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May 22, 2013, 2:56:04 AM5/22/13
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This is the quest of Duncan, a gifted wizard that Ascended to Demigodhood
after a frankly FUN game. It was played on an Android port on my phone
during a whole week. My first Ascension after 8 months of playing.
Damn me HARD if this is not the BEST game I have ever played, and I have
played a whole bunch of them from the dawn of Gaming Time.
Without wizard spamming, and with my callsign (Duncan), got a spell of
light and some useless rings. Hell. BUT got an altar to Anhur at the
beginning, though I still was too underleveled to get MB! Excellent,
nonetheless, for I would try later to get it. Got a cool make-invisible
wand from the get go, though, so I was going to be Duncan the Unseen for
the rest of the game. I lost my cool pet cat, Jimbo, to the Gnomish mines.
He probably still wanders over there biting gnomes heels. So long, Jim,
and give'em hell!
Stupid, stupid. I left some nice things I had unprotected for some turns,
namely my book of force bolt, light, an a juicy wand of enlightenment on an
unlocked chest. I didn't have anything hard enough at the moment, so
I could not Elbereth it properly. Some gelcube surely had a good time
munching though it. Oh well. I would write them again soon enough,
I figured, for I shortly after found a nice magic maker lying around
the Mines.
Went down to Minetown, but there were no magic lamps, man, and no cotemple
to speak of. No MB still, so no much to do there without jeopardy. I am
totally afraid of c's so, I tried to get some pet I had at the moment to
attack a watch man to get some nice gloves, but not to avail.
As I reckon, Magicbane is as needed as a credit card. Don't ever get out
home w/o her. I had some problems getting the old chump Anhur to give
it to me. Luckily I found a bag of tricks somewhere in the Mines (And
got a nasty wound in my hand, ouch), and sacrificed until got hold of
a brand new Magicbane. He also gave me Trollsbane shortly after, but I
stashed her somewhere and forgot about her. MB is my only love.
Feeling a little underpowered to get the luckstone (as the last time
I was properly disintegrated by a black dragon wandering down there),
I pay a visit to good old Sokoban, where with a minimal loss of luck I
got hold of a nice Bag of holding. No reflection, though. The fight
to get it was quite engaging, magic missiles flew by the thousands.
Afterwards I went again to get the luckstones, to the Mimic Time!
Found two of them, and another I already had from a lucky dwarf I
found somewhere. About the BoH, I eventually got the Identify spell.
Before that, no unid wand was allowed to even be in my inventory
(stashed them on Sokoban). Once I knew what was the Cancellation one,
still _refused_ to pick it up. And when I found another BoH, there
lies still (hell, I even refused to pick any bag). Not taking chances,
I have had a couple of BoH explosions and it makes for a fairly
painful experience.
Went around eating a bunch of creeps to get intrinsics. Found a Tengu
and a Nymph side by side. Got Telecontrol and Teleportitis in just a few
seconds of Magicbane work. A yummy gelcube for cold and so on. Made my
own SDSM on a throne on a truly DIY fashion (almost cried when I saw
this throne room with THREE silver dragons, thank Anhur). Immediately
Magicbaned several of them to death, among other bunch of Ds. Tinned
every corpse in sight to preserve intrinsics. Afterward, tinned and
ate a Black Dragon and felt very firm, too.
I created an obscene quantity of holy water (like 40 or so) and proceeded
to bless everything. Quaffed a whole bunch of holy extra and full healing
potions. I found a cursed ring of levitation, which I uncursed, and other
of searching, but they were turn to dust after a specially nasty fight with
a blue dragon, moments from creating my trusty SDSM on the throne above.
Luckily for me, I polyed a bunch of rings some time later and got the lev
ring back. And a nice number of life saving amulets, which was the way
to go.
On the quest I had to grind a good while to get to level 14, because those
damn wraiths keep dying on me without corpses! Well, after having killed a
couple dozen D's, I went up again to confront the Dark One. I stood
immediately t'ported to the stairs and let him taste Magicbane until
he awarded me the Eye. After that, went down to the Castle and got
the WoW. With it, I got myself a pretty standard ascension kit, wished for a
pair of nice speed boots, and a helm of brilliance. I had the SDSM and some
gloves, hawaiian shirt (nice poly over there) and a second magic protection
cloak I found lying around. Greased and fireproofed everything, and also
treated some water walking boots I found on Vlad's. Somewhere I found a
graveyard level. As I was quite protected already, I surrounded myself with
a bunch of wraiths a took all of them to Sokoban, and munched on them.
Those were some well-earned levels indeed. Little by little, I bought my
protection, but as I was quite leveled already, it was a bunch of cash.
I were still picking coins on Gehennom and visiting the Moloch she-priest
on the Valley to buy some good protection. Anhur didn’t mind, I reckon.
Wished a spellbook of polymorph because I was intrigued with the coolest
technique: polypiling. Got very good at polymorph by casting first wizard
lock and then a bunch of polymorph itself, experimenting with tools, wands
and rings. Sadly, I only ever got one magic marker from a pile of unihorns
I had been collecting for the task. The marker I put to very good use
writing a bunch of scrolls of enchant armor, used to enchant the gear.
Still I got several cans of grease that were well spent greasing every
one of my possessions. I also created functional wands of teleporting 4:10
and beyond, though I felt that those wands would have a high probability
to explode on use. None did, though. I also discovered a nice trick
to keep the damn Trolls from reviving upon Magicbane/magic missile shower
application, just poly them to pancakes, hehehe. They surely don't rise
again, and are delicious to boot.
Couldn't find Ludios, it probably was not generated. Oh well.
Doing some altar work, and being extremely lucky throwing some gems to a
friendly black unicorn I found over there, I was crowned, and given
the finger of Dead spellbook. Excellent, for with the Helm of Brilliance
I was going to cast it at 0% failure rate. A fresh-minted death machine I was!
So, after the Castle, I went down to Gehennom, with the BoH loaded of useful
stuff, and determined to get the Amulet. I wanted to carve short
distance paths with my trusty pickaxe on all levels, for when I got
the Amulet, to get up fast. But...Damn me. Some cool White Dragon
I charmed called White Jimbo stumbled on a polymorph trap, and
transformed into a mind flayer. Just when I was quietly going by the
real tower containing Rodney. White Jimbo tried to probe his mind,
and woke him up, so now my so-called methodical plan of digging
the shorter path on all the Gehennom levels was officially screwed.
