So, human priest. I made several failed attempts before understood how to play him. I tried going to Small Cave with no luck. The only character that was able to get the blanket and dive into UD was killed by a mixed tension room next door.
This way I understood that Small Cave is a bad idea. Humans level up too fast, even when I chose to go DD/VD I quickly felt that monsters become more dangerous faster that I do. I also understood that priest is a melee class for the most part of the game, especially in the beginning. It is because you start with books of non-offensive spells and other books are rare. So I chose to go Druid Dungeon and then get Spellbook of Nether Bolt as a reward (you have Healing and Herbalism skills from the beginning and as a priest you don't need any potions of healing, you will get a lot of different healing spells).
One of my starting spellbooks was a spellbook of Bless. The spell is actually good in the beginning of the game, it is cheap and improves your to-hit chance. I casted it a lot till Dwarftown and later.
There were multiple cats on the last DD level so I retreated and headed to Puppy Cave. For some reason human priests start with Music skill but without any musical instrument, so I decided to wait with druid's quest until better (music-wise) times.
I now don't remember what was the vault in the Puppy Cave, something bad so I did not finish it and went to CoC. There was a nice herbs level and two lesser vaults up to Dwarftown. Stats, equipment and weapon marks were improved a lot. Spell to disarm traps was very helpful too.
Then I made ancient dwarf's quests, Pyramid, Dwarven Graveyard, finished Druid Dungeon and that vault in Puppy Cave; I don't remember exact order. I played without Treasure Hunter talent and picketpocketing so felt the difference. Most of good loot were from vaults. (Casino and red dragons vault on D: 46 were a joy of loot for the character, they covered almost everything I needed; though no 7lb and mental stability.)
The route for the rest of the game was ToTHK -> Darkforge -> ToEF -> Casino -> return to surface and read all spellbooks -> dive to the end. Khelavaster was saved (pool sipping), Casino was robbed. I now see that had really good assortment of weapons and armor. There was a crown of fire in Dwarftown shop. When I saw the crown, it was immediately bought and improved by scrolls of protection. I was wearing that crown for the whole game then. Also I had a whip of penetration, which was really good. Usually you have some trash of penetration like knifes. I though first that a whip would be trashy too, but whips have better good to-hit, to-damage and DV increases when trained. I was surprised that the whip did not burn in Darforge because golems tried hard.
Crowning gave me cold immunity and Shirt of Saints. I wore the shirt for some time indeed but after I found an excelled eternium plate mails, it was put to inventory. Purifier was from a surge of power, I used it all midgame because of its slaying powers. Later I switched to Big Punch/Wyrmlance for red dragons vault and finally to adamantium broadsword of devastation. The whip was still useful even on D: 50.
Some comments about the log file
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uncursed crown of leadership [+2, +7] {Ch+18} [65s]
From potion of uselessness
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uncursed bracers of regeneration [+6, +0] [18s]
Did not use it
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uncursed dagger of death (+5, 5d5+2) [10s]
uncursed knife of endurance (+6, 1d3+6) {To+4} [8s]
uncursed bloody dagger (+6, 2d3+5) [10s]
Left this because in the beginning of the game I had cursed dagger equipped so trained Knifes to level 7. Did not use this stuff, maybe knife of endurance one time to heal when regenerating PP.
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uncursed thin dagger "Cat's Claw" (+4, 3d3) {Dx+8} [10s]
Drop from D: 50.
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uncursed rune-covered halberd "Wyrmlance" (+15, 4d8+10) [-2, +0] [50s]
Good agains dragons.
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heap of 73 uncursed rocks (+0, 1d4) [365s]
For the long time did not have any bow or crossbow so slings were well trained.
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heap of 2 uncursed magical writing sets (2) [10s]
Forgot to use this, blessed all the water.
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blessed ring of searching [1s]
This one was from the start, was good for Pyramid and Dwarven Graveyard and low trap detection skill.
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uncursed ring of invisibility [1s]
Used once to clear nasty ghost lords tension room in Mana Temple. I really was confused with that room initially, did not know what to do. Then I remembered that priest are spellcasters meanwhile and burned them all one by one. Never had ball spells this run.
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uncursed brass ring [1s]
This one was left from a failed attempt to summon friendly djinni to kill those ghost lords. Lords are far more powerful 
I would better to wish for scrolls of familiar summoning.
