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Howdy all.

Well, I tried to learn blade hands. A really nice character going here as
well (same one I posted about earlier).

Please...check out the mutations and let me know if I stand a chance!
I've not found any potions of cure mutation yet...

...I did notice that my failure rate for Blade Hands actually fell.

Dungeon Crawl version 4.0.0 beta 26 character file.

Prola the Brawler (Minotaur)
(Level 16 Monk)

Play time: 08:23:26 Number of turns: 39381

Experience : 16/165729
Strength 20 Dexterity 14/15 Intelligence 10/12
Hit Points : 41/91 Magic Points : 19
AC : 10 Evasion : 16 Shield : 0
GP : 2555

You are on level 19.
You worship Okawaru.
Okawaru is exalted by your worship.
You are hungry.

Inventory:
Hand weapons
a - a +0 elven short sword
b - a +3,+2 blowgun
c - a +0,+2 crossbow
Missiles
y - 38 bolts
A - 18 poisoned elven needles
Armour
q - a +1 cap of intelligence (worn)
A cloth or leather cap.
Armour rating: 0
Evasion modifier: +0
It makes you more clever (+3 to intelligence).
It weighs around 8.0 aum.
B - a +0 robe
D - a +1 pair of boots of stealth (worn)
A pair of sturdy boots.
Armour rating: 1
Evasion modifier: +0
It enhances the stealth of its wearer.
It weighs around 4.0 aum.
H - a +0 orcish cloak
N - a +2 pair of gloves of dexterity
A pair of gloves.
Armour rating: 1
Evasion modifier: +0
It increases the dexterity of its wearer (+3 to dexterity).
It weighs around 2.0 aum.
Z - a +2 robe of magic resistance (worn)
A cloth robe.
Armour rating: 1
Evasion modifier: +0
It increases its wearer's resistance to enchantments.
It weighs around 6.0 aum.
Magical devices
d - a wand of lightning
m - a wand of fireball
s - a wand of fire
P - a wand of cold
Y - a wand of invisibility
Comestibles
Q - 16 strawberries
U - 7 grapes
Scrolls
e - 3 scrolls of enchant weapon I
g - 3 scrolls of enchant armour
h - 8 scrolls of remove curse
j - 2 scrolls of recharging
x - 4 scrolls of enchant weapon II
z - 2 scrolls of identify
I - a scroll of magic mapping
M - 3 scrolls of teleportation
V - a scroll of blinking
W - 4 scrolls of detect curse
Jewellery
f - the ring "Biqczaa" (left hand)
This wonderful ring greatly increases the recuperative powers of its
wearer, but also considerably speeds his or her metabolism.
It affects your AC (+4).
It affects your strength (+2).
It affects your damage-dealing abilities (+2).
It enhances your eyesight.
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
i - an amulet of warding
This amulet repels some of the attacks of creatures which have been
magically summoned.
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
k - a +2,+1 ring of slaying (right hand)
This ring increases the hand-to-hand and missile combat skills of its
wearer.
It affects your accuracy (+2).
It affects your damage-dealing abilities (+1).
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
l - a +4 ring of dexterity
This ring increases or decreases the dexterity of its wearer, depending
on
the degree to which it has been enchanted.
It affects your dexterity (+4).
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
n - a ring of life protection
This blessed ring protects the life-force of its wearer from negative
energy, making them partially immune to the draining effects of undead
and
necromantic magic.
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
p - a ring of levitation
This ring allows its wearer to hover above the floor.
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
u - a ring of protection from fire
This ring provides protection from heat and fire.
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
v - a cursed ring of magical power
This ring increases its wearer's reserves of magical power.
It has a curse placed upon it.
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
C - an amulet of rage (around neck)
This amulet enables its wearer to attempt to enter a state of berserk
rage,
and increases their chance of successfully doing so. It also partially
protects the user from passing out when coming out of that rage.
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
F - a ring of protection from magic
This ring increases its wearer's resistance to hostile enchantments.
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
K - a ring of protection from magic
This ring increases its wearer's resistance to hostile enchantments.
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
O - a +3 ring of protection
This ring either protects its wearer from harm or makes them more
vulnerable to injury, to a degree dependent on its power.
It affects your AC (+3).
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
R - a ring of protection from cold
This ring provides protection from cold.
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
X - a +2 ring of strength
This ring increases or decreases the physical strength of its wearer, to
a
degree dependent on its power.
It affects your strength (+2).
It weighs around 1.0 aum.
Potions
o - 4 potions of might
w - 2 potions of levitation
E - 6 potions of heal wounds
J - 12 potions of healing
L - 3 potions of restore abilities
S - a potion of invisibility
Books
r - a book of Changes


You have 5 experience left.

