Without using my final two wishes, I did ascend that Valkyrie. This is
my first ascension not using the tiles (instead using the console
version), first ascension since coming back to nethack after almost two
years off, and third ascension overall (both previous were Valks). Time,
I think, to move on to a different class. (Which, of course, was the
idea until I got sick of dying as wizards/tourists and decided to play "a
short valkyrie game...")
The details:
The start of the game was fairly common Valk bash-and-grab. Then one of
the wands in Sokoban turned out to be a wand of wishing. I stared in
surprise when engrave-ID'ing tells me "You may wish for an object." The
wand was 0:3, too. I got 2 scrolls of charging out of the deal and
finished Soko to see what it would give me. Once I saw the amulet level,
I wished up an AK fitting that; GDSM and a Cloak of Protection, Speed
Boots, and GoPower. Found a helm of brilliance just lying on the ground
in the mines, and a tourist bones provided a Hawaiian shirt. Enchanted
the armor a bit.
Made a lot of trips back and forth to minetown buying protection and sac-
festing (lawful altar). Got Mjollnir, had Excalibur already. On the
last trip I accidentally angered the watch, and the watch-captain
provided me with a silver saber. I enchanted it up (had to redo after
meeting a Disenchanter) and twoweaponed it and Excalibur most of the game.
Found a ring of conflict and a ring of levitation. ID'd most of my stash
with blessed identify. Wished up a ring of free action, a magic marker,
and scrolls of genocide, reverse-geno'd nurses. Having unholy water and
holy water made my life a lot easier. Got rid of L and h, then ;, though
next time I think I'll leave ; and get rid of Disenchanters/
Rustmonsters. Tamed a grey dragon at the castle.
Between nurse dancing and blessed *healing, I was up to nearly 300HP
before waking Rodney. I also dug out the paths and marked the Vibrating
Square before waking him, and quaffed some Gain Level, getting me up to
XP 19 and HP 304. Woke Rodney, instadeath'd him with Orcus's wand.
Another random enemy, I think a demon, provided me with a second wand of
death.
Dragon ate a chameleon corpse, became a feline of some type; forget which
now. Found a poly-trap and whistled her back to being a dragon -- red
this time. In the sanctum, she died fairly quickly, but I didn't see
what did it. Cursed Gain level after getting the amulet, naming
it,checking it. Mysterious Force didn't bother me until I got up about
seven levels, and I got it twice in a row and had to repeat most of
Gehennom. I was not pleased.
The run after escaping the Valley of the Dead was easy. Rodney only
bothered me twice in the dungeon proper; once at Medusa, once around
Dlvl8. the Medusa time, he took a few shots -- the wand missed him --
that nearly killed me on Astral.
The planes were easy -- XyZZy's suggestion of forgotten spells plus ?oGD
made them a cinch. Rested once in a steam vortex on air when my HP got
low on air. Levitated across water to the general area of the portal and
found the bubble easily. On Astral, Pestilence was to my immediate left,
so I went that way first. /oD'd him, the altar wasn't right. On my way
out, he got close to me, and both /oD were drained. I was losing HP fast
(got down to 142 even with the blessed unihorn).
Desperation, I zapped Pestilence with a /oTele and recharged the wands.
Ate a blessed tin of nurse I made in Hell. Went up the middle, where
Death was. Teleported him away once, then just killed him. When I got
in the middle temple, a giant went to flee...
So I sac'd the amulet:
You ascend to the status of Demigoddess...--More--
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Heather3 the Swashbuckler St:25 Dx:17 Co:18 In:12 Wi:19 Ch:8 Lawful
Astral Plane $:0 HP:228(287)
(Heather was the first Valk I ascended, so I figured maybe it was a lucky
name... not so lucky for Heather2, though.)
My equipment, final run:
Amulets
h - an uncursed amulet of reflection (being worn)
Weapons
a - the blessed rustproof +5 Excalibur (weapon in hand)
K - a +6 silver saber (wielded in other hand)
Armor
t - an uncursed +5 gray dragon scale mail (being worn)
v - a blessed fireproof +4 cloak of protection (being worn)
w - a blessed fireproof +4 pair of speed boots (being worn)
x - a blessed rustproof +5 pair of gauntlets of power (being worn)
A - a blessed rustproof +3 helm of brilliance (being worn)
I - a blessed +5 Hawaiian shirt (being worn)
Rings
e - an uncursed ring of levitation
D - a blessed ring of conflict
J - an uncursed ring of free action (on right hand)
Still had the invocation stuff, but nothing else of note left in my
supplies, really. Except:
Contents of the oilskin sack:
2 blessed scrolls of remove curse
a potion of holy water
a wand of wishing (1:1)
Final Attributes:
You were piously aligned.
You were fire resistant.
You were cold resistant.
You were sleep resistant.
You were disintegration-resistant.
You were shock resistant.
You were poison resistant.
You were level-drain resistant.
You were magic-protected.
You saw invisible.
You were telepathic.
You had automatic searching.
You were invisible to others.
You were stealthy.
You aggravated monsters.
You were protected.
You were very fast.
You had reflection.
You had free action.
You were wielding two weapons at once.
You were lucky.
You had extra luck.
Good luck did not time out for you.
You survived.
Highlight of the vanquished critters:
Asmodeus
Baalzebub
Orcus
Yeenoghu
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (6 times)
Death
Pestilence
a high priest
Medusa
7 Angels
15 aligned priests
2318 creatures vanquished.
Does that seem kind of low? It feels like it is.
Genocided
species:
hobbits
dwarves
--------- bugbears
|.......| dwarf lords
----- |....@..| dwarf kings
...| |...@H..| mind flayers
---------..-- --------- |...A...| master mind
flayers
|.......|...-- -- -- | |...A...| | liches
|.......|.%.%--- % --|. ----A---- .| demiliches
|..._...%.%.%)- ||.............| master liches
|.......|.%..--- ! -----....D....--- arch-liches
|.......|...-- I $ -- -----|----- jellyfish
---------..-- -%---- piranhas
...| ------ sharks
----- ) giant eels
----- -- electric eels
-- ) krakens
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$ 17 species
genocided.
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Heather3 the Swashbuckler St:25 Dx:17 Co:18 In:12 Wi:19 Ch:8 Lawful
Astral Plane $:0 HP:228(287) Pw:78(7
AC:-40 Exp:19 T:55877
Voluntary challenges:
You genocided 17 types of
monsters.
You never changed form.
-------- You used 10 wishes.
|....... You did not wish for any
artifacts.
Farvel Heather3 the Demigoddess...
You went to your reward with 2963772 points,
Excalibur (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
The Orb of Fate (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
Mjollnir (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
The Bell of Opening (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
The Candelabrum of Invocation (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
The Book of the Dead (worth 10000 zorkmids and 25000 points)
1 black opal (worth 2500 zorkmids),
1 chrysoberyl stone (worth 700 zorkmids),
1 amulet of life saving (worth 150 zorkmids),
1 amulet of change (worth 150 zorkmids),
1 amulet of unchanging (worth 150 zorkmids),
1 amulet of reflection (worth 150 zorkmids),
1 amulet of magical breathing (worth 150 zorkmids),
and 0 pieces of gold, after 55877 moves.
You were level 19 with a maximum of 287 hit points when you ascended.
Being as how this is the first ascension and on my own machine, I of
course made the top of the top ten list... Wish I still had the TopTen
from my old Windows box, to compare the scores.
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