!!! bubble gum !!!

[ironcash]

So I've been playing adom since the 5th grade, and now 12 years later I beat it for the first time with out cheatsin... Up to about 6 months ago I *swore* that it was impossible to beat adom without save scumming. bubble gum the dwarven wizard saved the day!!!

I noticed that the game isn't too incredibly difficult once you've taken down ToEF and High king... secret to victory is definitely potions of confusion and slaying ammo... darkness helps too

Memorable moments in bubble gums life

* did Guth'Alak's first quest for the first time ever (I don't know why? I just had never done it b4)
* had a very humbling fight with a gray ooze upstairs from High King that paralyzed me and dropped me from 200hp to 1hp (almost cried :P )
* spaced out putting on AMW for master summoner so I got confused a couple times and almost got stuck in room, but I got my act together after that and took 'im down
* was clearing Blue Dragon cave and a took a couple steps off of stairs and noticed that karmic dragon wasn't doing anything so I started walkin' along "tra-la-la-l a" for a minute b4 he boomed sumthing angry at me and I had. to. take. him. down.
* killed that blue dragon guy at bottom of blue dragon lair he was pretty tricky. ended up going through like a million slaying rounds and 6 cursed invisibility potions
* I think I only found 2 PoGA... and I dipped a potion of holy water into one... instead of dipping the PoGA into holy water...
* helped out the great white unicorn
* Oya and a closed the chaos gate!!!

All and all good match... I'm sure my gf will be glad that I don't have to play adom for six hours a day for a little bit (though victory #2 feels like it might be all the sweeter)... And I suppose I can start putting a little more time into studying for calculus and chemistry now as well...

Thanks you everyone that have given me advice on this forum (and especially Andy Williams' guidebook) Couldn't have done without ya!!!

Iron Cash

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Bubble gum    St:36  Le:31  Wi:29  Dx:68  To:34  Ch:17  Ap:15  Ma:22  Pe:21 L+
DV/PV: 67/41   H: 653(653)    P: 598(598)    Exp: 50/28552740   DrCh  Sp: 125
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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 33168 stones                Carrying capacity: 28675 stones

Head          : uncursed helm of teleportation [+0, +1]               [50s]
Neck          : blessed amulet of life saving                          [3s]
Body          : uncursed blue dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +10]   [200s]
Girdle        : blessed girdle of giant strength [+0, +0] {St+12}     [30s]
Cloak         : uncursed hooded cloak [+2, +0]                        [40s]
Right Hand    : blessed rune-covered trident (+6, 3d12+6) [+4, +4] {Dx+12}
Left Hand     : -
Right Ring    : blessed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd)
Left Ring     : blessed ring of immunity                               [1s]
Bracers       : uncursed bracers of war [+8, +4] {Dx+8}               [10s]
Gauntlets     : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3]        [10s]
Boots         : blessed seven league boots [+1, +0]                   [30s]
Missile weapon: uncursed heavy crossbow of accuracy (+9, +5)         [140s]
Missiles      : bundle of 9 blessed quarrels of slaying (+1, 2d6)     [18s]
Tool          : blessed spenseweed                                     [2s]


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                                    Stuff
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Total weight: 32553 stones   Carrying capacity: 28675 stones