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uncursed wand of item detection (4 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of monster detection (1 charge) [3s]
blessed wand of digging (0 charges) [3s]
I believe I used only these wands. No wand of destruction.
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uncursed potion of cure corruption [2s]
Spend one of these on Chaos Archmage. Did not notice any effect.
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heap of 2 blessed scrolls of corruption removal [4s]
Burned two SoCRs in Air Temple FacePalm
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heap of 31 uncursed pepper petals [62s]
heap of 38 blessed pepper petals [76s]
heap of 18 blessed alraunia antidotes [36s]
heap of 6 uncursed lumps of beeswax [30s]
uncursed lump of gelee royal [3s]
heap of 5 uncursed spenseweeds [10s]
heap of 14 blessed spenseweeds [28s]
heap of 3 blessed curaria mancox herbs [6s]
heap of 4 uncursed curaria mancox herbs [8s]
Did not use anything from here.
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Unarmed fighting 2 +2 +0 +0 basic 60
That is because of the gladiator and also a statue which trained my weapon marks.
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Daggers & knives 7 +6 +3 +1 skilled 407
Cursed knife in the beginning of the game.
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Maces & flails 10 +9 +6 +3 excellent 845
From Purifier.
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Swords 9 +7 +5 +3 excellent 438
Adamantium broadswoard of devastation.
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Axes 8 +6 +5 +2 excellent 980
Battle axe of mayhem which was used after that cursed knife.
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Whips 10 +14 +9 +10 excellent 1628
Trained in Darkforge, ToEF, red dragons vault and other places all the game. See that +9 to-dam and +10 DV? Wow!
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Pole arms 9 +9 +5 +10 excellent 1498
Wyrmlance in the red dragon vault.
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Slings 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 210
Bows 7 +14 +10 +2 skilled 300
Crossbows 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 353
Crossbows were trained with slaying ammo in tough locations, slings in the beginning of the game. Don't remember how I got 7 lvl with bows.
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Thrown spears 1 +2 +1 +0 basic 18
I like rune-covered spear a lot but this time I played without it.
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Shields 12 +24 Mastery 4980
Mastery... With shield [+16, x].
Skills
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Climbing .................. 76 (great) [+1d3]
That's the maximum for lvl 42.
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First aid .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Super good skill. You recover a lot of damage after crits and vortex explosions if apply next turn. Maybe it is specific to priest, will need to test with other chars.
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Food preservation .........100 (superb) [+2d4]
The best skill in the game.
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Literacy ..................100 (superb) [+2d4]
That's funny: started with ~70.
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Pick pockets .............. 71 (great) [+1d3]
Used only to get Detect traps.
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Smithing ..................100 (superb) [+1d3]
Leveled this up in D: 50. Like the skill a lot, the only problem that it's hard to use early.
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Tactics ...................100 (superb) [+1]
Leveled up on D: 50.
Spells
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Baptism of Fire : 246, 4pp (Effectivity: +19)
Anti-ghost lord weapon #2
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Hellish Flames : 538, 5pp (Effectivity: +15)
Anti-ghost lord weapon #1
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Lordly Might : 748, 5pp (Effectivity: +11)
Anti-burden aid. Was lucky to get it early.
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Minor Punishment : 147, 4pp (Effectivity: +14)
Anti-everything.
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Nether Bolt : 338, 6pp (Effectivity: +17)
Was good in ToEF and ToTHK.
Achievements
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40 companions were killed during his adventures.
Cats and spiders included.
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He was unnaturally aged by 30 years.
From ghost lords in Mana Temple.
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He adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
Cats love music.
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the fine leather armor "Nature's Companion"
Missed it.
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He had the following talents: Aggressive, Good Shot, Greased Lightning,
Hardy, Immune to Pain, Iron Skin, Keen Shot, Long Stride, Quick, Quick Shot,
Sixth Sense, Steel Skin, Tough Skin, Very Hardy, Very Quick.
No Treasure Hunter, no Porter. Shot-line was taken in D: 50 to help use that 6 quarrels of demon slaying better.
Kills list
Pushovers with a weapon of penetration.
The first one even paralized me several times. That was in wilderness.
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34 ghosts
5 ghost bats
35 ghost kings
41 ghost lords
Wow!
Full flg file
pilgrim.txt
Pilgrim, human priest (gate closer)
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