Platinum!!!

[Grey]

The platinum girdle is mine



I've been trying for a couple of years to do speedruns with drakish wizards with the caveat of attempting to get the platinum girdle whilst at it. To get the platinum girdle you must be crowned L+ when entering D50, have committed no chaotic acts, and not let *any* lawful creatures die (by your own hand or by others). The last is quite difficult, since a random dwarf or blink dog can die off-screen and you won't even notice till you get to D50. So my idea was to incorporate it into a speedrun - all the teleporting around reduces the chances of even generating a blink dog. My game plan was as follows:

1. Reroll drake wizards till I get one with a Teleport book and decent stats
2. Level up to 13 in bugville
3. Raid the DarkForge pools for an amulet wish and TCtrl
4. Teleport around the game, killing baddies whilst being nice and just, get crowned and saved Khelly at some point, and win the game

Step 3 was the biggest challenge really - the whims of the RNG were frequently nasty. This time I got lucky though - teleport control, a wish for an AoLS and a few nice intrinsics, without any sickness, dooming or too many bloody snakes. Also got a decent WDSM and a handy knife of endurance (regen makes constant HP-casting much more manageable).

After coming out of DarkForge I decided screw the focus on speedrunning in as few turns as possible - I just wanted to win. I stairhopped in the ID for a while for more spellbooks (esp Invisibility), farmed some morgia on D3, did some quests, Teleported down and saved Khelly, got the ring of the high kings and killed the ACW with acid ball. Crowned with casino gold (the cloak was handy since it meant I didn't have to keep casting invis every few minutes). Cleared Air and Earth with ease, ignored a greater undead vault, did the blue dragon caves for xp (used slow monster + invis to maximise the gains) and killed the AKW for the same reason. Was a bit worried about the Mana Temple since I was low on acid ball after the dragon caves, but happily Nuurgy died on my very last casting. Did a jump for joy when I was awarded the girdle on D50 (since there was no guarantee I'd satisfied the conditions). The speed and Wi bonuses were quite handy since I was slowed from the ice level and lacking the Water Orb's nice balls. The regen doubled with the knife of endurance in my missile slot was very useful too. I used ice ball mixed with invis + slow monster to reap monumentous amounts of xp from the balors, and cleared most of the chaos goons before yanking the levers and heading home happy.

I should note that a few blink dogs were generated. The most worrying was in a mixed tension room in the Water Temple, but thankfully in spite of me not being able to teleport he never called any friends in my time on the level. Scariest moment by far was when I teleported into the middle of 24 emperor liches in a cavern level of the unreal caves. They instantly confused me, and it took several attempts before I could squeeze out a teleport. I wasn't wearing the AMW at the time, so I nearly had a heart attack when two of them fired death rays at me. Thankfully Alertness saved my life...

Finished on 21724 turns (could have easily halved that if I was really trying) and scored 100,956,848 points, easily beating Alex's piety scumming speedrun, something I've wanted to achieve for a very longtime. In fact I believe this is now the highest non-archmage score ever achieved in the game (not to sound too up myself, or anything...)

The full log of my glory:

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Platinum      St:22  Le:23  Wi:38  Dx:39  To:34  Ch:24  Ap:17  Ma:14  Pe:13 L+
DV/PV:139/64     H:675(675)    P:521(521)    Exp: 50/82406481   DrCh  M: 21724
Blessed Invisible Bloated Coward


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 Background Information
--------------------------

Name: Platinum            Race: male Drakeling      Class: Wizard
Eye color: light blue     Hair color: bald          Complexion: green
Height: 5'8"              Weight: 163 pounds
Age: 21 (young)
Star sign: Candle         Birthday: 5/Candle (day 275 of the year)


------------
 Inventory
------------
Total weight: 6324 stones                Carrying capacity: 16700 stones

