The Weakest Link 2010: League of Air

[Timpak]

8000:
So, duel wield some shields, rock the ghost bat, then check our
offensive capabilities on very aggressive:

Missile		to Hit		Damage		Energy cost
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Coin		+17		1d2+10		1200
Thrown Rock*	+20		1d4+12		925
Boomerang	+11		2d4+4		1000

*we have nine nice (+3, 1d4) rocks

Like I thought, time to get some throwing/ranged talents then.

[Timpak]

We should also consider using the corrupted spear, there are a lot of corruptions that would benefit us like the ape one, corrupted tissue, pv corruptions etc. Most corruptions beat down on wizard stats.

I'll explain a bit further.

Good:
You are surrounded by an unholy aura (Ch: -10, DV: +6).
Your close attunement to corrupted astral space allows teleportation. <- since we are weaklings a random tp could save us
Your antennae explore the details of your environment (Ap: -4).
Your skin is covered by tough scales (PV: +8, Dx: -6, Ap: -4).
You have grown a total of 12 eyes (Ap: -6, Pe: +6).
You exhale sulphur (Ch: -4).
You look somewhat apish (St: +3, Le: -1, Wi: -1, Ch: -2, Ap: -3).
Your corrupted tissue seems to heal much faster.
You have become extremely thin and nimble (1/2 weight, DV: +6).
Total 9

Neutral:
You have grown thorns (3d3 melee damage, Dx: -2, Ap: -3).
You have grown horns (+3 melee damage, Ap: -4).
You rage (DV: -9, +6 melee damage)!
Total 3

Bad:
Poison drips from your hands.
You have grown a bulging cranium (Le: +6, Wi: +4, Ap: -6, PV: -4, To: -3).
You are a living mana battery.
Your feet have been transformed into hooves (+8 kicking damage, Dx: -6).
Your muscles have stiffened slowing you down (base action cost: 1500 energy points; PV: +4, St: +2).
You have become very light (1/10 weight, St: -6, Dx: +4, To: -6, Ap: -6, +20 speed).
Total 6

It's a risk but it might be very worthwile.

[jamm]

Good:
You are surrounded by an unholy aura (Ch: -10, DV: +6).
Your close attunement to corrupted astral space allows teleportation. <- since we are weaklings a random tp could save us

might as well kill you ;>

[Timpak]

might as well kill you ;>

Considering we will soon be in a flee or be killed situation very often I think it will be profitable.

[vogonpoet]

We should also consider using the corrupted spear.

1/ Its a spear of corruption, it corrupts opponents, not the PC.
2/ Getting us corrupted deliberately would definitely count as chaotic - the risks completely and utterly outweigh the benefits.

Uncontrolled teleportation makes the whole weakest link concept a complete crapshoot - a PCs movement around a level is one of the more obvious things under a players control, and the ways in which the layout of levels can be used to ones advantage is a large part of skillful ADOM exploration. Random teleporting just means the last person to avoid teleporting next to a dangerous monster wins.

Poison hands: last person to starve wins.
Stiff muscles: no longer able to run away from anything, etc etcl.

Corrupted tissue would be great, some would be ok, many would be utterly rubbish.

Corruption is great in the normal game, when you can use pots and even scrolls to tune which corruptions you want. Without any means of removal though, it basically reduces the weakest link to a game of chance.

1/ Its a spear of corruption, it corrupts opponents, not the PC.

[Timpak]

Okay, didn't know it corrupted the opponent. Assumed that it worked like the corrupting artifacts.

[Grey]

Al-Khwarizmi said in the sign-up thread that he'd be back on the 8th, so I'm afraid you chaps shall have to wait until then to continue.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

Hi, I have managed to get a netbook with linux and working wifi. I'll now try to install ADOM and see if I can play my turn.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

OK. Although with difficulties related to this netbook and this linux distro, I have managed to play my turn. I haven't died. On the bad side, we now have less homogeneous piles of rocks. On the good side, WE NOW HAVE SEVEN LEAGUE BOOTS. You won't be able to say that I don't take care of our char!

