First Win (OCG) - Maegirr, Orcish Paladin

[Yorick]

Hello all!
I have been playing ADOM since 1999, and finally managed to win! There was a time when I was thinking, that game is impossible to win without save scumming, but spoilers did their work )

Maegirr, Orcish Paladin:



Maegirr St:41 Le:40 Wi:34 Dx:22 To:49 Ch:17 Ap: 1 Ma:36 Pe:41 C-
DV/PV: 68/90 H: 495(987) P: 1(585) Exp: 50/29059030 ChAoS Sp: 159
Blessed Berserk
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Background Information
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Name: Maegirr Race: male Orc Class: Paladin
Eye color: black Hair color: brown Complexion: brown
Height: 6'2" Weight: 18 pounds Scars: 13
Age: 15 (young)
Star sign: Falcon Birthday: 20/Falcon (day 230 of the year)

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Inventory
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Total weight: 5739 stones Carrying capacity: 8175 stones

Head : uncursed Crown of Chaos (-6, -6) [+0, +15] {Ma+10} (+10 spd)
Neck : uncursed sapphire amulet "Preserver" [+4, +4] {Wi+7} [3s]
Body : uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8} [60s]
Girdle : uncursed girdle of giant strength [+6, +3] {St+12} [30s]
Cloak : blessed cloak of protection [+0, +6] [20s]
Right Hand : blessed holy avenger "Justifier" (+4, 3d5+10) [+6, +2][60s]
Left Hand : uncursed shield of raw steel (+2) [+18, +12] {To+8} [180s]
Right Ring : uncursed ring of mental stability [+0, +4] {Le+4} [1s]
Left Ring : blessed ring of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage)
Bracers : uncursed bracers of war [+8, +4] {Dx+8} [10s]
Gauntlets : blessed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+6, +5] [15s]
Boots : blessed seven league boots [+7, +6] [30s]
Missile weapon: uncursed long bow of accuracy (+8, +2) [30s]
Missiles : bundle of 12 uncursed arrows of humanoid slaying (+3, 1d6+3)
Tool : uncursed nasty pick axe (+0, 1d7+1) [75s]


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Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
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Swords 12 +12 +8 +4 Mastery 509
Pole arms 11 +12 +7 +14 Mastery 1262

Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
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Bows 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 323

Shields Lvl DV Level Required marks
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Shields 9 +18 excellent 104


Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +150 bonus to hit, 3d5+73 damage


Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 12, base range: 18, +92 bonus to hit, 1d6+49 damage


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Skills
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Athletics .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Backstabbing ..............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Climbing ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Concentration .............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Detect item status ........ 57 (good) [+1]
Detect traps ..............100 (superb) [+1d3]
Dodge ..................... 91 (superb) [+1d3]
Find weakness .............100 (superb) [+1d3]
First aid .................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Haggling .................. 70 (good) [+1d3]
Healing ...................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Herbalism .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Listening .................100 (superb) [+3d3]
Literacy ..................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Metallurgy ................ 98 (superb) [+1d5]
Mining ....................100 (superb) [+1]
Pick pockets .............. 63 (good) [+1]
Stealth ...................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Survival .................. 81 (great) [+1d3]
Swimming .................. 80 (great) [+1d3]
Tactics ...................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Two weapon combat ......... 84 (great) [+1d3]


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Spells
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Cure Light Wounds : 156, 4pp (Effectivity: +4)
Darkness : 496, 2pp (Effectivity: +5)
Greater Divine Touch: 49, 121pp (Effectivity: +1)
Hellish Flames : 266, 8pp (Effectivity: +2)
Light : 107, 1pp (Effectivity: +7)
Minor Punishment : 245, 7pp (Effectivity: +3)
Nether Bolt : 60, 12pp (Effectivity: +5)

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His further life:
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After slaying Andor Drakon and absorbing his powers you quickly grow
accustomed to your new might. You enjoy yourself slaughtering your
opposition for a couple of moments and then prepare for a greater goal...
the conquest of your former home world.

To your own surprise you have to realize that omnipotence is a stretchable
word and that you no longer are strong enough (maybe due to the heavy
fighting before) to pass the Chaos gate or even send malicious energies
through it to harass Ancardia. Thus you bide your time and enjoy yourself
sending Chaos troops to Ancardia every couple of centuries.

This continues until you are finally strong enough to create a bridge
between the planes of Chaos and Ancardia. Sadly a nasty surprise is waiting
for you: the heroic folks of Ancardia obviously did not forget the last
incursion of Chaos and this time a hero is prepared to challenge you. Bathed
in the radiance of Law and Goodness He enters your home plane and challenges
you to a battle.

To your very surprise your dark magics don't effect him and you are killed
in a long battle. In the last seconds of your life, facing the might of the
hero of light, you wonder if everything could have been different, had you
made some other decisions in your mortal life...

