YAAP Wishless, Genoless Archaeologist.

This is my fourth ascension, after a barbarian, a ranger, and a healer.

I decided to play an archaeologist because of the "cuisinart" style:
Grayswandir and another silver saber together, both fully enchanted.
Initially, I hadn't planned on going genoless or wishless, though I had
seriously considered some conducts, but I decided quickly to do them.
Nethack was starting to seem to easy in the late game, and I was
impressed reading about the difficult conducts people have kept. I've
thought about some of the variants, but I had wanted to ascend all the
classes in vanilla. I'm going to play heck^2 next time, though.
Genhemon just isn't much of a challenge any more.
This may seem like a long game, at 97,000 turns, but this seems normal
for me. I have records for two other ascensions, and they lasted 99,000
and 78,000 turns, despite not having any special conducts.

The early game was by far the hardest. I wanted to advance my pickaxe
skill, so I used that, but it was a poor weapon. It was a long time
before I replaced my armor and my pickaxe. I went to the mines first,
hoping to improve these, but my pet died quickly, and I didn't want to
kill peaceful dwarves. I stopped around minetown, after getting a bit
of protection, and I went to sokoban. Long story short, I had a lot of
trouble with unicorns, found some dwarvish mithril, and killed a
hostile dwarf for his mattock. Sokoban had an amulet of reflection. At
this point, I fought stuff in minetown for a bit, then continued below
it. Bad move. After the third poly-trap, I gave up, and I headed back
to find new armor. The most important things I lost were my pride and
my cloak of protection.

I continued deep into the dungeon. The big thing here was the bones
file I found. The change couldn't have been more dramatic. This was
when the hard times ended. I went from a under-armored and wimpy human
to a wimpy human with a +4 Hawaiian shirt, a +4 SDSM, and a +5 cloak of
magic resistance, among other goodies. Praise the dev-team for scrolls
of remove curse. The bones file, by the way, was from a level 24 wizard
who choked on an iguana while preparing for the ascension run. I don't
know what possessed me to eat it, but I did. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
That, by the way, is how I have lost two of my three characters who
died past the castle.

I returned to the mines, and got the luckstone. Once I got my level
high enough, I did the quest. It was easy. The orb was nice, but heavy.

Some time around here, I went on a 10,000 turn sac fest, thanks to my
amulet of slow digestion, but I never got Grayswandir. For that matter,
all I got was dragonbane, or something equally useless. Grr. I had six
artifacts at this time, but I still expected better. I gave up and kept
fighting with my +0 dwarvish mattock. I think I cleared the castle with
this, but I don't quite remember. In any case, I finally got
Grayswandir. I read my one blessed scroll of enchant weapon, and got it
to +3. The mattock went into the Bag of Holding I had found.
While I'm not sure when I had found my bag of holding, my magic lamp,
or my jumping boots, I did find them at some point. Oh, and I took
Magicbane off that dead wizard.
Later, after I started #twoweaponing, I wrote some scrolls of enchant
armor and enchant weapon. These pushed the sabers up to +7 each and my
armor up to something quite nice.

I dug out Genhemon as I went. The demon lords were easy. Geryon and
Yeenoghu showed up at some point, but were no trouble. I fought liches
in melee (38 of all types by the end of the game) and my incredible
firepower was enough to kill them quickly. Disenchanters were killed
with a combination of daggers and the mattock. Mind Flayers were killed
in melee with Elbereth.

I collected gold as I went, and gave it to the priest in the Valley of
the Dead. As I was high level and rising somewhat, it was difficult to
find enough gold to complete the last few points of protection, but I
did it. I finally got my naked armor class to 1 and got my AC to -38. I
found a helmet of brilliance at some point, and enchanted it. I danced
with an incubus for the last few levels, then I drank the last potion
of gain level to get some more hit points. At this point, I had maybe
300, despite not having nurse danced (a master lich once scared me out
of that habit).
My stupidest move in this game was jumping out of a beartrap. Well, at
least I know not to now.

I descended and marked the vibrating square. I left the invocation
artifacts there, and went to fight Rodney. I only had one known wand of
death and one more I had forgotten about, so I killed him in melee to
save the charges.

I took the book and ran. This time, I did not forget any of the
necessary pieces. I remembered the invocation and descended into the
sanctum. I fought my way through here. Rodney appeared going in, and
double troubled as I was in a hall. I fought him, but it seemed I
wasn't getting anywhere. The horde of monsters was too great, and I
think he double troubled again once I killed one of him. I tried twice
to kill him with a wand of death, but missed both times. I gave up, and
finally killed him. I broke through, ignoring monsters now, and used
the bell of opening to find the door. There, I found that the priest
was dead, and there was no amulet. I remembered hearing about this sort
of thing, and I remembered seeing an amulet, which I thought was fake.
I found it and tested it with my bag of holding, though, and it wasn't
so I quiffed a potion of gain level and ran. The mysterious force was
nasty, but I got out of hell eventually.

I forgot to grab my large stash of k-rations, and was too far gone when
I remembered them. I did remember to dart down to minetown and grab the
best out of that set of gems I had left there.

There wasn't really anything to report until Astral. Famine was coming
at me already, and I really didn't want to face him. I went in the
opposite direction. I tried keeping my guardian angel for a while, but
couldn't stand it and put on my ring of conflict. That and free action
are my standard Astral gear. I enjoyed it much more, as I chopped my
way through the first room. I let Death come to me and killed him on
the first blow. Then it was on to the altar. In a fortunate change from
my previous games, where I visited all three altars before finding the
right one, this first altar was co-aligned. I sacrificed the Amulet of
Yendor.

