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This one felt a bit long and drawn out, but I thought I'd post it as it's my
first ascension on nethack.alt.org (and only my 6th vanilla ascension) and I
wanted to thank some other players for their accidental contributions to my
artifact haul ;-)
UglyNewt the lawful female human Samurai
(full dump log likely to be available for a week or so at
http://alt.org/nethack/dumplog/UglyNewt.lastgame.txt )
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UglyNewt the Kokushu St:18/** Dx:17 Co:18 In:13 Wi:18 Ch:8 Lawful
Astral Plane $:0 HP:269(269) Pw:92(92) AC:-39 Xp:19/2602286 T:124249 Burdened
the Ascension Kit (tm):
H - an uncursed amulet of reflection (being worn)
a - the rustproof +6 Snickersnee (weapon in hand)
w - the cursed +0 Grayswandir // never left main inventory since my last
encounter with a disenchanter
F - 22 +0 elven daggers (in quiver)
Y - a +7 silver saber (wielded in other hand)
d - an uncursed fireproof +4 pair of yugake (being worn)
f - a blessed fireproof +5 elven leather helm (being worn)
k - a blessed fireproof +4 pair of speed boots (being worn)
x - a blessed +5 Hawaiian shirt (being worn)
z - a blessed greased fireproof +5 cloak of displacement (being worn)
C - a blessed +4 gray dragon scale mail (being worn)
l - an uncursed ring of levitation
B - an uncursed ring of slow digestion (on left hand)
G - an uncursed ring of free action (on right hand)
The Valuable stuff:
You went to your reward with 6598000 points,
Snickersnee (worth 1200 zorkmids and 3000 points)
The Book of the Dead (worth 10000 zorkmids and 25000 points)
Frost Brand (worth 3000 zorkmids and 7500 points)
Vorpal Blade (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
Giantslayer (worth 200 zorkmids and 500 points)
Magicbane (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
Fire Brand (worth 3000 zorkmids and 7500 points)
Werebane (worth 1500 zorkmids and 3750 points)
The Tsurugi of Muramasa (worth 4500 zorkmids and 11250 points)
Mjollnir (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
Grayswandir (worth 8000 zorkmids and 20000 points)
The Candelabrum of Invocation (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
The Bell of Opening (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
Amaterasu Omikami provided Snickersnee, Fire Brand, Werebane and
Grayswandir, while the usual suspects provided the Tsurugi and
invocation artefacts. Frost Brand turned up on Astral, and the
remainder were all found on the corpse of some foolish individual who'd
obviously just converted a lawful temple to neutral. Thankyou, Sir or
Madam, for ensuring that I couldn't be beheaded on Astral
Other souvenirs and unneeded provisions:
an uncursed tin of Medusa meat
2 blessed tins of floating eye meat
a wand of wishing named castle (0:2) (only remembered that when coming
back up...)
[...]
an uncursed amulet of reflection
an uncursed amulet of life saving
an uncursed amulet of magical breathing
an uncursed amulet of life saving
an uncursed amulet of life saving
[...]
16 uncursed potions of full healing
a potion of unholy water
5 uncursed potions of paralysis
16 potions of holy water
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 8
an uncursed ring of polymorph control
an uncursed ring of teleport control
an uncursed ring of slow digestion
an uncursed ring of free action
an uncursed ring of protection from shape changers
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 7
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 6
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 5
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 4
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 3
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 2
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 1
an uncursed ring of regeneration
an uncursed ring of conflict
....and countless wands of teleportation
Contents of the sack named CANCELLED:
a blessed scroll of remove curse
a potion of holy water
a wand of cancellation (0:7)
a cursed wand of cancellation (0:1)
a wand of cancellation (0:8)
Spells:
a - magic missile 2 attack 50%
b - remove curse 3 clerical 50%
c - light 1 divination 50%
Erm, could all that be considered overkill? That's what was left after needing
to visit all three altars...
Vanquished:
Asmodeus
Baalzebub
Orcus
Yeenoghu
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (4 times)
Death (thrice)
Pestilence
Famine (thrice)
[...]
8 Nazguls
[...]
2 erinyes
[...]
117 killer bees
Genocided or extinct species:
killer bees (extinct)
wolves (extinct)
Nazguls (extinct)
erinyes (extinct)
4 species extinct.
Does 'extinct' actually mean 'no more can be created', even if some of them
survived?
Conducts:
You never genocided any monsters
You never polymorphed an object
You changed form 3 times
You used no wishes
The changing form was thanks to the interesting new rings found in a
statue of a mind flayer named Violist.
Other musings and grumblings:
No magic lamps turned up at all. This may have had some effect on the number
of turns I wasted exploring Gehennom, but then I always have difficulty
ascending in <100k turns.
No touchstones either, but I found enough glass golems to recognise eight out
of nine colours of glass.
Spellcasting wasn't a viable attack method, as I didn't spot a single helm of
brilliance, and the first robe I found (barring priests that didn't need
killing) was underneath the Amulet of Yendor.
TDTTOE: I had 6 * c!oGL for making a swift exit from Gehennom - and
only when I reached Juiblex' lair did I discover that they're not exempt
from the mysterious force. Still, I only succumbed to it twice, so I
expect I was quite lucky there.
Well, that was a good waste of a few evenings. What other lightweight conducts
should I be trying?
--
Glyn Kennington - remove caps from email address to reply
This one felt a bit long and drawn out, but I thought I'd post it as it's my
first ascension on nethack.alt.org (and only my 6th vanilla ascension) and I
wanted to thank some other players for their accidental contributions to my
artifact haul ;-)
UglyNewt the lawful female human Samurai
(full dump log likely to be available for a week or so at
http://alt.org/nethack/dumplog/UglyNewt.lastgame.txt )
---------
|.......|
----- |.......| -----
%..| |..._...| |...
