New speedrun record set.

[gut]

I rolled a GE wizard (of course) using jaakkos' new auto-roller
on the ancardius server (FFlaguna's US mirror of ancardia). I
also chose star sign of tree for the +5 willpower, which gives
and extra +1 to bolt spell range. Can't complain about starting
Le: and Wi: both above 20.

Typical start in Bugwil, followed by DF visit. Uncontrolled TP
took me to pools quickly enough, and I was lucky enough to get
TP control without curse or doom. I looted weapons and armor
room to get Guth slaying ability. After ridding the world of
his evil druid ways, I returned to honorable Kherab for my just
reward. I picked cure critical wounds somewhere along the way,
which really is what made such a low turncount possible.

I used Shield of Raw Steel's monster DV/PV and =fire to get
pyramid finished before first trip to DT. Just TP'd into
Rehetep's face, used spells/alchemy, looted corpse and left. DT
was good for some PV points, but I got jipped by the mystic. As
a result, I generated no means of chaos resistance all game.
Can't remember if I did slay Waldenbrooke at this point, but he
died eventually, and that's all that matters. This game was
filled with shops; it had about 10, which is a record for me.

So I TP'd Thrundarr away from lever and descended via forrest
route to Worb. The snake fell easily enough, so I ascended to
deal with griffyard. Was easy time there, as i picked fireball
somewhere along the way. So just before heading into tower, I
found one of those lovely shops I mentioned earlier. It was a
ring shop. It held invis, regen, and ice. I didn't kill that
shoppy, but it wasn't for lack of trying. Looted him anyway.
Tower was tackled via center route, and was safer than most
attempts due to invis and ice rings. A mixed blessing was
picking the 1/10th wieght corruption durring ACW fight. It
gave me the speed to beat him, but took my HP's back to only
double digit levels, even with SoRS equipped.

I next dived to casino. I passed a beehive along the way, so
I took a few dozen turns to acquire bees wax. This is an option
I wasn't fortunate enough to have on a previous (disasterous)
run. Next eventful thing was passing a hostile eternal guardian
on my way to the casino. Even with SoRS in place, he still took
me to single digit HP's.

Casino itself was good to me overall. On the one hand, it DID
have nice items like strength of atlas and another TP book,
(which I needed desperately). On the other hand, when I zapped
the shoppy with a far slay wand, HE FLED OUT OF THE SHOP. This
is the first time I had ever seen this, and it absolutely
killed my turn count. I needed to kill him for xp points though,
so just had to make due with fighting him outside the shop. I
had no bow for my 24 arrows of slaying (thank you RNG), so had
to re-use my 4 quarrels of humanoid slaying. Ate > 500 turns,
and only yielded ~3 mil xp, but at least it was enough to go
forward.

I didn't bother diving to AKW, then returning for orbs, but
just got them on the way. I had > Wi:32 from arts and a ball
spell, so it was easy enough. Fun time in air temple though,
when I needed a refill on PP's. Prayer 1 = pickaxe, prayer 2
is another, prayer 3 heals some weak poison that a C had
managed to slip through, prayer 4 = PP's. Thank you diety.

AKW gave ~7.5 mil, so that took me to xl 41. One of the spells
I got knowledge in was acid ball, so that made mana temple easy.
I went inside the temple area halo-style (thanks to moult for
introducing that to my vocabulary), and I don't think the
archmage ever landed a hit. He did confuse me at first, but the
meat shields kept him from taking advantage of the situation.

For D:48, I didn't bother slaying most of the guardians. I
just evaded them, placed orbs, then descended. D:50 was not
diggable, and I had no cheese victory methods available to me.
No destruction, no paralyzation wand. Nothing. My fellow irc
strategists on IRC, mainly Tuplanolla and Fflaguna, helped me
decide that halo-style would be best again.

I TP'd between the balors and the upper lever room. Used magic
missiles to soften them up, and the remainder of my acid ball
castings to kill one. This left me with 8 balors to go, and no
ball spells to work with. Fortunately, my bolt spell range was
21, and there was 10 horizontal spaces along the top row of
D:50's center room. This allowed bouncing mm's to hit them
twice per zap. The balors aligning nicely along the top didn't
hurt either.

