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vogonpoet
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Posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 04:25 (GMT -5)

Man you guys are killing me with curiosity. Harsh indeed.


My own attempts at a limited turn / relatively but not relativistic speed game have been abysmal (I would be more than happy to get in under 60000 turns and/or 90 day limit to be honest):

lots (20? 30?) of elves went to fairly quick deaths, gnomes doing a bit better.

Current gnome getting screwed by RNG into becoming somebody else:
1/ surge of power on Si level gave her the dwarven pickaxe, making mining for knowledge dreadfully tempting.
2/ Four spellbooks in Waldenbrooks, two invisiblity, one strength atlas. Awesome shopping. Fourth book, Wish. Oh my god, Wish. Am on book caster line already, so now trying Archmage attempt becomes horrendously tempting, with trip to library and maybe BDC scum.
3/ Found WoW with one charge in DH2, so saved Kelly for tele book, and now attempt for my first ever Ultra ending tempting too.

Currently at top of pyramid at around 16000 turns (was in ID for ages and ages before first spellbook of Tele and Telecontrol), with one more wish, not sure what to do about temptations.

If I wish for spellbooks of Acid Ball, now I have my second Telebook, I guess my Gnome could still come in under 60000 turns (still no magic map), but, but, but Wish......

I hate dilemmas
Darren Grey
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Posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 04:43 (GMT -5)

Man, that is one dilemna and a half. I'd say go for an ultra if you've not had one before - they're quite fun. Archmage ain't worth it though. If you want to continue with the speedrun then acid ball would certainly ensure a very quick progress through the game.
Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse."
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Posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 17:32 (GMT -5)

Back to the turn bug for a second.

> Oh, and thinking about it you can get out of
> the Chain with 2 turns on the clock actually.

The turn bug will go into negative numbers, even
though it is not reflected on the dynamic display.
You can leave the chain with 0 turns on the meter.



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GiantFrog
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Posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 23:21 (GMT -5)

OK, either tell me what this turn bug is or stop talking about it.

On second thought, don't tell me.
You pick up the worn boots.
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Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 05:47 (GMT -5)

Okay, we are talking about the same bug after all. Thanks, Darren!
You drop the golden ball.
You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west.
Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?"
Which direction? (123456789) 4
Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated.
You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd!
Darren Grey
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Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 06:23 (GMT -5)

Hmm, I'll have to see if you get even more of a points bonus by making the turn counter negative when leaving... If so then I guess the score can go infinitely high (rather than just the 80m bonus you could get otherwise). (this is, of course, merely from the point of morbid curiosity)

I've been thinking in terms of xp, which is the other big influence on the score. Greater balors give a huge amount of xp, and supposedly chaotics praying on ChAoS will have greater balors summoned to attack them. Anyone ever tried this? If say 10 greater balors are summoned, and they give 5mil xp each, and you slow yourself before the final acid ball... you could be talking 100 million xp or more. That's around 30 million points. If you kept doing that you could get loads of points. Perhaps a tad risky though...
Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse."
Silfir
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Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 09:03 (GMT -5)

Quite a tad risky indeed.
You drop the golden ball.
You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west.
Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?"
Which direction? (123456789) 4
Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated.
You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd!
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Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 13:02 (GMT -5)

I think I remember reading on rgra, that the
balor summoning trick only works if your diety
is chaotic.

It is close to a death wish for a wizard in this
challenge to get surrounded by balors, at least
for most of my PC's anyway. To have GREATER
balors whacking at you would be suicide.


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Darren Grey
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Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 13:29 (GMT -5)

My guy did okay :P But yeah, perhaps not the best idea, especially trying it whilst slowed. What I was mostly pondering though is the trade-off between gaining huge amounts of xp and finishing the game quickly. Perhaps it's more profitable points-wise to make a perfect character and gain huge amounts of experience from greater balors on D50. Also, it'd be fun :)

Of course I'm not too fussed about points really - finishing the game in the shortest turns possible is a much more exciting challenge - but it's interesting to think about.
Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse."
vogonpoet
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Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 at 15:32 (GMT -5)

<<<Long post - if too boring, scroll down to bottom, I have some questions.>>>

I suck so badly at this game sometimes *shakes head*.

After descending from the pyramid, I decided to leave my Gnome's options open a while longer, and using Invis and teleports, did the Griffyard, and raided Darkforge, taking a few semi-risky levels on the way, with the aid of a few lightning balls. I then sorted my stuff (nothing too amazing, although eternium plate of balance kinda cool for a gnome), and retrieved the RotHK, taking time out to bolt to death loads (32) of cyclopses on the bottom cavernous level, and thus gained another level.

I then decided to do a 'naked' artifact /higher metal only bloated exploration of the Tower, so I dropped my stuff off at the CoC entrance. I take a bit of a pounding (wielding Nonnak's sword rather than two shields) until I gain another few levels.

I get to penultimate level, and oh my, another Surge of Power. Two in one game == rare. Hell, one is pretty unusual. I can hear "Hrumpfh!", so I recast a few more Invis spells, and carefully explore my hot environment.

Turns out there is Monrot / Bonkat / Mentat or sometime (I really should remember to write the names down for these reports) the named Dorn Beast. Cool. I bolt him with lightning and magic missile, and the occasional Frost if the fire beasties are standing in line, and eventually he moves, and I dance around him to pick up ...

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Protector.

OMG. I have never had this shield before. Awesome.
I spend loads of turns bolting him to death, and then decide to nip up and scout the final level, whilst putting my dwarven axe to good use with some tunneling.

And here I make my ridiculous mistake.
(I am totally planning to come back later remember, with some healing potions and blankets, and cursed PoI etc etc etc -no decent wands found though sadly).

The MiStAkE:
I dug myself a straight tunnel.
A non-bent, distinctly lacking in pixelated curves, straight tunnel.

Oblivious to my error, I wake up the elementals (a few levels always welcome of course), and decide to wake up Wyrm before heading back for my gear.

WTF???

(((I guess Protector had gone to my head - it certainly made me think I could now achieve my desired relatively fast victory (remember, my last winner was that stupid trollish salesperson who took 2.5 years of game time)...)))

So I speet een hees general direckshun, and suddenly come to my senses when he starts attacking my mind. I have no healing apart from CureCritW at all, and have sword, shield, ankh and axe to keep me company, along with two eternium double handers I picked up in the tower.

Its ok, I say to myself, I can run away.
Then I realise the shape of my tunnel. Then I realise I just killed the only bloody monsters nearby apart from the Wyrm who can see me, and no random *foo* is coming to my aid to shield me in my brilliant corridor.

I end up resorting to kicking an fire elemental (funny the habits dual wielding shields builds up over time) as I sprint for my tunnel. As it is, the Wyrm hits me with his bolt once, I pray, he hits me again, I run, he hits me again, I pray, he hits me again, I run, I finally get the elemental in between me and the Wyrm. I run, but at some point the elemental critically hits me, oh thanks dude, and I pray again. I did sack big punch earlier, so I guess I got lucky.

I can't outrun the elemental down my corridor, but if I frostify him the Wyrm toasts me.

I start sending stun-rays down the corridor, the elemental blocks them, but eventually the fat W bastard kops a load (I kinda love stun ray at times like these).

So the W no longer chasing, I frostify the E. I alternate casts of CureCrit a few times with more stun rays, and consider my options. I alternate with frost and stun ray, but staggering W keeps shrugging them off. Grr. To flea whilst the dude is staggering seems so sensible. Screw it.

I now advance towards W again (call me dumb), stunning and running, so to speak. Once standing next to him (not had time to Moss my Will+nonnak above 30 even) I start acid balling him (one book read to death early, not used that wish yet). He staggers, I acid ball acid ball stun and recycle. He stumbles into me, I pick up first corruption. He stumbles into me, I get critically hit to 10HP. Damn. I pray AGAIN (my god must be pretty pissed off by now I reckon), he hits me again, I cast CureCritW, I acid ball him, he hits me, I acid ball him, The Wyrm goes down.

Oh yeah baby, Rgggggg reaches level 22. And has just 40HP. And some grue is standing on the bloody wyrm corpse and orb, who manages to bring me back down to single figure health points. Frostify and hope, or CureCritW and hope? I chose latter, and get lucky once again, so to cut long story short, I frostify the few other mobs in my stupid straight corridor, pick up orb, and manage to leave top level invisible, with 16/205HP and 4/330 PP. I then check what corruption I got, its bulging cranium, I didnt notice my Wi rise above 32 half way through my fight with Wyrm. Oops. Nevermind, BC is like the best corruption a speed wizard could hope for really.

So now I am one lucky bastard standing at top of the CoC, at 25000 turns, on the 49th day, having retrieved Fire orb before Water orb for my first time.

Just one slight problem - really low on offensive spells:

 Acid Ball           :   147,  21pp     (Effectivity: +4)
   Bless               :   990,   4pp     (Effectivity: +6)
   Burning Hands       :   241,   4pp     (Effectivity: +22)
   Cure Critical Wounds:   635,   9pp     (Effectivity: +3)
   Cure Light Wounds   :   475,   3pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Darkness            :  1310,   3pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Fire Bolt           :   174,   5pp     (Effectivity: +17)
   Frost Bolt          :   299,   6pp     (Effectivity: +19)
   Identify            :   204,  45pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Improved Fireball   :   334,  18pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Invisibility        :   572,   5pp     (Effectivity: +11)
   Know Alignment      :   999,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Light               :  1291,   1pp     (Effectivity: +5)
   Lightning Ball      :   136,  17pp     (Effectivity: +5)
   Lightning Bolt      :   171,   6pp     (Effectivity: +21)
   Magic Missile       :   201,   4pp     (Effectivity: +22)
   Remove Curse        :   242,  30pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Slow Poison         :   612,   4pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Strength of Atlas   :  1188,   6pp     (Effectivity: +4)
   Stun Ray            :   916,   4pp     (Effectivity: +6)
   Summon Monsters     :   786,  18pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Teleportation       :   559,  13pp     (Effectivity: +7)



How many books does wish for 'spellbooks of Acid Ball' give? More than one?

