Puppy of chaos challenge

[Grey]

Missiles and damage spells would have to be banned in the puppy-wielding challenge.

[szopin]

Puppy bashing is fine I guess. The image of a hero that just finished bashing balors with a puppy corpse, closed the gate and returns puppy corpse, wiping the blood off to the girl: 'Sorry, all I could do is save the whole world with your puppy, there is no revive spell, so this will have to do. Let me chat with you for a moment to make it all good.' is fun too. (but as someone mentioned, item destruction is probably harder to avoid than keeping leveled up puppy alive...)

[Iridia]

The trouble with avoiding item destruction is that it's down to luck in the early game--or else absolutely tedious. You would have to search for traps at every step with a very high detect traps skill and have a way to avoid all monsters who have fire, lightning, or acid-based attacks. And two rings of ice would be an absolute necessity for the Tower. Just luck.

If you want to do a challenge that involves wielding something particularly unsuited as a weapon, I recommend a challenge in which you go straight to the gremlin cave, retrieve the Phial of Caladriel, and use it the entire game. As an artifact, it can't be destroyed; as a potion, it doesn't make a very good weapon.

[Qui]

How about:
1) Save the puppy.
2) Drag the puppy with you to D:48 (can't leave it behind and return later!)
3) Kill the puppy.
4) Clear D:50 while wielding the corpse (bonus points for wishing for another one and dual-wielding)
5) Give the girl the corpse on the way out.

[Grey]

Item destruction wouldn't be too bad if you bless the corpse, get the right resistances and be choosy in who you fight. Alertness would help a lot too, of course.