Life of hurthling thief.

[boris_pankov@inbox.ru]

seems that that priest misunderstood the visions Lol`th sent him... may be he should dive blindly to the river in CoC hoping to survive...
Skeletons teared him apart in the wilderness. He wasn`t able to run away, surrounded and killed.

[boris_pankov@inbox.ru]

Star sign Wolf
male Grey Elf Elementalist Elroy
Alert, Miser
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went to SMC
fist kill was an orc
leveled up to 3 and took treasure hunter
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at last found blanket, and a little bit later light cloak. Now I need to reach the exit!
some nasty orc followed me to the ladder and when I killed him he dropped a small shield.
I decided to change staff to something onehanded with a shield and took a hand axe. It
figured to be cursed.
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I`m 4 level so I can try to find Raider Lord and his gang. During my search I`ve found
bandit village and decided to learn pick pocket. Also checked local market, and so now
I know that I have scroll of identify, because I saw one simillar to mine in the shop.
After that I realized that I have no food so I came back to Terinyo to buy some.
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Then I went back to the woods in hope to meet this Kraanch. After a week of search
I finaly found bastards. Frozen all of them. Picked up all of the arrows they shot at me and
choosed the best bow they had. Also I took one raiders had that didnt shattered and decided
to bring it to sheriff. He promised money for heads.
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On the way to the village I was attacked
by a bear. Firebolt solved the problem with bear. To be honest I didn`t want to kill him,
we russians like bears but I didn`t had time to drink vodka or play balalayka so I fried him.
This kill gave me 6 level. Picked Potent Aura talent.
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The dog of tiny girl was surely dead, fighting druid wasn`t interesting, so I went to the
caves of chaos, to reach legendary dwarven town. I knew that there are some quests for me there
Also I checked the black marcket and sold all useless stuff and gave money to the beggar to
get booze.
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On the third level of CoC i was nearly killed by cave tiger, so I had to firebolt him
losing my chance to befriend with cat lord. I had only 6 hp left when I was bitten by pit
snake and poisoned. I had to pray to Ayssia twice.
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At D5 I ve found a scroll shop.
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In the big room there were a big bee hive. Damn! On D8 I found very good studded leather armor that
gave 5 PV. Better then Scale mail!
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Finaly I entered the dvarven village. The elder asked me to kill a goblin. I think I will complete this quest easily.
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As I thought I found goblin just outside the dfarftown. Dwarven Elder Identified one of the spears in my inventory as brutal adamantium spear 2d8+something so a have to get rid of that boring cursed hand axe.
Donated couple grands to Ayssia and blessed water. Good! now I have a good hand to hand weapon.
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Found yellow pool on D11 and Ancient Scythe at D12. I`m Level 9 now and I picked strong aura.
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Shitty traps on doors driving me crazy. One of them took my precious longbow and most of my
health.
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On D14 I met a freaking karmik lizard and occasionaly hit it. Now I`m cursed and
I have to go back to dwarftown for sacrificing. Or to D13, I saw white altar there so I
can try to convert it.
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Last entry: D13 is no good, altar is in the corner of a room so I go further up...

(occasionaly cast earthquake instead of fire bolt and left without PP. Killed by doppleganger
lord)

[pblack]

Go thief again if this one happens to fail. Hurthling is very nice if you just forget your melee weapon and throw rocks at everything. they require caution and never get really powerful, but they can be a lot of fun.

And specially...the best thing i have to recommend for thieving folk is... USE YOUR LOCKPICKS. lock doors that aren't in the way of the stairs in levels you have already explored... this will eventually pacify every level you have been on up to DT (after that its just better to dive). Pump alertness and archery to avoid nasty traps and open up archery talents. Also, get the heir dagger +alert with 4 starting talents (candle hurthling can get this fairly easily). And have some nice speed and/or long stride to be able to outrun murderous stuff.

After that... you might get lucky with some artifact drop or something like that. thieves are good candidates for an early precrown. even if it is boring live sacc in regular levels, most artifacts can help you a lot, and since their crowning gifts suck it might just be your only not guaranteed artifact in the game.

Pick pockets is interesting but early on it's not really cool to spend turns getting hit by every humanoid your find just to get some scrolls or potions. Specially with TH by level 6 or 9.