Skills:
+ Level 11 Fighting
- Level 2 Maces & Flails
+ Level 4 Crossbows
+ Level 14 Darts
+ Level 7 Throwing
+ Level 2 Armour
+ Level 13 Dodging
+ Level 4 Stealth
+ Level 2 Stabbing
+ Level 5 Traps & Doors
+ Level 17 Unarmed Combat
+ Level 3 Spellcasting
- Level 2 Summonings
+ Level 4 Transmigration
+ Level 5 Invocations
+ Level 2 Evocations


You have 12 spell levels left.
You know the following spells:

Your Spells Type Success Level
a - Detect Creatures Divination Fair 2
b - Sticks to Snakes Summoning/TransmigrationGood 2
c - Blade Hands Transmigration Cruddy 5

Mutations & Other Weirdness
Your metabolism is lightning-fast.
You are weak (Str -5).
You are clumsy (Dex -1).
Space frequently distorts in your vicinity.
Armour fits poorly on your badly deformed body.
Your muscles are flexible (Dex +1), but weak (Str -1).
You frequently forget where you are.
Your body is deteriorating.
Your vision is extremely blurry.
You are extremely frail (-30 percent hp).

 

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"Glen Wheeler" <gew75@uow.edu.au> wrote:

> Well, I tried to learn blade hands. A really nice character going
> here as well (same one I posted about earlier).

I don't think trying to get a minotaur to cast blade hands was the
brightest of ideas.

> Please...check out the mutations and let me know if I stand a
> chance!

> Your metabolism is lightning-fast.
> You are weak (Str -5).
> You are clumsy (Dex -1).
> Space frequently distorts in your vicinity.
> Armour fits poorly on your badly deformed body.
> You frequently forget where you are.
> Your body is deteriorating.
> Your vision is extremely blurry.
> You are extremely frail (-30 percent hp).

You're dead.

Darshan

 

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"Glen Wheeler" <gew75@uow.edu.au> wrote in message
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>
> Howdy all.
>
> Well, I tried to learn blade hands. A really nice character going here
as
> well (same one I posted about earlier).

Ack! You practiced with wimpy spells, didn't you?

For future reference, don't try casting high level spells till they're at
"Fair", and when you're practicing spells, stop every now and then and rest
for a couple hundred turns to clear out the magic contamination.

> Mutations & Other Weirdness
> Your metabolism is lightning-fast.
> You are weak (Str -5).
> You are clumsy (Dex -1).
> Space frequently distorts in your vicinity.
> Armour fits poorly on your badly deformed body.
> Your muscles are flexible (Dex +1), but weak (Str -1).
> You frequently forget where you are.
> Your body is deteriorating.
> Your vision is extremely blurry.
> You are extremely frail (-30 percent hp).

That's by my count, 26 mutations? I didn't even know that was possible.

Quaff potions of mutation if you can find them. Maybe even make yourself
glow again -- this can't get much worse. It might be nice -- just for the
glory -- to try to get the last level of "your body is detiorating", so you
could have all of the bad ones.

Um, there's a "Normalization" card in decks of wonder that cures a bunch at
a time. I think you're doomed, though.

--
Jeremey

 

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In article <4124db97@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, Glen Wheeler <gew75@uow.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Well, it *was* worse, but then I kept glowing and improved to this. Yeah
>I practiced with sticks to snakes...guess I'll do it a little more gradually
>next time :/.

What version are you playing? I ask because one version had a bug in the
contamination code that greatly increased the number of nasty mutations
you got from magical contamination. I strongly suspect that that's the
version you're playing.

