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This is my first Victory Post ... and my third regular victory. Is it just my
impression or is Gamma 12 easier than the earlier ones ?
Well, maybe I just finally found out how to beat the game.
I didn't have much luck in this game.
Except for finding an AoLS on the level above Khelavaster and thus getting
6 SoCR, I just found one more in the blue dragon caves, and a total of
2 PoCC (one in exchange for the Ancient Chaos Wyrm corpse).
One wish was found and used (but once again, the pools in DF didn't yield one.
I've risked drinking them all the last 10 games, but never gotten a single
wish)
/* screenshot snipped */
Horklin St:39 Le: 8 Wi:11 Dx: 6 To:37 Ch: 3 Ap:12 Ma: 9 Pe:19 L+
DV/PV: 14/94 H: 1010(1010) P: 20(76) Exp: 50/66447465 DrCh Sp: 125
Blessed Strained!
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/* great stats, ain't them ? Actually they were even worse before leaving
CoC lvl 50 ... Horklin left about 200000 gp at the trainer in dwarftown
on his way up. He got the "You feel somewhat apish" corruption rather early
and decided to keep it around to raise his strength. Unfortunately he didn't
get many "you remember your ancestors" */
Horklin's quest started out pretty uninteresting. His first kill was
unfortunately a rat, which made finding Filk pretty impossible (hence
the use of the wish. I am strongly against making it impossible to
wish for him ... so far I've never been able to get to him in the ID)
Also I had to leave the beginners cave before finding the stairs down,
so no HMV this game (by the time I found a source of invisibility, the game
was halfway over, and I'd completely forgotten about it)
Finding Kranach took just shortly over 3 1/2 days, and I arrived just a few
minutes too late to be able to save Kenny :(
I had the good luck of finding an altar in the PC, but unfortunately it was
in a dark room, and Horklin had no means of light (neither torch nor tinderbox,
and as he was illiterate, spells were out of the question)
Anyway, by then I was about level 10, and the carpemter was a breeze, so
off to CoC it was.
The altar on level one there yielded (after much sacrificing) two precrowning
gifts : the emerald dagger (ahem ... not too great for a dwarfish fighter)
and Protector (yay, dance around, kiss gods a... )
Not wanting to spend the 57 years of sacrificing necessary for another gift,
Horklin decided to find the dwarfen village he heard his father always talk
about. On the way there he encountered a large arena with just one ratling
trader selling lizards ... quite a handicap.
The Waldenbrooks shop had no items of any use, so it was used the rest
of the game for selling only. The first dwarfen elder quest was to kill a
berserker lord ... just great.
So we're off to see the necromancer, the wonderful necromancer of Nonnak.
He fell with ease to a combination of eternium scimitar and spear
(level 10 in polearms simplifies things quite a bit when the runed trident
comes around).
The pyramid was as uneventful as the dwarfen graveyard. Only the fact that
Horklin still wasn't champion of his god prevented him from being a happy
camper, as he didn't dare to use any of his artifacts due to the scareness
of food. It took quite a long time to reach L+, even with the amulet of order
the sheriff was kind enough to provide, since he had a rather lenghty dance
with some 20 blink dogs in the CoC, which brought him down to NL without
even leaving a corpse.
On the way down the CoC Horklin actually encountered a berserker lord, a
fact made that much sweeter because he feasted on a dark sage just a little
earlier, imbibing him with the much-sought-after secrets of reading.
The way through the living forest and down to Khelavaster went pretty smooth,
with an AoLS lying around on the level just above the dying sage.
After reaching the wall of flames Horklin finally achieved the needed L+
state, he got crowned at the altar on level 1 with Hammerhead and acid
immunity (in my opinion the most useless immunity, but better than a character
I had some time ago ... acid immunity and Shezestriakis)
He now finally was able to use his nice artifacts he collected.
In my usual playing, it would be time for the ToEF now, but up to now only
one blanket was generated, and that was waterproof, and just 5 rings, three
of which were stun resistance. Fire damage was not the problem, in the CoC
a crown of fire was lying around.
After checking out the dusty cave and DF and emptying all the pools(still
hoping for either fireproof blanket or ring of ice), Horklin decided to
brave the tomb of the high king, even though he had no means of invisibility.
There on level 2 : a shop. Oh please, let it be a ring shop please, please,
pretty please ... YES !!!
Ok, now for a ... ok, no ring of ice. YAAAAARRRGH ...
Sigh, maybe the cave levels will offer hope ...nope.
Then, at the nice red pond, Harklin discovered the advantage of having an
intelligent player ... he had no wand of ice, no frost bolt, and no means
of building a bridge, which were placed conveniently in Terinyo.