I then opened the upper and lower rooms, threw the levers, and
called back whatever balors had panicked and fled. I killed
them with the replenished acid ball castings I had gotten upon
leveling to xl 50. With all balors dead, I TP'd to stairs and
left. Before leaving the chain, I used death ray on a goodwife
that had given me the stink-eye earlier in the game.


################################# HALL OF FAME #################################

Pos Score The gory details...
--- ---------- -------------------
1 95467820 Greyslayer (gutt). L50 gray elven wizard (F). 33909992 xps.
5260 turns. Won on 1/22/2011.
She saved the world with her brave efforts without even
stopping to save himself.

[Dudley]

5260 turns.

Wow. just... wow.

[gut]

Greyslayer    St:11  Le:30  Wi:31  Dx:33  To:27  Ch:16  Ap: 8  Ma:10  Pe:26 N=
DV/PV:105/45     H:548(548)    P:451(451)    Exp: 50/33909992   DrCh  M: 5260
Blessed Invisible Satiated Coward

Name: Greyslayer          Race: female Gray Elf     Class: Wizard
Eye color: amber          Hair color: white         Complexion: light
Height: 5'11"             Weight: 10 pounds         Scars: 4
Age: 322 (grown-up)
Star sign: Tree           Birthday: 2/Tree (day 332 of the year)

Head          : uncursed eternium cap [+0, +4]                        [28s]
Neck          : blessed amulet of balance                              [3s]
Body          : blessed robes of resistance (-4, -4) [+3, +12] {To+5} [60s]
Girdle        : uncursed adamantium girdle [+0, +3]                   [18s]
Cloak         : uncursed light cloak [+4, +0]                         [20s]
Right Hand    : uncursed sword of Nonnak (+2, 4d3+2) [+2, +2] {Wi+5}  [80s]
Left Hand     : uncursed shield of raw steel (+2) [+18, +12] {To+8}  [180s]
Right Ring    : uncursed ring of invisibility                          [1s]
Left Ring     : uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd)
Bracers       : uncursed bracers of toughness [+0, +0] {To+4}         [10s]
Gauntlets     : blessed thick gauntlets (-1, -2) [+0, +1]             [15s]
Boots         : uncursed boots of sneakiness [+3, +0] {Dx+2}          [20s]
Missile weapon: uncursed light crossbow (+5, +0)                      [70s]
Missiles      : bundle of 3 uncursed quarrels of jelly slaying (+3, 2d6+4)
Tool          : blessed torch (30 turns of fuel remaining)            [10s]

   uncursed white dragon-hide gauntlets (-2, +0) [+0, +2]             [10s]
// funny story about gauntlets in this game. I needed thick gauntlets
// desperately, but found the black tome in, yes, a random generated general
// store. I brewed some PoRC, dipped a few pairs of gauntlets/gloves, and 
// tada... thick gauntlets. 

   blessed seven league boots [+1, +1]                                [30s]

   blessed knife of endurance (+9, 1d3+6) {To+4}                       [8s]
// darkforge provided. big help for early part of the game

   uncursed pick axe of devastation (+0, 5d6+7)                       [75s]
// didn't know I had this, actually

   uncursed eternium two-handed sword (+18, 6d5+18) [-1, +0]          [50s]
// I dub thee 'Guthslayer'

   uncursed rune-covered sling "Whirlwind" (+12, +12)                  [3s]
// Thank you casino. Thank you.


   uncursed ring of regeneration                                       [1s]
   uncursed ring of invisibility                                       [1s]
   heap of 2 uncursed rings of teleport control                        [2s]
   blessed ring of ice                                                 [1s]
   uncursed ring of karmic absorption                                  [1s]
// you see the fruits of one pool provided wish, and one RNG provided ring shop

   heap of 4 blessed potions of extra healing                          [8s]
   blessed scroll of protection                                        [2s]
   heap of 2 uncursed scrolls of charging                              [4s]
   heap of 5 uncursed scrolls of power                                [10s]
   uncursed scroll of uncursing                                        [2s]
   heap of 2 uncursed scrolls of identify                              [4s]
   uncursed scroll of defense                                          [2s]
   heap of 2 uncursed scrolls of peace                                 [4s]
// I see now that these could prolly have been better used. (and by that, I mean used)

