bestiary
for you. The result was at
http://slashem.crash-override.net/bestiary/lich.htmlThere it says: "needs +2 weapon to hit". You need to be enchanting your
weapons. If your Excalibur was at least +2 then your attacks should
have worked.
Yep, that would have been it, it was a long time before I managed to identify the enchant weapon scroll. Unfortunately I somehow managed to get myself butted to death by a mastodon in a zoo of some sort, they hit HARD!