Let's Play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

[7hm]

Go to your settings and look for runrest_messages.txt

Add stop = whatever message you want to force a stop at.

 

[7hm]

So I decided to drop down for a look at Vaults:8...

Thoughts?

If you haven't been there before...

It's a standard entrance to vault. Go back up the stairs and once you're up, blink away, the vault guards will fuck you.

 

[Malakal]

Or cast slouch tree times and watch them die. Yes, they are heavy armored and quite hard hitting but with those stats? They are already dead.

 

[Malakal]

Also thats a SHITTY weapon for this kind of character. Wasnt there a dwarven bearded axe lying around? Just enchant one up to about 7/7 and give it vorpal ego. 51 STR means you will deal insane damage.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Tried that already, it's not doing anything.

Cleared down to dungeon:27 and am now prepping for my run for the orb. Check this shit out:

Stormlock the Backstabber (Spriggan Enchanter) Turns: 112828, Time: 12:41:38

HP 115/115 AC 11 Str 6 Exp: 23/666064 (18), need: 79485
MP 12/43 EV 44 Int 26 God: Nemelex Xobeh [******]
Gold 3430 SH 17 Dex 19 Spells: 13 memorised, 1 level left

Res.Fire : . . . See Invis. : + a - +7 dagger (speed)
Res.Cold : . . . Warding : . A - +7 robe {Archmagi}
Life Prot.: . . . Conserve : + K - +3 buckler of Plasticity {rElec MR EV+6}
Res.Poison: . Res.Corr. : + ( No Fucking Hat!)
Res.Elec. : + Clarity : + m - +2 elf cloak {rCorr, Cons}
Spirit.Shd: . Stasis : . (gloves unavailable)
Sust.Abil.: . . Rnd.Telep. : . (boots unavailable)
Res.Mut. : . Ctrl.Telep.: . f - amulet of faith - Fuck you crawl. You couldn't give me a decent amulet?
Res.Rott. : . Levitation : + y - +5 ring of evasion (Or second ring?)
Saprovore : . . . Ctrl.Flight: + z - ring of the Mage {Wiz MR Int+3}

@: burdened, deflect missiles, flying, very quick, uncannily resistant to
hostile enchantments, very stealthy
A: unfitting armour, beak, horns 1, see invisible, clarity, deformed body 1,
herbivore 3, speed 3, mutation resistance 1, regeneration 1, slow metabolism 3,
Str +1
a: Draw One, Peek at Two, Triple Draw, Mark Four, Stack Five, Renounce Religion


You are in the Ecumenical Temple.
You worship Nemelex Xobeh.
Nemelex Xobeh is exalted by your worship.
You are encumbered.
You are full.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
a - a +7,+7 dagger of speed (weapon)
Armour
m - a +2 elven cloak of preservation (worn)
A - a +7 robe of the Archmagi (worn)
K - the +3 buckler of Plasticity (worn) {rElec MR EV+6}
Magical devices
b - a wand of teleportation (6)
g - a wand of disintegration (6)
J - a wand of cold
S - a wand of fireball
T - a wand of lightning
Scrolls
h - 7 scrolls of blinking
i - 2 scrolls of identify
o - 6 scrolls of teleportation
Q - 5 scrolls of fear
R - a scroll of magic mapping
Jewellery
f - an amulet of faith (around neck)
p - an uncursed ring of levitation
v - the ring "Phaxto" {Regen Dex-3 Int+3}
x - the ring "Skiz" {rPois rN+} (AKA my only other decent randart:2 resists, woo!)
y - a +5 ring of evasion (right hand)
z - the ring of the Mage (left hand) {Wiz MR Int+3}
B - an uncursed ring of protection from cold
G - an uncursed ring of protection from fire
Potions
l - 5 potions of healing
q - 2 potions of invisibility
u - a potion of speed
F - 5 potions of heal wounds
Miscellaneous - Fuck you crawl, you're going down.
c - a legendary deck of summonings {Repulsiveness, left: 5} {god gift}
d - a legendary deck of dungeons {the Map, left: 3} {god gift}
e - a legendary deck of cards {god gift}
j - a legendary deck of summonings {Foxfire, left: 5} {god gift}
k - a legendary deck of cards {god gift}
n - a bone lantern
r - a legendary deck of cards {god gift}
s - a legendary deck of escape {the Portal, left: 5} {god gift}
t - a legendary deck of cards {god gift}
w - a legendary deck of cards {god gift}
C - an ornate deck of escape {drawn: 1} {god gift}
L - a legendary deck of summonings {the Crusade, left: 5} {god gift}
M - a legendary deck of escape {Solitude, left: 5} {god gift}
N - a legendary deck of summonings {Foxfire, left: 5} {god gift}
O - a legendary deck of summonings {Repulsiveness, left: 5} {god gift}
P - a legendary deck of summonings {Foxfire, left: 5} {god gift}
U - a silver rune of Zot
V - a barnacled rune of Zot
W - a legendary deck of summonings {drawn: 1} {god gift}
X - a serpentine rune of Zot
Y - a legendary deck of summonings {drawn: 1} {god gift}
Z - a legendary deck of summonings {drawn: 1} {god gift}


