Siriah
06-21-2008, 09:29 PM
Database ate my post, so here it is again.
I have horrible bad luck with mindcrafters, it's as if the game is out to kill them.
I've been trying to get a mindcrafter past the tower for a month now. Ser the Drakeling Mindcrafter looked so promising. He had survived the Pyramid, the two graveyards and the tomb of the High Kings (although it nearly went bad because the Skeleton King suddenly decided to berserk and cause over a 100 damage per hit, but missiles solved that problem). He'd even managed to save Khelly and he had a nice spear of penetration and a wand of paralyzation.
Unfortunately, neither of those were particularly fireproof.
Because of Drakeling 'Tower problems' an exploratory run of more than the first level was right out. The Tower laughed at Ser's spenseweed-aided trip through the Tower and decided to destroy his only fireproof blanket on the second level. It didn't even have the decency to burn up. Instead, a door-trap ripped it to pieces, along with the only wand of digging I'd brought. Ser's useless god refused to provide a pick-axe on the top level. I managed to bring a wand of digging to the top level without getting it destroyed, at the cost of arriving at the temple with the Water Orb and prayers as my only healing and a mithril spear and a wand of poison as my only offense.
I used the wand of poison to wake up the Wyrm. He woke up just fine, but for some reason refused to follow me out of the temple. Instead, the fire elementals came after me and I got trapped in my tunnel by two of them. They died way too slowly, at a rate of about one for every use of the Water Orb. Eventually a critical hit followed by firebreath which would not have hurt any other race put Ser out of his misery.
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Ser St:20 Le:19 Wi:35 Dx:13 To:26 Ch:14 Ap: 5 Ma:14 Pe:15 N+
DV/PV: 38/29 H: -1(223) P: 9(170) Exp: 19/637220 TF: 4 Sp: 255
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Background Information
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Name: Ser Race: male Drakeling Class: Mindcrafter
Eye color: blue Hair color: bald Complexion: blue
Height: 5'8" Weight: 158 pounds
Age: 33 (grown-up, 9 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Wolf Birthday: 11/Wolf (day 311 of the year)
//History snipped
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Inventory
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Total weight: 576 stones Carrying capacity: 2250 stones
Head : uncursed mithril cap [+0, +2] [40s]
Neck : uncursed ankh [3s]
Body : blessed red dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +9] [220s]
Girdle : uncursed mithril girdle [+0, +4] [20s]
Cloak : -
Right Hand : uncursed mithril spear (+1, 1d8+3) [40s]
Left Hand : blessed medium adamantium shield [+7, +2] [72s]
Right Ring : blessed ring of the High Kings [+2, +3] [1s]
Left Ring : uncursed ring of stun resistance [1s]
Bracers : -
Gauntlets : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Boots : -
Missile weapon: -
Missiles : -
Tool : uncursed Chaos Orb of Elemental Water {Wi+10} [100s]
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Stuff
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Total weight: 64 stones Carrying capacity: 2250 stones
Rings ('=')
uncursed ring of cold resistance [1s]
Wands ('\')
uncursed wand of digging (0 charges) [3s]
blessed wand of poison (3 charges) [3s]
Potions ('!')
uncursed potion of water [4s]
Valuables ('$')
5358 gold pieces [53s]
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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 6 +5 +2 +1 skilled 159
Pole arms 11 +12 +7 +14 Mastery 1365
Twohanded weapons 4 +4 +4 +1 skilled 31
Staves 2 +2 +0 +2 basic 11
Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
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Bows 7 +14 +10 +2 skilled 185
Crossbows 4 +8 +6 +1 skilled 31
Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 7 +14 skilled 445
Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +42 bonus to hit, 1d8+18 damage
//Skills snipped.
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Effects of Corruption
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Your close attunement to corrupted astral space allows teleportation.
Your feet have been transformed into hooves (+8 kicking damage, Dx: -6).
You have grown thorns (3d3 melee damage, Dx: -2, Ap: -3).
//Water Orb abuse in the Tower :(
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His achievements during his adventures:
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Ser, the drakish mindcrafter, was roasted by a fire elemental.
