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I don't remember Tal's early adventure very well, because it was a long time ago. You see, Tal had some unusual experiences. His early quest, however, was pretty ordinary. He did the Keethrax quest and took off for the CoC. He proceeded through the water temple, ToEF, and high king's tomb without much trouble (building on a sequence of strange premonitions, almost as if the memories of heroes past were helping him).
Then things got interesting at D:36. I suddenly felt truly excited upon entering the level. I zapped a wand of monster detection and saw a bunch of red l's, D's, and W's. I thought, hey, fire creatures! Rock on! I entered, only to find that the creatures were no longer red, but a variety of changing colors. Yes, I'd stumbled into a greater vault of karmics. I quickly established that none of my spells were any good against karmic dragons of any age. I hauled out my collection of arrows and quarrels of dragon slaying. I found that I could lure the dragons down a long hallway one or two at a time and dispose of them that way. Then I ran out of dragon-slaying ammo. I discovered that normal ammo just didn't do the job fast enough. I still managed to clear out the outer area of the vault and examined everything. The only thing of note was the Far Slayer. Very cool, even though it doesn't have any special powers. I opened the central room and found myself staring down about 20 great karmic wyrms (none of them named, oddly). I got a couple of them before deciding they were just too much and would have to wait.
Sometime about then I decided to experiment with the writing sets I'd found. I wrote a few nifty scrolls and then made the unfortunate choice to try a SoCR. I was overjoyed to succeed, until I noticed that my Mana was down to 1. It never got over 10 throughout the rest of the game.
I continued on and made it down to D:46, at which point Tal was ambushed and unrecoverably destroyed by Internal-Artifact-Generation, the bug. (The rumor about bugs being nasty is true!) So that was it for Tal, until a couple of months later when I remembered that I had an old save on the machines in the computer lab. Woohoo, revival (at the cost of being pulled back in time to the air temple)!
Tal shrugged off the effects of time travel and resumed his journey. Yuglash fell to 2 or 3 quarrels of humanoid slaying. Then I got a lesser vault of red dragons on D40, which gave me
Skullcrusher
Whirlwind
a SoCR
a pair of SLB
a ring of minor elemental mastery
a ring of elemental mastery
bracers of resistance
about 500K gold
Shortly after, I got this mysterious message. No creature was in sight, even when I wore a ring of see invisible. It happened right after I dipped a brass amulet in a potion of exchange.
You pick up the silver amulet.
Something on the ground is crunched! Something on the ground is crunched!
Something on the ground is broken! Something on the ground is broken!
Something on the ground is smashed to pieces! You hear a pained thundering
roar.
I never did figure out what had happened.
I eventually made it down to D:46 safely, after saving and restoring a few times to pass the dreadful named bug. (They're the only enemies for whom it's acceptable to use backups.) Sure enough, D:46 was a greater vault. This one really was fire creatures. Woohoo!
Long Sting
Thunderstroke
The scorched spear
1 SLB
1 staff of power
1 quicksilver quarterstaff
1 rabbit knife
about 250K gold
OK, I guess there wasn't really anything too great in there after all, but it was fun tearing through it with my elementalist Frost Bolt.
Then a greater moloch (my first ever) showed up out of nowhere. Kya! After losing over half my HP in one hit, I stepped well away and pelted him with quarrels of demon slaying.
What does the "You suddenly remember your ancestors." message mean? I thought it was related to the apish corruption, but the stats on that corruption never changed, even after a lot of those messages.
The earth temple always annoys me, but this time it went easier, after I discovered that stone grues and earth elementals apparently count as constructs and are vulnerable to construct slaying ammo. I had to fall back on Burning Hands for the Ancient Stone Beast.
The mana temple was rough, of course, but not that bad. Nuurag-Vaarn fell to a few quarrels of humanoid slaying. (Do you get the idea that I like missiles of * slaying? They're great!) I decided to pass on the blue dragon caves for the time being.
I was up to N in corruptions by the time I got to D:48. I figured it didn't look too good, but I might as well go out in a blaze of glory (or a writhing mass of primal chaos, that is). I played with the anomalies and descended. I got Hammerhead for my uselessness gift. Before heading down to D:50, I used up all my potions of booze charging my wands of teleportation, acid, and digging. Then I guzzled the 20 or 30 potions of boost [stat] that I'd collected. My stats were up to 40 or 50, and my speed was over 300 briefly. (In hindsight, I should have saved the speed boost for after I actually engaged the balors -- it wore off too quickly.) I equipped my quarrels of demon slaying and headed down.
