The Ultimate Fighting Championship

[gut]

The arena challenge second eddition is officially open.
This challenge shall be open until August the 1st. The rules are as follows:

- Roll 3 PC's only, one from each class tier.
- You may use each race only once.
- You may re-roll a PC ONLY if the RNG throws you a river.
- You may heal in between arena battles, but you must not leave the arena level.
- You may only visit Terinyo (only for food) and the CoC.
- You may kill no NPC's.
- You must document your Gladius opponent, count your title defenses, and cause of death if applicable.
- It is OK to use the naming bug/feature, as that is the only way to semi-level the boss fights.*
(The suckers who draw Lin Hon Kay are still getting screwed.)
- You may not win fights via teleportation, though teleporting within the arena is OK.
- You may not chose birthsign.
- You may not use the question system to pump stats. Sorry, but I think the answers are code-dived.
- If you are a bard or necro, you MAY USE PETS/SLAVES. Sorry for the confusion.
- You may use herbs, shops, or any PC building tactic you like, just don't pass these restrictions:
- You must initiate your first arena battle within... 2000 turns. weaklings will be
granted an extra 1000 turns, possibly a bit more if circumstance dictates.
- You must initiate your first arena battle before reaching exp. level 10
- You must initiate your first arena battle before day 10.

- You must post a few brief lines, describing the PC's you have rolled. Example:
Strong PC: Unicorn born drake priest. Starting book, darkness.
Average PC: Tree born orc merchant. Starting specialty, potions.
Weak PC: Wolf born troll farmer.

* The naming bug/feature is when you use the 'n'ame command on spaces where
you suspect an invisible monster (Lin-Hon-Kay) of being. The game will thus
give away the position of the monster.

It was a bit wrenching to figure out the tiers. I wanted to incorperate
everyones rankings, but I still had to keep the tiers rather even. Nobody
depreciated any class, but instead only ranked some higher. So I promoted
merchant and mindcrafters. This means the 'strong' tier has 6 classes,
'average' has 10, and 'weak' has 4. I also swapped elementalists and
priests.

Strong: ARCHER, ELEMENTALIST, WIZARD, BARBARIAN, DRUID, MINDCRAFTER
Average: HEALER, ASSASSIN, PRIEST, MERCHANT, BEASTY, NECRO, RANGER, MONK, FIGHTER, PALADIN
Weak: BARD, THIEF, FARMER, WEAPONSMITH

[Soirana]

Cup born dwarf necro, forst bolt
M1070 -play with corruption trap
m1295-learned improved fireball
m1578-start fights
die to li hon kay--- stupid Rng gave no spiders


Raven born drake farmer, 23 toughness
m103-got stuck into splint armour of anger
m48 reached Dak
m2404 lerned that Spardakis pisses on webs
21-master sworsman
22-mummy
23-animated armour, can't penetrate his armour
fuck was promising


Dragon burn hurthling wizard, acid bolt, magic missile
got into arena arround turn 600,had some problems with oozes so started fights at level 9 while isolating lower part behind arena with doors, killed li hon kay at 3594
after:
21 spectre
22 delven priestess, got her but it cost me too much spell points
23 wight-hit lv 11 here
24 wight again
25 rust monster
26 mummy
27 tarantula
28 deleven princess-got her but she got another good chunk of spell knowledge and my last prayer
29 Flesh golem
30 Chaos spider
31-shambling moud
32-fire beetle
33-ratling thief
34-dire wolf
35-hill giant
36-hipogriff
37-large snake
38-large jackal
39-orc
40-berserker lord
41-fire beetle
42-blink dog
43-shadow troll
44-slow shadow-happily he is slow enough to rock throw him to death
45-margoyle
46-orc- slice with gladius
47-cupurse
48-bersrker lord
49-orc
50-giant bat
no more fights to me had really abysmall spell knowledge left like 4 acid bolt and 17 magic missile

[meh]

Do we have to decide on R/C before creating, or can we check what the birthsign is and then pick something extra compatible?

