My first priest win. Overall it was a very smooth and enjoyable run - priests are reasonably good melee fighters and cast spells just as well as wizards. Moreover, they start with much better armor and Detect Item Status is very convenient for gearing early on. Their only disadvantage is lack of ball spellbooks throughout the game (I got 4-5 Teleport books so not sure if these are also supposed to be rare). They are also not guaranteed to get a combat spell at start.
So, my Sword-born Gray Elven Priest did the druid quest first for the ice bolt spellbook, then headed straight into CoC and found 4 herb levels before reaching Dwarftown. The level just before Dwarftown was especially nice: 3 square patches of herbs with 1 of them giving morgia+moss and the other 2 giving stomafillia. Moreover, an infestation of chaos rats in one of the rooms helped to pacify the level quickly. Since I got a lot of stomafillia while training Wi, Dx and To, I decided to get crowned (I was level 11 at the time and already generated si and Black Torc, so couldn't precrown). Ayssia was extremely nice and provided me with fire immunity and Skullcrusher.
After doing dwarven quests and the Pyramid, I decided to dive up to the fire wall and do water temple while I'm at it. Since I couldn't do any special ending being crowned already, Khelavaster died without a second thought. Very soon I bumped into a stone portal of dwarven origin. Damn, always forget this quest!
15 minutes later Dwarven Graveyard and Darkforge (simply bashed golems to death with Skullcrusher - it seems humanoid slaying works on them as well) provided me with 2 RoDS (sorry Khelly!). Since I was becoming a pretty melee oriented priest (swordborn and with a nice artifact weapon), I wished for Find Weakness skill and ring of weakness to improve my meleeing prowess. The idea with Ring of Weakness was to train St to around 30 so I got myself Strained and pressed w5 for a few minutes of real time. Interestingly, even after I put off the ring, skill increases continued for a long time and got my St to 70+.
While I was busy training, the Mad Minstrel stole my stash of scrolls, potions and other valuables, including Ring of the High Kings. He then proceeded to die to an ice bolt to the face. Damn thief. (He also picked up my 4+ PoUHs, quaffed one, and didn't drop any - probably a bug with monster inventories)
ACW was blinded and clubbed to death. Cat Lord was blinded and clubbed to death. Casino didn't have anything interesting except an eternium spear of penetration which I bought and used sometimes instead of Skullcrusher for tough non-humanoid mobs (notably dragons and elementals).
Yulgash died in 2 or 3 hits. The Air Temple level had a tension room with about 30 Ki-rin, which is about thirty times more Ki-rin than I met in previous 11 years playing ADoM. A greater level of titans provided me with Farslayer, Robes of Resistance and a RoDS. Decided to wish for SoCRs since I had 5+ corruptions and no means of corruption removal. The djinni was a tight arse and only gave me 2 scrolls.
Somewhere around Earth Temple I was delivered my hard earned rune-covered trident, which I then used to one-shot stone grues. ASB didn't last long either.
After doing BDC, I visited the Library hoping for some ball spellbooks (didn't have any), but to no avail. About half the books were generated as scrolls instead. I had a spare RoDS from BDC, so as per Grey's suggestion (http://www.adom.de/forums/showthread.php?t=11134) I wished for acid ball spellbooks, blessed them, drank all my potions of boost learning and proceeded to get around 2000 castings, which turned out to be more than enough for Mana Temple and D50, which were done in a typical acidballing wizard-like manner.
I decided to use Yrruir's services before descending to D50 because I had 8 or 9 corruptions and no PoCC or SoCR so was afraid of death from corruption. It turned out that D50 only gave me 4 corruptions. Then I remembered that shop in Dwarftown had magical writing set (4). I managed to write 3 SoCR (lost I think around 2 or 3 mana for each), which was just enough for a corruption free ending. Hoorah.