Oh well, on the way is the ID, his last hope for blanket or ring. After
much climbing and descending of stairs (between lvl 8 and 9), a blanket was
finally generated. (funnily, the first time he came to lvl 9, an AoLS was
lying right next to the stairs ... weird RNG)
After the ToEF (the guardian fell rather easily to wand of stunning and
Hammerhead) I attempted for the first time ever to build a bridge (always
had either frostbolt or a wand of cold before).
Horklin dragged 10 logs down to the lake, and ... figures ... needed 11 to
build his bridge.
Back to diving down the CoC, he arrived at the casino, browsed the store,
but except for some slaying arrows and a helmet of water breathing nothing
worthwhile.
After finding the secret entrance to DF, he sent Blub back to his mom
(having some problems with a greater dragon turtle along the way).
A greater vault deep in the CoC yielded Skullcrusher (yummy) and the
crown of leadership (yumyum), and a ring of teleport control
Rolf's companion in Dwarftown.
Somewhere in between the sinister library was raided (was hoping for SoCR,
but got disappointed)
Further down Horklin eliminated the ancient enemy of some stupid
TV character (Barney :) while having both his longbows of hunting
eliminated, got the quest to kill Filk from the assassin
prince, saw that he already killed 402 rats, and wished for him.
In the emperor moloch's cave the correct corruptions for the quickling
tree, which raised the speed up to 160.
The emperor moloch wasn't too hard with Blub's mom's gift, but he
remembered too late to lead the emperor moloch up a level and got three
more corruptions.
What I then did you probably won't believe ... Horklin went to the
mana temple (not too hard with Skullcrusher, humanoid slaying arrows,
death resistance and amulet of light) and the endgame forgetting to
pick up the trident of the red rooster !!!!!!
Now that's a DOOOHHH.
Before entering the endgame, he read all of his scrolls of chaos resistance
(got some nasty ones ... lots of toughness loss), and two steps after
reading the last one got stiff muscles ... another dooh
Still not too hard, locked in the chaos mutants and the whole central
room. The balors fell to the runed trident as did Fisty (he got just two
hits in, thanks to the moloch armour (at least I remembered to take that).
On the way back out spent about 200000 gold at the trainer, helped the
white unicorn and got cleaned of all corruptions. In the wilderness next
to Terinyo, Hurklin wanted to learn all his spellbooks, but after the
third book, got a new corruption.
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Background Information
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Name: Horklin Race: male Dwarf Class: Fighter
Eye color: brown Hair color: brown Complexion: ruddy
Height: 3'11" Weight: 167 pounds Scars: 1
Age: 74 (grown-up, 6 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Sword Birthday: 16/Sword (day 196 of the year)
YOUR HISTORY:
Your parents are travelling adventurers. Both are competent,
talented and doing very well.
As a child your parents cared a lot for you. Despite all
circumstances you enjoyed a happy and fine childhood.
During your youth you were very lazy. You slept a lot and didn't
care too much for your duties and tasks. Your parents were not very happy
with you.
Your young adulthood was characterized by hard and long work. You
had decided to study under a renowned master. To your great disappointment
you had to find out, that he was a hard, unjust and tyrannic man,
embittered by his old age. Your apprentice years were quite terrible.
You decided to become a Fighter.
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Inventory
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Total weight: 20839 stones Carrying capacity: 13500 stones
He: uncursed crown of regeneration [+0, +0] [55s]
Ne: uncursed amulet of life saving [3s]
Bo: uncursed moloch armor (+1, -7) [-18, +47] {Dx-10} [5000s]
/* Doh ... the last two times I got it, it was {Dx-0} */
Gi: blessed girdle of carrying [+0, +0] [15s]
Cl: uncursed cloak of protection [+0, +3] [20s]
RH: uncursed black rune-covered dagger "Needle" (+8, 3d4) [+4, +1] [10s]
LH: uncursed black rune-covered dagger "Sting" (+8, 3d4) [+4, +1] [10s]
RR: uncursed ring of slaying (+7 melee damage, +6 missile damage) [1s]
LR: blessed ring of ice [1s]
Br: uncursed bracers of protection [+0, +1] [10s]
Ga: uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Bo: uncursed eternium boots [+0, +5] [55s]
MW: uncursed short bow (+1, +0) [20s]
/* all better ones got toasted in the blue dragon cave ...