FantomFang
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Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 at 16:03 (GMT -5)

I gotta say, that was pretty awesome. And if you manage to win the game, you can always reinvision this escapade as the epic heroic power of Rggggg!
Going for 2nd win
Darren Grey
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Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 at 16:03 (GMT -5)

Hah, that's some dramatic action all right. Well done on managing to get out alive. Be sure to thank your god appropriately though - you wanna be sure to have so many prayers again in future.

A wish for spellbooks of acid ball gets you 2-4 - normally 3. I'd suggest reading 2 of them to death whilst wearing the crown of science and keep the last for later in case you need it. Should get your knowledge well over 1000, and with a true speedrun that'd last you more than one game. You should hope to find more bolt spellbooks though.
Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse."
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Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 at 23:11 (GMT -5)

Pretty cool. I have not tried many castings
of stun ray on the ACW. I have tried a few,
but he shrugged them off easily. Maybe next
time through, I will be more persistant : )
Stun ray is certainly more easily aquired
than paralyzation, and it can be stored in
memory to boot!

The ACW is a BIG hurdle to get past in a
turns challenge game. You have a high
probability of finishing the game now. The
next really dangerous parts should be the
Archmage, and D:50. How is kitty karma?

> Just one slight problem - really low on
> offensive spells:

With the Fire Orb, the casino is not far
away. If you can make do until then, the
gift shop should solve all of your spell
needs. If not, then consider your wishing
options.

You have limited castings, but you have
many different spells. I think over 800
castings alltogether. I advise saving
your fire bolts and burning hands for
the Water Temple. If you don't want to
cross the water, remember you can wake
the Snake with a diagonal lightning bolt
from the outside.


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vogonpoet
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Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 03:15 (GMT -5)

Wake the Snake up with a diagonal lightning bolt? I don't think so - I cast my bolts 5 or 6 times, and the guy just wasn't coming out to play. I tiptoe round the corner to investigate, poor fellow was already dead. What a shame

On other news, Rggggg is also dead, due to my extremely poor Casino-fu. Death by shopkeeper <sigh>.

Will keep trying with gnomes though, they rule.

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Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 04:10 (GMT -5)

In my present game I was also unable to lure
the Snake across the water with bouncing bolts.
I have had success with doing that in the past
though.

Did you employ darkness for your fight with the
shopkeeper?



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Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 04:11 (GMT -5)

Here I go again! My latest attempt at the turns challenge.
Knizzurd started out with no particularly good stats. I
didn't really intend to play him at all, when I generated
him, I was really just wanting to check something out. He
started with a spellbook of teleport though, so I played
him.

I got the blanket from the SMC, some exp. levels in the
BUGWIL, and a BD corpse from the ID. I raided DF and
found some really valuable items, I had trouble lugging
them around because my ST was 12 at the time. I had to
leave some behind, but it was still a nice haul.

I found another spellbook of teleport on D:2. Very few
cooked lizards on the arena level. Unfortunately, there
were no morgia or moss patches in the big room of the
CoC. That really hurt, I had to do the Griffyard with To
at 10. To make matters worse, I generated no 'revitalizing'
undead corpses there, so had to do the pyramid with the
same 10 To points. I had the invisibility and darkness
spells, and they helped a lot. I wound up having no close
calls, but it was kind of scary going in to the pyramid
with 55 HP's.

I did the TotHK after the pyramid. Since I had invisibility,
the skeletal king was easily bolted to death. Along the
way, I found a spellbook of lightning ball. I decided to
take a big gamble, I went back to Darkforge. Luck was with
me, and I was never critically hit by the golems.

After getting a few exp. levels in DF, I dived through the
CoC to get the Water Orb. On D:11 there was a single patch
of morgia/pepper. Also, there was a nice surprise waiting for
me on D:12, a book shop. I had a difficult decision to make,
buy it out, or loot it. I decided to loot it. I used both
darkness and ventriliquism, to avoid the summoned thugs and
the 'cursed' intrinsic. I gained many valuable books, including
two acid ball books. I was able to save my cash for a possible
early crowning. I just have to remember there is a hostile
shopkeeper on D:12 now : )

I read the books while on D:11, where I was able to harvest
herbs and learn spells at the same time. I didn't want to
spend too many turns doing that, so I gathered about 25 morgia
and left. I then found a REALLY LARGE bee hive just before the
Water Temple. I can not believe how many turns I spent, trying
to get that stupid lump of bees wax. I kicked and kicked and
kicked my little heart out! I had to bolt my way through 82!
giant bee warriors with 0 PP's. Made worse by the fact that
I only had ~75 HP's to cast out of. Ugh! To make matters
absolutely embarassing, there was only one lump of bees wax
generated, and I accidentally ate it. The morgia was right
next to the wax, one slip of the finger and goodbye wax. I'll
just hope for more : (

I gathered up the Ancient Scythe and killed Khelly. I bolted
my way through the grave level, again generating no beneficial
corpses. The Water Temple was easy, I bolted many of the water
goons to death, without even crossing the water. The Snake
wouldn't come and play though, so I had to go in after him. I
lured him to the tunnel I had dug out, and fire bolted him to
death in the darkness. He did panic, but missed with the one
shot he did get at me.

I can't remember the last time I was crowned before the
tower, but this time it was possible. Darkforge loot plus
the Ancient Scythe, plus every thing I had (painfully) lugged
to dwarftown and sold, did the job (barely). I recieved fire
immunity and the Robes of Resistance. The Robes went a long
way to fixing my horrible To stat.

The ToEF was almost too easy. The extra spells helped a lot.
The benefits of an early crowning, especially fire immunity,
also helped a lot. Most beneficial of all though, was the
tactic of stunning the ACW with the stun ray spell. I had no
fireproof blanket for the tower, so I was not able to bring
in any PoEH to help me. I had to rely on the Water Orb for
healing. Luckily I only had to use it once. I cast invisibility,
and used a chaos servant as a meat shield. It took 7 stun ray
attempts to stun the ACW, but it was worth it. The stunned
Wyrm died quickly to a boosted acid ball spell.
Big thanks to vogonpoet for the tip.

The following character information is from just after
collecting the Fire Orb, and returning to D:1.

Knizzurd      St:15  Le:22  Wi:37  Dx:25  To:20  Ch:16  Ap:21  Ma:21  Pe:16 N=
DV/PV: 67/33   H: 131(162)    P: 248(248)    Exp: 20/736240     D: 1  M: 11280
Blessed Satiated Strained! Coward

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                                Weapon Skills
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Melee weapon           Lvl   Hit   Dam   DV   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
// Basically, nothing worth mentioning.

Missile weapon         Lvl   Hit   Dam   Ra   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
// Ditto.

Shields                Lvl   DV               Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---              -------------  --------------
Shields                  4    +8              skilled              160
// Not bad actually.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   Spells
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Acid Ball        :   424,  21pp     (Effectivity: +4)
   Calm Monster     :   253,   5pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Cure Disease     :   717,   5pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Cure Light Wounds:   472,   2pp     (Effectivity: +10)
   Darkness         :   230,   3pp     (Effectivity: +3)
   Fire Bolt        :   152,   5pp     (Effectivity: +17)
   Frost Bolt       :   213,   6pp     (Effectivity: +12)
   Identify         :    11,  85pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Invisibility     :   324,   5pp     (Effectivity: +8)
   Knock            :   614,   8pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Know Alignment   :   263,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Light            :  1186,   2pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Lightning Ball   :   267,  16pp     (Effectivity: +10)
   Lightning Bolt   :   155,   6pp     (Effectivity: +13)
   Magic Lock       :   245,   5pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Magic Map        :   302,  23pp     (Effectivity: +5)
   Magic Missile    :   220,   4pp     (Effectivity: +10)
   Neutralize Poison:   647,   6pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Remove Curse     :   221,  30pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Slow Monster     :   253,   5pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Slow Poison      :   249,   4pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Stun Ray         :   573,   4pp     (Effectivity: +5)
   Teleportation    :   260,  12pp     (Effectivity: +12)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   Skills
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Alchemy ..............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
// Boost speed + longevity = PoGA  

  Climbing ............. 29    (mediocre)     [+3d4]
  Concentration ........100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Dodge ................ 53    (good)         [+1d3]
// Now how did we get Rhea's dodge up to 100 again? : )
  
  First aid ............ 49    (fair)         [+2d4]
  Haggling ............. 17    (mediocre)     [+3d5]
  Healing ..............100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Herbalism ............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Listening ............ 53    (good)         [+3d4]
  Literacy .............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Stealth ..............100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Ventriloquism ........ 65    (good)         [+1d3]
// Has served me well once in this game, and will
// likely serve at least once more : )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  Inventory
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total weight: 2592 stones                Carrying capacity: 1500 stones

Head          : uncursed metal cap [+0, +1]                           [50s]
Neck          : uncursed ankh                                          [3s]
Body          : blessed robes of resistance (-4, -4) [+3, +12] {To+5} [60s]
Girdle        : uncursed mithril girdle [+1, +3]                      [20s]
Cloak         : blessed hooded cloak [+1, +2]                         [40s]
Right Hand    : blessed sword of Nonnak (+2, 4d3+2) [+2, +2] {Wi+5}   [80s]
Left Hand     : blessed medium adamantium shield [+7, +2]             [72s]
Right Ring    : blessed ring of the High Kings [+2, +3]                [1s]
Left Ring     : uncursed ring of protection +1                         [1s]
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3]        [10s]
Boots         : blessed seven league boots [+1, +0]                   [30s]
// Dwarftown purchase.

Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : bundle of 4 uncursed adamantium drakish scurgari (+7, 1d8+9)
Tool          : Chaos Orb of Elemental Water                         [100s]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                    Stuff
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Total weight: 2097 stones   Carrying capacity: 1500 stones

Armor ('[')
   uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8}                    [60s]
Shields ('[')
   uncursed large mithril shield (-1) [+7, +2]                        [96s]
   large shield                                                      [210s]
Gauntlets ('[')
   uncursed gloves [+2, +0]                                            [6s]
   blessed black dragon-hide gauntlets (-2, +0) [+0, +2]              [10s]
   black dragon-hide gauntlets (-2, +0) [+3, +2]                      [10s]
Boots ('[')
   leather boots                                                      [20s]
Necklaces (''')
   uncursed bronze amulet                                              [3s]
   blessed gray amulet                                                 [3s]
   silver amulet                                                       [3s]
One-handed weapons ('(')
   uncursed long sword of penetration (+0, 1d8)                       [40s]
   uncursed scourge (-4, 1d3+3)                                       [25s]
   uncursed large eternium hammer (-1, 2d10+12)                       [55s]
   uncursed pick axe                                                  [75s]
   dagger                                                              [5s]
   scimitar                                                           [28s]
Two-handed weapons ('(')
   halberd                                                            [50s]
Missile weapons ('}')
   uncursed heavy crossbow (+3, +3)                                  [140s]
Missiles ('/')
   bundle of 3 uncursed mithril arrows of targeting (+6, 1d6+3)        [6s]
   bundle of 7 uncursed arrows of jelly slaying (+5, 2d4+3)           [14s]
   bundle of 11 quarrels                                              [22s]
   bundle of 7 arrows                                                 [14s]
Tools (']')
   heap of 4 uncursed torches                                         [40s]
   uncursed box with flint and steel (41)                              [5s]
   uncursed tinderbox (1)                                              [3s]
   uncursed waterproof blanket                                        [10s]
   uncursed box with flint and steel (20)                              [5s]
   uncursed box with flint and steel (16)                              [5s]
   uncursed square key                                                 [1s]
   uncursed small key                                                  [1s]
   uncursed round key                                                  [1s]
   uncursed box with flint and steel (30)                              [5s]
   uncursed tinderbox (26)                                             [3s]
   uncursed si                                                        [10s]
   uncursed hexagonal key                                              [1s]
   heap of 5 sis                                                      [50s]
   si                                                                 [10s]
   si                                                                 [10s]
   Chaos Orb of Elemental Fire                                       [100s]
Rings ('=')
   uncursed ring of fire resistance                                    [1s]
   uncursed ring of damage                                             [1s]
   heap of 2 uncursed rings of stun resistance                         [2s]
Wands ('\')
   uncursed wand of digging (0 charges)                                [3s]
   uncursed wand of magic missiles (0 charges)                         [3s]
   uncursed wand of ball lightning (1 charge)                          [4s]
   uncursed wand of cold (0 charges)                                   [4s]
   uncursed wand of trap creation (10 charges)                         [3s]
   blessed wand of light (0 charges)                                   [4s]
   blessed wand of magic missiles (0 charges)                          [3s]
   uncursed glass wand                                                 [3s]
   uncursed marble wand                                                [3s]
   uncursed bone wand                                                  [4s]
   brass wand                                                          [4s]
   blessed wand of digging (1 charge)                                  [3s]
// Went into the ToEF with this... and came out
// with it too? I've never had THAT happen before!
// I guess blessing it helps a LOT.   

   wand of gold detection (1 charge)                                   [6s]
Potions ('!')
   heap of 3 potions of holy water                                    [12s]
   uncursed oil of rust removal                                        [2s]
   heap of 2 uncursed potions of cure poison                           [4s]
   uncursed potion of longevity                                        [4s]
   blessed potion of carrot juice                                      [4s]
   uncursed potion of invisibility                                     [4s]
   heap of 4 uncursed potions of healing                              [16s]
   uncursed potion of booze                                            [4s]
   uncursed potion of carrot juice                                     [4s]
   uncursed potion of troll blood                                      [2s]
   uncursed potion of poison                                           [4s]
   uncursed bright potion                                              [4s]
   heap of 5 blessed potions of insight                               [10s]
   heap of 5 blessed rusty potions                                    [10s]
   potion of invisibility                                              [4s]
   clear potion                                                        [4s]
   potion of water                                                     [4s]
Scrolls ('?')
   uncursed scroll of power                                            [2s]
   heap of 6 blessed scrolls of identify                              [12s]
   uncursed scroll of monster aggravation                              [2s]
   heap of 3 uncursed scrolls of light                                 [6s]
   blessed scroll of balance                                           [2s]
   uncursed scroll of darkness                                         [2s]
   uncursed scroll of uncursing                                        [2s]
   cursed scroll labeled "GNAY-GNIY"                                   [2s]
   heap of 4 blessed scrolls labeled "GNAY-GNIY"                       [8s]
// I've not ID'd these yet, but they are the
// SoCR from the mystic. I held N- for a bit 
// less than 2000 turns this time, just to see. 
// If this is the key, the turn requirement must
// be 1000 or 1500, instead of 2000.    
   
   heap of 2 scrolls of identify                                       [4s]
Books ('"')
   spellbook of Acid Ball                                            [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Fire Bolt                                   [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Lightning Ball                              [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Lightning Bolt                              [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Teleportation                               [100s]
Food ('%')
   uncursed loaf of elven bread                                        [3s]
   uncursed bit of plain candy                                         [2s]
   blessed bit of plain candy                                          [2s]
   heap of 14 uncursed cooked lizards                                 [42s]
   blessed stomafillia herb                                            [2s]
   cursed stomacemptia herb                                            [2s]
   blessed stomacemptia herb                                           [2s]
   heap of 10 blessed spenseweeds                                     [20s]
   heap of 4 uncursed devil's roses                                    [8s]
   heap of 6 uncursed curaria mancox herbs                            [12s]
   heap of 5 blessed devil's roses                                    [10s]
   heap of 2 blessed curaria mancox herbs                              [4s]
   heap of 2 curaria mancox herbs                                      [4s]
   devil's rose                                                        [2s]
   heap of 5 alraunia antidotes                                       [10s]
   heap of 4 demon daisies                                             [8s]
   demon daisy                                                         [2s]
   devil's rose                                                        [2s]
   heap of 7 burb roots                                               [14s]
   heap of 15 pepper petals                                           [30s]
   heap of 7 pepper petals                                            [14s]
   heap of 2 burb roots                                                [4s]
   heap of 15 burb roots                                              [30s]
   pepper petal                                                        [2s]
   alraunia antidote                                                   [2s]
   lump of gelee royal                                                 [3s]
Valuables ('$')
   1781 gold pieces                                                   [17s]

// Yep, this is my entire inventory. Once I
// get to dwarftown, it will be smaller still.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                               Killed Monsters
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

697 monsters perished under his attacks.

The following monsters were vanquished:

      1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm
   // This was an extremely easy fight, thanks to
   // stunning him before engaging in battle. Well,
   // having the acid ball spell also helped, but 
   // I think it could have been accomplished with
   // bolt spells just as easily.


      82 giant bee warriors
   // What really hurts, is knowing I will have to
   // do this again. Hopefully, it won't be so bad
   // next time. 

      1 master necromancer
   // No problem this time.   

      1 skeletal king
   // Invisibility plus fire bolt, so I never took a hit.
     
      1 Snake from Beyond
   // Also, no trouble this time.
      
     25 wights
   // You would think there would have been a single
   // corpse generated, wouldn't you? Nope.  

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                Achievements
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He survived for 0 years, 42 days, 21 hours, 18 minutes and 20 seconds (11280
turns).
Knizzurd visited 44 places.
His strength score was modified by +4 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +2 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +5 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +6 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +8 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +3 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +2 during his career.
His mana score was modified by +4 during his career.
His perception score was modified by -2 during his career.
He was the head of the thieves guild.



Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong!


[Edited 1 time, last edit on 4/21/2008 at 04:16 (GMT -5) by gut]
vogonpoet
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4928 days, 12 hours, 56 minutes and 28 seconds ago.
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 08:15 (GMT -5)

Lack of darkness was indeed my failure. Not sure which is more riduculous - how powerful darkness actually is, or how good I am at forgetting how powerful darkness actually is.

As for stunray, glad it helped - I always like to stun cats in the early game as my main method for kitty karma protection, in order to have some increased effectiveness in time for the W and the tower.

Two orbs in under 12000 turns eh? Crazy
Darren Grey
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4211 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes and 44 seconds ago.
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 09:52 (GMT -5)

11.2k turns is indeed excellent, and acid ball will help immensely in going through the rest of the levels fast. Personally I'd stay invisible and teleport about as much as possible, only killing the things that are worth killing. May even want to consider the EG for xp - with SLBs and acid ball it'll be easy enough, especially if there's a long corridor on the level. Certainly on form to finish in less than 24k turns. With a bit of luck you could even finish in under 20k...
Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse."
Sulangatori
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Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 12:49 (GMT -5)

Careful attacking the EG, there's a pretty hefty alignment drop involved. However, you should be able to take him out at least twice before approaching N-flavour.
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4869 days, 7 hours, 42 minutes and 40 seconds ago.
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 16:14 (GMT -5)

I was sorely tempted to kill the EG, at least
once. Unfortunately, my alignment was (for some
reason) already at N-. I don't remember doing
anything chaotic along the way, but I suppose
I must have. Perhaps I bolted a friendly who was
out of my line of sight. Anyway:

Character is dead. Upon entering the Mana Temple,
I removed the Robes of Resistance in favor of the
AMW (force of habit). I swap the RotHK for a ring
of mental stability, and I have already removed
the Elemental Gauntlets in favor of the newly
aquired Ironfist. I have also picked up some
potions of confusion along the way, and have a
good shot at beating the Archmage.