He scored 422570 points and advanced to level 19.
He survived for 0 years, 54 days, 4 hours, 40 minutes and 13 seconds (43362
turns).
2 companions were killed during his adventures.
Ser visited 70 places.
His strength score was modified by +6 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +6 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +4 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +9 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +8 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +1 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +1 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 unnaturally aged by 9 years.
He was a member of the thieves guild.
He made a little water dragon very happy.
He saved Khelavaster from certain death.
He ended his adventuring life on the top level of the tower of eternal
flames.
2811 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following 12 artifacts were generated during his adventure:
the si
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Water
the heavy crossbow "The Far Slayer"
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the phial of Caladriel
the crown of science
the ancient mummy wrapping
the ankh
the rune-covered heavy mace "Purifier"
the dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead"
//I didn't find the crossbow, the mace OR the pick-axe! They would've been really useful. Where were they?
He possessed the following intrinsics:
He was fire resistant (enhanced through items).
He was poison resistant (gained through an item).
He was cold resistant (enhanced through items).
He was lucky (enhanced through an item).
Fate smiled upon him (enhanced through an item).
He was sleep resistant.
He was able to control teleportation.
He was stun resistant (gained through an item).
He was paralyzation resistant.
He was shock resistant (gained through items).
He was able to see invisible things.
He was immune to fire attacks (gained through an item).
He had the following talents: Alert, Good Shot, Long Stride, Miser, Quick,
Treasure Hunter, Very Quick.
He had a final speed score of 255 (final base speed: 105).
He was a fervent follower of Issrecht.
He asked for 8 divine interventions.
He was neutrally aligned.
He was tainted by Chaos.
//Kill-list snipped.
I have horrible bad luck with mindcrafters, it's as if the game is out to kill them.
I've been trying to get a mindcrafter past the tower for a month now. Ser the Drakeling Mindcrafter looked so promising. He had survived the Pyramid, the two graveyards and the tomb of the High Kings (although it nearly went bad because the Skeleton King suddenly decided to berserk and cause over a 100 damage per hit, but missiles solved that problem). He'd even managed to save Khelly and he had a nice spear of penetration and a wand of paralyzation.
Unfortunately, neither of those were particularly fireproof.
Because of Drakeling 'Tower problems' an exploratory run of more than the first level was right out. The Tower laughed at Ser's spenseweed-aided trip through the Tower and decided to destroy his only fireproof blanket on the second level. It didn't even have the decency to burn up. Instead, a door-trap ripped it to pieces, along with the only wand of digging I'd brought. Ser's useless god refused to provide a pick-axe on the top level. I managed to bring a wand of digging to the top level without getting it destroyed, at the cost of arriving at the temple with the Water Orb and prayers as my only healing and a mithril spear and a wand of poison as my only offense.
I used the wand of poison to wake up the Wyrm. He woke up just fine, but for some reason refused to follow me out of the temple. Instead, the fire elementals came after me and I got trapped in my tunnel by two of them. They died way too slowly, at a rate of about one for every use of the Water Orb. Eventually a critical hit followed by firebreath which would not have hurt any other race put Ser out of his misery.
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Screenshot
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#.......#.# ############# ######
#.......#.# #./.........# ##....#
######/#.###########.#.........# #.....
#.#./.........#.#.........# #...##
###.###.........#.#.........############..#
#...../........./.#............HHE@E&E..#.#
#.#.###.........#######/#################......
#.#.# #........./.# #.# ......
###/#.# ###########.# #.# #......
#.....# #.# #(# ##....
