The Weakest Link 2010: League of Air

**Grey** · 05-31-2010, 04:35 PM

Welcome to the League of Air!

Chaos Gate status: Closed.
(when the Chaos Gate is opened corrupt and profane tactics will be allowed)

Playing Order:
1. Jack_the_Ripper
2. Timpak
3. Cash (dead)
4. Irinka
5. Confucio
6. vogonpoet
7. Al-Khwarizmi
8. Jack_the_Ripper (dead)
9. Timpak (dead)
10. Irinka
11. Confucio (removed)
12. vogonpoet
13. Al-Khwarizmi (dead)
-Chaos Gate closed-
14. Irinka (dead)
15. vogonpoet
.
.
.

High Score:

Code:

Jack_the_Ripper was eterminated by an iron golem on I17.
advanced to level 11, scored 25413 xp, survived 13714 turns.

Timpak was murdered by a large gnoll on I15.
Advanced to level 11, scored 23487 xps, survived 13928 turns.

Cash was poisoned to death by pit vipers on I6.
Advanced to level 8, scoring ???? xp and surviving 5213 turns.

**Grey** · 05-31-2010, 04:37 PM

And your avatar of suffering is... a Dragon-born female Orc Merchant, specialising in wands.

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Air    St:20  Le:13  Wi: 7  Dx:13  To:12  Ch:13  Ap: 4  Ma: 9  Pe: 9  C
DV/PV: 9/3   H: 19(19)   P: 2(2)   Exp: 1/0   M: 0



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                            Background Information
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Name: Air                 Race: female Orc          Class: Merchant
Eye color: brown          Hair color: black         Complexion: gray
Height: 5'2"              Weight: 149 pounds
Age: 14 (young)
Star sign: Dragon         Birthday: 28/Dragon (day 178 of the year)

YOUR HISTORY:
        Your parents belong to the nobility. They are rich, respected,
 wealthy and own more than they can count.
        During your childhood one of your uncles taught you a lot of things
 about the history of your people. Your vast knowledge on the legends and
 the lore of your people made you very popular with your friends because of
 all the exciting stories you knew.
        In your youth you became seriously ill and suffered for many years.
 When your disease finally was cured you were left weakened, both
 physically and spiritually, and bereft of the joys of youth.
        As a young adult you left your home because of trouble with your
 parents. They opposed your plans for the future without understanding your
 wishes. Thus you decided to live on your own. You wandered through the
 country for many years, growing older and wiser and learning many things.
        You decided to become a Merchant. During your apprenticeship you
specialized on enchanted wands and rods.


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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 531 stones                Carrying capacity: 2250 stones

Head          : -
Neck          : -
Body          : studded leather armor (-1, +0) [-1, +3]              [250s]
Girdle        : -
Cloak         : -
Right Hand    : broadsword (+0, 1d7+1)                                [80s]
Left Hand     : dagger (+0, 1d4)                                      [10s]
Right Ring    : -
Left Ring     : -
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : -
Boots         : leather boots [+0, +0]                                [25s]
Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : -
Tool          : -


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Total weight: 166 stones   Carrying capacity: 2250 stones

One-handed weapons ('(')
   club (+0, 1d6)                                                     [30s]
   dagger (+0, 1d4)                                                   [10s]
Wands ('\')
   wand of acid (4 charges)                                            [4s]
   wand of acid (4 charges)                                            [4s]
   wand of webbing (1 charge)                                          [3s]
   wand of door creation (1 charge)                                    [3s]
   wand of trap detection (3 charges)                                  [3s]
   wand of lightning (2 charges)                                       [4s]
Food ('%')
   iron ration                                                       [100s]
Valuables ('$')
   581 gold pieces                                                     [5s]

Talents: Long Stride and Quick

**vogonpoet** · 05-31-2010, 04:43 PM

Hail airheads, are we ready?

