Beyond Failure

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May 28, 2007
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So I failed after getting the Amulet....

This time around I played more carefully and used the altars more, to upgrade (bless) all my equipment by means of potions of holy water.
I made it to the Castle and went into the room with the chest that contains a wand of wishing. Fortunately I already had a scroll of charging so I first wished for..... a cursed scroll of genocide!

Then I read a scroll of earth (picked up in Sokoban) and used two of the boulders to block the only entrance and destroyed the other boulders with my pickaxe. I took off my armour, gloves, shoes, etc. and put my weapon down. Then I read the cursed scroll of genocide and genocided nurses. Yes!!! Five of them appeared and started "healing" me. Up went my hitpoints. The nurses stayed a long time until they finally vanished, one by one. My hitpoints had gone up from 130 to 180!
 
Good tactic, I've never tried that one.

Just remember when wishing, instead of one, wish for two (or three, I prefer two). Instead of +0 wish for +2 (--).
 
Ha, finished my Valkyrie and took a few ascension shots.

Angered Odin in the final meters, so my AC got up from -45 to -33. 🙁 (It would've been below -50 but I wielded two weapons instead of my shield of reflection.)

Otherwise, great game.
 
That is quite impressive! You must have had lots of scrolls to enchant your armour!

Thanks for the screenshots. too!


Meanwhile, I cannot find the 2nd upstairs that leads to Vlad's tower....