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I usually do best with Barbarians, but my first ascension was with a
rogue. Nickolas Writhen (NickolasW) the human rogue (used the name of a
character in a story I wrote).
went to minetown first & found a ghost that had a +2 silver DSM (a very
nice thing to find early in the game).
then to Sokoban, really needed a Bag of holding but it had a amulet of
reflection. I decided not to bother too much about staying unburdened,
because I'd consider it too much trouble.
then mine end, hoping I'd find a bag of holding somewhere in the mines.
I didn't. Got the luckstone and heading deeper.
after robbing a couple vaults I went back to minetown to buy some
protection. I was already pretty powerful so I went ahead and killed
the watchmen and got a silver saber from the captain. Soon I ditched by
+3 elven shield to two-weapon my now +3 silver saber and my +4 dagger
stack.
stopped at an alter to sac fest, got Orcrist. I used it to get basic in
broadsword but ditched it pretty soon. Kept sac'ing but didn't get
anything for a while so I went deeper. I finally got a bag of holding
from a ghost on about L11. sac'ed a few more times but didn't get
anything so I used a magic lamp to wish for Frost brand. (I also got two
magic lamps from that bones pile.) Later got Firebrand from sac'ing and
never used it. Found a wand of wishing laying around about L17. On
around level 20 I found another very nice bones pile with another wand
of wishing, stacks of extra and full healing potions, Giant Slayer and
+3 Magicbane (It also had the Eyes of Aepothowhatever but, being a
rogue, I couldn't pick them up). I raised my maxHPS, kept Magicbane and
left Giantslayer. (oh yeah, that bones pile also had an oilskin cloak,
very handy to find right before Medusa's level.)
Went to kill Medusa. I was now usually two-weaponing +3 Frostbrand and
+3 Silver Saber. but while I was over water I had to take off my Cloak
of MR to put on the oilskin cloak. So I two-weaponed +3 magicbane (for
magic resistance) and +3 silver saber. and eels and Krackens were never
a problem until the plane of water (where I forgot to bring my oilskin
cloak).
Then wiped out Fort Ludios, visiting Minetown again for some more
protection. Used a wish for gauntlets of power. The quest seemed easy at
this point. After the castle I had three wands of wishing and I still
didn't really need anything. I had genocided liches, master mind
flayers, and golden nagas. Lured some wraiths from the Valley to the
castle level, getting myself to about EXPL28. Yeenoghu was on the next
level below the valley, and the next few levels I killed a few demon
princes and accidently bribed Asmodeus. (I offered him less gold than he
asked for- I didn't think he'd accept it.) I killed nine disenchanters
before deciding to genocide them (I thought they were more rare than
that). Found the vibrating square and then "I off to kill the wizard,
the terrible wizard of Yendor, because because because because, because
he's got the book of the dead.." yeah. No trouble there. Came back to
the vibrating square and realized I forgot to bring candles. I had
plenty of spare wishes and I didn't feel like going back to minetown, so
poof! seven candles. lured some more wraiths from the sanctum to the
level before it, getting to EXPL30 and found out wraith corpses still
raise your maxHPS even after EXPL30. Again the high priest wasn't much
problem. at this point my Frost Brand and Silver saber were both +6, and
my armor class was -30.
On the way out I killed the priest of Moloch in the Valley just for
kicks. Otherwise the way out was pretty much uneventful. The Wizard of
Yendor appeared less often than I expected. I went to the plane of earth
remember to bring several scrolls of gold detection and a ring of free
action. The plane of earth went very quickly because the portal was very
near where I started. On the plane of air I realized I forgot to bring
my ring of levitation, for some reason I didn't think I'd need it
anymore after passing Medusa'a level going up. So I wished for one. Saw
my first Archon on the plane of air & used a wand of death. I don't like
Archons. The Plane of fire was uneventful. As I mentioned before I
forgot to bring an oilskin cloak to the plane of water and obviously I
couldn't go back for it. (that was a little more understandable to
forget since I've never been to the plane of water before). I decided to
risk it instead of wishing for it. I was powerful enough to kill
krackens in two turns, and I was right- they never got a hold on me. It
was very hard to find the portal on the Plane of water. I read the
confused ?oGD on the other side of the level, thinking I'd still see the
symbol, but there was a scroll on top of the portal so I couldn't see
the portal symbol. To the Astrial plane. My guardian angel got killed
before I got to the first alter. The third alter turned out to be the
right one.
