First ever victory after playing (on and off) for fifteen (!) years

[steveie986]

I still remember that night when I discovered ADOM at the age of thirteen on the internet through my dad's computer at work (we didn't have internet at home back then). I downloaded it onto a floppy disc and brought it home to play on my DOS-running laptop. I'm 28 now, so that was fifteen years ago. Granted, I did go through stretches of months or years at a time when I didn't play much or at all, but I would say in terms of total time invested ADOM is top three all time. It was such a huge part of my adolescence -- not just the game itself but the USENET group in which I was a regular circa 2000. It actually inspired me to learn C++ just so I could make my own roguelike (which I did for my AP computer science project senior year of high school). This game was so much a part of with my life, beating it on 12/9/2014 will be something I will (ok, might) remember on my deathbed.

[steveie986]

LOL I don't even know how to post the dump file. It says it exceeds the maximum number of characters.

[steveie986]

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Orc St:31 Le:32 Wi:22 Dx:27 To:21 Ch:13 Ap:14 Ma:23 Pe:24 L+
DV/PV:107/34 H:490(490) P:229(229) Exp: 43/14887851 DrCh Sp: 142
Blessed Coward
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Background Information
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Name: Orc Race: male Dark Elf Class: Archer
Eye color: black Hair color: white Complexion: black
Height: 5'11" Weight: 121 pounds Scars: 4
Age: 178 (grown-up, 41 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Raven Birthday: 4/Raven (day 4 of the year)

YOUR HISTORY:
Your parents belong to the nobility. They are rich, respected,
wealthy and own more than they can count.
As a child your parents cared a lot for you. Despite all
circumstances you enjoyed a happy and fine childhood.
In your youth you enjoyed competition against others to the
fullest. You were a very active kid.
As a young adult you were a credit to your family. Your parents
supported your plans and were very understanding. They tried to help you
along your way with all means at their disposal.
You decided to become an Archer.


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Inventory
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Total weight: 15964 stones Carrying capacity: 48347 stones

Head : blessed eternium cap (+1, +1) [+0, +4] [28s]
Neck : blessed necklace of rapid healing [2s]
Body : uncursed eternium plate mail (-1, -2) [-1, +13] [240s]
Girdle : uncursed girdle of strength [+0, +0] {St+4} [15s]
Cloak : -
Right Hand : blessed sword of sharpness (-2, 4d8+5) [35s]
Left Hand : blessed dwarven shield "Rolf's Saviour" (+2) [+9, +6][120s]
Right Ring : uncursed ring of mental stability [+0, +1] {Le+1} [1s]
Left Ring : uncursed ring of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage)
Bracers : uncursed bracers of defense [+5, +0] [10s]
Gauntlets : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Boots : blessed seven league boots [+2, +0] [30s]
Missile Weapon: uncursed long bow of hunting (+8, +3) [30s]
Missiles : blessed silvery arrow "True Aim" (+10, 15d5) [2s]
Tool : -

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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 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 13
Daggers & knives 9 +9 +5 +2 excellent 917
Clubs & hammers 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Maces & flails 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Swords 10 +9 +6 +3 excellent 464
Axes 7 +5 +4 +1 skilled 312
Whips 1 +1 +0 +1 basic 25
Pole arms 10 +10 +6 +12 excellent 464
Twohanded weapons 4 +4 +4 +1 skilled 63
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 7
Bows 14 +28 +21 +4 Mastery 984
Crossbows 9 +18 +13 +3 excellent 312
Thrown axes & hammers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown daggers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown rocks & clubs 1 +2 +1 +0 basic 5
Thrown spears 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Boomerangs & scurgari 3 +6 +4 +1 basic 18

Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 9 +18 excellent 1038


Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +44 bonus to hit, 4d8+20 damage


Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 1, base range: 64, +114 bonus to hit, 15d5+45 damage




