Arena challenge (single try)

[gut]

that was awesome. Did you get Kay, or one of the lesser bosses.
If you beat the ogre magi with a blinger, that is amazing.

[vogonpoet]

Spardarkius is named at the top of my post, and yeah, feel a bit cheated about not getting to try my hand with Li-Hxn-Kay. Still, it was good blinging, and at least Russel survived long enough to die at the hands of a credible opponent

[Siriah]

Sword-born Drakish healer. I was going to roll a bard and hope to get lucky but I pressed the wrong button.

Stats:

Sunny    St:17  Le:16  Wi:17  Dx:10  To:15  Ch:12  Ap: 8  Ma: 8  Pe:10  LN
DV/PV: 13/0   H: 24(24)   P: 7(7)   Exp: 1/0   M: 80

Only one talent - Long Stride.

EDIT: Got to the arena in one piece. Not a lot of useful equipment was found, just some rocks, a cursed spear, a wand of webbing, a shield and a cloak of protection. All fights up until the last one went okay, but that last one was Li-Hon-Kay, who ran away like a little invisible coward making it hard to line up any sort of acid spit and used frost bolt all the time. Dead from Li-Hon-Kay.

[grobblewobble]

This sounds like a fun challenge, so here goes.

Got lucky with starsign: candle! When I saw the starsign, I decided on a hurthling barbarian, because the heir gift is guaranteed.

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                            Character Information
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Hurtharian    St:17  Le: 5  Wi:14  Dx:21  To:20  Ch:10  Ap: 9  Ma: 1  Pe:15
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DV/PV: 17/2   H: 25(25)   P: 0(0)   Exp: 1/0   M: 0



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                            Background Information
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Name: Hurtharian          Race: male Hurthling      Class: Barbarian
Eye color: blue           Hair color: blonde        Complexion: light
Height: 2'11"             Weight: 79 pounds
Age: 38 (grown-up)
Star sign: Candle         Birthday: 4/Candle (day 274 of the year)

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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 721 stones                Carrying capacity: 1800 stones

Head          : -
Neck          : -
Body          : light furs [+0, +1]                                  [180s]
Girdle        : -
Cloak         : -
Right Hand    : club (+3, 1d6)                                        [30s]
Left Hand     : -
Right Ring    : marble ring                                            [1s]
Left Ring     : -
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : -
Boots         : -
Missile weapon: short bow (+1, +1)                                    [20s]
Missiles      : bundle of 4 arrows (+0, 1d6)                           [8s]
Tool          : -


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                                    Stuff
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Total weight: 482 stones   Carrying capacity: 1800 stones

Two-handed weapons ('(')
   two-handed sword                                                   [80s]
Missiles ('/')
   bundle of 31 arrows (+0, 1d6)                                      [62s]
Tools (']')
   heap of 3 torches                                                  [30s]
   box with flint and steel (16)                                       [5s]
   tinderbox (2)                                                       [3s]
   cooking set                                                       [100s]
Food ('%')
   heap of 2 iron rations                                            [200s]
Valuables ('$')
   228 gold pieces                                                     [2s]

I will waste no time and head straight for the Arena. To be continued..

Edit: Defeated Suck, the ogre magus. Used rename trick, since rules allow it.

21: yellow ooze
22: berserker
23: ogre lord - killed me

[Pumpernickel]

Gnome Elementalist.
Three quick kills in holeinthewall, goblin vault right above the arena - damn, busted: 2800 turns.

Took on the arena anyway, won handily: the single giant spider i got set up the champion trap for me, Spardakius just get caught and frostbolted. Good thing, too - he went into rage at the end, and i had all of 39 max life and 25/1 armour. Won about 10 after-championship battles, hardest was an ogre magus - still easy with one of my two potions of invisibility and ventriloquism.

Killed Hotzenplotz for good measure and left.

P.S. I'm the first contestant to be officially disqualified! I'm so proud! Thanks, gut!

[Grey]

Well done vogonpoet, very fantastic effort there. I was tempted to try a DE blinger myself, but was worried I wouldn't even make it to the arena.

[gut]

Pumpernickle is DQ'd!

That felt goood.

