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- From: scythe@byron.u.washington.edu (The Grim Reaper)
- Subject: Obligatory Ascension post (finally)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.054706.27793@u.washington.edu>
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:47:06 GMT
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- Well.... I finally made it. I can now stand proudly with all the other
- people on this newsgroup.
- Darwin the Archaeologist ascended with 2278588 points, at level 25.
- (Hit n now if you don't want to hear more gloating... =)
-
- Just a brief overview of my stuff/stats-
- +8 rustproof Snickersnee-Got it on level 1, by sacrificing a goblin.
- *smile*. Took a while to rustproof, but after that sinks were
- loads o' fun.
- +3 speed boots
- +2 fedora-had this from the start
- +3 gray dragon scale mail
- +2 leather gloves
- +2 cloak of displacement- this was in the armor room of the castle,
- so I didn't have to use a wish....
- +3 small shield
- ring of levitation, ring of protection +4 (two of them)
- luckstone
- 33 gems, assorted types (including 2 dilithium)
- Level 25, 202 hp (whee... I like nurses), AC -34 (and priests)
- All intristics, more or less
- 88141 moves. Is that good?
- Stuff I never did see-
- More than one priest (but that one priest was rich, let me tell ya)
- a blindfold. It sucked, but I was stuck using a wand of lighting
- to blind myself. There this bug, see.... you can engrave
- with a wand of lightning that's at 0 charges and never use it up... =)
- any sort of magic gauntlets. So I had leather gloves.
- A ring of conflict or a wand of polymorph. Yep. Sucks, don't it?
- So I made it through w/out two of the biggest cheats/spoilers/whatever....
- Just a few thoughts-Magic traps are reeeeal nice. Got my charisma
- up to 18 that way. Plus, whever you feel charismatic on a trap, you
- might tame a monster that's nearby. Another thought-watch out if
- you're running from the Wiz and he is cursing you, look at your unicorn
- horn before you apply it.... ack. Got sick and had to waste
- a wish on a potion of holy water. I found enough altars there, that
- it was really better to be able to id gems than blessed/cursed state.
- None of the demon lords were that tough, either. I skipped
- most of them, but dispater and jubilex were no prob.
- Being lawful is good, but having dwarfs be peaceful is really, really annoying.
- I had soo many levels that were just piles o rocks.
- Stupid mistakes-
- I finally got fed up with the wiz chasing me, and decided to freeze the guy.
- But I spelled paralysis wrong, and ended up with a different potion.
- Wasted a wish there....
- Other than that, it was a pretty easy run. Major problem with the wiz
- was I kept being surrounded by a strange force and tossed downstairs
- when I was in hell. Once I left, it stopped tho. ANyone know why?
- I never did see Double Trouble or "Destroy the thief, my pets" though....
- Hmm... Guess I'll stop bragging now =)
- Just one more thing-
- if you're in a situation where stuff might get cursed, put the ring
- you want to be able to take off on your *left* finger. That way if your
- sword gets cursed, you can still remove the ring. Actually, having a
- ring of levitation being cursed is no fun either. Luckily I had a lot of food
- in my BoH, but it was still close....
-
- --The Grim Reaper
- (SCYTHE@U.WASHINGTON.EDU)
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