A quick autumn contest

[Al-Khwarizmi]

In 15-20 minutes I will play this and *try* to broadcast my gruesome death following gut's instructions (I already have an Ubuntu VM up) in case anyone is interested.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

A sad, boring way to end... I had to quit on I:2 because I couldn't find the down stairs within the turn limit, due to a lot of secret doors that forced me to search.

[Mogri]

M0129: Reached level 2
M0367: Reached level 3; took Shield Specialist; "Your muscles feel stronger. Your health increases."
M0378: Descended to ID:2
M0507: Reached level 4; "Your movements are getting swifter."
M0684: Descended to ID:3
M0912: Reached level 5
M0975: Descended to ID:4
M1291: Descended to ID:5
M1349: Reached level 6; took Tough Skin
M1421: Defeated corpse fiend, but not before he sickened me; "Your muscles feel stronger. Your movements are getting quicker."
M1496: Sick, strained, and bleeding with 2 hp left, first emergency prayer
M1608: 2 hp left again, second emergency prayer
M1725: Descended to ID:6
M1729: Took my chance with a potion, curing my disease
M1942: Reached level 7
M2048: "Your muscles feel stronger."
M2140: Descended to ID:7
M2207: Obtained bloody dagger
M2451: Descended to ID:8
M2626: Reached level 8
M2814: "You are done eating the claw bug corpse. You feel furious!"
M2943: Descended to ID:9
M3383: Descended to ID:10
M3410: Slain by an orc butcher

Yay for bloody knives! Boo for orc butchers!

[Molach]

13: I1. Empty rooms, empty rooms. Call myself Sharkbait, and start exploring.
Level 2, +dx. Found stairs at 186.
348: I2. Found a regular 1d7+1 broadsword. Levelled to 4. Got +st and +to then. Talent good shot
824: I3. Level 5.
1238: I4. Level 6, 'tough skin'. Killed by a battle axe thrown by a large gnoll (he got me in the back as I was making a tactical retreat to the downstairs?.)
Also got +1 Pe somehow.
2560 points, 1611 turns
Notice that I managed to put on a wedding ring, hehe.

If I'm trying this again I want infinite time on each level. This speedrunning is cramping my style.

[JellySlayer]

I:1 Found stairs quickly (<100 turns). Heard tension room, so continued on. Found room of rats and wererat. Killed all and leveled to 5 by turn 250. Cooked a few corpses on stairs, descend at turn 494. Talent = long stride
I:2. Found stairs quickly (531). Found [-1,1] heavy boots. Swapped short sword for heavy spear. Lucky drop gives blessed scroll of ID. I have a healing potion and a ring of ****. Killed dark sage to hit level 6. Talent = quick. Trade up heavy spear for orcish spear from scorcher. Cook till turn 950 and descend.
I:3. Milk a few rocks from rockthrower. Find stairs turn 1212. Get Dx increase from athletics. Heal on stairs till 1449 and descend.
I:4 Milk a few rocks from rockthrower. Find stairs turn 1500. Find black tome (100s) on turn 1612. Read successfully: bless. Don't have enough PP to bookcast though. Kill necromancer and advance to level 7. Descend on turn 1900.
I:5 Find fire opal ring from hippogriff. Equip. Find stairs on turn 2143. Milk rocks from goblin rockthrower. Descend on 2399.
I:6. Find stairs on turn 2414. Find spider factory on turn 2423. Kill a few spiders and grab corpse, retreat and descend on turn 2483.
I:7. Forced to pray for healing to avoid death by poison. Gain poison resist from spider corpse. Use holy symbol for a bit until poison wears off. Attacked by yellow ooze! Flee with 12 HP left. Find stairs at 2850. Heal while using holy symbol till 2982, descend. [also picked up amulet of preserverence at some point]
I:8. Find wooden ring. Decide to test scrolls to see if I can remove my cursed gloves. Get melee damage and power instead. Killed by door rune trap dealing ~40 damage.