[moomoo]

Fate decided me a book-born female human assassin.

Was ambushed by a bunch of undeads.

Paralyzed and mangled to death in the middle of a goddamn swamp - how macabre.

[gekko]

I rolled a Unicorn-born dark elven priest. Not happy with the starsign, but that darkness book is pretty good...

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                            Character Information
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Anuin    St:12  Le:16  Wi:22  Dx:17  To:14  Ch:11  Ap:16  Ma:23  Pe:19  C
DV/PV: 13/5   H: 24(24)   P: 30(30)   Exp: 1/0   M: 303



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                            Background Information
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Name: Anuin               Race: female Dark Elf     Class: Priest
Eye color: black          Hair color: white         Complexion: black
Height: 5'4"              Weight: 97 pounds
Age: 140 (grown-up)
Star sign: Unicorn        Birthday: 10/Unicorn (day 100 of the year)


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                                   Spells
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   Cure Disease     :   343,   8pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Darkness         :   467,   4pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Neutralize Poison:   323,  10pp     (Effectivity: +0)


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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 148 stones                Carrying capacity: 1200 stones

Head          : uncursed hood [+0, +0]                                 [3s]
Neck          : -
Body          : uncursed elven chain mail [+0, +5]                    [10s]
Girdle        : -
Cloak         : uncursed hooded cloak [+1, +0]                        [40s]
Right Hand    : blessed club (+0, 1d6+1)                              [30s]
Left Hand     : uncursed dagger (+0, 1d4)                             [10s]
Right Ring    : -
Left Ring     : -
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : -
Boots         : uncursed leather boots [+0, +0]                       [25s]
Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : -
Tool          : -


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                                    Stuff
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Total weight: 30 stones   Carrying capacity: 1200 stones

Tools (']')
   uncursed holy symbol                                                [5s]
Potions ('!')
   potion of holy water                                                [4s]
   heap of 2 uncursed potions of water                                 [8s]
   uncursed potion of healing                                          [4s]
   uncursed potion of poison                                           [4s]
Scrolls ('?')
   uncursed scroll of identify                                         [2s]
Food ('%')
   blessed spider bread                                                [3s]
Valuables ('$')
   56 gold pieces                                                      [0s]

Caugh by a spider factory on the level of the arena, and got surrounded. I killed them all though, but this way I initiated my first arena fight in the 2400. turn. If that hadn't happened, i would have got to the arena within the 2000 turn limit.

Will play the game anyway, hope you won't DQ me. I was 7st level when i started the fights.

Killed Bonk in darkness (didn't worked with the webs the previous spiders left, he almost killed me)
Extra fights:
Fire Lizard
Giant Bat
Skelatal warrior (could see in darkness)

That's it. I forgot to make a flag.

[_Ln_]

Rolled a Wand-born HE assassin, took Heir, named him Mr.Poison for some reason.

I forgot to take initial flg, ending log, but this doesn't matter since I only did 3 victories after beating Li Hon Kay on turn 1401 which were - ogre lord, greater mummy and a gnoll. Stone giant beat the crap out of me after he picked up all my poisoned daggers without getting hit. Son of a bitch..

Starting PV was 10 btw, so the only thing that made a hit on me was fight#18 tarantula, which also poisoned me. After the fight I read unID scrolls to get identify one. 1st one is item destruction - goodbye my +3PV hood. I replace it with bone helmet which by some chance was +4PV, lol. 2nd is ID, I ID my potions to find cure poison - drink it and left with 9/34 HP (being an elf sucks, I know). I killed #19 tarantula and boldly go to fight Li Hon Kay with 10 hp hoping to use coward speed bonus (+taking +2 and +3 speed talents). Throwing poisoned daggers with naming bug I shrug about 6 or 7 bolts with ~60 alertness. Then I think: "I'd better pray since 1 bolt will kill me", then I pray, then I shrug one bolt and get hit with another one which gives 16 dmg - talk about luck.

Greater Mummy was pain - it had 15PV, but I managed to Find Weakness it with daggers.
Stone giant was as I said before a son of a bitch.

When I come to think of it, this char would have made an excellent winner of the game.