Well, I never even get a shot at the big guy. On
my way to dig out the Mana Temple, I open a door
to a tension room, it's full of Ancient Black Wyrms.
They all just acid breath me to death in one turn.
The thing that really kills about that, is that my
previous equipment would have saved my life. Had I
been wearing the Elemental Gauntlets, RotHK, and
Robes of Resistance, I would have lived.

You may wonder why I was standing square in front
of the door. My plan was (ironically) to be able
to bolt to death the room inhabitants more easily.
I didn't realize it would also make it easier, for
them to bolt me to death. It's been a while since
I was melted to death : )


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Knizzurd      St:17  Le:25  Wi:39  Dx:51  To:19  Ch:17  Ap:10  Ma:13  Pe:23 N=
DV/PV:118/39     H:-13(311)    P:15(414)     Exp: 40/11754351   MT    M: 15010
Blessed Invisible Coward



Yes, the turn counter is at 15010 turns. I had magic map,
farsight, invisibility, and teleport, from the bookshop.
I was abusing my Mana stat horribly, it originally started
at 22, and at one point I had it to 25.

Will try again.


Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong!
Darren Grey
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4211 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes and 44 seconds ago.
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 17:27 (GMT -5)

Jesus Christ, that is one horrible and unlucky death! But uh, yeah, don't open doors head-on :P Stone block traps can destroy important equipment for a start. And you had magic missile which can be bounced around from the corner. Pity you didn't have acid resistance from a corpse, or more morgia to get your HP higher (might have helped).

But wow, 15k... you could have easily finished in 18k turns with that. Would have been awesome. Better luck next time :-/

Mana 13? Methinks someone was HP-casting a lot...
Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse."
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4869 days, 7 hours, 42 minutes and 40 seconds ago.
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 19:30 (GMT -5)

Normally, I wouldn't post one of these before the
ToEF. I just couldn't help myself this time though.
This is by far, the weakest PC I have ever taken
into the tower. I wouldn't take him in, if I didn't
think he had a chance, but it's laughable to see how
poorly equipped he is.

The standard D:1 screen, before taking on the tower.
I actually have a fireproof blanket this time, but
I won't use it for my first run throught the tower.
My spell list is so good this time through, that I
should only have to bring in the PoEH, when I fight
the ACW. I do miss magic map though : (


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Blizzard      St:15  Le:24  Wi:32  Dx:25  To:14  Ch: 9  Ap:11  Ma:28  Pe:18 N-
DV/PV: 40/17   H: 99(99)      P: 74(238)     Exp: 17/271086     D: 1  M: 9102
Bloated  

// Tactics are set to coward. DV is especially
// low this time, because I have found no
// higher metal shield yet. To is low because
// I had found no morgia root in the entire 
// game, up until the TotHK. I felt like I was
// a bit behind on turns though, so I only
// picked ~20 morgia. It was enough to get my
// Wi to 17, so I can boost it to 32.
// The Ma stat was as high as 30, but I abused
// it to teleport to the Water Temple. If I 
// manage to beat the ToEF, I will have to abuse
// it non-stop for the rest of the game.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   Spells
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Acid Bolt        :   290,  10pp     (Effectivity: +12)
   Burning Hands    :   724,   5pp     (Effectivity: +14)
   Calm Monster     :   256,   7pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Cure Light Wounds:   332,   3pp     (Effectivity: +8)
   Darkness         :  1523,   4pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Farsight         :   787,  13pp     (Effectivity: +8)
// I have already cast this spell enough
// to take me through the rest of the
// game. It's nice, but not as nice as
// magic map.   

   Fire Bolt        :   784,   5pp     (Effectivity: +20)
   Ice Ball         :   530,  20pp     (Effectivity: +4)
// I have no frost bolt, and don't plan to 
// get it throught the druid quest. I will
// have to rely entirely upon this for the
// tower. Well, I suppose I could magic 
// missile the fire goons to death.   

   Knock            :  1558,   9pp     (Effectivity: +5)
   Light            :   899,   3pp     (Effectivity: +3)
   Magic Missile    :   815,   4pp     (Effectivity: +19)
   Mystic Shovel    :   468,  80pp     (Effectivity: +0)
// I won't even need a wand this time!

   Slow Monster     :   643,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Strength of Atlas:   355,   6pp     (Effectivity: +11)
// I shouldn't need to cast any more of 
// these either. I love stacking spells!

   Stun Ray         :   753,   5pp     (Effectivity: +13)
// I trained this a bit in the wilderness.
// My last trip through the tower, it took
// seven bolts to stun the Wyrm. I will 
// note the difference with a trained spell.   

   Teleportation    :   580,  17pp     (Effectivity: +9)
   Web              :   926,  10pp     (Effectivity: +0)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  Inventory
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total weight: 411 stones                Carrying capacity: 29500 stones

Head          : mithril cap [+0, +2]                                  [40s]
Neck          : uncursed ankh                                          [3s]
Body          : uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8}       [60s]
Girdle        : -
Cloak         : -
Right Hand    : uncursed sword of Nonnak (+2, 4d3+2) [+2, +2] {Wi+5}  [80s]
Left Hand     : -
// Goodness, I wish I had a shield!

Right Ring    : ring of the High Kings [+2, +3]                        [1s]
Left Ring     : uncursed ring of fire resistance                       [1s]
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3]        [10s]
Boots         : cursed boots of sneakiness [+0, +0] {Dx+2}            [20s]
// I will just let the tower burn these 
// off. I am bringing mithril boots in 
// with me, to replace them.

Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : -
Tool          : Chaos Orb of Elemental Water                         [100s]
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                                    Stuff
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total weight: 96 stones   Carrying capacity: 29500 stones

Boots ('[')
   uncursed mithril boots [-1, +2]                                    [96s]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                               Killed Monsters
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
901 monsters perished under his attacks.

The following monsters were vanquished:
      
     17 blink dogs
  // Took ~3500 turns to get a corpse. Ugh!     

      1 master necromancer
  // No invisibility this time, to keep the
  // undead off my back. He annoyingly kept 
  // fleeing from the darkness. I had cold
  // resistance though, and burning hands.

      1 skeletal king
  // Just finished with this guy. Again, I
  // had no invis this time, so I lured him
  // off of his island. He stood perfectly
  // still, and did not panic, so it was an
  // easy kill after all.    

      1 Snake from Beyond
  // Did not panic in the darkness, so it
  // was very easy to kill him with burning
  // hands.

     47 wights
  // Only one corpse!



Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong!


[Edited 1 time, last edit on 4/23/2008 at 19:36 (GMT -5) by gut]
Darren Grey
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4211 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes and 44 seconds ago.
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 21:29 (GMT -5)

I;d suggest wearing whatever shield you have anyway. It might get burned, but you might get lucky. Hopefully you'll find a better one soon enough regardless.
Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse."
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4869 days, 7 hours, 42 minutes and 40 seconds ago.
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 22:22 (GMT -5)

Good suggestion : )

The Wyrm is dead! I can't hardly believe Blizzard
lived through it. Maybe the name brought him luck : )
The tower was MUCH more dangerous than I thought
it would be. I didn't have four -fire sources, so
that was working against me. I was having to heal
constantly, and with 99 HP's, you don't have a big
margin for error!

Getting to the Orb level wasn't a big problem,
though I did notice how much damage I was taking
from thrown rocks. I also noticed that I was
taking damage from fire attacks, another bad sign.
When I dug through to the temple, I once again
missed the invisibility spell. I didn't even have
a potion. I cast darkness and tried blasting through
the fire elementals with ice ball. I was only able
to kill one or two elementals at a time though, so
my PP's were depleted very fast.

I tried casting ice ball from HP's, but that was
also really dangerous. I was depleting my HP's at
the same time as taking fire damage. If one of
the fire elementals had went into a panic, they
could have hit me. With so few HP's to work with,
one hit would have finished me! I am not 100% sure
that elementals are even capable of panic, but this
was definitely not the time to test it.

So to eliminate the possibility of 'panic hits',
I cast mystic shovel out of HP's a few times. With
a nice, wide open fighting area, the monsters would
have an escape route. I killed the elementals and
then noticed something strange, my cursed boots had
not burned away yet. I left the tower, and returned
to my items. I collected a fireproof blanket, four
of my seven PoEH, and a regular iron shield. I was
thinking that if the shield lasted as long as those
cursed boots did, it might be enough to see me
through : )

I returned to the tower, ready for a fight! With
my mighty [+3, +1] medium shield equipped, I was
feeling pretty good : ) Well, at least a little
better. I returned to the Orb level, and blasted
through some stray elementals that had wondered up.
I dug a tunnel through to the temple, right in the
middle of the screen. I wanted the ACW in my sights,
with as many 'meat shields' in between the two of
us, as possible.

To my pleasure and amazement, the Wyrm was stunned
with only one stun ray attempt. Unfortunately, I
couldn't capitalize on it. There were still all of
those meat shields in the way, that were now
protecting HIM. I could not employ darkness now, I
was not going to run the risk of losing track of the
Wyrm. It wouldn't have been any use against the
fire demons anyway. I tried to ice ball the monsters
again, but just couldn't make progress toward the
Wyrm. They were coming faster than I could kill them.
I wound up using two PoEH here.

