I will start out with a question: When I won my first game, I was playing it on my own windows machine, so when I created the .flg I knew exactly where to find it. The game I won this morning was on my girlfriend's Mac. I like Mac's alot, but after most certainly pressing "y" to create a memorial file.... I found nothing anywhere on her machine. Any ideas on how to find it, or did I get screwed?
Skip to last paragraph for exciting part.
That out of the way, this second win of mine was a much more exciting game than my first, not to discount it at all... I started out okay, first kill was assassin, managed to kill keethrax without too much trouble, puppy cave was fine until puppy died from a cat attack in the cavern level. Dove through UD, visited the barbarian and went into the CoC. Dwarf quests were a cinch, by level 15 I had cleared high king cave, gremlins, raided and killed most of the steel golems in darkforge (no artifacts in the treasure rooms though), easily emptied the griffyard and pyramid. I found one PoCC in UD and got one from Keeth's corpse, got SoCR from dwarf mystic and those were the only corruption removal items I found the entire game. Couldn't find a AoLS so kelly died, but i was extremely lucky and the ACW dropped serpent's bite. Up until then, I had been training polearms and two-handed swords in hopes that i would be crowned with Vanquisher and do an ultra later on, but with kelly dead, so much for the ultra.
Once ToEF was done, I dove pretty much straight down to D:48, cleared water and air temples, skipped earth and mana for the time being because I was a bit low on HP and those earth elementals are a bitch. I clear a greater giant vault on D:46 and find both the obsidian sheild and dwarven pike axe. Use casino gold to get crowned (vanquisher, but it hardly got used thanks to serpent's bite + obsidian sheild, oh well!) No artifacts in the casino, but at this point who cares? cleared the remaining temples and dove to D:50.
Here's the exciting part. I clear the hallways with the levers, but in the meantime get hit 3 times by ghost lords. I'm "old" at 75 years and no means of de-aging. There are still a ton of ghosts around. Between primal chaos jellies and balor's I am at Extremely Corrupted, even after using all of my removal items. I'm not sure exactly what that means, but I'm pretty sure one more corruption would have been my end... When I close the levers and fisty is dead, I wait around a bit and no one is re-opening them, so I take the chance of leaving hoping no intelligent monsters are still down there. Apparently there weren't, but i have poison hands, no thick gauntlets, and only one stomafilla. No other food. Unequipped all my artifacts and ran like hell. Finally reached the banshee level at Very Hungry! and the corpses there, even with poison hands managed to sate me til I could get to the arena and it's ratling food. Returned to terinyo, did the unicorn quest (hoorah! no more corruptions) and left the chain. I felt like a real badass... And lucky as hell haha! Hope that wasn't too boring.... If I can ever find my .flg I'll post it...