You have 18 experience left.

Skills:
- Level 8 Fighting
- Level 13 Short Blades
+ Level 18 Dodging
+ Level 15 Stealth
- Level 20 Stabbing
- Level 11 Traps & Doors
- Level 15 Spellcasting
- Level 17 Enchantments
- Level 8 Ice Magic
- Level 13 Evocations

^Just the decently leveled skills, I got at least one point in every spell school.


You have one spell level left.
You know the following spells:

Your Spells Type Power Success Level
a - Ensorcelled Hibernat Ice/Ench ####### Excellent 2
b - Extension Ench #########. Excellent 5
c - Blink Tloc N/A Excellent 2
d - Flight Air/Ench ########.. Excellent 4
e - Invisibility Ench ######### Excellent 6
f - Selective Amnesia Ench N/A Excellent 4
g - Conjure Flame Fire/Conj #######.. Excellent 3
h - Haste Ench ######### Excellent 6
i - Summon Butterflies Summ #######... Excellent 1
j - Deflect Missiles Air/Ench ########.. Excellent 6
k - Control Teleport Ench/Tloc ########.. Excellent 4
x - Dispel Undead Necr #######.. Excellent 4
z - Alistair's Intoxicat Pois/Trmt N/A Excellent 4


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (27/27) Temple (1/1) D:5 Orc (4/4) D:6
Elf (7/7) Orc:3 Lair (8/8) D:11 Shoals (5/5) Lair:4
Slime (0/6) Lair:7 Snake (5/5) Lair:6 Hive (2/2) D:12
Vault (8/8) D:16 Blade (0/1) Vault:6 Crypt (0/5) Vault:2
Zot (0/5) D:27

Shops:
D:12: / D:15: * D:17: !(++ D:20: * Orc:1: %= Orc:3: * Elf:3: *
Elf:4: (/[*/ Elf:6: [ Shoals:1: + Snake:1: + Snake:2: + Vault:2: [/(*!
Vault:6: [

Portals:
Hell: D:21 D:22 D:23 D:24 D:25 D:26 D:27 (Is that really necessary?)
Abyss: D:21 D:22 D:25 D:26
Pan: D:24
Ziggurat: D:27 (3780 gp)

Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations
{Spriggan crap}
You have a beak for a mouth.
You have a pair of small horns on your head.
You possess an exceptional clarity of mind.
Armour fits poorly on your unusually shaped body. Oh noes!
You are somewhat resistant to further mutation.
Your natural rate of healing is unusually fast.
Your muscles are strong (Str +1).


Message History

I should have taken a screenshot of me sacrificing my spellbook pile. Got 3! fucking legendary decks just from that. This was after marking all my shit so I could get piety back up for card power. Though now I need to go buy a book for apportation. Derp.

Vanquished Creatures
Saint Roka (D:18)
A lich (Vault:3)
7 shadow dragons (Vault:8)
2 titans (Vault:8)
A deep elf blademaster (Elf:7)
3 sphinxes
2 storm dragons
Agnes (D:17)
Rupert (Elf:6)
Francis (Vault:6)
5 frost giants
Donald (Snake:4)

There were a pile of other uniques but didn't feel like going far down the list.

So, who wants to place odds on my actually getting to the orb, and subsequently escaping? Also, I put it in quote instead of code so I could bold my comments. The only part code helps anyways is the resists, which aren't that hard to read.

 

[Yeesh]

How do you get this setup instead of only one at a time? I'd love to be able to see monsters and inventory simultaneously.

Is it a tweak I can make to release, or is it only available in trunk?

