DevNull: YAAP LOOONG (8 conducts game, foodless, illiterate ...)
cbus
bells on WITHOUT server scumming) I decided to have some fun :)
Since I've done food less and eidolos was describing how to actually play
one I decided to give it a try.
And why not throw in some additional conducts, everyone knows that conducts
are fun (aren't they :).
So I rolled a Mon-Hum-Fem-Neu and decide to go for weaponless, foodless,
genoless, polyless (both poly conducts) and illiterate. First try ended with
a nice little bone file with juiblex in mines town, he wasn't that bad but I had
to pray to get rid of disease and there goes the prayer timeout for food.
Second monk, a nice little bone file in gnomish and I see a purple h running up
to me with high speed, so yeah, try to melee, don't really care if I die, its
an early game anyway and I've broken my ascension streak when going for conducts
anyway, that ends with me dying foolishly.
Third try, second level, second room, a lot of jackals, I get to about 4 hp,
I start running and then decide to quaff the uncursed healing I started with.
Of course one of these gave me a wish and hello blessed fixed =oSD.
Head to mines town, do the normal stuff (price id and check light store).
Found a preblessed magic lamp. Hello PYEC. Nothing fun happens when clearing
sokoban (gave me a BoH). Back to mines, get luck stone, nothing special.
So I have MR, no reflection and not high enough level to quest (and no way to
dispose of kaen either). So I dive for castle nothing eventful, dig when
reaching medusa's island.
Find a nice minotaur pretty close (they are tough when you
have 80 max hp and -10 AC, and cant hit for shit with mithril on). Zap with
sleep, move away, take off robe, off with mithril, on with robe, start
bashing. Then I find the stairs up, I go up and kill medusa.
Break perseus statue and find reflection.
Thats nice but I was also hoping for boots of levitation.
This is about the point when the first hunger starts kicking in. Off with
=oSD, wait for weak, #pray.
Continue diving for castle, there I am a big castle, some nice
cute eels, some sharks, some soldiers, a couple of dragons and some liches.
And I realize, "hey I forgot to bring that flute I found earlier".
Thats around the point when I start to panic, and when in panic the best way
to solve that situation is of course to save and take a break, so thats what I
do. So 30min later I log back on. Still no clue of what to do, so I start
roaming the levels above and I find a nice poly trap, tame 2 dogs, poly pile
some pets and that yields in one Arch lich named Barbie (he was actually male
though), and a black dragon named Blackie. Head back to castle to check more
closely if there is anything I can use to get entrance. Then realize that
there's a nice looking 0 below the stairs up.
A couple of zaps with digging and I have the square in front of the entrance
to castle non liquid :). A bit of fighting (with me running upstairs every
time I have any @'s next to me (and handling them upstairs, I still want the
xp and don't want the pets to steal it all).
Half an hour later, a couple of close calls and castle is cleared (at least
the west part). The pet dragon died when clearing castle, I'm not completely
sure exactly when but he died anyhow :(.
When #sit:ing on the throne I get a wish, so I wish for the Orb of Fate and
amazingly I get it (I usually have bad luck when I during the tournament, and
I had 2 artefacts spawned already, PYEC and Excalibur (from a bone file))).
Zap the wand of wishing, wish for =oLevi. Then I try to decide what else to
wish for but couldn't decide, so I went to do some gehennom exploration.
Nothing interesting there, clear vlads tower, mark the vibrating square... The
normal stuff one would expect. Time to try the quest! First parts are the same
as usually, bash some stuff, find stairs. First try on kaen. I walk up in
range of him, zap with /oDeath and miss, on with levitation, levitating over
the lava hoping that the pet will kill him. (Barbie was by now a level 37 arch
lich with 296 hp). Kaen kills barbie and I start to panic so I invoke the orb
of weight and off I go (without Kaen since I was levitating over lava and made
sure he wasn't close to me).