At first tried not to kill Rodney because I knew that he would come back
stronger, but he didn't stand to reason and casted Double Trouble. Then,
he proceeded to smash my poor brain repeatedly with a damn mind destroying
spell: I left him alone on that level and strangely, he didn't follow me
that time. So I proceeded to make a hole in Juiblex and MB Orcus to death
(nice town!). When I had to go by that level again, he managed to find me
and delivered some real pain (again). After being mostly killed by him
(50/300 hp) and somewhat annoyed at his lack of manners, I finally
showed him the finger (of Death), and well spent a WoD charge on its
identical chump (missed, rebounded on the wall after him, and got him
on the back, it was quite impressive, actually). The second time he
appeared he managed to steal the Eye and the Bell (better go back
to Sokoban to get some more things from the stash...uh?). So I had
to confront him again. Finger of Death on the first turn, no ceremonies.
Every time he appeared again, he received the same treatment. 13 times,
no less!. I actually didn't know if he would turn impervious to the FoD,
so I went quickly to pay Vlad a visit to complete the invocation kit
and get the Amulet immediately. Vlad was riddled with holes due several
dozens magic missiles that found their way to his vampiric body. Because
I was in a hurry, I grabbed the Candelabrum (I had a bunch of candles
from Izchak handy) and did not sit on the throne for the wish/genocide.
Well, remembered it on the Planes, so it didn't matter anymore. Found
the vibrating square in comparatively little time, and shortly afterwards,
I was chanting the invocation.
Buf. The Moloch sanctum was quite, quite hard. I was about to die over there,
with a bunch of archliches pounding at me without mercy (probably I should
have genocided them, but hey, it is my first time), blind, stunned and
confused, but I saw a cockatrice nearby, so I told to myself that it was
time to try the fabled rubber chicken technique for the first time. After
unihorning myself, I managed to get to the c, dead-fingered it burning
my last power points (I was empty, that was a major problem, my
favourite spells were damn expensive), and wielded against everybody I
had in sight. After a few frantic turns, I had surrounded myself with a
bunch of statues. I carefully dropped the c and moved away from it when I
was comfortable with the setting. I totally respect those little yellow c's,
and I didn't want to risk falling into it. I had like 10 lizards handy
if some polite c would try to talk to me sometime. Luckily none of them
found me interesting enough.
So when Rodney and the Arch-priest were in a heated discussion, trying to
annihilate one another, I entered the room and delivered fingered death to
all inside, and, for the first time, I got hold of the Amulet. Damn,
this thing is heavy. Time to get the heck OUT of here!
The mysterious force was quite forgiving, and the race out of Gehennom
was fast. Rodney appeared some more times, but he was immediately greeted
with swift death by my hand (a finger, specifically). So I eventually
got to level 1, and went up to...
Plane of earth! Easy. Rodney was kind enough to bring me a blessed spellbook
of Dig, which I read on the spot. Confused gold detection and I found the
portal on a moment. But I was not quite prepared for the...
Plane of air! DAMMIT Archons! I bit it there once to a specially
persistent pummeling air elemental, but I had a "oLS worn all times, and
a nice collection of copies, so I just replaced it when I revived, and
continued to the portal, as I tried to avoid those damn Archons and their
stunning gaze. Note to self: get a bunch of scrolls of gold detection before
hitting the planes! And DON'T go here with little mana!
Plane of fire! Floor! Good! Engraved Elbereth, levitated over it and
charmed EVERYBODY that got close. Waited for my power to charge before
moving. Confuse gold detection located the portal, but I was one short
for water plane. Wished for a magic maker and figured that I could dip
some scroll on the plane. After all, it was bunch of water waiting
for me! Everything I read would suggest that my bag and the rest of my
cool things would not burn if I levitated over lava. I decided not to risk
it, and calmy walked the soil to the magic portal. I needed the time,
'cause though I had the Eye working full time regenerating mana,
I was empty of juice when I arrived here. And surely I wouldn't want
to be caught again without mana when I go to the water place. On my way
to the portal an Archon blinded and confused me a couple times, so I
decided that his form was not adecuate. Polymorphed him into a
Yellow Dragon, and then we were friends! Also, there were a bunch of
critters trying to roast me. I smiled politely to them, and marched
on to the...
Plane of water! Plain weird, I was in a bubble that went moving around
the water. I brough a bunch of tame Fire Elementals with me, but they
didn’t last very long (to be expected, all water here, I had a lot of
sad moments) After zapping a bunch of missiles to the resident electric
eels (didn’t want my levitation ring to be turned to dust _again_,
thank you), got out the water walking boots to clean some scrolls and
write the gold detection I needed to cross the plane. Bad idea, as it
turned out, because there is no surface to walk into. Got all wet
(the scrolls blanked, at least). Luckily, I was all greased (but some
of it went off, and some items rusted). I was about to write the scroll,
when I suddenly appeared on the Astral plane. What the …?
Quite unprepared, I might add. Lit again my magic lamp and then I could
see some Caveman player monster trying to bash my head. Uhmp! Charmed him
and left me to attend his business. I also observed that Anhur had been
kind enough to provide an Angel to help. Cool, Anhur and I were getting
along quite nicely lately. Didn’t take long for Some bunch of Arch-Liches
to surround us. As I had some mana to spare I enchanted every one of them
and the creatures they summoned. I was on the center door, when it opened
and Pestilence came to greet me. Zapped him with the finger of death and he
died, but I knew that he would be up in a minute, so I went inside dodging
a bunch of Archons, and taming some of them, to the altar...of Thoth.
Dammit! Oh well. Came back to the hallway and Famine caressed me lightly.
I was VERY ill after that. Death-Zapped him again and applied the Horn.
Buf. Used the Eye momentarily to find out where Death was (I didn’t
really want to meet him unless necessary), and found famine on the left
chamber. Ate a couple of K-rations until I was satiated and, as he opened
the door, he was dead on the next turn. Handy, this spell. Tried to go to
the altar, but a bunch of priests an Archons were blocking my path chipping
my health away, and got fantastically confused, stunned, blind and whatnot.
