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    Default Almer, dwarven barbarian, closed the gate.

    It's my 4th win overall and 1st one with a race different than orc.

    The name of the character corresponds to Nissan Almera - my first old car, that I sold on the same day when the dwarven barbarian entered the Ancardia to save it from chaos invasion. I dedicate this win to all Almera's users.

    -Crowning: just below Dwarftown, mixed sacrifices - gold, Nonnak's sword and monsters. Result: Lightning immunity and Death's Blade - disappointment. Decision was made to go further with Big Punch on hand.
    - Most dangerous part of the game was a fight in red dragon vault on level 5 of Haggar Caves. Once I was surrounded by ARD and had to pray later in a long solo fight with red wyrm hp went down to 7. However high speed and rapid regeneration helped to survive (it was not worth it, in the vault there was a Staff of Wanderer that was sacrificed quickly).
    - Also, Mana Temple was a hard crossing. At start I realized, that I don't have any sources of light. When I came to main chamber, to lure Varn out, he surprisingly started to chase me. Because of darkness he casted, I experienced a lot of equipment loss in trapped corridor. Eventually I hammered him with Big Punch at the doorstep of it.
    - D:50 was also difficult. Till I had enough arrows and quarrels it was quite good. But when it came to fight with balors - it started to be hot. I had to use all the scrolls I had on entry (12), but finally last balor was slain. Funny thing was, that I found jinni and asked for wands of destruction. He gave me two of them, but both with no charger. And I realized that I don't have any possibility of charging them (I didn't wanted to risk using 0 charge, not to be surrounded by balors, but later on I somehow blasted it, I guess on the open lever - luckily it was with no effect).

    Some interesting numbers:

    - 7 wishes! (found wand of wishing and 2 jinni rings). Here is orders list:

    1. Fireproof blankets (=oDS)
    2. Find weakness (WoW)
    3. Girdle of giant strength (WoW)
    4. Scrolls of corruption removal (WoW)
    5. Potion of gain attributes (WoW)
    6. Wands of cold (WoW)
    7. Wands of destruction (=oDS)

    - 14 ?oCR used (1 from HMV, 4 from mystic, 5 from Minstrel, 3 from wish, and 1 rewritten).

    - 5 times corruption stiffed muscles! (I was thinking that RNG wants to show me, that my 14 scrolls will be not enough).

    Nice flavors:

    1. In the CoC graveyard a fortune cookie found - Scrap of paper in it warned about graveyards.
    2. Mad Minstrel chatted before given a Weird Tome sang a song about it (on first approach).

    End log showed that plenty of artifacts have been not found by me, including so desired Vanquisher.

    Full log here: http://pastebin.com/kuu3FfZV

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    Almer         St:40  Le:14  Wi:20  Dx:48  To:37  Ch: 7  Ap:16  Ma: 2  Pe:19 N+
    DV/PV: 85/44   H: 618(618)    P: 33(53)      Exp: 35/10699398  DrCh   Sp: 133
    Blessed Satiated
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                                Background Information
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    Name: Almer               Race: male Dwarf          Class: Barbarian
    Eye color: brown          Hair color: brown         Complexion: tanned
    Height: 4'2"              Weight: 180 pounds
    Age: 69 (grown-up, 3 years of unnatural aging added in)
    Star sign: Candle         Birthday: 27/Candle (day 297 of the year)
    
    
    
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                                      Inventory
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    Total weight: 6679 stones                Carrying capacity: 10394 stones
    
    Head          : uncursed rustproof helm of teleportation [+0, +1]     [50s]
    Neck          : uncursed amulet of free action                         [3s]
    Body          : uncursed red dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +13]    [220s]
    Girdle        : blessed girdle of giant strength [+0, +0] {St+12}     [30s]
    Cloak         : uncursed light cloak [+4, +0]                         [20s]
    Right Hand    : blessed lead-filled mace "Big Punch" (+1, 8d5+3) [-6, +0]
    Left Hand     : blessed tower crystal shield (-2) [+13, +4]          [260s]
    Right Ring    : blessed ring of regeneration                           [1s]
    Left Ring     : uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd)
    Bracers       : uncursed bracers of war [+8, +4] {Dx+8}               [10s] // potion of uselessness
    Gauntlets     : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3]        [10s]
    Boots         : blessed boots of the divine messenger [+3, +3] {Dx+5} [25s] // bought in casino, c.a. 1.16 mln gp, 2 corruptions
    Missile Weapon: blessed long bow of hunting (+6, +3)                  [30s]
    Missiles      : bundle of 10 uncursed arrows (+1, 1d6+2)              [20s]
    Tool          : -
    Last edited by zymnos; 10-08-2016 at 10:36 PM.

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    With an orc it can be good to sacrifice artifact weapons directly, because your god loves weapons and shop prices are bad.

    With a dwarf it is the opposite. A dwarf is much better off selling an artifact weapon and sacrificing the gold. That will yield much more piety. Because you have good shop prices at Waldenbrook, and your god has a special love for gold. You only need about 60k to crown.
    You steal a scroll labelled HITME. The orc hits you.

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