lesser vault + random artifact

[head2]

So, i was playing this hurthling bard, cleaned a vault which was full of spiders. After i moved on a pile of junk, i saw this jet-black battle axe there. I didn't know normal monsters can drop artifacts like that, has this happened to anyone else?

This character had so many close calls in the beginning, so it's about time my luck is changing.

btw, how bad is the cursed-intrinsic if i got lucky and fate smiles?

also tested a scroll of familiar summoning @bugville, got an ancient minotaur companion standing in C2 or 3 :d

[head2]

Junnu    St:17  Le:15  Wi:15  Dx:19  To:22  Ch:23  Ap:15  Ma:11  Pe:14  L
DV/PV: 32/17   H: 132(132)   P: 53(53)   Exp: 14/84301   M: 21633

Name: Junnu               Race: male Hurthling      Class: Bard
Eye color: blue           Hair color: brown         Complexion: light
Height: 3'1"              Weight: 74 pounds
Age: 33 (grown-up, 1 year of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Candle         Birthday: 5/Candle (day 275 of the year)

                                Weapon Skills

Melee weapon           Lvl   Hit   Dam   DV   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Unarmed fighting         2    +2    +0   +0   basic                40
Daggers & knives         1    +1    +0   +0   basic                25
Clubs & hammers          2    +2    +0   +0   basic                40
Maces & flails           0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Swords                   2    +2    +0   +0   basic                29
Axes                     3    +2    +1   +0   basic                35
Whips                    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15
Pole arms                9    +9    +5  +10   excellent            742
Twohanded weapons        2    +2    +2   +0   basic                40
Staves                   0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            15

Missile weapon         Lvl   Hit   Dam   Ra   Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---   ---   --   -------------  --------------
Slings                   0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            5
Bows                     6   +12    +9   +2   skilled              51
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     4    +8    +6   +1   skilled              21
Thrown spears            0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7
Boomerangs & scurgari    0    +0    +0   +0   unskilled            7

Shields                Lvl   DV               Level          Required marks
---------------------  ---   ---              -------------  --------------
Shields                  6   +12              skilled              199


Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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?Right hand: ?+15? bonus to hit, ?5d6+9? damage


Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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?Ammunition: ?17?, base range: ?3?, ?+37? bonus to hit, ?1d6+21? damage




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                                   Spells
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

   Darkness      :    31,   6pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Lightning Bolt:    57,  17pp     (Effectivity: +0)


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                                   Skills
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Archery ..................100    (superb)       [+1d3]
  Bridge building .......... 17    (mediocre)     [+4d5] (mr)
  Climbing ................. 44    (fair)         [+4d4]
  Cooking .................. 50    (fair)         [+3d3] (ma)
  Detect traps ............. 87    (great)        [+2d4]
  First aid ................ 41    (fair)         [+4d4]
  Food preservation ........100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Gardening ................ 22    (mediocre)     [+4d4]
  Gemology ................. 25    (mediocre)     [+4d4]
  Haggling ................. 26    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Healing ..................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Listening ................ 83    (great)        [+2d4]
  Literacy ................. 75    (great)        [+2d4]
  Music ....................100    (superb)       [+2d4]
  Pick locks ............... 30    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Stealth .................. 70    (good)         [+1d3]
  Survival ................. 18    (mediocre)     [+4d5]
  Swimming ................. 34    (fair)         [+3d4]




----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  Inventory
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total weight: 2445 stones                Carrying capacity: 3500 stones

He: cursed rusty metal cap [+0, +1]                                   [50s]
Ne: uncursed amulet of speed (+3 spd)                                  [3s]
Bo: uncursed mithril chain mail (-1, -3) [-2, +7]                    [320s]
Gi: blessed girdle of carrying [+0, +0]                               [15s]
Cl: uncursed leather cloak (-1, +0) [+1, +0]                          [40s]
RH: blessed jet-black battle axe (named) (+2, 5d6+6) [-4, +1] {St+3} (+3 spd)
LH: uncursed tower mithril shield (-2) [+9, +2]                      [120s]
RR: blessed ring of acid resistance                                    [1s]
LR: blessed ring of teleport control                                   [1s]
Br: uncursed bracers of toughness [+0, +0] {To+4}                     [10s]
Ga: uncursed archery gloves (+0, +4) [+3, +3]                          [6s]
Bo: blessed seven league boots [+1, +0]                               [30s]
MW: uncursed short bow of accuracy (+6, +0)                           [20s]
Mi: bundle of 17 weighted arrows (+0, 1d6+7)                          [34s]
Tl: -

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                               Killed Monsters
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

905 monsters perished under his attacks.