But before I got to see the altar from afar. It was Anhurs!. EXCELLENT.
Time to zap the teleport wands! I got power dry of casting death, and
made liberal use of the T-Ports wands. I tried to jump once, but it
really didn’t work. My health was getting dangerously low, and all
the people of the party just wouldn’t get out of the way!. On the last
(relative) brink of health I teleported away the last Archon and entered
the chamber, advanced to the altar, and after unblinding with the
unihorn (I needed to _see_ this), offered the Amulet to Anhur.
The leocrotta hits!
You sense a faint wave of psychic energy.
You try to feel what is here.
There is an altar to Anhur (chaotic) here.
You feel no objects here.
What do you want to use or apply? [abknpuwyzDJ-LQUY or ?*]
You can see again.
What do you want to sacrifice? [IW or ?*] I
Duncan the Necromancer St:18 Dx:18 Co:21 In:24 Wi:23 Ch:13 Chaotic
Astral plane $0 HP:108(304) Pw:37(405) AC:-32 Xp:24/40090022 T:71965
You offer the Amulet of Yendor to Anhur...
An invisible choir sings , and you are bathed in radiance...
The voice of Anhur booms out: "Congratulations, mortal!"
"In return of thy service, I, grant thee the gift of immortality!"
You ascend to the status of Demigod...
Do you want your possessions identified? [ynq] (n) y
Amulets
e - an uncursed amulet of life saving
g - an uncursed amulet of life saving
B - the blessed Eye of the Aethiopica
H - an uncursed amulet of life saving (being worn)
Weapons
s - the blessed rustproof +3 Magicbane (weapon in hand)
Armor
c - a blessed rustproof +4 helm of brilliance (being worn)
i - an uncursed fireproof +0 pair of water walking boots (being worn)
m - a blessed greased fireproof +4 Hawaiian shirt (being worn)
o - a blessed greased fireproof +4 pair speed boots <-- didn't have
*time* to put them on again on Astral!
F - a blessed greased fireproof +4 pair of leather gloves (being worn)
O - a blessed +4 silver dragon scale mail (being worn)
V - a blessed fireproof +4 cloak of magic resistance (being worn)
Comestibles
W - 2 uncursed lizard corpses
Scrolls
h - a blessed scroll of blank paper
Rings
d - a blessed ring of free action (on right hand)
f - a blessed +5 ring of gain constitution (on left hand)
q - a blessed ring of levitation
E - a uncursed ring of slow digestion
X - a uncursed ring of conflict
Wands
n - a wand of digging (0:4)
y - a wand of fire (0:4)
D - a wand of cold (4:6)
J - a wand of teleportation (0:6)
K - a wand of teleportation (2:7)
Q - a wand of lightning (0:2)
Y - a wand of death (1:0)
Tools
a - an uncursed towel
b - a blessed bag of holding
k - an uncursed rusty skeleton key
p - a very rusty +1 pick-axe (alternate weapon; not wielded)
u - a blessed +0 unicorn horn
w - an uncursed magic whistle
z - an uncursed pair of lenses (being worn)
U - an uncursed magic lamp
Gems
L - a blessed luckstone
Contents of the bag of holding:
a wand of create monster (0:13)
a blessed wand of digging (0:8)
a wand of secret door detection (0:6)
an uncursed potion of sickness
a blessed magic marker (0:40)
an uncursed tin opener
a can of grease (0:11)
a wand of wishing (1:0)
a wand of death (0:0)
an uncursed tin of master mind flayer meat
a tinning kit (0:63)
an wand of lightning (0:3)
an uncursed ring of warning
an uncursed spellbook of extra healing
a blessed spellbook of dig
11 uncursed food rations
an uncursed magic lamp
a wand of death (0:0)
a cursed potion of gain level
an uncursed spellbook of light
a blessed spellbook of fireball
a wand of digging (0:4)
a wand of digging (0:6)
an uncursed potion of paralysis
an uncursed food ration
a cursed ring of regeneration
an uncursed stethoscope
4 uncursed potions of healing
an uncursed potion of extra healing
an uncursed lizard corpse
16 potions of holy water
a wand of digging (0:6)
a wand of digging (0:7)
2 uncursed potions of acid
a blessed wand of cold (0:3)
an uncursed jet stone
an uncursed jacinth stone
5 uncursed black opals
a horn of plenty (0:19)
a wand of lightning (0:3)
a wand of fire (1:5)
2 uncursed chrysoberyl stones
an uncursed jacinth stone
2 uncursed aquamarine stones
an uncursed obsidian stone
a blessed wand of secret door detection (2:14)
a wand of lightning (2:3)
an uncursed dilithium crystal
an uncursed diamond
an uncursed ring of stealth
a wand of fire (1:3)
an uncursed amulet of magical breathing
an uncursed amulet of unchanging
an uncursed tin of quantum mechanic meat
an uncursed eucalyptus leaf
4 uncursed rubies
5 uncursed sapphires
an uncursed sprig of wolfsbane
an uncursed +0 mummy wrapping
14 uncursed K-rations
2 uncursed scrolls of earth
an uncursed scroll of magic mapping
18 uncursed scrolls of teleportation
2 blessed scrolls of remove curse
4 cursed scrolls of teleportation
an uncursed tallow candle
5 uncursed fortune cookies
8 uncursed lizard corpses
4 uncursed turquoise stones
3 uncursed jade stones
2 uncursed jasper stones
2 uncursed emeralds
2 uncursed jetstones
3 uncursed emeralds
6 uncursed agate stones
2 uncursed amethyst stones
2 uncursed jasper stones
5 uncursed rubies
an uncursed ring of polymorph control
an uncursed ring of polymorph
2 uncursed cloves of garlic
Do you want to see your attributes? [ynq] (n) y
Final Attributes:
You were the Glory of Arioch.
You were piously aligned.
You were fire resistant.
You were cold resistant.
You were sleep resistant.
You were disintegration-resistant.
You were shock resistant.
You were poison resistant.
You were magic-protected.
You could recognize detrimental food.
You saw invisible.
You were telepathic.
You were warned.
You had infravision.
You were invisible to others.
You could teleport.
You had teleport control.
You could walk on water.
You were protected.
You were fast.