He: uncursed rusty helm of leadership [+3, +5] {Ch+6}                [100s]
Ne: blessed ankh                                                       [3s]
Bo: blessed eternium plate mail (-1, -2) [-1, +13]                   [240s]
Gi: blessed platinum girdle (named) (+3, +0) [+18, +9] {Wi+15} (+15 spd)
Cl: blessed Brannalbin's Cloak of Defense [+3, +3]                    [30s]
RH: uncursed large eternium shield (+2) [+11, +5]                     [54s]
LH: uncursed tower crystal shield (-2) [+13, +4]                     [260s]
RR: uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd)         [1s]
LR: uncursed ring of immunity                                          [1s]
Br: uncursed bracers of resistance [+0, +0]                           [10s]
Ga: uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3]                    [10s]
Bo: uncursed boots of speed [+2, +0] (+8 spd)                         [20s]
MW: -
Mi: uncursed knife of endurance (+6, 1d3+6) {To+4}                     [8s]
Tl: heap of 6 blessed spenseweeds                                     [12s]

[Grey]

-------
 Stuff
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Total weight: 5555 stones   Carrying capacity: 16700 stones

Helmets ('[')
   uncursed eternium cap [+0, +7]                                     [28s]
Armor ('[')
   blessed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8}                     [60s]
   uncursed red dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +13]                 [220s]
   uncursed red eternium plate mail (-1, -2) [-1, +15]               [240s]
Shields ('[')
   uncursed medium eternium shield [+11, +3]                          [46s]
Gauntlets ('[')
   uncursed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+0, +1]                         [15s]
   blessed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+0, +1]                          [15s]
   uncursed gauntlets of strength (-1, +0) [-1, +1] {St+3}            [40s]
   uncursed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+3, +1]                         [15s]
Cloaks ('[')
   uncursed cloak of protection [+0, +3]                              [20s]
   blessed cloak of invisibility (-1, +0) [+2, +2]                    [30s]
   uncursed cloak of defense [+3, +0]                                 [20s]
Girdles ('[')
   uncursed adamantium girdle [+0, +3]                                [18s]
   uncursed eternium girdle [+0, +3]                                  [12s]
Boots ('[')
   blessed seven league boots [+1, -2]                                [30s]
   heap of 2 uncursed pairs of eternium boots [+0, +5]               [110s]
Necklaces (''')
   blessed necklace of the eye                                         [3s]
   blessed amulet of order                                             [3s]
   uncursed amulet of light                                            [3s]
Bracers (',')
   uncursed bracers of protection [+0, +2]                            [10s]
One-handed weapons ('(')
   uncursed pick axe (+0, 1d6+1)                                      [75s]
   blessed whip of slaughtering (-4, 1d30)                            [15s]
   blessed whip (-4, 1d3)                                             [15s]
   uncursed whip of slaughtering (-4, 1d30)                           [15s]
   uncursed black rune-covered dagger "Needle" (+8, 3d4) [+4, +1]     [10s]
   uncursed whip (-3, 1d3+3)                                          [15s]
Missile weapons ('}')
   uncursed long bow of hunting (+6, +3)                              [30s]
Missiles ('/')
   bundle of 7 uncursed griffon-feathered arrows (+0, 1d6-1)          [14s]
   bundle of 11 uncursed arrows (+0, 1d6+2)                           [22s]
   bundle of 11 uncursed arrows (+2, 1d6)                             [22s]
   bundle of 9 uncursed arrows of jelly slaying (+4, 2d4+6)           [18s]
   bundle of 5 uncursed arrows of construct slaying (+3, 1d6+4)       [10s]
   bundle of 8 blessed arrows of undead slaying (+4, 2d4+3)           [16s]
Tools (']')
   uncursed box with flint and steel (11)                              [5s]
   heap of 2 uncursed tinderboxes (25)                                 [6s]
   uncursed small key                                                  [1s]
   uncursed round key                                                  [1s]
   uncursed tiny key                                                   [1s]
   uncursed box with flint and steel (45)                              [5s]
   uncursed waterproof blanket                                        [10s]
   heap of 55 uncursed sis                                           [550s]
   uncursed holy symbol                                                [5s]
   heap of 2 uncursed fireproof blankets                              [20s]
   heap of 3 uncursed torches                                         [30s]
   heap of 2 blessed sis                                              [20s]
Rings ('=')
   blessed ring of stun resistance                                     [1s]
   blessed ring of the High Kings [+2, +3]                             [1s]
   uncursed ring of the clear mind                                     [1s]
   blessed ring of ice                                                 [1s]
   uncursed ring of teleport control                                   [1s]
   uncursed ring of invisibility                                       [1s]
   uncursed ring of regeneration                                       [1s]
Wands ('\')
   uncursed wand of fire (0 charges)                                   [4s]
   uncursed wand of trap creation (2 charges)                          [3s]
   uncursed wand of door creation (4 charges)                          [3s]
   uncursed wand of teleportation (2 charges)                          [4s]
   uncursed wand of digging (0 charges)                                [3s]
   uncursed wand of fireballs (1 charge)                               [3s]
   uncursed wand of destruction (1 charge)                             [3s]
   blessed wand of digging (0 charges)                                 [3s]
   uncursed wand of monster detection (0 charges)                      [3s]
   uncursed wand of destruction (3 charges)                            [3s]
   uncursed wand of paralyzation (2 charges)                           [3s]
   uncursed wand of poison (0 charges)                                 [3s]
   uncursed wand of item detection (5 charges)                         [3s]
   uncursed wand of digging (3 charges)                                [3s]
   uncursed wand of paralyzation (2 charges)                           [3s]
   uncursed wand of lightning (4 charges)                              [4s]
Potions ('!')
   blessed potion of insight                                           [2s]
   heap of 2 potions of holy water                                     [8s]
   blessed potion of youth                                             [4s]
   heap of 3 uncursed potions of longevity                            [12s]
   uncursed potion of poison                                           [4s]
   uncursed potion of water                                            [4s]
   uncursed berzio potion                                              [2s]
   uncursed potion of oil                                              [2s]
Scrolls ('?')
   heap of 2 uncursed scrolls of repair                                [4s]
   heap of 2 uncursed scrolls of magic mapping                         [4s]
   blessed scroll of darkness                                          [2s]
   heap of 6 blessed scrolls of chaos resistance                      [12s]
   uncursed scroll of item creation                                    [2s]
   heap of 2 blessed scrolls of identify                               [4s]
   heap of 5 blessed scrolls of uncursing                             [10s]
   heap of 5 uncursed scrolls of uncursing                            [10s]
   uncursed scroll of balance                                          [2s]
   heap of 2 uncursed scrolls of identify                              [4s]
   uncursed scroll of great identify                                   [2s]
Books ('"')
   uncursed spellbook of Acid Bolt                                   [100s]
Food ('%')
   heap of 29 uncursed cooked lizards                                 [87s]
   heap of 11 blessed stomafillia herbs                               [22s]
   heap of 6 uncursed stomacemptia herbs                              [12s]
   heap of 14 uncursed stomafillia herbs                              [28s]
   heap of 2 uncursed alraunia antidotes                               [4s]
   heap of 2 blessed curaria mancox herbs                              [4s]
   heap of 15 uncursed spenseweeds                                    [30s]
   heap of 3 blessed stomacemptia herbs                                [6s]
Valuables ('$')
   27520 gold pieces                                                 [275s]
Gems ('*')
   uncursed aquamarine                                                 [1s]