 

[Ashery]

It's just vanilla trunk.

And using Slouch was my first consideration. If I take more than, say, 20% damage I'll blink away and get another three or four casts in before they're on me.

The problem is, if that *doesn't* work, I'm completely fucked as that's my only blink scroll.

Edit:

I'd say killing eight and surviving to be a success. Slouch wasn't doing *nearly* enough damage to stick around on the level (two casts, all were roughly 70% hp) for me to take out every one, so I decided to play it safe (had barely taken any damage by that point) and bail up the staircase. Didn't dip below 80% hp while fighting all eight guards that followed, so a return visit is possible.

Even managed to get a +1 large shield with rF+ out of it. Mmm...SH 49...

 

[Damned Registrations]

 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.7.1-1-g7ce9b19 character file.

1147688 Stormlock the Backstabber (level 23, 115/115 HPs)
             Began as a Spriggan Enchanter on Feb 5, 2011.
             Was the Champion of Nemelex Xobeh.
             Escaped with the Orb
             ... and 3 runes (of 3 types) on Feb 14, 2011!
             
             The game lasted 13:26:46 (116443 turns).
113326 | Snake:1 | Bought a book of Burglary for 1200 gold pieces
113329 | Snake:1 | Learned a level 1 spell: Apportation
114316 | Zot:1   | Entered Level 1 of the Realm of Zot
115717 | Zot:5   | Entered Level 5 of the Realm of Zot
115725 | Zot:5   | Noticed an ancient lich
115746 | Zot:5   | Received a gift from Nemelex Xobeh
115748 | Zot:5   | Noticed an orb of fire
115748 | Zot:5   | Noticed an orb of fire
115748 | Zot:5   | Noticed an ancient lich
115776 | Zot:5   | Defeated an ancient lich
115778 | Zot:5   | Got the Orb of Zot
116162 | D:15    | Noticed Schileq the pandemonium lord
116443 | D:$     | Escaped with the Orb!

Zot was a lot hairier than I expected, especially Zot 5. At least now I know what to expect next time. Hatless spriggan with no resists except elec and magic and clarity ftw! Suck on that golden dragon! Wasn't even fucking poison immune. Also, I actually spent less than 100 turns in Zot 5. Next time I visit, I'm cleaning that place out.

Also: Summon Butterflies is one of the most overpowered spells in the entire game. So funny stopping abominations and hellhounds dead in their tracks with a swarm of butterflies for several turns for 1 lousy MP.

 

[hoverdog]

 

[7hm]

 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.7.1-1-g7ce9b19 character file.

1147688 Stormlock the Backstabber (level 23, 115/115 HPs)
             Began as a Spriggan Enchanter on Feb 5, 2011.
             Was the Champion of Nemelex Xobeh.
             Escaped with the Orb
             ... and 3 runes (of 3 types) on Feb 14, 2011!
             
             The game lasted 13:26:46 (116443 turns).
113326 | Snake:1 | Bought a book of Burglary for 1200 gold pieces
113329 | Snake:1 | Learned a level 1 spell: Apportation
114316 | Zot:1   | Entered Level 1 of the Realm of Zot
115717 | Zot:5   | Entered Level 5 of the Realm of Zot
115725 | Zot:5   | Noticed an ancient lich
115746 | Zot:5   | Received a gift from Nemelex Xobeh
115748 | Zot:5   | Noticed an orb of fire
115748 | Zot:5   | Noticed an orb of fire
115748 | Zot:5   | Noticed an ancient lich
115776 | Zot:5   | Defeated an ancient lich
115778 | Zot:5   | Got the Orb of Zot
116162 | D:15    | Noticed Schileq the pandemonium lord
116443 | D:$     | Escaped with the Orb!

Zot was a lot hairier than I expected, especially Zot 5. At least now I know what to expect next time. Hatless spriggan with no resists except elec and magic and clarity ftw! Suck on that golden dragon! Wasn't even fucking poison immune. Also, I actually spent less than 100 turns in Zot 5. Next time I visit, I'm cleaning that place out.

Also: Summon Butterflies is one of the most overpowered spells in the entire game. So funny stopping abominations and hellhounds dead in their tracks with a swarm of butterflies for several turns for 1 lousy MP.

Nice work!!
way to the thread

 

[dextermorgan]

 

[Yeesh]

 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.7.1-1-g7ce9b19 character file.