Right away I read my blessed scroll of magic mapping and zapped my wand of monster detection. That's a pretty overwhelming sight, all those cute C's packing half the screen. I forged ahead to the chaos gate (role-playing an honest player who didn't already know about D:50 from assorted spoilers ^_^). Halfway down the last hallway, "suddenly Fistanarius, the greater balor, appears out of nowhere" right in front of me. That was exciting, especially after two or three of his friends appeared in the room behind me on the next turn. I went a round or two with Fisty in melee before I decided that was going nowhere good. I made a, er, tactical withdrawal with my wand of teleportation and went after the normal balors. I actually didn't have too much trouble with them. 5 or 6 hits with quarrels of demon slaying took them out. Only one of the nine balors actually summoned help on me -- I won't complain. My only problem was when creatures would pick up my quarrels before I could recover them; fortunately I'd collected like 50 demon slayers by that point. I eventually took out Fisty and the 7 balors from the main room. I was corrupted up to R and surrounded by chaos warriors, and figured I was about done for. Suddenly I remembered that I still had several writing sets and two blank scrolls. I used my next-to-last teleport to get back to the stairs and up. A second later I was down to 1 Mana again, but also had one precious SoCR! (My second attempt failed.) I blessed and read it instantly and returned to D:50. I bashed, shot, and cast my way to the levers. The last balor had me back to corruption R and well past before he died. I was three steps away from the second lever with a WMoPC blocking the way. It actually managed to hit me, of course, and slowed me to half speed. I fireballed the way clear and somehow managed to get past the chaos mutants to pull the second lever. I wasted no time in teleporting to the stairs (with my last scroll of teleportation) and getting out. To my vast relief, the gate stayed closed.
I revisited the greater vault of karmics to clear it out with the dragon slayers I'd found further down. I got
The robes of resistance
The emerald dagger
Wyrmlance
The hammer of the gods
A staff of the magi
A spellbook of Acid Ball! Woohoo! (A bit late now....)
A potion of education (my first ever) that yielded Gardening (woo...)
A PoGA
Yet another pair of SLB
400K gold
Would have been real nice to have had Acid Ball a bit sooner. *sigh*
I also found a scroll of dark predictions. "You suddenly know that 99% of your soul belong to the forces of Chaos." *shudder*
I was about to go do the unicorn quest to get cleansed, but I had a sudden nightmare of dying from corruption, possibly even (very embarrassingly) background radiation. (Is the corrupted glade always a corruption zone?) I decided to first drain the 3 pools in the CoC that I'd left untouched (I'd had a lot of bad experiences with pools in previous games) in hopes of getting a wish for SoCRs. Nope. But I did pick up intrinsic invisibility, which turned out very nice, because I decided to head to the blue dragon caves next. (In retrospect, the pools were a very bad idea, since I could have gotten corrupted.) On the second level, a blue dragon dropped a PoCC (the first of this game). Yes! One less corruption. I no longer had to panic whenever a chaos creature got close to me.
Barney fell surprisingly easily to Wyrmlance (berserk plus speed boosted to 250 or so). It's one of my new favorite artifacts. I lost some neat equipment, of course, notably my wand of destruction and bracers of resistance. Then it was unicorn time. Riurry was startlingly easy. Does he have anything except a moderate melee attack? He doesn't even corrupt. I meleed him with the emerald dagger. No more corruption. My old friends in Terinyo sing my praises, and I leave.
WAHOO!
// Screenshot snipped because it never comes out right
Tal St:40 Le:47 Wi:24 Dx:24 To:50 Ch: 6 Ap:16 Ma: 8 Pe:21 N-
DV/PV: 73/42 H: 883(883) P: 364(364) Exp: 50/114357840 DrCh Sp: 109
Blessed Invisible Bloated Burdened
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// My alignment was N=, but doing the unicorn quest apparently dropped me, oddly.
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Background Information
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Name: Tal Race: male Gray Elf Class: Elementalist
Eye color: blue Hair color: golden Complexion: pale
Height: 6'7" Weight: 141 pounds Scars: 4
Age: 323 (grown-up)
Star sign: Candle Birthday: 23/Candle (day 293 of the year)
YOUR HISTORY:
Your mother is a mighty enchantress. She is unmarried. Your father
is living in the vicinity of your mother's tower. He is a humble shepherd.