I mysic shoveled another wide open space, connecting
straight to the temple. I was now able to kill the
monsters more efficiently, but now the ACW had cleared
his head, and was heading toward me. I let him come
away from the temple a bit, so I could fight him
without having to worry about too much interference.
Two more stun ray attempts, and he was loopy again.
Man, I wish vogon poet had told me about that months
ago : ) All the wasted PC's!

Even with the Wyrm stunned, I was still pretty cautious.
He could become un-stunned at any time, and I wasn't
guaranteed of being able to stun him again so easily.
I also had to get close to him to utilize ice ball,
and close proximity to the ACW can be very risky. After
taking two ice ball blasts, he did stagger right next
to me. I had 50 HP's at the time, so had to stop and
think a bit.

I could use a PoEH, but with max HP's at 105, one hit
from the Wyrm would kill me anyway. I could step away
from him, and hope he staggers in a lucky direction,
but if he staggers wrongly, then I have wasted at least
one turn of him being stunned. I know if he clears his
head, he can kill me with one bolt/hit. There are no
'meat shields' to hide behind now! I figure that his
probability of stumbling into me is 1/8, so I go ahead
and keep blasting. I have to use another PoEH, just to
fuel the spells. Then he panics.

The ACW takes a step away from me, and I have to stop
and think again. He is headed back to the main room,
which is a place that I REALLY don't want to go! How
to bring him back though? I had no missiles to bring
with me into the tower, and he was out of line with
a bolt spell. His speed was 130, and mine was only
93. There was no way I could prevent his escape. I sat
and tried to think of options for a few minutes, when
I realized that he was still stunned.

The fact that the ACW had went into a panic, didn't
mean he could flee, it was just CHANCE that he had
stumbled away from me. At least, that was what I was
hoping : ) So I pursue him a step, and indeed he
staggers back my way. I blast him with a few more ice
balls, collect the orb, and I'm on my way out!

That set a record for me, as my most pitiful PC to
ever survive the ToEF. Upon returning to D:1, I
discover that my mighty [+3, +1] medium shield did
indeed survive the tower battle (how!!!?). I also
noticed that my cursed boots have burned away. I
didn't even get to equip my mithril boots, I packed
them for nothing. Oh well.

Now I am off to the gift shop, and the Cat Lord.
Kitty karma is good, and the RotMC will be a welcome
addition to my equipment. If I can find some stray
morgia bushes along the way, all the better. I don't
know how good the chance of victory is with this PC,
he's still pretty weak. Even if he dies shortly, I
will remember him fondly, as the 'little wizzard that
could'.

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Blizzard      St:16  Le:24  Wi:32  Dx:26  To:15  Ch: 9  Ap:11  Ma:26  Pe:18 N-
DV/PV: 47/20   H: 115(115)    P: 242(242)    Exp: 19/566109     D: 1  M: 9652
Bloated Coward
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                                   Spells
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Acid Bolt        :   290,   7pp     (Effectivity: +12)
   Burning Hands    :   724,   4pp     (Effectivity: +14)
   Calm Monster     :   256,   5pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Cure Light Wounds:   173,   2pp     (Effectivity: +10)
   Darkness         :  1515,   3pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Farsight         :   787,  10pp     (Effectivity: +8)
   Fire Bolt        :   784,   5pp     (Effectivity: +20)
   Ice Ball         :   421,  14pp     (Effectivity: +9)
   Knock            :  1558,   7pp     (Effectivity: +5)
   Light            :   895,   2pp     (Effectivity: +3)
   Magic Missile    :   769,   4pp     (Effectivity: +19)
   Mystic Shovel    :   343,  60pp     (Effectivity: +4)
   Slow Monster     :   643,   5pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Strength of Atlas:   355,   5pp     (Effectivity: +11)
   Stun Ray         :   739,   4pp     (Effectivity: +13)
   Teleportation    :   466,  12pp     (Effectivity: +12)
   Web              :   926,   8pp     (Effectivity: +0)
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                                  Inventory
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total weight: 1100 stones                Carrying capacity: 27650 stones

Head          : mithril cap [+0, +2]                                  [40s]
Neck          : uncursed ankh                                          [3s]
Body          : uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8}       [60s]
Girdle        : -
Cloak         : -
Right Hand    : uncursed sword of Nonnak (+2, 4d3+2) [+2, +2] {Wi+5}  [80s]
Left Hand     : uncursed medium shield [+3, +1]                      [100s]
Right Ring    : ring of the High Kings [+2, +3]                        [1s]
Left Ring     : uncursed ring of fire resistance                       [1s]
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3]        [10s]
Boots         : uncursed mithril boots [-1, +2]                       [96s]
Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : -
Tool          : Chaos Orb of Elemental Water                         [100s]
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                                    Stuff
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Total weight: 609 stones   Carrying capacity: 27650 stones

Tools (']')
   blessed fireproof blanket                                          [10s]
   Chaos Orb of Elemental Fire                                       [100s]
Wands ('\')
   brass wand                                                          [3s]
Potions ('!')
   blessed potion of extra healing                                     [2s]
Food ('%')
   Ancient Chaos Wyrm corpse                                         [480s]
Valuables ('$')
   1497 gold pieces                                                   [14s]
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                               Killed Monsters
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943 monsters perished under his attacks.

The following monsters were vanquished:
      1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm
 // Victory is sweet!
      
     12 fire demons
      7 fire drakes
     12 fire elementals
      5 fire giants
 // No grues? Next time.      


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Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 01:08 (GMT -5)

I'm feeling very possitive about this PC's chance
to win. I lucked out to find a greater vault of
giants, just before the casino. The two artifacts
were the Ring of Immunity and Preserver! The
casino held many nice spellbooks, including
magic map. Unfortunately, no spellbook of acid
ball though. Well, one can't have everything.

Hopefully, I can find that book, before finding
the Archmage : ) The vault of giants gave a nice
boost to St, but poor Blizzard's To stat is 15.
I did just find another patch of morgia though,
I picked ~20, while reading the books from the
gift shop. Hopefully that will help with getting
more HP's to work with.

I had no beeswax for the Banshee, but I did have
an uncursed potion of deafness. That means I had
to pass a hostile EG. It has worn off now though,
so at least I can get the RotMC. I also never
cleared DF, due to low HP's. I will have to deal
with that mess on the way out, if I live.
Making the final dive now.

Blizzard      St:19  Le:24  Wi:39  Dx:30  To:15  Ch:15  Ap:11  Ma:24  Pe:19 CN
DV/PV: 81/38   H: 134(134)    P: 211(296)    Exp: 22/1365971    D: 33 M: 12049
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4869 days, 7 hours, 42 minutes and 40 seconds ago.
Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 05:17 (GMT -5)

Blizzard has just won an epic battle
with the Archmage! I went in with three
cursed potions of invisibility, and no
way to kill him. Well, I had the acid
bolt spell, but he shrugs off bolts so
much, I knew it would be horribly
difficult. Still, I couldn't just wait
around, hoping for an acid ball book,
so I went in with what I had.

I lured him out of the temple easily
enough, and blinded him. I tried to
acid bolt him, but he shruged off every
single acid bolt. Not bad for a blind
guy! He came back to his senses, and
took me down to ~40 HP's with an energy
bolt. I had to rely on the Water Orb
for healing, as I had used all of my
PoEH while defeating the Earth Temple.

I blinded the Archmage once more, and
got the same results. I just wasn't
hurting him, but he was nearly killing
me when he recovered. Also, he would
sometimes stagger toward me while he
was blinded, and hit/corrupt me that
way too. I had to keep using the Orb.
I could see that I was getting nowhere,
so I used my last potion and ran like
a scared rabbit.

I rounded the first corner fine, but
he was catching up fast. He got in a
good shot as I was rounding the next
corner. As I was running through the
straight final tunnel, he hit me again.
I healed, but he was right in line
with me. My plan was to stupidly run
away in a straight line, continually
corrupting/healing myself with the
Orb, and hope for the best. That's
when I triggered the pit viper trap.

I would like to say that I did that
intentionally, but I didn't. The pit
vipers (bless them) kept me from taking
any more bolt hits : ) It was then that
I realized how badly I was playing. I
could have just zapped a wand of monster
creation from the start, for the same
effect. I needed to get out of there and
think.

I made my way back to the stairs and
left the level. I noticed that I had
picked up the 'poison hands' corruption
from using the Orb, so I made the best of
it. I dropped all of my potions of 'boost
worthless stats' and other less useful
ones too. I picked up the newly created
potions of poison, applied it to some of
my ammo, and returned.

My plan this time, was to use the mystic
shovel spell to dig out a double wide
tunnel. That way the Archmage would only
shoot ice bolts at me, not the deathly
energy bolts. I used the same tactic for
my 'fling the bling' game, so I knew it
was pretty safe. My missile skills were
all at zero though, so I wasn't hurting
the Archmage much. Only about one shot in
ten did any damage, but I kept on shooting,
hoping the poison would do the work.

There we stood, two spaces apart, trading
shots at one another. Not in a direct
line of course : ) Niether one of us
inflicting much direct damage on the other,
but the poison was slowly doing a job on
the Archmage. It was quite time consuming
really. For the best chance of getting a
missile through, I would equip the Air
Orb for the De boost. He would then just
promptly confuse me, so I had to switch
back to the Water Orb. Also, I had to cast
light a zillion times, as I had no amulet
of light.