Then I started realizing that I had no real way of killing Kaen, so I went
back to mines town, and price identify some rings, hoping for a =oConflict and a
=oFA. Had neither of those. I started climbing back to the main branch again
and something drops another ring, so I head back to mines town to price id.
Was pretty happy about it being base 200
And it's non cursed, so I find a gelatinous cube, put it on, and start hitting
"You momentarily stiffen.", PERFECT.
I decided to try on Kaen again with some help of a !oPara and a couple of
!oSleeping. Wished for =oConflict at that point cause hey thats a fun ring
isn't it! And it helps reduce damage from surrounding monsters.
This was the point when I felt like it doesn't matter if I die
anymore, cause there aren't much left to do anyway. Low HP (90 max hp), the
only gain level/energy I had blew up when trying to alchemize and gehennom
already mapped. So I head down the stairs, smack kaen with a !oPara and use my
stethoscope on him (level 24, 177 hp, ac-14). Nasty. Start hitting him, he
wakes up and gets me from 97->73 health in one turn. Hit him with a !oSleep,
continue hitting, and down he goes.
Perfect! gehennom time :).
Continue killing rodney, no big deal, tele down, clear sanctum, nothing
dangerous except a purple lich trying to welcome me, he curses some items but
thats about it. Zap high priest with death. Nothing Happens. Oops out of
charges and low on hp (60, 100-ish maxhp) and ants surrounding me. Get my one
and only b!oFH and a !oPara while I'm at it. Bash the high priest with it and
continue dealing damage, at around 100hp left he wakes up, so I get a
!oSleeping and hit him with that, and then finish him. Get amulet start
climbing. No force kicks in and I'm starting to get hungry, so I pay a quick
visit to vlad's tower, on with a lot of stupid rings (not =oSD) and amulets
and wait 50 turns, perfect now I'm weak, #pray. Off with rings, on with =oSD
and continue climbing. Nothing interesting, force kicks in 4-5 times, rodney
shows up but the recharged /oDeaths (PYEC is so nice) gets rid of him fairly
fast. Plane of earth, zap zap, no more rodney, kill the minotaur, apply orb of
fate, find the ^ and off to air I go.
I get to the right side of the map with no problems, no engulfings.
Some random monsters show up though (a master mind flayer and a dragon and
some other random stuff).
I continue running to the side with nothing special happening.
At the other side I see the h trigger the portal, hooray,
I have the portal to plane of fire but a master flayer will be
there to greet me. I go through the flayer is 3 squares from me and I just
levitate to the other direction. At the middle of the map and nothing
dangerous close to me I apply the orb again and find the portal.
Plane of water, nothing special...
When entering astral I get greeted by a purple L which I dispose of fast.
Zap the wand of wishing, Nothing Happens. So ok it was 1:1 when it was
recharged with the uncursed charging. Engrave, get the wish and wish for a
blessed fixed cockatrice corpse. Death at left part of the map, the other ones
on the other parts, I head right, conflict and the c helped alot. Nothing that
really hurts me that much (even though I had 113 max hp and AC:-11).
The altar was chaotic, head for middle, altar is lawful, head left).
