YAFULEVP - PrimalSkream, Delf Archer

[vogonpoet]

Well, there we go. My first Ultra winner. Archer seemed like a sensible choice for
the endeavour, and so it proved. I like Delven ones, cause they are elves with Find
Weakness - just have to piss around at the very start milking rockthrowers and stuff -
well worth it IMO. The whole slaying ammo thing is just insanely powerful.

Started this PC ages ago (I am very stop start, 15 min at a time sort of player), so
don't remember everything, but seems I converted to lawful at some point,
got my hatchet from the carpenter, dived down through the UD, did all the usual stuff,
did not do any boring pre-crown stuff, got a wish from Darkforge, shot lots of stuff,
Saved Khelly, did the library for a SoDanger, emptied Greater Giant vault for Bracers of War,
Got all the orbs and killed Barney after getting the first of the twins,
and then had to tackle two Greater Undead Vaults to get enough XP to get
the Filk quest. Those vaults were insanely stat-painful, but I was never near actual death.
ONly actually got me to level 44 though, so I had to pick up Wyrmlance from floor of second
undead vault and return to BDC - no big deal.

The Scintillating Cave was pretty uneventful, the quickling tree was tasty, some smithing was carried out.

The Unicorn made K pure.

K was finally renamed, in honour of the gig I was at on Friday.

D50 was fun - Level 50 skill actually put to good use, with undead slaying ammo I one-shot killed
three ghost lords at the same time, which felt pretty damn groovy I have to say.

I blessed and poisoned lots of human and demon slaying ammo, equipped the correct stuff, and went
to find Andy. The fight itself lasted long enough for me to pick up a second corruption, with Andy
just stood there firing spells at me, and me just standing there shooting him from afar. I could have
used some paralysis wands, or drunk my stat booster potions, but after two wishes for speed, I just
shot him instead.



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PrimalSkream St:38 Le: 9 Wi:18 Dx:42 To:45 Ch: 2 Ap: 6 Ma:49 Pe:16 L+
DV/PV: 74/65 H: 834(834) P: 4(680) Exp: 50/33852327 ChAoS Sp: 447
Blessed Invisible Bloated Strained Berserk

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Background Information
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Name: PrimalSkream Race: female Dark Elf Class: Archer
Eye color: black Hair color: silver Complexion: black
Height: 5'3" Weight: 92 pounds
Age: 189 (grown-up, 47 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Raven Birthday: 8/Raven (day 8 of the year)

Inventory
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Total weight: 11168 stones Carrying capacity: 10912 stones

// I didn't do any smithing until just before I cleared my corruption with
the white unicorn before my final dive (I was so paranoid about corruption
I had already deposited the medal and crown of chaos on the stairs of D48,
there really was nothing corrupting left to do when I revisited the glade).

My smithing skill was therefore not very high at the time (about 60), but the
effects on my crown, chain mail, girdle and sheild were satisfactory anyway

He: blessed rustproof crown of regeneration [+7, +7] [55s]
Ne: blessed amulet of free action [3s]
Bo: blessed mithril chain mail of carrying (-1, -3) [+7, +10] [320s]
Gi: uncursed adamantium girdle [+6, +6] [18s]
Cl: uncursed leather cloak (-1, +0) [+5, +2] [40s]
RH: blessed Trident of the Red Rooster (+36, 6d12+18) [+12, +12] {Ma+24} (p)
LH: -
RR: uncursed ring of slaying (+9 melee damage, +6 missile damage) [1s]
LR: uncursed ring of slaying (+9 melee damage, +6 missile damage) [1s]
Br: uncursed bracers of war [+8, +4] {Dx+8} [10s]
Ga: uncursed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+8, +3] [15s]
Bo: blessed seven league boots [+7, +7] [30s]
// forgot to smith my crossbow, nevermind
MW: uncursed heavy crossbow of accuracy (+9, +5) [140s]
Mi: bundle of 4 blessed quarrels of humanoid slaying (+6, 2d6+3) [16s]
Tl: uncursed everburning torch [+1, +0] [10s]