Report:

10000: Carefully checked inventory, skills, etc. Didn't make any changes.
10100: Opened tension room door. It's full of wolves, and a werewolf. I don't find like facing all of them with this quite weak char so I walk to the stairs while killing a couple.
10124: After like 5 minutes trying to discover how to get a ">" in this netbook (Shift+Fn+Z, and Fn+Shift+Z wouldn't work, go figure) I go down the stairs.
10200 or so: exploding runes trap destroys some equipment, but nothing essential.
10359: injured to 8 HP by some monsters, I retire to a peripheral room to recover. I hear lots of slurping sounds.
11000: recovered to 29 HP (with some interruptions by monsters). Going to explore more.
11060: killed two large spiders, ate a corpse for poison resistance.
11268: after killing many more spiders, found stairs.
11328: killed dark elven priestess.
11400: killed many more spiders. Found apple, unID'd potion.
11466: advanced to lvl. 11. Damn, is there any useful skill here? Improved Appraisal, Literacy and Pick Pockets, they seemed to me the least useless for the ID (OK, there was find weakness but the improvement was something like 1d3, not like it is going to make a difference).
11510: more spiders. Found ration, key, gloves.
11715: found worn boots. Put them on, and sure, they are seven league boots!
11872: at last, I have killed all the spiders.
11900: found fire drake in western room. Fled.
11920: started walking towards stairs.
11960: found doppleganger. She is immune to my rocks and I don't really want to melee so I dance with her a bit and then flee.
12000: finished.

The situation right now is as follows:

- There is a doppleganger to the right of us but facing her is optional, as the downstairs are to the left.
- There is a fire drake in the northwestern room.
- The upstairs are in the dark room (not like you're going to use it, but well).
- We have enough food, have seven league boots, not many rocks though.

I'll post the save briefly.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

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Air           St:19  Le:14  Wi: 7  Dx:13  To:12  Ch:13  Ap: 4  Ma: 9  Pe: 9 C
DV/PV: 20/6    H: 36(51)      P: 24(24)      Exp: 11/20801      I13   M: 12000
Burdened
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                            Character Information
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Air    St:19  Le:14  Wi: 7  Dx:13  To:12  Ch:13  Ap: 4  Ma: 9  Pe: 9  C
DV/PV: 20/6   H: 36(51)   P: 24(24)   Exp: 11/20801   M: 12000



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                                Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon           Lvl   Hit   Dam   DV   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Unarmed fighting         0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            14
Daggers & knives         1    +1    +0   +0   basic                22
Clubs & hammers          0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            14
Maces & flails           0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            14
Swords                   3    +2    +1   +0   basic                42
Axes                     0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            14
Whips                    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            14
Pole arms                4    +4    +1   +3   skilled              79
Twohanded weapons        0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            14
Staves                   0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            14

Missile weapon         Lvl   Hit   Dam   Ra   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Slings                   0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Bows                     0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Crossbows                0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Thrown axes & hammers    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Thrown daggers           0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Thrown rocks & clubs     6   +12    +9   +2   skilled              35
Thrown spears            0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Boomerangs & scurgari    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            6

Shields                Lvl   DV               Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---              -------------  --------------
Shields                  2    +4              basic                22

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                                   Skills
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  Appraising ................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Backstabbing .............. 38    (fair)         [+1d5]
  Climbing .................. 45    (fair)         [+3d4]
  Detect item status ........ 48    (fair)         [+1d5]
  Find weakness ............. 41    (fair)         [+1d3]
  First aid ................. 53    (good)         [+1d5]
  Gemology .................. 34    (fair)         [+4d5]
  Haggling .................. 47    (fair)         [+4d5]
  Herbalism ................. 19    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Listening ................. 42    (fair)         [+3d4]
  Literacy .................. 56    (good)         [+3d3]
  Metallurgy ................ 27    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Mining ....................  7    (poor)         [+4d5]
  Pick pockets .............. 71    (great)        [+3d3]
  Survival .................. 23    (mediocre)     [+3d5]




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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 2312 stones                Carrying capacity: 3050 stones

Head          : uncursed leather cap [+0, +0]                          [5s]
Neck          : -
Body          : uncursed ring mail (-1, -1) [+0, +5]                 [300s]
Girdle        : uncursed girdle of carrying [+0, +0]                  [15s]
Cloak         : uncursed hooded cloak [+1, +0]                        [40s]
Right Hand    : uncursed medium shield [+3, +1]                      [100s]
Left Hand     : cursed small shield [+2, +0]                          [50s]
Right Ring    : uncursed ring of searching                             [1s]
Left Ring     : -
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : uncursed gloves [+0, +0]                               [6s]
Boots         : uncursed seven league boots [+1, +0]                  [30s]
Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : heap of 4 rocks (+0, 1d4+3)                           [20s]
Tool          : -