--
Mark Mackey
The Association for the Advancement of Dungeon Crawling
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"Darshan Shaligram" <darshans@aztec.soft.net> wrote in message
news:Xns954A5B57BCD5Fdarshansaztecsoftnet@130.133.1.4...
> "Glen Wheeler" <gew75@uow.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > Well, I tried to learn blade hands. A really nice character going
> > here as well (same one I posted about earlier).
>
> I don't think trying to get a minotaur to cast blade hands was the
> brightest of ideas.
>
> > Please...check out the mutations and let me know if I stand a
> > chance!
>
> > Your metabolism is lightning-fast.
> > You are weak (Str -5).
> > You are clumsy (Dex -1).
> > Space frequently distorts in your vicinity.
> > Armour fits poorly on your badly deformed body.
> > You frequently forget where you are.
> > Your body is deteriorating.
> > Your vision is extremely blurry.
> > You are extremely frail (-30 percent hp).
>
> You're dead.
>

Awww. My best character ever bites the dust .

--
Glen
Lyt E+++ T-- R+ P+++ D+ G+ F:*band !RL RLA-
W:AF Q+++ AI++ GFX++ SFX-- RN++++ PO--- !Hp Re-- S+

 

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Darshan Shaligram <darshans@aztec.soft.net> bellowed:
> "Glen Wheeler" <gew75@uow.edu.au> wrote:

>> Well, I tried to learn blade hands. A really nice character
>> going here as well (same one I posted about earlier).

> I don't think trying to get a minotaur to cast blade hands was
> the brightest of ideas.

Indeed. Spells aren't always the best idea... This reminds me of
something from a while ago, where someone suggested that memorizing
(certain) spells will get you out of everything... (While the spells
mentioned then were different, the lesson is the same.)

It was at least partly humorous, but true nonetheless. It's _not_ an
exaggeration, thus I'll repeat it for everyone who's not seen it:
_______________________________________________________________

Mechanoid <necromancer_90@hotmail.com> screeched:
> if you can memorize these you can out-manouver, out-run, and out
> -escape *any* enemy you run into.

In your dreams. In truth, you'll end up forgetting to breathe while
you're starving quickly due to lack of greens, if you don't just
collapse under your badly deformed body-weight, while randomly
teleporting around into ever new but ever so slightly familiar
territory, which you can't quite make out, which makes you so
furious that you claw at anything that - quite wisely - thinks your
fragile shape is easy prey. Not that you'll be able to cast any more
Haste, due to being dopey, or run fast, due to being overburdened
from weakness, or even fight back, due to being clumsy.

Blink will just land you in the middle of the horde, but they won't
like you despite horns and hooves.

Better not take that picnic in Chernobyl(sp?) in the first place.
_______________________________________________________________

Let this be a lesson for all.

We should do a collective exercise; everyone write across their
monitor in huge red letters: _Beware of Mutations!_

It's probably on the same level of 'resist the temptation' as
Nethack's fountains.

>> Please...check out the mutations and let me know if I stand a
>> chance!

>> Your metabolism is lightning-fast.
>> You are weak (Str -5).
>> You are clumsy (Dex -1).
>> Space frequently distorts in your vicinity.
>> Armour fits poorly on your badly deformed body.
>> You frequently forget where you are.
>> Your body is deteriorating.
>> Your vision is extremely blurry.
>> You are extremely frail (-30 percent hp).

> You're dead.

<g>
How about a patch that checks the number of really bad mutations and
adds this rather fitting comment (in another colour) when
appropriate? (Might serve as "Hah! I'll show you!" to some players,
too. If they do survive, it could change to 'You were dead but got
better.' or 'Surprisingly, you survived.' or something. It's like
the comment you get when you check your needed Exp to get the next
level when you're at XL:27, so quite in character with Crawl's
attitude.)

The real question is, why didn't he give up after the first two or
so, though. It's not as if the mutations would go away.

Though I admit I've done the same:

28. 20949 Dread the Deep Elf Wizard (level 12, 58/58 HPs)
Collapsed under their own weight on Lair Level 6.

Mutations & Other Weirdness
Your digestive system is specialised to digest meat.
Your metabolism is lightning-fast.
You are weak (Str -2).
You are dopey (Int -2).
You are clumsy (Dex -4).
Space frequently distorts in your vicinity.
Armour fits poorly on your deformed body.
Your muscles are strong (Str +1), but stiff (Dex -1).
You occasionally forget where you are.
You tend to lose your temper in combat.
Your body is rapidly deteriorating.
Your vision is a little blurry.
You are partially covered in black scales (AC + 1).

