YAVP - Gnome Monk

[Jack the Ripper]

Well, the story of Rocky, named as such because of his first kill. My first PC to finish before day 90, also my first PC to do the ToEF without a ring of ice. His life started in the PC, where he managed to generate a living Kenny and bring him back to PC:1, but decided to leave him there because he'd seen a chaotic altar on PC2 so I decided I would attempt a pre-crown using that. Next up was Kranach, who required the usage of a prayer, but eventually went down to Rocky's fists of fury. Precrowned with the obsidian medium shield Protector, which meant I never again was in doubt whether to fight barehanded or with a twohander in that particular game. Did dwarven quests, first one was a barbarian leader who promptly showed up, next up I purchased Waldy's ring of invisibility so that meant DH was the preferred route of passage downward. Did Pyramid and Griffyard and Keethrax and UD-dive and Arena all in one long trek to the surface. Next up I herbed my stats up while knocking down walls for precious gems. Then I decided to do the TotHK and DF. DF was easy because of a very convenient orcish spear of penetration. In there I found both black and blue scale mail, as well as the robes of resistance and Purifier. Needless to say, it immediately became my weapon of choice, especially due to the demon/undead slaying properties. ToEF was pretty easy, despite the (new to me) requirement of using only special equipment. I discovered that bones (and bracers made out of'em) melt rather easily, but other than that the ACW died to some dragon slaying ammo I'd brought along.

Unfortunately, my monk was still level 22 at this point, because, apart from high-Dex, scummed using herbs, my first corruption was sulphur breath (very good), followed swiftly by very light, which meant a speed of 140 was commonplace. The one advantage this brought was that, compared to me, everything was a slow-ling :) . Kitties were very easy to just lure into rooms and lock in. So the dive down the CoC now started.Reached Casino, but it only had Soaker and some water and an AoLS (but it was too late for the late Khelly :D ). Then got RotMC, then stumbled across a greater vault which, to my great horror, contained undead, so I decided to skip that, despite desperately needing the XP ( still something like L 23-24). Instead I fast-tracked to the Earth Temple, where I started putting my orcish spear of penetration and my boots of the slow shuffle (with them on speed was still 120 :) ) to work, gaining quite a few levels in the meanwhile. This took me to level 27, and next up came the BDC, which I entered without talking to the AKW, so as to be able to come back out if I needed to. Meleed lots of dragons down there, found a balor 'threat' room in one of the lower levels. One of the balors proceeded to summon greater fire elementals, so things got rather nasty in a hurry. Fortunately, my monk had proved, even before the ToEF, quite adept at reading spellbooks, so I had on-demand teleport due to the spell, 1k castings of Acid/Fire Bolt, Fireball, MM and enough castings of teleport. The Ancient Blue Wyrm eventually died to some dragon slayers, so I went back up, got the loot from Sharad-Waador, sat next to him, put the AoLS and a ring of invis on and zapped a wand of far slaying for all my PP. To my surprise, neither of us was dead, so I went immediately back down in the BDC to regenerate PP without giving him the chance to recover from the ~ 400 points of damage I'd caused him. Came back up, wearing slowing boots, slowed via spell, invised Sharad and then killed him. This took me from level 36 to level 47 and pretty much meant I was now a walking gnomish tank. Rest of the game was quite a breeze, especially due to being able to 's'witch places to get through mobs to plow down summoners and orb guardians. D:50 was rather interesting though, in that a threat room of BALORS, of all things, was generated. No wands of destruction were available, so I proceeded to kill all of the monsters on the left of the level ( a true demon convention, since the balors decided to summon molochs and fire demons and air demons), handled both levers, tried to leave and then discovered that a non-hostile balor from the as-yet unopened threat room had teleported out and put the levers back on. Killed all of those balors as well, came back to the surface, got Unicorn quest, killed Riurry, killed AP for Sting, left. My inventory is still huge since I was too lazy to sift through all the BDC loot and everything that came after it, choosing instead to keep casting SoA on myself, since I'd found that one as well . Thanks for the patience to read all of this, the story of my Cup-born Gnome Monk. Next up, either an Ultra or some experiments with a dark elf farmer I've just fate-rolled. VLG coming up soon. May Mother Ancardia guide your paths ;)

Funny notes
- Chaos mobs on D:50 are wusses, they get VERY frightened by your unholy aura
- NPCs drinking cursed potion of invis become invis, not blind
- after going through all that trouble to generate Kenny, he died because he followed me and a cat I was leading to a room in order to close it: the dumb dog got killed by a cave tiger on something like Day 40.