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 Weapon Skills
----------------

 *snip - I gained zero marks in any weapon*

Shields                Lvl   DV               Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---              -------------  --------------
Shields                  4    +8              skilled              205


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 Spells
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 *snip unused spells*
   Acid Ball           :    47,  29pp     (Effectivity: +19)
   Acid Bolt           :   200,   9pp     (Effectivity: +3)
   Burning Hands       :   814,   4pp     (Effectivity: +18)
   Cure Light Wounds   :   717,   2pp     (Effectivity: +7)
   Darkness            :   882,   3pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Disarm Trap         :   245,   6pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Fire Bolt           :   374,   5pp     (Effectivity: +19)
   Fireball            :   476,  10pp     (Effectivity: +12)
   Frost Bolt          :   765,   6pp     (Effectivity: +21)
   Greater Identify    :    33, 101pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Ice Ball            :    45,  21pp     (Effectivity: +12)
   Identify            :   253,  45pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Invisibility        :   313,   5pp     (Effectivity: +12)
   Knock               :   290,   7pp     (Effectivity: +9)
   Light               :  1076,   2pp     (Effectivity: +4)
   Lightning Bolt      :   662,   6pp     (Effectivity: +12)
   Magic Lock          :   346,   5pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Magic Missile       :   148,   4pp     (Effectivity: +23)
   Slow Monster        :   635,   5pp     (Effectivity: +3)
   Strength of Atlas   :   230,   5pp     (Effectivity: +9)
   Stun Ray            :   254,   4pp     (Effectivity: +11)
   Teleportation       :   450,  11pp     (Effectivity: +24)