You had reflection.
You had free action.
You life would have been saved.
You were very lucky.
You had extra luck.
Good luck did not time out for you.
You survived after being killed once.
Do you want an account of creatures vanquished? [ynq] (n) y
Vanquished creatures:
Orcus
Yeenoghu
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (12 times)
Pestilence (thrice)
Famine (twice)
8 arch-liches
a high priest
3 mastodons
Medusa
3 krakens
9 iron golems
7 master liches
2 storm giants
a titan
5 glass golems
3 balrogs (with Magicbane!)
12 purple worms
2 gray dragons
5 silver dragons
11 red dragons
4 white dragons
3 orange dragons
2 black dragons
4 blue dragons
7 green dragons
4 yellow dragons
15 minotaurs
5 jabberwocks
The Dark One
12 baluchitheria
an Angel
5 demiliches
Vlad the Impaler
16 stone golems
8 master mind flayers
13 Olog-hai
4 Nazguls
15 pit fiends
2 sandestins
4 hell hounds
7 titanotheres
5 trappers
a baby yellow dragon
14 disenchanters
41 vampire lords
5 skeletons
12 aligned priests (I was probably blind, zapping death everywhere
and about to die carrying the damn Amulet to Anhur's altar on Astral)
11 captains
6 shades
10 liches
8 clay golems
12 nurses
13 ice devils
...
15 newts
3051 creatures vanquished.
Do you want to see your conduct? [ynq] (n) y
Voluntary challenges:
You never genocided any monsters.
You never changed form. (Although I had the means for a long time)
You used 7 wishes.
You did not wish of any artifacts.
Goodbye Duncan the Demigod...
You went to your reward with 3536880 points.
Magicbane (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
The Eye of Aethiopica (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
9 rubies (worth 31500 zorkmids).
6 agate stones (worth 1200 zorkmids).
5 sapphires (worth 15000 zorkmids).
5 black opals (worth 12500 zorkmids).
5 emeralds (worth 12500 zorkmids).
4 turquoise stones (worth 8000 zorkmids).
4 jasper stones (worth 2000 zorkmids).
3 jet stones (worth 2550 zorkmids).
3 jade stones (worth 900 zorkmids).
2 jacinth stones (worth 6500 zorkmids).
2 aquamarine stones (worth 3000 zorkmids).
2 chrysoberyl stones (worth 1400 zorkmids).
2 amethyst stones (worth 1200 zorkmids).
1 dilithium crystal (worth 4500 zorkmids).
1 diamond (worth 4000 zorkmids).
1 obsidian stone (worth 200 zorkmids).
3 amulets of life saving (worth 450 zorkmids).
1 amulet of unchanging (worth 150 zorkmids).
1 amulet of magical breathing (worth 150 zorkmids).
and 0 pieces of gold, after 71965 moves.
You were level 24 with a maximum of 304 hit points when you ascended.
You made the top ten list!
No Points Name
Hp [max]
1 3536880 Duncan-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha ascended to demigood-hood.
108 [304]
2 46663 Juampi-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha died in The Gnomish Mines on
level 11. Killed by a blast of disintegration.
71 [75]
3 44478 Mastarilo-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha died in The Gnomish Mines on
level 12. Killed by an ettin mummy, while helpless.
- [98]
Had to copy all of this from the phone screen to keep it, but it was
worth the effort.
Thanks for reading!
Duncan
after a frankly FUN game. It was played on an Android port on my phone
during a whole week. My first Ascension after 8 months of playing.
Damn me HARD if this is not the BEST game I have ever played, and I have
played a whole bunch of them from the dawn of Gaming Time.
Without wizard spamming, and with my callsign (Duncan), got a spell of
light and some useless rings. Hell. BUT got an altar to Anhur at the
beginning, though I still was too underleveled to get MB! Excellent,
nonetheless, for I would try later to get it. Got a cool make-invisible
wand from the get go, though, so I was going to be Duncan the Unseen for
the rest of the game. I lost my cool pet cat, Jimbo, to the Gnomish mines.
He probably still wanders over there biting gnomes heels. So long, Jim,
and give'em hell!
Stupid, stupid. I left some nice things I had unprotected for some turns,
namely my book of force bolt, light, an a juicy wand of enlightenment on an
unlocked chest. I didn't have anything hard enough at the moment, so
I could not Elbereth it properly. Some gelcube surely had a good time
munching though it. Oh well. I would write them again soon enough,
I figured, for I shortly after found a nice magic maker lying around
the Mines.
Went down to Minetown, but there were no magic lamps, man, and no cotemple
to speak of. No MB still, so no much to do there without jeopardy. I am
totally afraid of c's so, I tried to get some pet I had at the moment to
attack a watch man to get some nice gloves, but not to avail.
As I reckon, Magicbane is as needed as a credit card. Don't ever get out
home w/o her. I had some problems getting the old chump Anhur to give
it to me. Luckily I found a bag of tricks somewhere in the Mines (And
got a nasty wound in my hand, ouch), and sacrificed until got hold of
a brand new Magicbane. He also gave me Trollsbane shortly after, but I
stashed her somewhere and forgot about her. MB is my only love.
Feeling a little underpowered to get the luckstone (as the last time
I was properly disintegrated by a black dragon wandering down there),
I pay a visit to good old Sokoban, where with a minimal loss of luck I
got hold of a nice Bag of holding. No reflection, though. The fight
to get it was quite engaging, magic missiles flew by the thousands.
Afterwards I went again to get the luckstones, to the Mimic Time!
Found two of them, and another I already had from a lucky dwarf I
found somewhere. About the BoH, I eventually got the Identify spell.
Before that, no unid wand was allowed to even be in my inventory
(stashed them on Sokoban). Once I knew what was the Cancellation one,
still _refused_ to pick it up. And when I found another BoH, there
lies still (hell, I even refused to pick any bag). Not taking chances,
I have had a couple of BoH explosions and it makes for a fairly
painful experience.
Went around eating a bunch of creeps to get intrinsics. Found a Tengu
and a Nymph side by side. Got Telecontrol and Teleportitis in just a few
seconds of Magicbane work. A yummy gelcube for cold and so on. Made my
own SDSM on a throne on a truly DIY fashion (almost cried when I saw
this throne room with THREE silver dragons, thank Anhur). Immediately
Magicbaned several of them to death, among other bunch of Ds. Tinned
every corpse in sight to preserve intrinsics. Afterward, tinned and
ate a Black Dragon and felt very firm, too.