In your childhood you were tortured by your cruel parents. They
seemed to thoroughly hate and despise you.
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.
Your path was always clearly lying before you. You knew about your
destiny since your earliest years and fortunately your grandfather
supported your wishes. You managed to find a competent trainer and began
your studies.
You decided to become a Elementalist.
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Inventory
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Total weight: 11007 stones Carrying capacity: 11875 stones
He: uncursed helm of mental stability [+0, +1] {Le+3} [100s]
Ne: uncursed amulet of death ray resistance [7s]
Bo: uncursed robes of resistance (-4, -4) [+3, +12] {To+5} [60s]
// Also used dragon scale mails and eternium plate.
Gi: blessed girdle of carrying [+0, +0] [15s]
Cl: blessed cloak of protection [+0, +5] [20s]
RH: uncursed emerald dagger (+3, 3d4+3) [+3, +1] [13s]
LH: uncursed tower eternium shield (+2) [+13, +4] [70s]
// Didn't get any of these until Sharad-Waador's reward.
RR: uncursed ring of slaying (+7 melee damage, +6 missile damage) [1s]
LR: uncursed ring of slaying (+8 melee damage, +6 missile damage) [1s]
Br: blessed bracers of regeneration [+0, +0] [18s]
// I had nice bracers of resistance until the blue dragon caves.
Ga: uncursed thick gauntlets (+0, -1) [+0, +2] [15s]
Bo: blessed seven league boots [+2, +0] [30s]
// Fantastic li'l things.
MW: blessed heavy crossbow "The Far Slayer" (+18, +18) [350s]
Mi: bundle of 4 uncursed quarrels of construct slaying (+3, 2d6+3) [16s]
Tl: uncursed dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead" (+2, 2d10+4) [+2, +2] {To+3}[90s]
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Stuff
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Total weight: 10201 stones Carrying capacity: 11875 stones
Helmets ('[')
uncursed crown of science [+4, +8] {Le+9} [65s]
blessed eternium cap [+0, +4] [28s]
uncursed helm of teleportation [+0, +1] [50s]
rustproof uncursed metal cap [+0, +7] [50s]
blessed crown of regeneration [+0, +0] [55s]
uncursed crown of lightning [+0, +1] (+5 spd) [65s]
uncursed eternium cap [+0, +6] [28s]
uncursed crown of ice [+1, +2] [65s]
uncursed helm of water breathing [+0, +4] [30s]
Armor ('[')
uncursed elven chain mail [+0, +8] [10s]
heap of 2 uncursed elven chain mails [+0, +5] [20s]
uncursed elven chain mail (+1, +1) [+0, +5] [10s]
// I was collecting for my future army. ^_^
uncursed robe of invisibility (+1, +1) [+0, +4] [60s]
uncursed elven chain mail (+1, -1) [+0, +5] [10s]
uncursed black dragon scale mail (-2, -4) [+5, +9] [200s]
uncursed blue dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [+1, +11] [200s]
blessed red dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +13] [220s]
Shields ('[')
blessed intricate wooden shield "Nature's Friend" [+6, +3] [80s]
uncursed tower eternium shield (-1) [+13, +4] [70s]
Gauntlets ('[')
blessed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
blessed gloves of smiting [+0, +0] (+2 damage) [6s]
// snip snip
Boots ('[')
uncursed eternium boots [+1, +5] [55s]
uncursed seven league boots (+1, +1) [+1, +0] [30s]
uncursed eternium boots (-1, +1) [+0, +6] [55s]
uncursed seven league boots [+2, +0] [30s]
uncursed boots of sneakiness (+1, +1) [+3, +0] {Dx+2} [20s]
// All these 7LBs came from the run of play, not a wish. O_o
Necklaces (''')
uncursed amulet of hunger [3s]
// snip a lot of common stuff
One-handed weapons ('(')
// I collected unusual or useful weapons. Of course, since this was my first winner, a lot of these aren't really so unusual.
