Eternium Man
I spent the last couple days experimenting with Eternium man in r60 to see how it went, and this is by far my best one. I decided to run this on Monster Difficulty "Low" and Treasure Drop Rate "High". This makes a stupidly large difference in how tolerable the SMC is. It's still dangerous once you're above level 10, but it's playable.
The plan was to roll a Dwarf Farmer. I wanted a farmer to be able to grow herbs; I wanted a dwarf so that I could max out my toughness, get extra PV from Mithril Skin, and start Lawful. Lawful start is important, IMHO, since you have at least a possibility, albeit a dangerous one, of converting an N or C altar if you come across one. N altars don't allow you to sacrifice enough monsters to help in this sort of situation, and C altars are too dangerous to play with for long periods of time.
I rolled a Candle-born Farmer, 6 starting herb seeds, grabbing TH with starting talents. Stats weren't great, only 10 starting To (but a potential of like 30), but I was literate, and it takes awhile to get an altar, so you gotta take what you can get. I explored around the level, grabbing the blanket and tracking down a Lawful altar. Invested early skill increases into Food Pres, Gardening and Herbalism. At level 5 I had high enough gardening to make a morgia/pepper herb box, so I started pumping To at that point. I mostly hung out around the altar eating herbs and saccing everything I could. I got my precrown around level 10, picking up Preserver. Around the same time, I extended my garden to include moss, spense, and antidote. I didn't bother with stoma until much later since food was pretty plentiful. I picked up poison resist from spiders, acid resist from, I think, an ankheg, and fire resist from a beetle. Equipment-wise, I found an orcish spear of penetration that I used for most of the game, and a crystal dagger that I used for jellies and things. Jelly, worm, etc. infestations happened a few times since I wasn't exploring much of the level. Pretty much the only time I'd venture out was when I needed to clear a bunch of jellies to get the spawns going again. My equipment was pretty good--the ultra-high drop rates from TH + extra gear is pretty excellent, despite sacrificing the majority of the monsters that I encountered. I only had a few close calls early on--a Revenant gave me big problems around level 12 or so.
At about level 15, the spawn rate was in full collapse. I had to give up on the idea of a second precrown as monsters weren't showing up quickly enough keep my piety from decaying. I had picked up a few pickaxes from dwarven chaos knights, and started digging out all of the walls looking for stone giants to kill. At some point around level 16, a berserker lord randomly dropped Protector. I had about 50/30 DV/PV, health regeneration, and a penetrating weapon. Good enough for the endgame, actually. I got a bit sloppy running around waiting for the spawns, and accidentally damaged my spear on an ochre jelly. I started preserving huge piles of cooked corpses and stockpiling gold and extra gear in the hopes of getting enough piety for another precrown, but I think that was a long shot. Once you're down to 1 monster every 300 turns, you're just losing piety too fast. First corruption was tentacles, which I didn't care about, but at the spawn rate I was working at, corruption was something that would have been a major long-term problem. With the exception of the one that killed me, monsters weren't really a threat.... A randomly spawned uber-fast lightning vortex was able to blast away over 200 HP, killing me instantly at level 17. I only encountered a small handful of lightning lizards, and none ever dropped corpse, so I was definitely weak on that front.
Total turncount was just under 37000. I think I probably spent the last 10000 or so turns in the time-wasting part.