An Orc blinger eh? Clearly our damage output will diminish rapidly relative to our danger level over time. Ha. should be interesting.

Here's hoping half of you contrive to suffer embarassing deaths before my turn comes up

edit:

Thoughts on non-chaotic flinging the bling:
Pros:

We have lots of coins, and will find more - practically unlimited ammo on an ID dive
No monsters immune to coin attack
Damage output increases with PC level
Find Weakness works with coin throws
Good Shot talent line useful

Cons:

Coin throw attack energy cost does not decrease as we gain in power
Strong thrower talent useless

Conclusions:

We need to be fast for "beserk fling and back away" hit and run tactics
Probably worthwhile to train other missile weapons when we find them, for energy cost boost.

**Timpak** · 05-31-2010, 04:49 PM

Hail!

The big question is what we have done against RNG for it to spawn us a dragon born orc with 12 toughness. I guess it's the nice set of wands.

Remember to train pickpockets!

Aswell as using it to the max ofc.

**Grey** · 05-31-2010, 06:59 PM

Hmm, just remembered that Al-Khwarizmi said he'd be away for this week - I've bumped him to the back of the queue. Jack the Ripper, please take the first turn.

**Jack the Ripper** · 06-01-2010, 09:02 AM

Yup, I'm doing just that right now. Sorry, was away for a while due to a horrid examen coming up. Now that's over it, we can get down to business. Those wands might be very very useful indeed. And specialising in them is quite good

Now to play.DONE

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Air           St:20  Le:13  Wi: 7  Dx:13  To:12  Ch:13  Ap: 4  Ma: 9  Pe: 9 C
DV/PV: 19/5    H: 19(39)      P: 13(13)      Exp: 6/2714        I3    M: 1999
Coward
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                            Character Information
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Air    St:20  Le:13  Wi: 7  Dx:13  To:12  Ch:13  Ap: 4  Ma: 9  Pe: 9  C
DV/PV: 19/5   H: 19(39)   P: 13(13)   Exp: 6/2714   M: 1999

                                Weapon Skills
Melee weapon           Lvl   Hit   Dam   DV   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Daggers & knives         1    +1    +0   +0   basic                22
Swords                   3    +2    +1   +0   basic                59


  Appraising ................ 91    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Backstabbing .............. 25    (mediocre)     [+2d4]
  Climbing .................. 40    (fair)         [+3d4]
  Detect item status ........ 33    (fair)         [+2d4]
  Find weakness ............. 29    (mediocre)     [+2d4]
  First aid ................. 42    (fair)         [+2d4]
  Gemology .................. 34    (fair)         [+4d5]
  Haggling .................. 47    (fair)         [+4d5]
  Herbalism ................. 19    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Listening ................. 27    (mediocre)     [+4d4]
  Literacy .................. 45    (fair)         [+3d4]
  Metallurgy ................ 27    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Mining ....................  7    (poor)         [+4d5]
  Pick pockets .............. 32    (fair)         [+4d5]
  Survival .................. 23    (mediocre)     [+3d5]



Total weight: 1437 stones                Carrying capacity: 2250 stones

Head          : -
Neck          : -
Body          : uncursed ring mail (-1, -1) [-1, +5]                 [300s]
Girdle        : -
Cloak         : -
Right Hand    : broadsword (+0, 1d7+1)                                [80s]
Left Hand     : cursed small shield [+2, +0]                          [50s]
Right Ring    : -
Left Ring     : -
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : -
Boots         : -
Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : 868 gold pieces                                        [8s]
Tool          : -


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Total weight: 999 stones   Carrying capacity: 2250 stones