[Yorick]

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His achievements during his adventures:
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Maegirr, the orcish paladin, managed to become a ChAoS gOd.
He scored 7796889 points and advanced to level 50.
He survived for 0 years, 109 days, 3 hours, 49 minutes and 56 seconds
(107313 turns).
Maegirr visited 125 places.
His strength score was modified by +12 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +19 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +10 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +13 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +31 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +9 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +11 during his career.
His mana score was modified by +17 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +24 during his career.
He was the champion of the arena.
He was a member of the thieves guild.
He defeated the arch enemy of a mighty karmic wyrm.
He ended his adventuring life in the palace of Andor Drakon.
6943 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following 29 artifacts were generated during his adventure:
the si
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
the holy avenger "Justifier"
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"
the scorched spear
the sword of Nonnak
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the phial of Caladriel
the crown of science
the shield of raw steel
the amulet of raw steel
the ancient mummy wrapping
the ankh
the Crown of Chaos
the Sceptre of Chaos
the black torc
the Medal of Chaos
the bracers of war
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the black rune-covered dagger "Needle"
the sapphire amulet "Preserver"
the emerald dagger "Serpent's Bite"
the weird tome
He possessed the following intrinsics:
He was fire resistant.
He was poison resistant (enhanced through items).
He was cold resistant.
He was acid resistant.
He was lucky (enhanced through items).
Fate smiled upon him.
He was doomed (gained through an item).
He was cursed (gained through an item).
He was sleep resistant (gained through an item).
He was petrification resistant (gained through an item).
He was able to control teleportation.
He was stun resistant (gained through items).
He was paralyzation resistant (gained through an item).
He was resistant to death rays (gained through items).
He was shock resistant.
He was able to see invisible things (gained through an item).
He was immune to fire attacks (gained through an item).
He was immune to acidic attacks.
He was immune to ice attacks (gained through items).
He was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through items).
He had the following talents: Affinity with Swords, Aggressive, Basher,
Careful, Defensive Fighter, Dodger, Good Shot, Greased Lightning, Keen Shot,
Long Stride, Quick, Quick Shot, Shield Expert, Shield Master, Shield
Specialist, Stealthy, Very Careful, Very Quick.
He had a final speed score of 159 (final base speed: 149).
He was a Chaos God. He asked for 2 divine interventions.
He was Chaos personified.


I found 7LB early, but they were destroyed in dusty dungeon.
Early Crowning (about clvl13-15) brought me Justifier with poisonous hands.
After identifying stuff in ToHK I found WoW with 4 charges. During the game I found 4 more RoDS. 1st wish - 7LB boots, 2nd - Giant Boar Skull, 3-7 - SoCR, 8 - Girdle of Giant Strength.
Almost died in ToEF - 7 hp left after fire elemental critical hit. I exit tower without Orb and went to ID for SoC. Killed MaLaKaI with 2 hits in darkness and got about 5-6 corruptions before dropped scepter in Dark Forge.
After that got Medal of Chaos, completed tower, got weird tom, retrieved all orbs, killed Ancient Blue Wyrm, killed Keriax and cleared D50.
Found Preserver in great fire dragons vault and BoW as 'surge of power' on the bottom levels of CoC.

Stupid mistakes:
sacrificed cat;
got inventory cursed during altar conversion;
killed druid in Terinyo before clvl30;
read most SoCR *before* entering Chaos Gates;
forgot to switch Medal of Chaos with Preserver on Chaos Plane. Fortunately, corruption teleported me away when I was paralyzed by Andor.

[pblack]

That's 10 years 'til first win.... hehehe. You must feel pretty good right now.

And OCG of all things! That's gotta be the hardest one, thou you did have very very decent amount of wishes to spare =P. But congratulations, the first one is the hardest... i would know.

[DumbleDoor]

That's 10 years 'til first win.... hehehe. You must feel pretty good right now.

And OCG of all things! That's gotta be the hardest one, thou you did have very very decent amount of wishes to spare =P. But congratulations, the first one is the hardest... i would know.

Decent means average...?

[JellySlayer]

Decent means average...?

Decent means somewhat large. I'd say 0-1 wishes is probably average in a gate closer. Maybe 2-3 for an ultra/OCG.

[vogonpoet]

Decent means somewhat large. I'd say 0-1 wishes is probably average in a gate closer. Maybe 2-3 for an ultra/OCG.

I might +1 your gate closer numbers - if a PC wins without finding a single RoDS, they have been unlucky, rather than average. A second, that already sounds lucky :) Unless one habitually does an obscene amount of pickpocketing, or abuses another item generation technique, finding WoWishing is pretty damn rare - I once randomly found one WoW in the Fire temple with 5 wishes altogether (almost fell out of my chair), apart from that, never more than 1 charge (two wishes), and WoW found altogether, probably countable on one hand using base 10.

So yeah, 1-2 potential wishes (you might not use them) for a gate closer.

On the other hand, Ultra's tend to spend a lot more time generating stuff, and unless they have exceptional luck, pretty much have to have at least one wish as minimum boundary, would be extremely unlucky not to encounter another wish on the floor below Kelly, so for averages, gonna go for 3 for Andy Slayers...

Ergo, 8 wishes = very very decent indeed :)

[DumbleDoor]

I might +1 your gate closer numbers - if a PC wins without finding a single RoDS, they have been unlucky, rather than average. A second, that already sounds lucky :) Unless one habitually does an obscene amount of pickpocketing, or abuses another item generation technique, finding WoWishing is pretty damn rare - I once randomly found one WoW in the Fire temple with 5 wishes altogether (almost fell out of my chair), apart from that, never more than 1 charge (two wishes), and WoW found altogether, probably countable on one hand using base 10.

So yeah, 1-2 potential wishes (you might not use them) for a gate closer.

On the other hand, Ultra's tend to spend a lot more time generating stuff, and unless they have exceptional luck, pretty much have to have at least one wish as minimum boundary, would be extremely unlucky not to encounter another wish on the floor below Kelly, so for averages, gonna go for 3 for Andy Slayers...

Ergo, 8 wishes = very very decent indeed :)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/decent
Dang you and your "slang" crap!
Yeah, I'd say 1 wish average for gate closer, and about 3 for ultra's. If you find a WoW, then I go wow!