ADOM challenge game on reddit/r/roguelikes: ID dive

[Alucard]

http://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/c...ty_and_beyond/

Hopefully there will be enough people interested in this that we can get some competition.

The challenge is to descend as far into the infinite dungeon as you can, the winner will be the one who dies on the deepest level.

No visiting any other location

No leaving the ID for any reason

You may return to previous levels but you may not stairhop

In the case of a tie the highest score wins

Highest Posted score by Monday gets to make the next challenge

I think we can post some competitive scores

[JellySlayer]

Seems like it should be fairly easy since you're allowed to revisit levels and there's no impetus to descend, and, from the looks of it, can choose your race/class.

[_Ln_]

Silfir, host TWL already! And I don't care we didn't make 100k.

[Carter]

Isn't the record in the 10k range with an immortal necromancer?

[JellySlayer]

My farmer made I:37... Probably could have got a lot farther but I got careless fighting this foroman giant. If I'd been able to get a holy water, I would have been in pretty good shape for a long run, I think, though I was really hurting for a good weapon.

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IDiver        St:24  Le:12  Wi:22  Dx:24  To:32  Ch: 8  Ap: 8  Ma: 9  Pe:11 N=
DV/PV: 60/17   H: -2(200)     P: 49(49)      Exp: 15/142834     I37   Sp: 115
Coward

Name: IDiver              Race: male Drakeling      Class: Farmer
Star sign: Candle         Birthday: 10/Candle (day 280 of the year)

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                                  Inventory
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Head          : -
Neck          : uncursed rusty amulet of speed (+3 spd)                [3s]
Body          : cursed chain mail (-1, -3) [-3, +5]                  [400s]
Girdle        : -
Cloak         : -
Right Hand    : uncursed orcish spear (+4, 1d8+3)                     [75s]
Left Hand     : uncursed medium shield (+1) [+3, +1]                 [100s]
Right Ring    : uncursed ring of protection +1                         [1s]
Left Ring     : uncursed ring of fire resistance                       [1s]
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : uncursed black leather gauntlets [+2, +1]             [10s]
Boots         : uncursed leather boots [+2, +2]                       [25s]
Missile weapon: uncursed long bow (+2, +2)                            [30s]
Missiles      : bundle of 13 uncursed arrows (+3, 1d6)                [26s]
Tool          : heap of 33 uncursed spenseweeds                       [66s]

Rings ('=')
   uncursed ring of invisibility                                       [1s] \\UnID at time of death
Potions ('!')
   heap of 7 uncursed potions of water                                [28s]
   heap of 3 potions of unholy water                                  [12s]
Food ('%')
   heap of 12 uncursed stomafillia herbs                              [24s]
   heap of 21 cursed alraunia antidotes                               [42s]
   heap of 24 cursed stomafillia herbs                                [48s]
   heap of 7 uncursed alraunia antidotes                              [14s]
   heap of 8 blessed stomafillia herbs                                [16s]
   heap of 18 blessed pepper petals                                   [36s]
   heap of 5 cursed curaria mancox herbs                              [10s]
   heap of 14 uncursed curaria mancox herbs                           [28s]
   heap of 5 blessed curaria mancox herbs                             [10s]
   heap of 14 uncursed devil's roses                                  [28s]
   heap of 21 uncursed pepper petals                                  [42s]
   heap of 3 blessed devil's roses                                     [6s]
   heap of 6 blessed alraunia antidotes                               [12s]
   heap of 30 blessed spenseweeds                                     [60s]
   heap of 9 cursed devil's roses                                     [18s]
   heap of 72 cursed spenseweeds                                     [144s]

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Your close attunement to corrupted astral space allows teleportation.

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              His achievements during his adventures:
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IDiver, the drakish farmer, was killed by a fomorian giant.
He scored 43655 points and advanced to level 15.
He survived for 0 years, 12 days, 11 hours, 5 minutes and 24 seconds (31284
turns).
IDiver visited 2 places.
His strength score was modified by +4 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +1 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +7 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +12 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +14 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +1 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +1 during his career.
He was unnaturally aged by 3 years.
He ended his adventuring life on level 37 of some ancient caves.
1007 monsters perished under his attacks.
He possessed the following intrinsics:
  He was fire resistant (gained through an item).
  He was poison resistant.
  He was cursed.
  He was able to control teleportation.
He had the following talents: Alert, Good Shot, Greased Lightning, Long
Stride, Miser, Quick, Treasure Hunter, Very Quick.
He had a final speed score of 115 (final base speed: 112).
He was religious.
He did not ask for divine help.
He was neutrally aligned.
He was tainted by Chaos.

