Maul
05-18-2009, 08:57 PM
Just thought I'd share this.
Randomly generated HE weaponsmith chick was rocking the VD all the way. Even found an altar, where I ID'ed that one of my scrolls is of education! Eventually managing to bless it, it gave no new skills (unlike with that one merchant who started with one and got Athletics... no such luck here, fortunately in retrospect). But I got plenty of piety for this point of the game... not enough, perhaps?
I didn't pre-generate the SMC though, so I was facing level 14 orcs and kobolds by the time I decided to take the (for me, almost mandatory - a test of strength, y'know?) UD trek. That wasn't a problem, really. They hurt a bit, but with my elven chain mail, I incurred relatively minor damage. I found a staircase then; and there was a problem. I dashed to the staircase, and a kobold followed me down... not! Why? Because I was spawned in the middle of a river!
A wererat and his guys attacked me, but I killed them and waited until some HP regen'd, and then swam through the 1 square that separated me from dry land. Here came two problems.
There was no further way on from there.
The kobold I almost managed to leave behind just appeared on the staircase.
I don't think one needs to be a genius to imagine what someone like me - good in melee, but has no missile practice at all - can fear from a level 14 kobold blocking the staircase in the middle of that goddamned river. So, let's kill that kobold. Here come the mistakes.
I was confident enough to think that throwing my weapons and maybe my anvil (which I carried just to stash on D:1 later, or so I wanted) could squash the kobold, but the problem was that most of these missed. I even threw my longsword and warhammer at this point. Mistake #1!
Seeing the kobold still wasn't even severely injured, I deduced that the rest of my stuff can surely kill it... no? So after throwing a wererat corpse from the ground, all the while with the kobold shooting at me with impunity, I threw my food (one, anyway, then I saw it cannot do damage), iron ingots, brass knuckles, boots, etc., and my two shortbows. Mistake #2! See where this is going?
After this, a big D'OH factor settled in as I realised I could have shot the kobold with his own arrows with a decent chance. If you read so far, put the number 67 into your post. But I decided to go to step #3, a river-to-land assault. Now I was unarmed though, since I chucked my melee stuff at the bastard too. Heh. So I attacked, but having no Swimming, I took lots of damage each turn (plus some from the kobold every few turns, even a stunning attack once), so I used up all my prayers I got back in the VD. Still, the kobold was only severely injured and by now, probably pretty pissed.
I retreated onto dry land and unequipped my elven chain mail, now on 2 HP, which I threw at the kobold - critically injured! 'Yes', I thought, but with nothing - absolutely nothing - left that I could throw (those poking sticks the kobold kept shooting were pretty useless in this regard), I decided to withdraw and wait for something - another wererat which would net me corpses to throw at the kobold, or even some weapon it would drop with which I could wait for my HP to regen and then attempt to melee again, or throw it at him so I could cause a bleeding wound and so the kobold would die in a few turns...)
"The kobold shoots an arrow at you! You are wounded. You die..." (2->-4 HP. Having the chain mail would have left me with 1.) Funny death, I'd say! It is obvious that I played rather badly in face of fatal danger, but at least I got a good laugh out of it - and I hope you will, too.
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Ionic St:18 Le:11 Wi:11 Dx:19 To:13 Ch:14 Ap:17 Ma:15 Pe:17 L
DV/PV: 27/0 H: -4(57) P: 40(40) Exp: 8/6717 UD: 1 Sp: 105
Coward
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Background Information
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Name: Ionic Race: female High Elf Class: Weaponsmith
Eye color: amber Hair color: black Complexion: pale
Height: 5'10" Weight: 108 pounds
Age: 203 (grown-up)
Star sign: Cup Birthday: 25/Cup (day 265 of the year)
YOUR HISTORY:
Your parents belong to the lower class. They were honest
hard-working people, who did everything to enable you to live a
comfortable and fine life. They were not very successful.
As a child you lived through happy days. Your parents tried to ease
your life as much as possible and gave you a lot of comfort.
During your youth you had a lot of fun playing with other kids of
your age. You always were a natural leader and the center of interest.
As a young adult you spent a lot of time searching for a deeper
meaning and purpose in your life. You pondered and pondered but nothing
truly sparked your interest. Finally, after many many hours, you made a
decision.
You decided to become a Weaponsmith.
