Thee Weakest Link '09: League of Fire

[Soirana]

Poor souls thrown in rift of extreme fire suddenly found themselves facing brass colossus. Despite all flames dancing around them and all flares making place unbearable lit the seven felt coldness crawling inside as… As ChAoS itself would crawl through their inner organs.
Eyes of colossi were slightly dim, telling of two things – he was certainly drunk and very certainly dangerous.
“I know,” brasman started, “some other leagues will speak of honour, flag bearing and surviving. But I won’t…”
He made a pause and searing flames engulfed seven burning their clothes and hairs off.
“Yours only point is to kill each other. And the reason to do so is to find the ones most fitted to bring name of Fire into rule.”
Flames subsided and seven adventurers found themselves in room with molten lava walls.
“Last year,” brasman went on, “I ended one step away from target and winner was Earth. But earth is nothing but just ashes left of Fire itself. This must be fixed this year.”
“Two of you will go on with mark of Flame. And others… Well, they will join Fire directly. Well, I would like to open ChAoS gates now, but since we will play under their rules for a while, you’ll have to keep nice and friendly for two rounds.”
Colossus spitted and huge burst of flame came from that place.
“For your first body to burn into I have chosen…”
Lava wall formed into elven girl
“…ny, not that nice thing. Although a girl, even if I doubt her beauty. Not a superhero” Huge burning figure of barbarian shaded into lava. “Not even wizard to be exact. Hope you like it.”
Suddenly all the walls showed small under three foot blue eyed girl standing next to cave entrance. Colossus laughed with crackling fireball coming out of his mind.
“Sometimes I love the great great RNG.”

[Soirana]

List of participants
1. vogonpoet[dead]
2. Silfir [dead]
3. Molach [dead]
4. IGB [dead]
5. purge[also dead]
6. Epythic [on play]
7. CheatMan
8. go up again.

Few more things I am going to enforce:
1. Write up you activites and post vlg. Or i will do it instead. Believe me you do not want later especially after gate opens.
Well, I am not known for following this last year, so...

2. This thread is for me and 7 guys above. All others begone. Go into discussion thread or create new one.
Repeated do not post in this thread if you are not in list above.

3. For your own good post score, turns and depth of your death. Last year i made cut twice in tiebreakers, so believe they are important.

4. Do not forget your saves.



List of bodies tossed into eternal Fire [sorted by tiebreakers just in case]:

Molach scored 9404 points advanced to level 14 and I21 where he was fooled by greater mimic pretending to be a bone.

IGB digested by mimic on I21 [53789 xps]

Purge scored 8860 while advancing to level L13 [53779 xps]
in 24249 turns. Stomped by a hydra on level 21 of some ancient caves.

Silfir scored? with 32069 xp lost his duel to ratling on ID:13. Turn mark: 14091.


Vogonpoet scored 8114 points and advanced to level 12[34865xp], 15098 turn mark.
Was slowly digested by vampiric brown worms on I13.

[Soirana]

Ruby          St: 4  Le:17  Wi:15  Dx:18  To:15  Ch:12  Ap:10  Ma:10  Pe:13 L
DV/PV: 13/1    H: 17(17)      P: 10(10)      Exp: 1/0           DrCh  M: 0

Name: Ruby                Race: female Hurthling    Class: Mindcrafter
Eye color: blue           Hair color: brown         Complexion: light
Height: 2'7"              Weight: 59 pounds
Age: 36 (grown-up)
Star sign: Book           Birthday: 23/Book (day 53 of the year)

YOUR HISTORY:
        Your parents are travelling adventurers. Both are competent,
 talented and doing very well.
        In your childhood you were tortured by your cruel parents. They
 seemed to thoroughly hate and despise you.
        As a kid you often watched the adult adventurers preparing for new
 exciting journeys. They sparked your imagination.
        As a young adult you spent a lot of time searching for a deeper
 meaning and purpose in your life. You pondered and pondered but nothing
 truly sparked your interest. Finally, after many many hours, you made a
 decision.
        You decided to become a Mindcrafter.