[Jack the Ripper]

[never even knew where ID was, so no scumming there :P]
Rocky St:37 Le:42 Wi:38 Dx:55 To:44 Ch:28 Ap:17 Ma:33 Pe:18 N-
DV/PV: 94/44 H: 979(979) P: 553(553) Exp: 50/35997544 DrCh Sp: 163
Blessed Satiated
Inventory
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Total weight: 62013 stones Carrying capacity: 91833 stones

Head : uncursed crown of regeneration [+1, +0] [55s]
Neck : uncursed necklace of the eye [3s]
Body : uncursed robes of resistance (-4, -4) [+3, +12] {To+5}[60s]
Girdle : blessed girdle of greed [+0, +0] [7s]
Cloak : uncursed cloak of defense [+5, +0] [20s]
Right Hand : uncursed black rune-covered dagger "Sting" (+8, 3d4) [+4, +1]
Left Hand : blessed black rune-covered dagger "Needle" (+8, 3d4) [+4, +1]
Right Ring : uncursed ring of slaying (+9 melee damage, +6 missile damage)
Left Ring : uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd)
Bracers : -
Gauntlets : uncursed gauntlets of strength (-1, +0) [-1, +4] {St+3}[40s]
Boots : uncursed eternium boots [+3, +5] [55s]
Missile weapon: uncursed long bow of hunting (+6, +3) [30s]
Missiles : bundle of 5 uncursed arrows of humanoid slaying (+3, 1d6+3)
Tool : heap of 47 blessed spenseweeds [94s]


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Stuff
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Total weight: 61617 stones Carrying capacity: 91833 stones
[snip various helmets]
Armor ('[')
uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8} [60s]
uncursed blue dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +6] -- this one got smashed by a doppler king in the BDC, that was a scary moment
uncursed black dragon scale mail (-2, -4) [-2, +11] [200s]
blessed Shirt of the Saints [+8, +4] {Le+2} [20s] - crowning gift, useless
uncursed eternium plate mail of defense (-1, -2) [+4, +13] [240s]
uncursed moloch armor (-8, -16) [-28, +50] {Dx-19} (-19 spd) [15000s] - D:50 molochs, see story
cursed eternium plate mail (+0, -1) [-1, +13] [240s]
cursed eternium plate mail (-1, -2) [-1, +13] [240s]
uncursed white eternium plate mail of resilience (-1, -2) [-1, +16]
Shields ('[')
uncursed medium obsidian shield "Protector" [+20, +4] {To+2} [46s] - once you've got this, you can afford to never again pick up a shield :D

[snips various gauntlets and cloaks, including 2 invis pairs]
Boots ('[')
uncursed boots of the slow shuffle [-6, +3] (-40 spd) [20s] - good for XP
uncursed boots of speed [+2, +0] (+8 spd) [20s]
uncursed eternium boots (+1, +1) [+1, +5] [55s]
[snips various amulets]

One-handed weapons ('(')
uncursed mithril long sword of might (+0, 1d8+3) [32s] - good for St and To early on
uncursed eternium dagger (+0, 2d4+7) [5s]
uncursed sword of Nonnak (+2, 4d3+2) [+2, +2] {Wi+5}
uncursed orcish spear of penetration (+1, 1d8+3) - good for Steel Golems and Earth Temple
blessed rune-covered heavy mace "Purifier" (+5, 4d5+5) [-4, +1] {Wi+4} - weapon of choice
uncursed mace of destruction (+4, 5d6+3) [120s]
uncursed knife of endurance (+6, 1d3+6) {To+4} [8s]
[75s]
uncursed whip of slaughtering (-4, 1d30) [15s] [36s]
uncursed adamantium spear (+1, 1d8+8) [36s] [75s]
uncursed sword of sharpness (+0, 4d8+6) [35s]
uncursed whip of the snake (-2, 5d2+5) {Dx+7} (+7 spd) [15s]
uncursed phase dagger (+2, 1d4) [5s]

uncursed large eternium hammer (+0, 2d10+13) [55s]
heap of 2 uncursed large eternium hammers (-1, 2d10+10) [110s]
uncursed mace of destruction (+5, 5d6+4) [120s]
uncursed eternium spear of might (+5, 2d8+8) [25s]
uncursed eternium long sword (-2, 2d8+8) [20s]

