Alucard
05-12-2011, 03:36 AM
Yet another f***ing grey elven wizard victory post - but hey, it's my first legit win (I've won with savescumming before; this one was on ancardius). FLG (http://ancardius.ath.cx/adom_users/alucard/lush.flg).
No wishes, no 7LBs, no AoLS, no potion of uselessness, only one random artifact (black tome). I'm happy that in ~13 years of on-and-off-again playing, I got a real win :).
I play ADOM in bursts - on for a few weeks, off for a few months. This time around, I started an HE archer, got bored in the pyramid, and started a GE wizard (Wand).
Lush, the GE Wizard, was listening to the radio station "Lush" and decided to name herself after the music she was hearing.
I started in the SMC, and it was an easy walk to the blanket and the down stairs. There were two herb levels in the UD, and I farmed some mareilon, morgia, stomafillia, and spenseweed.
There was a book shop and an altar on PC:5. There was an altar on the lowest PC level, too, but it was unaligned.. but it was an undead vault anyway.
I stopped in Holeinthewall, got pickpocketing and killed Hoztenplotz. At this point I was level 13, so I dove to dwarftown. First quest: kill an orc.
By this time I had Teleport (no control .. accidentally killed the last blink dog on an earlier level when waiting for it to summon more), Invisibility, and two shields, so the AF/DH were not scary.
I then headed back to the surface, and entered the dwarven graveyard. As a wizard, this felt great:
You scorch Griff Bloodax. Griff Bloodax fails to hurt you. Griff Bloodax misses you. Griff Bloodax m
isses you.
Then I headed to the Pyramid, which was too easy with Invis and that wand of fireballs. The climbing set was rusty, though.
Somewhere in here I got crowned (from mostly stoma) - lightning immunity and the Robes of Resistance.
I went over and did the High Kings for fun, which wasn't difficult.
I had more than enough door creation and digging charges, so I pacified the big room and farmed some more useful herbs.
At this point there wasn't much to do above Khelly, and I had no AoLS. Not feeling like scumming anywhere, I let him die. The water temple wasn't very hard.
I found a blink dog corpse on the Banshee level. What luck! The Dwarven Mystic gave me four ?oSC, which was good, because I only ever got one more ?oSC and one !oCC in the game. I ended up using three of the scrolls.
There were Altars on D:21 and D:28, and a book shoppe on D:27. I encountered a dark sage that left a corpse, but forgot to check its b/u/c status before eating it. I lost 15 points of literacy.. oops. I then hit the wall of flames, and went back up. In the process, I made sure to level stealth to 100.
I did the assassin's guild for the wand and killed the prince for exp and gained level 20, he wasn't too difficult. Grabbed Sting but never used it. I did find a sword of sharpness and switched to it for minor enemies to train swords for wielding Nonnak.. I generally prefer spears for the DV bonus, though, and when things got tough and I had other +Wi sources I switched right back to a spear.
A giant boar attacked me in the wilderness and left a skull. I was going to keep it forever and ever, but the rift broke it. Around here I got my first corruption: I raged!
I fell down the rift, and lost very little by way of items (did not even get "for a long time"). I danced around the library, invisible and bolting things, and collected the spellbooks. Only one spellbook got destroyed - by a wayward Frost Bolt; I'm not sure which one it was. However, I was a dumbass and 'C'hatted to some monsters in here. I read spellbooks for 3000 turns and the librarian still wouldn't give me the tome, and I got impatient and left.
I tackled the Tower, where two blessed fireproof blankets burned up, and I wasn't even doomed. I had four, though, and found another in there. I accidentally threw away the potion of confusion I was going to use on the Wyrm, but it turned out repeated Ice Ball from two squares away killed him pretty quickly.
I got my second corruption around here - hooves. Not bad.
I led the banshee up to the AF and did some farming. I had forgotten to take Alert, though, so not with TH. After a bit I got bored of this and left.
There was an altar and a wand shoppe on D:25. I think I did well for shops this game.
.. But in the casino there was not one single artifact. Not even after two restocks!
.. I took the shortcut to Darkforge and cleared it, which was trivial with Lightning Ball. And .. not a single artifact! There were about six halberds of defense, though.
Back down and encountered a red dragon vault. "Worn boots" and "greased boots" were both destroyed by fire - one of them was probably 7LBs :(.
I found a greater undead (http://kiserai.net/gallery/d/1368-1/adomvault2.PNG) vault on D:43 .. yeah I skipped that.
In the Earth Temple, I paused to regen some PP and received the following amusing coincidence:
You start to page through the uncursed spellbook of Teleportation. The stone grue suddenly seems to panic!I gained level 32 in here.