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                                Achievements
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He survived for 0 years, 10 days, 4 hours, 37 minutes and 55 seconds (21633
turns).
15 companions were killed during his adventures.
Junnu visited 38 places.
His strength score was modified by +6 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +5 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +4 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +2 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +3 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +2 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +1 during his career.
His mana score was modified by +1 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +2 during his career.
He was unnaturally aged by 1 year.

[F50]

executor is generally worth the cursed intrinsic, but watch out!

[head2]

executor is generally worth the cursed intrinsic, but watch out!

Yeah, it seems like it, my bard is cutting through everything at this point.

Just entered the pyramid's second level and got a surge of power: a named vapor rat guarding the "hammerhead" -pickaxe.

Damn, lol.

Thundarr told me to kill a hydra, so i went to swamp to kill one and found out it was a swamp hydra after returning back to him. >.<

Hydra (meh) i thought and went deeper in CoC, went through DH by using magic mapping and monster detection. Then i got to khelavaster, and had no AoLS so i thought i'd go to drink the pools in darkforge.

But, when i reached the first level before the darkforge, i noticed a glowing wand on the ground, WoWi with 3 charges(!).

Now i just can't think of anything else to wish for after i have the AoLS. A hydra? Z.z

[gut]

The 'cursed' intrinsic, can just as accurately be
reffered to as 'bad luck'. It's not that bad, and
is quite managable, even without having the
'luck' and 'fate smiles' intrinsics to offset it.
Having the status granted to you via a weapon
is still yet, not as bad as having it naturally.

The only REALLY bad thing about having the
'cursed' intrinsic naturally, is being one step
closer to being 'doomed'. If you are 'cursed'
naturally, then bump into a karmic lizard, you're
doomed. If you are just cursed by a weapon,
you still get that extra mistake, before you're
doomed.

[Grey]

Random artifact drops are indeed possible - I've had them happen in many games. It's also possible to randomly pickpocket Bracers of War, Whirlwind or Preserver. I've heard there's a slightly higher chance of finding an artifact in a lesser vault, but only once have I actually had this happen. Executor is awesome to have - it's by far and beyond my favourite weapon in the game. The cursing just gives it an extra edge to keep the game fun.

4 wishes is quite handy indeed! AoLS is an obvious choice to save Khelly. Screw the hydra - the dwarven quests aren't necessary. Besides, you've already messed up the next quest by going beyond the dwarven halls (so his second quest is going to be a random monster to slay, and it could be even rarer!) I'd say carry on with the game as normal, only doing the portal quest. You can still do the arena to get the golden gladius for Garth (be sure to drink blessed potions of learning before training with him so that you get Tactics starting at 100).

For wishes I'd recommend the following:
-Girdle of giant strength
-Eternium plate mails or red dragon scale mails (the latter is handy for the tower)
-Eternium tower shields (not too necessary since you've not maxed out your current shield yet, but can be handy)
-Find Weakness (a useful skill)
-Rings of ice (again for the tower, though not worth a wish in my books unless you rely on archery)

It's also important for you to harvest some morgia so your Toughness and Willpower get higher. You don't need herbalism to get decent morgia.

[head2]

God damn, adom crashed. He was level 22 and just got RotHK. Also found a blessed RoDS i used for rings of ice.

Things were going so smoothly that i forgot to take backup copies. Oh well, at least i learned something.

Thanks for tips, new character!

p.s. is the dos-version less likely to crash?

[Maul]

ADOM 1.1.1 has never, ever crashed for me under DOS.

[head2]

ADOM 1.1.1 has never, ever crashed for me under DOS.

damn, i guess i should give it a try, then

i hate to have that annoying "saved himself 50 times" in the flg file

now i just need to remember the button which increased the speed in dosbox, adom seems laggy ^^

[Elone]

Waaaait a second. I keep reading about crashes all the time, but they dont happen to me. Does that simply happen because everyone else just uses Winbeta?...

Yes, DOS version is unlikely to crash, compared to what I've heard about this other Winbeta ADOM, apparently.

I'm just happy that I dont have Vista, cuz I heard that DOS ADOM simply wont work with it! All of Microsoft's new products tend to suck, til they get 2-4 service packs after 2-4 years of waiting... If Microsoft ever makes something that DOES NOT suck, it will be a vacuum cleaner.

P.S. I used DOSBOX before, just not for ADOM, which already works just as I want it. The last time I used DOSBOX, it was really unwieldy. It had too many parameters which had to be set manually (which is similar to tuning some old tv set, cuz it's very touchy and you can never get those best results), plus settings are different for every program/game you start in DOSBOX, and you cant save various settings for each of them.