[If anyone is wondering, this leads on from the Monk Advice thread from
earlier this week.]
This was my second ever ascension (first was Tourist). I'd been
practicing monks, trying to get the hang of their idiosyncratic style
of play. Then I got one that was unnaturally good.
Notable challenges:
Polypileless: well, I don't see this as a challenge, especially since I
only found one /oP during the game. I've never enjoyed polypiling, it
has too low a return on effort.
Genoless: This is a completely different kettle of fish. I've never had
to deal with (master) mind flayers or purple L properly before, and
damn, they're annoying as hell. They don't actually do much to your HP,
but they surround you with monsters, and curse all your stuff.
(Vlad's throne actually gave me a genocide, to which I replied "none".)
Body-armorless: This is the only monk-style challenge I kept. I wore
shields, I ate meat, I wielded weapons, but I never put on a suit of
armor. I didn't get reflection til medusa (perseus left his shield
behind), and I didn't get MR til the castle wand, when I wished for a
CoMR. Once I got the Eyes, I put my original robe back on again, but
then once I killed Rodney I got paranoid about losing them and got out
my CoMR instead.
Notable blunders:
* Wishing for the Eye of the Aethiopica as a Chaotic. Doh!
* Wishing for a spellbook of FoD to use against Master Kaen, when the
Eyes give MR. Double Doh!
* Reading a spellbook dug from a grave without checking to see if it
might possibly be cursed. Lost a spellbook of identify that way.
* Not finding the right altar on the astral plane until the FIFTH one I
visited. I started at the left (pestilence), but for some reason didn't
register that it was chaotic. Then I went to the centre (lost about 70
max HP to death in the corridor), then to right (there was a tricky
moment in a doorway when famine was next to me and I quickly wrote a
charging scroll, charged my /oD, and zapped him with it). Then when I
noticed that the one at the right wasn't chaotic, I backtracked again,
to centre (bounding past Death with my jumping boots), and to left.
* Losing the Book of the Dead in a pool in the tower - again. Luckily,
an arch-lich fetched it out for me. Stupidly, I rubber chickened that
arch-lich too, sending both the book and his statue into the water.
I tried looking for a wand of cold to freeze the water. Then I went
downstairs and grabbed a bullwhip from one of the monsters, and went
fishing. (I didn't know that this was possible; I had only just come up
with the idea and wondered if TDTTOE). Unfortunately, the arch-lich
statue was just too big to pull up. Then I suddenly thought to write an
earth scroll, which rescued the book nicely for me.
Interesting times:
* I #untrapped a demilich from a pit in Gehennom. The demilich was
grateful
Remeber kids, when you genocide L, you wipe out the nice,
reasonable ones as well as the psychopaths!
* I summoned Yeenoghu on an altar. I was just trying to get him out of
the way so I didn't encounter him in Gehennom. Unfortunately, on the
ascension run, my fast typing hit him, so I had to kill him anyway.
* The mysterious force made me go through Orcus town 3 or 4 times. Bah.
* The plain of earth was easy. I got a spare wand of death here.
* The plain of air was tough. I only had 1 scroll of gold detection (I
didn't see any til well into the ascension run), and I used it here.
The portal was as far away as could be possible. I went through 2
potions of full healing and an amulet of life-saving from the air
elementals.
* The plain of fire was very quick, like 6 or 7 turns
* The plain of water was dull. I stayed in my bubble and killed water
elementals until I'd been round the screen once. Then I tried crossing
to another bubble. Finally I bumbled into the portal.
* Big thanks to whoever suggested keeping a wand of secret door
detection for the sanctum, and to levelport down there instead of
taking the stairs. I only wish I'd had a cursed potion of gain level to
get me out again...