uncursed phase dagger (+0, 1d4+3) [5s]
uncursed phase dagger (+2, 1d4) [5s]
uncursed hatchet (+0, 1d6+2) [50s]
heap of 2 uncursed daggers of death (+1, 5d5+2) [20s]
blessed knife of endurance (+6, 1d3+6) {To+6} [8s]
uncursed scalpel (+2, 1d3+1) [2s]
uncursed knife of endurance (+9, 1d3+6) {To+4} [8s]
uncursed whip of the snake (-3, 5d2+7) {Dx+7} (+7 spd) [15s]
uncursed phase dagger (+0, 1d4+2) [5s]
uncursed rune-covered club "Skullcrusher" (+12, 3d6+2) [-3, +0] {St+4}
blessed scorched spear (+2, 3d8+1) [+2, +0] [50s]
uncursed rabbit knife (-1, 1d3+4) [8s]
heap of 2 uncursed hatchets (+0, 1d6+1) [100s]
uncursed whip of the snake (-1, 5d2+10) {Dx+7} (+7 spd) [15s]
uncursed rabbit knife (+0, 1d3+4) [8s]
blessed knife of endurance (+6, 1d3+6) {To+4} [8s]
uncursed knife of endurance (+6, 1d3+6) {To+6} [8s]
uncursed large eternium hammer (+0, 2d10+10) [55s]
uncursed knife of endurance (+9, 1d3+3) {To+4} [8s]
uncursed whip of slaughtering (-1, 1d30+2) [15s]
blessed whip of the snake (-2, 5d2+7) {Dx+7} (+7 spd) [15s]
uncursed knife of endurance (+6, 1d3+7) {To+4} [8s]
uncursed black rune-covered dagger "Needle" (+8, 3d4) [+4, +1] [10s]
uncursed dagger (+0, 1d4) [10s]
Two-handed weapons ('(')
uncursed shining long spear "Soaker" (+9, 3d7) [+3, +0] [10s]
uncursed rune-covered halberd "Wyrmlance" (+15, 4d8+10) [-2, +0] [50s]
blessed rune-covered trident (+6, 3d12+6) [+4, +4] {Dx+12} [80s]
uncursed hammer of the gods (+1, 7d6+8) [-6, +0] [400s]
uncursed staff of power (-1, 1d10+2) [+1, +1] {Wi+6} [40s]
uncursed eternium two-handed sword (+20, 6d5+18) [-1, +0] [50s]
uncursed quicksilver quarterstaff (+6, 5d3+5) [+3, +0] (+20 spd) [20s]
blessed glaive "Long Sting" (+4, 7d3) [+4, +0] {Pe+6} (+6 spd) [100s]
uncursed staff of smiting (+4, 1d37+2) [30s]
// Much boring stuff snipped from here on.
Missile weapons ('}')
uncursed rune-covered sling "Whirlwind" (+12, +12) [3s]
Missiles ('/')
// snip about 125 bundles of arrows and quarrels, mostly slaying ammo (it's grrrrreat!)
uncursed javelin of doom (+9, 6d6) [40s]
bundle of 3 uncursed sling bullets of crashing (+6, 5d5-2) [9s]
bundle of 3 uncursed sling bullets of crashing (+5, 5d5) [9s]
uncursed obsidian quarrel "Thunderstroke" (+8, 20d4+8) [2s]
// Yay, it's one powerful shot! Oh wait, that's not very useful. These artifact
missiles really need to slay or return, in my opinion.
uncursed javelin of death (+9, 6d6) [40s]
// I had a throwing club of death (+0, 4d6+4) too, but lost it in the blue dragon caves. *sigh*
Tools (']')
uncursed magical writing set (1) [5s]
// Writing SoCR killed my Mana, but saved me from becoming a WMoPC.
uncursed ogre emperor figurine of wondrous power [25s]
Instruments ('{')
uncursed harp [30s]
uncursed glockenspiel [120s]
blessed tamborine [5s]
uncursed fiddle [15s]
uncursed tamborine [5s]
heap of 2 uncursed flutes [6s]
uncursed lute [20s]
heap of 2 uncursed whistles [2s]
// Tal started a band when he got home.
Rings ('=')
heap of 2 blessed rings of ice [2s]
// Found after the ToEF, of course.
heap of 4 uncursed rings of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage)
heap of 3 uncursed rings of regeneration [3s]
heap of 2 uncursed rings of ice [2s]
uncursed ring of minor elemental mastery [1s]
uncursed ring of elemental mastery [1s]
uncursed ring of gain attribute {To+1} [1s]
// These would be cool if the boost was more like 3-5 points. For 1, why bother?
heap of 2 uncursed rings of fire [2s]
uncursed ring of slaying (+5 melee damage, +6 missile damage) [1s]
Wands ('\')
// Teleportation is just phenomenally useful. Digging and door creation are good too, of course.
