The Weakest Link '09: League of Shadows

[Grey]

First 500 turns: Stayed on the level killing a few grubs. Nothing of interest really. Hill giant chieftain corpse didn't give any stat bonus Found spellbook of Light, read to death. Found a scroll of identify and a new box (not used either).

500-1000: Found adamantium halberd, so decided to use holy water on identify to make sure it was okay to equip. Dumped some junk. We don't really have anything overly noteworthy. Equipped the blessed adamantium halberd (+9, 2d7+9). Killed a stone giant lord and lightning lizard, but we're still nowhere near a level up. Shadow Troll drops a Lightning Bolt spellbook - with 26 Le I decide it's best to read it to death. Total 760 castings. Not much use compared to our better trained spells anyway.

1000-1500: Dorn beast appears and shrugs off my bolts - I decide it's time to descend. Sense a tension on the next level. Since I'm being paranoid I zap our wand of monster detection - reveals a large room of giants. Might be tasty... Trap door strips off half hp and destroys a lot of items, including 1 of our holy waters. In the interest of future security I decide to bless our remaining 3 waters. I start dispatching the hill giants, which ain't easy with low PP. Pick up antenna corruption in the process.

1500-2000: Criticalled down to 1 HP, trapped in a room with hill giants attacking, and out of PP too. Only exit leads to more hill giants. Damn, I think, just one option left - I pray. It is unheard. Crap... Okay, calm thoughts. Hmm, 10 PP, I could try and take a couple down with a bolt spell, or.... Darkness! I'm saved! Ate 3 giant corpses but no strength increase Healed up a bit in darkness, and when I tried to move I found myself surrounded. Killed some of the lurking giants, but there still seems to be plenty around. Turns ran out whilst I was still in darkness.

Next player be careful. Thegiants ain't too bad, but with crits they can kill. Not far off level 17 now... vlg is here.

[Qui]

I don't think that you were surrounded by giants. Not enough exp gain, died too fast. I guess something came along and spammed while you were healing. A necromancer maybe, or a werewolf.

[Grey]

Well we have enough charges of monster detection if the next player is curious but cautious.

[quik]

My turn on league1:

32401 Greater water elemental rusts our halberd, gauntlets of peace and some scrolls.
32418 Elemental killed. Frost giant corpse eaten. An annis hag curses our sling of the long shot and a scroll of uncursing.
32812 Downstairs found.
32926 Iron ration eaten. Cursed ration
32961 Picked up large ration.
33055 Killed an stalker. Eaten its corpse. Now we can see invisible (Our eyes suddenly tingle).
33293 I get down to I38.
33319 Found downstairs.
33360 Black dragon killed.
33363 Cloak of invisibility obtained.
33472 Large bat corpse found and eaten.
33600 Level up. Skills: Detect traps, Gemology, Listening, Metallurgy.
33739 Killed an ancient minotaur.
33891 Eaten large ration.
33949 Killed an annihilator.
33998 Killed another annihilator and a shadow troll.
34000 Mission accomplished. To sum up, now we have a cloak of invisibility, we can see invisible and food problems remain the same.

VLG file can be found here.

[F50]

Alright I'm playing. Report to be edited into this post.

34037: melee Hill giant, get iron ration and eat corpse. A critical from it only got us down to 87hp.
34075: melee Shadow troll and Ogre. The eternium equipment is good.
34091: Eat giant bat, get hurthling cake. Looks like I won't be starving today.
34180: Dark elven priestess critically hits and poisons me. Bathe in fire, rinse, lather, repeat. Dead elf.
34207: "You feel uneasy". More food.
34268: I:39.
34324: A cyclops' regular hit can irregularly cause us damage.
34397: Killed vortice in darkness.
34420: scorched annihilator
34450: Frost giant jarl. From what I remember, these guys were quite tough. I'm staying invisible and away from him. He's in the large room in the middle of the level.
34526: Diamond golem...RUN
34531: 1hp. Caught between diamond golem and frost giant jarl.
34532: *dies*

  1*    156010 F50 (league1). L19 dwarven elementalist (M). 488442 xps.
               34533 turns. Died on 5/3/2009.
               He was killed by a frost giant jarl on level 39 of some
               ancient caves.

EDIT: I left a memorial file, this is in case more information is needed/wanted later. Naturally players (including myself) should not view.

[Grey]

Commiserations, F50 - not a nice situation to end up in. quik's save file is restored (surprised you didn't do that yourself, F50) so league1 can continue.

[F50]

Yeah, forgot about save file restore...sorry.

[LuciusKain]

Going to have lunch, then have my turn, if no one grabs it before then. I'll be about half an hour if anyone wants to watch me fail.

Ok, about to start.

28152: Got out of darkness, equip ided boots of speed
28248: Level 17 - Detect traps, Gemology, Mining, Literacy (maxed)
28282: Burning hands +23
28354: Firbolt up 1
28360: Wand of far slaying destroyed by lightning lizard, damn
28561: mStone giant corpse, +1 st
Up to 29184: w5ing
29205: Decending, just to make sure, Cyclops and chaos spider
29233: closed dorr on non hostile spider
29249: found out molochs are fire resistant
29252: and ice resistant
29276: ran away, panicked a ghost lord
29341: found stairs, closed dorr and w5ed
29361: decended sue to moloch catching up
29628: grinding sound, twice, probably ants
29985: listening up to 77
30000: w5ed up to 92 hp

Went better than last time, first time I've come across a moloch. Not too sure how to deal with it. Left whoever goes next in not too bad a position though.

http://ancardia.ath.cx/adom_users/league2/luciuska.vlg

[Conundrum]

Lucius just finished his turn, so I'll have mine in about half an hour if anyone wants to jump on IRC and/or watch me fail.

[LuciusKain]

watch me fail.

That's my line.