YAVP: Hurthling Archer (rocks only)

[mike]

I stole this idea from Barry Kearns, who played a game like this in gamma 9. The PC is only allowed to pick up rocks, food, gold, and an amulet of light for the mana temple. I also had to allow wands of digging/pickaxes to get into the temples, as I think Barry's character was a monk and didn't have this problem.

Early problems were getting enough rocks... I had to scum the ID incessantly for tension rooms, and eventually just picked up every rock in the game. Did dwarf quests up to arena (strangely, thrundarr still gives you the quest if you've killed the arena master), griffyard, bugville for a ton of dex and speed. My biggest regret is not visiting the maze around this point, as wi was fucked anyway and pe increases would've been nice. Drained pools for some very nice intrinsics and 2(!) wishes... Spent wishes on find weakness and tactics (maybe a mistake). Confusion was a huge threat, so anything that confuses was shot from way out of sight (including ACW, who was easy this way). Cat lord and AKW also fell this way (took like 100+ rocks each). Archmage was the hardest kill in this game, as his line of sight has been beefed up a bunch. I had to put the whole corridor in the mana temple between us and he was still back in range in like two moves. Anyway, it was lots of fun, as the game remained difficult after ToEF.

Shotgun       St:24  Le:19  Wi:17  Dx:33  To:20  Ch:21  Ap: 1  Ma:12  Pe:16 L+
DV/PV: 17/6    H: 547(547)    P: 120(120)    Exp: 50/21954777   DrCh  Sp: 179
Blessed Invisible Satiated Berserk
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                            Background Information
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Name: Shotgun             Race: female Hurthling    Class: Archer
Eye color: green          Hair color: brown         Complexion: tanned
Height: 2'7"              Weight: 6 pounds          Scars: 9
Age: 68 (middle-aged, 39 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Raven          Birthday: 5/Raven (day 5 of the year)
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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 1833 stones                Carrying capacity: 3150 stones

Head          : -
Neck          : uncursed amulet of light                               [3s]
Body          : -
Girdle        : -
Cloak         : -
Right Hand    : -
Left Hand     : -
Right Ring    : -
Left Ring     : -
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : -
Boots         : -
Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : heap of 186 uncursed rocks (+0, 1d4)                 [930s]
Tool          : -


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                                    Stuff
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Total weight: 900 stones   Carrying capacity: 3150 stones

Missiles ('*')
   heap of 10 blessed rocks (+0, 1d4)                                 [50s]
   heap of 5 uncursed rocks (+0, 1d4+3)                               [25s]
Food ('%')
   heap of 23 cursed stomafillia herbs                                [46s]
Valuables ('$')
   38464 gold pieces                                                 [384s]


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                                Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon           Lvl   Hit   Dam   DV   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Unarmed fighting         2    +2    +0   +0   basic                25
// bumping into things :/
Daggers & knives         2    +2    +0   +0   basic                38
Clubs & hammers          0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Maces & flails           0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Swords                   0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Axes                     0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Whips                    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Pole arms                0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Twohanded weapons        0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Staves                   0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15

Missile weapon         Lvl   Hit   Dam   Ra   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Slings                   1    +2    +1   +0   basic                8
Bows                     0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Crossbows                0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Thrown axes & hammers    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Thrown daggers           0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Thrown rocks & clubs    15   +30   +22   +5   Grand Mastery
Thrown spears            0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Boomerangs & scurgari    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7

Shields                Lvl   DV               Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---              -------------  --------------
Shields                  0    +0              unskilled            15


Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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?Right hand: ?+115? bonus to hit, ?3d3+18? damage


Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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?Ammunition: ?186?, base range: ?38?, ?+167? bonus to hit, ?1d4+60? damage

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                            Effects of Corruption
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You have grown horns (+3 melee damage, Ap: -4).
You have grown thorns (3d3 melee damage, Dx: -2, Ap: -3).
Your feet have been transformed into hooves (+8 kicking damage, Dx: -6).
You have become very light (1/10 weight, St: -6, Dx: +4, To: -6, Ap: -6, +20
speed).

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              Her achievements during her adventures:
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Shotgun, the hurthling archer, saved the world with her brave efforts and
became a great ruler while saving herself 11 times.
She scored 10215912 points and advanced to level 50.
She survived for 0 years, 69 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes and 26 seconds
(92378 turns).
Shotgun visited 99 places.
Her strength score was modified by +22 during her career.
Her learning score was modified by +10 during her career.
Her willpower score was modified by +8 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by +13 during her career.
Her toughness score was modified by +11 during her career.
Her charisma score was modified by +7 during her career.
Her appearance score was modified by -2 during her career.
Her mana score was modified by +4 during her career.
Her perception score was modified by -1 during her career.
She was unnaturally aged by 39 years.
// pools
She left the Drakalor Chain after completing her quest and became a great
leader and famous heroine.
4485 monsters perished under her attacks.
The following 12 artifacts were generated during her adventure:
  the si
  the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
  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 elemental gauntlets
  the crown of science
  the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
  the rune-covered sling "Whirlwind"
  the fine leather armor "Nature's Companion"
  the black tome of Alsophocus
// What a sad list =P

She possessed the following intrinsics:
  She was fire resistant.
  She was poison resistant.
  She was cold resistant.
  She was acid resistant.
  She was lucky.
  Fate smiled upon her.
  She was able to control teleportation.
  She was invisible.
  She was stun resistant.
  She was paralyzation resistant.
  She was resistant to death rays.
// pools
  She was shock resistant.
  She was able to see invisible things.
// stalker corpse
  She was immune to fire attacks.
She had the following talents: Affinity with Thrown Axes & Hammers, Affinity
with Rocks & Clubs, Affinity with Thrown Spears, Alert, Eagle Eye, Good
Shot, Greased Lightning, Hardy, Immune to Pain, Iron Skin, Keen Shot, Long
Stride, Missile Weapon Master, Quick, Steel Skin, Tough Skin, Very Hardy,
Very Quick.
She had a final speed score of 179 (final base speed: 184).
She was a paragon of her religion.
She asked for 24 divine interventions.
She was a holy champion of Order.
She was tainted by Chaos.
// Sadly, the unicorn is the only way to remove corruption.  I could've used it at the end, but I needed it before D: 50 to get rid of stiff muscles.

[saladman]

How did you handle dopplegangers with no melee attacks, wands, or spells?

[mike]

Mostly I didn't... I had to run away from them like a wuss. :| They popped up very frequently while I hung out in the big room, so I'd drag them down to an altar below and sac them. With high speed and later invis you don't have to worry as much, but it still helps to convert every altar.

A bigger problem was actually not having swimming or any means to freeze water. I think I had to pray like 3 times in the middle of rivers.