One sassy Human Assassin! You go girl!

[Dazed]

This is my first 1.2.0 win, and it turned into such steamrolling fun by the end... I wanted to try a harder combination, although I think I fail in equal amounts with the classic combos regardless! Also decided not to go the Treasure Hunter route but lots and lots of artifacts were generated!

Poppy was a Candle-born Human Assassin who notably started with To: 20 - I think this helped her early survival as she immediately went down the SMC, picking up an adamantium dagger on the way. A book shop and a general shop were generated, but Poppy was sadly illiterate to begin with. A neutral altar was also generated on UC: 7 so she started prepping for precrowning - the plan was to go for 2 precrowns as she'd only generated the si at this stage - the 1st precrown was Hammerhead (woo!), but she almost died working on the 2nd precrown, and instead of a basic heal, her goddess Istaria decided to crown Poppy with Kinslayer and shock immunity!

This was sneaky, I didn't see the crowning, and it was only when I saw Kinslayer's unID'd name on the ground that I realised what had happened, so I went to the shudder room that was generated on UC: 8 and self-mutilated Poppy with fireball and acid traps, and zapped her with a wand of lightning she'd picked up on the way to work out the immunity as it wasn't in the message buffer any more.

Then, it was time to clean shop above ground a little - gave the little girl her puppy corpse, killed Keethrax, got the AMW+Ankh, picked up a crown of ice in the Dwarven Graveyard plus some seven league boots, and black dragon scale mail in Darkforge (a very helpful neutral altar was generated upstairs from Darkforge). RoTHK was a bit fiddly as the skeletal king decided to pick up some of my dropped stuff and walk back over the water, had to wait until he lunged for Poppy again. I was still unsure about heading for the ToEF until Poppy found some red dragon scale mail in DH: 1 (woo!). Ring of invisibility, potions of potion and blindness helped against the ACW, who was fought with melee. She then made a visit to the Ice Queen's Domain to do her quests, picking up the Crown of Leadership and the Iron Crown of Havlor in the Frost Giant Jarl's greater vault. First time completing this place, very impressed, hope that there's more to do here as suggested by the Ice Queen (and that her 3rd quest is improved upon!).

From then on in it was an easy trip to the Casino. Notably got a tower eternium shield. Poppy had a really easy Alchemy recipe for making potions of blindness so the Cat Lord was easily dispatched. A greater giant vault was generated a couple of levels below and Poppy picked up True Aim and the Silver Key - now looking like a really sassy Assassin. The Air Temple was aided by shock immunity, and then I decided at level 30 it was time to try the Minotaur Maze - never been here in any ADOM iteration so was worth a shot, plus, could frame it as an assassination target - was fun sneaking up on minotaur mages and one-shot backstabbing them after reading about how dangerous they could be (they just gave Poppy warts, the nasties), and the minotaur emperor was shot to death with True Aim. As well as the Axe, he also dropped the Ring of Immunity!

Poppy decided to give the Axe of the Minotaur Emperor a whirl and put Kinslayer and her shield to one side for a bit. She also got the rune-covered trident so decided to train Throwing Spears a little. She came across a lesser red dragon vault, and subsequently a greater red dragon+great red wyrms vault (I think this vault was the guaranteed CoC one rather than the earlier greater giant vault). It was so much fun mashing all those wyrms to pieces and seemingly getting a level per wyrm killed. Here, she got the Bracers of War, which were worn straight away, and Long Sting, which was put in her pack and ignored for the rest of the adventure.

Despite this, she switched back to Kinslayer and her shield, because as awesome as the Axe is, the only Axe where it's at is Executor, and it wasn't generated this game Earth Temple was easily dispatched of, and at the point of descending to the Mana Temple, I was tempted to take Poppy through the blue dragon caves, but I didn't want to push fate. She almost had a near-death experience though, as passing to the Mana Temple, there was a room of ghost kings who nearly aged Poppy to death (she hit 81 years old). At this point, she had a recipe for potions of longevity, but they required potions of extra healing. She had a wand of wishing with 1 charge and 2 blessed rings of djinni summoning - she wished for potions of longevity, potions of water to bless with (seriously, these were really short in supply through the entire game) and potions of youth. The potions of longevity didn't return Poppy's now astronomical stats to what they were, which is why the potions of youth were required. I was determined not to lose Poppy, so for that level, I used a blessed scroll of magic mapping and teleported to the exit rather than explore and risk the ghost kings again.

Nuurag-Vaarn was super easy - he can teleport now in this version? Nice. Tried zapping him with a wand of paralysation, but that was shrugged, so went for the old poison+blindness trick and shot him with humanoid-slaying ammo. Then, made a descent to D:50, closed the Chaos Gate, then decided to hang around and kill all the balors, including Fistanarius. Poppy was level 50 and super-buff by this stage, with corruptions that weren't too bad (she had tentacle mouth for a long time so there was hardly any spellcasting going on) so nothing fazed her.

