speedrun that (sort of) failed

[grobblewobble]

Summary:

Rolled a candle drakeling monk on the server with stats high enough to get all the pv talents. Started by rescuing the dog, not optimal of course but I wasn't serious about speedrunning when I started. Got nice rewards from the vault on the bottom, anyway. I also found blink dogs and a centipede corpse along the way, so it was a promising start.

Then went to DT, random monster quest was for a rat. Waldenbrook sold a scroll of magic mapping, so I went to the surface, retrieved the wand and robbed DF. Left with an eternium spear that paired well with my large crystal shield from the puppy cave. Best armor was clothes of life. Back to the surface where I cleared griffyard and killed Keethrax for power. Then went back to dwarftown, talked about quests and dived straight to the water temple, killing Khelly. I figured the snake would be an easy prey for my stack of demon slaying arrows. However, that plan was foiled when a stone block trap destroyed nearly the entire stack. I had little other resources, so I threw my PoCC at him instead for an easy kill.
Went back to DT, talked more about quests and cleared pyramid, finishing the arena along the way. Back in DT I sacced a greater demon, sold my stuff to Waldenbrook, killed him and sacced big punch. Got crowned with the shirt of the saints, which I thought was about equally good as my cloths of life.

Somewhere along the way I found a ring of ice and bracers of to+4. With all that I cleared the golems and then went to the tower of eternal flames. Here I had a bit of a problem: nothing to disable the wyrm and I still had no better weapon than an eternium spear. At this point I read my spellbook of cold to exhaustion. Then just went for it. The wyrm fell surprisingly easily in straight up melee, thanks to overpowered drakeling speed.

Dived to the casino, I think the best I got there was a random SoCR. Then made a very costly mistake, as I took the wrong stairs and ended up in DF. I had no choice but to walk all the way back through the CoC. Then found out that you can only teleport past the EG if there are no living copies. By the time I figured that out, about 5 copies were running about on the level. Luckily there was an alarm trap on the level, so I let them kill each other and killed the last one myself. When I finally returned to the casino, I had wasted about 2000 turns. :(

In the unreal caves I decided to use my magic missiles on the AKW for fat xp. That nearly ended in disaster, as I had just enough charges to get him to critical, then decided to finish him off with arrows of slaying.. only to find out that my untrained missiles couldn't pierce his armor. In the end I killed him in melee. He dropped a corpse! That removed dooming, got rid of the curse on a nearby altar.

The end game was monk cheesed. I killed the two balors standing on the levers. Destroyed the upper lever (wrenching my wand), then switched places to put a chaos wizard on top of the lower lever. Teleported out and left the chain.

I broke my personal speed record by a margin, never finished within 30k turns before. Still, if I hadn't taken the shortcut to DF it would have looked more like a real speedrun.

[grobblewobble]

full flg (http://ancardia.us.to/adom_users/grobblewobble/tyrax.flg)


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Tyrax St:36 Le:23 Wi:29 Dx:29 To:32 Ch:18 Ap: 1 Ma:26 Pe:16 N-
DV/PV: 66/38 H: 550(550) P: 260(260) Exp: 34/9121433 DrCh M: 24553
Blessed Hungry
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Background Information
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Name: Tyrax Race: male Drakeling Class: Monk
Eye color: amber Hair color: bald Complexion: light green
Height: 5'8" Weight: 163 pounds
Age: 25 (grown-up)
Star sign: Candle Birthday: 12/Candle (day 282 of the year)

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Inventory
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Total weight: 4096 stones Carrying capacity: 6675 stones

He: plain eternium cap [+0, +4] [28s]
Ne: blessed ankh [3s]
Bo: blessed fine leather armor (named) (+2, +0) [+2, +8] (+15 spd) [120s]
Gi: plain mithril girdle [+0, +5] [20s]
Cl: blessed cloak of defense [+3, +0] [20s]
RH: blessed eternium spear (+2, 2d8+10) [25s] <-- never found anything better
LH: plain large crystal shield (+2) [+10, +2] [210s]
RR: -
LR: plain ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd) [1s]
Br: plain bracers of toughness [+0, +0] {To+4} [10s]
Ga: -
Bo: plain heavy boots [-1, +4] [30s]
MW: plain long bow (+2, +2) [30s]
Mi: bundle of 8 plain arrows of construct slaying (+3, 1d6) [16s]
Tl: -


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Stuff
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Total weight: 3583 stones Carrying capacity: 6675 stones