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Stuff
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Total weight: 10359 stones Carrying capacity: 10912 stones


uncursed tower eternium shield (-1) [+18, +4] [70s]

// doesn't matter how many pairs of thick gauntlets you have if you forget
to wear them at the correct time. Still, I have a nice collection nonetheless.

heap of 7 uncursed pairs of thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+0, +1] [105s]
uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
heap of 2 blessed pairs of thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+0, +1] [30s]
uncursed thick gauntlets (+0, -1) [+0, +1] [15s]
uncursed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+3, +1] [15s]
uncursed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+0, +2] [15s]
uncursed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+0, +3] [15s]
uncursed thick gauntlets (-2, -1) [+1, +1] [15s]


One-handed weapons ('(')
blessed hatchet (+0, 1d6+1) [50s]

blessed orcish spear of penetration (+4, 1d8+7) [75s]
// got this baby early, and pimped it with scrolls - got me through the earth
temple with laughable ease, and generally served me very well for the whole
game - it was my main weapon before skullcrusher, which was my main weapon
before Executor- neither of those were obtained until after I had all the
orbs.

heap of 2 uncursed knives of endurance (+6, 1d3+6) {To+4} [16s]
// I just can't ever bring myself to leave all of these behind.

[vogonpoet]

blessed eternium dagger (+0, 2d4+7) [5s]
uncursed rune-covered club "Skullcrusher" (+12, 3d6+2) [-3, +0] {St+4}
uncursed jet-black battle axe "Executor" (+2, 5d6+6) [-4, +1] {St+3} (+3 spd)
uncursed scorched spear (+2, 3d8+1) [+2, +0] [50s]
uncursed spear of hunting (+1, 1d8) [50s]
uncursed whip of the snake (-2, 5d2+7) {Dx+7} (+7 spd) [15s]
uncursed black rune-covered dagger "Needle" (+8, 3d4) [+4, +1] [10s]
uncursed whip of the snake (-1, 5d2+7) {Dx+8} (+8 spd) [15s]
uncursed black rune-covered dagger "Sting" (+8, 3d4) [+4, +1] [10s]
uncursed whip of slaughtering (-4, 1d30+2) [15s]
// I like to have myself some bondage gear
uncursed swift scourge (-4, 1d3+6) [25s]
uncursed rune-covered heavy mace "Purifier" (+5, 4d5+5) [-4, +1] {Wi+4}

Two-handed weapons ('(')
uncursed rune-covered halberd "Wyrmlance" (+15, 4d8+10) [-2, +0] [50s]
uncursed hammer of the gods (+1, 7d6+8) [-6, +0] [400s]
blessed rune-covered trident (+6, 3d12+6) [+4, +4] {Dx+12} [80s]

Missile weapons ('}')
uncursed long bow of hunting (+7, +6) [30s]
uncursed long bow of hunting (+6, +3) [30s]
blessed rune-covered sling "Whirlwind" (+12, +12) [3s]

uncursed fletchery set (5) [70s]
//this was only the second random fletchery set I found, on D50, by which
time it was a bit late. No fletchery sets in the Casino, in fact, none
in the CoC before D50 at all. I was actually running pretty short of
regular ammo (being invis made barb milking tricky) for most of the late
game.

blessed ring of djinni summoning [1s]
// used two of these for speed on the ChAoS plane, and got one wish from
Darkforge for Kelly.

Potions ('!')
heap of 120 uncursed potions of poison [480s]
heap of 33 blessed potions of poison [132s]
// lets play spot the stupid mistake
heap of 5 blessed potions of cure corruption [10s]
heap of 13 blessed scrolls of chaos resistance [26s]
// I am going to go out on a limb and say corruption is a complete non-issue
for Lawful ultra endings. I even turned 3 PoCC into poison early on. I had
only 2 corruptions just before AnDy hit the ground.


blessed spellbook of Teleportation [100s]
// read this a lot. I mean, really, a lot.



Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
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Unarmed fighting 3 +2 +1 +0 basic 17 //kickinh barbarians when Invis
Daggers & knives 1 +1 +0 +0 basic 25
Clubs & hammers 8 +6 +4 +2 excellent 589 //Skullcrushing
Maces & flails 3 +2 +1 +0 basic 12
Swords 5 +3 +2 +1 skilled 132
Axes 10 +9 +7 +3 excellent 169 //Executor, yeah!
Whips 1 +1 +0 +1 basic 25
Pole arms 13 +16 +10 +18 Mastery 5411
Twohanded weapons 1 +1 +1 +0 basic 25
Staves 1 +1 +0 +1 basic 25

Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
--------------------- --- --- --- -- ------------- --------------
Slings 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 136
Bows 12 +24 +18 +4 Mastery 1529
Crossbows 12 +24 +18 +4 Mastery 433
Thrown axes & hammers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown daggers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown rocks & clubs 10 +20 +15 +3 excellent 513
Thrown spears 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Boomerangs & scurgari 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7

Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 10 +20 excellent 693


Skills
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Alertness ................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Archery ..................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Backstabbing .............100 (superb) [+4d4]
Bridge building .......... 90 (great) [+1d3] (mr)
Climbing .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Concentration ............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Courage ..................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Detect traps .............100 (superb) [+1d5]
Dodge ....................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Find weakness ............100 (superb) [+1d5]
First aid ................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Fletchery ................100 (superb) [+2d4] (ma)
Haggling ................. 82 (great) [+2d4]
Healing ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Law ......................100 (superb) [+3d4]
Listening ................100 (superb) [+3d3]
Literacy .................100 (superb) [+1]
Pick pockets .............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Smithing ................. 96 (superb) [+1]
Stealth ..................100 (superb) [+3d3]
Swimming ................. 71 (great) [+1d3]
Tactics ..................100 (superb) [+1]
Two weapon combat ........ 70 (good) [+1]


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Spells - WoWonder and CoScience assisted list :)
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Acid Ball : 6, 67pp (Effectivity: +0)
Acid Bolt : 106, 15pp (Effectivity: +0)
Bless : 307, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Calm Monster : 188, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Cure Disease : 44, 12pp (Effectivity: +0) //bookcast a lot
Cure Light Wounds: 1, 9pp (Effectivity: +0)
Darkness : 111, 4pp (Effectivity: +0)
Destroy Undead : 2, 15pp (Effectivity: +0)
Disarm Trap : 11, 18pp (Effectivity: +0)
Farsight : 4, 33pp (Effectivity: +0)
Fire Bolt : 25, 17pp (Effectivity: +2) //cooking
Invisibility : 354, 10pp (Effectivity: +0)
Knock : 439, 12pp (Effectivity: +0)
Light : 601, 3pp (Effectivity: +2)
Lightning Ball : 1, 59pp (Effectivity: +0)
Lightning Bolt : 22, 21pp (Effectivity: +0)
Magic Lock : 54, 11pp (Effectivity: +0)
Magic Map : 10, 76pp (Effectivity: +0)
Magic Missile : 50, 12pp (Effectivity: +1)
Neutralize Poison: 1, 19pp (Effectivity: +0)
Remove Curse : 22, 89pp (Effectivity: +0) //bookcast a lot for convenience
Revelation : 34, 54pp (Effectivity: +0) //bookcast a bit
Slow Monster : 707, 7pp (Effectivity: +1) //slowed myself for quickling consumption, no idea if it helps
Slow Poison : 7, 11pp (Effectivity: +0)
Strength of Atlas: 20, 18pp (Effectivity: +1)
Stun Ray : 201, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Teleportation : 153, 21pp (Effectivity: +7) //mainly bookcast this baby
Web : 53, 17pp (Effectivity: +0)

[vogonpoet]

Her achievements during her adventures:
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PrimalSkream, the dark elven archer, transformed into an avatar of Order.
She scored 8518364 points and advanced to level 50.
She survived for 0 years, 171 days, 8 hours, 42 minutes and 15 seconds
(179325 turns). // With TotRR, CoChaos, MoChaos and all orbs stashed, entered quickling tree on day 95. Not too bad.
1 companion was killed during her adventures. // Hmmm. I have no idea. A beggar maybe?
PrimalSkream visited 137 places.