[Grey]

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                              His further life:
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After he leaves the Drakalor Chain he is welcomed by his people with great
honors. They acknowledge his noble deeds, his valor, his cunning and his
great skills that helped to prevent the complete destruction of the world he
knows. He is crowned to be the king of all drakelings and lives a long and
prosperous life full of love, happiness and pleasure.

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              His achievements during his adventures:
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Platinum, the drakish wizard, saved the world with his brave efforts and
became a great ruler while saving himself 4 times.
He scored 100956848 points and advanced to level 50.
He survived for 0 years, 55 days, 8 hours, 52 minutes and 51 seconds (21724
turns).
Platinum visited 93 places.
His strength score was modified by +11 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +8 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +8 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +12 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +17 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +6 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +9 during his career.
His mana score was modified by -3 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +3 during his career.
He defeated the arch enemy of a mighty karmic wyrm.
He was a true and pure paragon of Order.
He adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
He saved Khelavaster from certain death.
He left the Drakalor Chain after completing his quest and became a great
leader and famous hero.
1002 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following 20 artifacts were generated during his adventure:
  the si
  the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
  the ring of the master cat
  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 Brannalbin's Cloak of Defense
  the elemental gauntlets
  the ring of the High Kings
  the crown of science
  the ancient mummy wrapping
  the ankh
  the black torc
  the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
  the black rune-covered dagger "Needle"
  the fine leather armor "Nature's Companion"
  the ring of immunity
  the black tome of Alsophocus
  the platinum girdle "True Strength"
He possessed the following intrinsics:
  He was fire resistant (enhanced through items).
  He was poison resistant (enhanced through an item).
  He was cold resistant (enhanced through items).
  He was acid resistant (enhanced through an item).
  He was lucky (enhanced through items).
  Fate smiled upon him (enhanced through items).
  He was sleep resistant (gained through an item).
  He was petrification resistant.
  He was able to teleport.
  He was able to control teleportation.
  He was invisible (gained through an item).
  He was resistant to death rays (gained through items).
  He was shock resistant (enhanced through items).
  He was able to see invisible things (enhanced through an item).
  He was immune to shock attacks (gained through an item).
  He was immune to fire attacks.
  He was immune to acidic attacks.
  He was immune to ice attacks (gained through an item).
  He was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through an item).
He had the following talents: Durable Magic, Extremely Hardy, Good Learner,
Greased Lightning, Hardy, Long-Lived, Long Stride, Mechanically Inclined,
Mighty Aura, Potent Aura, Quick, Stealthy, Strong Aura, Strong Healer,
Strong Magic, Tough Skin, Very Hardy, Very Quick.
He had a final speed score of 145 (final base speed: 116).
He was a messiah of Sssracht.
He asked for 1 divine intervention.
He was a holy champion of Order.

