Possible Challenges for Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve?

[kapak44]

First of all, thanks to gut for the insanely fun arena challenge. I know another challenge might be sudden, but is anyone interested in a Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve challenge?

I was thinking we could do something similar to the Creator's Day 2013 Roman Republic challenge:

-Anyone interested in participating generates a random character on July 2nd. They immediately post the .vlg, and can play the first 2000 turns. Afterward, post the savegame, plus .vlg updating your progress, and a brief description of what you've been up to.

-Any other player can "claim" that character by saying so on the forums. If two players try to claim at the same time, whichever one officially posted first on the board will be given precedence. They will then play that character for 2000 (or maybe 4000?) turns, and repost/report their results. This is entirely first-come-first serve, except that:
--You can't play the same character twice in a row.
--You can't claim two characters at once.
--If I feel that someone is really abusing the system and others aren't getting a fair chance, I may ask you to take a rest for awhile.

-If the character dies, they are simply eliminated from the pool. If a character dies under your watch, you aren't penalized unless:
--You attempted to deliberately sabotage or murder the character. In this case, you will be removed from the player roster and the character will be regenerated from the previous save.

The version would be prerelease 20, for maximum consistency.

I propose the following additions for each of the days:

Christmas Eve:
You must join the holiday cheer by giving Christmas presents to the Terinyo Populace! Before you are allowed to enter the CoC, you must give the following:
6 bits of candy to the children
2 outlaw or other bounty corpses to Tywat Pare
2 tools or 2 seeds to the farmers
2000 gold to the goodwives

New Year's Eve:
Being the high spirited person you are, you crave for alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol.
You must immediately drink every booze potion you come across, including your starting 6 potions of booze.

If the challenges sound too easy/hard/weird, any additional/alternate additions are welcome!

[Iridia]

I love the New Year's Eve one--it's just a small challenge, but it changes wand use quite a bit. And imagine trying to clear a vault while having to constantly drink every potion of booze the monsters dropped. Heck, the poison hands corruption might actually be halfway desirable, because if you pick it up and it's poison, then it's not booze and you don't have to chug it. Or even worse: If you pick it up and turn it into poison, you have to chug it anyway. Bon appetit!

There's a famous succession game of Dwarf Fortress that is played only by players who are, IRL, drunk. That might be an interesting thing to do on New Year's. Or, y'know, funny, anyway.

Christmas Eve... meh. I don't think that's really much of a challenge; it's just collecting stuff until you have enough. Though, I suppose it could be made into a contest, see who can do it in the least number of turns. Make people do random character generation and disallow the Rich line of talents to keep people from just starting with the money.

I have another idea for Christmas:
Your character is SO generous that they simply will never keep any money for themselves. Any money you pick up or get from selling things or get in any other way must immediately be given to the next monster you see. And no, throwing it at them at high velocity doesn't count. I don't know if all monsters will accept gold you give them, but I'm pretty sure most do--humanoids do, anyway. Even hostile ones. Oh, yeah, that includes really dangerous hostile ones. And you have to stand right next to them to give them the cash. Have fun. :P

Playing the game without ever using money, except to give it away, might be an interesting challenge. I think I'm going to try it.

[kapak44]

Yeah that money idea might actually be a better challenge while still fitting in with the Christmas Holiday theme. Keep those ideas coming!

And I did ask that the characters be randomly generated. Good point about the Rich talents-they shouldn't be allowed. Maybe suggest extra gifts for the citizens of the outlaw town, high mountain village, and Dwarftown. I mean, the holiday cheer is worldwide right?

[Stingray1]

I'm all for fated characters in every way, it is one of the features that makes ADOM the best thing ever to play for me.

Edit - May we attempt to destroy the booze? I'm hoping no, because we are craving it. You may not even destroy it 'accidently'. So, I would say as soon as you can see booze you must get to it and pick it up and chug it.

