YAVP: Doomed Bard

[JellySlayer]

Decided to get back to my doomed PC marathon recently, and settled on a gnome bard. Starting skillset was excellent: item status, find weakness, alertness, archery, and healing, start with 5 talents letting me do Heir + TH. Use raccoon early on to get some rocks, trained skill on hydras early on, cleared starter areas and killed druid for Herbalism. Found herbs on D:9 which set me up pretty well, and hit para resist in a pool early, which eliminated probably the best early game threat.

Raided Darkforge for CoS and Serpent's Bite, the latter of which ended up being my weapon for the rest of the game. Did Pyramid and Griffyard, Dwarf quests. Thrundarr gave me the armor set, which was quite frustrating since I didn't find a fireproof blanket till quite late. Dropped snake with missiles, then headed to ToEF. I didn't really have a great kit for ToEF--no confusion resistance + double doomed was going to give me fits if I tried to fight the ACW directly. Instead I pulled him to the stairs, and attacked with 3 pets on TF:3. He managed to kill one pet, the white unicorn I summoned vanished right away and never returned, but an air elemental managed to do enough damage that I was able to finish him off with blind + poison. Went and cleared Bug Temple for SoCRs using a fiddle, first time I've ever done BUGVIL with a doomed PC.

Dove to Casino, adding Acid Ball and Invis spells (I conveniently had picked up Concentration and Dodge at 25), got kitty ring. No greater vaults, but there was an open threat room of titans on D:45ish that I cleared, as well as a threat room of greater titans on UL:4 that I also cleared, the latter giving 13 levels. Air temple was interesting--Yulgash summoned molochs, one of which decided to destroy the elemental altar, which apparently results in a fatal crash. Fortunately, server backup saved me. Killed archmage with melee + acid balls (in darkness since I didn't have a torch and never found an amulet of light...) followed by earth and then hit D:50. Took wand of destruction ending, cleared a red dragon vault on my way out, and finished.

This is now my 6th doomed win :D

[edit]Interestingly, I see from my artifact list that Serpent's Bite and Crown of Leadership were the only random artifacts I had the entire game, and the latter I didn't get until after I'd cleared D:50.

[JellySlayer]

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DoomBard St:31 Le:29 Wi:29 Dx:53 To:44 Ch:41 Ap:12 Ma:26 Pe:27 L+
DV/PV: 88/46 H: 785(785) P: 418(418) Exp: 50/19768696 DrCh Sp: 139

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Background Information
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Name: DoomBard Race: female Gnome Class: Bard
Eye color: brown Hair color: white Complexion: brown
Height: 2'11" Weight: 101 pounds Scars: 1
Age: 280 (grown-up, 172 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Candle Birthday: 14/Candle (day 284 of the year)

YOUR HISTORY:
Your parents are travelling adventurers. They are doing moderately
well but are talented enough to survive.
As a child your parents cared a lot for you. Despite all
circumstances you enjoyed a happy and fine childhood.
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 Bard.


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Inventory
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Total weight: 6597 stones Carrying capacity: 8879 stones

Head : blessed crown of leadership [+2, +7] {Ch+18} [65s]
Neck : uncursed ankh [3s]
Body : uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8} [60s]
Girdle : uncursed eternium girdle [+0, +4] [12s]
Cloak : uncursed cloak of defense [+4, +0] [20s]
Right Hand : blessed emerald dagger "Serpent's Bite" (+3, 3d4+3) [+3, +1]
Left Hand : blessed tower eternium shield (-1) [+13, +4] [70s]
Right Ring : uncursed ring of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage)
Left Ring : blessed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd)
Bracers : blessed bracers of regeneration [+0, +0] [18s]
Gauntlets : blessed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Boots : blessed seven league boots [+4, +2] [30s] \\Heir gift
Missile weapon: uncursed short bow (+2, +0) [20s]
Missiles : bundle of 21 uncursed arrows (+1, 1d6+2) [42s]
Tool : uncursed pick axe (+0, 1d6+2) [75s]


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Stuff
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Total weight: 6157 stones Carrying capacity: 8879 stones