I want a shock resistant blanket or something else like it
(lightning rod :) */
Mi: bundle of 15 uncursed arrows (+0, 1d6) [30s]
Tl: blessed dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead" (+2, 2d10+4) [+2, +2] {To+3}[90s]
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Stuff
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Total weight: 15509 stones Carrying capacity: 13500 stones
Helmets ('[')
blessed crown of fire [+2, +2] [65s]
uncursed helm of water breathing [+0, +1] [30s]
uncursed crown of science [+4, +8] {Le+9} [65s]
uncursed crown of leadership [+2, +7] {Ch+18} [65s]
uncursed crown of ice [+1, +2] [65s]
Armor ('[')
uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8} [60s]
blessed elven chain mail [+0, +5] [10s]
/* great for quickling tree */
Shields ('[')
uncursed medium obsidian shield "Protector" [+20, +4] {To+2} [46s]
/* precrowning gift ... Yummy */
Gauntlets ('[')
blessed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+2, +1] [15s]
/* wore them 70% of the game ... got poison hands as second corruption
first one was nimble ... great one :) */
Cloaks ('[')
blessed cloak of invisibility (-1, +0) [+3, +0] [30s]
/* helped quite a bit in the mana temple and the endgame */
Girdles ('[')
/* no girdle of giant strenght in the whole game */
Boots ('[')
uncursed boots of great speed [+5, +0] (+30 spd) [20s]
/* no seven league boots either */
Necklaces (''')
blessed ankh [3s]
Bracers (',')
uncursed bracers of speed [+2, +0] (+4 spd) [10s]
/* best bracers in the game :( */
One-handed weapons ('(')
uncursed emerald dagger (+3, 3d4+3) [+3, +1] [13s]
uncursed sword of Nonnak (+2, 4d3+2) [+2, +2] {Wi+5} [80s]
rustproof uncursed phase dagger (+0, 1d4) [5s]
uncursed lead-filled mace "Big Punch" (+1, 8d5+3) [-6, +0] [800s]
blessed dwarven rune axe "Rolf's Companion" (+3, 3d6+6) [+4, +4] {To+3}
blessed rune-covered club "Skullcrusher" (+12, 3d6+2) [-3, +0] {St+4}
heap of 2 uncursed phase daggers (+0, 1d4) [10s]
uncursed mace of destruction (+4, 5d6+6) [120s]
blessed whip of the snake (-1, 5d2+7) {Dx+7} (+7 spd) [15s]
Two-handed weapons ('(')
uncursed scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle" (+6, 10d4+6) [+2, +2] [70s]
blessed rune-covered trident (+6, 3d12+6) [+4, +4] {Dx+12} [80s]
/* sniff ... no trident of the red rooster, because I FORGOT TO GET IT */
Missile weapons ('}')
heap of 2 uncursed short bows (+1, +0) [40s]
Missiles ('/')
/* snipped, nothing interesting */
Tools (']')
heap of 5 uncursed waterproof blankets [50s]
uncursed climbing set [180s]
/* found about 7 of those */
heap of 2 blessed fireproof blankets [20s]
heap of 2 uncursed fireproof blankets [20s]
/* took me quite a while to find the first one */
Rings ('=')
heap of 3 uncursed rings of invisibility [3s]
blessed ring of the High Kings [+2, +3] [1s]
uncursed ring of teleport control [1s]
uncursed ring of regeneration [1s]
blessed ring of ice [1s]
/* used these quite a bit */
blessed brass ring [1s]
/* left over from skipping 402 levels in the ID */
Wands ('\')
/* snipped all; only found one wand of wishing in all of my Adom games
(since 0.9.4), none in this game
Potions ('!')
/* snipped all; had some stat-raising left, but the corruption after
the gate was closed scared me quite a bit, forgot to drink them
Scrolls ('?')
/* the usual stuff ... identify, uncursing, rest assorted.
not a single familiar summoning in the game */
Books ('"')
/* had 31 books left, but got corrupted while reading them ...
