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02-24-2009, 05:56 PM
After my Orcish Paladin executed himself with a magic missile and thus ended his attempt to become an ordinary Chaos God I continued trying to make an ultra. I accidentally tried some Dark Elven rangers and found their skillset just amazing (hail Find Weakness and Food Preservation!). After a lot of deaths (I just felt I want to travel through UD with all of them) I finally reached HMV and this char started his long road to the victory.
UD -> CoC -> get Thrundarr quests -> PC -> DD -> Pyramid -> Griffyard -> ID for an AOLS -> Water Temple -> robbing an underground cave (it was Crown of Leadership - I couldn't resist) -> Fire Temple -> Keriax (I killed him at 24 or 25 lvl, received a nice boost) -> Air and Earth Temple -> BDC -> Mana Temple -> Filk -> SIL -> Scintillating Cave -> D:50 -> ChAoS PlAnE -> victory!
Everything sounds nice, but there was a lot of incredible stupidity)
1) While walking in ID in a desperate search for AoLS or RoDS, I was wielding corrupting spear of smth. "Nice, I will corrupt my foes, weee!" - that was my thoughts. After getting 5th corruption at ~20 lvl I realised something was wrong =)
2) I spent an incredible amount of time looking for a scroll of danger (don't ever forget to stash your heap of 3 scrolls of danger before going to Air Temple), even went to BDC again, but eventually found there shining silver bracers instead.. After I'd found it, I got that Medal of Chaos and went to Big Room to prepare for the final battle. I discussed this char with my fellow ADOM player and asked him about writing SoCRs with a ranger. "Wait, couldn't you just write a scroll of danger?" - he said.. No comments)
3) I tried to pump my Dx using fast healing corruption and found out that even blessed lump of gelee royal removes only 1 scar..
Positive moments
1) Greater Black Unicorn gave me 9 PoGA. Sweet!)
2) If you accomplish 1st Gaab'Baay's quest, you can take others even without chaotic alignment (after bringing her PoCC, recieved from Guth'alak, she asked me about farmer corpse although I was N+)
3) MaLaKaI and Emperor Molochs are quite weak (4 arrows of demon slaying for the first one, and double-wielded phase daggers against the second one - about 10 hits). AnDoR DrAkOn wasn't able to do anything with me either (hp never went below 1100 during the whole battle) and I just continued to hit him with TotRR. Probably that was because I drank all potions of boost -stat- and boost speed =)
4) Corruptions are removed if your kill AD (that is probably quite obvious but I am a pessimist =) I didn't know that, so spent 10 of my Ma to write one SoCR (and another 15 to write some scrolls of defense and protection)
Near deaths
1) Wand of monster creation produced me a quickling queen, when I was trying to make a meat shield in ToEF. That was disastrous..
2) 2 times I accidentally hit doppelganger noblemen thinking they are plain bandits. A doppelganger king left me with 1hp in BDC, and doppelganger lord in SMC (when I was lvl 47 - I don't know, why I decided to go to the surface in eastern part of the river.
Mysteries
I tried to speak with Filk and before he said his long sentence a message like "...I'm hungry" was generated, and when I killed him, he left a gorgon corpse =)
I have forgotten to test one (and then left it alone as I got mana battery corruption) little thing which bothered my mind. If you throw a potion of sickness into a monster and then paralyze him, will he choke on his own vomit?)
UD -> CoC -> get Thrundarr quests -> PC -> DD -> Pyramid -> Griffyard -> ID for an AOLS -> Water Temple -> robbing an underground cave (it was Crown of Leadership - I couldn't resist) -> Fire Temple -> Keriax (I killed him at 24 or 25 lvl, received a nice boost) -> Air and Earth Temple -> BDC -> Mana Temple -> Filk -> SIL -> Scintillating Cave -> D:50 -> ChAoS PlAnE -> victory!
Everything sounds nice, but there was a lot of incredible stupidity)
1) While walking in ID in a desperate search for AoLS or RoDS, I was wielding corrupting spear of smth. "Nice, I will corrupt my foes, weee!" - that was my thoughts. After getting 5th corruption at ~20 lvl I realised something was wrong =)
2) I spent an incredible amount of time looking for a scroll of danger (don't ever forget to stash your heap of 3 scrolls of danger before going to Air Temple), even went to BDC again, but eventually found there shining silver bracers instead.. After I'd found it, I got that Medal of Chaos and went to Big Room to prepare for the final battle. I discussed this char with my fellow ADOM player and asked him about writing SoCRs with a ranger. "Wait, couldn't you just write a scroll of danger?" - he said.. No comments)
3) I tried to pump my Dx using fast healing corruption and found out that even blessed lump of gelee royal removes only 1 scar..
Positive moments
1) Greater Black Unicorn gave me 9 PoGA. Sweet!)
2) If you accomplish 1st Gaab'Baay's quest, you can take others even without chaotic alignment (after bringing her PoCC, recieved from Guth'alak, she asked me about farmer corpse although I was N+)
3) MaLaKaI and Emperor Molochs are quite weak (4 arrows of demon slaying for the first one, and double-wielded phase daggers against the second one - about 10 hits). AnDoR DrAkOn wasn't able to do anything with me either (hp never went below 1100 during the whole battle) and I just continued to hit him with TotRR. Probably that was because I drank all potions of boost -stat- and boost speed =)
4) Corruptions are removed if your kill AD (that is probably quite obvious but I am a pessimist =) I didn't know that, so spent 10 of my Ma to write one SoCR (and another 15 to write some scrolls of defense and protection)
Near deaths
1) Wand of monster creation produced me a quickling queen, when I was trying to make a meat shield in ToEF. That was disastrous..
2) 2 times I accidentally hit doppelganger noblemen thinking they are plain bandits. A doppelganger king left me with 1hp in BDC, and doppelganger lord in SMC (when I was lvl 47 - I don't know, why I decided to go to the surface in eastern part of the river.
Mysteries
I tried to speak with Filk and before he said his long sentence a message like "...I'm hungry" was generated, and when I killed him, he left a gorgon corpse =)
I have forgotten to test one (and then left it alone as I got mana battery corruption) little thing which bothered my mind. If you throw a potion of sickness into a monster and then paralyze him, will he choke on his own vomit?)