I created an obscene quantity of holy water (like 40 or so) and proceeded
to bless everything. Quaffed a whole bunch of holy extra and full healing
potions. I found a cursed ring of levitation, which I uncursed, and other
of searching, but they were turn to dust after a specially nasty fight with
a blue dragon, moments from creating my trusty SDSM on the throne above.
Luckily for me, I polyed a bunch of rings some time later and got the lev
ring back. And a nice number of life saving amulets, which was the way
to go.
On the quest I had to grind a good while to get to level 14, because those
damn wraiths keep dying on me without corpses! Well, after having killed a
couple dozen D's, I went up again to confront the Dark One. I stood
immediately t'ported to the stairs and let him taste Magicbane until
he awarded me the Eye. After that, went down to the Castle and got
the WoW. With it, I got myself a pretty standard ascension kit, wished for a
pair of nice speed boots, and a helm of brilliance. I had the SDSM and some
gloves, hawaiian shirt (nice poly over there) and a second magic protection
cloak I found lying around. Greased and fireproofed everything, and also
treated some water walking boots I found on Vlad's. Somewhere I found a
graveyard level. As I was quite protected already, I surrounded myself with
a bunch of wraiths a took all of them to Sokoban, and munched on them.
Those were some well-earned levels indeed. Little by little, I bought my
protection, but as I was quite leveled already, it was a bunch of cash.
I were still picking coins on Gehennom and visiting the Moloch she-priest
on the Valley to buy some good protection. Anhur didn’t mind, I reckon.
Wished a spellbook of polymorph because I was intrigued with the coolest
technique: polypiling. Got very good at polymorph by casting first wizard
lock and then a bunch of polymorph itself, experimenting with tools, wands
and rings. Sadly, I only ever got one magic marker from a pile of unihorns
I had been collecting for the task. The marker I put to very good use
writing a bunch of scrolls of enchant armor, used to enchant the gear.
Still I got several cans of grease that were well spent greasing every
one of my possessions. I also created functional wands of teleporting 4:10
and beyond, though I felt that those wands would have a high probability
to explode on use. None did, though. I also discovered a nice trick
to keep the damn Trolls from reviving upon Magicbane/magic missile shower
application, just poly them to pancakes, hehehe. They surely don't rise
again, and are delicious to boot.
Couldn't find Ludios, it probably was not generated. Oh well.
Doing some altar work, and being extremely lucky throwing some gems to a
friendly black unicorn I found over there, I was crowned, and given
the finger of Dead spellbook. Excellent, for with the Helm of Brilliance
I was going to cast it at 0% failure rate. A fresh-minted death machine I was!
So, after the Castle, I went down to Gehennom, with the BoH loaded of useful
stuff, and determined to get the Amulet. I wanted to carve short
distance paths with my trusty pickaxe on all levels, for when I got
the Amulet, to get up fast. But...Damn me. Some cool White Dragon
I charmed called White Jimbo stumbled on a polymorph trap, and
transformed into a mind flayer. Just when I was quietly going by the
real tower containing Rodney. White Jimbo tried to probe his mind,
and woke him up, so now my so-called methodical plan of digging
the shorter path on all the Gehennom levels was officially screwed.
At first tried not to kill Rodney because I knew that he would come back
stronger, but he didn't stand to reason and casted Double Trouble. Then,
he proceeded to smash my poor brain repeatedly with a damn mind destroying
spell: I left him alone on that level and strangely, he didn't follow me
that time. So I proceeded to make a hole in Juiblex and MB Orcus to death
(nice town!). When I had to go by that level again, he managed to find me
and delivered some real pain (again). After being mostly killed by him
(50/300 hp) and somewhat annoyed at his lack of manners, I finally
showed him the finger (of Death), and well spent a WoD charge on its
identical chump (missed, rebounded on the wall after him, and got him
on the back, it was quite impressive, actually). The second time he
appeared he managed to steal the Eye and the Bell (better go back
to Sokoban to get some more things from the stash...uh?). So I had
to confront him again. Finger of Death on the first turn, no ceremonies.
Every time he appeared again, he received the same treatment. 13 times,
no less!. I actually didn't know if he would turn impervious to the FoD,
so I went quickly to pay Vlad a visit to complete the invocation kit
and get the Amulet immediately. Vlad was riddled with holes due several
dozens magic missiles that found their way to his vampiric body. Because
I was in a hurry, I grabbed the Candelabrum (I had a bunch of candles
from Izchak handy) and did not sit on the throne for the wish/genocide.
Well, remembered it on the Planes, so it didn't matter anymore. Found
the vibrating square in comparatively little time, and shortly afterwards,
I was chanting the invocation.
Buf. The Moloch sanctum was quite, quite hard. I was about to die over there,
with a bunch of archliches pounding at me without mercy (probably I should
have genocided them, but hey, it is my first time), blind, stunned and
confused, but I saw a cockatrice nearby, so I told to myself that it was
time to try the fabled rubber chicken technique for the first time. After
unihorning myself, I managed to get to the c, dead-fingered it burning
my last power points (I was empty, that was a major problem, my
favourite spells were damn expensive), and wielded against everybody I
had in sight. After a few frantic turns, I had surrounded myself with a
bunch of statues. I carefully dropped the c and moved away from it when I
was comfortable with the setting. I totally respect those little yellow c's,
and I didn't want to risk falling into it. I had like 10 lizards handy
if some polite c would try to talk to me sometime. Luckily none of them
found me interesting enough.
So when Rodney and the Arch-priest were in a heated discussion, trying to
annihilate one another, I entered the room and delivered fingered death to
all inside, and, for the first time, I got hold of the Amulet. Damn,
this thing is heavy. Time to get the heck OUT of here!
The mysterious force was quite forgiving, and the race out of Gehennom
was fast. Rodney appeared some more times, but he was immediately greeted
with swift death by my hand (a finger, specifically). So I eventually
got to level 1, and went up to...