Armor ('[')
   studded leather armor (-1, +0) [-1, +3]                           [250s]
   robe {fair}                                                        [60s]
Shields ('[')
   uncursed wooden shield (+2) [+3, +1]                               [80s]
Boots ('[')
   leather boots [+0, +0]                                             [25s]
One-handed weapons ('(')
   club (+0, 1d6)                                                     [30s]
   heap of 2 daggers (+0, 1d4)                                        [20s]
Missile weapons ('}')
   short bow {mediocre}                                               [20s]
Missiles ('/')
   uncursed arrow {fair}                                               [2s]
   arrow {fair}                                                        [2s]
   uncursed arrow {fair}                                               [2s]
   bundle of 3 arrows {fair}                                           [6s]
   arrow {fair}                                                        [2s]
   bundle of 12 quarrels {mediocre}                                   [24s]
   [ snip rocks]
Wands ('\')
   wand of acid (3 charges)                                            [4s]
   wand of acid (4 charges)                                            [4s]
   wand of webbing (1 charge)                                          [3s]
   wand of door creation (1 charge)                                    [3s]
   wand of trap detection (3 charges)                                  [3s]
   wand of lightning (2 charges)                                       [4s]
Scrolls ('?')
   scroll labeled "MUNCH MUNCH"                                        [2s]
Food ('&#37;')
   iron ration                                                       [100s]
   loaf of bread                                                      [40s]
   rat corpse (rotten)                                                [30s]


64 monsters perished under her attacks.

All in all, we've now got better armor, the same weapon, we've increased Find Weakness, Backstabbing, Appraising, First Aid and Detect Item Status. We've found a nice [+3+1] wooden shield but can't use it because we're stuck with a cursed small shield on our left hand. I've gathered quite a big heap of rocks, some arrows and some quarells and a short bow, but I'm afraid it might be cursed. Dunno where the scroll came from. I've chosed Very Quick and Good Shot as our talents. You're on I:3, the locked door separates you from a gray ooze who's probably spawned quite a lot by now, since I've been using the last 300 turns to recover HP. Haven't used any prayer so far. Down stairs are right next to you and I suggest using them rather than fighthing the oozes. For a more detailed account of what I did and found when and where read below.

I:1 - found more ammo (coins), Got level 1, increased Detect Item Status, Find Weakness and Appraising. Thought it might be useful to know the status of some items later, or have a 'feeling' about them. Should've taken First Aid, now I think of it. Level 3, Backstabbing, First Aid. Got a short bow from a nice kobold. Not using it because we have very few arrows and I don't wanna equip a cursed bow. Appraising tells us it's mediocre. Hmmm... Descend on turn 360
I:2 - Got a small shield and equipped it. Too bad it's cursed. Level 4: First Aid, Detect Item Status, Appraising. One charge of acid wand used against fire beetle. Got a nice new ring mail as armor, keeping old studded leather in backpack. Level 5: Find Weakness, Detect Item Status, Appraising. Descending on turn 1240, after kicking down a locked door. No trap.
I:3 - Rat room near stairs. Level 6: Find Weakness, Backstabbing, First Aid. Imminent danger. Turns out to be a grey ooze. Got away from it and locked it behind a door. Didn't want to use a prayer to heal, so I waited to recover some HP.

**Timpak** · 06-01-2010, 11:19 AM

Survived! I'll post report after watching my recording and writing down all the details, so I guess it's up in some 15 minutes.

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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: 11/5    H: 18(40)      P: 15(15)      Exp: 7/4632        I5    M: 4000

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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: 11/5   H: 18(40)   P: 15(15)   Exp: 7/4632   M: 4000


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                                Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon           Lvl   Hit   Dam   DV   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Daggers & knives         1    +1    +0   +0   basic                22
Swords                   3    +2    +1   +0   basic                42
Pole arms                1    +1    +0   +0   basic                20

Missile weapon         Lvl   Hit   Dam   Ra   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Thrown rocks & clubs     2    +4    +3   +0   basic                14

Shields                Lvl   DV               Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---              -------------  --------------
Shields                  0    +0              unskilled            4

