Race Wars - The Armies of Order

[meh]

Got the beastfighter. I'm going to start by exploring the UD, which I skipper earlier.

There are a couple of forges in the UD in case we want to do some smithing.
I got the courage skill from the barbarian and he then followed me. I decided to go to Darkforge to see how he would do against the golems. After a while, though, he got fed up with me constantly switching places with him and attacked me. So much for that silly plan. Judging by the one guarding the stairs, we're not ready to face a big group of steel golems quite yet.

[Subconscious]

Our Weaponsmith is down, my apologies. I hope the rest of you think the same way as I do, that weaponsmith wasnt our primary way to get win.

Early game riskyness, getting ambushed by random goblins and dying there.
Oh well... There was nothing to do really, I wouldnt say that it was my fault tho.
All blame RNG. :/

[meh]

I sort of wanted to take Tiny directly to the water temple, but decided to take the traditional route after all in case I'd come across an amulet of life saving on the way.

There was a chaotic altar in the hing kings dungeon, but I didn't dare to step on it to convert it. The skeletal king was very easily killed once I got there. I was surrounded a couple of times in the cavernous levels. At least it trained our courage a bit.

When I went to darkforge next I thought to myself "This cutpurse is unusally tough". Only after killing him did I realise that the white @ was not in fact a cutpurse at all, but the barbarian I had left there earlier. We're still L+, though, so no harm done.

I went downstairs and the first golem used his fire attack, which destroyed some stuff, including two scrolls of defense. I checked our inventory and noticed that we had no fireproof blanket. I quickly went back and dropped everything. I cleared up the lower level quite easily, but our [+0, +6] cloak did get destroyed. I picked up the crown and two promising looking armours. Returned to where I dumped our stuff earlier and noticed that I can't carry it all. I left our mithril boots behind and returned to Dwarftown. I sold our crystal armour as it was just too heavy and returned to the big room to collect some morgia and stoma herbs.

I noticed that we had become strained! again, so decided to stop for now. If we're prepared to let Khelavaster die, then we could go all the way down to the wall of flames now.

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                            Character Information
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Tiny    St:23  Le:16  Wi:20  Dx:45  To:26  Ch:21  Ap:12  Ma:12  Pe:14  L+
DV/PV: 58/19   H: 295(295)   P: 60(71)   Exp: 20/475321   M: 43758



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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 4452 stones                Carrying capacity: 2925 stones

Head          : uncursed metal cap (+1, +1) [+0, +1]                  [50s]
Neck          : uncursed amulet of free action                         [3s]
Body          : blessed robe of invisibility [+0, +4]                 [60s]
Girdle        : uncursed girdle of strength [+0, +0] {St+1}           [15s]
Cloak         : uncursed hooded cloak [+1, +0]                        [40s]
Right Hand    : -
Left Hand     : -
Right Ring    : uncursed ring of the clear mind                        [1s]
Left Ring     : uncursed ring of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage)
Bracers       : blessed bracers of war [+8, +4] {Dx+8}                [10s]
Gauntlets     : uncursed gloves [+3, +3]                               [6s]
Boots         : -
Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : heap of 114 uncursed rocks (+0, 1d4)                 [570s]
Tool          : -

Zip file

[meh]

I'm continuing with Speedy the bard now.

Bad news first: I killed a cat. There were no special circumstances, I just bumped into it in a moment of carelessness. Sorry

I explored down to the wall of flames (rescuing Khelly on the way) and returned back up.

There is a lawful altar close to the stairs down in the graveyard. A lot of good it does there among all the undead.

I killed most things with rocks in the water temple. The snake was too tough, though, so I used our wand of fireballs instead.

I cleared two minor undead vaults. I left the cooked snake corpse on the Banshee level, as I remember it sharing the non-rotting property of shops. There is a herb level next to the Banshee one with two morgia/moss squares.

I didn't come across much useful stuff this time. gauntlets of strength are probably the best find. I also got two wands of wonder, which I zapped down to 0 charges.

What to do next? ToEF is an option, but we have no fireproof blanket. Sipping the pools for a wish is always an alternative. It would be great to get the concentration skill. We could also train our climbing a bit and then go to the rift, although that might be a bit risky in a game like this.

I'm back at the D1 stash, so there's some equipment to choose from. Again, I used herbs that have yet to take effect, so don't waste any more right away.