[kapak44]

No, you must immediately drink it. I think that poison hands should not be used to get around the challenge, so you must drink the potion even if it turns into poison. And yeah, you must get to the booze and drink it.

Also, unless someone has any better ideas for the Christmas Eve challenge, I think I'm going to change it to the "give all the money you got" challenge. It definitely changes things-no money for shops, garth, or precrowning. I'm probably going to be rolling up a char for the Christmas eve one on Tuesday, and allow someone to carry it on via Roman Republic style.

[_Ln_]

Bear in mind the save incompatibility in 1.2.0 between 32/64-bit and possibly Linux/Windows/Mac.

Aside from this, I'd all in for another RRC game.

[kapak44]

Okay, should we pass characters every 2000 turns, or every 4000 turns? I personally like 4000, just so people have a bit more freedom. Feel free to suggest anything else, though.

Here are the (tentative) rules:
You may not play 2 characters at once.
You can not claim two 4000-turn (or whatever) periods in a row. You *may*, however, play the same character if you have not played the char in the last 4000-turn period *and* there are no other claims that have been made by players that have not played this character.
Claiming is a first come, first serve basis.
Please post the vlg, the savegame, and a quick log of your progress when your turn is up.
All characters who dies are removed from the pool, UNLESS the player in charge deliberately killed that character. If that is the case, you will be barred from this challenge and the character will be restored from the previous save.
The Christmas Eve challenge:
Roll a random character on December 24th. Because that character has a purely generous spirit, he has no need for money in his adventure. You must give away (or attempt to) all gold you acquire through any means to the nearest monster (hostile or nonhostile). You must stand next to the monster to give the cash, so no throwing gold is allowed.

Should we condense all RRC chars in the same thread, or make a new thread for each character?

Do most of you guys play a Mac or a Windows? We can probably set up some chars for both platforms to help combat compatibility problems.

[anon123]

Bear in mind the save incompatibility in 1.2.0 between 32/64-bit and possibly Linux/Windows/Mac.

I'm not buff on these challenge games myself, but that must be a real killjoy. I would RFE replacing this behavior with a prompt saying the save was generated on another OS, which could potentially cause problems, and any bugs possibly found with it should be tested with a "pure" PC before reporting. Then allow the player to load it nonetheless. That might be a good middle point.

[kapak44]

Alright, since it's Christmas Eve already for some of you folks, I've attached a random character.

This is Thorin, a female dwarven bard randomly generated on a Windows machine, and the spirit of Christmas was with him.

A terinyo child was the recipient of Thorin's starting 180 gold pieces.
Being his loving companion, his pet cave bear was the recipient of most of Thorin's gold.
His first kill was a mugger, for those of you who are interested in ultras and courage quest.
He got the sheriff, healer, and tiny girl quest.
The first 4000 turns was spent in the villiage dungeon to get healing, where the rng was in the mood of giving with a stone club of lightning.
After getting healing, Thorin went straight to the unremarkable dungeon, where he almost got killed by a lesser vault and had to use both of his prayers to heal up.
His cave bear pet got killed by a lightning lizard, but Thorin managed to tame said lizard, who became a much better pet! The lesser vault is on UD:1 for those who are interested in finishing it.

I look forward to the next claimer's report!

Thorin.svg

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Thorin        St:19  Le:20  Wi:14  Dx:17  To:16  Ch:12  Ap:12  Ma:14  Pe:15 L
DV/PV: 11/14   H: 40(49)      P: 3(29)       Exp: 6/4641        UD: 3 M: 4000
Burdened
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                            Character Information
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Thorin    St:19  Le:20  Wi:14  Dx:17  To:16  Ch:12  Ap:12  Ma:14  Pe:15  L
DV/PV: 11/14   H: 40(49)   P: 3(29)   Exp: 6/4641   M: 4000



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                            Background Information
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Name: Thorin              Race: female Dwarf        Class: Bard
Eye color: green          Hair color: black         Complexion: brown
Height: 3'6"              Weight: 130 pounds
Age: 67 (grown-up)
Star sign: Book           Birthday: 3/Book (day 33 of the year)