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  Appraising ................ 91    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Backstabbing .............. 25    (mediocre)     [+2d4]
  Climbing .................. 40    (fair)         [+3d4]
  Detect item status ........ 37    (fair)         [+2d4]
  Find weakness ............. 29    (mediocre)     [+2d4]
  First aid ................. 42    (fair)         [+2d4]
  Gemology .................. 34    (fair)         [+4d5]
  Haggling .................. 47    (fair)         [+4d5]
  Herbalism ................. 19    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Listening ................. 27    (mediocre)     [+4d4]
  Literacy .................. 45    (fair)         [+3d4]
  Metallurgy ................ 27    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Mining ....................  7    (poor)         [+4d5]
  Pick pockets .............. 56    (good)         [+3d5]
  Survival .................. 23    (mediocre)     [+3d5]

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Total weight: 1841 stones                Carrying capacity: 3050 stones

Head          : -
Neck          : -
Body          : uncursed ring mail (-1, -1) [-1, +5]                 [300s]
Girdle        : girdle of carrying [+0, +0]                           [15s]
Cloak         : -
Right Hand    : uncursed orcish spear (+1, 1d8+2)                     [75s]
Left Hand     : cursed small shield [+2, +0]                          [50s]
Right Ring    : -
Left Ring     : -
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : -
Boots         : leather boots [+0, +0]                                [25s]
Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : heap of 17 rocks (+0, 1d4)                            [85s]
Tool          : -


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Total weight: 1291 stones   Carrying capacity: 3050 stones

Armor ('[')
   studded leather armor (-1, +0) [-1, +3]                           [250s]
   robe {fair}                                                        [60s]
Shields ('[')
   uncursed wooden shield (+2) [+3, +1]                               [80s]
One-handed weapons ('(')
   broadsword (+0, 1d7+1)                                             [80s]
   club (+0, 1d6)                                                     [30s]
   heap of 2 daggers (+0, 1d4)                                        [20s]
   uncursed crude spear {good}                                        [75s]
Missile weapons ('}')
   short bow {mediocre}                                               [20s]
   sling {fair}                                                        [3s]
Missiles ('/')
   bundle of 2 uncursed arrows {fair}                                  [4s]
   arrow {fair}                                                        [2s]
   uncursed arrow {fair}                                               [2s]
   bundle of 3 arrows {fair}                                           [6s]
   arrow {fair}                                                        [2s]
   bundle of 12 quarrels {mediocre}                                   [24s]
   heap of 3 uncursed rocks {good}                                    [15s]
   heap of 4 rocks {good}                                             [20s]
   uncursed rock {good}                                                [5s]
   heap of 9 rocks                                                    [45s]
   rock {good}                                                         [5s]
   rock {good}                                                         [5s]
   rock {good}                                                         [5s]
   heap of 2 rocks {good}                                             [10s]
   arrow {fair}                                                        [2s]
   bundle of 2 arrows {fair}                                           [4s]
   arrow {fair}                                                        [2s]
   heap of 3 rocks {good}                                             [15s]
   heap of 15 uncursed rocks (+0, 1d4)                                [75s]
   quarrel {good}                                                      [2s]
   uncursed rock {good}                                                [5s]
   heap of 4 rocks {good}                                             [20s]
   uncursed rock                                                       [5s]
   uncursed rock {good}                                                [5s]
   blessed arrow {fair}                                                [2s]
   cursed arrow                                                        [2s]
   uncursed arrow {fair}                                               [2s]
Tools (']')
   tiny key {fair}                                                     [1s]
Wands ('\')
   wand of acid (2 charges)                                            [4s]
   wand of acid (4 charges)                                            [4s]
   wand of webbing (1 charge)                                          [3s]
   wand of door creation (1 charge)                                    [3s]
   wand of trap detection (3 charges)                                  [3s]
   wand of lightning (2 charges)                                       [4s]
Potions ('!')
   light green potion                                                  [4s]
Scrolls ('?')
   scroll labeled "MUNCH MUNCH" {fair}                                 [2s]
   scroll labeled "Carpe Diem"                                         [2s]
Food ('%')
   loaf of bread                                                      [40s]
   iron ration                                                       [100s]
   large ration                                                      [200s]
Valuables ('$')
   1292 gold pieces                                                   [12s]

**Timpak** · 06-01-2010, 11:35 AM

I3: Started out by regaining some hp. Descend when I became hungry (Turn 2551).