1147688 Stormlock the Backstabber (level 23, 115/115 HPs)
             Began as a Spriggan Enchanter on Feb 5, 2011.
             Was the Champion of Nemelex Xobeh.
             Escaped with the Orb
             ... and 3 runes (of 3 types) on Feb 14, 2011!
             
             The game lasted 13:26:46 (116443 turns).
113326 | Snake:1 | Bought a book of Burglary for 1200 gold pieces
113329 | Snake:1 | Learned a level 1 spell: Apportation
114316 | Zot:1   | Entered Level 1 of the Realm of Zot
115717 | Zot:5   | Entered Level 5 of the Realm of Zot
115725 | Zot:5   | Noticed an ancient lich
115746 | Zot:5   | Received a gift from Nemelex Xobeh
115748 | Zot:5   | Noticed an orb of fire
115748 | Zot:5   | Noticed an orb of fire
115748 | Zot:5   | Noticed an ancient lich
115776 | Zot:5   | Defeated an ancient lich
115778 | Zot:5   | Got the Orb of Zot
116162 | D:15    | Noticed Schileq the pandemonium lord
116443 | D:$     | Escaped with the Orb!

BAD ASS

EDIT:
First, I just whacked through Icy Swamp 5, and it was a joke. Hydra simulacrum are total pussies and give barely any XP, though Ice dragons are chilly. Inside the vault there was the rune, but no treasure other than one stack of poison needles. Ain't there supposed to be treasure?

Second, is anyone old enough to remember that song that goes "Wrap it up, I'll take it?" Sometimes I sing, "Chop it up, I'll eat it" to myself while I'm playing Crawl. It's a good thing I live alone.

 

[Ashery]

indeed.

 

[Yeesh]

Acquirement for the level 18 character who's not wearing a single piece of randart armor and got a duplicate pair of gloves of dexterity last time take two:

You continue taking off your +2 pair of gloves of dexterity.
You finish taking off your +2 pair of gloves of dexterity.
You feel clumsy.
You start putting on your armour.
You continue putting on your pair of glowing gloves.
You finish putting on your +1 pair of gloves of strength.
You feel stronger.

Fuck this game. Fuck it with a plunger.

EDIT: Wow look, my first randart amulet! And it's not cursed!!! Finally some resistances or something! Anything! It doesn't do anything when I put it on so I'll burn an ID!

H - a wavering bone amulet (around neck) {tried}
Read which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
As you read the scroll, it crumbles to dust.
Identify which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
H - the amulet of Emapinam (around neck) {Ward -CAST}

Oh.

 

[Damned Registrations]

That's pretty bad. Last two acquire scroll my spriggan burned netted him a pair of cloaks, neither of which was nearly as useful as my elven cloak of preservation. I think the first was a plain cloak of preservation and the second was magic resistance.

What really pissed me off though, was that I never managed to find a hat. 27 dungeon levels, vaults, snake pit, shoals, elf, irc, hive, a portal or two, and not one fucking hat. What the hell?

Also, if your character is a trog worshipper, that amulet is still better than the fucking amulet of faith I wore all game long. At least warding does something in combat.

 

[Yeesh]

Oh wow. Oh wow oh wow oh wow. Crunchy just died to the interface. I mean, he was in dire straights so maybe he wouldn't have made it anyway, but oh fucking wow.

OK, I cruise through the first four levels of the Shoals. Total joke. I pop down to 5, and check it out, all these orcs in the water, and I'm in the perfect defensive position, and the merfolks are trapped behind plants. And of course I'm not paying attention, and the merfolks are biting through the plants and their stupid turtles apparently can hit from 2 away (how cute) and this Saint Roka guy smites of course, so I berserk. And I kill Roka, and I kill orc after orc after orc, and despite the fact that I'm killing the fuck out of everything, berserk ends. I thought slaughter extended it, but oh no it doesn't. Then there's a merfolk on the stairs, and I'm like fuck let's try to kill him. Then my health is almost out and I'm like, "This is a problem for RPGCodex." I mean, I was fucked, no doubt, but I had two scrolls each of blink and teleport, and I had the wisdom of the Codex, so Crunchy could have pulled through:

So I take the screenshot, and I do a character dump, and then I think I'd like to count how many orcs I killed so I can complain about how lame it is that berserk didn't keep up, because I was tearing through them, and what the fuck good is fucking berserk if it runs out even when you're killing? So I click on the message history.