Plane of earth! Easy. Rodney was kind enough to bring me a blessed spellbook
of Dig, which I read on the spot. Confused gold detection and I found the
portal on a moment. But I was not quite prepared for the...
Plane of air! DAMMIT Archons! I bit it there once to a specially
persistent pummeling air elemental, but I had a "oLS worn all times, and
a nice collection of copies, so I just replaced it when I revived, and
continued to the portal, as I tried to avoid those damn Archons and their
stunning gaze. Note to self: get a bunch of scrolls of gold detection before
hitting the planes! And DON'T go here with little mana!
Plane of fire! Floor! Good! Engraved Elbereth, levitated over it and
charmed EVERYBODY that got close. Waited for my power to charge before
moving. Confuse gold detection located the portal, but I was one short
for water plane. Wished for a magic maker and figured that I could dip
some scroll on the plane. After all, it was bunch of water waiting
for me! Everything I read would suggest that my bag and the rest of my
cool things would not burn if I levitated over lava. I decided not to risk
it, and calmy walked the soil to the magic portal. I needed the time,
'cause though I had the Eye working full time regenerating mana,
I was empty of juice when I arrived here. And surely I wouldn't want
to be caught again without mana when I go to the water place. On my way
to the portal an Archon blinded and confused me a couple times, so I
decided that his form was not adecuate. Polymorphed him into a
Yellow Dragon, and then we were friends! Also, there were a bunch of
critters trying to roast me. I smiled politely to them, and marched
on to the...
Plane of water! Plain weird, I was in a bubble that went moving around
the water. I brough a bunch of tame Fire Elementals with me, but they
didn’t last very long (to be expected, all water here, I had a lot of
sad moments) After zapping a bunch of missiles to the resident electric
eels (didn’t want my levitation ring to be turned to dust _again_,
thank you), got out the water walking boots to clean some scrolls and
write the gold detection I needed to cross the plane. Bad idea, as it
turned out, because there is no surface to walk into. Got all wet
(the scrolls blanked, at least). Luckily, I was all greased (but some
of it went off, and some items rusted). I was about to write the scroll,
when I suddenly appeared on the Astral plane. What the …?
Quite unprepared, I might add. Lit again my magic lamp and then I could
see some Caveman player monster trying to bash my head. Uhmp! Charmed him
and left me to attend his business. I also observed that Anhur had been
kind enough to provide an Angel to help. Cool, Anhur and I were getting
along quite nicely lately. Didn’t take long for Some bunch of Arch-Liches
to surround us. As I had some mana to spare I enchanted every one of them
and the creatures they summoned. I was on the center door, when it opened
and Pestilence came to greet me. Zapped him with the finger of death and he
died, but I knew that he would be up in a minute, so I went inside dodging
a bunch of Archons, and taming some of them, to the altar...of Thoth.
Dammit! Oh well. Came back to the hallway and Famine caressed me lightly.
I was VERY ill after that. Death-Zapped him again and applied the Horn.
Buf. Used the Eye momentarily to find out where Death was (I didn’t
really want to meet him unless necessary), and found famine on the left
chamber. Ate a couple of K-rations until I was satiated and, as he opened
the door, he was dead on the next turn. Handy, this spell. Tried to go to
the altar, but a bunch of priests an Archons were blocking my path chipping
my health away, and got fantastically confused, stunned, blind and whatnot.
But before I got to see the altar from afar. It was Anhurs!. EXCELLENT.
Time to zap the teleport wands! I got power dry of casting death, and
made liberal use of the T-Ports wands. I tried to jump once, but it
really didn’t work. My health was getting dangerously low, and all
the people of the party just wouldn’t get out of the way!. On the last
(relative) brink of health I teleported away the last Archon and entered
the chamber, advanced to the altar, and after unblinding with the
unihorn (I needed to _see_ this), offered the Amulet to Anhur.
The leocrotta hits!
You sense a faint wave of psychic energy.
You try to feel what is here.
There is an altar to Anhur (chaotic) here.
You feel no objects here.
What do you want to use or apply? [abknpuwyzDJ-LQUY or ?*]
You can see again.
What do you want to sacrifice? [IW or ?*] I
Duncan the Necromancer St:18 Dx:18 Co:21 In:24 Wi:23 Ch:13 Chaotic
Astral plane $0 HP:108(304) Pw:37(405) AC:-32 Xp:24/40090022 T:71965
You offer the Amulet of Yendor to Anhur...
An invisible choir sings , and you are bathed in radiance...
The voice of Anhur booms out: "Congratulations, mortal!"
"In return of thy service, I, grant thee the gift of immortality!"
You ascend to the status of Demigod...
Do you want your possessions identified? [ynq] (n) y
Amulets
e - an uncursed amulet of life saving
g - an uncursed amulet of life saving
B - the blessed Eye of the Aethiopica
H - an uncursed amulet of life saving (being worn)
Weapons
s - the blessed rustproof +3 Magicbane (weapon in hand)
Armor
c - a blessed rustproof +4 helm of brilliance (being worn)
i - an uncursed fireproof +0 pair of water walking boots (being worn)
m - a blessed greased fireproof +4 Hawaiian shirt (being worn)
o - a blessed greased fireproof +4 pair speed boots <-- didn't have
*time* to put them on again on Astral!
