YASD: Doomed, Naked, Wizard
I've been trying a slightly bizarre challenge recently where I'm playing a doomed wizard who doesn't carry any items except food, spellbooks, and chaos orbs. This is my best attempt so far, ending with a bad ToEF death.
I attribute my death to three main problems. There was a mixed tension room of fire giants/beetles on the level that I opened but didn't clear. They started wandering up behind me while I was fighting in the Temple, which lead to lots of problems because I couldn't safely retreat all that well. I also underestimated my healing needs. I went in with CLW, the Water Orb and 70 blessed spenseweeds. Most of the spense had burned by the time I hit the top level. I had to use the orb two or three times while trying to take out the Wyrm. Unfortunately, I didn't have any disablers (I had stun ray, but never tried it high enough to be useful), so I pretty much had to tank the wyrm at close range, which is a little tricky with 10 PV. Eventually he panicked and ran back into the Temple. This is where it got really bad. I didn't have invis, so I had to fight every @#$%ing monster in the place to try to find him. Managed to clear most of them, but eventually a particularly stubborn grue got in close and knocked me out.
On the plus side, I'm relatively confident that this challenge is doable, which I think is awesome. I just need to prepare myself a little better.
[edit]Forgot to mention my character was doomedCode:------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Screenshot ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ### #.# #### ####### #.# #### ...## #.....# #.# ##... .....# #...>.############################### #.# #.... ##...... #.[.../.................../.........# #.# #...## ###........# ###########.###########.###.........# #.# #..###..........# #.# #.# .H....... #.#########.#..........### #+# #.# #......... #......}.................# #.# #H....... #.########................# #.#######/#######.# #........_........ +...........@x..# ##..............## ################# #.##.........### #......##.######### #......###.. ##....# #### ##### Libra St:15 Le:25 Wi:38 Dx:24 To:30 Ch: 5 Ap:10 Ma:21 Pe:13 C DV/PV: 43/10 H: 0(244) P: 1(261) Exp: 21/1008427 TF: 4 Sp: 112 Stunned Bleeding Coward ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Background Information ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Libra Race: female Dark Elf Class: Wizard Eye color: blue Hair color: white Complexion: black Height: 5'3" Weight: 22 pounds Age: 141 (grown-up, 10 years of unnatural aging added in) Star sign: Book Birthday: 9/Book (day 39 of the year) YOUR HISTORY: Your parents are travelling adventurers. They are doing moderately well but are talented enough to survive. During your childhood one of your uncles taught you a lot of things about the history of your people. Your vast knowledge on the legends and the lore of your people made you very popular with your friends because of all the exciting stories you knew. In your youth you worked a lot to become rich and famous later. Consequently you rarely had enough time to play with other kids of your age. Your young adulthood was characterized by hard and long work. You had decided to study under a renowned master. To your great disappointment you had to find out, that he was a hard, unjust and tyrannic man, embittered by his old age. Your apprentice years were quite terrible. You decided to become a Wizard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inventory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total weight: 100 stones Carrying capacity: 1500 stones Head : - Neck : - Body : - Girdle : - Cloak : - Right Hand : - Left Hand : - Right Ring : - Left Ring : - Bracers : - Gauntlets : - Boots : - Missile weapon: - Missiles : - Tool : uncursed Chaos Orb of Elemental Water {Wi+10} [100s] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stuff ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total weight: 0 stones Carrying capacity: 1500 stones (nothing) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weapon Skills ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks --------------------- --- --- --- -- ------------- -------------- Unarmed fighting 4 +3 +1 +1 skilled 65 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spells ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acid Ball : 204, 20pp (Effectivity: +7) Calm Monster : 416, 5pp (Effectivity: +0) Cure Disease : 599, 5pp (Effectivity: +0) Cure Light Wounds: 1069, 2pp (Effectivity: +8) Darkness : 1979, 3pp (Effectivity: +2) Farsight : 471, 10pp (Effectivity: +8) Fire Bolt : 137, 5pp (Effectivity: +25) Frost Bolt : 213, 6pp (Effectivity: +25) \\I went in with over 1000 charges of frost IIRC Knock : 559, 7pp (Effectivity: +7) Light : 1258, 1pp (Effectivity: +5) Magic Lock : 1614, 5pp (Effectivity: +1) Mystic Shovel : 492, 60pp (Effectivity: +3) Neutralize Poison: 590, 6pp (Effectivity: +0) Slow Monster : 1531, 4pp (Effectivity: +6) Slow Poison : 787, 4pp (Effectivity: +0) Strength of Atlas: 1399, 6pp (Effectivity: +0) Stun Ray : 1449, 4pp (Effectivity: +8) Teleportation : 718, 12pp (Effectivity: +10) Web : 1897, 8pp (Effectivity: +4) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Effects of Corruption ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your feet have been transformed into hooves (+8 kicking damage, Dx: -6). You have become extremely thin and nimble (1/2 weight, DV: +6). You have grown thorns (3d3 melee damage, Dx: -2, Ap: -3). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Her achievements during her adventures: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Libra, the dark elven wizard, was killed by a fire grue. She scored 197431 points and advanced to level 21. She survived for 0 years, 50 days, 11 hours, 17 minutes and 50 seconds (35012 turns). Libra visited 59 places. Her strength score was modified by +5 during her career. Her learning score was modified by +3 during her career. Her willpower score was modified by +12 during her career. Her dexterity score was modified by +12 during her career. Her toughness score was modified by +18 during her career. Her charisma score was modified by +1 during her career. Her appearance score was modified by +2 during her career. Her mana score was modified by +2 during her career. Her perception score was modified by -1 during her career. She was unnaturally aged by 10 years. She was the champion of the arena. She ended her adventuring life on the top level of the tower of eternal flames. 1647 monsters perished under her attacks. The following seven artifacts were generated during her adventure: the si the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle" the golden gladius "Death's Sting" the Chaos Orb of Elemental Water the elemental gauntlets the crown of science the black torc She possessed the following intrinsics: She was fire resistant. She was poison resistant. She was cold resistant. Fate smiled upon her. She was doomed. She was cursed. She was sleep resistant. She was petrification resistant. She was able to teleport. She was able to control teleportation. She was resistant to death rays. She had the following talents: Greased Lightning, Hardy, Immune to Pain, Iron Skin, Potent Aura, Quick, Steel Skin, Tough Skin, Very Quick. She had a final speed score of 112 (final base speed: 112). She was hated by Lol'th. She asked for 16 divine interventions. She was chaotically aligned. She was tainted by Chaos. The following monsters were vanquished: 29 chaos servants 15 fire beetles 26 fire demons 8 fire drakes 30 fire elementals 29 fire giants 4 fire grues 2 fire lizards
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