Helmets ('[')
Armor ('[')
   uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8}                    
[200s]
   blessed black dragon scale mail (-2, -4) [+0, +11]                [200s]
   uncursed blue dragon scale mail (+1, -2) [-1, +10]                [200s]
   uncursed white dragon scale mail (-2, -4) [-1, +11]               [200s]
Shields ('[')
   blessed dwarven shield "Rolf's Saviour" (+2) [+9, +6]             [120s]
Gauntlets ('[')
Cloaks ('[')
Girdles ('[')
Boots ('[')
   blessed seven league boots [+1, +0]                                
Necklaces (''')
   heap of 2 blessed amulets of order                                  [6s]
   heap of 3 uncursed necklaces of rapid healing                       [6s]
   uncursed ankh                                                       
')
   uncursed bracers of regeneration [+0, +0]                          [18s]
     One-handed weapons ('(')
   blessed pick axe (+0, 1d6+2)                                       [75s]
   blessed dwarven rune axe "Rolf's Companion" (+3, 3d6+6) [+4, +4] {To+3}
   uncursed sword of Nonnak (+2, 4d3+2) [+2, +2] {Wi+5}               [
 [80s]
   uncursed pick axe (+0, 1d6+2)                                      [75s]
   uncursed pick axe (+0, 1d6+3)                                      [75s]
   uncursed pick axe (+3, 1d6+2)                                      [75s]
   uncursed rusty phase dagger (+1, 1d4)                               [5s]
   uncursed swift dagger of devastation (+0, 5d4+8)                   [10s]
   cursed pick axe (+2, 1d6+3)                                        [75s]
   uncursed scorched spear (+2, 3d8+1) [+2, +0]                       
Two-handed weapons ('(')
   blessed quicksilver quarterstaff (+6, 5d3+5) [+3, +0] (+20 spd)    [20s]
Missile weapons ('}')
   uncursed short bow (+1, +0)                                        [20s]
   heap of 3 uncursed light crossbows of accuracy (+8, +0)           

   uncursed sling of accuracy (+8, +3)                                 [3s]
   uncursed short bow of accuracy (+8, +0)                            [20s] 
   blessed long bow of accuracy (+8, +2)                              [30s] 
   uncursed light crossbow of accuracy (+11, +0)                      [70s]
   blessed long bow of hunting (+7, +3)                               [30s]

[ironcash]

Missiles ('/')
   bundle of 3 blessed arrows of slaying (+0, 1d6)                     [6s]
   bundle of 7 blessed quarrels of demon slaying (+3, 2d6+3)          [28s]
   bundle of 7 blessed arrows of demon slaying (+3, 1d6+3)            [14s]
   bundle of 3 uncursed quarrels of dragon slaying (+3, 2d6+4)        [12s]
   bundle of 5 blessed quarrels of dragon slaying (+3, 2d6+3)         [20s]
   bundle of 9 uncursed quarrels of dragon slaying (+3, 2d6+2)        [36s]
   bundle of 4 blessed quarrels of dragon slaying (+6, 2d6+3)         [16s] 
   bundle of 3 blessed arrows of slaying (+0, 1d6+3)                   [6s]
   bundle of 8 blessed quarrels of humanoid slaying (+3, 2d6+3)       [32s]
   bundle of 9 blessed sling bullets of demon slaying (+2, 2d3)       [27s]
   bundle of 9 blessed arrows of humanoid slaying (+3, 1d6+6)         [18s]
   bundle of 239 uncursed arrows (+0, 1d6)                           [478s]
   bundle of 4 blessed arrows of demon slaying (+4, 1d6+3)             [8s]
   bundle of 4 blessed rusty quarrels of slaying (+2, 2d6)             [8s]
   bundle of 7 uncursed quarrels of humanoid slaying (+3, 2d6+3)      [28s]
   bundle of 7 blessed arrows of dragon slaying (+1, 1d6+6)           [14s]
   bundle of 6 uncursed arrows of humanoid slaying (+3, 1d6+3)        [12s]
   bundle of 7 blessed arrows of demon slaying (+3, 1d6+5)            [14s]
   bundle of 5 uncursed arrows of demon slaying (+3, 1d6+3)           [10s]
Tools (']')
   heap of 4 uncursed climbing sets                                  [720s]
   heap of 5 uncursed fireproof blankets                              [50s]
   heap of 3 uncursed waterproof blankets                             [30s]
   uncursed magical writing set (3)                                    [5s]
   heap of 2 blessed fireproof blankets                               [20s]
   heap of 217 uncursed sis                                         [2170s]
   cursed fireproof blanket                                           [10s]
Instruments ('{')
   blessed fiddle                                                     [15s]
Rings ('=')
   blessed ring of the High Kings [+2, +3]                             [1s]
Wands ('\')
Potions ('!')
   heap of 12 potions of holy water                                   [48s]
   heap of 3 blessed potions of ultra healing                          [6s]
   heap of 4 blessed potions of extra healing                          [8s]
   heap of 5 uncursed potions of boost willpower                      [10s]
   heap of 2 potions of unholy water                                   [8s]
   heap of 2 uncursed potions of extra healing                         
Scrolls ('?')
   blessed scroll of chaos resistance                                  [2s]
   heap of 18 uncursed scrolls of identify                            [36s]
Books ('"')
   cursed tract of balance                                           [200s]
   uncursed tract of chaos                                           
Food ('%')
   heap of 2 cursed pairs of frog legs                                 [4s]
Valuables ('$')
   156110 gold pieces                                               [1561s]
Gems ('*')
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                                Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon           Lvl   Hit   Dam   DV   Level          Required marks
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Daggers & knives         8    +7    +4   +2   excellent            260
Swords                  10    +9    +6   +3   excellent            2081
Axes                     5    +3    +2   +1   skilled              340
Pole arms               10   +10    +6  +12   excellent            1806