Shields                  3    +6              basic                79
  Alchemy ..............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Climbing ............. 85    (great)        [+1d3]
  Concentration ........100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Dodge ................ 81    (great)        [+1]
  First aid ............100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Haggling ............. 77    (great)        [+1d3]
  Healing ..............100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Herbalism ............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Listening ............100    (superb)       [+1d5]
  Literacy .............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Stealth ..............100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Ventriloquism ........ 83    (great)        [+1d3]

   Acid Ball           :     2,  41pp     (Effectivity: +8)
   Acid Bolt           :   341,   7pp     (Effectivity: +21)
   Bless               :    79,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Burning Hands       :   797,   4pp     (Effectivity: +6)
   Calm Monster        :   163,   5pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Create Item         :    76, 186pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Cure Critical Wounds:   485,   7pp     (Effectivity: +11)
   Cure Disease        :    78,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Cure Light Wounds   :    76,   4pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Cure Serious Wounds :    79,   8pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Darkness            :   585,   3pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Death Ray           :    50,  90pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Destroy Undead      :    64,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Disarm Trap         :   274,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Earthquake          :    81,  57pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Farsight            :    76,  13pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Fire Bolt           :    67,   8pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Fireball            :   353,  10pp     (Effectivity: +16)
   Frost Bolt          :   409,   8pp     (Effectivity: +3)
   Greater Identify    :    69,  79pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Heal                :    75,  30pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Ice Ball            :    68,  20pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Identify            :    71,  58pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Improved Fireball   :    57,  26pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Invisibility        :   326,   6pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Knock               :   594,   8pp     (Effectivity: +3)
   Know Alignment      :   140,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Light               :   641,   1pp     (Effectivity: +5)
   Lightning Ball      :    83,  21pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Lightning Bolt      :    47,  11pp     (Effectivity: +3)
   Magic Lock          :   171,   5pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Magic Map           :    52,  36pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Magic Missile       :   306,   4pp     (Effectivity: +9)
   Mystic Shovel       :    82,  71pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Neutralize Poison   :   138,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Petrification       :    68,  95pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Remove Curse        :    79,  36pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Revelation          :    64,  27pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Scare Monster       :   198,   8pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Slow Monster        :   354,   5pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Slow Poison         :    72,   5pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Strength of Atlas   :   304,   6pp     (Effectivity: +4)
   Stun Ray            :    70,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Summon Monsters     :    76,  23pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Teleportation       :   136,  11pp     (Effectivity: +30)
   Web                 :   454,   7pp     (Effectivity: +6)

Your antennae explore the details of your environment (Ap: -4).
You have become very light (1/10 weight, St: -6, Dx: +4, To: -6, Ap: -6, +20
speed).
Poison drips from your hands.
Your feet have been transformed into hooves (+8 kicking damage, Dx: -6).
Your corrupted tissue seems to heal much faster.
You have grown a total of 12 eyes (Ap: -6, Pe: +6).
You have grown thorns (3d3 melee damage, Dx: -2, Ap: -3).
Your close attunement to corrupted astral space allows teleportation.

After she leaves the Drakalor Chain she is welcomed by her people with great
honors. They acknowledge her noble deeds, her valor, her cunning and her
great skills that helped to prevent the complete destruction of the world
she knows. Her severe taint by the forces of Chaos prevents her from ever
leading a normal life. She always remembers the glorious deeds that took her
life away. Her sacrifice is remembered in the stories of her people, but not
in their hearts. She ends her life in loneliness and isolation.

[gut]

