Greed is a Harsh Mistress.

[Panda_Lord]

I started playing Rangers recently, because I wanted to try out dual-wielding, and rangers are best at that. Dark elves get a really nice set of skills, too.

This was one of my first attempts at one of those "ultra-endings". I had managed to feed the demented ratling 6 artifacts. The artifacts I chose were the Sword of Nonnak, Death's Sting, Black Torc, Phial of Caladrial, Ancient Mummy Wrappings, and the Ankh. I feel sort of silly for giving him the AMW and Ankh, as I like both, and I found the Crown of Science and Big Punch soon afterwards, neither of which I would consider using. I got the Medal of Chaos from the crone in HMV. I had a single RoDS in my inventory, which I planned to use to save Khelavastar. I was rearing to turn lawful and head over to the Ancient Stone Circle on Darknight when it happened.

This death occurred for one reason, and one reason alone: I had decided to try out a Girdle of Greed as opposed to a Girdle of Carrying. I had gained around 3 million gold from the dragon glitch. I decided that, because of this, a Girdle of Greed was a better choice of the two, because of the significantly higher carrying capacity. Too bad I spent almost all of that capacity carrying gold. Greed is a harsh mistress.

As I wander around the CoC, killing time until Darknight, I decided that now is the time to turn lawful. I had read that there is no requirement for being chaotic beyond doing the Crone's and Ratling's quests, and I had done both. I stepped upon the Neutral altar located in Dwarftown, and sacrificed 1 gold piece. I had not taken into account how angry the Neutral god was with me when I did this. He promptly proceeded to curse my inventory, including the girdle of greed I was so proudly wearing. All of that positive capacity gained from carrying all of that gold turned into negative capacity, and I was promptly crushed under the gold's weight.

[Panda_Lord]

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Secundas St:20 Le:11 Wi:20 Dx:26 To:29 Ch: 7 Ap:19 Ma:17 Pe:21 C
DV/PV: 24/27 H: 0(246) P: 86(86) Exp: 18/458735 D: 11 Sp: 50
Crushed! Berserk
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Inventory
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Total weight: 40932 stones Carrying capacity: 10 stones

He: cursed leather cap (+1, +1) [+0, +2] [5s]
Ne: cursed rusty necklace of the eye [3s]
Bo: cursed adamantium chain mail (-1, -3) [-1, +9] [288s]
Gi: cursed girdle of greed [+2, +0] [7s]
Cl: cursed cloak of adornment [+0, +0] {Ap+4} [40s]
RH: cursed jet-black battle axe (named) (+2, 5d6+6) [-4, +1] {St+3} (+3 spd)
Why Dual-wield when I was pre-crowned with this?
LH: cursed medium crystal shield (+2) [+9, +4] [160s]
RR: cursed ring of damage [1s]
LR: cursed ring of luck [1s]
Br: cursed bracers of toughness [+0, +0] {To+4} [10s]
Ga: cursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Bo: cursed adamantium boots [+0, +3] [89s]
MW: cursed short bow of accuracy (+6, +0) [20s]
Mi: bundle of 15 cursed arrows (+0, 1d6) [30s]
Tl: cursed pick axe (+0, 1d6+1) [75s]


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Stuff
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Total weight: 40103 stones Carrying capacity: 10 stones
I had a LOT more than this, but I think this is the important stuff.
Ratling Fodder ('LOL')
cursed crown of science [+4, +8] {Le+9} [65s]
cursed lead-filled mace "Big Punch" (+1, 8d5+3) [-6, +0] [800s]
Death Sentence ('$')
3611640 gold pieces [36116s]

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Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
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Daggers & knives 7 +6 +3 +1 skilled 430
Axes 11 +10 +8 +3 Mastery 2077

Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
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Bows 6 +12 +9 +2 skilled 50

Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 9 +18 excellent 1165


Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +17 bonus to hit, 5d6+8 damage


Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 15, base range: 20, +41 bonus to hit, 1d6+20 damage




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Skills
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Alertness ................ 88 (great) [+1d5]
Archery .................. 48 (fair) [+3d4]
Athletics ................ 91 (superb) [+2d4]
Climbing .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Dodge .................... 85 (great) [+1d5]
Find weakness ............100 (superb) [+1d5]
First aid ................ 55 (good) [+3d3]
Food preservation ........100 (superb) [+2d4]
Haggling ................. 24 (mediocre) [+2d4]
Healing ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Herbalism ................ 86 (great) [+3d3]
Listening ................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Literacy ................. 27 (mediocre) [+3d4]
Pick pockets ............. 95 (superb) [+2d4]
Stealth .................. 87 (great) [+2d4]
Survival ................. 51 (good) [+3d5]
Swimming ................. 55 (good) [+1d5]
Two weapon combat ........ 88 (great) [+3d3]
Woodcraft ................ 52 (good) [+3d5]







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His achievements during his adventures:
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Secundas, the dark elven ranger, was crushed by tons of luggage.
He scored 242481 points and advanced to level 18.
He survived for 0 years, 50 days, 17 hours, 49 minutes and 54 seconds (50753
turns).
5 companions were killed during his adventures.
Secundas visited 62 places.
His strength score was modified by +3 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +7 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +4 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +9 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +2 during his career.
His mana score was modified by +2 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +1 during his career.
He was the champion of the arena.
He made a little water dragon very happy.
He ended his adventuring life on level 11 of the caverns of chaos.
3528 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following 15 artifacts were generated during his adventure:
the si
the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
the lead-filled mace "Big Punch"
the rune-covered trident
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 black torc
the Medal of Chaos
the jet-black battle axe "Executor"
the black tome of Alsophocus
Never found that.
He possessed the following intrinsics:
He was fire resistant (enhanced through an item).
He was poison resistant.
He was cold resistant (gained through an item).
He was lucky (enhanced through an item).
Fate smiled upon him.
He was cursed (gained through an item).
He was sleep resistant (gained through an item).
He was able to teleport.
He was able to control teleportation.
He was stun resistant (gained through an item).
He was shock resistant (gained through items).
He was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through an item).
He had the following talents: Aggressive, Ambidextrous, Greased Lightning,
Long Stride, Porter, Quick, Very Quick.
He had a final speed score of 50 (final base speed: 127).
He was a fervent follower of Lol'th.
He asked for 6 divine interventions.
He was chaotically aligned.
He was slightly tainted by Chaos.

[Silfir]

Brutal. And stupid ;)

[JellySlayer]

If you want to use a girdle of greed effectly, you need to take porter + master packer + beast of burden. This will add 71% to your total carrying capacity, which includes the effect of the girdle. Effectively this means that you can carry a near-infinite number of items.

It also means that your life is held in the balance by an easily destroyed, easily cursable item, as you have seen.

[Grey]

Pro-tip - when using altars to switch alignment always always remove all equipment that isn't an artifact and drop all items other than the gold. If you have no artifacts then shove a single useless item into your missile slot. Otherwise you risk getting yourself killed by greed, losing precious equipment, or getting everything you own cursed.

[ewolf]

My character that I believe was the best chance I ever had at winning (10+ years playing on and off) just died in a similar way.