Missile weapon         Lvl   Hit   Dam   Ra   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Bows                     8   +16   +12   +2   excellent            203
Crossbows                5   +10    +7   +1   skilled              147
Shields                Lvl   DV               Level          Required marks
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Shields                  3    +6              basic                19


Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +79 bonus to hit, 3d12+26 damage


Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 9, base range: 14, +67 bonus to hit, 2d6+30 damage




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                                   Skills
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  Alchemy ..................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Backstabbing .............100    (superb)       [+1]
  Climbing ................. 83    (great)        [+1d3]
  Concentration ............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Courage ..................100    (superb)       [+1d5]
  Detect traps .............100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  First aid ................100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Haggling ................. 65    (good)         [+1d3]
  Healing ..................100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Herbalism ................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Listening ................100    (superb)       [+1d5]
  Literacy .................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Metallurgy ...............100    (superb)       [+1d5]
  Mining ................... 88    (great)        [+1]
  Smithing ................. 77    (great)        [+1d3]
  Stealth ..................100    (superb)       [+1d5]
  Swimming ................. 61    (good)         [+1]
  Tactics ..................100    (superb)       [+1]
  Two weapon combat ........ 54    (good)         [+1d3]
  Ventriloquism ............ 70    (good)         [+1d3]


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                                   Spells
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   Acid Ball           :    46,  32pp     (Effectivity: +3)
   Acid Bolt           :   359,   7pp     (Effectivity: +10)
   Bless               :    65,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Burning Hands       :  1158,   4pp     (Effectivity: +21)
   Calm Monster        :    72,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Create Item         :    73, 191pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Cure Critical Wounds:  1272,   9pp     (Effectivity: +4)
   Cure Disease        :  1288,   5pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Cure Light Wounds   :  2192,   2pp     (Effectivity: +5)
   Cure Serious Wounds :   938,   6pp     (Effectivity: +3)
   Darkness            :  1684,   2pp     (Effectivity: +18)
   Death Ray           :   392,  60pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Destroy Undead      :   721,   4pp     (Effectivity: +8)
   Disarm Trap         :   511,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Earthquake          :    74,  60pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Farsight            :  1070,  10pp     (Effectivity: +7)
   Fire Bolt           :  1101,   5pp     (Effectivity: +24)
   Fireball            :  1041,  12pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Frost Bolt          :   480,   6pp     (Effectivity: +35)
   Greater Identify    :   156,  60pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Heal                :    66,  32pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Ice Ball            :  1288,  14pp     (Effectivity: +8)
   Identify            :    71,  58pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Improved Fireball   :   366,  18pp     (Effectivity: +2)
   Invisibility        :    69,   8pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Knock               :  1065,   6pp     (Effectivity: +15)
   Know Alignment      :   348,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Light               :  1204,   1pp     (Effectivity: +20)
   Lightning Ball      :   598,  17pp     (Effectivity: +6)
   Lightning Bolt      :  1842,   6pp     (Effectivity: +13)
   Magic Lock          :   974,   4pp     (Effectivity: +8)
   Magic Map           :   655,  24pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Magic Missile       :  1320,   4pp     (Effectivity: +19)
   Mystic Shovel       :   432,  60pp     (Effectivity: +4)
   Neutralize Poison   :  1018,   5pp     (Effectivity: +6)
   Petrification       :    76,  89pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Remove Curse        :   908,  30pp     (Effectivity: +4)
   Revelation          :   408,  20pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Scare Monster       :    74,   9pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Slow Monster        :   858,   5pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Slow Poison         :   624,   4pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Strength of Atlas   :  1692,   5pp     (Effectivity: +12)
   Stun Ray            :  1131,   4pp     (Effectivity: +5)
   Summon Monsters     :   308,  18pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Teleportation       :   929,  11pp     (Effectivity: +19)
   Web                 :   712,   7pp     (Effectivity: +9)
   Wish                :    16, 5520pp     (Effectivity: +0)