Two-handed weapons ('(')
uncursed scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle" (+6, 10d4+6) [+2, +2] [70s]
uncursed eternium two-handed sword (+18, 6d5+18) [-1, +0] [50s]
uncursed halberd of defense (+9, 2d7+4) [+18, +0] [80s]
uncursed shining long spear "Soaker" (+9, 3d7) [+3, +0] [10s] - casino, good for WMoPC
uncursed staff of the magi (+2, 1d10+2) [+3, +3] {Ma+6} [40s]
uncursed trident of penetration (+1, 3d5+3) [70s]
cursed two-handed sword of parrying (+3, 3d5+4) [+16, +0] [100s]
uncursed halberd of defense (+7, 2d7+4) [+18, +0] [80s]
uncursed two-handed sword of parrying (+3, 3d5+1) [+16, +0] [100s]
blessed rune-covered trident (+6, 3d12+6) [+4, +4] {Dx+12} [80s] - his momma had a BDSM
uncursed quicksilver quarterstaff (+7, 5d3+5) [+3, +0] (+20 spd) [20s]
uncursed eternium two-handed sword (+19, 6d5+18) [-1, +0] [50s]
uncursed halberd of defense (+9, 2d7+6) [+18, +0] [80s]
cursed two-handed sword of parrying (+5, 3d5+3) [+16, +0] [100s]
uncursed two-handed sword of parrying (+1, 3d5+3) [+16, +0] [100s]
[all in all a very good set of weapons, especially two-handers, but 1h+Protector was way better]
[snipping missile weapons and loads of slayers of any shape, size or kind and wands]
Potions ('!')
uncursed potion of uselessness [2s] -got this while on D:50, ironically

Valuables ('$')
1354273 gold pieces [13542s]

Weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
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Unarmed fighting 6 +3 +2 +2 skilled 65
Maces & flails 11 +10 +7 +4 Mastery 113
Swords 11 +10 +7 +4 Mastery 1669
Pole arms 11 +12 +7 +14 Mastery 1420
Bows 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 340
Crossbows 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 96

Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 13 +26 Mastery 5325 - PROTECTOR ROCKS! :D


Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +122 bonus to hit, 3d4+63 damage - fooling around with Needle & Sting at the end
Left hand: +121 bonus to hit, 3d4+63 damage


Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 5, base range: 14, +76 bonus to hit, 1d6+47 damage

[Jack the Ripper]

Alertness .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Athletics .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Backstabbing ..............100 (superb) [+1]
Climbing ..................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Concentration .............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Courage ...................100 (superb) [+1]
Detect item status ........100 (superb) [+1] - Casino potion of education
Detect traps ..............100 (superb) [+1d5]
Dodge .....................100 (superb) [+1d5] - benefited from scroll of education, otherwise would never have reached 100, since this thing trains SO slow

Find weakness .............100 (superb) [+1d5]
First aid .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Gemology ..................100 (superb) [+1]
Haggling .................. 78 (great) [+1d3]
Healing ...................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Herbalism .................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Law .......................100 (superb) [+1]
Listening .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Literacy ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Mining .................... 55 (good) [+1d3]
Pick pockets ..............100 (superb) [+1d5]
Smithing .................. 74 (great) [+1d5] - Meant to use this but got tired of scumming around
Stealth ...................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Swimming ..................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Tactics ...................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Two weapon combat .........100 (superb) [+1d5]
Ventriloquism ............. 87 (great) [+1d3]
Woodcraft ................. 57 (good) [+1d3] - Casino potion of education, USELESS


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Spells
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Acid Bolt : 674, 15pp (Effectivity: +3)
Cure Critical Wounds: 13, 28pp (Effectivity: +0)
Darkness : 1195, 4pp (Effectivity: +0)
Fire Bolt : 1116, 10pp (Effectivity: +4)
Fireball : 596, 19pp (Effectivity: +8)
Invisibility : 451, 10pp (Effectivity: +0)
Knock : 1201, 12pp (Effectivity: +0)
Light : 838, 3pp (Effectivity: +4)
Lightning Bolt : 779, 12pp (Effectivity: +1)
Magic Lock : 1037, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Magic Map : 693, 40pp (Effectivity: +0)
Magic Missile : 1461, 8pp (Effectivity: +2)
Remove Curse : 12, 94pp (Effectivity: +0)
Slow Monster : 4, 13pp (Effectivity: +0)
Slow Poison : 818, 6pp (Effectivity: +0)
Strength of Atlas : 391, 10pp (Effectivity: +2)
Stun Ray : 1254, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Summon Monsters : 15, 55pp (Effectivity: +0)
Teleportation : 427, 22pp (Effectivity: +4)
Web : 1059, 12pp (Effectivity: +0)


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 returns to her lands victorious and is hailed as a great
leader. Eventually she becomes queen and rule your subjects with an iron
fist for a long and peaceful time, allowing her people to prosper and grow.

