Hello everybody. Judging from reading around this forum and seeing lots of ultra-endings or [metal]-man modes my victory is nothing special in the whole, but its still special to me, so I am going to tell the story to anyone who is interested.
Maybe the most ridiciolus part about the whole thing is, that I wanted to play a meele-emphasizing character which could also cast spells. My sign got me improved gain from tactic-settings so I went for a high elven (literacy) barbarian (berserk)...
I had a very good start. Not only the puppycave had living herb patterns of marellion and morgia on level 2, but the keethrax dungeon also had an L-Altar, so I was able to quickly bring my attributes to 25 and always have holy water through out the game for any purpose since the very beginning.
I then went through the CoC, made the thrundarr quest (large kobold, yay), and tried to go through the ancient dwarven halls. On level 2 the only passage to the stairs was through a tension room with Frostgiants. So I went through the forest using up most of my nerves and 2 pots of invis in order to survive it. Returned, finished the arenaquest, sacrificed the greater demon, got tactics ... nothing special. Another lucky thing: Teleportation control and attuned to the astral planes as first corruption :)
Not only that, I also found an amulet of live saving in the dwarven graveyard, so you see, I had a pretty lucky game until ...
I was back at dwarven city, bothered by having neither rings of ice, nor a fireproof blanket. I was around level 22 and had just maxed literacy.
With Literacy 100 and Learning 24 I finally wanted to read all my books and started with the easiest one.
The Book of "Slow Poison" exploded in my hands and killed a dwarven child >.<
I ran out of the city and was frustrated to no end :) especially when I found out that my character would not be able to read ANY book. Confusion, Blind, Explosion, Crumbling was all I git from reading books. I guess it was because my class was barbarian. If I had known that before I would not have even started the character.
Thinking that the game was pretty much over I went to ToEF with only one Ring of Ice and no fireproof Blanket in order to kill my character. Needed a prayer and 4 potions of extra healing in order to kill the guardian in meele with 2 spears. Quickly ran out. Since then I had the Orb in my Toolslot until the very end. Having found a RoDS in the ID I unknowingly (another mistake) wished for a specific type of eternium spears. I got 2 normal one and one murderous ... *sigh*. I leveled up a bit and then ran around between the TotHK and the forest to build this freaking bridge (cost a lot of game time) and when I finally had the ring I just wanted to see below level 30 in the CoC at least ONCE (yes, this was my first character to ever have come so far). Before that I got crowned and got the vanquisher (yay, pretty sword ^.^).
I lost my AoLS to the catlord which was incredibly fast, strong and tough. Teleportation corruption saved me, else I would have died there :) maybe I killed a little too many cats
Found a big tension room full of titans, which nearly killed me too. I threw a scroll of darkness in panic ... and then saw all titans being "vanquished" by me in that darkness without even fighting ^O.o^ ... 5 levels for me
I went deeper and got my wands of digging made more or less useless by "mana battery", Lacking a pickaxe I decided to go to the ID once more in order to get some. I was only level 25 back then. I made a level in the ID and returned with one(! *cry*) pickaxe. Went to the water temple, killed off everything. then had my pickaxe broken while entering the airtemple. I had no scrolls of repair ...
By that time I already had 12 corruptions. I went to the ID got another 3 corruptions (carrying around 2 orbs all the time xD) while gathering 3 more pickaxes, blessed them and after hitting level 30 immediatly made the clear corruption quest.
I once more gathered all I had and went for the showdown :)
Cleared air and earth temple ... Went into the mana temple Without ANY means of trap detection (*laughs*), triggered all 30-50 traps and spammed my wand of light while dualwielding my spears with dv80 against the chaos arch mage. Escaped with 2-3 more corruptions and 2 more prayers used. Having gathered up to 8 corruption (AGAIN), I decided not to clear the ancient red dragon vault. I didnt have the ammunition, I had no possibility of healing myself beside my healing skill (almost no potions and my god got angry), so meeleing 35 ancient red dragons would have killed me off. I just went past and tried to finally have at least ONE time won adom. Went to the metaplane (9 corruptions), digged to the levers and had to run away and fire with my bow almost all monsters due to my lack of healing capabilites.
Then it happened. Shortly before having cleared the second lever, I got a teleport, chose the wrong place and stood right before the portal in the main room, Scroll of teleport got me out. Me and all of the balors >.<
I ported again to the already clear lever (2. scroll), handled id, zapped my wand of destruction and ported back into the other lever room, got hit by a balor, prayed on 9 hp, got healed and ALL of my items cursed. moved away, saw a chaoswizard leaving the lever-tile, used my last scroll, handled the lever and fired another wand of destruction. While trying to squeeze my wand of teleportation, I got down to 100 hp again, until my attunement to the astral planes saved me again, and brought me to the exit.
I then ran out the dungeon as fast as I could avoiding any fights with waiting for teleport in closed rooms and when I got out, I immediatly left the drakalor chain. I didnt want anything WRONG to happen. This is my first victory, pathetic, full of mistakes, and still one of my most precious achievements :)
Never playing a Barbarian again. The inability to use spellsbooks proved to be hard in many situations and horrible when it came to healing myself after battles. I will also never again level up my missile weapons so late. No matter the DV and PV, there are monsters you dont want to engage in meele :)
One more nice thing. I one-hitted an Ancient black dragon with a tremendous blow of the vanquisher ^.^ That had a nice feeling to it.
Thank you for listening to the probably boring story. Still. Finally I have seen a lot and learned a lot. Next will be an ultra ending with a class able of casting spells.