I4: Ate iron ration because of hunger! (Turn 2652) Milked a rockthrower for some rocks. It gave a corpse, ate it. Got level 7, took Pick pockets x2 and Detect item status. Get some arrows from a raider. Encounter a ghul (Turn 2984). Thinking I'm screwed but I manage to defeat it. Eat a bat corpse. Descend again (Turn 3095).

I5: Straight into a damn -1st +1Le room, now that's useful for our merchant! Eat a goblin slavemaster. Find a sling, might use it together with our rocks but not sure if it's cursed or not. Encounter a cave fisher, decide it is to nasty so I close the door where it resides. (Turn 3269) Encounter a orc scorcher that I milk a spear from, uncursed, now our main weapon along with thrown rocks. Steal a "Carpe diem" scroll (Turn 3328) Find a thick girdle which is a girdle of carrying. Equip it. Decides to regain some hp before I try to take on the cave spider (which by now I've interpreted as NOT a part of a farm since the extreme lack of slurping sounds). And yes the only way to the next level is past the spider. Get thrown rocks lvl 2 and find a potion. Near death moment (Turn 3616). Get hit down to 8 hp and stunned by a hill orc. Decided the best thing to do was zap it with an acid wand. Spend the rest of my turn regaining health. Late edit: Also got a uncursed orcish spear from the hill orc, maybe try it out to see if its nice.

Summary:

-1st +1Le
2 levels in thrown rocks
1 xp level, 2x pick pocketing 1x detect item status
Found orcish spear, equipped it
1 level polearms
Found girdle of carrying, equipped it
One charge of acid wand used
Found carpe diem scroll and light green potion

**Cash** · 06-01-2010, 08:15 PM

M:4000 rename pc to 420
M:4264, level up, find weakness x1, first aid x2
M:4333 I am stunned by a gargoyle with only 2 hp then i use a prayer
M:4334 ring mail is damaged
M:4436 found stairs
M:4515 ate one large ration and giant rat corpse
M:4710 descended to i:6
M:4764 "you sense a certain tension"
M:4942 found stairs
M:5091 use wand of acid twice to dispatch pit vipers
M:5116 prayed for health from pit viper poisoning
M:5213 death due to pit viper poisoning

**Irinka** · 06-01-2010, 10:15 PM

Well, I didn't die.
Forgot to make vlg, after writing the report and posting the save I'll start the character again and make flg.
But first, how I survived (short one, because I'm a bit tired):

4057 - skill upgrade - backstabbing +2, detect item status +1, first aid +1, listening +1
level up - detect item status, find weakness, first aid
4682 - another skill upgrade - backstabbing +3, pick pockets +1
descended.
4752- argh, spear trap - 10hp left
5060 - vipers! from the pit! - I remember how cash died, thank you very much. wand of acid! (3 charges total used)
5383 - descended again
Another zap of wand of acid acid for claw bugs, because there were four of them in narrow corridor and alternative was them killing me in melee. Guess what? there were four more around the corridor. I tried to melee them, but they reduced our brave hero Air to 4 hp so I just killed them with another wand charge.
5676 - level up - detect item status, find weakness, first aid. Chose healthy as a talent
then a jackalwere appeared and summoned friends. killed them all and then decided to wait until the end of my turn. I was low on hp anyway, so I may as well make Confucio's life better.

There were no interesting items that I picked up on the way. The only interesting thing is that this guy is always low on hp and prone to all types of injuries. So be careful and have fun!

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