The chaos servants and company eventually
came along, to make things even more
cumbersome. Before long, the Archmage did
panic, and decide to 'fight to death in
a blind rage'. Now he was getting more
turns than I was, so it was even more
difficult to keep lighting the place. He
would not run away, as long as he could
get a shot at me. So I was taking turns
killing monsters, casting light, dealing
with confusion, and trying to get in a
shot every once in a while.

Then I got the 'stiff muscles' corruption.
I was now getting very few turns, and the
chaos goons were closing in faster than
I could kill them. Of course I have no
means of coorruption removal in this game.
I decided earlier, to see if the dwarven
mystic would give the SoCR's to a N= PC.
I held my allignment for 2000 turns, but
alas, no SoCR. It really is just for N-
or N+ I think.

Anyway, the chaos monsters were getting
between me and the Archmage. This was
very bad for me, because the Archmage
was coming closer, in an effort to get
a clear shot again. I had to try to kill
the hindering monsters, but not if the
Archmage was right behind them. With the
'extra turns' he was getting, he could
have killed me very easily.

So I strategicaly bounced a few magic
missiles off the walls. I wanted to
kill the monsters behind the Archmage,
without killing the ones in between us.
That way I wouldn't have to worry about
the approaching monsters just taking
the place of the dead ones. I did much
light casting, and careful checking of
the monsters wounded status. Once I had
both of the 'meat shields' at 'critically
wounded' I cast lightning ball, and they
both died at the same time. This cleared
out the mob, and kept the Archmage from
advancing.

So I paid more attention now, to killing
the approaching chaos monsters. I just let
the poison kill the Archmage. I happily
collected the Mana Orb and left. The turn
counter stands at 13946. That means I
spent less than 1000 turns in that fight.
It sure feels like it took more than
that! To think of the difference that acid
ball makes. Goodness.

I will now procede to take on D:50 with
the 'stiff muscles corruption' (Somehow).
Well, I do have lightning ball, and this
PC has been very lucky the whole way : )
Here goes.

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4928 days, 12 hours, 56 minutes and 28 seconds ago.
Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 07:10 (GMT -5)

Well stiff muscles is gonna suck big time against the Balors. Do the usual tricks for the big baddies work on them? Can you mix up some flavour of blindness to use on them?

Your iceball should be pretty effective also - I like disposing of the chaos wizard mobs that way, to avoid excessive spellbook and other equip drop destruction on d50.

Good luck!
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4869 days, 7 hours, 42 minutes and 40 seconds ago.
Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 08:04 (GMT -5)

Well, I have finished with D:50, and it was
no problem. There were no close calls. The
acid bolt spell destroyed the balors one by
one, until there were none. I finished up by
making Blup happy, and doing the unicorn
quest, to clear corruption. This was another
game where I generated no scroll or potion
of chaos resistance, yet finished with no
corruption. Behold, the power of the unicorn.

It's great to have this done with. It got to
be a bit of an obsession there : ) I don't
think I'll be beating 15,634 any time soon.
Was probably a fluke to get it this time.
I don't care though, it was fun and heart
pounding all the way through!

Couldn't have done it without the tips from
the HoF. Big thanks to Darren and vogonpoet.

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Blizzard      St:22  Le:29  Wi:30  Dx:49  To:19  Ch:12  Ap:22  Ma: 7  Pe:24 N+
DV/PV: 60/48   H: 409(409)    P: 428(428)    Exp: 50/27844541   DrCh  M: 15634
Blessed Satiated
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                            Background Information
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name: Blizzard            Race: male Gray Elf       Class: Wizard
Eye color: amber          Hair color: white         Complexion: pale
Height: 6'7"              Weight: 145 pounds
Age: 397 (grown-up, 95 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Sword          Birthday: 20/Sword (day 200 of the year)

YOUR HISTORY:
        Your parents are travelling adventurers. They are doing moderately
 well but are talented enough to survive.
        As a child you had to survive pretty harsh times since your parents
 seemed to have run out of luck. Their wealth was ever-declining and times
 were very hard.
        As a youth you spent a lot of time in the wilds exploring woods and
 generally enjoying your freedom. You had a lot of fun and learned to value
 the treasures of nature.
        As a young adult you left your home because of trouble with your
 parents. They opposed your plans for the future without understanding your
 wishes. Thus you decided to live on your own. You wandered through the
 country for many years, growing older and wiser and learning many things.
        You decided to become a Wizard.


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                                  Inventory
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total weight: 5464 stones                Carrying capacity: 9700 stones

Head          : blessed crown of regeneration [+0, +0]                [55s]
Neck          : blessed sapphire amulet "Preserver" [+4, +4] {Wi+7}    [3s]
Body          : uncursed eternium plate mail (-1, -2) [-1, +13]      [240s]
Girdle        : blessed eternium girdle [+0, +4]                      [12s]
Cloak         : uncursed hooded cloak [+2, +2]                        [40s]
Right Hand    : uncursed sword of Nonnak (+2, 4d3+2) [+2, +2] {Wi+5}  [80s]
Left Hand     : uncursed tower crystal shield (-2) [+13, +4]         [260s]
Right Ring    : uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd)
Left Ring     : uncursed ring of immunity                              [1s]
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3]        [10s]
Boots         : uncursed boots of sneakiness [+0, +3] {Dx+5}          [20s]
Missile weapon: blessed short bow of accuracy (+4, +0)                [20s]
Missiles      : bundle of 4 uncursed arrows of demon slaying (+3, 1d6+3) (p)
//  I had these equipped on D:50 for my battles 
//  with the demons. Turns out that acid bolt
//  worked fine enough.

Tool          : heap of 6 blessed spenseweeds                         [12s]


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                    Stuff
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Total weight: 4702 stones   Carrying capacity: 9700 stones

Helmets ('[')
   blessed helm of teleportation [+0, +2]                             [50s]
   blessed helm of mental stability [+0, +1] {Le+1}                  [100s]
   blessed helm of water breathing [+0, +1]                           [30s]
   uncursed eternium cap [+0, +7]                                     [28s]
Armor ('[')
   blessed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8}                     [60s]
   uncursed black dragon scale mail (+0, -2) [+0, +11]               [200s]
   blessed eternium plate mail of carrying (-1, -2) [-1, +13]        [240s]
Shields ('[')
   uncursed medium crystal shield [+9, +4]                           [160s]
   uncursed tower adamantium shield [+11, +2]                        [108s]
Gauntlets ('[')
   uncursed thick gauntlets (+0, -3) [+0, +1]                         [15s]
Cloaks ('[')
   uncursed hooded cloak [-1, +0]                                     [40s]
   uncursed light cloak [+4, +0]                                      [20s]
   uncursed cloak of protection [+0, +3]                              [20s]
   uncursed cloak of defense [+3, +0]                                 [20s]
Girdles ('[')
   heap of 2 uncursed adamantium girdles [+0, +4]                     [36s]
Boots ('[')
   uncursed adamantium boots [+0, +6]                                 [89s]
Necklaces (''')
   uncursed necklace of the eye                                        [3s]
   uncursed amulet of death ray resistance                             [7s]
   uncursed ankh                                                       [3s]
   uncursed amulet of order                                            [3s]
   heap of 2 blessed amulets of balance                                [6s]
   uncursed amulet of teleport control                                 [3s]
One-handed weapons ('(')
   uncursed pick axe (+0, 1d6+1)                                      [75s]
   blessed eternium scimitar (+3, 2d8+7)                              [19s]
   uncursed mithril flail of hunting (+1, 2d4+5)                     [120s]
   blessed whip of slaughtering (-4, 1d30)                            [15s]
   uncursed pick axe (+0, 1d6+2)                                      [75s]
Two-handed weapons ('(')
   uncursed glaive "Long Sting" (+4, 7d3) [+4, +0] {Pe+6} (+6 spd)   [100s]
//  I think this came from the casino.   

   blessed staff of the Wanderer (+2, 3d8+2) [+6, +3] {To+6}          [40s]
//  Staff of uselessness. Crowning gift.

Missile weapons ('}')
   blessed short bow (+1, +0)                                         [20s]
   uncursed light crossbow of accuracy (+8, +0)                       [70s]
Missiles ('/')
   bundle of 5 blessed adamantium arrows (+3, 1d6+6)                   [5s]
   bundle of 4 blessed quarrels of dragon slaying (+3, 2d6+3) (p)     [16s]
   bundle of 2 blessed quarrels of dragon slaying (+3, 2d6+3) (p)      [8s]
   bundle of 2 uncursed arrows of demon slaying (+3, 1d6+3)            [4s]
   cursed adamantium drakish scurgar (+7, 1d8+7)                       [7s]
   bundle of 4 uncursed arrows of undead slaying (+3, 2d4+4)           [8s]
   bundle of 5 uncursed quarrels of dragon slaying (+3, 2d6+3)        [20s]
   bundle of 3 uncursed quarrels of dragon slaying (+3, 2d6+3) (p)    [12s]
   bundle of 7 blessed drakish scurgari of returning (+2, 2d6+5)      [70s]
   uncursed quarrel of construct slaying (+3, 2d6+3) (p)               [4s]
   bundle of 2 blessed adamantium quarrels (+1, 2d6+7) (p)             [2s]
   bundle of 2 blessed adamantium quarrels (+1, 2d6+7) (p)             [2s]
   bundle of 5 uncursed arrows of humanoid slaying (+3, 1d6+3)        [10s]
   bundle of 3 uncursed arrows of dragon slaying (+1, 1d6+5)           [6s]
// At one time these stacked nicely : )