[ironcash]

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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 dwarves 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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Bubble gum, the dwarven wizard, saved the world with his brave efforts and
became a great ruler while saving himself 80 times.
He scored 22233516 points and advanced to level 50.
He survived for 0 years, 51 days, 6 hours, 16 minutes and 39 seconds (105534
turns).
Bubble gum visited 109 places.
His strength score was modified by +12 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +15 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +15 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +19 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +16 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +6 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +4 during his career.
His mana score was modified by +7 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +7 during his career.
He was unnaturally aged by 8 years.
He was the champion of the arena.
He made a little water dragon very happy.
He adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
He left the Drakalor Chain after completing his quest and became a great
leader and famous hero.
5380 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following 26 artifacts were generated during his adventure:
  the si
  the dwarven rune axe "Rolf's Companion"
  the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
  the ring of the master cat
  the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
  the dwarven shield "Rolf's Saviour"
  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 lead-filled mace "Big Punch"
  the scorched spear
  the rune-covered trident
  the sword of Nonnak
  the elemental gauntlets
  the ring of the High Kings
  the crown of science
  the ancient mummy wrapping
  the ankh
  the black torc
  the glaive "Long Sting"
  the bracers of war
  the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
  the ring of immunity
  the medium obsidian shield "Protector"
  the black tome of Alsophocus
He possessed the following intrinsics:
  He was fire resistant (gained through an item).
  He was poison resistant.
  He was cold resistant (enhanced through an item).
  He was lucky (enhanced through an item).
  Fate smiled upon him (enhanced through an item).
  He was able to teleport (enhanced through an item).
  He was able to control teleportation.
  He was invisible.
  He was stun resistant (gained through an item).
  He was resistant to death rays (gained through an item).
  He was shock resistant (enhanced through an item).
  He was able to see invisible things (enhanced through items).
  He was immune to shock attacks (gained through items).
  He was immune to fire attacks (gained through an item).
  He was immune to acidic attacks (gained through an item).
  He was immune to ice attacks.
  He was able to breathe water (gained through an item).
  He was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through an item).
He had the following talents: Careful, Charged, Durable Magic, Good Book
Learner, Good Learner, Great Book Learner, Great Learner, Healthy, Long
Stride, Mighty Aura, Pious, Potent Aura, Sixth Sense, Strong Aura, Strong
Healer, Strong Magic, Very Pious.
He had a final speed score of 125 (final base speed: 124).
He was a paragon of his religion.
He asked for 3 divine interventions.
He was a holy champion of Order.