It was not until after the game, when I was looking over my inventory,
that I realized I had been wearing my oilskin cloak from the plane of
water instead of my cloak of magic resistance. I guess there was
nothing on astral that could steal the orb, so it wasn't a problem, but
it was scary to see that. Besides, it's a difference of 5AC; I should
have worn the CoMR.

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Harris the Curator St:25 Dx:18 Co:18 In:22 Wi:22 Ch:18 Lawful
Astral Plane $:0 HP:365(365) Pw:238(238) AC:-33 Exp:30 T:97145
(Manualy converted from IBM graphics. I'm sorry if I made any mistakes.
)

Amulets
B - an uncursed amulet of life saving (being worn)
Weapons
l - the +7 Grayswandir (weapon in hand)
p - a +7 silver saber (wielded in other hand)
w - 5 +0 daggers named <<
C - the rustproof +6 Magicbane
Armor
t - an uncursed fireproof +5 pair of jumping boots (being worn)
x - an uncursed +4 helm of brilliance (being worn)
E - an uncursed rustproof +4 pair of gauntlets of power (being worn)
F - an uncursed +4 silver dragon scale mail (being worn)
G - an uncursed +4 Hawaiian shirt (being worn)
I - an uncursed fireproof +5 cloak of magic resistance
L - an uncursed +0 oilskin cloak (being worn)
Comestibles
b - an uncursed lizard corpse
S - an uncursed sprig of wolfsbane
Rings
e - an uncursed ring of free action (on left hand)
q - an uncursed ring of levitation
P - an uncursed ring of conflict (on right hand)
X - an uncursed ring of slow digestion
Wands
H - a wand of fire (0:0)
N - a wand of digging (0:5)
R - a wand of death (0:3)
U - a wand of death named -1 (0:3)
V - a wand of digging (0:2)
Y - a wand of fire (0:0)
Tools
f - a blessed +2 unicorn horn
h - an uncursed skeleton key
j - an uncursed blindfold
k - a blessed greased bag of holding named BOH
u - the blessed Orb of Detection (0:5)
K - an uncursed magic lamp (lit)
O - an uncursed stethoscope
W - an uncursed sack
Gems
o - a blessed luckstone


Contents of the bag of holding named BOH:

a potion of holy water
3 uncursed emeralds
a cursed C-ration
3 cursed lumps of royal jelly
an uncursed C-ration
an uncursed orange
2 uncursed slime molds
6 uncursed diamonds
4 uncursed rubies
an uncursed amulet of life saving
an uncursed potion of enlightenment
an uncursed potion of invisibility
an uncursed potion of confusion
an uncursed potion of hallucination
an uncursed potion of fruit juice
an uncursed +0 pair of water walking boots
an uncursed fireproof +1 mummy wrapping
a cursed potion of full healing
a wand of death (0:4)
an uncursed touchstone
an uncursed magic whistle
13 uncursed potions of water
a magic marker (0:39)
an uncursed +1 ring of increase damage
an uncursed amulet of life saving
an uncursed amulet of life saving
a cursed ring of hunger
a wand of wishing (0:1)
7 uncursed diamonds
a cursed scroll of genocide
a magic marker (0:4)
a magic marker (0:7)
an uncursed ring of polymorph control
2 uncursed rubies
an uncursed potion of object detection
a wand of teleportation (0:6)
4 uncursed dilithium crystals
an uncursed ring of polymorph
7 blessed scrolls of remove curse
12 cursed scrolls of teleportation
3 potions of unholy water
a cursed potion of gain level
2 blessed potions of full healing
an uncursed ring of regeneration
a wand of polymorph (0:4)
an uncursed ring of shock resistance
an uncursed scroll of earth
2 uncursed scrolls of magic mapping
an uncursed scroll of identify
5 potions of holy water
11 uncursed scrolls of blank paper
a magic marker (0:1)
a wand of undead turning (0:5)
an uncursed ring of free action
a blessed scroll of gold detection
2 uncursed scrolls of genocide
an uncursed scroll of gold detection
a wand of cold (0:6)
a wand of lightning (0:3)
a wand of fire (0:5)
a wand of polymorph (0:4)
a wand of polymorph (0:6)
a wand of fire (0:5)
an uncursed scroll of stinking cloud
an uncursed ring of teleport control
3 blessed scrolls of teleportation
5 uncursed scrolls of teleportation

Vanquished creatures:

Asmodeus
Baalzebub
Geryon
Orcus
Yeenoghu
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (17 times)
Death
3 arch-liches
6 master liches
13 demiliches
16 liches



Voluntary challenges:

You never genocided any monsters.
You used no wishes.



Goodbye Harris the Demigoddess...

You went to your reward with 5481196 points,
Grayswandir (worth 8000 zorkmids and 20000 points)
The Orb of Detection (worth 2500 zorkmids and 6250 points)
Magicbane (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
13 diamonds (worth 52000 zorkmids),
6 rubies (worth 21000 zorkmids),
4 dilithium crystals (worth 18000 zorkmids),
3 emeralds (worth 7500 zorkmids),
4 amulets of life saving (worth 600 zorkmids),
and 0 pieces of gold, after 97145 moves.
You were level 30 with a maximum of 365 hit points when you ascended.