I checked my Alchemy recipes:
To mix a potion of gain attributes, you need a potion of cure corruption and a potion of strength.Sigh.
In the mana temple, I could see Nuurag-Vaarn with Farsight, and I far-slayed him to get him to move .. he obligingly moved away from me. I killed monsters for a bit - regular chaos servants eventually became much more difficult than greater chaos servants. I went around and balled some wizards through the walls, went back around and eventually Nuurag-Vaarn came out. I Acid Balled him to death, drinking blessed potions of extra healing whenever he hit me with a death ray. Then I skedaddled.
Reading scrolls for fun on D:48 got me this amusing message:
A heap of gold appears in front of you! Your looks improve.I never got a potion of uselessness in the entire game, so no gift for me on D:49.
D:50 did have a mixed tension room, though. I killed a bunch of monsters, but was out of scrolls of power and low on PP always, and I wanted to win for the first time rather than die, so I opted for the wand of destruction ending. (I did download my backup .svg before that, though, and am going to keep playing and exploring with this character on my personal machine for fun.)
Gate closed on day 84! On the way back up, I accidentally angered a shopkeeper with Unholy Aura. Oops. So I fasttracked to the wilderness, invisiblity+TP to the druid in Terinyo so as to not anger anyone and got the location of the unicorn glade. Before visiting, I had the right corruptions so I stopped by the quickling tree for fun and because I'd only been there once or twice before and got some speed. This took about 30 days of game time! Then I did the white unicorn quest - the black unicorn was much easier than a balor. I got all my corruptions cleared.
Heading out, I took care of some business:
You focus your magical energies to release the spell.
You summon a huge globe of ethereal acid which envelopes everything around you!
Yergius does not seem to be amused.
Yergius yells one last time before he is consumed by the acidic fluids! [+412xp] Killing Yergius makes you the new head of the thieves guild. Congratulations!
...
You talk to the tiny girl.
"Hast ya found me puppy?"
Do you want to tell her about it? [y/N]
The tiny girl begins to weep bitterly.
The tiny girl accepts the corpse of her beloved dog and starts to sob bitterly.
Poor girl. I carried that thing around for 90% of the game in case I would want the minor lawful boost at some point. At least Yggaz gave me a potion of GA in return for some booze!
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Lush St:23 Le:30 Wi:28 Dx:30 To:35 Ch:20 Ap:23 Ma:41 Pe:23 N=
DV/PV:111/51 H:593(593) P:761(761) Exp: 46/16891918 DrCh Sp: 140
Blessed
No wishes, no 7LBs, no AoLS, no potion of uselessness, only one random artifact (black tome). I'm happy that in ~13 years of on-and-off-again playing, I got a real win :).
I play ADOM in bursts - on for a few weeks, off for a few months. This time around, I started an HE archer, got bored in the pyramid, and started a GE wizard (Wand).
Lush, the GE Wizard, was listening to the radio station "Lush" and decided to name herself after the music she was hearing.
I started in the SMC, and it was an easy walk to the blanket and the down stairs. There were two herb levels in the UD, and I farmed some mareilon, morgia, stomafillia, and spenseweed.
There was a book shop and an altar on PC:5. There was an altar on the lowest PC level, too, but it was unaligned.. but it was an undead vault anyway.
I stopped in Holeinthewall, got pickpocketing and killed Hoztenplotz. At this point I was level 13, so I dove to dwarftown. First quest: kill an orc.
By this time I had Teleport (no control .. accidentally killed the last blink dog on an earlier level when waiting for it to summon more), Invisibility, and two shields, so the AF/DH were not scary.
I then headed back to the surface, and entered the dwarven graveyard. As a wizard, this felt great:
You scorch Griff Bloodax. Griff Bloodax fails to hurt you. Griff Bloodax misses you. Griff Bloodax m
isses you.
Then I headed to the Pyramid, which was too easy with Invis and that wand of fireballs. The climbing set was rusty, though.
Somewhere in here I got crowned (from mostly stoma) - lightning immunity and the Robes of Resistance.
I went over and did the High Kings for fun, which wasn't difficult.
I had more than enough door creation and digging charges, so I pacified the big room and farmed some more useful herbs.
At this point there wasn't much to do above Khelly, and I had no AoLS. Not feeling like scumming anywhere, I let him die. The water temple wasn't very hard.
I found a blink dog corpse on the Banshee level. What luck! The Dwarven Mystic gave me four ?oSC, which was good, because I only ever got one more ?oSC and one !oCC in the game. I ended up using three of the scrolls.
There were Altars on D:21 and D:28, and a book shoppe on D:27. I encountered a dark sage that left a corpse, but forgot to check its b/u/c status before eating it. I lost 15 points of literacy.. oops. I then hit the wall of flames, and went back up. In the process, I made sure to level stealth to 100.