Her strength score was modified by +25 during her career.// Stupid Liches - had to go Ogre hunting before white U
Her willpower score was modified by +4 during her career. // Stupid Liches
Her dexterity score was modified by +14 during her career.// Stupid Liches
Her toughness score was modified by +33 during her career. // Stupid Liches - much late morgia training before white U
Her charisma score was modified by -6 during her career. // Stupid Liches
Her appearance score was modified by -12 during her career.// Stupid Liches
Her mana score was modified by +6 during her career. // Stupid Liches - my bookcasting had this climbing steadily
Her perception score was modified by -5 during her career. // Stupid Liches

//Ha ha, Le is absent from this list, as despite eating Oracle, drinking PoGA, and using at least 5 *Knowledge,
//my Le score managed to return exactly to the beginning - Stupid Liches.


She was unnaturally aged by 47 years.
She was the champion of the arena.
She was the head of the thieves guild.
She made a little water dragon very happy.
She brought an infamous raider lord to justice.
She defeated the arch enemy of a mighty karmic wyrm.
She saved Khelavaster from certain death.
She ended her adventuring life in the palace of Andor Drakon.
8921 monsters perished under her attacks.

The following 34 artifacts were generated during her adventure:
the si
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle" //ratling
the potion of literacy
the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
the dwarven shield "Rolf's Saviour" //ratling
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 lead-filled mace "Big Punch" //ratling
the scorched spear //greater undead vault no. 2
the rune-covered trident
the sword of Nonnak //ratling
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the phial of Caladriel //ratling
the crown of science //ratling
the ancient mummy wrapping
the ankh
the hammer of the gods //greater giant vault - Used for smithing
the boots of great speed
the Crown of Chaos
the Medal of Chaos
the rune-covered club "Skullcrusher" // greater undead vault no. 1
the bracers of war // greater giant vault - easy pickings
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the black rune-covered dagger "Needle"
the black rune-covered dagger "Sting"
the rune-covered sling "Whirlwind" // crowning gift - almost unused, which is a shame
the jet-black battle axe "Executor" // love this axe baby. Made the emperor liches more than worth fighting
greater undead vault no. 2
the rune-covered heavy mace "Purifier" // picked up a !Uselessness on D50, this was result
the Trident of the Red Rooster // Didnt really use much - Executed D50.
the weird tome
the rune-covered halberd "Wyrmlance" // greater undead vault no. 2 - used in BDC and SC.



She possessed the following intrinsics:
She was fire resistant.
She was poison resistant.
She was cold resistant.
She was acid resistant.
She was lucky (enhanced through an item).
Fate smiled upon her.
She was sleep resistant. //pool
She was able to teleport. //pool
She was able to control teleportation.
She was invisible. //pool
She was stun resistant (gained through an item).
She was paralyzation resistant (gained through an item).
She was resistant to death rays (enhanced through items).
She was shock resistant.
She was able to see invisible things (gained through an item).
She was immune to shock attacks (gained through an item).
She was immune to fire attacks.
She was immune to acidic attacks.
She was immune to ice attacks (gained through an item).
She was able to breathe water (gained through an item).
She was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through an item).

She had the following talents: Affinity with Bows, Affinity with Crossbows,
Affinity with Rocks & Clubs, Alert, Careful, Eagle Eye, Good Shot, Greased
Lightning, Healthy, Keen Shot, Lightning Shot, Long Stride, Miser, Missile
Weapon Master, Quick, Quick Shot, Treasure Hunter, Very Quick.

//First time ever had a weapon master talent. Meh, its lightning shot which kicks ass

She had a final speed score of 447 (final base speed: 168).
She was a messiah of Elderon.
She did not ask for divine help.
She was a holy champion of Order.