[gut]

Here's mine:

strong: Salamander born dwarf archer.
average: wolf born troll ranger. Lousy stats at St:24 To:25
weak: dragon born drakeling farmer. PV:0


> Raven born drake, 23 toughness

Drake what?

> can we check what the birthsign is

Yes. You can only not do what is forbidden. Well, within reason anyway.
We didn't forbid turn bug, but common sense says no to stuff like that.



Dwarf archer killed Ripclaw the troll for the Gladius.

21. hippogriff
22. hobgob
23. fomorian giant (gave xp level 7)
24. rat archer (very nice)
25. master mimic
26. griffon
27. grey slayer (hah! seriously, regen was horrible)
28. large orc
29. bandit
30. lizard man
31. blinkie
32. bugbear
33. ogre magi (didn't use rename bug)
34. world's most experienced fire beetle
35. stone ooze (blinded by quarrel of darkness)
36. another tough fire beetle
37. fire giant (could barely scratch, and was taking ~25 HP's per rock throw. It finally died to a crazy powerful crit. Had to pray.)
38. ratling fencer
39. doppler lord (ugh)
40. ratling master thief
41. frost giant jarl (couldn't hardly scratch him. Killed me with a 38 HP's rock throw, taking me to -16 HP's)


Troll ranger killed Spardakius for Gladius (I'm a poet and didn't know it)
21. griffon
22. spectre
23. hobgob
24. ghost
25. fire beetle
26. ratling duelist
27. troll
28. skeleton
29. displacer beast
30. doppler, standard edition
31. ratling master thief
32. troll chief killed me, though I had him at critical

Drake farmer - Jeez, had to pray once to make it through the wilderness and still,
if it hadn't been for the dog, I'd have died! Almost died on D:1 due to a trap taking
me to 4 HP's. Couldn't even explore D:2, as I saw a viper. Found an orc tension
room on S:3, went down to 12 HP's and was fleeing for the stairs when I got "The
female orc throws a crude knife at you! You are critically wounded. You die... (more)
From 12 to -16, and I couldn't stop laughing.

[JellySlayer]

Strong: Salamander Drakeling Mindcrafter -- Died to white dragon after killing: Bonk, Brown Bear, Hell Hound, Ochre Jelly, Wererat, Hill giant, Stone Statue, Berserker, Cave Lizard, Dark Sage, Lizardman, Doppleganger king, Swordsman, Harpy, Grizzly, Dark orc, Foroman Giant, Caveman, Cave Lion, Orc, Black Wizard

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DV/PV: 31/7    H: -33(68)     P: 44(49)      Exp: 9/12933       D: 4  Sp: 102
Coward

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Total weight: 792 stones                Carrying capacity: 1400 stones

He: -
Ne: -
Bo: -
Gi: blessed metal girdle [+0, +1]                                     [25s]
Cl: -
RH: uncursed golden gladius "Death's Sting" (+2, 2d5+2) [+3, +3] (+7 spd)
LH: uncursed wooden shield [+3, +1]                                   [80s]
RR: uncursed ring of stun resistance                                   [1s]
LR: uncursed ring of stun resistance                                   [1s]
Br: -
Ga: -
Bo: uncursed sandals [+3, +2]                                          [6s]
MW: -
Mi: heap of 5 uncursed rocks (+0, 1d4+2)                              [25s]
Tl: -

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              His achievements during his adventures:
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Arena1, the drakish mindcrafter, was frozen to death by a white dragon.
He scored 7244 points and advanced to level 9.
He survived for 0 years, 7 days, 7 hours, 23 minutes and 22 seconds (8386
turns).
Arena1 visited 7 places.
His strength score was modified by +2 during his career.
He was the champion of the arena.
He ended his adventuring life on level 4 of the caverns of chaos.
100 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following artifact was generated during his adventure:
  the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
He possessed the following intrinsics:
  He was lucky.
  He was able to control teleportation.
  He was stun resistant (gained through items).
He had the following talents: Good Learner, Long Stride, Quick, Very Quick.
He had a final speed score of 102 (final base speed: 105).
He was a fervent follower of Issrecht.
He did not ask for divine help.
He was neutrally aligned.