Tools (']')
   uncursed box with flint and steel (28)                              [5s]
   uncursed tinderbox (17)                                             [3s]
   heap of 4 uncursed waterproof blankets                             [40s]
   uncursed broken square key                                          [1s]
   blessed tiny key                                                    [1s]
   blessed fireproof blanket                                          [10s]
   heap of 2 uncursed round keys                                       [2s]
   cursed waterproof blanket                                          [10s]
   uncursed fireproof blanket                                         [10s]
   heap of 2 uncursed hexagonal keys                                   [2s]
   uncursed box with flint and steel (3)                               [5s]
   blessed climbing set                                              [180s]
   uncursed torch                                                     [10s]
   cursed hexagonal key                                                [1s]
   heap of 2 uncursed small keys                                       [2s]
Rings ('=')
   blessed ring of the High Kings [+2, +3]                             [1s]
   uncursed ring of ice                                                [1s]
   heap of 3 uncursed rings of searching                               [3s]
   uncursed ring of mental stability [+0, +3] {Le+1}                   [1s]
   uncursed ring of invisibility                                       [1s]
   uncursed ring of damage                                             [1s]
   uncursed ring of regeneration                                       [1s]
   uncursed ring of mental stability [+0, -1] {Le+3}                   [1s]
   uncursed ring of the clear mind                                     [1s]
Wands ('\')
   uncursed wand of lightning (0 charges)                              [4s]
   uncursed wand of digging (4 charges)                                [3s]
   uncursed wand of fireballs (3 charges)                              [3s]
   uncursed wand of trap detection (0 charges)                         [3s]
   uncursed wand of magic missiles (6 charges)                         [3s]
   uncursed wand of item detection (7 charges)                         [3s]
   uncursed wand of destruction (3 charges)                            [3s]
   uncursed wand of monster creation (1 charge)                        [3s]
   uncursed wand of teleportation (3 charges)                          [4s]
   uncursed wand of digging (3 charges)                                [3s]
   blessed wand of door creation (8 charges)                           [3s]
   uncursed wand of wonder (3 charges)                                 [3s]
   uncursed wand of trap detection (6 charges)                         [3s]
   uncursed wand of monster creation (3 charges)                       [3s]
   uncursed wand of cold (4 charges)                                   [4s]
   blessed wand of item detection (5 charges)                          [3s]
   uncursed wand of paralyzation (0 charges)                           [3s]
   uncursed wand of far slaying (3 charges)                            [3s]
   blessed wand of far slaying (10 charges)                            [3s]
   uncursed wand of stunning (5 charges)                               [3s]
Potions ('!')
   heap of 2 potions of holy water                                     [8s]
   heap of 3 uncursed potions of cure poison                           [6s]
   heap of 3 uncursed potions of longevity                            [12s]
   uncursed potion of boost mana                                       [2s]
   uncursed potion of water                                            [4s]
   blessed potion of potential dexterity                               [4s]
   heap of 2 uncursed potions of oil                                   [4s]
   heap of 6 uncursed potions of poison                               [24s]
   uncursed potion of boost perception                                 [2s]
   uncursed potion of boost dexterity                                  [2s]
   uncursed potion of youth                                            [4s]
   blessed potion of exchange                                          [4s]
   heap of 2 uncursed potions of boost strength                        [4s]
   blessed potion of ultra healing                                     [2s]
// Picked this up on D:50. After all of
// the danger was past, of course.   

   blessed potion of blindness                                         [2s]
   heap of 2 blessed potions of poison                                 [8s]
   cursed potion of poison                                             [4s]
Scrolls ('?')
   blessed scroll of uncursing                                         [2s]
   heap of 5 uncursed scrolls of satiation                            [10s]
   heap of 4 uncursed scrolls of uncursing                             [8s]
   heap of 2 blessed scrolls of power                                  [4s]
   heap of 5 blessed scrolls of identify                              [10s]
   uncursed scroll of increase melee accuracy                          [2s]
   heap of 3 uncursed scrolls of power                                 [6s]
   heap of 6 uncursed scrolls of great identify                       [12s]
   heap of 2 blessed scrolls of great identify                         [4s]
   uncursed scroll of magic mapping                                    [2s]
   blessed scroll of increase melee accuracy                           [2s]
   heap of 2 uncursed scrolls of teleportation                         [4s]
   heap of 2 blessed scrolls of repair                                 [4s]
   uncursed blank scroll                                               [2s]
   uncursed scroll of balance                                          [2s]
   blessed scroll of peace                                             [2s]
   uncursed scroll of defense                                          [2s]
   cursed scroll of power                                              [2s]
   cursed scroll of identify                                           [2s]
   uncursed scroll of charging                                         [2s]
   uncursed scroll of increase melee damage                            [2s]
   uncursed scroll of item detection                                   [2s]
Books ('"')
   blessed spellbook of Acid Bolt                                    [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Bless                                       [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Burning Hands                               [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Cure Critical Wounds                        [100s]
   blessed spellbook of Cure Disease                                 [100s]
   blessed spellbook of Cure Light Wounds                            [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Fire Bolt                                   [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Frost Bolt                                  [100s]
   blessed spellbook of Ice Ball                                     [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Improved Fireball                           [100s]
   blessed spellbook of Lightning Ball                               [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Magic Map                                   [100s]
   uncursed spellbook of Magic Missile                               [100s]
   blessed spellbook of Magic Missile                                [100s]
   blessed spellbook of Teleportation                                [100s]
Food ('%')
   uncursed loaf of elven bread                                        [3s]
   heap of 4 uncursed stomafillia herbs                                [8s]
   heap of 6 uncursed stomacemptia herbs                              [12s]
   heap of 5 uncursed burb roots                                      [10s]
   heap of 6 blessed burb roots                                       [12s]
   heap of 3 uncursed pepper petals                                    [6s]
   blessed loaf of hurthling bread                                    [30s]
   heap of 19 blessed cooked lizards                                  [57s]
   heap of 2 uncursed spenseweeds                                      [4s]
   heap of 5 blessed devil's roses                                    [10s]
   uncursed devil's rose                                               [2s]
   heap of 3 blessed curaria mancox herbs                              [6s]
   cursed spenseweed                                                   [2s]
   heap of 6 blessed demon daisies                                    [12s]
   heap of 9 blessed stomacemptia herbs                               [18s]
   heap of 10 blessed stomafillia herbs                               [20s]
   cursed stomafillia herb                                             [2s]
   heap of 2 cursed stomacemptia herbs                                 [4s]
   heap of 15 blessed moss patches of mareilon                        [30s]
   heap of 4 uncursed moss patches of mareilon                         [8s]
   heap of 2 uncursed alraunia antidotes                               [4s]
   heap of 2 blessed alraunia antidotes                                [4s]
   cursed demon daisy                                                  [2s]
   heap of 3 uncursed melons                                          [60s]
   heap of 2 uncursed loaves of dwarvish bread                       [120s]
   uncursed bit of plain candy                                         [2s]
   blessed loaf of elven bread                                         [3s]
   blessed bit of gnomish candy                                        [2s]
   heap of 4 uncursed bits of gnomish candy                            [8s]
   heap of 6 blessed pepper petals                                    [12s]
   heap of 2 cursed pepper petals                                      [4s]
   heap of 8 blessed morgia roots                                     [16s]
   heap of 5 uncursed morgia roots                                    [10s]
Valuables ('$')
   21025 gold pieces                                                 [210s]


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                Weapon Skills
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Melee weapon           Lvl   Hit   Dam   DV   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Unarmed fighting         0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            24
Daggers & knives         0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            23
Clubs & hammers          0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            24
Maces & flails           0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            24
Swords                   2    +2    +0   +0   basic                12
Axes                     0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            24
Whips                    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            24
Pole arms                0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            24
Twohanded weapons        0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            24
Staves                   0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            24

Missile weapon         Lvl   Hit   Dam   Ra   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Slings                   0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            14
Bows                     3    +6    +4   +1   basic                17
Crossbows                2    +4    +3   +0   basic                3
Thrown axes & hammers    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            14
Thrown daggers           0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            14
Thrown rocks & clubs     0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            13
Thrown spears            0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            14
Boomerangs & scurgari    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            14

Shields                Lvl   DV               Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---              -------------  --------------
Shields                  1    +2              basic                20
// Goodness, that's horrible.


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   Skills
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Alchemy ................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Bridge building ........ 10    (poor)         [+3d5] (mr)
  Climbing ............... 79    (great)        [+1d3]
  Concentration ..........100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Dodge .................. 69    (good)         [+1]
  First aid .............. 84    (great)        [+1d3]
  Haggling ............... 83    (great)        [+1d3]
  Healing ................100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Herbalism ..............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Listening ..............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Literacy ...............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Stealth ................100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Ventriloquism ..........100    (superb)       [+1d3]


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   Spells
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