The following monsters were vanquished:
27 ancient black dragons // sinfellating caves had a "room" of these
58 ancient blue dragons // got me to Level 45 eventually
1 ancient blue wyrm
1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm // two dragon slayers, first missed, second instakill.
3 ancient karmic dragons
1 ancient karmic wyrm
12 balors // yay got me some bonus balors in the BDC
32 bandits // first kill.
1 black slayer
1 bunny master
1 cat lord
5 cave lions
8 cave tigers
1 Chaos Archmage
29 chaos knights
90 chaos mutants
171 chaos servants
6 chaos warlords
29 chaos warriors
31 chaos wizards
4 diamond golems
2 doppleganger kings // Think these were summoned by Liches - they were in 2nd undead vault anyway-
one got a few criticals in, but nothing too scary - skullcrushed.
1 dwarven artificer // for anvil of course. The Dwarven smith still lives
1 ElDeR cHaOs GoD // first time kill. Wow, took a lot of shooting compared to everyone else.
20 emperor liches // bastards really destroyed my stats, bastards. Gave good artifacts though. Bastards
1 emperor moloch // 5 blessed demon slayers was enough. What a pussy.
1 fairy dragon
3 frost giant jarls
4 great blue wyrms
1 great red wyrm
1 greater air elemental
1 greater balor
1 greater black unicorn
96 greater chaos servants
1 greater moloch
1 greater titan
6 liches // ha ha, thats kinda funny compared to royalty count
47 lich kings // bastards.
1 living wall
32 master liches // bastards.
7 molochs
1 multi-headed chaos dragon // quarrels of darkness FTW! Plus *foo* slayers obviously.
13 ogre emperors
1 oracle
1 quickling bard
4 quickling kings
3 quickling queens
1 raider lord
7 ratling traders
1 shopkeeper // stupid aura. Didn't get crowned in the end till Level 44 - lucky killing
// liches is a lawful act, as this shopkeeper screwed my alignment in midgame.
2 wall beasts
2 werewolf kings
2 wild cats
1 will o'wisp
82 writhing masses of primal chaos

[gut]

I am too afraid to fool with greater undead vaults. I have beaten a few,
but it always leaves me feeling like I lost. Nice recovery though, to
rebuild the needed stats and continue. Also, I don't even think that
wands of paralyzation work on Andy, so shooting him was best : )

[vogonpoet]

I really was desperate for the XP...

I have to say, Archers seem to be ridiculously strong, no matter how crap your stats are - I mean, my PC was a weak and feeble mess by the time the last few of those emperor liches went down - my Wi was down to 3 at one point, which I didn't notice until 6th consecutive instant confusion... I had to teleport out, nip up the stairs, drop almost everything and equip the water orb and a mental stability ring just to continue. Had I stripped naked at that point (checks other thread :) ), I would have had St:14 Le:9 Wi: 3 Dx:5 To:14 Ch: 1 Ap: 1 Ma:21 Pe:19, but I was still able to take the bastards down with my bow and crossbow. Obviously the BoW helped too.

[Grey]

1 emperor moloch // 5 blessed demon slayers was enough. What a pussy.

Ah shaddap :P But yeah, with good archery he really falls so easily. As do most things.

I'm surprised you let yourself get so raped by those liches - as an archer I wouldn't give them a single turn next to me. Still, congrats on the recovery and the will to continue (many might have just quit). Had you seen the whole ChAoS plane sequence before? I thought it was awesome first time I went through it...

Paralyzation does work on Andy, but it's quite unnecessary since if you stay out of direct line all he'll do is drain PP and fire frost bolts. Wish for speed also reduces the worry from him. Still he does take ages to bring down - surprised you got so little corruption when fighting him, I normally take on about 8.

[Xanthine]

Those bastards.

I remember fighting emperor liches from my first normal win about six years ago. Thankfully, I was a wizard, so it was just maniacal cackling Acid Ball spam, but still.

[vogonpoet]

I'm surprised you let yourself get so raped by those liches - as an archer I wouldn't give them a single turn next to me.

It was kinda cramped conditions in the vaults, and what with the constant summoning, I just decided to teleport in next to them whenever possible and suffer the consequences - I think it was really the kings that did most of the stat draining, whilst I concentrated on killing the emperors...