The following monsters were vanquished:
      2 ancient minotaurs
      1 annihilator
      1 annis hag
      3 bandits
      3 barbarians
      6 berserkers
      4 berserker kings
      3 berserker princes
      3 big dogs
      1 black baby dragon
      8 black hurthlings
      1 black wizard
     13 blink dogs
      1 brown bear
      8 bugbears
      2 carrion crawlers
      2 cave bears
     13 cave fishers
      5 cave lions
      4 cave lizards
      2 cave tigers
      4 cavemen
      4 chaos brothers
      1 chaos knight
      1 chaos mutant
      3 chaos plague bearers
      5 chaos rats
      1 chaos servant
      1 chaos sister
      1 chaos spawn
      1 chaos spider
      1 chaos viper
      6 claw bugs
      2 clay golems
      2 cobras
      1 cooshoo
      2 corpse fiends
      1 corruptor
      3 crystal statues
      3 cutpurses
      1 cyclops
      2 dark elven archers
      1 dark elven priestess
      1 dark elven princess
      1 dark elven warrior
      2 dark elven wizards
      6 dark orcs
      4 dark sages
      9 dire wolves
      5 displacer beasts
      8 dopplegangers
      2 doppleganger lords
      1 Dorn Beast
      2 dwarven chaos knights
      2 ettins
      1 eye of destruction
      1 fairy dragon
     16 fire beetles
      1 fire drake
      6 fire lizards
      4 floating eyes
      1 frost giant berserker
      2 gargoyles
      3 gelatinous cubes
      3 ghosts
      6 ghost bats
     12 ghuls
     13 giant bats
      7 giant centipedes
      3 giant frogs
     10 giant lizards
     42 giant rats
      2 giant slugs
      4 giant spiders
      1 gibbering mouther
      4 gnolls
      1 gnoll chieftain
     24 goblins
      2 goblin berserkers
     10 goblin chieftains
     16 goblin rockthrowers
      8 goblin slavemasters
      4 gray oozes
      2 gray slayers
      1 greater mummy
      2 green blobs
      6 green slimes
      1 gremlin
      2 griffons
      1 grizzly bear
      4 harpies
      7 hell hounds
      2 hill giants
      1 hill giant chieftain
      3 hill orc sergeants
      3 hippogriffs
     12 hobgoblins
      1 hobgoblin chief
      2 hobgoblin leaders
      1 homunculus
      5 huge bats
      1 hydra
      1 hyena
      2 ice vortices
      5 imps
      2 invisible stalkers
     21 jackals
      1 jackalwere
      3 karmic lizards
      1 king cobra
     27 kobolds
      3 kobold chieftains
      1 kobold shaman
     21 large bats
      2 large dogs
      3 large gnolls
      2 large jackals
     10 large kobolds
      8 large orcs
      3 large snakes
     11 large spiders
      3 least daemons
      3 leucrottas
      1 lightning vortex
     18 lizard men
      2 magebane eyes
      1 margoyle
      1 master assassin
      2 master swordsmen
      1 mimic
      6 minotaurs
      1 mummy
      3 necromancers
      4 ochre jellies
     28 ogres
      2 ogre lords
     34 orcs
      6 orc chieftains
      6 orc scorchers
      1 outlaw
      2 outlaw leaders
      4 owlbears
      9 pit vipers
      1 quasit
      1 quickling
      1 rabid dog
      7 raiders
     67 rats
      5 ratling archers
      2 ratling duelists
      3 ratling fencers
      2 ratling master thieves
      4 ratling thieves
      3 ratling warlords
      3 ratling warriors
      2 rattlesnakes
      6 red worms
      3 rust monsters
      1 shadow
      4 shadow centipedes
      1 shadow lord
      1 shambling mound
      3 silver wolves
      1 skeletal warrior
     16 skeletons
      2 slow shadows
      2 staring eyes
      3 stone giants
      2 stone snakes
     10 swordsmen
      2 tarantulas
      3 trolls
      2 troll berserkers
      1 troll chief
      1 vapor rat
      1 viper
      1 water snake
      5 wererats
      1 werewolf
      1 white baby dragon
     85 white worms
      2 wights
      1 wild cat
     16 wolves
      1 wraith
      1 yellow ooze
     22 zombies

[grobblewobble]

Carter: I'd be surprised if that immortal necromancer never visited another location. Not impossible, but would be an amazing achievement.

OP: So where do you draw the line between stairhopping and revisiting levels? Seems dodgy..

uncursed ring of invisibility [1s] \\UnID at time of death

Marble rings and jade rings are always rings of cold resistance and rings of invisibility. That is, they can be swapped but they can never be anything else. Both are worth equip-IDing, imo. If it does not ID on equipping, you know it's -cold.

[Soirana]

Isn't the record in the 10k range with an immortal necromancer?

need to beat that. Need to to reading about rules, like if piety overflow is allowded.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

need to beat that. Need to to reading about rules, like if piety overflow is allowded.

Buggy 10-year-old versions of ADOM shouldn't be allowed in a serious challenge

[Arbot]

Carter: I'd be surprised if that immortal necromancer never visited another location. Not impossible, but would be an amazing achievement.

OP: So where do you draw the line between stairhopping and revisiting levels? Seems dodgy..

As OP of the reddit post I wanted to discourage just going up and down stairs looking for spellbooks for example. The point of the thread was to get more ADOM discussion on /r/rougelikes and hopefully get more people playing so I didn't want to put too many limitations on it (i.e. class or race) since its a challenge that anyone can attempt no matter how experienced they are with ADOM.

[grobblewobble]

Tried it with a candle-born drakeling monk, died at level 29 to a frost giant berserker.