YOUR HISTORY:
        Your parents are traveling adventurers. They are doing moderately
 well but are talented enough to survive.
        As a child your parents cared a lot for you. Despite all
 circumstances you enjoyed a happy and fine childhood.
        As a youth you spent a lot of time in the wilds exploring woods and
 generally enjoying your freedom. You had a lot of fun and learned to value
 the treasures of nature.
        As a young adult you tried many occupations before finally deciding
 on one to pursue. This has left you with a very broad base of lore.
        You decided to become a Bard.


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                                Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon           Lvl   Hit   Dam   DV   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Unarmed fighting         0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Daggers & knives         0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Clubs & hammers          3    +2    +1   +0   basic                56
Maces & flails           0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Swords                   0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Axes                     2    +2    +1   +0   basic                20
Whips                    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Pole arms                0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Twohanded weapons        0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Staves                   0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15

Missile weapon         Lvl   Hit   Dam   Ra   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Slings                   0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Bows                     0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            5
Crossbows                0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Thrown axes & hammers    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Thrown daggers           0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Thrown rocks & clubs     0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Thrown spears            0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Boomerangs & scurgari    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7

Shields                Lvl   DV               Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---              -------------  --------------
Shields                  1    +2              basic                7


Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +14 bonus to hit, 1d6+6 damage


Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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No missile weapons available.






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                                   Skills
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  Backstabbing .............. 96    (superb)       [+1d5]
  Climbing .................. 61    (good)         [+3d4]
  Detect item status ........ 71    (great)        [+1d3]
  Detect traps .............. 35    (fair)         [+4d5]
  Dodge ..................... 36    (fair)         [+3d5]
  First aid ................. 70    (good)         [+3d3]
  Gemology .................. 37    (fair)         [+3d5]
  Haggling .................. 22    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Healing ................... 42    (fair)         [+4d4]
  Listening ................. 41    (fair)         [+4d4]
  Literacy .................. 53    (good)         [+3d4]
  Metallurgy ................ 44    (fair)         [+4d4]
  Mining .................... 72    (great)        [+1d3]
  Music ..................... 95    (superb)       [+3d3]
  Pick locks ................ 24    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Pick pockets .............. 20    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Smithing .................. 62    (good)         [+3d4]
  Survival .................. 25    (mediocre)     [+4d4]
  Woodcraft ................. 18    (mediocre)     [+4d5]




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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 1578 stones                Carrying capacity: 2100 stones

Head          : metal cap [+0, +1]                                    [50s]
Neck          : -
Body          : uncursed scale mail (-1, -2) [-2, +4]                [400s]
Girdle        : -
Cloak         : cloak of protection [+0, +3]                          [20s]
Right Hand    : stone club of lightning (+0, 1d6)                     [70s]
Left Hand     : medium shield [+3, +3]                               [100s]
Right Ring    : -
Left Ring     : -
Bracers       : -
Gauntlets     : uncursed studded gloves [+1, +2]                       [6s]
Boots         : uncursed iron boots [+0, +1]                         [120s]
Missile Weapon: -
Missiles      : bundle of 10 arrows (+0, 1d6)                         [20s]
Tool          : lute                                                  [20s]


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                                    Stuff
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Total weight: 772 stones   Carrying capacity: 2100 stones