F - a blessed greased fireproof +4 pair of leather gloves (being worn)
O - a blessed +4 silver dragon scale mail (being worn)
V - a blessed fireproof +4 cloak of magic resistance (being worn)
Comestibles
W - 2 uncursed lizard corpses
Scrolls
h - a blessed scroll of blank paper
Rings
d - a blessed ring of free action (on right hand)
f - a blessed +5 ring of gain constitution (on left hand)
q - a blessed ring of levitation
E - a uncursed ring of slow digestion
X - a uncursed ring of conflict
Wands
n - a wand of digging (0:4)
y - a wand of fire (0:4)
D - a wand of cold (4:6)
J - a wand of teleportation (0:6)
K - a wand of teleportation (2:7)
Q - a wand of lightning (0:2)
Y - a wand of death (1:0)
Tools
a - an uncursed towel
b - a blessed bag of holding
k - an uncursed rusty skeleton key
p - a very rusty +1 pick-axe (alternate weapon; not wielded)
u - a blessed +0 unicorn horn
w - an uncursed magic whistle
z - an uncursed pair of lenses (being worn)
U - an uncursed magic lamp
Gems
L - a blessed luckstone
Contents of the bag of holding:
a wand of create monster (0:13)
a blessed wand of digging (0:8)
a wand of secret door detection (0:6)
an uncursed potion of sickness
a blessed magic marker (0:40)
an uncursed tin opener
a can of grease (0:11)
a wand of wishing (1:0)
a wand of death (0:0)
an uncursed tin of master mind flayer meat
a tinning kit (0:63)
an wand of lightning (0:3)
an uncursed ring of warning
an uncursed spellbook of extra healing
a blessed spellbook of dig
11 uncursed food rations
an uncursed magic lamp
a wand of death (0:0)
a cursed potion of gain level
an uncursed spellbook of light
a blessed spellbook of fireball
a wand of digging (0:4)
a wand of digging (0:6)
an uncursed potion of paralysis
an uncursed food ration
a cursed ring of regeneration
an uncursed stethoscope
4 uncursed potions of healing
an uncursed potion of extra healing
an uncursed lizard corpse
16 potions of holy water
a wand of digging (0:6)
a wand of digging (0:7)
2 uncursed potions of acid
a blessed wand of cold (0:3)
an uncursed jet stone
an uncursed jacinth stone
5 uncursed black opals
a horn of plenty (0:19)
a wand of lightning (0:3)
a wand of fire (1:5)
2 uncursed chrysoberyl stones
an uncursed jacinth stone
2 uncursed aquamarine stones
an uncursed obsidian stone
a blessed wand of secret door detection (2:14)
a wand of lightning (2:3)
an uncursed dilithium crystal
an uncursed diamond
an uncursed ring of stealth
a wand of fire (1:3)
an uncursed amulet of magical breathing
an uncursed amulet of unchanging
an uncursed tin of quantum mechanic meat
an uncursed eucalyptus leaf
4 uncursed rubies
5 uncursed sapphires
an uncursed sprig of wolfsbane
an uncursed +0 mummy wrapping
14 uncursed K-rations
2 uncursed scrolls of earth
an uncursed scroll of magic mapping
18 uncursed scrolls of teleportation
2 blessed scrolls of remove curse
4 cursed scrolls of teleportation
an uncursed tallow candle
5 uncursed fortune cookies
8 uncursed lizard corpses
4 uncursed turquoise stones
3 uncursed jade stones
2 uncursed jasper stones
2 uncursed emeralds
2 uncursed jetstones
3 uncursed emeralds
6 uncursed agate stones
2 uncursed amethyst stones
2 uncursed jasper stones
5 uncursed rubies
an uncursed ring of polymorph control
an uncursed ring of polymorph
2 uncursed cloves of garlic
Do you want to see your attributes? [ynq] (n) y
Final Attributes:
You were the Glory of Arioch.
You were piously aligned.
You were fire resistant.
You were cold resistant.
You were sleep resistant.
You were disintegration-resistant.
You were shock resistant.
You were poison resistant.
You were magic-protected.
You could recognize detrimental food.
You saw invisible.
You were telepathic.
You were warned.
You had infravision.
You were invisible to others.
You could teleport.
You had teleport control.
You could walk on water.
You were protected.
You were fast.
You had reflection.
You had free action.
You life would have been saved.
You were very lucky.
You had extra luck.
Good luck did not time out for you.
You survived after being killed once.
Do you want an account of creatures vanquished? [ynq] (n) y
Vanquished creatures:
Orcus
Yeenoghu
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (12 times)
Pestilence (thrice)
Famine (twice)
8 arch-liches
a high priest
3 mastodons
Medusa
3 krakens
9 iron golems
7 master liches
2 storm giants
a titan
5 glass golems
3 balrogs (with Magicbane!)
12 purple worms
2 gray dragons
5 silver dragons
11 red dragons
4 white dragons
3 orange dragons
2 black dragons
4 blue dragons
7 green dragons
4 yellow dragons
15 minotaurs
5 jabberwocks
The Dark One
12 baluchitheria
an Angel
5 demiliches
Vlad the Impaler
16 stone golems
8 master mind flayers
13 Olog-hai
4 Nazguls
15 pit fiends
2 sandestins
4 hell hounds
7 titanotheres
5 trappers
a baby yellow dragon
14 disenchanters
41 vampire lords
5 skeletons
12 aligned priests (I was probably blind, zapping death everywhere
and about to die carrying the damn Amulet to Anhur's altar on Astral)
11 captains
6 shades
10 liches
8 clay golems
12 nurses
13 ice devils
...
15 newts
3051 creatures vanquished.
Do you want to see your conduct? [ynq] (n) y
Voluntary challenges:
You never genocided any monsters.
You never changed form. (Although I had the means for a long time)
You used 7 wishes.
You did not wish of any artifacts.
Goodbye Duncan the Demigod...
You went to your reward with 3536880 points.
Magicbane (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
The Eye of Aethiopica (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
9 rubies (worth 31500 zorkmids).
6 agate stones (worth 1200 zorkmids).
5 sapphires (worth 15000 zorkmids).
5 black opals (worth 12500 zorkmids).
5 emeralds (worth 12500 zorkmids).
4 turquoise stones (worth 8000 zorkmids).
4 jasper stones (worth 2000 zorkmids).
3 jet stones (worth 2550 zorkmids).
3 jade stones (worth 900 zorkmids).
2 jacinth stones (worth 6500 zorkmids).
2 aquamarine stones (worth 3000 zorkmids).
2 chrysoberyl stones (worth 1400 zorkmids).
2 amethyst stones (worth 1200 zorkmids).
1 dilithium crystal (worth 4500 zorkmids).
1 diamond (worth 4000 zorkmids).
1 obsidian stone (worth 200 zorkmids).
3 amulets of life saving (worth 450 zorkmids).
1 amulet of unchanging (worth 150 zorkmids).
1 amulet of magical breathing (worth 150 zorkmids).
and 0 pieces of gold, after 71965 moves.
You were level 24 with a maximum of 304 hit points when you ascended.
You made the top ten list!
No Points Name
Hp [max]
1 3536880 Duncan-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha ascended to demigood-hood.