   Acid Ball           :    20,  38pp     (Effectivity: +4)
   Acid Bolt           :    30,  10pp     (Effectivity: +26)
   Bless               :    77,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Burning Hands       :   241,   4pp     (Effectivity: +26)
   Calm Monster        :   320,   5pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Create Item         :    60, 210pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Cure Critical Wounds:    62,  12pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Cure Disease        :    76,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Cure Light Wounds   :   893,   2pp     (Effectivity: +15)
   Cure Serious Wounds :   292,   6pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Darkness            :  1591,   2pp     (Effectivity: +6)
   Death Ray           :    74,  76pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Destroy Undead      :    62,   7pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Disarm Trap         :   159,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Earthquake          :    67,  64pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Farsight            :   973,  10pp     (Effectivity: +9)
   Fire Bolt           :   586,   5pp     (Effectivity: +26)
   Fireball            :    73,  15pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Frost Bolt          :   469,   6pp     (Effectivity: +14)
   Greater Identify    :    77,  74pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Heal                :    64,  33pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Ice Ball            :   439,  12pp     (Effectivity: +18)
   Identify            :    82,  53pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Improved Fireball   :    85,  21pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Invisibility        :   524,   6pp     (Effectivity: +4)
   Knock               :  1750,   7pp     (Effectivity: +6)
   Know Alignment      :    75,   8pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Light               :   834,   1pp     (Effectivity: +13)
   Lightning Ball      :   399,  16pp     (Effectivity: +12)
   Lightning Bolt      :    76,   9pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Magic Lock          :   287,   5pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Magic Map           :   315,  22pp     (Effectivity: +14)
   Magic Missile       :   578,   4pp     (Effectivity: +29)
   Mystic Shovel       :   308,  59pp     (Effectivity: +6)
   Neutralize Poison   :   438,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Petrification       :    63,  99pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Remove Curse        :    74,  38pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Revelation          :   374,  20pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Scare Monster       :    81,   9pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Slow Monster        :   822,   5pp     (Effectivity: +3)
   Slow Poison         :    76,   5pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Strength of Atlas   :   439,   5pp     (Effectivity: +11)
   Stun Ray            :   878,   4pp     (Effectivity: +13)
   Summon Monsters     :    67,  24pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Teleportation       :   622,  11pp     (Effectivity: +24)
   Web                 :  1307,   8pp     (Effectivity: +0)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                              His further life:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

After he leaves the Drakalor Chain he is welcomed by his people with great
honors. They acknowledge his noble deeds, his valor, his cunning and his
great skills that helped to prevent the complete destruction of the world he
knows. He returns to his lands victorious and is hailed as a great leader.
Eventually he becomes king and rule your subjects with an iron fist for a
long and peaceful time, allowing his people to prosper and grow.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
              His achievements during his adventures:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Blizzard, the gray elven wizard, saved the world with his brave efforts and
became a great ruler without even stopping to save himself.
He scored 88039260 points and advanced to level 50.
He survived for 0 years, 68 days, 7 hours, 5 minutes and 12 seconds (15634
turns).
Blizzard visited 86 places.
His strength score was modified by +9 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +9 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +4 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +10 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +9 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +4 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +5 during his career.
His mana score was modified by -15 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +6 during his career.
He was unnaturally aged by 95 years.
He was the head of the thieves guild.
He made a little water dragon very happy.
He adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
He left the Drakalor Chain after completing his quest and became a great
leader and famous hero.
1502 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following 18 artifacts were generated during his adventure:
  the si
  the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
  the ring of the master cat
  the Chaos Orb of Elemental Water
  the Chaos Orb of Elemental Air
  the Chaos Orb of Elemental Fire
  the Chaos Orb of Elemental Earth
  the staff of the Wanderer
  the sword of Nonnak
  the elemental gauntlets
  the ring of the High Kings
  the crown of science
  the ancient mummy wrapping
  the ankh
  the glaive "Long Sting"
  the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
  the ring of immunity
  the sapphire amulet "Preserver"
He possessed the following intrinsics:
  He was fire resistant (gained through an item).
  He was poison resistant (enhanced through an item).
  He was cold resistant (gained through items).
  He was lucky (enhanced through an item).
  Fate smiled upon him (enhanced through an item).
  He was able to control teleportation.
  He was paralyzation resistant (gained through an item).
  He was resistant to death rays (gained through an item).
  He was shock resistant (gained through an item).
  He was able to see invisible things (gained through an item).
  He was immune to shock attacks (gained through an item).
  He was immune to fire attacks (gained through an item).
  He was immune to acidic attacks (gained through an item).
  He was immune to ice attacks.
He had the following talents: Affinity with Bows, Careful, Good Book Caster,
Good Shot, Great Book Caster, Hardy, Immune to Pain, Iron Skin, Keen Shot,
Learned, Mighty Aura, Potent Aura, Shield Specialist, Strong Aura, Strong
Healer, Strong Magic, Tough Skin, Very Careful, Very Hardy.
He had a final speed score of 120 (final base speed: 109).
He was a messiah of Ayssia.
He did not ask for divine help.
He was a holy champion of Balance.

The following monsters were vanquished:
      5 acid vortices
     10 air demons
     11 air elementals
      5 air grues
      1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm
      1 ancient karmic wyrm
      4 ancient red dragons
      1 Ancient Stone Beast
   //  By himself, not so bad. His henchmen 
   //  played very rough though.   

      4 annihilators
      9 balors
      8 bandits
      1 banshee
      1 barbarian leader
      1 battle bunny
      6 berserkers
      5 berserker lords
      1 berserker prince
      1 big dog
      1 black hurthling
     17 blink dogs
      2 bugbears
      1 bunny master
      7 cave fishers
      2 cave lizards
      1 caveman
      1 Chaos Archmage
   //  Oh, it felt good to kill this guy.
   //  He had single handedly killed many
   //  of my previous attempts.

     70 chaos mutants
    135 chaos servants
      5 chaos sisters
      1 chaos spider
     37 chaos warriors
     25 chaos wizards
     10 claw bugs
      1 cloaked ratling
      1 cobra
      8 corpse fiends
      1 crime lord
      1 dark elven lord
      1 dark elven priestess
      5 dark orcs
      1 death ooze
      1 dire wolf
      4 displacer beasts
      4 doppleganger lords
      2 dwarven chaos knights
     30 earth elementals
   //  Cost me MANY PoEH.  

     61 ettins
      6 fire beetles
     12 fire demons
      7 fire drakes
     12 fire elementals
     16 fire giants
      1 fire grue
   //  The one on D:48. I actually did not
   //  kill a single one in the Tower.   

      1 fire vortex
      1 flesh golem
     10 floating eyes
     30 fomorian giants
      3 frost giants
     27 ghosts
      7 ghost bats
     32 ghost lords
     47 ghuls
      3 giant ant warriors
      4 giant ant workers
     10 giant bats
      1 giant bee queen
      8 giant bee warriors
      2 giant bee workers
      6 giant centipedes
      7 giant frogs
      2 giant lizards
     14 giant rats
     12 giant spiders
      1 gibbering mouther
     21 gnolls
      2 gnoll chieftains
     29 goblins
      5 goblin chieftains
     13 goblin rockthrowers
     11 goblin slavemasters
      1 gray ooze
      1 greater balor
   //  Died the same way the regular balors
   //  did. teleported to the lever, then got
   //  melted with acid bolt. I did have to 
   //  teleport around a lot for this one though.   

      1 greater black unicorn
    138 greater chaos servants
     37 greater claw bugs
      2 greater mummies
      4 greater water elementals
      1 green slime
      1 gremlin
      5 griffons
      2 half-orc bouncers
      1 harpy
      3 hell hounds
     54 hill giants
      7 hill giant chieftains
      5 hill orcs
      3 hill orc sergeants
      2 hobgoblins
      1 hobgoblin leader
     27 hyenas
      1 iron golem
      9 jackals
      1 jackal demon
      1 jackalwere
     12 killer bugs
     25 king cobras
     42 kobolds
      5 kobold chieftains
      9 kobold shamans
     15 large bats
     14 large gnolls
     16 large kobolds
      6 large rust monsters
      1 large snake
     39 large spiders
      3 lightning lizards
      1 lightning vortex
      8 lizard men
      8 magebane eyes
     10 magedoom eyes
      1 master mimic
      1 master necromancer
   // He did panic and run away, which was
   // pretty annoying. He died quickly though.

      1 Master Summoner
      1 master thief
      1 minotaur mazelord
      3 mummies
      1 mummy lord
      1 necromancer
   //  Appearantly these are immune to the 
   //  Banshee's wail. I did not know that.

      5 ogres
      1 ogre king
     21 ogre lords
     10 orcs
      1 outlaw
      2 owlbears
     13 pit vipers
      2 pixies
      5 purple worms
      1 quasit
      1 rabid dog
      4 raiders
     31 rats
      1 ratling archer
      3 ratling fencers
      5 ratling thieves
      1 ratling warlord
      6 ratling warriors
      1 red dragon
      2 red worms
      4 rust monsters
     48 shadows
      1 shadow centipede
      1 skeletal king
   //  Lured him away from his island and
   //  killed him with fire bolts.

      1 skeletal warrior
     78 skeletons
      1 Snake from Beyond
  //  Did not panic and run, but instead
  //  just stood still in the darkness, and
  //  died to the 'burning hands' spell.    

      3 spectres
      1 steel zombie
  //  No steel golems in this game. I was 
  //  way to weak to fight them without the
  //  lightning ball spell. I could have
  //  cleared DF after closing the gate, but
  //  I was going for turns.    

     19 stone giants
      3 stone golems
     30 stone grues
      5 stone snakes
      2 swordsmen
      3 tarantulas
      3 trolls
      1 undead chaos dwarven berserker
     10 vampires
     11 vapor rats
      3 water demons
      2 water elementals
      9 water grues
     15 water snakes
      5 wererats
      2 white baby dragons
      1 white worm
     48 wights
      2 wolves
     21 wraiths
     98 writhing masses of primal chaos
     76 zombies


Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong!


[Edited 1 time, last edit on 4/24/2008 at 08:21 (GMT -5) by gut]
EmptyOne
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5382 days, 6 hours, 22 minutes and 28 seconds ago.
Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 09:36 (GMT -5)

Wow!... just Wow!

<16k turns! O.O
Darren Grey
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4211 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes and 44 seconds ago.
Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 10:16 (GMT -5)

Awesome. Truly awesome. Well done gut - I don't think anyone will ever beat that. Perhaps some luck involved, but evidently a lot of skill and determination too :) Personally I wouldn't have even dared set foot in the Tower like that, nor would I challenge the Archmage without acid ball. But I guess it took a different sort of balls to beat him ;)
Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse."
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