Thrown rocks & clubs     4    +8    +6   +1   skilled              35

  Archery .................. 13    (mediocre)     [+3d3]
  Climbing ................. 32    (fair)         [+1d5]
  Concentration ............ 56    (good)         [+4d4]
  Cooking .................. 61    (good)         [+1] (ma)
  First aid ................ 20    (mediocre)     [+3d3]
  Food preservation ........ 45    (fair)         [+1d3]
  Gardening ................ 21    (mediocre)     [+2d4]
  Gemology ................. 39    (fair)         [+4d4]
  Haggling ................. 28    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Herbalism ................ 11    (mediocre)     [+3d4]
  Listening ................ 28    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Literacy ................. 76    (great)        [+3d3]
  Music .................... 24    (mediocre)     [+3d3]
  Stealth .................. 49    (fair)         [+1d5]


Head          : -
Neck          : -
Body          : robe [+0, +1]                                         [60s]
Girdle        : -
Cloak         : -
Right Hand    : -
Left Hand     : -
Right Ring    : nograin ring                                           [1s]
Left Ring     : -
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : -
Boots         : -
Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : -
Tool          : -


Two-handed weapons ('(')
   quarterstaff (+0, 1d10)                                            [40s]
Tools (']')
   heap of 3 torches                                                  [30s]
   box with flint and steel (46)                                       [5s]
   tinderbox (18)                                                      [3s]
   cooking set                                                       [100s]
Rings ('=')
   heap of 2 rings of stun resistance                                  [2s]
Wands ('\')
   wand of monster creation (2 charges)                                [3s]
   wand of paralyzation (5 charges)                                    [3s]
Potions ('!')
   potion of troll blood                                               [2s]
   potion of water                                                     [4s]
   potion of water                                                     [4s]
Scrolls ('?')
   scroll of gold detection                                            [2s]
Food ('%')
   iron ration                                                       [100s]
   loaf of elven bread                                                 [3s]
Valuables ('$')
   128 gold pieces                                                     [1s]

Her mana score was modified by +1 during her career.

Few notes:
Sorry for all TH lovers. I was decided to pick Potent Aura just not to make it meat grinder early on. Unluckily it was not an option so i picked Fey blooded which actually gave enough Mana to get Potent aura.
This luckily enables confusion blast. [Ctrl+x when m...]
Early on between confusion blast and true berserk you should not face lots of problem.
Three things to aim at early rounds:
1. leveling - mindcrafters in general do better with leveling. lv6 is in particular break point due to first attacking power.
2. rocks - you start with thrown rocks at four. Forget slings, rocks already are at +6 to damage.
3. Getting St up. 4 is not making cut by any means.

Few words on mindcrafters:
A) You have permanent tp control
B) you suck with book reading really hard
C)you are hurted by dealing with undead. Unlfie and some *non brain* animals like jellies and eyes are not affected by jeddi tricks. Some other rare animals might be resistant to mindcraft [cosshoo springs to mind]

About combo:
You have archery+ thrown rocks already developed with reasonable Dx. You level fast and mindcrafters do well on when leveled.
You do not having healing but have cooking set. So get some food cooked and regenerate your health in first two rounds.

About wand:
Lucky - i do recall having some problems with high end liches [in particular getting them paralyzed in message but not reality]. IIRC, same is with ghuls and skeletons, so i suspect all undead being buggy.

Good luck and play without breaking too many letters of the rules.

[Soirana]

League is opened. Vogonpoet is welcome to start opening round.

[vogonpoet]

All right!


Im the trouble starter, fuckin instigator.
Im the fear addicted, danger illustrated.

I am the Firestarter, twisted Firestarter.



Ah there, I got the save!

[Ars]

btw the telekinetic blast works on everything, but you only get that at lvl 12 (or so).

[Soirana]

Repeated for a third time:
Stick your non participating advices into your natural holes as told in opening posts. /jerk mod off.

[Silfir]

Holy crap. Just now I noticed the wand of paralyzation o_O That's a very decent panic button!

One of the waters is blessed - best way to use them is to use both at once to make sure the blessing has happened. With the quarterstaff we might end up doing more than one point of damage per blow. I'm at a loss at what rocks you keep talking about. There are no rocks in that starting equipment - we have to find them first!

We got seriously gimped on rings. Stun resistance is never needed twice - or once, for that matter. And a nograin ring is always a wedding ring as far as I remember, and since it is cursed we can't even use it to tame an early-found berserker unless we waste our holy water. If it were a ring of damage we could at least bless it right now and benefit.

[Soirana]

nograin is wedding.

Stun is, meh...

I also put some opinion about paralyzation. IMO, not so hot for mindcrafter. Don't even bother it with ghuls. Ghuls actually might be main death reason early on.

Rocks... If you stick with ID1 for 1.5K you should found some gobrocks.

Regarding water:
IIRC, in such cases uncursed item is first and blessed second [due to way Adom manages items.]

I probably should stop as i give to much edge to starting player.

[CheatMan]

So you took as a starting talent Fey-Blooded, which is NOT a pre-req for any other talent? Just because TH won't be available?

**sigh** i KNEW i should've requested to be placed in someone else's league. I'll continue playing because i'm comitted to it now, but i'm gonna get a whole lot less enjoyment out of it.

thanks a lot.