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Inventory
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Total weight: 331 stones Carrying capacity: 1950 stones
Head : -
Neck : -
Body : -
Girdle : -
Cloak : -
Right Hand : -
Left Hand : -
Right Ring : -
Left Ring : uncursed ring of fire resistance [1s]
Bracers : -
Gauntlets : -
Boots : uncursed iron boots [-1, +0] [120s]
Missile weapon: -
Missiles : -
Tool : -
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Stuff
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Total weight: 210 stones Carrying capacity: 1950 stones
Missiles ('/')
bundle of 5 uncursed arrows (+0, 1d6) [10s]
Food ('%')
uncursed large ration [200s]
Valuables ('$')
67 gold pieces [0s]
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Weapon Skills
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Skills
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Appraising ............. 20 (mediocre) [+4d4]
Athletics .............. 70 (good) [+3d4]
Bridge building ........ 28 (mediocre) [+3d5] (mr)
Climbing ............... 24 (mediocre) [+3d4]
Concentration .......... 26 (mediocre) [+4d5]
Detect traps ........... 29 (mediocre) [+3d4]
Dodge .................. 64 (good) [+1d3]
Find weakness .......... 47 (fair) [+2d4]
First aid .............. 30 (mediocre) [+3d3]
Haggling ............... 37 (fair) [+4d5]
Healing ................ 21 (mediocre) [+3d4]
Listening .............. 41 (fair) [+1d5]
Literacy ............... 29 (mediocre) [+3d3]
Metallurgy ............. 46 (fair) [+4d5]
Smithing ............... 52 (good) [+4d4]
Stealth ................ 26 (mediocre) [+3d3]
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Her achievements during her adventures:
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Ionic, the high elven weaponsmith, was shot by a kobold.
She scored 5499 points and advanced to level 8.
She survived for 0 years, 7 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes and 59 seconds (6544
turns).
Ionic visited 11 places.
Her strength score was modified by +1 during her career.
Her willpower score was modified by +1 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by +2 during her career.
Her appearance score was modified by +1 during her career.
She ended her adventuring life in an unremarkable dungeon on level 1.
142 monsters perished under her attacks.
She possessed the following intrinsics:
She was fire resistant (gained through an item).
She was lucky.
She had the following talents: Careful, Quick, Strong of Will.
She had a final speed score of 105 (final base speed: 105).
She was not very pious (yeah, I'd be pretty faithless in that situation too).
She asked for 7 divine interventions.
She was lawfully aligned.
The following monsters were vanquished:
6 kobolds - Bastards, all of them. Never underestimate the cunning and battle prowess of a kobold!
Randomly generated HE weaponsmith chick was rocking the VD all the way. Even found an altar, where I ID'ed that one of my scrolls is of education! Eventually managing to bless it, it gave no new skills (unlike with that one merchant who started with one and got Athletics... no such luck here, fortunately in retrospect). But I got plenty of piety for this point of the game... not enough, perhaps?
I didn't pre-generate the SMC though, so I was facing level 14 orcs and kobolds by the time I decided to take the (for me, almost mandatory - a test of strength, y'know?) UD trek. That wasn't a problem, really. They hurt a bit, but with my elven chain mail, I incurred relatively minor damage. I found a staircase then; and there was a problem. I dashed to the staircase, and a kobold followed me down... not! Why? Because I was spawned in the middle of a river!
A wererat and his guys attacked me, but I killed them and waited until some HP regen'd, and then swam through the 1 square that separated me from dry land. Here came two problems.
There was no further way on from there.
The kobold I almost managed to leave behind just appeared on the staircase.
I don't think one needs to be a genius to imagine what someone like me - good in melee, but has no missile practice at all - can fear from a level 14 kobold blocking the staircase in the middle of that goddamned river. So, let's kill that kobold. Here come the mistakes.
I was confident enough to think that throwing my weapons and maybe my anvil (which I carried just to stash on D:1 later, or so I wanted) could squash the kobold, but the problem was that most of these missed. I even threw my longsword and warhammer at this point. Mistake #1!
Seeing the kobold still wasn't even severely injured, I deduced that the rest of my stuff can surely kill it... no? So after throwing a wererat corpse from the ground, all the while with the kobold shooting at me with impunity, I threw my food (one, anyway, then I saw it cannot do damage), iron ingots, brass knuckles, boots, etc., and my two shortbows. Mistake #2! See where this is going?
After this, a big D'OH factor settled in as I realised I could have shot the kobold with his own arrows with a decent chance. If you read so far, put the number 67 into your post. But I decided to go to step #3, a river-to-land assault. Now I was unarmed though, since I chucked my melee stuff at the bastard too. Heh. So I attacked, but having no Swimming, I took lots of damage each turn (plus some from the kobold every few turns, even a stunning attack once), so I used up all my prayers I got back in the VD. Still, the kobold was only severely injured and by now, probably pretty pissed.