chickened out */
Food ('%')
heap of 73 uncursed cooked lizards [219s]
heap of 18 uncursed alraunia antidotes [36s]
heap of 17 uncursed pepper petals [34s]
heap of 5 uncursed burb roots [10s]
heap of 17 uncursed devil's roses [34s]
heap of 27 uncursed spenseweeds [54s]
heap of 39 uncursed moss patches of mareilon [78s]
heap of 12 uncursed stomacemptia herbs [24s]
heap of 9 uncursed demons daisies [18s]
heap of 7 uncursed curaria mancox herbs [14s]
heap of 18 uncursed morgia roots [36s]
heap of 2 blessed stomafillia herbs [4s]
/* didn't someone say something about it being impossible to win without
herbalism ? I didn't have herbalism, but scrolls of identify and
uncursing */
Valuables ('$')
480249 gold pieces [4802s]
/* left about 200000 gp on my way up at the trainer */
Gems ('*')
/* assorted gems */
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Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
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Unarmed fighting 4 +3 +1 +1 skilled 20
Daggers & knives 10 +10 +6 +3 excellent 443
Clubs & hammers 11 +10 +7 +4 Mastery 2344
Maces & flails 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 20
Swords 9 +7 +5 +3 excellent 91
Axes 13 +14 +12 +4 Mastery 650
Whips 1 +1 +0 +1 basic 20
Pole arms 11 +12 +7 +14 Mastery 790
Twohanded weapons 1 +1 +1 +0 basic 20
Staves 1 +1 +0 +1 basic 20
/* three times Mastery, two excellent ... Yeehaa :) */
Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
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Bows 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 105
/* had a longbow of hunting for some time */
Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 12 +24 Mastery 1613
/* all praise Protector */
Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +144 bonus to hit, 3d4+68 damage
Left hand: +143 bonus to hit, 3d4+68 damage
Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 15, base range: 8, +88 bonus to hit, 1d6+28 damage
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Skills
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Appraising ............... 46 (fair) [+1d5]
Archery ..................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Athletics ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Backstabbing .............100 (superb) [+1d5]
Bridge building .......... 32 (fair) [+3d3] (ma)
Climbing .................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Courage ..................100 (superb) [+3d3]
Detect traps .............100 (superb) [+1d3]
Dodge ....................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Find weakness ............100 (superb) [+1d3]
First aid ................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Haggling ................. 50 (fair) [+2d4]
Healing ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Law ......................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Listening ................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Literacy ................. 86 (great) [+1]
Metallurgy ............... 35 (fair) [+4d4]
Mining ................... 77 (great) [+1d3]
Smithing ................. 21 (mediocre) [+4d4]
Stealth ..................100 (superb) [+1]
Swimming ................. 40 (fair) [+2d4]
Tactics .................. 93 (superb) [+1d3]
Two weapon combat ........100 (superb) [+1d5]
/* Appraising from a potion of education */
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Spells
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Cure Light Wounds : 37, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Cure Serious Wounds: 45, 15pp (Effectivity: +0)
Darkness : 134, 4pp (Effectivity: +0)
Disarm Trap : 56, 14pp (Effectivity: +0)
Farsight : 10, 32pp (Effectivity: +0)
Strength of Atlas : 57, 14pp (Effectivity: +2)
Teleportation : 33, 36pp (Effectivity: +3)
/* needed Strength of Atlas to get the logs to the tomb of the high kings */
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Effects of Corruption
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Your corrupted tissue seems to heal much faster.
/* sniff ... the unicorn cleaned me after I closed the gate ... what
happened ??? */
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His further life:
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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 is crowned to be the king of all dwarves and lives a long and
prosperous life full of love, happiness and pleasure.
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His achievements during his adventures:
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Horklin, the dwarven fighter, saved the world with his brave efforts and
became a great ruler while saving himself 11 times.
He scored 25708592 points and advanced to level 50.
He survived for 0 years, 150 days, 13 hours, 18 minutes and 9 seconds
(118363 turns).
Horklin visited 124 places.
His strength score was modified by +18 during his career.
His learning score was modified by -1 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by -5 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +5 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +15 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by -3 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +6 during his career.
He was unnaturally aged by 6 years.
He was the champion of the arena.
He was the head of the thieves guild.
He made a little water dragon very happy.
He defeated the arch enemy of a mighty karmic wyrm.
He saved Khelavaster from certain death.
He left the Drakalor Chain after completing his quest and became a great
leader and famous hero.
8360 monsters perished before him.
The following 11 nonguaranteed artifacts were generated during his adventure:
the dwarven rune axe "Rolf's Companion"
the ring of the High Kings
the crown of science
the boots of great speed
the rune-covered club "Skullcrusher"
the black rune-covered dagger "Needle"
the black rune-covered dagger "Sting"
the medium obsidian shield "Protector"
the crown of leadership
the dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead"
the emerald dagger
He possessed the following intrinsics:
He was fire resistant (enhanced through an item).
He was poison resistant.
He was cold resistant (enhanced through an item).
He was acid resistant.
He was lucky.
Fate smiled upon him.
He was paralyzation resistant.
He was resistant to death rays.
/* both from pools in DF */
He was shock resistant (enhanced through an item).
He was able to see invisible things.
He was immune to fire attacks (gained through an item).
He was immune to acidic attacks.
He was a messiah of Morodwyn.
He asked for 16 divine interventions.
/* about 5 trying to get crowned, some more in the ToEF and Barney cave
He was a holy champion of Order.
He was tainted by Chaos.
The following monsters were vanquished:
1 cat lord
6 cave lions
6 cave tigers
6 wild cats
/* I hate it when I spend half of my early game evading all the
catlikes and then some suicidal cat jumps right into my weapon ... :( */
1 doppleganger king
/* This one almost got me in the tomb of the high king */
1 giant dragon turtle
/* this one was ouch ... I had to leave to get my phase dagger I had
left in Terinyo to keep it from being rusted */
3 mimic hiveminds
/* strange ... these weren't too hard this game */
407 rats
/* first kill ... sigh ... well, made getting courage rather easy