Potions ('!')
heap of 7 blessed potions of extra healing [14s]
blessed potion of ultra healing [2s]
heap of 2 uncursed potions of ultra healing [4s]
heap of 2 blessed potions of uselessness [4s]
heap of 2 uncursed potions of uselessness [4s]
heap of 2 uncursed potions of extra healing [4s]
// Plenty of spares.
Scrolls ('?')
uncursed scroll of information [2s]
// Can't believe that survived the whole way.
heap of 3 uncursed scrolls of vermin control [6s]
heap of 2 uncursed scrolls of danger [4s]
Food ('%')
heap of 3 uncursed loaves of elven bread [9s]
heap of 10 uncursed stomafillia herbs [20s]
heap of 5 blessed stomafillia herbs [10s]
Valuables ('$')
26683 gold pieces [266s]
Gems ('*')
// Snip a page of valuables -- you have to buy that kingship somehow, eh?
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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 2 +2 +0 +0 basic 79
Daggers & knives 7 +6 +3 +1 skilled 726
Clubs & hammers 7 +5 +3 +2 skilled 368
// Skullcrusher -- I meleed a fair number of enemies on D:50
Maces & flails 4 +3 +1 +1 skilled 35
Swords 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 50
Axes 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 50
Whips 1 +1 +0 +1 basic 50
Pole arms 11 +12 +7 +14 Mastery 5932
// Wyrmlance, RCT
Twohanded weapons 1 +1 +1 +0 basic 13
Staves 1 +1 +0 +1 basic 48
Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
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Slings 4 +8 +6 +1 skilled 85
Bows 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 561
Crossbows 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 390
// Slaying ammo wa sugoi
Thrown axes & hammers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 14
Thrown daggers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 14
Thrown rocks & clubs 1 +2 +1 +0 basic 22
Thrown spears 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 10
Boomerangs & scurgari 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 14
Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 10 +20 excellent 2669
Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +68 bonus to hit, 3d4+34 damage
Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 4, base range: 20, +95 bonus to hit, 2d6+50 damage
// I like Far Slayer
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Skills
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Backstabbing .............100 (superb) [+1d5]
Climbing .................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Concentration ............100 (superb) [+1d5]
Courage ..................100 (superb) [+3d3]
Detect traps .............100 (superb) [+1]
Disarm traps .............100 (superb) [+1]
Dodge .................... 72 (great) [+1d5]
First aid ................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Gardening ................ 28 (mediocre) [+3d5]
// PoE
Gemology .................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Haggling ................. 78 (great) [+1d3]
Healing ..................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Herbalism ................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Listening ................100 (superb) [+3d3]
Literacy .................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Metallurgy ...............100 (superb) [+1d5]
Pick pockets .............100 (superb) [+1d3]
Smithing ................. 56 (good) [+1d3]
Stealth ..................100 (superb) [+4d4]
Swimming .................100 (superb) [+3d5]
Tactics ..................100 (superb) [+1]
Two weapon combat ........100 (superb) [+1]
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Spells
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Acid Ball : 1224, 34pp (Effectivity: +8)
Burning Hands : 3151, 4pp (Effectivity: +40)
Create Item : 534, 250pp (Effectivity: +2)
Cure Light Wounds: 980, 5pp (Effectivity: +2)
Earthquake : 156, 80pp (Effectivity: +1)
Fire Bolt : 5608, 5pp (Effectivity: +33)
Fireball : 60, 18pp (Effectivity: +13)
Frost Bolt : 4538, 6pp (Effectivity: +43)
Ice Ball : 49, 36pp (Effectivity: +5)
Improved Fireball: 95, 29pp (Effectivity: +6)
Invisibility : 569, 10pp (Effectivity: +3)
Light : 1332, 1pp (Effectivity: +17)
Lightning Ball : 115, 30pp (Effectivity: +4)
Remove Curse : 1006, 50pp (Effectivity: +2)
Stun Ray : 1043, 8pp (Effectivity: +1)
Teleportation : 804, 21pp (Effectivity: +5)
Web : 986, 12pp (Effectivity: +2)
Wish : 7, 5790pp (Effectivity: +0)
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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 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.
// Do you get "iron fist" if N, "love, happiness, and pleasure" if L?
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His achievements during his adventures:
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Tal, the gray elven elementalist, saved the world with his brave efforts and
became a great ruler while saving himself 70 times.
