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YAAP: Chicago Jones Arc-Hum-Neu-Mal
Finally ascended an Archeologist. After my last good one died on the
plane of fire, I was please to make it all the way through. The only
major conduct I was able to keep was genoless. I technically did
polymorph an item, but that was just out of laziness to re-identify a
wand after a mind flayer incident. The other quasi-conduct that I kept,
and I'm quite proud of, is no-Elbereth. Some time ago I joined the camp
of those who believe that feature is way over-powered and decided to
voluntarily not use it anymore.
The game wasn't terribly eventful, I was able to get 2 or 3 pets early
in the game and was able to pull of the protection racket. My pets then
gave me the nicest surprise of all when they killed the watch captain
leaving behind a shiny siver saber. This is the main weapon I used all
the way till the end. Well that and Vorpal Blade in two-weapon mode.
I got into some major trouble on a few occasions, most notably on
Medusa's level with the Titan. I went down and tried my best to get rid
of the Titan first so that he couldn't summon. The first wave of
summoned creatures included a Master Mind Flayer, so I immediately went
back upstairs. I didn't have any wands of death yet, so I got out a
wand of teleport and went back down. I zapped the flayer away and
continued to beat on the Titan. I got down very, very low on HP and in
a panic remembered that confused reading of teleport scroll was level
port, and fortunately an Umber Hulk had confused me. I was able to
level port and run away from the beasties that came with me until I
could heal up. I was very happy when a little while later Vorpal Blade
was kind enough to behead the Titan.
I think I went the entire game without an amulet of reflection. This
made things quite difficult. It forced me to conquer Ludios with a
shield of reflection and only one weapon wielded. Tough, but do-able. A
grey dragon in Ludios was kind enough to leave behind some scales, so I
made GDSM. I knew I would still need a better form of reflection, but
would have to wait. Did the castle without too much trouble from the
Titan down there. I think my brain got eaten, which unfortunately
happened more times than I would like to admit. I should have just
genocided those darn flayers, but I didn't - lucky it didn't cost me
the game. I think in the castle I burned my Amulet of Life Saving, but
I got another from Vlad which I turned out not to need.
I ate a black dragon corpse along the way making reflection not so much
of an issue because of the GDSM, the only pain was lightning which
vaporized a bunch of wands and rings - slow digestion was the most
painful one to lose as I never found another one.
I never found a lot of good equipment actually. When I got the castle
wand, I had to wish for Levitation boots since I not found a source of
levitation, and speed boots because being slow was just too annoying. I
used the third wish for something, but I have now forgotten - probably
should have gotten the amulet of reflection. After enchanting up all of
my armor and weapons, I scarcely saw any more scrolls of that type, and
another mind flayer incident made me forget which ones they were
anyway, so my magic marker was of little use.
With all of these little near-disasters, the plane of air was the only
place I had any problems, but something I killed left behind a potion
of full healing which made things easier.
Bonus points for anyone who gets the Chicago Jones reference.
theKapn
YAAP: Chicago Jones Arc-Hum-Neu-Mal
Finally ascended an Archeologist. After my last good one died on the
plane of fire, I was please to make it all the way through. The only
major conduct I was able to keep was genoless. I technically did
polymorph an item, but that was just out of laziness to re-identify a
wand after a mind flayer incident. The other quasi-conduct that I kept,
and I'm quite proud of, is no-Elbereth. Some time ago I joined the camp
of those who believe that feature is way over-powered and decided to
voluntarily not use it anymore.
The game wasn't terribly eventful, I was able to get 2 or 3 pets early
in the game and was able to pull of the protection racket. My pets then
gave me the nicest surprise of all when they killed the watch captain
leaving behind a shiny siver saber. This is the main weapon I used all
the way till the end. Well that and Vorpal Blade in two-weapon mode.
I got into some major trouble on a few occasions, most notably on
Medusa's level with the Titan. I went down and tried my best to get rid
of the Titan first so that he couldn't summon. The first wave of
summoned creatures included a Master Mind Flayer, so I immediately went
back upstairs. I didn't have any wands of death yet, so I got out a
wand of teleport and went back down. I zapped the flayer away and
continued to beat on the Titan. I got down very, very low on HP and in
a panic remembered that confused reading of teleport scroll was level
port, and fortunately an Umber Hulk had confused me. I was able to
level port and run away from the beasties that came with me until I
could heal up. I was very happy when a little while later Vorpal Blade
was kind enough to behead the Titan.
I think I went the entire game without an amulet of reflection. This
made things quite difficult. It forced me to conquer Ludios with a
shield of reflection and only one weapon wielded. Tough, but do-able. A
grey dragon in Ludios was kind enough to leave behind some scales, so I
made GDSM. I knew I would still need a better form of reflection, but
would have to wait. Did the castle without too much trouble from the
Titan down there. I think my brain got eaten, which unfortunately
happened more times than I would like to admit. I should have just
genocided those darn flayers, but I didn't - lucky it didn't cost me
the game. I think in the castle I burned my Amulet of Life Saving, but
I got another from Vlad which I turned out not to need.
I ate a black dragon corpse along the way making reflection not so much
of an issue because of the GDSM, the only pain was lightning which
vaporized a bunch of wands and rings - slow digestion was the most
painful one to lose as I never found another one.
I never found a lot of good equipment actually. When I got the castle
wand, I had to wish for Levitation boots since I not found a source of
levitation, and speed boots because being slow was just too annoying. I
used the third wish for something, but I have now forgotten - probably
should have gotten the amulet of reflection. After enchanting up all of
my armor and weapons, I scarcely saw any more scrolls of that type, and
another mind flayer incident made me forget which ones they were
anyway, so my magic marker was of little use.
With all of these little near-disasters, the plane of air was the only
place I had any problems, but something I killed left behind a potion
of full healing which made things easier.
Bonus points for anyone who gets the Chicago Jones reference.
theKapn
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