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[yhal003]

Now, that's just... Few days after loosing troll assassin on D:50 (no points for guessing how he died), lost dwarven ranger also on D:50 . With no chars in between. I must have angered adom god or something. At least this one did close the gate. And died an unusual death. I think he had around 200 HP when using the wand. Never realized it can be so damaging. I do not remember the first wand use to be that damaging either. Could be related to number of monsters or "special" circumstances when closing the gate.

Full flg attached. Otherwise a nice game. Not a single wish but good luck with artifacts: kinslayer from chaos spawn next to Khelly, crowning with Nature's Companion. Two surges of power (grod and staff of Wander).

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[manseman]

Well, at least you weren't wasting any time getting to D:50

[Blasphemous]

38k turns... that's about the time I start gathering stuff for the tower.

[yhal003]

Aye, I do enjoy fast games lately. Keeps the tower exciting as ever at least . And permission not to scum is very liberating. No boring mino maze, no precrownings, no gardening. This time I didn't even bother checking casino and clearing greater vault. I used to have at least two precrowns every game. After a while this changed to one. And then I only did precrowns with hurtling or dwarf or with an altar in carnivorous level. In this game I had an altar in carnivorous level with the dwarf, but still found the though of luring monsters to an altar unbearable.

[yhal003]

Ok, ADOM truly hates me. This is third char in a row making it to D:50 that died there. Orc ranger, died of old age (I think I have more respect for elves now...). Although for this one death by aging was a kindness. An entire game was a combination of poor choices and rng disasters.

It all started with him being stuck between two cats in a corridor in druid dangeon. So much for the ring, well not the first time. But rage quitting at this point would have been a wise decision. After that I had a brilliant idea in dwarftown (yes, another one of those). Single scroll of teleportation, so I cannot visit a mystic, but I have plenty of trap creation charges. First trap created was a fireball that he triggered killing a dwarf and making Waldy crazy. This time I didn't feed him many sis so escape was possible.

Got my RoDS a bit later, blessing I thought but it was only to prolong the pain. I waited for mystic award results and of course he gave me nothing on account of recent fuckup. Had great weapon luck. At one point best weapon of choice was sword of Nonnak. Because our only decent axe (something like 1d6+5, terrific) got rusted in a trap. This is the first time ever my char used an ethernium dagger from Khelly reward.

At least he got mace of destruction before the tower, the same mace he used for the rest of the game. Tower was fun too, with no intrinsic fire resist (so much for 90+ Food Preservation). Finally got a corpse at level 3. Raven and single ring of fish let him obtain trident before the wyrm, but it was only thrown once or twice. Single corruption removal potion blasted over half of poor ACW's HP killing him instantly.

This time I did check casino and got some regeneration, a decent armor and few scrolls and potions, and SLB. Air temple was easy, although at same point I was worried the summoner just kills my char in melee (I had something like 30/30 on berserk and still the same old mace). And after that it was one fucking disaster. Two ghost kings (for an orc no less), and a balor threat room on D:47. My only teleport wand got destroyed by black dragons, I had no magic mapping, and balors teleport everywhere and summon like crazy. Ended up having to use my pick axe to dig through the level till the stair case. Have you ever tried digging surrounded by three balors? Not a good idea. Got corrupted a lot, had 2 or 3 mana batteries so had to clear those. Ended up with no means of corruption removal and god ignoring my prayers. Still had one more wish though. Next was the mana temple. First trap on the way destroys my only amulet of light. So, I ended up wishing amulets of light... And meleed archmage to death (his death that is). But not before anihillator ate my SLB (because why the hell not?) and after that my ethernium boots. And of course my only corruption from the fight was another mana battery. My stats after that... Pe was 3, St and To also took some beating. Amulet of the eye? got burned by fire elemental on D:48. Potion of uselessness gift was deathblade (a hint from the deity no doubt).

So, almost blind, with stats in the toilet, no wand uses, 2 potions of healing, he made it to D:50. I think ghost lord got a single strike, I was careful to keep most of them at distance but this is not easy with Pe:3. That single strike punched through armor and ended poor orc's misery .

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[blunk]

Ppl that say PE is useless probably never play orcs.
If you had success with D50 at lvl 25 that would be very impressive.

[_Ln_]

It all started with him being stuck between two cats in a corridor in druid dangeon.

You sure?

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.
        In your youth you became seriously ill and suffered for many years.
 When your disease finally was cured you were left weakened, both
 physically and spiritually, and bereft of the joys of youth.
        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.

[yhal003]

You sure?

Right. And I never read those anymore. It is almost like this background causes a particular sadistic cruelty of RNG. Ghost kings could kill my orc many times, my last corruption could be stiff muscles, dragon could have destroyed by SoCR supply instead, etc. But no, its effects were painful but never fatal till the end. But that would be too silly .

So much for RNG, now to poor decisions part. Druid's dungeon was unnecessary, since I do not use gardening and torc while useful, is not essential for this kind of char (it also gave me the only PoCC before the tower, but I could try getting one for the water snake). Cat's ring on other hand would be very handy. Second wish for amulets of light was a waste since he was meleeing archmage in a corridor anyway. Extra SoCRs would at least let me deal with mana battery. Never got crowned which is another mistake. That was partly due to poor resource allocation, orcs do not get any love from shopkeepers but I kept playing like a dwarf. And because of not being crowned, food was slightly problematic. Its shortage prevented me from using cloak of invisibility on D:50, possibly a fatal mistake. It could be possible to kill two balors even in char's sorry state and try to wretch final teleport charge before another one opens the gate. Of course after that there was a matter of crossing D:47 again, this time with almost no healing, prayers or chaos removal.

If you had success with D50 at lvl 25 that would be very impressive.

Levels do not matter that much for a ranger except for to-hit, which was terrible especially for ranged weapons. I should have gotten all talents with to-hit for missiles earlier.

[Soirana]

I think he had around 200 HP when using the wand. Never realized it can be so damaging. I do not remember the first wand use to be that damaging either.
Could be related to number of monsters or "special" circumstances when closing the gate.

H: -70(418)    P: 0(61)

IIRC, the wand of destruction gives message about draining both physically and mentally. In practice that means draining PP as well HP. For physical fighters first use typically empties power points. Second one converts PP damage into HP one so it is more damaging. Unless char reads some scrolls of power

[yhal003]

But that would only explain difference in about 61/1.5 = 40 HP, no? Unless I did not watch his HP as closely as I should have and instead of 200, he had 1 HP after an unlucky balor crit. Or the reason for his 200 HP in the first place was first wand use, and I mistakenly attributed the damage to monsters.