// I saved often out of fear of bugs.
He scored 40362732 points and advanced to level 50.
He survived for 0 years, 215 days, 22 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds
(178331 turns).
// First winner, took a while.
1 companion was killed during his adventures.
Tal visited 114 places.
His strength score was modified by +29 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +29 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +14 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +9 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +36 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +1 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by -3 during his career.
His mana score was modified by -13 during his career.
// Saved my life, though.
His perception score was modified by +4 during his career.
He was the champion of the arena.
He was a member of the thieves guild.
He made a little water dragon very happy.
He defeated the arch enemy of a mighty karmic wyrm.
He left the Drakalor Chain after completing his quest and became a great
leader and famous hero.
9955 monsters perished before him.
The following 25 artifacts were generated during his adventure:
the si
the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
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 heavy crossbow "The Far Slayer"
the lead-filled mace "Big Punch"
the rune-covered trident
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the phial of Caladriel
the crown of science
the hammer of the gods
the intricate wooden shield "Nature's Friend"
the black torc
the rune-covered club "Skullcrusher"
the glaive "Long Sting"
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the black rune-covered dagger "Needle"
the rune-covered sling "Whirlwind"
the fine leather armor "Nature's Companion"
the dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead"
the black tome of Alsophocus
the shining long spear "Soaker"
// Note the oddness: I never found Nature's Companion and Alsophocus, and don't see where I might have missed them (yes, I ID'd everything from the vaults); the emerald dagger and robes of resistance are missing from the list. Perhaps related to the errors in internal artifact generation?
He possessed the following intrinsics:
He was fire resistant (enhanced through an item).
He was poison resistant (enhanced through an item).
He was acid resistant (enhanced through an item).
He was lucky.
Fate smiled upon him.
He was sleep resistant.
He was able to control teleportation.
He was invisible.
He was resistant to death rays (gained through an item).
He was shock resistant (enhanced through an item).
He was able to see invisible things.
He was immune to ice attacks.
He was able to breathe water.
He was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through an item).
He was a messiah of Ayssia.
He asked for 9 divine interventions.
// one or two in both the MT and D:50, don't remember the others
He was a holy champion of Balance.
The following monsters were vanquished:
// *SNIP*
66 ancient blue dragons
1 ancient blue wyrm
// Nasty fellow.
1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm
// Frost Bolt killed him before he came in view ^_^
1 ancient karmic dragon
// Apparently no ancients in the greater vault, oddly.
34 ancient red dragons
1 Ancient Stone Beast
// Burning Hands -- ye olde fallback tactic
9 balors
// Have I mentioned how much I like slaying ammo?
32 battle bunnies
// Took the long way around. Not as spectacular as an earlier character who found the whole lower corridor full of these guys and chaos spawn.
16 berserkers
6 berserker emperors
7 berserker kings
28 berserker lords
7 berserker princes
// As someone else mentioned, they really need to fix their social hierarchy ^_^
48 blink dogs
// O_o
41 blue baby dragons
41 blue dragons
1 cat lord
// He just kept going. I swear he got stronger after he panicked. Maybe something to do with
13 cave lions
13 cave tigers
10 wild cats
// ^_^''
1 Chaos Archmage
// Nasty guy, as he should be.
3 diamond golems
// Very nasty for spellcasters... unless they have (all together now) construct slaying ammo.
3 doppleganger kings
// No problem if you can blast them from a distance.
1 emperor lich
// No problem, oddly.
3 gorgons
// I've never died to one of these, but they still freak me out just from what I've heard from everyone else.
6 great blue wyrms
25 great karmic wyrms
// Greater vault
2 great red wyrms
// Lesser vaults
1 greater balor
// See "slaying ammo"
1 greater black unicorn
// Shockingly easy.
39 greater mimics
4 greater molochs
1 greater titan
8 invisible stalkers
64 karmic baby dragons
45 karmic dragons
99 karmic lizards
// Greater vault again
1 lich king
// He showed up in the blue dragon caves, at the worst possible moment, of course.
7 master lichs
// Come to think of it, I think I dug up a couple of graves.
17 master mimics
5 mimic hiveminds
// I think I had a mimic tension room or two.
6 molochs
11 quicklings
2 quickling kings
4 quickling lords
2 quickling queens
115 red baby dragons
64 red dragons
1 shadow wyrm
1 titan
1 werewolf king