thinking about it, it seems a little weird for a demi-god to be a rogue.
some ending stats and stuff:
Score 6,981,024. EXPL30, AC-30, maxHPS(368) (was 371 earlier, but
Death took it down a little)
never used a single spell the whole game except to confuse myself to
read the ?oGD. had 2 AoLS but never needed them. had 5 total unused
wishes (not including charging the wands) (used 4 wishes)
+6 Frost Brand
+6 silver saber
+3 Magicbane
Master Key of Thievery
also found but didn't keep: Firebrand, Orcrist, Giant Slayer, Eyes of
Apothowhatever.
+4 Hawaiian shirt
+4 Silver DSM
+4 CoMR
+3 gauntlets of power
+5 speed boots
+3 dented pot
Notable kills:
Wizard of Yendor (9 times)
Death (3 times)
Pestilence (once)
Famine (twice)
Orcus
Juiblex
Baalzebub
Yeenoghu
Master Assassin
Croesus
Vlad the Impaler
Medusa
10 mastodons
69 adult dragons
8 krackens
2 archons
a ki-rin
4 titans
5 jabberwocks
7 nazguls
9 disenchanters
47 vampire lords
I got real lucky this game with the great bones piles and stuff, and
meeting no more than 2 Archons. My next goal would be to win the game
while not being so lucky. Which makes me think an interesting challenge
(for sometimes later) would be to not use anything from bones piles. It
could be a pretty tough challenge if done along with wishless conduct.
I wouldn't try that yet though.
Asher
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I usually do best with Barbarians, but my first ascension was with a
rogue. Nickolas Writhen (NickolasW) the human rogue (used the name of a
character in a story I wrote).
went to minetown first & found a ghost that had a +2 silver DSM (a very
nice thing to find early in the game).
then to Sokoban, really needed a Bag of holding but it had a amulet of
reflection. I decided not to bother too much about staying unburdened,
because I'd consider it too much trouble.
then mine end, hoping I'd find a bag of holding somewhere in the mines.
I didn't. Got the luckstone and heading deeper.
after robbing a couple vaults I went back to minetown to buy some
protection. I was already pretty powerful so I went ahead and killed
the watchmen and got a silver saber from the captain. Soon I ditched by
+3 elven shield to two-weapon my now +3 silver saber and my +4 dagger
stack.
stopped at an alter to sac fest, got Orcrist. I used it to get basic in
broadsword but ditched it pretty soon. Kept sac'ing but didn't get
anything for a while so I went deeper. I finally got a bag of holding
from a ghost on about L11. sac'ed a few more times but didn't get
anything so I used a magic lamp to wish for Frost brand. (I also got two
magic lamps from that bones pile.) Later got Firebrand from sac'ing and
never used it. Found a wand of wishing laying around about L17. On
around level 20 I found another very nice bones pile with another wand
of wishing, stacks of extra and full healing potions, Giant Slayer and
+3 Magicbane (It also had the Eyes of Aepothowhatever but, being a
rogue, I couldn't pick them up). I raised my maxHPS, kept Magicbane and
left Giantslayer. (oh yeah, that bones pile also had an oilskin cloak,
very handy to find right before Medusa's level.)
Went to kill Medusa. I was now usually two-weaponing +3 Frostbrand and
+3 Silver Saber. but while I was over water I had to take off my Cloak
of MR to put on the oilskin cloak. So I two-weaponed +3 magicbane (for
magic resistance) and +3 silver saber. and eels and Krackens were never
a problem until the plane of water (where I forgot to bring my oilskin
cloak).