The following monsters were vanquished:
      2 air demons
      9 air elementals
      4 air grues
      8 ancient blue dragons
      1 ancient blue wyrm
      1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm
      1 ancient karmic wyrm
      3 ancient red dragons
      1 Ancient Stone Beast
      1 animated armor
      2 ankhegs
      9 annihilators
      1 annis hag
      1 assassin
     10 balors
      2 bandits
      1 banshee
      1 barbarian
      1 battle bunny
      5 berserker lords
      1 berserker prince
      1 big dog
      1 black druid
     16 blue baby dragons
     10 blue dragons
      2 bugbears
      1 bunny master
      1 carrion crawler
      5 cave fishers
      1 caveman
      1 Chaos Archmage
      1 chaos brother
      1 chaos eye
     65 chaos mutants
      1 chaos rat
     81 chaos servants
      2 chaos spawns
     28 chaos warriors
     34 chaos wizards
      1 clay golem
      3 corpse fiends
      1 crime lord
      2 cutpurses
      1 dark elven archer
      1 dark orc
      6 dire wolves
      1 displacer beast
      1 doppleganger king
      2 doppleganger lords
      1 dwarven chaos knight
     35 earth elementals
      2 ettins
      1 eye of destruction
     20 fire beetles
     13 fire demons
     35 fire drakes
     12 fire elementals
      7 fire giants
      1 fire giant king
      1 fire grue
      1 fire lizard
      3 fire vortices
      2 flesh golems
      3 floating eyes
      2 gelatinous cubes
      8 ghosts
      1 ghost bat
     24 ghost lords
      4 ghuls
      6 giant bats
      1 giant bee queen
      3 giant bee warriors
      7 giant bee workers
      3 giant centipedes
      3 giant frogs
      1 giant lizard
     33 giant rats
      4 giant slugs
      1 giant spider
      5 gnolls
      1 gnoll chieftain
     26 goblins
      1 goblin berserker
      1 goblin chieftain
     25 goblin rockthrowers
     14 goblin slavemasters
      3 gray oozes
      3 great blue wyrms
      2 great red wyrms
      1 greater balor
     46 greater chaos servants
     34 greater claw bugs
      1 greater mimic
      3 greater mummies
      3 green blobs
      1 green worm
      1 gremlin
      2 griffons
      1 grizzly bear
      2 half-orc bouncers
      3 harpies
      1 hell hound
      3 hill giants
      1 hippogriff
      4 hobgoblins
      2 hobgoblin leaders
      1 hyena
      2 ice vortices
      1 imp
      3 jackals
      1 jackalwere
      7 killer bugs
     22 kobolds
      1 kobold shaman
     27 large bats
      6 large dogs
      2 large gnolls
      2 large jackals
      7 large kobolds
      1 large orc
      1 large rust monster
     13 large spiders
      1 least daemon
      8 liches
      2 lightning lizards
      1 lightning vortex
      1 living wall
      9 lizard men
      7 magebane eyes
      4 magedoom eyes
      1 master assassin
      1 master mimic
      1 master necromancer
      1 Master Summoner
      1 master swordsman
      1 minotaur
      9 mummies
      1 mummy lord
      1 ochre jelly
      1 ogre
      3 ogre lords
     32 orcs
      1 orc butcher
      4 orc scorchers
      3 outlaws
      1 owlbear
     20 pit vipers
      1 pixie
      1 purple worm
      1 quasit
      4 rabid dogs
     15 rats
      4 ratling archers
      1 ratling fencer
      3 ratling thieves
      1 ratling warlord
      1 rattlesnake
     10 red baby dragons
     10 red dragons
      1 red worm
      5 shadows
      1 shadow lord
      1 silver wolf
      1 skeletal king
      2 skeletal warriors
     12 skeletons
      1 Snake from Beyond
      2 spectres
     25 steel golems
      1 steel horror
      4 stone golems
     26 stone grues
      5 stone snakes
      1 tarantula
      2 trolls
      1 undead chaos dwarven berserker
      1 vampire
      2 vapor rats
      1 viper
      7 water demons
      6 water elementals
      4 water grues
     36 water snakes
      4 wererats
      1 werewolf lord
      1 white baby dragon
      1 white worm
      3 wights
      1 wolf
      1 wraith
     51 writhing masses of primal chaos
      1 yellow ooze
      6 zombies

[Maul]

Congrats@@@@@@!

[Dudley]

whao. NIIICE. *applauds* you should put it in sig

[Grey]

Nice idea

[Dudley]

Platinum Edition ADOMer

I hadn't that in mind but just... WoW.

[fazisi]

( o_o) good job Darren

[Overheat]

Very impressive.


1002 monsters- I usually kill that many gremlins.

How was the platinum girdle found out? Was it code diving or something else?

Imagine wishing for blink dogs to not appear...

All in all, its nice to see a platinum run that doesn't have chaotic sacrifices and piety abuse.

[gut]

Should really check this thread more often. I didn't know about this
until Grey's comment in the adom roller thread. If he used my roller,
that means he had the talents 'alert' and 'mechanically inclined'

Awesome achievement, I wish I could have seen it played out on the
server. Now I'll have to try to beat that turn mark...