elenie
03-04-2014, 08:16 AM
Goody was a young drakeling of the Order of Sssracht, sent out to preach His wisdom to Ancardia. She was sworn to poverty and following Sssracht's word in all things, and so she gladly went out armed only with her faith. However, she soon discovered that the enemies of order were active after having lain dormant for long ages, and so she took Sssracht's cause into her own hands, to strike down the followers of ChAoS and close the demonic passageway opened by Andor Drakon forever...
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I've always wanted to run a paragon of order but it seemed a little "flat". So I decided that I would make a "holy beggar" character, who would become a paragon of order and not use gold for any purpose (I was too used to picking up gold on sight, so the rules were to drop any gold I accidentally picked up). This seemed perfectly in line with a monk. In addition, I felt it would be fitting if the monk would also refuse to eat humanoid corpses of any kind. She would use unarmed fighting wherever possible (turns out I never had to equip a weapon), and would be required to save Khelavaster.
In all, this rules out shops, stat increases via humanoids (ogres, kobold shamans, an entire giant vault) as well as ratling food. A monk helps here due to the lowered food consumption. Starting as a drakeling, I had to avoid the druid quests (I was paranoid about alignment drop) and I also skipped Kranach because during an earlier attempt I think I saw an alignment drop despite never picking up the reward. Blink dogs could be an issue (and did cause many previous attempts to fail), but luckily none swarmed me before I became lawful after doing the carpenter and puppy quests. I did not use companions to avoid any issues with angering them, and avoided all non-lawful altars even while still neutral (luckily I randomly found two lawful ones).
I was able to get precrowned (scorched spear) and crowned (robes of resistance) in the UD. Once unarmed damage and HP went up, things went fairly smoothly except for a time when I needed a wish (to save Khelavaster) and instead got teleportitis without having teleport control. I did get a wish out of it, and luckily a stray pool in the UC gave me teleport control. Yay!
I carried several instruments for blink dogs (never an issue, luckily) and cats (plentiful). Decided to skip much of the optional content (library, maze) to avoid alignment accidents and started diving down the CoC at about level 22 (and after only about 36 game days, which is MUCH faster than normal for me). Acquired the ring of the master cat and cleared a greater giant vault for xp and boots of the divine messenger.
Finally I had all the orbs and it was time to descend to D 50. For some reason D:49 distracted me, and so I was not expecting the special message I received when entering D:50. Awesome! I equipped the girdle and completely forgot that I am a drakeling and had better warm up before fighting the masses of chaos, so I spent some time wondering why those WMoPC were quite so tough (I realized the problem when checking my speed after getting slowed by one and seeing that it was 38 :-) ). Got the rune-covered trident at the very end, after having killed Fistanarius already. Ah well. I clear out the level, then ascend and get out of the chain before I do something foolish and the girdle squeezes me to death.
I meant to cleanse my corruptions (unicorn quest is not an option I believe) but I forgot.
All in all, it felt like a fun challenge while not being too different from a regular game. I kept a savefile just before leaving the chain.
Final log (snipped):
Goody St:33 Le:28 Wi:48 Dx:51 To:39 Ch:15 Ap:20 Ma:17 Pe:25 L+
DV/PV: 96/51 H: 773(773) P: 347(347) Exp: 43/15824751 DrCh Sp: 176
Blessed Invisible
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Background Information
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Name: Goody Race: female Drakeling Class: Monk
Eye color: blue Hair color: bald Complexion: light green
Height: 4'11" Weight: 132 pounds
Age: 24 (grown-up)
Star sign: Cup Birthday: 9/Cup (day 249 of the year)
YOUR HISTORY:
Your parents are traveling adventurers. They are doing moderately
well but are talented enough to survive.
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.
As a youth you spent a lot of time in the wilds exploring woods and
generally enjoying your freedom. You had a lot of fun and learned to value
the treasures of nature.
Your path was always clearly lying before you. You knew about your
destiny since your earliest years and fortunately your grandfather
supported your wishes. You managed to find a competent trainer and began
your studies.
You decided to become a Monk.