The following monsters were vanquished:
    157 ancient blue dragons
      1 ancient blue wyrm
      1 Ancient Chaos Wyrm
      1 ancient karmic wyrm
      2 ancient red dragons
      1 Ancient Stone Beast
     28 ancient white dragons
      9 balors
      1 banshee
      4 battle bunnies
     27 blink dogs
     46 blue baby dragons
     55 blue dragons
      1 bone golem
      1 Chaos Archmage
      1 doppleganger king
      4 doppleganger lords
      2 emperor liches
      2 ghost kings
     32 ghost lords
      6 great blue wyrms
      2 great karmic wyrms
     11 great white wyrms
      1 greater black unicorn
      1 greater moloch
      2 greater titans
      2 half-orc bouncers
      1 karmic dragon
      6 molochs
      1 mugger
      1 mummy lord
      5 quicklings
      1 quickling king
      2 quickling lords
     21 quickling queens

[grobblewobble]

Grats on beating the game.

The following monsters were vanquished:
21 quickling queens

Did you stumble on a threat room? Surviving that is quite impressive.

[ironcash]

Ya, I believe it was around the bottom of the blue dragon caves. It was pretty tricky I think I killed most of them. Only problem was they could see in the darkness and would mess my business up pretty good. I had a little hallway next to where they were all located I could post up in (and a blessed amulet of life saving to fall back on) and I would just web up and down the whole room next to it, then when the little buggers got stuck I would frost bolt the hell out of them. Of course having to switch it up a little and improvise when the ancient blue dragons would wonder along.

I think I only ended up getting one corpse out of them as well...

[Silfir]

I'm fairly certain the gray ooze that paralyzed you and took 199 HP was actually a stone ooze. Learn the difference.

But! You still managed to win, which is an impressive achievement nonetheless. Congratulations!

[ironcash]

Ya I just keep my distance from anything grey and 'j' shaped these days.

And actually I don't think the quickling queens were a tension room, When they were actually all just standing in a mass in one of the corners of a cavernous floors, I've actually never seen anything like that before, whats the deal with that. Could it have just been a tension room with the walls and doors blown off before I got there?

[Tyrnyx]

It's possible to get tension "rooms" in cavernous levels. Essentially just as you described it - a brick of monsters - except unwalled, no walls/doors blown off required. I think there might be a more specific term but I don't know it. I had barbarian leaders in my last run in High Kings caves and I've also had one memorable instance of something on the order of 50 titans (probably in deep CoC) in another instance. I don't remember how I survived the titan one, pretty sure immediate teleportation was in order. It's always fun to be on a level and hear 20+ "*THUMBS*".

Congrats on surviving the quickling queens. I wouldn't have been so clever with web. Also lucky on surviving the ooze - the first time I ran into one of those I was doing a naked run of the fire temple... I was so shocked I just stared dumbly at the screen. That was not how I figured I'd die in the fire temple.

[JellySlayer]

They're normally called "open threat rooms". They can be very dangerous, because there's a lot of monsters and wide open spaces, so it's easy to get surrounded.

Stone oozes are super dangerous. They paralyze and always punch through armor, so if you get hit by one, the odds of survival are not very good at all.

[anon123]

It's always fun to be on a level and hear 20+ "*THUMBS*".

Tension rooms of vortices and Dorn Beasts are also spammy

You hear a distant "Hurumph!". You hear a distant "Hurumph!". You hear a distant "Hurumph!". You hear a distant "Hurumph!". You hear a distant "Hurumph!". You hear a distant "Hurumph!". You hear a distant "Hurumph!".
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You hear a distant wind. You hear a distant wind. You hear a distant wind. You hear a distant wind. You hear a distant wind. You hear a distant wind. You hear a distant wind. You hear a distant wind.

Unlike with Dorn Beasts, the wind is always distant, even if vortices are right next to you.

Also, note that regular tension rooms (the kind with random monsters) cannot be generated in cavernous levels, and this is intentional. I wonder whether open threat rooms are deliberate, or Mr. Biskup forgot to prevent those from being created.