Laedrin St:84 Le:41 Wi:37 Dx:36 To:45 Ch:20 Ap:32 Ma:25 Pe:26 N=
DV/PV:131/51 H:825(825) P:538(538) Exp: 50/33066400 DrCh M: 181275
Blessed Coward
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Background Information
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Name: Laedrin Race: female Gray Elf Class: Priest
Eye color: amber Hair color: golden Complexion: light
Height: 6' Weight: 114 pounds Scars: 1
Age: 366 (grown-up, 49 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Sword Birthday: 11/Sword (day 191 of the year)
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Inventory
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Total weight: 12517 stones Carrying capacity: 21075 stones
He: uncursed helm of mental stability [+0, +1] {Le+1} [100s]
//put it on at level 42 before learning acid ball spellbooks for Le boost and forgot
// to change to something more protective afterwards. Now that I think about it,
// Chaos Archmage didn't manage to confuse me once so maybe double -conf helped
Ne: uncursed ankh [3s]
Bo: uncursed robes of resistance (-4, -4) [+3, +12] {To+5} [60s]
Gi: uncursed eternium girdle [+0, +7] [12s]
Cl: uncursed cloak of protection [+0, +4] [20s]
RH: blessed rune-covered club "Skullcrusher" (+12, 3d6+2) [-3, +0] {St+4}
LH: uncursed tower crystal shield (-2) [+13, +7] [260s]
RR: blessed ring of slaying (+8 melee damage, +6 missile damage) [1s]
LR: uncursed ring of mental stability [+0, +1] {Le+1} [1s]
Br: uncursed bracers of toughness [+0, +0] {To+4} [10s]
Ga: uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Bo: blessed seven league boots [+1, +0] [30s]
MW: uncursed heavy crossbow "The Far Slayer" (+18, +18) [350s]
Mi: bundle of 59 uncursed quarrels (+1, 2d6) [118s]
Tl: -
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Stuff
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Total weight: 11422 stones Carrying capacity: 21075 stones
uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8} [60s]
//wore this almost all the time while descending through CoC,
//was very very afraid to die to a sudden death ray
heap of 2 uncursed amulets of free action [6s]
//wore this almost all the time while descending through CoC,
//was very very afraid to die to a paralyzing mob
uncursed sword of Nonnak (+2, 4d3+2) [+2, +2] {Wi+5} [80s]
uncursed adamantium spear of devastation (+4, 5d8+12) [36s]
uncursed eternium spear of penetration (+3, 2d8+8) [25s]
uncursed phase dagger (+0, 1d4) [5s]
uncursed whip of the snake (-2, 5d2+7) {Dx+7} (+7 spd) [15s]
uncursed dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead" (+2, 2d10+4) [+2, +2] {To+3}[90s]
//randomly dropped in BDC
uncursed light spear (+1, 1d8) [25s]
//much worse than light sabre...
uncursed black rune-covered dagger "Needle" (+8, 3d4) [+4, +1] [10s]
uncursed eternium two-handed sword (+19, 6d5+17) [-1, +0] [50s]
blessed rune-covered trident (+6, 3d12+6) [+4, +4] {Dx+12} [80s]
uncursed glaive "Long Sting" (+4, 7d3) [+4, +0] {Pe+6} (+6 spd) [100s]
//uselessness gift
uncursed rune-covered sling "Whirlwind" (+12, +12) [3s]
//surge of power on the final level of ToEF
heap of 14 uncursed rings of teleport control [14s]
//had 5 PoEx and a nice stack of rings (got 2 ring shops) so decided to try my luck on D8. It didn't work
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Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
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Clubs & hammers 12 +12 +8 +4 Mastery 2229
Pole arms 9 +9 +5 +10 excellent 440
Bows 5 +10 +7 +1 skilled 123
Crossbows 4 +8 +6 +1 skilled 38
Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 10 +20 excellent 722
Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +76 bonus to hit, 3d6+44 damage
Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 59, base range: 24, +58 bonus to hit, 2d6+40 damage
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Skills
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Archery ................... 70 (good) [+1]
//potion of education
Backstabbing ..............100 (superb) [+3d4]
Climbing ..................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Concentration .............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Detect item status ........100 (superb) [+2d4]
Detect traps ..............100 (superb) [+1d3]
Dodge ..................... 66 (good) [+1]
Find weakness .............100 (superb) [+1]
First aid .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Haggling ..................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Healing ...................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Herbalism .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Listening .................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Literacy ..................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Music .....................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Pick pockets ..............100 (superb) [+1d3]
Smithing .................. 69 (good) [+1d3]
Stealth ...................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Tactics ...................100 (superb) [+1]
Two weapon combat ......... 71 (great) [+1]
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Spells
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Acid Bolt : 1064, 7pp (Effectivity: +7)
Baptism of Fire : 1882, 4pp (Effectivity: +21)
Bless : 1227, 4pp (Effectivity: +0)
Calm Monster : 1107, 4pp (Effectivity: +0)
Cure Critical Wounds : 414, 8pp (Effectivity: +3)
Cure Disease : 473, 4pp (Effectivity: +2)
Cure Light Wounds : 689, 2pp (Effectivity: +26)
Darkness : 1851, 2pp (Effectivity: +2)
Dispel Undead : 1759, 4pp (Effectivity: +6)
Divine Digger : 347, 50pp (Effectivity: +5)
Divine Key : 929, 6pp (Effectivity: +0)
Divine Wrath : 1081, 6pp (Effectivity: +3)
Ethereal Bridge : 669, 11pp (Effectivity: +16)
Farsight : 929, 8pp (Effectivity: +10)
Heal : 1068, 20pp (Effectivity: +3)
Hellish Flames : 1636, 5pp (Effectivity: +10)
Holy Awe : 470, 6pp (Effectivity: +0)
Invoked Devastation : 853, 15pp (Effectivity: +1)
Know Alignment : 841, 5pp (Effectivity: +0)
Knowledge of the Ancients: 14, 37pp (Effectivity: +0)
Lesser Divine Touch : 1196, 4pp (Effectivity: +2)
Light : 2059, 1pp (Effectivity: +10)
Minor Punishment : 324, 4pp (Effectivity: +17)
Nether Bolt : 2895, 6pp (Effectivity: +19)
Petrification : 791, 60pp (Effectivity: +0)
Rain of Sorrow : 1273, 17pp (Effectivity: +15)
Remove Curse : 1499, 25pp (Effectivity: +0)
Revelation : 658, 17pp (Effectivity: +3)
Slow Monster : 494, 4pp (Effectivity: +0)
Slow Poison : 2429, 3pp (Effectivity: +5)
Veil of the Gods : 371, 5pp (Effectivity: +4)
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Her further life:
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After she leaves the Drakalor Chain she is welcomed by her people with great
honors. They acknowledge her noble deeds, her valor, her cunning and her
great skills that helped to prevent the complete destruction of the world
she knows. She returns to her lands victorious and is hailed as a great
leader. Eventually she becomes queen and rule your subjects with an iron
fist for a long and peaceful time, allowing her people to prosper and grow.