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Inventory
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Total weight: 3779 stones Carrying capacity: 5775 stones
He: uncursed helm of mental stability (+2, +2) [+0, +1] {Le+1} [100s]
Ne: uncursed ankh [3s]
Bo: blessed robes of resistance (-4, -4) [+3, +12] {To+5} [60s]
Gi: uncursed platinum girdle (named) (+3, +0) [+18, +9] {Wi+15} (+15 spd)
Cl: uncursed cloak of invisibility (-1, +0) [+1, +0] [30s]
RH: -
LH: -
RR: uncursed ring of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage) [1s]
LR: uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd) [1s]
Br: blessed bracers of speed [+3, +0] (+4 spd) [10s]
Ga: uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Bo: uncursed boots of the divine messenger [+3, +3] {Dx+5} [25s]
MW: -
Mi: blessed rune-covered trident (+6, 3d12+6) [+4, +4] {Dx+12} [80s]
Tl: -
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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 14 +12 +10 +10 Mastery 8282
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 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
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 2 +4 +3 +0 basic 20
Bows 6 +12 +9 +2 skilled 98
Crossbows 4 +8 +6 +1 skilled 33
Thrown axes & hammers 3 +6 +4 +1 basic 15
Thrown daggers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown rocks & clubs 1 +2 +1 +0 basic 1
Thrown spears 4 +8 +6 +1 skilled 45
Boomerangs & scurgari 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 0 +0 unskilled 15
Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +159 bonus to hit, 1d51+53 damage
Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 1, base range: 5, +71 bonus to hit, 3d8+40 damage
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Skills
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Alertness ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Athletics ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Backstabbing .............100 (superb) [+3d3]
Bridge building .......... 80 (great) [+1d3] (ma)
Climbing .................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Concentration ............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Courage ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Dodge ....................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Find weakness ............100 (superb) [+2d4]
First aid ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Food preservation ........100 (superb) [+2d4]
Gardening ................ 65 (good) [+1d3]
Haggling ................. 76 (great) [+1d3]
Healing ..................100 (superb) [+3d3]
Listening ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Literacy .................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Music .................... 90 (great) [+1d3]
Stealth ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Swimming ................. 84 (great) [+1d3]
Tactics .................. 86 (great) [+1d3]
Two weapon combat ........100 (superb) [+1d5]
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Spells
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Acid Bolt : 197, 15pp (Effectivity: +0)
Identify : 355, 75pp (Effectivity: +1)
Magic Lock : 183, 8pp (Effectivity: +1)
Magic Missile: 345, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Teleportation: 488, 32pp (Effectivity: +0)
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Effects of Corruption
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You rage (DV: -9, +6 melee damage)!
You have grown thorns (3d3 melee damage, Dx: -2, Ap: -3).
Your close attunement to corrupted astral space allows teleportation.
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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 drakelings 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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Goody, the drakish monk, saved the world with her brave efforts and became a
great ruler while saving herself 5 times.
She scored 31677096 points and advanced to level 43.
She survived for 0 years, 41 days, 3 hours, 40 minutes and 3 seconds (73424
turns).
Goody visited 107 places.
Her strength score was modified by +13 during her career.
Her learning score was modified by +13 during her career.
Her willpower score was modified by +16 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by +15 during her career.
Her toughness score was modified by +15 during her career.
Her charisma score was modified by +8 during her career.
Her appearance score was modified by +17 during her career.
Her mana score was modified by +6 during her career.
Her perception score was modified by +12 during her career.
She was the champion of the arena.
She made a little water dragon very happy.
She brought back joy into the life of a tiny girl.
She was a true and pure paragon of Order.
She adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
She saved Khelavaster from certain death.
She left the Drakalor Chain after completing her quest and became a great
leader and famous heroine.
4361 monsters perished under her attacks.
The following 22 artifacts were generated during her adventure:
the si
the dwarven rune axe "Rolf's Companion"
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
the ring of the master cat
the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
the ancient claymore "Death's Blade"
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 scorched spear
the rune-covered trident
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the crown of science
the ancient mummy wrapping
the ankh
the boots of the divine messenger
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the robes of resistance
the dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead"
the platinum girdle "True Strength"
She possessed the following intrinsics:
She was fire resistant (also through items).
She was poison resistant (also through an item).
She was cold resistant (also through an item).
She was acid resistant (also through an item).
She was lucky (also through items).
Fate smiled upon her (also through items).
She was sleep resistant.
She was petrification resistant.
She was able to teleport.
She was able to control teleportation (also through an item).
She was invisible (gained through an item).
She was paralyzation resistant (gained through an item).
She was resistant to death rays (gained through items).
She was shock resistant (also through items).
She was able to see invisible things (also through an item).
She was immune to shock attacks.
She was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through items).
She had the following talents: Alert, Brawler, Careful, Good Shot, Hardy,
Immune to Pain, Iron Skin, Keen Shot, Miser, Quick, Stealthy, Steel Skin,
Strong Thrower, Tough Skin, Treasure Hunter.
She had a final speed score of 176 (final base speed: 141).
She was a paragon of her religion.
She asked for 1 divine intervention.
She was a holy champion of Order.
She was tainted by Chaos.
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Playing Time
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You played for 17 hours, 13 minutes and 15 seconds.