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                            Character Information
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Speedy    St:26  Le:18  Wi:20  Dx:24  To:29  Ch:19  Ap: 8  Ma:12  Pe:15  L+
DV/PV: 53/33   H: 273(295)   P: 19(105)   Exp: 22/980917   M: 56530



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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 4959 stones                Carrying capacity: 3675 stones

He: cursed helm of mental stability [+0, +1] {Le+1}                  [100s]
Ne: uncursed amulet of light                                           [3s]
Bo: uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8}                   [60s]
Gi: uncursed mithril girdle [+0, +4]                                  [20s]
Cl: uncursed cloak of protection [+0, +3]                             [20s]
RH: blessed dwarven rune axe "Rolf's Companion" (+3, 3d6+6) [+4, +4] {To+3}
LH: uncursed medium crystal shield [+10, +5]                         [160s]
RR: uncursed ring of ice                                               [1s]
LR: blessed ring of damage                                             [1s]
Br: cursed rusty bracers of speed [+0, +0] (+4 spd)                   [10s]
Ga: uncursed gauntlets of strength (-1, +0) [-1, +1] {St+3}           [40s]
Bo: blessed seven league boots [+1, +0]                               [30s]
MW: -
Mi: heap of 9 uncursed rocks (+0, 1d4)                                [45s]
Tl: -

Here's Speedy!

BTW, people other than me and gut are more than welcome to play these two characters as well.

[gut]

Indeed, everyone can share these PC's. It should be a team effort.

Having said that... I'm getting Tiny again : )

[Baranor]

I will start playing, but I have just been incredibly busy this week!

Are we going for the platinum girdle with any of these mugs?

[gut]

I'm done torturing 'Tiny' for now. I pool sipped in DF, to get an amulet of life saving
for Khelly. I then remembered that we hadn't yet gotten the golden gladius, and now I
had perma-invisibility! I had to search through many of the previous dungeons looking
for pools, to get rid of it. I finally did shed it, and aquired the 'tactics' skill.
Took a lot of turns though : ) I drank a potion of insight when done sipping, and here
is what we are left with:

-poison, -cold, lucky+FS, -sleep, -petr, TP control, -stun, -para, -shock, =acid,
naturally heal one HP/46 turns, and one PP/ 59 turns.

The bad news is, that we don't have intrinsic -fire, so we need keep an eye out for
fire monsters. Actually, we do have 4 sources of -fire for the tower (RotHK's, -fire
ring, Elemental Gauntlets, and the 'immune to pain talent), but if we can pick up the
intrinsic, that would free up a ring slot or two.

Tiny St:23 Le:23 Wi:24 Dx:42 To:28 Ch:22 Ap: 1 Ma:12 Pe:14 L+
DV/PV: 47/31 H: 298(298) P: 47(71) Exp: 20/517737 D: 10 M: 53563
Blessed Invisible Strained

Unarmed fighting 11 +10 +6 +5 Mastery 1277

Thrown rocks & clubs 8 +16 +12 +2 excellent 12

Right hand: +84 bonus to hit, 1d16+33 damage

Ammunition: 110, base range: 6, +52 bonus to hit, 1d4+32 damage

Farsight : 259, 17pp (Effectivity: +1)
Frost Bolt: 407, 12pp (Effectivity: +0)
// I ate the Oracle, undoomed myself, temporarily donned the CoS, and read these. It
// was a test, to get an idea of how this beastfighter might fare with a teleport
// book : ) I say it's worth a shot.

You have grown thorns (3d3 melee damage, Dx: -2, Ap: -3).
// Not bad : )

Head : uncursed metal cap (+1, +1) [+0, +1] [50s]
Neck : uncursed ankh [3s]
Body : uncursed ancient mummy wrapping [+1, +5] {Ap-8} [60s]
Girdle : uncursed mithril girdle [+0, +2] [20s]
Cloak : uncursed hooded cloak [+1, +0] [40s]
Right Hand : -
Left Hand : -
Right Ring : blessed ring of the High Kings [+2, +3] [1s]
Left Ring : uncursed ring of invisibility [1s]
Bracers : blessed bracers of war [+8, +4] {Dx+8} [10s]
Gauntlets : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Boots : uncursed mithril boots [-1, +2] [96s]
Missile weapon: -
Missiles : heap of 110 uncursed rocks (+0, 1d4) [550s]
Tool : -

uncursed amulet of life saving [3s]
uncursed eternium two-handed sword (+18, 6d5+18) [-1, +0] [50s]
// I don't quite know why I didn't throw this away. Maybe I was thinking it might be
// useful... somehow. Toss it if you like.

