Hack n Slash Challenge

[ivoryknight]

This might be interesting, or simply dumb.

The only restriction to this challenge would be that you must kill absolutely every creature your character sees in the game. This includes NPCs. If you enter any towns, you must completely wipe them out before leaving. So if you start the game in Terinyo, you must kill everyone before leaving Terinyo. The winners of this challenge will be determined by number of monsters vanquished.

An interesting aside to this would be to see how far its possibly to progress the plot of ADOM using this strategy.

[Laukku]

Some questions:
So monsters must be killed before leaving the level? Or whenever?

What about blindness?

[ivoryknight]

On a dungeon level, all monsters that are in the character visual range must be killed. Since the dungeon constantly generates new monsters, it isn't really possible to kill all monsters on level. In a town (like Terinyo), the monsters are not regenerated, so if you enter the town, you must kill everyone in it before leaving. In dungeons, you need only kill what is in your visual range, but you would need to kill these monsters before leaving, yes.

In the case of blindness, you would not need to kill whatever's attacking you. If you can't see it, then you're allowed to flee from it. Once you recover from blindness and can see whatever's attacking you, you'd be obligated to kill it.

[Silfir]

I like that I could still get an amulet of order and the healing skill if I did this challenge... I think. Oh no, wait. Shit. I could, but I'd have to heal a companion before I enter the VD...

"I will teach you the Art of Healing - OUCH WHY ARE YOU STABBING MEEE?!!"

[Soirana]

you can get quests done. Just walk to ID find room with mud and do not clean your face. Bit of Zen Monk opening

[ivoryknight]

The mud idea could probably be a separate challenge within itself. Maybe we should make a separate thread for a "blindness" challenge. But to preserve the original intent of this challenge, which is to kill everything as if you were a newbie again, I'm gonna add a "no ID scumming for mud traps" rule.

[vogonpoet]

Sounds vaguley familiar

http://adom.brinkster.net/forum/mess...t=59080&page=1

AshenPlanet reports of his success at http://adom.brinkster.net/forum/mess...t=59186&page=2

[ivoryknight]

Sorry, I only read the other forum occasionally. I thought somebody might of come up with this idea before. Oh well, has any other than AshenPlanet managed to achieve some success with this?

[vogonpoet]

no need to apologise man

I tried a few times, but never made it to the tower so far... now I am having bit of an ADOM holiday, so no more progress from me. Its fun