YAAP: Funcrunch-Wiz-Gno-Fem-Neu, genoless, artiwishless (N..

I'd been chronicling this game a bit in the "Ink shortage and pet
advice" thread. So now I see why many extinctionist posts have said
"never again"... after a month of playing on and off, I just didn't
have the patience anymore. I only managed to extinct 19 species. But I
did achieve certain goals:

- First score over 10 million points
- Learned every spell, and all at 0% failure
- HP and power over 1000 (HP is trivially easy to increase with
alchemy though)
- AC below -50 (despite losing 13 points of protection in an early
prayer accident)
- Ascended with pet (flying on my ki-rin)

And other more trivial things:
- Made a bunch of +8 elven daggers (though didn't end up using them)
- Got one piece of armor enchanted to +7 (small shield)
- Got over 100 dilithium, plus many other gems but couldn't carry
everything

More amusements:
- I had two Archons for much of the late game, and managed to get one
all the way to Astral. Then I got confused by an umber hulk and
accidentally decapitated poor Archie just before getting to the right
altar. He had an AoLS but was in no mood to talk to me when he came
back to life.
- After easily avoiding mind flayers for nearly the entire (genoless)
game I got flayed twice on Astral. I wasn't using conflict (until my
Archon died) and was Burdened, which certainly contributed.
Fortunately I didn't forget anything important.

Funcrunch the Mage St:25 Dx:18 Co:18 In:25 Wi:24 Ch:18 Neutral
S:5851920
Astral Plane $:0 HP:1855(1855) Pw:666(1552) AC:-56 Xp:30/123492826 T:
155162 Burdened

Vanquished creatures
Demogorgon // First time he didn't scare me; I was very prepared
(and this was well before the ascent)
Asmodeus
Baalzebub
Orcus
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (11 times) // Finger of death worked every time
Death (thrice)
Pestilence // Jumping spell helped avoid him
Famine (4 times)
4 arch-liches // Lot fewer of these than I expected, despite altar-
camping on level 24.
[snip]
12676 creatures vanquished. // Why do people bother putting "lowest
single kill"?

Genocided or extinct species:
giant ants (extinct)
killer bees (extinct)
soldier ants (extinct)
fire ants (extinct)
giant beetles (extinct)
cockatrices (extinct) // I saved a bunch of their corpses in an ice
box, then something zapped a wand of digging on that square.
Fortunately not on my stash square right next to it...
wolves (extinct)
wargs (extinct)
winter wolf cubs (extinct)
leprechauns (extinct)
hill orcs (extinct)
Mordor orcs (extinct)
Uruk-hai (extinct)
rock piercers (extinct)
rothes (extinct)
yellow lights (extinct)
Nazguls (extinct) // I collected the rings, but later polypiled them
to try for more increase damage
elf-lords (extinct)
lizards (extinct)
19 species extinct. // I didn't even manage to extinct erinyes - after
getting the Book I just ran as fast as possible

Voluntary challenges
You never genocided any monsters // Damn 'flayers!
You polymorphed 28244 items // I'm an addict
You changed form 1 time // Poly'd to Xorn and ate rings of increase
damage
You used 6 wishes // I think I only got one wand of wishing and one
magic lamp the whole game. Gain ability was smoky so I did get a wish
that way too, but only one, despite blessing and drinking many more.
You did not wish for any artifacts // I almost never do

Your skills at the end
Fighting Skills
riding [Basic] // Was really a pain getting to Basic
skill but worth it for the ki-rins!
Weapon Skills
dagger [Expert]
long sword [Basic]
quarterstaff [Basic]
Spellcasting Skills
attack spells [Expert]
healing spells [Skilled]
divination spells [Expert]
enchantment spells [Skilled]
clerical spells [Skilled]
escape spells [Skilled]
matter spells [Expert]

Goodbye funcrunch the Demigoddess...
You and the invisible Kira
went to your reward with 12788007 points,
Vorpal Blade (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
Magicbane (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
Frost Brand (worth 3000 zorkmids and 7500 points)
The Eye of the Aethiopica (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
116 dilithium crystals (worth 522000 zorkmids),
89 diamonds (worth 356000 zorkmids),
52 jacinth stones (worth 169000 zorkmids), // Should have spent
two minutes looking up gem values; would have taken ruby rather than
jacinth to the demigoddess bar
3 amulets of life saving (worth 450 zorkmids), // Gave extras
to pets
1 amulet of reflection (worth 150 zorkmids),
1 amulet of magical breathing (worth 150 zorkmids), // I don't
know why I kept this
and 0 pieces of gold, after 155162 moves.
Killer: ascended
You were level 30 with a maximum of 1855 hit points when you ascended.

*202 12788007 funcrunch-Wiz-Gno-Fem-Neu ascended
to
demigoddess-hood.
1855 [1855]

funcrunch wrote:
<snip!>
> But I did achieve certain goals:
>
<SNIPPY>
> - Got one piece of armor enchanted to +7 (small shield)

Isn't +7 armour trivial to get with elvish items?

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Zeitgeist