Helmets ('[')
uncursed crown of science [+4, +8] {Le+9} [65s] \\Used for most of the game
Boots ('[')
uncursed seven league boots [+1, +2] [30s] \\Found on D:50

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Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
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Daggers & knives 13 +16 +10 +4 Mastery 6985
Pole arms 7 +7 +3 +6 skilled 64

Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
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Bows 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 115
Thrown rocks & clubs 10 +20 +15 +3 excellent 789

Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 10 +20 excellent 553


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Skills
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Alchemy ...................100 (superb) [+2d4] \\starter; never used
Alertness .................100 (superb) [+1d3] \\starter
Archery ...................100 (superb) [+1d3] \\starter
Backstabbing ..............100 (superb) [+3d4] \\arena
Bridge building ........... 17 (mediocre) [+4d5] (mr) \\L25
Climbing ..................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Concentration .............100 (superb) [+2d4] \\L25
Detect item status ........100 (superb) [+1d3] \\starter
Detect traps ..............100 (superb) [+2d4] \\starter
Dodge ..................... 99 (superb) [+1d5] \\L25
Find weakness .............100 (superb) [+1d3] \\starter
First aid .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Gemology ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Haggling ..................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Healing ...................100 (superb) [+2d4] \\starter
Herbalism .................100 (superb) [+2d4] \\druid
Law .......................100 (superb) [+1] \\L25
Listening .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Literacy ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Mining ....................100 (superb) [+1d3] \\starter
Music .....................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Necromancy ................ 78 (great) [+1d3] \\L25; never used
Pick locks ................100 (superb) [+2d4] \\thief
Pick pockets ..............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Stealth ...................100 (superb) [+1d3] \\thief
Swimming ..................100 (superb) [+1d3] \\blup
Tactics ...................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Two weapon combat .........100 (superb) [+1d3] \\starter
Ventriloquism .............100 (superb) [+2d4]


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Spells
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Acid Ball : 258, 35pp (Effectivity: +3)
Cure Disease : 758, 8pp (Effectivity: +1)
Darkness : 720, 4pp (Effectivity: +2)
Invisibility : 297, 10pp (Effectivity: +1)
Slow Poison : 694, 6pp (Effectivity: +0)
Stun Ray : 770, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Summon Monsters: 770, 30pp (Effectivity: +0)

[JellySlayer]

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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 is crowned to be the queen of all gnomes and lives a long and
prosperous life full of love, happiness and pleasure.

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Her achievements during her adventures:
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DoomBard, the gnomish bard, saved the world with her brave efforts and
became a great ruler while saving herself 9 times.
She scored 17915224 points and advanced to level 50.
She survived for 0 years, 36 days, 2 hours, 55 minutes and 27 seconds (83206
turns).
85 companions were killed during her adventures.
DoomBard visited 107 places.
Her strength score was modified by +19 during her career.
Her learning score was modified by +9 during her career.
Her willpower score was modified by +14 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by +19 during her career.
Her toughness score was modified by +25 during her career.
Her charisma score was modified by +12 during her career.
Her appearance score was modified by +8 during her career.
Her mana score was modified by +7 during her career.
Her perception score was modified by +14 during her career.
She was unnaturally aged by 172 years. \\Glad I did gnome instead of hurthling
She was the champion of the arena.
She was a member of the thieves guild.
She adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame. \\Not too hard with bard
She stopped the generation of nasty bugs. \\Easy with bard
She left the Drakalor Chain after completing her quest and became a great
leader and famous heroine.
2653 monsters perished under her attacks.
The following 18 artifacts were generated during her adventure:
the si
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
the ring of the master cat
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 sword of Nonnak
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the crown of science
the ancient mummy wrapping
the ankh
the black torc
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the crown of leadership \\Dragon vault cleared after winning
the emerald dagger "Serpent's Bite" \\Darkforge
She possessed the following intrinsics:
She was fire resistant (enhanced through an item).
She was poison resistant (enhanced through items).
She was cold resistant (enhanced through an item).
She was acid resistant.
She was lucky (enhanced through an item).
Fate smiled upon her (gained through items).
She was doomed. \\Never lost. Most of the game I was double-doomed
She was sleep resistant (gained through an item).
She was able to control teleportation.
She was stun resistant (gained through an item).
She was paralyzation resistant. \\Early pool. Very handy.
She was resistant to death rays (gained through an item).
She was shock resistant (enhanced through an item).
She was able to see invisible things (enhanced through items).
She was immune to ice attacks (gained through an item).
She was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through an item).
She had the following talents: Affinity with Daggers & Knives, Alert, Beast
of Burden, Boon to the Family, Charming, Eagle Eye, Good Shot, Greased
Lightning, Heir, Keen Shot, Lightning Shot, Master Packager, Miser, Porter,
Quick, Quick Shot, Shield Expert, Shield Master, Shield Specialist, Treasure
Hunter, Very Quick.
She had a final speed score of 139 (final base speed: 123).
She was a fervent follower of Gnarl.
She asked for 16 divine interventions.
She was lawfully aligned.