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Her achievements during her adventures:
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Laedrin, the gray elven priest, saved the world with her brave efforts and
became a great ruler while saving herself 22 times.
She scored 15009220 points and advanced to level 50.
She survived for 0 years, 135 days, 20 hours, 22 minutes and 49 seconds
(181275 turns).
Laedrin visited 119 places.
Her strength score was modified by +69 during her career.
Her learning score was modified by +18 during her career.
Her willpower score was modified by +22 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by +22 during her career.
Her toughness score was modified by +27 during her career.
Her charisma score was modified by +10 during her career.
Her appearance score was modified by +12 during her career.
Her mana score was modified by +2 during her career.
Her perception score was modified by +10 during her career.
She was unnaturally aged by 49 years.
She was the champion of the arena.
She was a member of the thieves guild.
She made a little water dragon very happy.
She defeated the arch enemy of a mighty karmic wyrm.
She left the Drakalor Chain after completing her quest and became a great
leader and famous heroine.
5454 monsters perished under her attacks.
The following 25 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 Chaos Orb of Elemental Air
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Fire
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Earth
the heavy crossbow "The Far Slayer"
the lead-filled mace "Big Punch"
the rune-covered trident
the sword of Nonnak
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the phial of Caladriel
the crown of science
the ancient mummy wrapping
the ankh
the black torc
the rune-covered club "Skullcrusher"
the glaive "Long Sting"
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the black rune-covered dagger "Needle"
the rune-covered sling "Whirlwind"
the robes of resistance
the dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead"
She possessed the following intrinsics:
She was fire resistant (gained through items).
She was poison resistant.
She was cold resistant (gained through an item).
She was acid resistant (enhanced through an item).
She was lucky (enhanced through an item).
Fate smiled upon her (enhanced through an item).
She was able to control teleportation.
She was stun resistant (gained through an item).
She was shock resistant (enhanced through items).
She was immune to fire attacks.
She was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through items).
She had the following talents: Alert, Careful, Defensive Fighter, Far Shot,
Good Shot, Greased Lightning, Keen Shot, Lightning Shot, Long Stride, Miser,
Quick, Quick Shot, Shield Expert, Shield Master, Shield Specialist, Treasure
Hunter, Very Careful, Very Quick.
She had a final speed score of 115 (final base speed: 115).
She was a messiah of Ayssia.
She asked for 2 divine interventions.
She was a holy champion of Balance.
The following monsters were vanquished:
1 ancient black dragon
57 ancient blue dragons
1 ancient blue wyrm
1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm
5 ancient minotaurs
8 ancient red dragons
1 Ancient Stone Beast
9 balors
1 banshee
1 battle bunny
1 berserker emperor
1 black druid
1 bone golem
1 bunny master
1 cat lord
12 cave lions
4 cave tigers
1 Chaos Archmage
276 chaos servants
//by the time I got to D50 these became pretty tough, having around 500 HP and damaged for about 150
4 death oozes
4 diamond golems
9 dopplegangers
1 doppleganger king
5 doppleganger lords
16 Dorn Beasts
5 dwarves
1 ghost king
45 ghost lords
1 gorgon
8 great blue wyrms
1 great red wyrm
2 greater air elementals
1 greater balor
1 greater black unicorn
183 greater chaos servants
1 greater moloch
1 ki-rin
2 lich kings
1 Mad Minstrel
3 master liches
1 master necromancer
1 Master Summoner
2 mimic hiveminds
4 molochs
1 mummy lord
1 Snake from Beyond
5 swamp hydras
2 titans
1 undead chaos dwarven berserker
18 werewolves
12 werewolf kings
18 werewolf lords
1 wild cat
141 writhing masses of primal chaos
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