Greyslayer, the gray elven wizard, saved the world with her brave efforts
without even stopping to save himself.
She scored 95470072 points and advanced to level 50.
She survived for 0 years, 34 days, 10 hours, 59 minutes and 38 seconds (5260
turns).
Greyslayer visited 72 places.
Her strength score was modified by +6 during her career.
Her learning score was modified by +5 during her career.
Her willpower score was modified by +5 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by -1 during her career.
Her toughness score was modified by +7 during her career.
Her charisma score was modified by +6 during her career.
Her appearance score was modified by +8 during her career.
Her mana score was modified by -6 during her career.
Her perception score was modified by +3 during her career.
She adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
She left the Drakalor Chain after completing her quest and became a famous
heroine.
505 monsters perished under her attacks.
The following 19 artifacts were generated during her 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 heavy crossbow "The Far Slayer"
  the sword of Nonnak
  the elemental gauntlets
  the crown of science
  the shield of raw steel
  the ancient mummy wrapping
  the ankh
  the rune-covered club "Skullcrusher"
  the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
  the rune-covered sling "Whirlwind"
  the robes of resistance
  the black tome of Alsophocus
She possessed the following intrinsics:
  She was fire resistant (gained through an item).
  She was poison resistant (gained through an item).
  She was cold resistant (gained through an item).
  She was acid resistant (gained through an item).
  She was lucky.
  Fate smiled upon her (enhanced through an item).
  She was able to control teleportation.
  She was invisible (gained through an item).
  She was stun resistant.
  She was resistant to death rays (gained through an item).
  She was shock resistant (gained through an item).
  She was able to see invisible things (gained through an item).
  She was immune to shock attacks.
  She was immune to fire attacks (gained through an item).
  She was immune to ice attacks (gained through an item).
She had the following talents: Careful, Defensive Fighter, Extremely Hardy,
Good Book Learner, Good Learner, Greased Lightning, Hardy, Mighty Aura,
Potent Aura, Quick, Shield Expert, Shield Specialist, Strong Aura, Strong
Healer, Very Careful, Very Hardy, Very Quick.
She had a final speed score of 145 (final base speed: 134).
She was a fervent follower of Ayssia.
She asked for 21 divine interventions.
She was a holy champion of Balance.
She was severely tainted by Chaos.

The following monsters were vanquished:
      9 air demons
      9 air elementals
      2 air grues
      1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm
      1 ancient karmic wyrm
      1 Ancient Stone Beast
      5 animated trees
      2 annihilators
      9 balors
      1 bandit
      1 banshee
      1 battle bunny
      1 big dog
      1 bunny master
      4 carrion crawlers
      1 Chaos Archmage
     18 chaos mutants
     79 chaos servants
     20 chaos warriors
     26 chaos wizards
      1 corpse fiend
      2 dark elven priestesses
      4 dark sages
      8 dire wolves
      1 doppleganger
      1 druid
     18 earth elementals
     11 fire demons
      4 fire drakes
      1 fire elemental
      1 fire giant
     24 fire lizards
      1 gelatinous cube
      3 ghosts
     20 ghost lords
     11 ghuls
      1 giant ant worker
      1 giant bee queen
     41 giant bee warriors
      2 giant bee workers
      1 giant frog
      1 giant slug
      1 goblin berserker
      1 goodwife
      1 greater balor
     21 greater chaos servants
     34 greater claw bugs
      3 greater mummies
      1 hill orc
      1 hill orc sergeant
      1 ice vortex
     13 jackals
     11 killer bugs
      5 kobolds
      1 kobold chieftain
      1 large jackal
      1 large kobold
      1 lesser daemon
      1 lich
      1 lightning lizard
      6 magebane eyes
      5 magedoom eyes
      1 master mimic
      1 master necromancer
      1 Master Summoner
      9 mummies
      1 mummy lord
      4 ogres
      1 orc
      3 orc scorchers
      2 outlaws
     23 pit vipers
      1 rat
      4 ratling archers
      1 red baby dragon
      1 red worm
      4 shadows
      3 shopkeepers
      2 skeletons
      1 Snake from Beyond
      2 stone golems
     25 stone grues
      4 stone snakes
      1 swordsman
      1 undead chaos dwarven berserker
      4 vapor rats
      4 water demons
      1 water elemental
      5 water grues
     13 water snakes
      4 werewolves
      2 wights
      3 wraiths
      5 writhing masses of primal chaos

[Albahan]

Very impressive. Starting with 5 St? That's rough.. when did you pick up Strength of Atlas?

[fflaguna]

This game was
filled with shops; it had about 10, which is a record for me.

Do you remember if this was the game you started with "long lost brother returns"?

[JellySlayer]

Very impressive.

You also beat the piety scummer by 300000 points

[moomoo]

Whoah. Congrats!

I usually get out of Terinyo by turn 5000

[gut]

i picked SoA in casino.

I am surpised the score was so high, as my diety hated
me because i prayed too much. I didn't get any inventory
cursing or anything, but i did get 'grumbling'. Also, I was
unable to clear corruptions before leaving the chain, as I
chose to slay the evil green druid.

i didn't look for any special messages upon startup, as most
of these speedrun PC's are genned quickly, and not expected
to live long.

[ChaosMuffin]

Nice work sir, now your challenge is to try it with a melee character