I think Identify was the culprit here. And as you see, this guy was
a freaking Deep Elf and a Wizard, no mere dumb fighter...

--
Tina the Shifter - the Favourite Plaything of the Ruminant Naked Gnat

 

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"Mark Mackey" <markm@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
news:AhF*5Zusq@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...
> In article <4124db97@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, Glen Wheeler <gew75@uow.edu.au>
wrote:
> >
> > Well, it *was* worse, but then I kept glowing and improved to this.
Yeah
> >I practiced with sticks to snakes...guess I'll do it a little more
gradually
> >next time :/.
>
> What version are you playing? I ask because one version had a bug in the
> contamination code that greatly increased the number of nasty mutations
> you got from magical contamination. I strongly suspect that that's the
> version you're playing.
>

Well, the dump states beta 26, I figured that was the latest.
I tried to find a buglist online, but couldn't locate anything. One would
thing that the homepage should house such a beast...

--
Glen
Lyt E+++ T-- R+ P+++ D+ G+ F:*band !RL RLA-
W:AF Q+++ AI++ GFX++ SFX-- RN++++ PO--- !Hp Re-- S+

 

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"Glen Wheeler" <gew75@uow.edu.au> wrote in message
news:4124c8cb@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>
> Howdy all.
>
> Well, I tried to learn blade hands. A really nice character going here
as
> well (same one I posted about earlier).
>
> Please...check out the mutations and let me know if I stand a chance!
> I've not found any potions of cure mutation yet...
>

Well, RIP Prola. I decided to dive and stay glowing until I either found
potions of cure mutation or mutated into something useful.

Even in my deformed state I could still keep up with most of the monsters.
Eventually it was the rapidly deteriorating body, I ran out of healing
potions.

I did find an amulet of resist mutation. Shame I couldn't wear it about
10000 moves ago.

Definitely learned from that experience!

Love this game .

--
Glen
Lyt E+++ T-- R+ P+++ D+ G+ F:*band !RL RLA-
W:AF Q+++ AI++ GFX++ SFX-- RN++++ PO--- !Hp Re-- S+

 

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"Glen Wheeler" <gew75@uow.edu.au> wrote:

[...]
> Awww. My best character ever bites the dust .

Oh, Crawl specializes in doing that again and again. It's by far the
most difficult roguelike I've ever played, and the most satisfying to
beat.

Darshan

 

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In article <412566a3$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>,
Glen Wheeler <gew75@uow.edu.au> wrote:
>"Mark Mackey" <markm@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
>> What version are you playing? I ask because one version had a bug in the
>> contamination code that greatly increased the number of nasty mutations
>> you got from magical contamination. I strongly suspect that that's the
>> version you're playing.
>
> Well, the dump states beta 26, I figured that was the latest.

Ah, b26 is IIRC the problematic one. In any other version, ending up
glowing means that you *might* pick up a nasty mutation. In b26, you
*will*. If you've got b26, you need to be extra extra careful...

--
Mark Mackey
The Association for the Advancement of Dungeon Crawling
Hints, tips and spoilers
http://www.swallowtail.org/crawl/

 

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Mark Mackey <markm@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in
news:Spe*fbNsq@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk:

> In article <412566a3$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>,
> Glen Wheeler <gew75@uow.edu.au> wrote:
>>"Mark Mackey" <markm@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
>>> What version are you playing? I ask because one version had a
>>> bug in the contamination code that greatly increased the
>>> number of nasty mutations you got from magical contamination.
>>> I strongly suspect that that's the version you're playing.
>>
>> Well, the dump states beta 26, I figured that was the latest.
>
> Ah, b26 is IIRC the problematic one. In any other version,
> ending up glowing means that you *might* pick up a nasty
> mutation. In b26, you *will*. If you've got b26, you need to be
> extra extra careful...
>

Not always. It's just the same rate as being cursed by a 3. 4/5
rate IIRC.
Actually the bigger problem is with a mutations when you aren't
glowing yet.

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