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- Subject: Ascension report
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 20:45:08 GMT
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- spoilers, for you brave souls who don't cheat like I do...
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- Finally won one of these games. The relevant stats:
- 2417676 points, level 27 (Wizard), 166 Hp, AC -33.
- Str 18 89, others at 18 (cept Ch at 17) (started of with Str 17, which was
- pretty useful.)
- Got 4 charges out of WoW.
- Extensive polypiling, ending me up with a mess o' gain abilities, enchant
- armors, remove curses, and probably 8 Life Savings. I had a level with
- two altars, lawful and neutral, so I was blessing things as they came
- off the polypile and occasionally pacifying Thoth. Also a gray unicorn on
- the level and I was able to stock up a bunch of identified jewels.
- Also got lucky with a couple of ghosts. Stockpiled some pretty good
- stuff, and only needed a couple of blessed remove curses to make it usable.
- Always carried about 4 of the Life Savings with me, but only used one,
- by stepping in a pond when I thought I was wearing levitation instead of
- speed boots.
- Excalibur +5. Also had Firebrand +5, but never used it.
- Used conflict for the Castle level, but abandoned it after that because I
- was petrified of losing teleport control or polymorph control. Didn't
- miss it either.
- By the time I went after the Wizard, I'd mapped out all the levels above
- him (up to a point, anyway) and dug out paths to the stairs as much as
- possible. Seemed like this did speed me up a lot. He only came after
- me twice before the EndLevel. I took both swords and several blessed
- tamings with me, but mainly I just swatted my way through. This is the
- first time I've had an AC this good, and even minotaurs never got me
- below 130 Hp or so. I was shocked, 'cause they've mopped up the floor
- with me every other time.
- Blew up a bag of holding. Sigh.
- Almost thought the Endgame was over when I killed a couple of giants in
- a doorway and the door got blocked up with boulders. Figured a wand
- of digging would work, but it doesn't. Eventually Scotty beamed a new
- giant in on the other side and he picked the boulders up for me.
- Wasted an hour in the EndLevel looking for the damn stairs. Didn't
- recognize the altars...thought they were walls. Stupid, yes.
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- Okay. Last thing you need is to spend time you're not playing reading
- long posts. Mainly I want to thank the development team, and all
- you die-hards who provided the ever-so-vital spoilers. I used them
- shamelessly.
- Now on with my life...
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