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Version Information
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Ancient Domains Of Mystery
Version 1.2.0
Windows Prerelease 20
Build: Nov 21 2013 23:44:09
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I've always wanted to run a paragon of order but it seemed a little "flat". So I decided that I would make a "holy beggar" character, who would become a paragon of order and not use gold for any purpose (I was too used to picking up gold on sight, so the rules were to drop any gold I accidentally picked up). This seemed perfectly in line with a monk. In addition, I felt it would be fitting if the monk would also refuse to eat humanoid corpses of any kind. She would use unarmed fighting wherever possible (turns out I never had to equip a weapon), and would be required to save Khelavaster.
In all, this rules out shops, stat increases via humanoids (ogres, kobold shamans, an entire giant vault) as well as ratling food. A monk helps here due to the lowered food consumption. Starting as a drakeling, I had to avoid the druid quests (I was paranoid about alignment drop) and I also skipped Kranach because during an earlier attempt I think I saw an alignment drop despite never picking up the reward. Blink dogs could be an issue (and did cause many previous attempts to fail), but luckily none swarmed me before I became lawful after doing the carpenter and puppy quests. I did not use companions to avoid any issues with angering them, and avoided all non-lawful altars even while still neutral (luckily I randomly found two lawful ones).
I was able to get precrowned (scorched spear) and crowned (robes of resistance) in the UD. Once unarmed damage and HP went up, things went fairly smoothly except for a time when I needed a wish (to save Khelavaster) and instead got teleportitis without having teleport control. I did get a wish out of it, and luckily a stray pool in the UC gave me teleport control. Yay!
I carried several instruments for blink dogs (never an issue, luckily) and cats (plentiful). Decided to skip much of the optional content (library, maze) to avoid alignment accidents and started diving down the CoC at about level 22 (and after only about 36 game days, which is MUCH faster than normal for me). Acquired the ring of the master cat and cleared a greater giant vault for xp and boots of the divine messenger.
Finally I had all the orbs and it was time to descend to D 50. For some reason D:49 distracted me, and so I was not expecting the special message I received when entering D:50. Awesome! I equipped the girdle and completely forgot that I am a drakeling and had better warm up before fighting the masses of chaos, so I spent some time wondering why those WMoPC were quite so tough (I realized the problem when checking my speed after getting slowed by one and seeing that it was 38 :-) ). Got the rune-covered trident at the very end, after having killed Fistanarius already. Ah well. I clear out the level, then ascend and get out of the chain before I do something foolish and the girdle squeezes me to death.
I meant to cleanse my corruptions (unicorn quest is not an option I believe) but I forgot.
All in all, it felt like a fun challenge while not being too different from a regular game. I kept a savefile just before leaving the chain.
Final log (snipped):
Goody St:33 Le:28 Wi:48 Dx:51 To:39 Ch:15 Ap:20 Ma:17 Pe:25 L+
DV/PV: 96/51 H: 773(773) P: 347(347) Exp: 43/15824751 DrCh Sp: 176
Blessed Invisible
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Background Information
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Name: Goody Race: female Drakeling Class: Monk
Eye color: blue Hair color: bald Complexion: light green
Height: 4'11" Weight: 132 pounds
Age: 24 (grown-up)
Star sign: Cup Birthday: 9/Cup (day 249 of the year)
YOUR HISTORY:
Your parents are traveling adventurers. They are doing moderately
well but are talented enough to survive.
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.
As a youth you spent a lot of time in the wilds exploring woods and
generally enjoying your freedom. You had a lot of fun and learned to value
the treasures of nature.
Your path was always clearly lying before you. You knew about your
destiny since your earliest years and fortunately your grandfather
supported your wishes. You managed to find a competent trainer and began
your studies.
You decided to become a Monk.