[JellySlayer]

The following monsters were vanquished:
4 acid vortices
12 air demons
12 air elementals
5 air grues
1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm
1 ancient minotaur
15 ancient red dragons \\Lesser vault on D:47
1 Ancient Stone Beast
4 animated armors
5 ankhegs
3 annihilators
2 annis hags
3 assassins
2 balors \\Lever guardians
9 bandits
1 banshee
23 barbarians
8 barbarian leaders
1 battle bunny
6 berserkers
2 berserker emperors \\Random spawns
3 berserker kings
6 berserker lords
5 berserker princes
2 big dogs
1 black dragon
1 black druid
12 black hurthlings
1 black unicorn \\Random D:46ish
6 black wizards
7 blink dogs
2 blue baby dragons
1 bone golem
1 brown bear
5 brown worms
10 bugbears
2 bulettes
1 bunny master
10 carrion crawlers
5 cave bears
20 cave fishers
8 cave lizards
1 caveman
1 Chaos Archmage
3 chaos brothers
4 chaos eyes
1 chaos knight
3 chaos lizards
26 chaos mutants
5 chaos plague bearers
24 chaos rats
84 chaos servants
6 chaos sisters
5 chaos spawns
1 chaos spider
1 chaos viper
1 chaos warlord
10 chaos warriors
7 chaos wizards
11 claw bugs
3 clay golems
2 cobras
6 corpse fiends
2 corruptors
1 crime lord
5 crystal statues
6 cutpurses
1 cyclops
4 dark elven archers
6 dark elven lords
4 dark elven priestesses
2 dark elven princesses
3 dark elven warriors
3 dark elven wizards
5 dark orcs
5 dark sages
3 death oozes
1 diamond golem \\Don't remember killing this guy at all.
19 dire wolves
7 displacer beasts
7 dopplegangers
5 doppleganger lords
2 dwarves
1 dwarven artificer \\Cause me more trouble than the D:50 balors
8 dwarven chaos knights
1 dwarven guardian
18 earth elementals
7 ettins
7 eyes of destruction
1 female dwarf
18 fire beetles
11 fire demons
6 fire drakes
5 fire elementals
14 fire giants
3 fire giant kings
6 fire grues
13 fire lizards
2 fire vortices
3 flesh golems
5 floating eyes
3 fomorian giants
2 frost giants
4 frost giant berserkers
1 frost giant jarl \\Saw on D:46ish. Don't see many of them.
10 gelatinous cubes
29 ghosts
5 ghost bats
41 ghost lords \\Mostly D:50
79 ghuls
7 giant ant workers
18 giant bats
9 giant bee warriors
14 giant bee workers
2 giant boars
7 giant centipedes
2 giant frogs
6 giant lizards
2 giant raccoons
39 giant rats
1 giant rust monster
6 giant slugs
9 giant spiders
2 gibbering mouthers
11 gnolls
57 goblins
11 goblin berserkers
11 goblin chieftains
23 goblin rockthrowers
24 goblin slavemasters
4 gray oozes
2 gray slayers
1 great red wyrm \\Lesser vault
1 greater black unicorn
30 greater chaos servants
4 greater claw bugs \\Random kills. I don't know if I killed a single monster in BUGVIL
14 greater mimics \\Tension room
5 greater mummies
18 greater titans \\Threat room... very handy
1 greater water elemental \\Random out-of-depth spawn in high kings
4 green blobs
1 green hag
2 green slimes
1 green worm
2 gremlins
4 griffons
6 grizzly bears
2 half-orc bouncers
7 harpies
24 hell hounds
9 hill giants
1 hill giant chieftain
6 hill orcs
5 hill orc sergeants
4 hippogriffs
13 hobgoblins
4 hobgoblin chiefs
2 hobgoblin leaders
1 homunculus
8 huge bats
3 hydras
12 hyenas
1 ice vortex
3 imps
