The Weakest Link '09: League of Shadows

[Grey]

Very true, and one of the joys of chaos tactics...

Bah, I want to be in league1 now. I have several ways of dealing with furious_styles' chaos tactics (assuming some food can be found in a reasonable length of time). Anyone who can't make it is obviously an inferior ADOM player

(edit: and my way would be a hell of a lot better than Maul's :P)

[gut]

> I was pretty surprised to find myself being slated in IRC

I don't hang out there, so I wouldn't know.

*there is a reason I don't hang out there*

[Silfir]

How the hell is that not within the rules or the spirit?

vogonpoet has said it himself. It's the goddamned ChAoS gAtE. Complaining about competitive tactics once it is open is like complaining about the other side scoring a goal in a football game. I don't see how it could ruin the game either - it is the game, so to speak

[Epythic]

34000 Loaded. Descending to I38.
34438 you feel good about your mana potential
34447 Descending to I39.
34476 Descending to I40.
34690 Firebolted a fire giant, wondering why he wouldnt die. Ooops. Down to 56 HP.
34860 Another fire giant. I learned: frostbolt ftw.
34865 Descending to I41.
35044 Descending to I42.
35213 Door trap. Down to 96 HP.
35287:

A stair leading downwards. A section of floor.
#########
#.......#
#..@.M#.#####
#.....#...$.#
###########.#

Hmm, descend or fight? I chose the safe option: descending to I43.

35308 The RNG taketh away a few more hitpoints: down to 63.
35628 Have spent some time to get back to ~100HP.
35630 Stone statue. evariste said it cant do much damage. Doh. It burned one of our bows, but other than that I'm still alive.
25757 Greater moloch. Running, casting darkness, trying to get around him. They can see in the dark? Whoops. Turned out i would just have kept running, and I'd had eventually found the stairs. Doh.

  2*    145523 Epythic (league2). L18 dwarven elementalist (M). 388786 xps.     
               35748 turns. Died on 5/5/2009.                                   
               He was killed by a greater moloch on level 44 of some ancient    
               caves.

Just in case you are wondering:

(17:27:35) Epythic: btw, i'm at the *end* of round 2. could you please move me to the *beginning* of round 3 ?
(17:27:51) DGrey: Nope.
(17:27:56) DGrey: Chaos gate ain't open yet :P
(17:28:08) Epythic:
(17:28:14) Epythic: so you'll have to disqualify me soon
...
(17:54:01) DGrey: Epythic, diving so fast can be considered chaotic.

[Grey]

Diving so fast got you killed :P Funny to watch though.

league2, the Chaos Gate is now open!

[Ars]

Would be crazy if GMs didn't see in the dark...

[BurnedToast]

44000 - cookies for weapons?! really? Well at least we still have armor.
44112 - frostbolt some zombies and claw bugs
44150 - beat a zombie to death with our cookies.
44195 - dive to I54
44356 - Hungry but no food
44404 - eat an ogre lord corpse, +1 str
44539 - Descend to I55 to run from a white dragon (all we got left is frostbolt and cookies)
44636 - Eat giant rat corpse
44890 - Found a tension room of giants, ate one of them for +1 str
44938 - ate an etten and hill giant, +1 str
44948 - loot a grey (phase?) dagger. Too bad we are stuck with the cookies
45021 - loot an iron ration
45069 - gained sickness while fighting a rat in berzerk mode with the cookies
45548 - used first aid a LOT, +1 str from a hill giant corpse
45869 - more first aid, eat a lightning lizard corpse
45951 - descend to I56
45959 - wore some lovely greased boots I found... what? cursed boots of slow shuffle? oops!
46000 - more first aid to end the turn

I got +4 str, HP casted about 25% of our frostbolt castings, got us a little extra food. Oh, I also got us sickness and slow shuffle boots... oops!

[deepshock]

Okay: Here's the trip report.

1) Constant first aid for the next few turns
2) Killed a Frost Giant

3) new items:

Fire Opal ring
Gnay Gniy scroll

4) Then, I ran into a chaos warrior tension room and died, despite my best efforts (-1 hp too)

1* 161125 Deepshock (league1). L20 dwarven elementalist (M). 828534
xps. 46464 turns. Died on 5/5/2009.
He was killed by a chaos warrior on level 55 of some ancient
caves.

[Covenant]

Obviously, the whole point of the Chaos gate is to make things more interesting, but I can sympathise with Grey - if we have a promising character which we cripple to the extent of it turning from 'Who can survive whatever varied and tough challenges may be generated in the best way?' to 'Who can survive the near-impossible situation I've placed us in for the longest number of turns', I can see why it might be a bit annoying.

Tough to reconcile the two viewpoints, though. Maybe next year an Order league, with no Chaos tactics? :P

[Al-Khwarizmi]

Well, I died. Damnit.

Al-Khwarizmi, the dwarven elementalist, was killed by an ancient red dragon.
He scored 137004 points and advanced to level 18.

So, the thing was like this:

34000: checked inventory and spells.
34031: descended to I:38.
34170: killed a white dragon.
34334: read a scroll of identify, identifying potions (I'm not going to tell you what they were).
34450: Found a moloch blocking the way to the downstairs. I throw a couple of lightning bolts at it and start running away. However, I am cornered. Before me, at the end of a corridor and before reaching a room, I have a steel zombie and a couple more monsters (wererat or something, I think). And I have no PP. Damn. I cast a couple of lightning bolts out of HP to kill the monsters. The steel zombie dies and I am able to make it to the room when I was already feeling the hot, stinky breath of the moloch at my back. So I lure it into the room, exit through the door, run like hell through the corridors throwing a couple of spells at monsters, and make it to the stairs.
34557: Down to I:39. Found stone statue at entrance, among other monsters.
34703: Destroyed statue in darkness. Downstairs have been found already.
34750: Found ancient red dragon. I throw a couple of frost bolts at him, but he shrugs them. Then, I think: "Aha! The other day, in this league, someone found a room full of ancient white dragons, and they weren't able to see in darkness". So I cast darkness, but the bugger sees perfectly, and keeps breathing fire at me. Damn, why don't ancient whites see in darkness and ancient reds do? It doesn't make any sense!
So I begin to run, while throwing some frost bolts (but not many, because I run out of PP). He burns me down to 1 HP! During my last couple of turns, I try to zap a wand of door creation, but the bastard is able to open the door. How can a frigging *dragon* open doors? Well, so he breathes fire once again, and there goes the character, transformed into a small mountain of ashes.