#.....######### ###/### #.# #.#
#......./.....# #.....# #.#
#.....###..>..# #.....###.#
.....# #.....# #.........#
##### ####### ###########
Ser St:20 Le:19 Wi:35 Dx:13 To:26 Ch:14 Ap: 5 Ma:14 Pe:15 N+
DV/PV: 38/29 H: -1(223) P: 9(170) Exp: 19/637220 TF: 4 Sp: 255
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Background Information
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Name: Ser Race: male Drakeling Class: Mindcrafter
Eye color: blue Hair color: bald Complexion: blue
Height: 5'8" Weight: 158 pounds
Age: 33 (grown-up, 9 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Wolf Birthday: 11/Wolf (day 311 of the year)
//History snipped
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Inventory
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Total weight: 576 stones Carrying capacity: 2250 stones
Head : uncursed mithril cap [+0, +2] [40s]
Neck : uncursed ankh [3s]
Body : blessed red dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +9] [220s]
Girdle : uncursed mithril girdle [+0, +4] [20s]
Cloak : -
Right Hand : uncursed mithril spear (+1, 1d8+3) [40s]
Left Hand : blessed medium adamantium shield [+7, +2] [72s]
Right Ring : blessed ring of the High Kings [+2, +3] [1s]
Left Ring : uncursed ring of stun resistance [1s]
Bracers : -
Gauntlets : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Boots : -
Missile weapon: -
Missiles : -
Tool : uncursed Chaos Orb of Elemental Water {Wi+10} [100s]
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Stuff
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Total weight: 64 stones Carrying capacity: 2250 stones
Rings ('=')
uncursed ring of cold resistance [1s]
Wands ('\')
uncursed wand of digging (0 charges) [3s]
blessed wand of poison (3 charges) [3s]
Potions ('!')
uncursed potion of water [4s]
Valuables ('$')
5358 gold pieces [53s]
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Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
--------------------- --- --- --- -- ------------- --------------
Daggers & knives 6 +5 +2 +1 skilled 159
Pole arms 11 +12 +7 +14 Mastery 1365
Twohanded weapons 4 +4 +4 +1 skilled 31
Staves 2 +2 +0 +2 basic 11
Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
--------------------- --- --- --- -- ------------- --------------
Bows 7 +14 +10 +2 skilled 185
Crossbows 4 +8 +6 +1 skilled 31
Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 7 +14 skilled 445
Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +42 bonus to hit, 1d8+18 damage
//Skills snipped.
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Effects of Corruption
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Your close attunement to corrupted astral space allows teleportation.
Your feet have been transformed into hooves (+8 kicking damage, Dx: -6).
You have grown thorns (3d3 melee damage, Dx: -2, Ap: -3).
//Water Orb abuse in the Tower :(
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His achievements during his adventures:
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Ser, the drakish mindcrafter, was roasted by a fire elemental.
He scored 422570 points and advanced to level 19.
He survived for 0 years, 54 days, 4 hours, 40 minutes and 13 seconds (43362
turns).
2 companions were killed during his adventures.
Ser visited 70 places.
His strength score was modified by +6 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +6 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +4 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +9 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +8 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +1 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +1 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 unnaturally aged by 9 years.
He was a member of the thieves guild.
He made a little water dragon very happy.
He saved Khelavaster from certain death.
He ended his adventuring life on the top level of the tower of eternal
flames.
2811 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following 12 artifacts were generated during his adventure:
the si
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Water
the heavy crossbow "The Far Slayer"
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the phial of Caladriel
the crown of science
the ancient mummy wrapping
the ankh
the rune-covered heavy mace "Purifier"
the dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead"
//I didn't find the crossbow, the mace OR the pick-axe! They would've been really useful. Where were they?
He possessed the following intrinsics:
He was fire resistant (enhanced through items).
He was poison resistant (gained through an item).
He was cold resistant (enhanced through items).
He was lucky (enhanced through an item).
Fate smiled upon him (enhanced through an item).
He was sleep resistant.
He was able to control teleportation.
He was stun resistant (gained through an item).
He was paralyzation resistant.
He was shock resistant (gained through items).
He was able to see invisible things.
He was immune to fire attacks (gained through an item).
He had the following talents: Alert, Good Shot, Long Stride, Miser, Quick,
Treasure Hunter, Very Quick.
He had a final speed score of 255 (final base speed: 105).
He was a fervent follower of Issrecht.
He asked for 8 divine interventions.
He was neutrally aligned.
He was tainted by Chaos.
//Kill-list snipped.