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Messiah       St:14  Le:13  Wi:16  Dx:15  To:11  Ch:18  Ap:14  Ma: 7  Pe:10 L
DV/PV: 19/5    H: -14(47)     P: 16(21)      Exp: 7/6883        I8    M: 3182
Burdened

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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 1204 stones                Carrying capacity: 1400 stones

Head          : -
Neck          : uncursed amulet of perseverance {Wi+3}                 [3s]
Body          : blessed chain mail (-1, -3) [-3, +5]                 [400s]
Girdle        : -
Cloak         : -
Right Hand    : uncursed orcish spear (+3, 1d8+3)                     [75s]
Left Hand     : blessed small shield [+2, +0]                         [50s]
Right Ring    : cursed ring of searching                               [1s]
Left Ring     : uncursed ring of stun resistance                       [1s]
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : cursed gloves [+2, +0]                                 [6s]
Boots         : -
Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : heap of 9 uncursed rocks (+0, 1d4)                    [45s]
Tool          : blessed holy symbol                                    [5s]

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                                Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon           Lvl   Hit   Dam   DV   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Swords                   3    +2    +1   +0   basic                61
Pole arms                2    +2    +0   +1   basic                2

Missile weapon         Lvl   Hit   Dam   Ra   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Thrown rocks & clubs     5   +10    +7   +1   skilled              39

Shields                Lvl   DV               Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---              -------------  --------------
Shields                  2    +4              basic                40


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                                   Skills
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  Archery .................. 10    (poor)         [+4d4]
  Athletics ................ 65    (good)         [+3d4]
  Climbing ................. 36    (fair)         [+3d5]
  Concentration ............ 32    (fair)         [+4d5]
  Cooking .................. 69    (good)         [+1] (ma)
  Dodge .................... 51    (good)         [+2d4]
  First aid ................ 53    (good)         [+3d3]
  Food preservation ........ 64    (good)         [+1d3]
  Gardening ................ 23    (mediocre)     [+2d4]
  Haggling ................. 29    (mediocre)     [+3d4]
  Healing .................. 88    (great)        [+1d5]
  Law ...................... 28    (mediocre)     [+4d4]
  Listening ................ 21    (mediocre)     [+3d4]
  Literacy ................. 41    (fair)         [+3d3]
  Stealth .................. 45    (fair)         [+1d5]
  Swimming ................. 38    (fair)         [+3d3]
  Two weapon combat ........  5    (poor)         [+4d5]

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              His achievements during his adventures:
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Messiah, the hurthling paladin, was fried by a magical explosion.
He scored 5411 points and advanced to level 7.
He survived for 0 years, 2 days, 5 hours, 43 minutes and 15 seconds (3182
turns).
Messiah visited 2 places.
His strength score was modified by +2 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +1 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +1 during his career.
He ended his adventuring life on level 8 of some ancient caves.
108 monsters perished under his attacks.
He possessed the following intrinsics:
  He was poison resistant.
  He was stun resistant (gained through an item).
He had the following talents: Alert, Hardy, Long Stride, Quick.
He had a final speed score of 97 (final base speed: 102).
He was religious.
He asked for 1 divine intervention.
He was lawfully aligned.
He was slightly tainted by Chaos.

The following monsters were vanquished:
      1 ankheg
      1 berserker
      1 cave fisher
      1 chaos plague bearer
      1 chaos rat
      2 corpse fiends
      1 cutpurse
      1 dark sage
      1 eye of destruction
      3 fire beetles
      2 ghost bats
      3 ghuls
      1 giant bat
      1 giant lizard
      5 giant rats
      5 giant spiders
      2 gnolls
      1 goblin
      1 goblin chieftain
      4 goblin rockthrowers
      3 goblin slavemasters
      1 harpy
      2 hippogriffs
      2 hobgoblins
      1 huge bat
      2 kobold chieftains
      1 kobold shaman
      3 large bats
      2 large kobolds
      2 large orcs
      3 large spiders
      1 lizard man
      1 necromancer
      1 orc chieftain
      1 orc scorcher
     40 rats
      1 ratling fencer
      1 ratling warrior
      1 red worm
      1 wererat

I blame the PC's very lame starting stats for this.

[meh]

It seems that one week would have been enough for this.

Congratulations to zsomkovacs for getting far deeper than anyone else and winning this contest!