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Conundrum
07-11-2009, 09:10 AM
Guess I should post this here heh :P

Early precrown + crown with Nature's Companion and Bracers of War, plus finding a pair of 7LB very early made a lot of this game quite easy. I also found a RODS in Waldy's shop, so I saved Khelly.

I made some stupid mistakes in the lower levels that I hadn't seen before (like losing a LOT of potions and wands to the traps in the Mana Temple, stupid ceiling traps; and losing my cloak of invisibility to an Annihilator in the same place), and almost got killed once in the very late game by a Doppleganger King while ascending through DH before my final dive (my god they're tough!).

Most of the rest of the non guarenteed artifacts generated in the game were useless due to either being bad or due to my being a Beastfighter. Moon Sickle was found randomly in a threat room of master thieves, Big Punch was obviously useless, as was the Black Tome. Purifier was generated somewhere (probably Darkforge or the Casino) - I didn't scour either of them much (Darkforge because of my artifact armour and lack of need for weapon/shield, Casino because I couldn't be bothered sorting through the HUGE amount of mostly unID'd stuff.) (Actually quick question regarding that - will a Blessed Scroll of Identify ID unpaid items in your pack?)

AMW ended up not being used because I got death ray resist and see invis intrinsics from pool sipping. The ankh, ROTHK and ROTMC were used the whole game.

Didn't really scum up herbs - I picked what I saw and hung around on one level a bit to get my Dx up, but nothing major. Raised my To a *lot* with undead corpses + blessed amulet of balance, and raised my speed quite a lot with a threat room of Quickling Kings.

Teleportitis from a pool + tele control made the end game pass rather quickly in terms of descending and ascending, and was a huge help really.

Apart from the ACW (who I disabled with a blessed potion of blindness) I didn't disable any of the Orb guardians - I just used invisibility where I could to minimise the number of other enemies I had to fight. Because of that tactic I suppose, the Mana Temple gave me the most problems, given that my cloak was destroyed there and I couldn't get through to Nuurag easily. The earth temple was simply annoying in that everything saw invisibility and ran through the walls at me, and took a long time to kill.

D:49 potion of uselessness lived up to its name by giving me Whirlwind. I didn't have to restore my speed on D:50... it seemed to return by itself fairly quickly? I don't know why people make such a fuss about having a way to restore speed...

D:50 should have been a lot simpler than it was, but still didn't cause me too many problems. I dug through to the top room and cleared it out, and handled the lever. Then I thought I'd be clever and teleport straight to the other lever - completely forgetting that there was a balor on it. So I got dumped in the middle of Fisty's room. Teleported out straight away, and luckily didn't seem to alert too many enemies. I had a ring of invisibility on, but balors see invis right?

Dug through to the bottom room, killed two mobs and got my 32 class power. So I swapped spots with monsters all the way to the lever, killed a couple of them and summoned/locked some doors, then swapped a mob onto the lever and locked him in. Teleported back to the top room and did the same thing after disposing of some very annoying liches, then teleported back to the staircase, ascended, did the White Unicorn quest to clear corruptions, and finished! :D

FLG is attached below if anyone's interested. I didn't make much use of slaying ammo in the end (I think I used some generic slaying ammo against a tension room of large rust monsters, and some dragon slaying against the two lesser red dragon vaults i encountered) but other than that it was all fistfighting all the way. Poison Hands + fistfighting = awesome, although I ruined two PoCC by forgetting to swap to my Thick Gauntlets :(

Necropassion
07-11-2009, 01:43 PM
I've been following the C-Day thread and think it's great we actually had two people pulling it off!
A fine job! I've thought about playing a drakish beastie myself, but without slaying melee weapons I'd find it hard to part with 'Find Weakness'.

My second winning character had the same accident with teleportation on D:50. One gets kinda nervous standing there with all those balors, eh?
Anyway - props for completing it and congratulations on your first win.

Grey
07-11-2009, 02:46 PM
In answer to your question, a blessed identity scroll will indeed identify unpaid items in your pack. The common tactic in the Casino is to walk along the aisles picking up items you think might be nice (preferably with Strength of Atlas or a blessed girdle of carrying to hold it all), then read a SoID to find out what everything is. I'll usually then drop all unpaid items, and use ctrl+p to choose which ones I actually want to buy (or set them on a separate square for after I do some gambling - or, more commonly, annoy the shopkeeper somehow).

Conundrum
07-11-2009, 05:42 PM
I've thought about playing a drakish beastie myself, but without slaying melee weapons I'd find it hard to part with 'Find Weakness'.

I didn't really notice the lack of FW myself, I guess partly because I rarely play pure melee characters, but also because I had a few crit-enhancing artifacts.


In answer to your question, a blessed identity scroll will indeed identify unpaid items in your pack. The common tactic in the Casino is to walk along the aisles picking up items you think might be nice (preferably with Strength of Atlas or a blessed girdle of carrying to hold it all), then read a SoID to find out what everything is. I'll usually then drop all unpaid items, and use ctrl+p to choose which ones I actually want to buy (or set them on a separate square for after I do some gambling - or, more commonly, annoy the shopkeeper somehow).

Ah, that makes sense. Guess I'll have to try that next time I get down there. Didn't feel there was much point trying to sift through all the crap anyway since their prices seem crazy high and I hadn't found a girdle of greed all game, so gambling up insane amounts would have been tedious.

RndmNumGenerator
07-11-2009, 10:05 PM
Ah, that makes sense. Guess I'll have to try that next time I get down there. Didn't feel there was much point trying to sift through all the crap anyway since their prices seem crazy high and I hadn't found a girdle of greed all game, so gambling up insane amounts would have been tedious.

The Casino is the best level in the game! They give you free items and free money! Well, free in the sense it's nearly effortless to get them if you know what to do:

Step 1: Obtain paperweight.
Step 2: Locate machine that costs 24g to play.
Step 3: Play a game on that machine.
Step 4: Set paperweght on spacebar.
Step 5: Make a sandwich.
Step 6: Eat sandwich.
Step 7: Return to computer.
Step 8: Pick up vast piles of money.

Even without a girdle of greed, you can still earn enough to buy most casino items(even artifacts) this way.

Sami
07-11-2009, 10:38 PM
Write enough (100+) empty lines in notepad, copy it and paste it to the game as many times as you want.

Conundrum
07-12-2009, 12:34 AM
The copypaste thing only works in Sage, right?

Also, now that I know that I can read a Blessed Scroll of ID to ID all the items in there, it doesn't seem quite as tedious. Next time I get there I'll definitely take a look (especially since it'll probably be a game when I haven't been as lucky with equipment and will be a class where I actually need weapons :P)

Epythic
07-16-2009, 09:45 PM
The copypaste thing only works in Sage, right?

It works everywhere where ADOM doesnt provide its own window.

Means, works for linux and dos, doesnt for winbeta (I think!). Sage is just linux binary on windows me thinks. With a regular terminal emulator around it.

Because its really the terminal emulator that implements the copy&paste stuff.