Partial dumplog:
An invisible choir sings, and you are bathed in radiance...--More--
The voice of Huan Ti booms: "Congratulations, mortal!"--More--
"In return for thy service, I grant thee the gift of
Immortality!"--More--
You ascend to the status of Demigod...--More--
Do you want your possessions identified? [ynq]
Amulets
d - an uncursed amulet of reflection // never wore this
I - an uncursed amulet of life saving
Z - an uncursed amulet of life saving (being worn)
Weapons
z - a cursed +0 bullwhip // fishing rod
K - 13 blessed rustproof +6 daggers (in quiver)
Armor
c - a cursed greased rustproof +5 helm of brilliance (being worn)
k - an uncursed fireproof +3 pair of gauntlets of dexterity (being
worn)
q - an uncursed fireproof +5 pair of jumping boots (being worn)
B - a blessed greased fireproof +5 cloak of magic resistance (being
worn)
L - an uncursed +5 Hawaiian shirt (being worn)
S - an uncursed +4 shield of reflection (being worn)
Comestibles
j - 2 uncursed lembas wafers
Rings
e - a cursed ring of conflict (on left hand)
E - an uncursed +2 ring of increase damage (on right hand)
F - a cursed ring of levitation
Wands
a - a wand of digging (0:2)
b - a thoroughly rusty wand of secret door detection (0:
f - a thoroughly rusty wand of digging (0:7)
g - a cursed wand of cancellation (0:2)
h - a wand of teleportation (0:4)
n - a wand of create monster (0:10)
o - a wand of death (1:0)
v - a wand of fire (0:6)
w - a wand of polymorph (0:
x - a wand of digging (0:6)
H - a wand of death (2:2)
Q - a wand of magic missile (0:5)
T - a wand of fire (0:4)
Y - a cursed wand of lightning (0:6)
Tools
l - a can of grease (0:2)
p - a cursed very rusty very corroded +0 pick-axe
r - an uncursed sack
t - an uncursed thoroughly rusty skeleton key
u - an uncursed stethoscope
J - a blessed greased bag of holding
P - the uncursed Eyes of the Overworld (being worn)
R - a magic marker (1:10)
U - a blessed +0 unicorn horn
Gems
O - an uncursed luckstone
Contents of the sack:
a blessed scroll of remove curse // for emergency BoH de-cursing
a potion of unholy water
a thoroughly rusty wand of cancellation (0:7)
Contents of the bag of holding:
a blessed potion of speed
7 potions of holy water
2 blessed scrolls of remove curse
the blessed rustproof +1 Demonbane [from an Archon]
a blessed greased fireproof +5 robe
an uncursed spellbook of cone of cold
a cursed scroll of create monster
an uncursed scroll of identify
an uncursed +0 pair of water walking boots
the rustproof +0 Fire Brand
a cursed ring of invisibility named two
the blessed rustproof +0 Dragonbane
the +0 Werebane
an uncursed scroll of enchant armor
an uncursed amulet of life saving
2 uncursed jade stones
a cursed ring of invisibility named one
a cursed scroll of enchant weapon
an uncursed agate stone
4 uncursed jade stones
an uncursed scroll of magic mapping
an uncursed rusty ring of regeneration
5 cursed scrolls of teleportation
a blessed scroll of taming
the fireproof +0 Sting [best divine gift by far, for dagger skill]
2 uncursed garnet stones
2 uncursed opals
2 uncursed rubies
an uncursed spellbook of healing
a blessed spellbook of finger of death
3 uncursed diamonds
3 uncursed amethyst stones
a magic marker (1:7)
6 uncursed emeralds
a cursed diamond
3 uncursed jet stones
6 uncursed amethyst stones
3 cursed amethyst stones
5 uncursed emeralds
a cursed agate stone
a cursed tallow candle
8 uncursed rubies
2 uncursed diamonds
an uncursed dilithium crystal
Final Attributes:
You were the Glory of Arioch.
You were piously aligned.
(It's impossible not to be after the early game. I was murdering
peacefuls
left, right and centre and I still get "pious". Weird.)
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 magic-protected.
You were blinded.
You saw invisible.
You were telepathic.
You were warned.
You had automatic searching.
You were stealthy.
You caused conflict.
You could jump.
You could teleport.
You had teleport control.
You had a +2 damage bonus.
You were protected.
You were fast.
---- eek! At this point I accidentally hit "close" instead of
"edit->mark" on my cmd.exe box. Not only did I not get the rest of the
readout, I also didn't get a high score table entry. Oh well. I really
should install the proper dumplog patch.
It would have said this too:
You had 10 points of protection (I donated a *lot* of gold)
You survived after being killed twice.
Conducts woulda looked like this:
You never genocided any monsters.
You never polymorphed an object.
You used 5(?) wishes.
//notable absence of vegetarian. I ate all the giants, trolls, tengus
and so on I could find!
//also, would have been polyselfless if I'd got MR sooner. I got
polytrapped at some point, not sure when. I just threw stuff < til I
changed back.
Kills that I can remember:
Pestilence(twice)
Famine(twice)
Death
Croesus
The Wizard of Yendor (thrice, I think)
Asmodeus
Baalzebub
Yeenoghu
Master Kaen
Juiblex
A few purple L (most rubber chickened by their own summoned beasties)
A high priest
Medusa
An Archon (first one I've seen. The Eyes make them fairly reasonable)
Vlad the Impaler (wuss)
2 Nazgul
2 erinyes
Philip
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