bundle of 5 blessed quarrels of construct slaying (+3, 2d6+3) [20s]
bundle of 8 uncursed arrows of giant slaying (+3, 1d10+3) [16s]
bundle of 7 uncursed quarrels of demon slaying (+3, 2d6+6) [28s]
// Nice ammo, and worth training for, but I forgot : )

blanket [10s]
// This is a fireproof kind, just not ID'd yet. Thrundarr gave it to us.

uncursed wand of teleportation (16 charges) [4s]
// I visited Lawenilothehl, bribed some beggars, and charged this. Just in case the
// spellbook doesn't work out too well : )

glowing potion [4s]
// Maybe PoGA, but I'm not sure.

heap of 2 uncursed scrolls of chaos resistance [4s]
// I got the one from the HMV.

He survived for 0 years, 57 days, 9 hours, 48 minutes and 32 seconds (53563
turns).
1 companion was killed during his adventures.
Tiny visited 60 places.

He was unnaturally aged by 6 years.
He was the champion of the arena.


I saved the game on the way to Khelly, and Tiny's save-file is here:

http://www.badongo.com/file/10517318

The other file hosters were out of order, I hope this works OK.

[meh]

I'll do to Tiny what I did to Speedy then. Except the cat killing, of course.

I didn't bother with the thrown rocks in the water temple this time and instead just meleed the grues and demons. Despite this, the only corrupting hits came from the snake while zapping our wand of fireballs. I again left the corpse on banshee level.

Just like Speedy, Tiny also came across two minor undead vaults. We lost one point of toughness in the first one, but regained it naturally soon after. The game crashed around this point, but it made a save first, so I could carry on. I couldn't see anything wrong after restoring (and saving and restoring again to be sure). The vault also contained a black dragon scail mail. It's the wrong colour for us, but +14 PV is quite nice.

An ogre king gave +1st and various troll corpses improved our metabolism. I also picked up the corrupt tissue corruption.

On my way back up, I decided to get the dwarven axe. Without thinking through, I bookcast us into the room, and then we didn't have enough PP to cast the spell again. Rather than waiting for us to slowly regain PP or casting out of HP, I just read a scroll of teleportation to get back out. A bit wasteful perhaps, but nothing too bad.

I noticed that we are not carrying any sis. Where have they gone? I don't think we should abandon them before knowing if there is something expensive that we want in the casino.

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                            Character Information
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Tiny    St:24  Le:23  Wi:25  Dx:42  To:27  Ch:22  Ap: 9  Ma:12  Pe:14  L+
DV/PV: 100/39   H: 317(317)   P: 17(76)   Exp: 21/766092   M: 62833



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                                   Spells
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   Farsight     :   259,  17pp     (Effectivity: +1)
   Frost Bolt   :   407,  12pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Identify     :    35, 123pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Knock        :   147,  12pp     (Effectivity: +0)
   Teleportation:   106,  22pp     (Effectivity: +0)


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                            Effects of Corruption
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You have grown thorns (3d3 melee damage, Dx: -2, Ap: -3).
Your corrupted tissue seems to heal much faster.


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                                  Inventory
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Total weight: 4517 stones                Carrying capacity: 3150 stones

Head          : eternium cap [+0, +4]                                 [28s]
Neck          : uncursed amulet of free action                         [3s]
Body          : black dragon scale mail (-2, -4) [-2, +14]           [200s]
Girdle        : uncursed mithril girdle [+0, +2]                      [20s]
Cloak         : hooded cloak [+1, +0]                                 [40s]
Right Hand    : -
Left Hand     : -
Right Ring    : uncursed ring of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage)
Left Ring     : blessed ring of the High Kings [+2, +3]                [1s]
Bracers       : blessed bracers of war [+8, +4] {Dx+8}                [10s]
Gauntlets     : uncursed gloves [+3, +3]                               [6s]
Boots         : uncursed mithril boots [-1, +2]                       [96s]
Missile weapon: -
Missiles      : heap of 117 uncursed rocks (+0, 1d4)                 [585s]
Tool          : uncursed pick axe (+0, 1d6+1)                         [75s]

Tiny

[Nezur]

Your close attunement to corrupted astral space allows teleportation.
// After getting this corruption, I found a pixie corpse. On a whim, I ate
// it. We got teleportitis from that too, so we're jumping around all over
// the place.

Do multiple sources of teleportitis stack?

[Shadow_2014]

I can't say I've ever seen it enhanced by anything before, but it's entirely possible. After having killed my character at the low level of 6 or 10 or whatever it was, I'm hesitant to grab either of these characters. Are these the last two on our roster?