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First post so here's a bit about myself. I live in finland and I've played
ADOM on and off for what seems to be forever (at least g10 but maybe
earlier). Never had a single victory, but then again I haven't been spoiled
more than a few years and I've played quite little during those years.
Recently I've got my spark back and not before long the following happens...
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So I'm playing a raven born hurthling monk. A very powerfull combination to
say the least. I find seven leaque boots at every turn and I'm swinging my
quicksilver quarterstaff with base DV somewhere around 90,. At about
haracter-level 24 I hit a bumb. Can't get past the damn piranhas. With all
the stuff and dozens of wands I have found (yes a treasure hunter), not a
single wand of cold.
So what do I do? Minotaurs - done, ToEF - done, Rift - insufficient
clinbing (and the gyu had a principle never to stray from the path of law,
so no quick way to train with Yergius). What the hell it seems like it's a
dive to the ID. Never met Malakai so Let's do that.
So there I go with speed of ~170 movement costing less than 400 energy,
DV over 100 (fighting defensively), PV ~30 and something like +50 to hit and
5d3 + 30 damage. Caryying with me the Rune covered trident and the
Wyrmlance, teleporting, controlling it, invisible, crowned with ring of
Immunity.
Now here's some of the monsters I met and defeated during my
descend(remenber I was around level 25 when I started):
Ancient karmic dragon(not a biggie with ring of immunity)
Great red wyrm (this one actually really got my blood boiling as he
destroyed my girdle of giant strenght)
Greater moloch (just annoying, on the same level as that darn great red
wyrm, and on the same level there would have been a tension room full of
Ghost kings; desided I didn't want to push my luck with that one)
Greater titan (actually the worst adversary I had as he was regularly
hitting with his quarrells doing massive damage)
And of course a big bunch of others not woth mentioning in the above
company. I did meet an Emperor Lich but gracefylly made my pardons for
disturbing him and left him be.
I also found the darn wand of cold. Now you can probably quess that
malakai died as I sneezed in his direction. I start coming up and on a level
57 meet a tencion room of mimics. I yawn and take them out one at a time
with my invisibility, not leting the greater ones to even try and hit me
(with my speed). I think twice before I deside to attack the hivemind but do
so anyway.
Now at this point I say in my defence that I had just done a 14 hour
work shift and was getting quite tired, just thought I'd quickly climb up
the ID before going to bed.
Now the mimic is critically injured, I'm doing my attack-step away
routine without any problems and I accidentallyt take a single step in the
wrong direction allowing the higly experienced hivemind to try and attack
me... and so there's a sad, quick and painless death.
Now the thing that's really eating me is that I have a backup after killing
Malakai, so I find myself trying to convince myself that I died only because
I was too tired so it's perfectly okay to try again from the backup. Then I
say to myself: You were stupid enough to play that tired now suffer the
consecuences... and so I do... and curse myself for being so stupid...
Ps. Yes I do sometimes think I'm taking this a bit too serious... and so did
probably my neighbors when I screamed "NO" at 4 am
First post so here's a bit about myself. I live in finland and I've played
ADOM on and off for what seems to be forever (at least g10 but maybe
earlier). Never had a single victory, but then again I haven't been spoiled
more than a few years and I've played quite little during those years.
Recently I've got my spark back and not before long the following happens...
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
S
P
A
C
E
So I'm playing a raven born hurthling monk. A very powerfull combination to
say the least. I find seven leaque boots at every turn and I'm swinging my
quicksilver quarterstaff with base DV somewhere around 90,. At about
haracter-level 24 I hit a bumb. Can't get past the damn piranhas. With all
the stuff and dozens of wands I have found (yes a treasure hunter), not a
single wand of cold.
So what do I do? Minotaurs - done, ToEF - done, Rift - insufficient
clinbing (and the gyu had a principle never to stray from the path of law,
so no quick way to train with Yergius). What the hell it seems like it's a
dive to the ID. Never met Malakai so Let's do that.
So there I go with speed of ~170 movement costing less than 400 energy,
DV over 100 (fighting defensively), PV ~30 and something like +50 to hit and
5d3 + 30 damage. Caryying with me the Rune covered trident and the
Wyrmlance, teleporting, controlling it, invisible, crowned with ring of
Immunity.
Now here's some of the monsters I met and defeated during my
descend(remenber I was around level 25 when I started):
Ancient karmic dragon(not a biggie with ring of immunity)
Great red wyrm (this one actually really got my blood boiling as he
destroyed my girdle of giant strenght)
Greater moloch (just annoying, on the same level as that darn great red
wyrm, and on the same level there would have been a tension room full of
Ghost kings; desided I didn't want to push my luck with that one)
Greater titan (actually the worst adversary I had as he was regularly
hitting with his quarrells doing massive damage)
And of course a big bunch of others not woth mentioning in the above
company. I did meet an Emperor Lich but gracefylly made my pardons for
disturbing him and left him be.
I also found the darn wand of cold. Now you can probably quess that
malakai died as I sneezed in his direction. I start coming up and on a level
57 meet a tencion room of mimics. I yawn and take them out one at a time
with my invisibility, not leting the greater ones to even try and hit me
(with my speed). I think twice before I deside to attack the hivemind but do
so anyway.
Now at this point I say in my defence that I had just done a 14 hour
work shift and was getting quite tired, just thought I'd quickly climb up
the ID before going to bed.
Now the mimic is critically injured, I'm doing my attack-step away
routine without any problems and I accidentallyt take a single step in the
wrong direction allowing the higly experienced hivemind to try and attack
me... and so there's a sad, quick and painless death.
Now the thing that's really eating me is that I have a backup after killing
Malakai, so I find myself trying to convince myself that I died only because
I was too tired so it's perfectly okay to try again from the backup. Then I
say to myself: You were stupid enough to play that tired now suffer the
consecuences... and so I do... and curse myself for being so stupid...
Ps. Yes I do sometimes think I'm taking this a bit too serious... and so did
probably my neighbors when I screamed "NO" at 4 am
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