I retreated onto dry land and unequipped my elven chain mail, now on 2 HP, which I threw at the kobold - critically injured! 'Yes', I thought, but with nothing - absolutely nothing - left that I could throw (those poking sticks the kobold kept shooting were pretty useless in this regard), I decided to withdraw and wait for something - another wererat which would net me corpses to throw at the kobold, or even some weapon it would drop with which I could wait for my HP to regen and then attempt to melee again, or throw it at him so I could cause a bleeding wound and so the kobold would die in a few turns...)
"The kobold shoots an arrow at you! You are wounded. You die..." (2->-4 HP. Having the chain mail would have left me with 1.) Funny death, I'd say! It is obvious that I played rather badly in face of fatal danger, but at least I got a good laugh out of it - and I hope you will, too.
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Screenshot
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#=====#####
#=====....#
#===k=/...#
#=====....#
=====../@.#
#=====....#
====######
====#
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Ionic St:18 Le:11 Wi:11 Dx:19 To:13 Ch:14 Ap:17 Ma:15 Pe:17 L
DV/PV: 27/0 H: -4(57) P: 40(40) Exp: 8/6717 UD: 1 Sp: 105
Coward
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Background Information
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Name: Ionic Race: female High Elf Class: Weaponsmith
Eye color: amber Hair color: black Complexion: pale
Height: 5'10" Weight: 108 pounds
Age: 203 (grown-up)
Star sign: Cup Birthday: 25/Cup (day 265 of the year)
YOUR HISTORY:
Your parents belong to the lower class. They were honest
hard-working people, who did everything to enable you to live a
comfortable and fine life. They were not very successful.
As a child you lived through happy days. Your parents tried to ease
your life as much as possible and gave you a lot of comfort.
During your youth you had a lot of fun playing with other kids of
your age. You always were a natural leader and the center of interest.
As a young adult you spent a lot of time searching for a deeper
meaning and purpose in your life. You pondered and pondered but nothing
truly sparked your interest. Finally, after many many hours, you made a
decision.
You decided to become a Weaponsmith.
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Inventory
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Total weight: 331 stones Carrying capacity: 1950 stones
Head : -
Neck : -
Body : -
Girdle : -
Cloak : -
Right Hand : -
Left Hand : -
Right Ring : -
Left Ring : uncursed ring of fire resistance [1s]
Bracers : -
Gauntlets : -
Boots : uncursed iron boots [-1, +0] [120s]
Missile weapon: -
Missiles : -
Tool : -
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Stuff
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Total weight: 210 stones Carrying capacity: 1950 stones
Missiles ('/')
bundle of 5 uncursed arrows (+0, 1d6) [10s]
Food ('%')
uncursed large ration [200s]
Valuables ('$')
67 gold pieces [0s]
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Weapon Skills
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snip'd
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Skills
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Appraising ............. 20 (mediocre) [+4d4]
Athletics .............. 70 (good) [+3d4]
Bridge building ........ 28 (mediocre) [+3d5] (mr)
Climbing ............... 24 (mediocre) [+3d4]
Concentration .......... 26 (mediocre) [+4d5]
Detect traps ........... 29 (mediocre) [+3d4]
Dodge .................. 64 (good) [+1d3]
Find weakness .......... 47 (fair) [+2d4]
First aid .............. 30 (mediocre) [+3d3]
Haggling ............... 37 (fair) [+4d5]
Healing ................ 21 (mediocre) [+3d4]
Listening .............. 41 (fair) [+1d5]
Literacy ............... 29 (mediocre) [+3d3]
Metallurgy ............. 46 (fair) [+4d5]
Smithing ............... 52 (good) [+4d4]
Stealth ................ 26 (mediocre) [+3d3]
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Her achievements during her adventures:
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Ionic, the high elven weaponsmith, was shot by a kobold.
She scored 5499 points and advanced to level 8.
She survived for 0 years, 7 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes and 59 seconds (6544
turns).
Ionic visited 11 places.
Her strength score was modified by +1 during her career.
Her willpower score was modified by +1 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by +2 during her career.
Her appearance score was modified by +1 during her career.
She ended her adventuring life in an unremarkable dungeon on level 1.
142 monsters perished under her attacks.
She possessed the following intrinsics:
She was fire resistant (gained through an item).
She was lucky.
She had the following talents: Careful, Quick, Strong of Will.
She had a final speed score of 105 (final base speed: 105).
She was not very pious (yeah, I'd be pretty faithless in that situation too).
She asked for 7 divine interventions.
She was lawfully aligned.
The following monsters were vanquished:
6 kobolds - Bastards, all of them. Never underestimate the cunning and battle prowess of a kobold!