This is my first real attempt at a speedrun of any kind, and, I have to admit, it wasn't really that fast as far as such things go. I rolled a GE necromancer and basically followed a variation of gut's wizard guide--started in the Bugcave again until around level 10, then went to ID looking for teleport + blink dogs. Ug, what a waste of time. I think I finally left the ID with teleport (and a couple other spells) and control after ~10000 turns. I assume that if this were a regular speedrun I would have restarted--evariste is already finished by now Found black dragon armor in Darkforge, as well as a spear of devastation (main weapon for the entire game...) Did the CoC to DT, got a few herbs, although not a whole lot (you'll notice that I finish with sub-20 toughness, for example). Skipped through Pyramid to kill Rehetep, grabbed elemental gauntlets without any attempts to kill Griff or Nonnak (in hindsight, those few PoEH would have probably been a big help). Went back to Terinyo to pick up healing... playing without healing is lame. I've definitely been spoiled playing so many Candle-borns recently. Health regeneration was a problem pretty much the whole game since Healing didn't hit 100 until D:50.

Skipped down to Water Temple and killed the Snake under Darkness for the Water Orb. Very fortunately I managed to get his corpse to Guth'Alak for a potion... I guess I was level 15 or so, with around 100 health and PP. I had done everything I needed to, so it was ToEF time. I had a RoI at least, and I killed Guth'Alak so I could get the SoRS. So maybe 130 health now. ToEF 1-3 were fine (there were some frost giant berserkers in the tower, ignore them, but weird). ToEF 4 I got lucky as hell. Opened the main room but didn't have far slaying, so I had to get pretty close in. Got confused and stumbled next to the ACW. Energy ray would have been death. Fortunately, I managed to avoid that... ACW was posing a problem since I didn't have many pots of invis, ball spells, or a really good weapon. I hit him with some frost bolts (don't work all that well) then threw my only PoCC at him... 1 shot kill. Twice lucky. Grabbed the Orb and headed down to Casino. Evaded the Eternal Guardian, picked up some books and things (nothing super-useful in Casino, although I was basically out of teleport by this point). Got the kitty ring. Nasty threat room of ogre emperors on cat lord level guarding the stairs. Got crowned with Sun's Messenger (first time I've ever seen it). Wandered down to UL:4 and killed AKW for a bunch of levels. Was planning on hitting D:48 to kill the ubergrues, but got sidetracked by a greater fire vault on D:47. Normally I would ignore such a thing... high corruption, turn waster.... but there were yellow bracers in the vault. Oh, and 12 great red wyrms. Frost bolted my way through and left at level 50 with BoW in my possession. I had been picking up arrows as I went along for Sun's Messenger, so I thought I'd have enough for archmage. Cleared Mana Temple without too much difficulty, archmage fell easily to Sun's Messenger despite starting the battle with 0 skill in bows. Grabbed Earth + Air orbs, headed to D:50.

D:50 was nasty. Wasted probably 5k+ turns there. I was planning on doing a dig + monster creation win, but I accidentally triggerd a bunch of the main room balors. Ended up having to dance around killing them with spells (no acid ball, no daemon slayer), which was exacerbated by picking up stiff muscles. Had to pray 3 times for HP... ugh. Killed all the balors except Fisty, who I was able to evade by leaving monsters on the levers. Left the Chain for the win. Finished in 35639 turns, a new record for me, with a score of 69851296, also a record. I think this is also my fastest played game, which I finished in ~6 hours.