Helmets ('[')
blessed mithril cap [+0, +2] [40s]
Armor ('[')
plain clothes of life (+1, -1) [+0, +0] [40s]
plain ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8} [60s]
blessed Shirt of the Saints [+8, +4] {Le+2} [20s]
plain red dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +13] [220s]
Gauntlets ('[')
plain elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Girdles ('[')
plain eternium girdle [+0, +4] [12s]
Necklaces (''')
plain bracers of regeneration [+0, +0] [18s]
plain bracers of protection [+0, +4] [10s]
plain bracers of toughness [+0, +0] {To+4} [10s]
plain bracers of speed [+0, +0] (+4 spd) [10s]
plain bracers of resistance [+0, +0] [10s]
One-handed weapons ('(')
plain knife of endurance (+6, 1d3+6) {To+1} [8s]
plain eternium spear (+4, 2d8+7) [25s]
Rings ('=')
plain ring of ice [1s]
plain ring of regeneration [1s]
heap of 3 plain rings of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage)
heap of 2 blessed rings of invisibility [2s]

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Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
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Unarmed fighting 7 +4 +3 +2 skilled 431
Daggers & knives 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Clubs & hammers 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Maces & flails 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Swords 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Axes 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Whips 1 +1 +0 +1 basic 25
Pole arms 11 +12 +7 +14 Mastery 2909
Twohanded weapons 1 +1 +1 +0 basic 25
Staves 1 +1 +0 +1 basic 25

Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
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Slings 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 6
Bows 2 +4 +3 +0 basic 1
Crossbows 1 +2 +1 +0 basic 5
Thrown axes & hammers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown daggers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown rocks & clubs 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown spears 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Boomerangs & scurgari 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7

Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 9 +18 excellent 447


Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +102 bonus to hit, 2d8+44 damage


Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 8, base range: 9, +49 bonus to hit, 1d6+20 damage




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Skills
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Alertness ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Athletics ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Backstabbing ............. 52 (good) [+1d3]
Climbing ................. 35 (fair) [+3d3]
Concentration ............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Dodge .................... 89 (great) [+1d5]
Find weakness ............100 (superb) [+1d3]
First aid ................ 80 (great) [+2d4]
Food preservation ........100 (superb) [+2d4]
Haggling ................. 25 (mediocre) [+3d5]
Healing ..................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Listening ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Literacy ................. 97 (superb) [+1d5]
Music .................... 10 (poor) [+4d4]
Stealth ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Swimming ................. 48 (fair) [+3d3]
Tactics .................. 79 (great) [+1d3]
Two weapon combat ........ 74 (great) [+3d3]


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Spells
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Calm Monster : 6, 15pp (Effectivity: +0)
Darkness : 1, 7pp (Effectivity: +0)
Frost Bolt : 109, 12pp (Effectivity: +3)
Lightning Ball: 2, 59pp (Effectivity: +0)


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Effects of Corruption
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Your close attunement to corrupted astral space allows teleportation.
Your antennae explore the details of your environment (Ap: -4).
You have grown thorns (3d3 melee damage, Dx: -2, Ap: -3).
You have grown horns (+3 melee damage, Ap: -4).
You have grown a bulging cranium (Le: +6, Wi: +4, Ap: -6, PV: -4, To: -3).
Your feet have been transformed into hooves (+8 kicking damage, Dx: -6).


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His further life:
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After he leaves the Drakalor Chain he is welcomed by his people with great
honors. They acknowledge his noble deeds, his valor, his cunning and his
great skills that helped to prevent the complete destruction of the world he
knows. His severe taint by the forces of Chaos prevents him from ever
leading a normal life. He always remembers the glorious deeds that took his
life away. His sacrifice is remembered in the stories of his people, but not
in their hearts. He ends his life in loneliness and isolation.

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His achievements during his adventures:
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Tyrax, the drakish monk, saved the world with his brave efforts while saving
himself but once.
He scored 75636620 points and advanced to level 34.
He survived for 0 years, 29 days, 6 hours, 10 minutes and 50 seconds (24553
turns).
Tyrax visited 87 places.
His strength score was modified by +17 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +4 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +7 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +6 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +9 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +6 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +7 during his career.
His mana score was modified by +13 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +3 during his career.
He was the champion of the arena.
He was the head of the thieves guild.
He brought back joy into the life of a tiny girl.
He adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
He left the Drakalor Chain after completing his quest and became a famous
hero.
1250 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following 17 artifacts were generated during his 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 lead-filled mace "Big Punch"
the elemental gauntlets
the crown of science
the ancient mummy wrapping
the ankh
the black torc
the Shirt of the Saints
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the fine leather armor "Nature's Companion"
He possessed the following intrinsics:
He was fire resistant.
He was poison resistant.
He was lucky (enhanced through an item).
Fate smiled upon him (enhanced through items).
He was able to control teleportation.
He was able to see invisible things (gained through an item).
He was immune to shock attacks.
He was immune to fire attacks (gained through an item).
He had the following talents: Careful, Defensive Fighter, Dodger, Extremely
Hardy, Good Learner, Greased Lightning, Hardy, Immune to Pain, Iron Skin,
Quick, Steel Skin, Tough Skin, Very Hardy, Very Quick.
He had a final speed score of 174 (final base speed: 143).
He was a messiah of Issrecht.
He asked for 2 divine interventions.
He was a holy champion of Balance.
He was severely tainted by Chaos.