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Neck : uncursed sapphire amulet "Preserver" [+4, +4] {Wi+7} [3s] Body : uncursed plate mail (-1, -5) [-4, +7] [500s] Girdle : cursed metal girdle [+0, +4] [25s] Cloak : blessed hooded cloak [+1, +0] [40s] Right Hand : blessed orcish spear of penetration (-1, 1d8-4) [75s] Left Hand : cursed medium obsidian shield "Protector" [+20, +4] {To+2} Right Ring : cursed ring of the fish [1s] Left Ring : uncursed ring of searching [1s] Bracers : - Gauntlets : uncursed gloves of dexterity [+0, +0] {Dx+3} [6s] Boots : uncursed mithril boots [-1, +2] [96s] Missile Weapon: - Missiles : heap of 69 uncursed rocks (+0, 1d4) [345s] Tool : heap of 36 blessed spenseweeds [72s] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stuff ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total weight: 2494 stones Carrying capacity: 4950 stones Gauntlets ('[') uncursed gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +1] [10s] Girdles ('[') uncursed adamantium girdle [+0, +3] [18s] Necklaces (''') uncursed amulet of protection from constructs [3s] uncursed amulet of the cold heart {Ch-12} [3s] uncursed amulet of health [3s] One-handed weapons ('(') uncursed crystal dagger (+1, 2d3+4) [25s] uncursed orcish spear (+4, 1d8+2) [75s] Missiles ('/') bundle of 3 uncursed drakish scurgari (+2, 1d8+2) [30s] Tools (']') uncursed cooking set [100s] blessed waterproof blanket [10s] heap of 2 uncursed round keys [2s] uncursed square key [1s] uncursed tinderbox (2) [3s] Wands ('\') uncursed wand of light (0 charges) [4s] uncursed wand of fire (0 charges) [4s] uncursed wand of cold (0 charges) [4s] uncursed wand of monster creation (0 charges) [3s] uncursed wand of item detection (2 charges) [3s] uncursed wand of stunning (2 charges) [3s] Potions ('!') blessed potion of carrot juice [4s] heap of 2 potions of holy water [8s] cursed potion of booze [4s] uncursed potion of potential mana [4s] cursed berzio potion [2s] uncursed potion of extra healing [2s] cursed potion of dexterity [4s] uncursed potion of cure poison [2s] uncursed potion of boost perception [2s] blessed potion of booze [4s] Food ('%') [snip] Big pile of herbs and corpses Valuables ('$') 3176 gold pieces [31s] Gems ('*') uncursed ruby [1s] uncursed crystal of knowledge [1s] uncursed crystal of power [1s] uncursed topaz [1s] uncursed worthless piece of blue glass [1s] uncursed crystal of fire [1s] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weapon Skills ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks --------------------- --- --- --- -- ------------- -------------- Daggers & knives 4 +3 +1 +0 skilled 17 Pole arms 10 +10 +6 +12 excellent 471 Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks --------------------- --- --- --- -- ------------- -------------- Thrown rocks & clubs 4 +8 +6 +1 skilled 8 Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks --------------------- --- --- ------------- -------------- Shields 9 +18 excellent 928 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Skills ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archery .................. 42 (fair) [+1d5] Bridge building .......... 18 (mediocre) [+3d5] (mr) Climbing ................. 31 (fair) [+3d4] Cooking .................. 62 (good) [+3d3] (ma) Detect traps ............. 12 (mediocre) [+3d3] First aid ................ 52 (good) [+2d4] Fletchery ................ 15 (mediocre) [+3d4] (mr) Food preservation ........100 (superb) [+2d4] Gardening ................ 93 (superb) [+2d4] Haggling ................. 32 (fair) [+3d4] Herbalism ................ 90 (great) [+1d3] Listening ................ 61 (good) [+1d3] Literacy ................. 46 (fair) [+1d5] Metallurgy ............... 33 (fair) [+2d4] Mining ................... 72 (great) [+1d5] Smithing ................. 27 (mediocre) [+3d4] Stealth .................. 47 (fair) [+2d4] Survival ................. 47 (fair) [+3d5] Woodcraft ................ 15 (mediocre) [+4d5] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Effects of Corruption ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your mouth has turned into a writhing mass of prehensile tentacles (Dx: +6, Ap: -15). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- His achievements during his battles: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eternium, the dwarven farmer, was electrocuted by mighty lightning strokes. He scored 8410 points and advanced to level 17. He survived for 0 years, 16 days, 6 hours, 39 minutes and 32 seconds (36873 turns). 1 companion was killed during his adventures. Eternium visited 2 places. His strength score was modified by +1 during his career. His willpower score was modified by +12 during his career. His dexterity score was modified by +5 during his career. His toughness score was modified by +16 during his career. His mana score was modified by +1 during his career. His perception score was modified by +1 during his career. He ended his adventuring life in a small cave. 1051 monsters perished under his attacks. The following two artifacts were generated during his adventure: the medium obsidian shield "Protector" the sapphire amulet "Preserver" He possessed the following intrinsics: He was fire resistant. He was poison resistant (also through an item). He was acid resistant. He was lucky (also through an item). Fate smiled upon him. He was sleep resistant (gained through an item). He was stun resistant (gained through an item). He was paralyzation resistant (gained through an item). He was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through an item). He had the following talents: Alert, Hardy, Iron Skin, Miser, Mithril Skin, Steel Skin, Tough Skin, Treasure Hunter. He had a final speed score of 93 (final base speed: 103). He was a messiah of Morodwyn. He asked for 3 divine interventions. He was lawfully aligned. He was tainted by Chaos. The following monsters were vanquished: 2 annis hags 1 assassin 3 bandits 1 barbarian 4 barbarian leaders 5 berserkers 6 berserker lords 6 big dogs 3 black baby dragons 3 black hurthlings 1 blink dog 1 blue baby dragon 4 bugbears 1 bulette 2 carrion crawlers 2 cave fishers 3 cave lions 8 cave lizards 2 cave tigers 6 cavemen 1 chaos brother 5 chaos lizards 1 chaos plague bearer 5 chaos servants 1 chaos sister 12 claw bugs 2 clay golems 2 clay statues 2 corpse fiends 2 cutpurses 3 cyclopes 3 dark elven archers 1 dark elven lord 1 dark elven priestess 2 dark elven princesses 2 dark elven warriors 1 dark elven wizard 10 dark orcs 6 dire wolves 4 displacer beasts 1 doppelganger 2 doppelganger lords 5 dwarven chaos knights 2 ettins 2 eyes of destruction 7 fire beetles 2 fire drakes 2 fire lizards 4 floating eyes 3 fomorian giants 1 frost giant 2 gargantuan rats 1 gargoyle 1 gelatinous cube 5 ghosts 2 ghost bats 10 ghuls 4 giant bats 5 giant centipedes 4 giant lizards 1 giant raccoon 40 giant rats 2 giant slugs 10 giant spiders 3 gibbering mouthers 8 gnolls 18 goblins 6 goblin berserkers 1 goblin chieftain 6 goblin rockthrowers 9 goblin slavemasters 1 gorgon 27 gray oozes 289 green slimes 1 griffon 2 grizzly bears 5 harpies 6 hell hounds 10 hill giants 3 hill orcs 6 hill orc sergeants 2 hippogriffs 4 hobgoblins 4 homunculi 3 huge bats 1 hydra 2 hyenas 7 ice lizards 2 imps 4 jackals 2 karmic lizards 1 king cobra 14 kobolds 4 kobold chieftains 1 kobold shaman 12 large bats 2 large gnolls 2 large jackals 9 large kobolds 14 large orcs 2 large snakes 19 large spiders 1 least daemon 2 lesser daemons 6 leucrottas 2 lightning lizards 7 lizard men 1 master assassin 7 master swordsmen 3 mimics 4 minotaurs 1 mist wolf 2 mummies 4 necromancers 4 ochre jellies 7 ogres 10 orcs 1 orc chieftain 3 orc scorchers 1 outlaw leader 1 owlbear 1 pixie archer 3 quasits 2 quicklings 2 rabid dogs 6 raiders 18 rats 5 ratling archers 1 ratling duelist 1 ratling fencer 2 ratling master thieves 3 ratling thieves 3 ratling warlords 7 ratling warriors 1 rattlesnake 2 revenants 3 shadows 3 shadow centipedes 3 shadow lords 2 shadow trolls 1 shambling mound 5 skeletal warriors 17 skeletons 2 slow shadows 2 steel zombies 15 stone giants 2 stone golems 6 stone statues 8 swordsmen 15 tarantulas 9 trolls 3 troll berserkers 6 troll chiefs 1 troll king 3 vapor rats 2 vipers 1 wall beast 1 water snake 6 wererats 4 werewolves 4 white worms 5 wights 30 wolves 4 wraiths 4 zombies Dispatched the legendary hell hound Soladnit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Playing Time ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- You played for 1 hour, 48 minutes and 12 seconds.
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