The following monsters were vanquished:
      1 barbarian
      1 berserker
      4 black hurthlings
      1 black wizard
      1 brown bear
      2 bugbears
      2 cave bears
      1 cave lion
      1 cave lizard
      1 caveman
      1 dark orc
      1 dark sage
      1 doppleganger king
      1 dwarf
      2 fire beetles
      1 fire lizard
      1 floating eye
      1 fomorian giant
      1 ghul
      1 giant bat
      1 giant frog
      2 giant rats
      1 giant spider
      3 gnolls
      3 goblins
      2 goblin chieftains
     10 goblin rockthrowers
      1 grizzly bear
      1 harpy
      1 hell hound
      2 hill giants
      1 hippogriff
      5 hobgoblins
      1 homunculus
      1 kobold
      1 kobold chieftain
      3 large bats
      1 large gnoll
      2 large kobolds
      1 large orc
      1 large spider
      3 lizard men
      1 ochre jelly
      3 orcs
      1 orc chieftain
      1 quasit
      4 rats
      2 ratling thieves
      1 ratling trader
      2 shadows
      1 skeleton
      3 stone giants
      1 stone statue
      1 swordsman
      1 tarantula
      1 water snake
      1 wererat
      2 wolves
      1 zombie

Installed by breath attack

Medium: Unicorn Dwarf Paladin --- Died to Li Hon Kay
Weak: Candle (Heir) Hurthling Thief -- Died to Ripclaw the troll (who apparently gets 156 speed!)

[Albahan]

Strong: Tree-born Human Archer --- Died to a stone block trap on D1


Medium: Sword-born Orcish Paladin (Everburning torch with 12/9 DV/PV) --- Beat Sparkadius went on to fight Bandit,Ratling Duelist (Pain in my ass.. damaged my armor until it was useless) , Slow Shadow, Cave tiger, Dire wolf, Lightning Lizard, Spectre (Weakened me multiple times) , Hell hound, Lesser Daemon, Bugbear, Greater Rust monster (Destroyed almost all the rest of my armor including my [+0,+4] gauntlets), Giant Bat. Died to a minotaur due to sever lack in DV/PV after that rust monster.


Weak: Sword-born Dwarfish Weaponsmith --- Had horrible DV/PV and no healing... Died to a Cave Bear in the arena

[Dudley]

Strong : wand born female gnomish wizard (heir, named fire) died on an hobgoblin ambush
Medium : Salamander born male Troll beasty (named grumpy) Which reached the arena and got his first fight

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Li hon kay, the ogre magus, killed me...

Weak : Raven born male orcish farmer (named Farmer) killed by an orc... Gah, no luck at all...

[vogonpoet]

Genning now.

1/ Raven. Hmmm, will go human archer. 2 PV.

2/ Candle. Yay. Hobbit heir thief. 4 PV

3/ Salamander meh. Orcish beastie boy. 5 PV.


I feel slightly exhausted

:edit:
@Jellyslayer

Mindcrafters really do kick ass - I don't ever recall not being able to use mindcraft whilst confused, making them awesome doppleganer slayers. Nice work getting a DK on your kill list though.

[_Ln_]

Hey, I lost all my chars before ~10 fight! Anyone dare beat my score?

Really, wizzie with 12 Le, priest with Magic Map and a thief who was doing very good (I seriously believed he's gonna kick strong and average guys) got sandwiched next to a gibbering mouther, which proceeded to beat his sad face..

[Overheat]

Is exploiting loopholes in the rules allowed?