The following monsters were vanquished:
5 air demons
1 air elemental
1 air grue
1 ancient blue dragon
1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm
1 ancient karmic wyrm
1 Ancient Stone Beast
2 animated trees
1 ankheg
2 annihilators
1 annis hag
2 balors
7 bandits
1 banshee
1 barbarian
1 battle bunny
3 berserkers
1 berserker king
1 berserker prince
1 black dragon
1 black druid
2 black hurthlings
31 blink dogs
1 bone golem
1 brown bear
10 bugbears
1 bunny master
1 cave bear
14 cave fishers
1 cave lizard
3 cavemen
1 Chaos Archmage
1 chaos rat
44 chaos servants
2 chaos sisters
1 chaos spawn
1 chaos wizard
4 claw bugs
2 cobras
6 corpse fiends
2 corruptors
2 crystal statues
3 cutpurses
1 dark elven archer
3 dark elven warriors
3 dark sages
4 dire wolves
1 displacer beast
2 dopplegangers
1 doppleganger king
15 dwarven chaos knights
1 dwarven guardian
23 earth elementals
1 eternal guardian
1 ettin
6 fire beetles
5 fire demons
6 fire drakes
4 fire elementals
4 fire giants
1 fire giant king
1 fire grue
2 fire lizards
2 flesh golems
3 floating eyes
2 fomorian giants
1 frost giant
1 gargoyle
10 ghosts
6 ghost bats
1 ghost lord
62 ghuls
6 giant bats
1 giant bee queen
5 giant bee warriors
10 giant bee workers
4 giant centipedes
3 giant frogs
3 giant lizards
6 giant rats
1 giant rust monster
2 giant slugs
4 giant spiders
4 gnolls
7 goblins
3 goblin chieftains
13 goblin rockthrowers
1 goblin slavemaster
1 gray ooze
1 gray slayer
1 greater chaos servant
13 greater daemons
4 greater mummies
1 green hag
2 green slimes
2 green worms
1 gremlin
1 griffon
2 grizzly bears
5 harpies
3 hell hounds
1 hill giant chieftain
2 hill orc sergeants
19 hobgoblins
5 hobgoblin chiefs
5 hobgoblin leaders
3 homunculi
3 huge bats
1 hydra
2 hyenas
30 jackals
4 jackal demons
6 jackalweres
1 king cobra
20 kobolds
2 kobold chieftains
2 kobold shamans
6 large bats
15 large dogs
2 large gnolls
1 large jackal
9 large kobolds
2 large orcs
3 large snakes
16 large spiders
4 liches
5 lizard men
1 mad doctor
2 magebane eyes
1 margoyle
1 master mimic
1 master necromancer
1 Master Summoner
6 master swordsmen
1 master thief
2 mimics
4 minotaurs
2 muggers
12 mummies
1 mummy lord
1 necromancer
39 ogres
1 ogre emperor
1 ogre lord
3 ogre magi
30 orcs
1 orc butcher
3 orc chieftains
9 orc scorchers
4 outlaws
1 outlaw leader
1 owlbear
9 pit vipers
1 pixie archer
3 purple worms
3 quasits
2 quicklings
1 quickling lord
4 rabid dogs
3 raiders
4 rats
4 ratling archers
2 ratling master thieves
2 ratling thieves
1 ratling warlord
1 ratling warrior
2 red baby dragons
1 red dragon
4 red worms
1 revenant
1 rust monster
52 shadows
3 shadow lords
1 shadow troll
1 shopkeeper
4 silver wolves
1 skeletal warrior
93 skeletons
2 slow shadows
1 Snake from Beyond
2 spectres
25 steel golems
1 steel zombie
2 stone giants
1 stone giant lord
2 stone golems
30 stone grues
4 stone snakes
3 swordsmen
3 tarantulas
1 titan
1 troll
2 troll berserkers
3 troll kings
1 undead chaos dwarven berserker
1 vampire
5 vapor rats
1 viper
8 water demons
3 water elementals
16 water grues
15 water snakes
1 wererat
1 werewolf
3 werewolf lords
1 white baby dragon
4 white worms
43 wights
1 will o'wisp
8 wolves
19 wraiths
88 zombies

[JellySlayer]

24.5k is very good for a melee speedrun. My best run is 22884 (http://www.adom.de/forums/showthread.php/11572-YAVP-Paladin-Speedrun-(22884-turns)) with a Paladin, and I was actually trying for it ;) The top melee score that I've found recorded is 18755 for a barbarian, and I've only heard of a handful under 25k.