Went back up to the surface, helped the white unicorn, lost her tentacle mouth and left the Chain with a shedload of artifacts, the only negative thing remaining from her experience being that she was unnaturally aged by 1 year

[Dazed]

Poppy         St:48  Le:26  Wi:21  Dx:43  To:41  Ch:20  Ap:15  Ma:20  Pe:29 N=
DV/PV: 85/62   H: 847(847)    P: 90(272)     Exp: 50/22743718   DrCh  $:49613
Blessed Berserk


Name: Poppy               Race: female Human        Class: Assassin
Eye color: green          Hair color: red           Complexion: pale
Height: 5'7"              Weight: 127 pounds
Age: 31 (grown-up, 1 year of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Candle         Birthday: 14/Candle (day 284 of the year)

YOUR HISTORY:
        Your parents were poor people. They loved you and cared for you,
 although you had to hunger more than once.
        As a child you had to survive pretty harsh times since your parents
 seemed to have run out of luck. Their wealth was ever-declining and times
 were very hard.
        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.
        Your young adulthood was characterized by hard and long work. You
 had decided to study under a renowned master. To your great disappointment
 you had to find out, that he was a hard, unjust and tyrannic man,
 embittered by his old age. Your apprentice years were quite terrible.
        You decided to become an Assassin.

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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 7612 stones                Carrying capacity: 10275 stones

He: blessed Iron Crown of Havlor (-6, -6) [+12, +12] {Le+4}           [65s] - Ice Queen GV
Ne: blessed necklace of the eye                                        [3s]
Bo: blessed eternium plate mail (-1, -2) [-1, +13]                   [240s]
Gi: blessed eternium girdle [+0, +4]                                  [12s]
Cl: blessed hooded cloak (+1, +1) [+1, +0]                            [40s]
RH: blessed black long sword "Kinslayer" (+3, 4d5+3) [+4, +4]         [80s] - crowning gift
LH: blessed tower eternium shield (-1) [+16, +4]                      [70s]
RR: blessed ring of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage)       [1s] - picked up so many of these
LR: blessed ring of immunity                                           [1s] - random Minotaur Emperor artifact
Br: blessed bracers of war [+8, +4] {Dx+8}                            [10s] - red wyrm GV
Ga: blessed rustproof gauntlets of strength (-1, +0) [+2, +1] {St+3}  [40s]
Bo: blessed seven league boots [+1, +1]                               [30s]
MW: blessed long bow of accuracy (+8, +2)                             [30s]
Mi: blessed silvery arrow "True Aim" (+10, 15d5)                       [2s] - giant GV
Tl: blessed dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead" (+2, 2d10+4) [+2, +2] {To+3}[90s] - precrowning gift

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                                Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon           Lvl   Hit   Dam   DV   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Daggers & knives         8    +7    +4   +2   excellent            141
Swords                  13   +14   +10   +4   Mastery              3231 - Kinslayer
Twohanded weapons       10   +10   +14   +4   excellent            1685 - AotME

Missile weapon         Lvl   Hit   Dam   Ra   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Bows                     8   +16   +12   +2   excellent            224 - True Aim
Crossbows                8   +16   +12   +2   excellent            324
Thrown spears            8   +16   +12   +2   excellent            352 - Rune-Covered Trident

Shields                Lvl   DV               Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---              -------------  --------------
Shields                 10   +20              excellent            738


Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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Right hand: +160 bonus to hit, 4d5+62 damage


Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 1, base range: 37, +137 bonus to hit, 15d5+57 damage


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                                   Skills
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  Alchemy .................. 64    (good)         [+1]
  Alertness ................100    (superb)       [+1d5]
  Archery ..................100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Backstabbing .............100    (superb)       [+3d5]
  Climbing .................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Courage .................. 10    (poor)         [+3d4] - picked this up after closing the Gate
  Detect traps .............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Dodge ....................100    (superb)       [+1d5]
  Find weakness ............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  First aid ................ 73    (great)        [+1d3]
  Food preservation ........100    (superb)       [+1d5]
  Haggling ................. 63    (good)         [+1d5]
  Herbalism ................100    (superb)       [+1d5]
  Listening ................100    (superb)       [+3d3]
  Literacy .................100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Music .................... 55    (good)         [+1d3]
  Pick locks ...............100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Smithing ................. 61    (good)         [+1d3]
  Stealth ..................100    (superb)       [+3d3]
  Swimming .................100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Tactics ..................100    (superb)       [+1]
  Two weapon combat ........ 82    (great)        [+1d5]


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                                   Spells
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   Calm Monster     :    75,  10pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Cure Light Wounds:   167,   5pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Knock            :    52,  17pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Light            :   280,   3pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Magic Missile    :   156,   8pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Remove Curse     :    38,  81pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Summon Monsters  :    15,  55pp     (Effectivity: +0)

- read the books but didn't cast many spells due to tentacle mouth corruption
   
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                              Her further life:
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After she leaves the Drakalor Chain she is welcomed by her people with great
honors. They acknowledge her noble deeds, her valor, her cunning and her
great skills that helped to prevent the complete destruction of the world
she knows. She returns to her lands victorious and is hailed as a great
leader. Eventually she becomes queen and rules her subjects with an iron
fist for a long and peaceful time, allowing her people to prosper and grow.