I did the assassin's guild for the wand and killed the prince for exp and gained level 20, he wasn't too difficult. Grabbed Sting but never used it. I did find a sword of sharpness and switched to it for minor enemies to train swords for wielding Nonnak.. I generally prefer spears for the DV bonus, though, and when things got tough and I had other +Wi sources I switched right back to a spear.
A giant boar attacked me in the wilderness and left a skull. I was going to keep it forever and ever, but the rift broke it. Around here I got my first corruption: I raged!
I fell down the rift, and lost very little by way of items (did not even get "for a long time"). I danced around the library, invisible and bolting things, and collected the spellbooks. Only one spellbook got destroyed - by a wayward Frost Bolt; I'm not sure which one it was. However, I was a dumbass and 'C'hatted to some monsters in here. I read spellbooks for 3000 turns and the librarian still wouldn't give me the tome, and I got impatient and left.
I tackled the Tower, where two blessed fireproof blankets burned up, and I wasn't even doomed. I had four, though, and found another in there. I accidentally threw away the potion of confusion I was going to use on the Wyrm, but it turned out repeated Ice Ball from two squares away killed him pretty quickly.
I got my second corruption around here - hooves. Not bad.
I led the banshee up to the AF and did some farming. I had forgotten to take Alert, though, so not with TH. After a bit I got bored of this and left.
There was an altar and a wand shoppe on D:25. I think I did well for shops this game.
.. But in the casino there was not one single artifact. Not even after two restocks!
.. I took the shortcut to Darkforge and cleared it, which was trivial with Lightning Ball. And .. not a single artifact! There were about six halberds of defense, though.
Back down and encountered a red dragon vault. "Worn boots" and "greased boots" were both destroyed by fire - one of them was probably 7LBs :(.
I found a greater undead (http://kiserai.net/gallery/d/1368-1/adomvault2.PNG) vault on D:43 .. yeah I skipped that.
In the Earth Temple, I paused to regen some PP and received the following amusing coincidence:
You start to page through the uncursed spellbook of Teleportation. The stone grue suddenly seems to panic!I gained level 32 in here.
I checked my Alchemy recipes:
To mix a potion of gain attributes, you need a potion of cure corruption and a potion of strength.Sigh.
In the mana temple, I could see Nuurag-Vaarn with Farsight, and I far-slayed him to get him to move .. he obligingly moved away from me. I killed monsters for a bit - regular chaos servants eventually became much more difficult than greater chaos servants. I went around and balled some wizards through the walls, went back around and eventually Nuurag-Vaarn came out. I Acid Balled him to death, drinking blessed potions of extra healing whenever he hit me with a death ray. Then I skedaddled.
Reading scrolls for fun on D:48 got me this amusing message:
A heap of gold appears in front of you! Your looks improve.I never got a potion of uselessness in the entire game, so no gift for me on D:49.
D:50 did have a mixed tension room, though. I killed a bunch of monsters, but was out of scrolls of power and low on PP always, and I wanted to win for the first time rather than die, so I opted for the wand of destruction ending. (I did download my backup .svg before that, though, and am going to keep playing and exploring with this character on my personal machine for fun.)
Gate closed on day 84! On the way back up, I accidentally angered a shopkeeper with Unholy Aura. Oops. So I fasttracked to the wilderness, invisiblity+TP to the druid in Terinyo so as to not anger anyone and got the location of the unicorn glade. Before visiting, I had the right corruptions so I stopped by the quickling tree for fun and because I'd only been there once or twice before and got some speed. This took about 30 days of game time! Then I did the white unicorn quest - the black unicorn was much easier than a balor. I got all my corruptions cleared.
Heading out, I took care of some business:
You focus your magical energies to release the spell.
You summon a huge globe of ethereal acid which envelopes everything around you!
Yergius does not seem to be amused.
Yergius yells one last time before he is consumed by the acidic fluids! [+412xp] Killing Yergius makes you the new head of the thieves guild. Congratulations!
...
You talk to the tiny girl.
"Hast ya found me puppy?"
Do you want to tell her about it? [y/N]
The tiny girl begins to weep bitterly.
The tiny girl accepts the corpse of her beloved dog and starts to sob bitterly.
Poor girl. I carried that thing around for 90% of the game in case I would want the minor lawful boost at some point. At least Yggaz gave me a potion of GA in return for some booze!
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Lush St:23 Le:30 Wi:28 Dx:30 To:35 Ch:20 Ap:23 Ma:41 Pe:23 N=
DV/PV:111/51 H:593(593) P:761(761) Exp: 46/16891918 DrCh Sp: 140
Blessed