So on the message history you can scroll up and down with the arrow keys. So I scrolled up a bit, scrolled down. Held down the arrows each way while I did it. It turns out, if you scroll down far enough you just exit the fucking message log and you're back in the game. I attacked the plant beneath me for three straight turns and died before I even knew what happened.

I don't even know if I'm mad or not. I'm in shock. What a stupid, stupid death. I spent hours on this fucker, and the message history was the hardest boss of all.

 

[7hm]

Ok... so if you haven't tried Felid, do it.

They're a very unique experience.

I just had the most unsatisfying level 11 character ever - a FeBe. I felt like I didn't earn it.

I'm doing a FeCr now and it's a lot of fun though.

I think without magic they'd be super boring. Trog is only so interesting...

Edit: ^^^^^^ You poor bastard.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Well they can't use most items so yeah, you need magic to keep them interesting. Other Troglings at least have wands and shit to play with. Oh, and Felids are brokenly overpowered in Zot Defense. When you revive it unrots all your hp, so you don't even have to tank the fucking orb yourself.

@Yeesh: I hate deaths like that. It's my one gripe with permadeath; sometimes you really didn't die fairly. And I don't mean walking down the stairs and imploding to stupid monsters, I mean interface shit or game crashes and the like. Or the cat walks across the keyboard. You totally could have survived that too, that patch of land behind the plant to the left would have been the perfect spot to blink to, the plant would have blocked any thrown shit and you could have escape further from there.

 

[Zomg]

The way simulacra work is that they're weakass zombies except that they do a shocking amount of cold damage. Something like a stone giant or hydra simulacrum can kill a spriggan or deep elf with no resist from full in one turn with good rolls.

Edit - condolences dawg

I tried the new trunk Okawaru; They changed Might to "Heroism", which gives you a +5 to most non-spellcasting skills and is nice in both the early and midgame, useless late. Haste became "Finesse", which is a haste-effect that only works on your actions rather than your movement - but it's unnerfed haste, meaning a 100% speed boost rather than the nerfed 50%. However, I still prefer Trog or Makhleb for melee characters because they have a method of rapid healing that doesn't require me to find a ring of regeneration, which I never did in this game.

The demon blade of speed was dropped by one of Margaery's hell knights on like DL 25; I had unfortunately wasted a ton of enchant weapon II and III on a gifted double sword already. With finesse running, a demon blade of speed with a demonspawn, and +7 slaying bonus this dude was a blender in melee.

Shield of resistance is also one of the artifacts where I go "yerp" when I see it. The demonspawn scale mutations are also very sick when you realize they're almost doubled in effect by guaranteed damage resistance on de-nerfed trunk armor.

1503990 Fritz the Demonic Blade (level 27, 210/237 HPs)
             Began as a Demonspawn Artificer on Feb 13, 2011.
             Was a High Priest of Okawaru.
             Escaped with the Orb
             ... and 3 runes (of 3 types)!
             
             The game lasted 05:06:31 (90296 turns).

Fritz the Demonic Blade (Demonspawn Artificer)     Turns: 90296, Time: 05:06:31

HP 210/237       AC 33     Str 29      Exp: 27/1393740 (1)
MP  27/27        EV 12     Int 21      God: Okawaru [*****.]
Gold 1940        SH 36     Dex 14      Spells:  0 memorised, 28 levels left

Res.Fire  : + + .   See Invis. : +   a - +4,+6 demon blade (speed)
Res.Cold  : + + +   Warding    : .   Z - +5 ice dragon armour
Life Prot.: + . .   Conserve   : +   g - +5 shield of Resistance {rF+ rC+ MR}
Res.Acid. : + . .   Res.Corr.  : +   A - +0 helmet {SInv} {god gift}
Res.Poison: .       Clarity    : .   M - -1 cloak {rCorr, Cons}
Res.Elec. : +       Spirit.Shd : .   L - +1 pair of dwarf gloves {Str+3} {god gift}
Sust.Abil.: . .     Stasis     : .   (boots unavailable)
Res.Mut.  : +       Ctrl.Telep.: .   t - amulet of resist mutation
Res.Rott. : .       Levitation : .   J - ring of Yredelemnul's Whim {rN+ Str+5 Int+
Saprovore : . . .   Ctrl.Flight: .   v - ring "Efay" {rElec rF+ Acc+1 Dam+3}

@: slow, incredibly resistant to hostile enchantments, unstealthy
A: hooves 3, berserk 1, conserve scrolls, fire resistance 1, hurl hellfire,
-10% mp, magic resistance 3, screaming 1, slowness 1, powered by pain 3, AC +8,
Int +1
a: Hellfire, Heroism, Finesse, Renounce Religion


You escaped.
You worshipped Okawaru.
Okawaru was exalted by your worship.
You were not hungry.