Then wiped out Fort Ludios, visiting Minetown again for some more
protection. Used a wish for gauntlets of power. The quest seemed easy at
this point. After the castle I had three wands of wishing and I still
didn't really need anything. I had genocided liches, master mind
flayers, and golden nagas. Lured some wraiths from the Valley to the
castle level, getting myself to about EXPL28. Yeenoghu was on the next
level below the valley, and the next few levels I killed a few demon
princes and accidently bribed Asmodeus. (I offered him less gold than he
asked for- I didn't think he'd accept it.) I killed nine disenchanters
before deciding to genocide them (I thought they were more rare than
that). Found the vibrating square and then "I off to kill the wizard,
the terrible wizard of Yendor, because because because because, because
he's got the book of the dead.." yeah. No trouble there. Came back to
the vibrating square and realized I forgot to bring candles. I had
plenty of spare wishes and I didn't feel like going back to minetown, so
poof! seven candles. lured some more wraiths from the sanctum to the
level before it, getting to EXPL30 and found out wraith corpses still
raise your maxHPS even after EXPL30. Again the high priest wasn't much
problem. at this point my Frost Brand and Silver saber were both +6, and
my armor class was -30.
On the way out I killed the priest of Moloch in the Valley just for
kicks. Otherwise the way out was pretty much uneventful. The Wizard of
Yendor appeared less often than I expected. I went to the plane of earth
remember to bring several scrolls of gold detection and a ring of free
action. The plane of earth went very quickly because the portal was very
near where I started. On the plane of air I realized I forgot to bring
my ring of levitation, for some reason I didn't think I'd need it
anymore after passing Medusa'a level going up. So I wished for one. Saw
my first Archon on the plane of air & used a wand of death. I don't like
Archons. The Plane of fire was uneventful. As I mentioned before I
forgot to bring an oilskin cloak to the plane of water and obviously I
couldn't go back for it. (that was a little more understandable to
forget since I've never been to the plane of water before). I decided to
risk it instead of wishing for it. I was powerful enough to kill
krackens in two turns, and I was right- they never got a hold on me. It
was very hard to find the portal on the Plane of water. I read the
confused ?oGD on the other side of the level, thinking I'd still see the
symbol, but there was a scroll on top of the portal so I couldn't see
the portal symbol. To the Astrial plane. My guardian angel got killed
before I got to the first alter. The third alter turned out to be the
right one.
thinking about it, it seems a little weird for a demi-god to be a rogue.
some ending stats and stuff:
Score 6,981,024. EXPL30, AC-30, maxHPS(368) (was 371 earlier, but
Death took it down a little)
never used a single spell the whole game except to confuse myself to
read the ?oGD. had 2 AoLS but never needed them. had 5 total unused
wishes (not including charging the wands) (used 4 wishes)
+6 Frost Brand
+6 silver saber
+3 Magicbane
Master Key of Thievery
also found but didn't keep: Firebrand, Orcrist, Giant Slayer, Eyes of
Apothowhatever.
+4 Hawaiian shirt
+4 Silver DSM
+4 CoMR
+3 gauntlets of power
+5 speed boots
+3 dented pot
Notable kills:
Wizard of Yendor (9 times)
Death (3 times)
Pestilence (once)
Famine (twice)
Orcus
Juiblex
Baalzebub
Yeenoghu
Master Assassin
Croesus
Vlad the Impaler
Medusa
10 mastodons
69 adult dragons
8 krackens
2 archons
a ki-rin
4 titans
5 jabberwocks
7 nazguls
9 disenchanters
47 vampire lords
I got real lucky this game with the great bones piles and stuff, and
meeting no more than 2 Archons. My next goal would be to win the game
while not being so lucky. Which makes me think an interesting challenge
(for sometimes later) would be to not use anything from bones piles. It
could be a pretty tough challenge if done along with wishless conduct.
I wouldn't try that yet though.
Asher
--
Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG
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