2 invisible stalkers
27 jackals
5 jackal demons
7 jackalweres
1 karmic dragon
3 karmic lizards
30 kobolds
9 kobold chieftains
6 kobold shamans
26 large bats
6 large gnolls
5 large jackals
15 large kobolds
17 large orcs
3 large snakes
68 large spiders
4 least daemons
3 lesser daemons
5 leucrottas
1 lich
6 lightning lizards
2 lightning vortices
2 living walls \\Threat room of these on D:46. Cleared a few before getting bored and locking them away
21 lizard men
4 magebane eyes
8 magedoom eyes
2 margoyles
6 master liches \\Mostly grave digging
8 master mimics
1 master necromancer
1 Master Summoner
4 master swordsmen
1 master thief
4 mimics
1 mimic hivemind \\Tension
10 minotaurs
6 molochs \\Mostly Air Temple
3 muggers
14 mummies
1 mummy lord
2 necromancers
2 ochre jellies
50 ogres
1 ogre king
9 ogre lords
4 ogre magi
33 orcs
2 orc butchers
3 orc chieftains
14 orc scorchers
6 outlaws
5 outlaw leaders
6 owlbears
31 pit vipers
2 pixies
6 pixie archers
1 purple worm
3 quasits
1 quickling
1 quickling lord
8 rabid dogs
11 raiders
40 rats
8 ratling archers
9 ratling duelists
4 ratling fencers
5 ratling master thieves
9 ratling thieves
5 ratling traders
2 ratling warlords
11 ratling warriors
2 rattlesnakes
39 red baby dragons
13 red dragons
22 red worms
2 revenants
6 rust monsters
67 shadows
4 shadow centipedes
3 shadow lords
1 shambling mound
4 silver wolves
2 skeletal kings
6 skeletal warriors
122 skeletons
4 slow shadows
1 Snake from Beyond
15 spectres
3 staring eyes
33 steel golems
3 steel horrors
10 steel zombies
7 stone giants
7 stone golems
22 stone grues
4 stone snakes
4 stone statues
10 swamp hydras \\My favourite wilderness monsters.
16 swordsmen
5 tarantulas
1 thug
22 titans \\Lots of these guys this game
9 trolls
4 troll berserkers
7 troll chiefs
5 troll kings
1 undead chaos dwarven berserker
3 vampires
28 vapor rats
3 vipers
4 water demons
4 water elementals
8 water grues
8 water snakes
6 wererats
8 werewolves
1 werewolf king \\Random spawn in ULs
2 werewolf lords
5 white baby dragons
21 white worms
60 wights
1 will o'wisp
29 wolves
40 wraiths
6 writhing masses of primal chaos
5 yellow oozes
118 zombies

[Grey]

Nicely done! The moloch crash is quite interesting.

What's next on your list?

[JellySlayer]

I'm not positive yet. I sort of feel like doing a troll, and I sort of feel like doing a caster, but I definitely don't want to do a troll caster.

[Grey]

Troll priest ain't so bad. It's not like you'll be too fussed about eating the oracle.

[JellySlayer]

Hmm... it's not obvious to me what the trigger for the bug is. I found a backup of a high level PC and tested kicking down one of the elemental altars, and it didn't result in a crash. I wonder if the guardian has to alive at the time? Or if it's the moloch in particular that causes the problem?

[Grey]

Could be to do with the angry god response to molochs not being properly set up for elemental altars (since they're somewhat special).

[gut]

> results in a fatal crash. Fortunately, server backup saved me.

it made ingots when the altar pieces hit the ground.

seriously though, server backup is amazing.