You visited 10 branches of the dungeon, and saw 66 of its levels.
You visited 1 Labyrinth.
You visited 1 bazaar.
You visited 3 portal chambers: ossuary, volcano, ice cave.

You collected 7655 gold pieces.
You spent 5735 gold pieces at shops.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 a - a +4,+6 demon blade of speed (weapon)
 b - the +9,+12 sling "Punk" {god gift, frost, rC+}
   (Okawaru gifted it to you on level 20 of the Dungeon)   
   It turns projectiles fired from it into bolts of frost.
   It protects you from cold.
Missiles
 l - 10 steel +0 sling bullets {god gift}
 C - 10 steel +4 sling bullets {god gift}
 S - 19 steel +2 sling bullets {god gift}
Armour
 g - the +5 shield of Resistance (worn) {rF+ rC+ MR}
   (You found it on level 3 of the Lair of Beasts)   
   It protects you from fire.
   It protects you from cold.
   It increases your resistance to enchantments.
 h - a +2 pair of bracers of archery {god gift}
 A - a +0 helmet of see invisible (worn) {god gift}
 L - a +1 pair of dwarven gloves of strength (worn) {god gift}
 M - a -1 cloak of preservation (worn)
 W - the -5 cloak of Zouq {god gift, +Blink rF+ MR Int+3}
   (Okawaru gifted it to you on level 1 of the Realm of Zot)   
   It affects your intelligence (+3).
   It protects you from fire.
   It increases your resistance to enchantments.
   It lets you blink.
 Z - a +5 ice dragon armour (worn)
Magical devices
 k - a wand of hasting (7)
 n - a wand of digging (0)
 w - a wand of disintegration (7)
Comestibles
 B - 2 meat rations
 G - 6 bread rations
Scrolls
 d - 10 scrolls of fear
 i - 2 scrolls of remove curse
 s - 3 scrolls of magic mapping
 z - 8 scrolls of detect curse
 D - 8 scrolls of identify
 F - 3 scrolls of fog
 I - 5 scrolls of blinking
Jewellery
 c - the ring "Frageevo" {rF+ Str+2 Int-3}
   (You found it on level 3 of the Realm of Zot)   
   [ring of protection from fire]
   It affects your strength (+2).
   It affects your intelligence (-3).
 f - an uncursed amulet of stasis
 m - an uncursed ring of levitation
 t - an amulet of resist mutation (around neck)
 u - an uncursed ring of teleportation
 v - the ring "Efay" (left hand) {rElec rF+ Acc+1 Dam+3}
   (You bought it in a shop in a bazaar)   
   [ring of protection from fire]
   It affects your accuracy (+1).
   It affects your damage-dealing abilities (+3).
   It insulates you from electricity.
 x - an uncursed ring of poison resistance
 J - the ring of Yredelemnul's Whim (right hand) {rN+ Str+5 Int+3 Dam+4}
   (You found it on level 10 of the Dungeon)   
   [ring of life protection]
   It affects your strength (+5).
   It affects your intelligence (+3).
   It affects your damage-dealing abilities (+4).
 N - an uncursed ring of protection from cold
 O - an uncursed ring of life protection
 T - the amulet "Bevu" {+Rage rN+ Dex+3 Curse}
   (You found it on level 5 of the Swamp)   
   [amulet of rage]
   It affects your dexterity (+3).
   It protects you from negative energy.
   It may recurse itself.
 U - an uncursed amulet of resist corrosion
 V - the amulet of Cekugob {Ward -TELE Hunger rElec rPois rN+ AC+1 EV+1}
   (You bought it in a shop on level 21 of the Dungeon)   
   [amulet of warding]
   It affects your AC (+1).
   It affects your evasion (+1).
   It insulates you from electricity.
   It protects you from poison.
   It protects you from negative energy.
   It prevents most forms of teleportation.
   It speeds your metabolism. 
Potions
 e - 3 potions of speed
 o - 4 potions of agility
 p - 2 potions of invisibility
 q - 3 potions of resistance
 r - a potion of restore abilities
 Q - 2 potions of might
Books
 E - a manual of Fighting   
Orbs of Power
 y - the Orb of Zot
Miscellaneous
 j - a serpentine rune of Zot
 R - a decaying rune of Zot
 X - a silver rune of Zot


 You had 1 experience left.