---------..-- |.......| --..---------
|.....%.|...-- | |.%.)...| | --...|....a..|
|.....%%|....--- |. ----$---- .| ---....|.....a.|
|..._...-%.%)%- [% [ |.............| A%a@Da))..@@.%|
|.......|....--- %% ---....%....--- ---....|a.@....|
|.......|..%-- -- % -----%----- ) --...|E..%...|
---------..-- ----|-- --/- --..---------
....| % ------- % ---- |...
------ | % -----
----- )-- ---
|% -- %
----|----
$ %%
----------
UglyNewt the Kokushu St:18/** Dx:17 Co:18 In:13 Wi:18 Ch:8 Lawful
Astral Plane $:0 HP:269(269) Pw:92(92) AC:-39 Xp:19/2602286 T:124249 Burdened
the Ascension Kit (tm):
H - an uncursed amulet of reflection (being worn)
a - the rustproof +6 Snickersnee (weapon in hand)
w - the cursed +0 Grayswandir // never left main inventory since my last
encounter with a disenchanter
F - 22 +0 elven daggers (in quiver)
Y - a +7 silver saber (wielded in other hand)
d - an uncursed fireproof +4 pair of yugake (being worn)
f - a blessed fireproof +5 elven leather helm (being worn)
k - a blessed fireproof +4 pair of speed boots (being worn)
x - a blessed +5 Hawaiian shirt (being worn)
z - a blessed greased fireproof +5 cloak of displacement (being worn)
C - a blessed +4 gray dragon scale mail (being worn)
l - an uncursed ring of levitation
B - an uncursed ring of slow digestion (on left hand)
G - an uncursed ring of free action (on right hand)
The Valuable stuff:
You went to your reward with 6598000 points,
Snickersnee (worth 1200 zorkmids and 3000 points)
The Book of the Dead (worth 10000 zorkmids and 25000 points)
Frost Brand (worth 3000 zorkmids and 7500 points)
Vorpal Blade (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
Giantslayer (worth 200 zorkmids and 500 points)
Magicbane (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
Fire Brand (worth 3000 zorkmids and 7500 points)
Werebane (worth 1500 zorkmids and 3750 points)
The Tsurugi of Muramasa (worth 4500 zorkmids and 11250 points)
Mjollnir (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
Grayswandir (worth 8000 zorkmids and 20000 points)
The Candelabrum of Invocation (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
The Bell of Opening (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
Amaterasu Omikami provided Snickersnee, Fire Brand, Werebane and
Grayswandir, while the usual suspects provided the Tsurugi and
invocation artefacts. Frost Brand turned up on Astral, and the
remainder were all found on the corpse of some foolish individual who'd
obviously just converted a lawful temple to neutral. Thankyou, Sir or
Madam, for ensuring that I couldn't be beheaded on Astral
Other souvenirs and unneeded provisions:
an uncursed tin of Medusa meat
2 blessed tins of floating eye meat
a wand of wishing named castle (0:2) (only remembered that when coming
back up...)
[...]
an uncursed amulet of reflection
an uncursed amulet of life saving
an uncursed amulet of magical breathing
an uncursed amulet of life saving
an uncursed amulet of life saving
[...]
16 uncursed potions of full healing
a potion of unholy water
5 uncursed potions of paralysis
16 potions of holy water
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 8
an uncursed ring of polymorph control
an uncursed ring of teleport control
an uncursed ring of slow digestion
an uncursed ring of free action
an uncursed ring of protection from shape changers
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 7
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 6
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 5
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 4
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 3
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 2
a cursed ring of invisibility named Nazgul 1
an uncursed ring of regeneration
an uncursed ring of conflict
....and countless wands of teleportation
Contents of the sack named CANCELLED:
a blessed scroll of remove curse
a potion of holy water
a wand of cancellation (0:7)
a cursed wand of cancellation (0:1)
a wand of cancellation (0:8)
Spells:
a - magic missile 2 attack 50%
b - remove curse 3 clerical 50%
c - light 1 divination 50%
Erm, could all that be considered overkill? That's what was left after needing
to visit all three altars...
Vanquished:
Asmodeus
Baalzebub
Orcus
Yeenoghu
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (4 times)
Death (thrice)
Pestilence
Famine (thrice)
[...]
8 Nazguls
[...]
2 erinyes
[...]
117 killer bees
Genocided or extinct species:
killer bees (extinct)
wolves (extinct)
Nazguls (extinct)
erinyes (extinct)
4 species extinct.
Does 'extinct' actually mean 'no more can be created', even if some of them
survived?
Conducts:
You never genocided any monsters
You never polymorphed an object
You changed form 3 times
You used no wishes
The changing form was thanks to the interesting new rings found in a
statue of a mind flayer named Violist.
Other musings and grumblings:
No magic lamps turned up at all. This may have had some effect on the number
of turns I wasted exploring Gehennom, but then I always have difficulty
ascending in <100k turns.
No touchstones either, but I found enough glass golems to recognise eight out
of nine colours of glass.
Spellcasting wasn't a viable attack method, as I didn't spot a single helm of
brilliance, and the first robe I found (barring priests that didn't need
killing) was underneath the Amulet of Yendor.
TDTTOE: I had 6 * c!oGL for making a swift exit from Gehennom - and
only when I reached Juiblex' lair did I discover that they're not exempt
from the mysterious force. Still, I only succumbed to it twice, so I
expect I was quite lucky there.
Well, that was a good waste of a few evenings. What other lightweight conducts
should I be trying?
--
Glyn Kennington - remove caps from email address to reply
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