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              Her achievements during her battles:
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Poppy, the human assassin, saved the world with her brave efforts and became
a great ruler while saving herself 2 times.
She scored 25541352 points and advanced to level 50.
She survived for 0 years, 125 days, 18 hours, 12 minutes and 34 seconds
(151512 turns).
Poppy visited 149 places.
Her strength score was modified by +32 during her career.
Her learning score was modified by +13 during her career.
Her willpower score was modified by +8 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by +21 during her career.
Her toughness score was modified by +21 during her career.
Her charisma score was modified by +12 during her career.
Her appearance score was modified by +5 during her career.
Her mana score was modified by +9 during her career.
Her perception score was modified by +16 during her career.
She was unnaturally aged by 1 year.
She was the champion of the arena.
She made a little water dragon very happy.
She killed the emperor of the ancient minotaur race.
She left the Drakalor Chain after completing her quest and became a great
leader and famous heroine.
6776 monsters perished under her attacks.
The following 31 artifacts were generated during her adventure:
  the si
  the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
  the potion of literacy
  the golden gladius "Death's Sting"
  the black long sword "Kinslayer"
  the Iron Crown of Havlor
  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 silvery arrow "True Aim"
  the lead-filled mace "Big Punch"
  the silver key
  the rune-covered trident
  the elemental gauntlets
  the ring of the High Kings
  the crown of science
  the ancient mummy wrapping
  the ankh
  the black torc
  the rune-covered club "Skullcrusher" - didn't see this
  the glaive "Long Sting"
  the Shirt of the Saints - didn't see this
  the bracers of war
  the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
  the ring of immunity
  the crown of leadership
  the dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead"
  the shining long spear "Soaker" - didn't see this
  the rune-covered halberd "Wyrmlance" - didn't see this
  the axe of the minotaur emperor
She possessed the following intrinsics:
  She was fire resistant.
  She was poison resistant.
  She was cold resistant.
  She was acid resistant.
  She was lucky (also through an item).
  Fate smiled upon her.
  She was able to control teleportation.
  She was stun resistant (gained through an item).
  She was resistant to death rays (gained through an item).
  She was shock resistant.
  She was immune to shock attacks.
  She was immune to fire attacks (gained through an item).
  She was immune to acidic attacks (gained through an item).
  She was immune to ice attacks (gained through an item).
  She was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through an item).
She had the following talents: Affinity with Bows, Affinity with Swords,
Affinity with Twohanded Weapons, Basher, Careful, Defensive Fighter, Dodger,
Eagle Eye, Good Shot, Greased Lightning, Keen Shot, Lightning Shot, Long
Stride, Mighty Strike, Powerful Strike, Quick, Quick Shot, Very Quick.
She had a final speed score of 117 (final base speed: 117).
She was a messiah of Istaria.
She asked for 6 divine interventions.
She was a holy champion of Balance.

The following monsters were vanquished:

- Lots of giants, great red wyrms, balors, molochs and greater molochs. Backstabbed a couple of doppleganger kings to death.
Ran away from shops full of mimics though!

Dispatched the legendary troll berserker Perseus.
Dispatched the legendary goblin Groof.


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                               Playing Time
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You played for 38 hours, 46 minutes and 19 seconds.


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                             Version Information
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Ancient Domains Of Mystery
Version 1.2.0
Windows Prerelease 23
Build: May 10 2014 15:08:19

[Blasphemous]

Well played, congrats.
With 60+ PV, shock immunity and ring of immunity, BDC would have been a piece of cake.
Those great red wyrms in the greater vault are far more dangerous than anything BDC can throw at you, including Srax, whom I always dispatch in melee because he's less dangerous than a minotaur king.
The only problem with him is a shitload of HP and regeneration but mino axe is the best at dealing with that.
With double immunity, you were looking at very little equipment damage due to lightning and thanks to AotME - many rofl-stomping one-hit wonders with the wyrms and ancient blue dragons.
Still, a nice victory with a stylish Kinslayer-wielding assassin.

[Dazed]

Thanks - I did consider the blue dragons but decided just to close the gate. I didn't even touch the scrolls of chaos resistance I got from the Dwarven Mystic, I had enough potions of cure corruption (thanks Ice Queen), and I also didn't visit the Rift or go into the Assassins' Guild proper either. Maybe next time I'll try visiting more places! Will probably try a spellcaster now.