108 [304]
2 46663 Juampi-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha died in The Gnomish Mines on
level 11. Killed by a blast of disintegration.
71 [75]
3 44478 Mastarilo-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha died in The Gnomish Mines on
level 12. Killed by an ettin mummy, while helpless.
- [98]
Had to copy all of this from the phone screen to keep it, but it was
worth the effort.
Thanks for reading!
Duncan
jim in austin
May 22, 2013, 6:37:24 PM5/22/13
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Congratulations!
Duncan
May 23, 2013, 2:35:19 PM5/23/13
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Thanks! Going now with Talon the Barbarian.
Eventually he may Ascend too!
Eventually he may Ascend too!
Jist Anidiot
May 24, 2013, 11:25:26 PM5/24/13
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On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:56:04 AM UTC-4, Duncan wrote:
> This is the quest of Duncan, a gifted wizard that Ascended to Demigodhood
>
> after a frankly FUN game. It was played on an Android port on my phone
>
> during a whole week. My first Ascension after 8 months of playing.
>
> Damn me HARD if this is not the BEST game I have ever played, and I have
>
> played a whole bunch of them from the dawn of Gaming Time.
>
>
Congrats! I've tried playing on my Droid and the keyboard just gets in the way.
> This is the quest of Duncan, a gifted wizard that Ascended to Demigodhood
>
> after a frankly FUN game. It was played on an Android port on my phone
>
> during a whole week. My first Ascension after 8 months of playing.
>
> Damn me HARD if this is not the BEST game I have ever played, and I have
>
> played a whole bunch of them from the dawn of Gaming Time.
>
>
>
>
> Wished a spellbook of polymorph because I was intrigued with the coolest
>
> technique: polypiling.
> the Amulet, to get up fast. But...Damn me. Some cool White Dragon
>
> I charmed called White Jimbo stumbled on a polymorph trap, and
>
> transformed into a mind flayer. Just when I was quietly going by the
>
> real tower containing Rodney. White Jimbo tried to probe his mind,
>
> and woke him up, so now my so-called methodical plan of digging
>
> the shorter path on all the Gehennom levels was officially screwed.
>
>
>
> Plane of air! DAMMIT Archons! I bit it there once to a specially
>
> persistent pummeling air elemental, but I had a "oLS worn all times, and
>
> a nice collection of copies, so I just replaced it when I revived, and
>
> continued to the portal, as I tried to avoid those damn Archons and their
>
> stunning gaze.
> Note to self: get a bunch of scrolls of gold detection before
>
> On my way
>
> to the portal an Archon blinded and confused me a couple times, so I
>
> decided that his form was not adecuate. Polymorphed him into a
>
> Yellow Dragon, and then we were friends!
> Used the Eye momentarily to find out where Death was
>
> But before I got to see the altar from afar. It was Anhurs!. EXCELLENT.
>
> You offer the Amulet of Yendor to Anhur...
>
> An invisible choir sings , and you are bathed in radiance...
>
> The voice of Anhur booms out: "Congratulations, mortal!"
>
> "In return of thy service, I, grant thee the gift of immortality!"
>
> You ascend to the status of Demigod...
>
>
Again Congratulations!
>
> An invisible choir sings , and you are bathed in radiance...
>
> The voice of Anhur booms out: "Congratulations, mortal!"
>
> "In return of thy service, I, grant thee the gift of immortality!"
>
> You ascend to the status of Demigod...
>
>
bcode
May 25, 2013, 12:10:09 AM5/25/13
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Jist Anidiot <jista...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:56:04 AM UTC-4, Duncan wrote:
>> Wished a spellbook of polymorph because I was intrigued with the coolest
>> technique: polypiling.
>
> Question for the polypilers out there, can you get a /oWishing from
> polymorphing other wands?
No; magic lamps, wands of wishing, wands of polymorph, potions of
> On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:56:04 AM UTC-4, Duncan wrote:
>> Wished a spellbook of polymorph because I was intrigued with the coolest
>> technique: polypiling.
>
> Question for the polypilers out there, can you get a /oWishing from
> polymorphing other wands?
polymorph and spellbooks of polymorph can't be the result of
polypiling. (Rings of polymorph /can/ be the result, but you can't
use these to polymorph other objects.)
Duncan
May 25, 2013, 3:50:52 AM5/25/13
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> > Used the Eye momentarily to find out where Death was
> I want to know how to do this. Normally I have the detect monsters spell, but sometimes it would be nice not to spend the energy.
Just replaced the "oLS a moment with the Eye, that gives you ESP, and used ; command to see what the cyan & was about before going inside. It would have been less dangerous to use a blindfold or a towel being telepathic, though.
> I want to know how to do this. Normally I have the detect monsters spell, but sometimes it would be nice not to spend the energy.
> > But before I got to see the altar from afar. It was Anhurs!. EXCELLENT.
> How do you do that? I thought you couldn't tell the high altars apart until you were right on top of them?
> > You offer the Amulet of Yendor to Anhur...
> >
> > An invisible choir sings , and you are bathed in radiance...
> >
> > The voice of Anhur booms out: "Congratulations, mortal!"
> >
> > "In return of thy service, I, grant thee the gift of immortality!"
> >
> > You ascend to the status of Demigod...
>
> Again Congratulations!
Rast
Jun 16, 2013, 1:31:18 PM6/16/13
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bcode wrote...
potions.
> Jist Anidiot <jista...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:56:04 AM UTC-4, Duncan wrote:
> >> Wished a spellbook of polymorph because I was intrigued with the coolest
> >> technique: polypiling.
> >
> > Question for the polypilers out there, can you get a /oWishing from
> > polymorphing other wands?
>
> No; magic lamps, wands of wishing, wands of polymorph, potions of
> polymorph and spellbooks of polymorph can't be the result of
> polypiling
You can, however, get magic markers, scrolls of charging, and smoky
> > On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:56:04 AM UTC-4, Duncan wrote:
> >> Wished a spellbook of polymorph because I was intrigued with the coolest
> >> technique: polypiling.
> >
> > Question for the polypilers out there, can you get a /oWishing from
> > polymorphing other wands?
>
> No; magic lamps, wands of wishing, wands of polymorph, potions of
> polymorph and spellbooks of polymorph can't be the result of
> polypiling
potions.
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