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Skills
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Alertness ................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Archery ..................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Backstabbing .............100 (superb) [+1d5]
Bridge building .......... 33 (fair) [+3d5] (mr)
Climbing ................. 67 (good) [+3d4]
Concentration ............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Courage .................. 68 (good) [+1]
Dodge ....................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Find weakness ............100 (superb) [+1d5]
First aid ................ 84 (great) [+1d5]
Fletchery ................100 (superb) [+2d4] (ma)
Haggling ................. 57 (good) [+3d3]
Healing ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Law ......................100 (superb) [+4d4]
Listening ................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Literacy ................. 90 (great) [+1]
Smithing ................. 50 (fair) [+1d3]
Stealth ..................100 (superb) [+4d4]
Swimming ................. 55 (good) [+1d5]
Tactics .................. 68 (good) [+1]
Two weapon combat ........ 52 (good) [+1]


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Spells
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Burning Hands : 93, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Cure Critical Wounds: 12, 28pp (Effectivity: +0)
Darkness : 98, 4pp (Effectivity: +0)
Frost Bolt : 6, 23pp (Effectivity: +1)
Knock : 33, 20pp (Effectivity: +0)
Strength of Atlas : 100, 10pp (Effectivity: +4)




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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. He is crowned to be the king of all dark elves and lives a long and
prosperous life full of power, happiness and pleasure.

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His achievements during his battles:
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Orc, the dark elven archer, saved the world with his brave efforts and
became a great ruler while saving himself 8 times.
He scored 8434088 points and advanced to level 43.
He survived for 0 years, 85 days, 2 hours, 1 minute and 13 seconds (120219
turns).
30 companions were killed during his adventures.
Orc visited 124 places.
His strength score was modified by +11 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +7 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +9 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +3 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +7 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +6 during his career.
His mana score was modified by +5 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +4 during his career.
He was unnaturally aged by 41 years.
He was the champion of the arena.
He left the Drakalor Chain after completing his quest and became a great
leader and famous hero.
7333 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following 31 artifacts were generated during his adventure:
the si
the dwarven rune axe "Rolf's Companion"
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
the potion of literacy
the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
the dwarven shield "Rolf's Saviour"
the thin dagger "Cat's Claw"
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 silvery arrow "True Aim"
the staff of the Wanderer
the lead-filled mace "Big Punch"
the silver key
the scorched spear
Brannalbin's Cloak of Defense
the cloak of Oman
the sword of Nonnak
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the phial of Caladriel
the crown of science
the ancient mummy wrapping
the ankh
the hammer of the gods
the small black shield "Lust for Glory"
the Shirt of the Saints
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the staff of the archmagi
the emerald dagger "Serpent's Bite"
He possessed the following intrinsics:
He was fire resistant (also through items).
He was poison resistant (also through an item).
He was cold resistant (also through items).
He was acid resistant.
He was lucky.
Fate smiled upon him.
He was shock resistant (also through an item).
He was able to see invisible things.
He was immune to shock attacks.
He was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through an item).
He had the following talents: Beast of Burden, Extremely Hardy, Good
Learner, Greased Lightning, Great Learner, Hardy, Healthy, Iron Skin, Long
Stride, Master Packager, Porter, Quick, Steel Skin, Tough Skin, Very Hardy,
Very Quick.
He had a final speed score of 142 (final base speed: 142).
He was a paragon of his religion.
He asked for 6 divine interventions.
He was a holy champion of Order.

[Blasphemous]

Nice one, first victories are always memorable.
For the record, you could use code tags around your map screenshot so it won't compress the space and will look good.

[boat]

Congrats. I love your own back story for playing adom. Nice gear as well.



Name: Orc Race: male Dark Elf explain? haha

[steveie986]

Congrats. I love your own back story for playing adom. Nice gear as well.

explain? haha

Haha, Orc was my first kill -- for the Old Barbarian's quest.

IMO True Aim with its new boomerang effect is pretty OP. Any archer that gets crowned with it = instawin.

Also, I tried using the CODE tag but it still said it exceeds 20,000 characters?