Cloaks ('[')
   cursed multi-colored cloak                                         [20s]
One-handed weapons ('(')
   dagger (+0, 1d4)                                                   [10s]
   hand axe (+0, 1d6)                                                 [50s]
   scimitar (+0, 1d8)                                                 [40s]
   hatchet                                                            [50s]
Missile weapons ('}')
   heap of 2 slings                                                    [6s]
   sling                                                               [3s]
Missiles ('*')
   rock                                                                [5s]
   heap of 7 rocks                                                    [35s]
   uncursed quarrel                                                    [2s]
Tools (']')
   heap of 3 torches                                                  [30s]
   torch                                                              [10s]
   box with flint and steel (14)                                       [5s]
   tinderbox (23)                                                      [3s]
   uncursed torch                                                     [10s]
Instruments ('{')
   flute                                                               [3s]
   fiddle                                                             [15s]
Rings ('=')
   glowing ring                                                        [1s]
Wands ('\')
   wand of light (9 charges)                                           [4s]
   twisted wand                                                        [3s]
Potions ('!')
   oily potion                                                         [4s]
   orange potion                                                       [4s]
   uncursed orange potion                                              [4s]
   blessed shimmering potion                                           [4s]
   white potion                                                        [2s]
   uncursed watery potion                                              [4s]
Scrolls ('?')
   scroll labeled "HcUo"                                               [2s]
Books ('"')
   huge manual                                                       [100s]
Food ('%')
   heap of 2 iron rations                                            [200s]
   loaf of bread                                                      [40s]
   cursed iron ration                                                [100s]
Valuables ('$')
   116 gold pieces                                                     [1s]
Gems ('*')
   cursed red gem                                                      [1s]
   green gem                                                           [1s]


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                               Killed Monsters
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87 monsters perished under her attacks.

The following monsters were vanquished:
      1 barbarian leader
      1 berserker
      3 black hurthlings
      1 claw bug
      1 dark elven warrior
      3 fire beetles
      1 gelatinous cube
      1 giant bat
      1 giant centipede
      1 giant frog
      4 giant rats
      1 gnoll
      6 goblins
      1 goblin chieftain
      4 goblin rockthrowers
      4 goblin slavemasters
      3 hobgoblins
      1 homunculus
      1 jackal
     14 kobolds
      1 kobold shaman
      6 large bats
      1 large gnoll
      2 large kobolds
      3 lizard men
      1 mugger
      1 ogre
      6 orcs
      1 orc scorcher
      4 rats
      1 ratling archer
      1 ratling master thief
      1 ratling thief
      1 ratling warrior
      1 swordsman
      1 white worm
      2 zombies



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                                Achievements
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She survived for 0 years, 4 days, 20 hours, 45 minutes and 17 seconds (4000
turns).
4 companions were killed during her adventures.
Thorin visited 14 places.
Her perception score was modified by +1 during her career.





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Ancient Domains Of Mystery
Version 1.2.0
Windows Prerelease 20
Build: Nov 21 2013 23:28:06

P.S. A way we can get around computability issues for future games is using the ADOM server. Somebody creates an account, plays the first 4k turns, and gives password to the claimer to pass down the character when finished. How does that sound?

[GordonOverkill]

Merry Christmas & claimed!

Here's a short summary of the events of my turns:
- rename Thorin to Thorina because she's a girl
- rename lightning lizard pet to Sparky Bro
- give 114 coins to Sparky Bro
- start training slings
- reach level 7 while clearing an orc threatroom on UD3
- drop some rather useless stuff to remove burdened status
- clear orc chieftain threatroom on D5, thus reach level 8
- clear lesser orc vault on D5, thus reaching level 9 and lerning 'Quick' talent, reaching level 10
- find lots on nice loot, including padded mithril chainmail (-1, -3) [-2, +7] and large adamantium hammer (+1, 1d10+8) that I start using
- remember Christmas and give almost 4000 gold to Sparky Bro
- melee a green hag and get cursed... damn!
- Blink dog on UD 6... won't kill him because he's friendly and it's Christmas
- clear Ogre threat room on UD6
- river on UD7, but luckily the stairs are on our side
- scout the rest of our riverside and save at 6000 turns

All in all I am very happy with Thorina's progress! Got some very nice additions to her equipment, also alot of still unidentified stuff. That green hag was a little anoying... can they really curse a char? Or did she just curse one piece of equipment?
By the way, I kept carrying alot of more expensive equipment. I thought maybe it's okay to sell it at a shop and directly buy new stuff from the profit? Don't know...