   Skills:
 + Level 21 Fighting
 - Level 4 Short Blades
 + Level 25 Long Blades
 + Level 10 Slings
 - Level 3 Throwing
 + Level 15 Armour
 - Level 7 Dodging
 + Level 4 Stealth
 - Level 2 Stabbing
 + Level 17 Shields
 + Level 6 Traps & Doors
 - Level 10 Unarmed Combat
 + Level 1 Spellcasting
 - Level 5 Invocations
 + Level 7 Evocations

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Vanquished Creatures
  An ancient lich (Zot:5)
  Tiamat (Zot:3)
  6 orbs of fire
  Saint Roka (D:24)
  Boris (Vault:3)
  the Lernaean hydra (Swamp:5)
  Norris (Swamp:3)
  Mara (Vault:6)
  Margery (D:23)
  2 illusory Maras (Vault:6)
  5 electric golems
  Frederick (Vault:1)
  A demon lord (D:23)
  17 Orb Guardians (Zot:5)

 

[dextermorgan]

My condolences Yeesh, that was a pretty good run. You gonna do another?

On a different note, am I alone in being creeped out by goddamn toadstools that grow over corpses?

 

[7hm]

Congrats zomg.

Just found a +4 and a +5 ring of int by dl:5. Jesus.

 

[Damned Registrations]

My favourite is in nethack, where you hang around for the corpses to rot so lichen can grow on them, so you can kill THAT and carry it around as permafood.

Grats on the win Zomg. Those are some sweet artifacts.

I'm going to play in trunk from now on, so I'll probably be dicking with armor soon. But first I want to try clearing dungeon sprint at least once. I think if zero'd in on a winning combo: Ogre Hunter. There's so few enemies that you can pretty much use the boulders through the whole map, especially if you enchant them early. And thrown boulders just rape. Plus you can go for either Trog or spellcasting depending on which altars/shops you get early. Though my latest runner got chomped by a fucking 12 headed hydra with what appeared to be double normal speed for no apparent reason. Even 150 hp go down fast to a 12 headed hydra when you got no evasion or armor. And of course I couldn't berserk because the room has a fucking eyeball in it so I had to wear stasis. My kingdom for a blindfold.

Judging by your gifts, I think Oka is pretty much the archer god now. Those are nice ammo gifts, the sling is amazing, and +100% attack speed is a shitload more impressive when you're firing arrows and don't have to run around.

 

[Zomg]

Punk is a fixed artifact; it's pretty rare to see it and it was the first serious sling Okie produced. Trog is really even better than Okawaru, you're almost sure to have a sling or crossbow with a huge damage bonus by halfway through Lair with a Trogling.

I think the current implementation of archery is too strong, steel ammo is too good, enchant weapon I sucks for anything but making ammo sick, etc. So I just use it to kill fleeing enemies and minor shit like that rather than build it up to really high levels. If I were trying to run streaks on CAO with random characters or something I'd probably use archery with every shitty class/race, but that was just sloppy a test drive game.

 

[dextermorgan]

My favourite is in nethack, where you hang around for the corpses to rot so lichen can grow on them, so you can kill THAT and carry it around as permafood.

That's pretty cool. I only played nethack long enough to get my tourist killed in a horrible manner though.

Quick question - is there a point in additionally enchanting branded daggers like dagger of poison (+0, +1 currently).

 

[Damned Registrations]

Yeah, branded daggers are the ones you want to enchant ideally. You can't enchant artifacts after all. As for venom in particular, that's a pretty meh brand in the long run.The brands with fire, ice, speed, slaying (Holy wrath, orc slaying, etc.) or physical extra damage benefit the most from the damage enchants (enchant weapon 2, or the Y part of +X, +Y) but anything will be more useful with extra accuracy.

Chaos, Distortion, Venom, Electrocution, Pain, Draining and probably some other thing I'm forgetting, do flat amounts of extra damage, so they're nicer on faster weapons and don't matter as much if they lack damage bonuses.

Remember you can enchant missile weapons too though, if you bother to use them. +7 darts will last a long fucking time.