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Inventory
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Total weight: 3779 stones Carrying capacity: 5775 stones
He: uncursed helm of mental stability (+2, +2) [+0, +1] {Le+1} [100s]
Ne: uncursed ankh [3s]
Bo: blessed robes of resistance (-4, -4) [+3, +12] {To+5} [60s]
Gi: uncursed platinum girdle (named) (+3, +0) [+18, +9] {Wi+15} (+15 spd)
Cl: uncursed cloak of invisibility (-1, +0) [+1, +0] [30s]
RH: -
LH: -
RR: uncursed ring of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage) [1s]
LR: uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd) [1s]
Br: blessed bracers of speed [+3, +0] (+4 spd) [10s]
Ga: uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Bo: uncursed boots of the divine messenger [+3, +3] {Dx+5} [25s]
MW: -
Mi: blessed rune-covered trident (+6, 3d12+6) [+4, +4] {Dx+12} [80s]
Tl: -
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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 14 +12 +10 +10 Mastery 8282
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 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
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 2 +4 +3 +0 basic 20
Bows 6 +12 +9 +2 skilled 98
Crossbows 4 +8 +6 +1 skilled 33
Thrown axes & hammers 3 +6 +4 +1 basic 15
Thrown daggers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown rocks & clubs 1 +2 +1 +0 basic 1
Thrown spears 4 +8 +6 +1 skilled 45
Boomerangs & scurgari 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 0 +0 unskilled 15
Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +159 bonus to hit, 1d51+53 damage
Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 1, base range: 5, +71 bonus to hit, 3d8+40 damage
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Skills
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Alertness ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Athletics ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Backstabbing .............100 (superb) [+3d3]
Bridge building .......... 80 (great) [+1d3] (ma)
Climbing .................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Concentration ............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Courage ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Dodge ....................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Find weakness ............100 (superb) [+2d4]
First aid ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Food preservation ........100 (superb) [+2d4]
Gardening ................ 65 (good) [+1d3]
Haggling ................. 76 (great) [+1d3]
Healing ..................100 (superb) [+3d3]
Listening ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Literacy .................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Music .................... 90 (great) [+1d3]
Stealth ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Swimming ................. 84 (great) [+1d3]
Tactics .................. 86 (great) [+1d3]
Two weapon combat ........100 (superb) [+1d5]
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Spells
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Acid Bolt : 197, 15pp (Effectivity: +0)
Identify : 355, 75pp (Effectivity: +1)
Magic Lock : 183, 8pp (Effectivity: +1)
Magic Missile: 345, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Teleportation: 488, 32pp (Effectivity: +0)
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Effects of Corruption
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You rage (DV: -9, +6 melee damage)!
You have grown thorns (3d3 melee damage, Dx: -2, Ap: -3).
Your close attunement to corrupted astral space allows teleportation.
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Her further life:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 drakelings and lives a long
and prosperous life full of love, happiness and pleasure.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Her achievements during her adventures:
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Goody, the drakish monk, saved the world with her brave efforts and became a
great ruler while saving herself 5 times.
She scored 31677096 points and advanced to level 43.
She survived for 0 years, 41 days, 3 hours, 40 minutes and 3 seconds (73424
turns).
Goody visited 107 places.
Her strength score was modified by +13 during her career.
Her learning score was modified by +13 during her career.
Her willpower score was modified by +16 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by +15 during her career.
Her toughness score was modified by +15 during her career.
Her charisma score was modified by +8 during her career.
Her appearance score was modified by +17 during her career.
Her mana score was modified by +6 during her career.
Her perception score was modified by +12 during her career.
She was the champion of the arena.
She made a little water dragon very happy.
She brought back joy into the life of a tiny girl.
She was a true and pure paragon of Order.
She adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
She saved Khelavaster from certain death.
She left the Drakalor Chain after completing her quest and became a great
leader and famous heroine.
4361 monsters perished under her attacks.
The following 22 artifacts were generated during her adventure:
the si
the dwarven rune axe "Rolf's Companion"
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
the ring of the master cat
the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
the ancient claymore "Death's Blade"
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 scorched spear
the rune-covered trident
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the crown of science
the ancient mummy wrapping
the ankh
the boots of the divine messenger
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the robes of resistance
the dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead"
the platinum girdle "True Strength"
She possessed the following intrinsics:
She was fire resistant (also through items).
She was poison resistant (also through an item).
She was cold resistant (also through an item).
She was acid resistant (also through an item).
She was lucky (also through items).
Fate smiled upon her (also through items).
She was sleep resistant.
She was petrification resistant.
She was able to teleport.
She was able to control teleportation (also through an item).
She was invisible (gained through an item).
She was paralyzation resistant (gained through an item).
She was resistant to death rays (gained through items).
She was shock resistant (also through items).
She was able to see invisible things (also through an item).
She was immune to shock attacks.
She was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through items).
She had the following talents: Alert, Brawler, Careful, Good Shot, Hardy,
Immune to Pain, Iron Skin, Keen Shot, Miser, Quick, Stealthy, Steel Skin,
Strong Thrower, Tough Skin, Treasure Hunter.
She had a final speed score of 176 (final base speed: 141).
She was a paragon of her religion.
She asked for 1 divine intervention.
She was a holy champion of Order.
She was tainted by Chaos.
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Playing Time
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You played for 17 hours, 13 minutes and 15 seconds.
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Version Information
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Ancient Domains Of Mystery
Version 1.2.0
Windows Prerelease 20
Build: Nov 21 2013 23:44:09