Black Dragon - killed everything with drakeling spit (possibly the only char to ever do so).

Fifth win, third gate-closer, all within the last year. This was an odd restricted challenge game - only form of offence was the drakeling spit attack. No weapons, no missiles, no offensive wands or spells, no abuse of traps, no pets, no livesacs. Only way of damaging and killing monsters was by spitting in their faces. This is the ultimate proof that drakelings rule ;) I chose farmer because of early food supply and fast levelling, plus I've never won with one (and never will again, most likely - they're not fun to play).

For those interested, drakeling spit does (Lvl/3)d6 + (Lvl/2) damage. It starts at 2d6+2, and at level 50 rises to 16d6+25 - that's 32-121 damage, with an average of 81 (the dice rolls mean it sticks very close to this average). Acid resist creatures are immune, which notably includes acid vortices, ochre jellies, grey oozes, stone golems and diamond golems. The jellies and oozes were a giant pain throughout this game, especially before I got teleport. DV is also subtracted from the damage, meaning I had huge problems hurting the DarkForge steel golems (took a long time to whittle each down) and the ASB couldn't be taken down till I was level 50 with high speed and casting Slow Monster on him to reduce his regen.

Most of the game was pretty easy. A ring of invis before the tower helped immensely, and I then stayed invis for the rest of the game. Made myself a huge herb farm on D9 (pacified with grey oozes I couldn't hurt) and farmed probably thousands of stoma over the course of the game. Got 3 precrowns - Hammerhead, Staff of the Archmagi and Preserver. Did a lot of smithing before the Tower, and the high DV/PV helped a lot with my many close quarter fights, especially when I had to stop to eat in the middle of many of them. Got 5 wishes in total from RoDSes, spent on AoLS, Alchemy (needed potions of youth after unsuccessful pool-drinking), SLBs, Concentration, and a wish for speed whilst fighting the balors.

Spit range is determined entirely by strength as far as I can tell. Fire orb and a random GoGS helped me snipe some of the big bosses from afar, with SLBs letting me keep my distance. Nuurgy was lured into a corridor and spat on from outside his spell range (which is 15 squares as far as I can tell). ACW was disabled by my first casting of Stun Ray and killed with 15 spits. Balors were killed with spit 'n' back quite easily thanks to high speed, SLBs and teleport. Cleared D50 as a whole without much trouble - I had a wand of destruction, but that ending is so boring!

Ultra would have been nice, and I'm confident I could have taken Andy down and managed the corruptions. However monsters with PV over 80 or so would just be impossible to kill, and the emperor moloch is one of 3 that I could not hurt (greater molochs and doppelganger kings being the other two).

I must say, I was surprised by how easily this was achieved. It was my very first try at the challenge too. Early game was extremely easy with a constant food source. Later on it got fairly tedious at times, but it really did have its fun moments. Killing the big bosses by spitting in their faces is just hilarious :)

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Black Dragon St:48  Le:34  Wi:10  Dx:56  To:55  Ch:15  Ap:22  Ma:29  Pe:24 N=
DV/PV:223/83     H:882(882)    P:364(364)    Exp: 50/32529353   DrCh  Sp: 185
Blessed Invisible Coward
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// Got DV/PV to 159/82 before the ToEF with smithing.  Many stats naturally
// got quite high with the L40 class power.  HP is horribly low considering
// I was level 50 with very high Toughness - farmers really do suck.
// Willpower was generally high, but took a giant hit when I ate lots of
// killer bugs late in the game to try and get some extra speed vs the ASB.


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                            Background Information
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Name: Black Dragon        Race: male Drakeling      Class: Farmer
Eye color: light blue     Hair color: bald          Complexion: green
Height: 5'8"              Weight: 163 pounds        Scars: 5
Age: 32 (grown-up, 8 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Cup            Birthday: 9/Cup (day 249 of the year)

// DarkForge pools got me to 51 years of aging - enough to kill me.  Had to
// wish for alchemy to brew potions of youth to keep me away from death's
// door.  Scars were mostly from the fire temple, when I had the fast healing
// corruption (doesn't combine well with normal drakeling damage in there).


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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 5206 stones                Carrying capacity: 20550 stones

Head          : uncursed mithril cap [+6, +6]                         [40s]
Neck          : uncursed sapphire amulet "Preserver" [+4, +4] {Wi+7}   [3s]
Body          : blessed black dragon scale mail (-2, -4) [+4, +13]   [200s]
Girdle        : uncursed eternium girdle [+6, +6]                     [12s]
Cloak         : uncursed cloak of invisibility (-1, +0) [+3, +2]      [30s]
Right Hand    : uncursed tower eternium shield (+2) [+19, +4]         [70s]
Left Hand     : uncursed tower eternium shield (-1) [+15, +4]         [70s]
Right Ring    : uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd)
Left Ring     : uncursed ring of mental stability [+2, +1] {Le+3}      [1s]
Bracers       : uncursed rustproof bracers of resistance [+8, +8]     [10s]
Gauntlets     : uncursed rustproof gauntlets (-1, +0) [+6, +7]        [10s]
Boots         : blessed seven league boots [+5, +4]                   [30s]
Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : heap of 2 uncursed medium eternium shields [+9, +3]   [92s]
Tool          : heap of 55 blessed spenseweeds                       [110s]

// Hurrah for smithing!  Normally it's too boring for me to bother with, but
// it helped a lot with an otherwise weak character.  Hammerhead truly was a
// gift from the gods in that respect.  As was Preserver, I was so happy I
// made the effort for a third precrown after getting that!  I stayed unarmed
// at first and then switched to two shields as soon as I found them.  Made
// it easy to avoid cats too, especially after I found a ring of invis.
// Bracers of resistance were a nice early find too.  Had some trouble
// crossing D49, so I ended up using potions of booze/carrot juice on the way
// in, and all the eternium gear I'd found on the way out (which is why
// there's eternium shields in the missile slot at the mo).


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                                    Stuff
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Total weight: 4527 stones   Carrying capacity: 20550 stones

<snipped down>
   uncursed girdle of giant strength [+0, +0] {St+12}                 [30s]
// Found just before the Mana Temple, and was quite handy for increasing my
// spit range.  Didn't wear it normally though for fear of hitting cats out
// of sight.

One-handed weapons ('(')
   blessed dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead" (+2, 2d10+4) [+2, +2] {To+3} [90s]
   uncursed rune-covered club "Skullcrusher" (+12, 3d6+2) [-3, +0] {St+4}
Two-handed weapons ('(')
   blessed rune-covered halberd "Wyrmlance" (+15, 4d8+10) [-2, +0]    [50s]
   uncursed eternium halberd of slaughtering (+11, 5d9+10) [-2, +0]   [50s]
   uncursed eternium halberd of mayhem (+11, 6d7+16) [-2, +0]         [50s]
   uncursed eternium halberd of thunder (+11, 4d7+8) [-2, +0]         [50s]
// I think the RNG decided to have a laugh at me by throwing nice weapons my
// way.  And you know how great farmers are meant to be with polearms, right?
// Bah...

   heap of 2 uncursed potions of invisibility                          [8s]
// Used a fair number of these for extra experience from certain enemies.
// Really needed all the levels I could get as soon as I could get them to
// improve spit damage.

   heap of 8 blessed scrolls of chaos resistance                      [16s]
// Corruption wasn't a problem in the game.  Got the full compliment of all
// available scrolls... except the HMV one actually.  2 blessed scrolls of
// peace and the farmer L50 power made D50 much easier for corruptions,
// especially considering how much time I took there.

   heap of 38 blessed stomafillia herbs                               [76s]
// The most important item in this game  :)