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Her achievements during her adventures:
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Rocky, the gnomish monk, saved the world with her brave efforts and became a
great ruler while saving herself 21 times.
She scored 12090248 points and advanced to level 50.
She survived for 0 years, 80 days, 9 hours, 10 minutes and 12 seconds
(144967 turns).
1 companion was killed during her adventures. - rat-fed cave lion ordered to attack cave tiger
Rocky visited 114 places.
Her strength score was modified by +24 during her career.
Her learning score was modified by +26 during her career.
Her willpower score was modified by +25 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by +26 during her career.
Her toughness score was modified by +27 during her career.
Her charisma score was modified by +17 during her career.
Her appearance score was modified by +14 during her career.
Her mana score was modified by +18 during her career.
Her perception score was modified by +8 during her career.
She was unnaturally aged by 30 years.
She was the champion of the arena.
She was a member of the thieves guild.
She brought an infamous raider lord to justice.
She defeated the arch enemy of a mighty karmic wyrm.
She adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord but fell from grace.
She left the Drakalor Chain after completing her quest and became a great
leader and famous heroine.
7003 monsters perished under her attacks.
The following 26 artifacts were generated during her 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 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 rune-covered club "Skullcrusher" - knew only artifact in undead vault was a weapon, chose to leave it
the Shirt of the Saints
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the black rune-covered dagger "Needle"
the black rune-covered dagger "Sting"
the robes of resistance
the rune-covered heavy mace "Purifier"
the medium obsidian shield "Protector"
the shining long spear "Soaker"
She possessed the following intrinsics:
She was fire resistant (enhanced through an item).
She was poison resistant.
She was acid resistant (enhanced through an item).
She was lucky.
Fate smiled upon her (enhanced through an item).
She was able to control teleportation.
She was shock resistant (enhanced through an item).
She was able to see invisible things (gained through an item).
She was immune to fire attacks.
She had the following talents: Alert, Basher, Beast of Burden, Extremely
Hardy, Good Learner, Good Shot, Hardy, Immune to Pain, Iron Skin, Keen Shot,
Master Packager, Miser, Porter, Powerful Strike, Sixth Sense, Tough Skin,
Treasure Hunter, Very Hardy. - only remembered late on about Basher line, wasted most of others after getting Porter and TH line
She had a final speed score of 163 (final base speed: 152).
She was a messiah of Berwyn.
She asked for 8 divine interventions.
She was a holy champion of Balance. - juggling alignment when neutral annoys me, so I'm gonna return to my lawful ways, probably

The following monsters were vanquished:
38 ancient blue dragons
1 ancient blue wyrm
1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm
1 ancient karmic dragon
1 ancient karmic wyrm
1 Ancient Stone Beast
1 assassin prince
18 balors
46 blink dogs - on 2-3 occasions got out of hand
49 blue baby dragons
22 blue dragons
2 cave lions - after getting ring
1 Chaos Archmage
1 diamond golem - was surprisingly easy to kill
2 doppleganger kings - loved killing these with fireballs while staying out of melee range
48 earth elementals - good for XP
1 farmer -generated hostile in HMW,killing still means alignment drop
2 fire giant kings - one in ToEF and nasty, other killed with L40 monk power
6 great blue wyrms - dragon slayers
1 greater air elemental - randomly generated in Unreal Caves
1 greater balor - quite easy
1 greater black unicorn
130 greater chaos servants
1 greater moloch
316 large spiders - these were getting kinda nasty
27 mimic hiveminds - threat 'room' on bottom of BDC
7 molochs - my D50 friends
1 Snake from Beyond - went down very easily

25 werewolves
1 werewolf king - of all places, this one came around on D:48
11 werewolf lords

[speciesxx]

Very much gratz to you :). Looks like monks are a fun class to play, great story. Thanks for sharing, was fun to read!