Altar is neutral, YAY! :)
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Amulets
R - an uncursed amulet of life saving named pray:33814 (being worn)
Armor
d - a blessed +0 oilskin cloak (being worn)
B - a blessed +0 dwarvish mithril-coat (being worn)
C - an uncursed thoroughly burnt +1 cloak of protection named VOTD 27, VLAD 35
D - an uncursed +0 pair of speed boots (being worn)
E - an uncursed greased corroded +1 dwarvish iron helm (being worn)
F - an uncursed rusty +0 pair of gauntlets of power (being worn)
G - an uncursed +0 shield of reflection (being worn)
Comestibles
n - a blessed cockatrice corpse (weapon in hand)
Spellbooks
O - the cursed Book of the Dead
Rings
j - an uncursed ring of levitation
l - an uncursed rustproof ring of slow digestion
o - an uncursed ring of free action (on left hand)
V - an uncursed corrodeproof ring of conflict
Wands
f - a wand of opening (0:5)
g - a wand of death named orcus, charged2 (2:3)
h - a wand of undead turning (0:7)
k - a wand of undead turning (0:2)
m - a cursed wand of cancellation (0:3)
s - a wand of sleep named fresh (0:7)
A - a wand of death named charged2 (2:1)
J - a wand of digging (0:6)
P - a wand of death named charged2 (4:4)
Q - a wand of digging (0:7)
X - a wand of sleep (0:3)
Y - a wand of digging (0:8)
Z - a wand of digging (0:6)
Tools
b - a blessed bag of holding named _8,20 t12,20
c - an uncursed skeleton key
e - an uncursed stethoscope
p - the cursed Bell of Opening (0:2)
q - the blessed fireproof Platinum Yendorian Express Card
r - the blessed Eyes of the Overworld (being worn)
t - an uncursed blindfold
u - a blessed +0 unicorn horn
y - the blessed greased Orb of Fate (1:0)
K - the uncursed Candelabrum of Invocation (7 candles attached)
Contents of the bag of holding named _8,20 t12,20:
the cursed greased +7 Vorpal Blade
a cursed potion of healing
a blessed ring of teleport control
an uncursed lizard corpse named probability sucks
10 gold pieces
a wand of light (0:7)
a wand of magic missile (0:0)
a +0 pick-axe
a wand of striking (0:0)
a blessed can of grease (0:15)
a wand of fire (0:2)
a cursed potion of extra healing
a wand of nothing (0:7)
3 uncursed rubies
8 uncursed emeralds
a blessed luckstone
an uncursed potion of sleeping
6 blessed diluted potions of extra healing
9 uncursed potions of water named food!
an uncursed amulet of life saving
an uncursed amulet of life saving
an uncursed magic whistle
a wand of sleep (0:3)
a wand of cold (0:6)
an uncursed oil lamp
an uncursed fortune cookie
an uncursed ring of slow digestion
a wand of striking (0:5)
8 potions of holy water named not food anymore
a cursed potion of sleeping
a wand of cold (0:0)
a wand of sleep (0:0)
a wand of digging (0:4)
a wand of lightning (0:8)
a wand of polymorph (0:4)
a wand of striking (0:0)
a wand of lightning (0:0)
a cursed potion of speed
a wand of striking (0:6)
a wand of digging (0:0)
a wand of magic missile (0:6)
a wand of digging (0:4)
a cursed wand of striking (0:0)
a wand of digging (0:6)
a wand of striking (0:3)
an uncursed cream pie named Clownbane, hello HanClinto
2 potions of unholy water
Final Attributes:
You were piously aligned.
You were fire resistant.
You were cold resistant.
You were sleep resistant.
You were shock resistant.
You were poison resistant.
You were magic-protected.
You were blinded.
You saw invisible.
You were telepathic.
You were warned.
You had automatic searching.
You were invisible to others.
You were stealthy.
You were protected.
You were very fast.
You had reflection.
You had free action.
Your life would have been saved.
You were extremely lucky.
You had extra luck.
Good luck did not time out for you.
You survived.
Vanquished creatures:
Orcus
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (5 times)
Death
Pestilence (twice)
Famine (twice)
2 arch-liches
a high priest
Master Kaen
a mastodon
Medusa
6 krakens
an iron golem
4 master liches
3 storm giants
a titan
4 balrogs
3 purple worms
a gray dragon
5 red dragons
3 white dragons
6 black dragons
4 blue dragons
4 green dragons
a yellow dragon
11 minotaurs
a jabberwock
4 baluchitheria
13 Angels
3 demiliches
Vlad the Impaler
a stone golem
3 master mind flayers
7 Olog-hai
a pit fiend
4 sandestins
a hell hound
a titanothere
a baby silver dragon
3 baby red dragons
a baby black dragon
a guardian naga
5 disenchanters
29 vampire lords
2 skeletons
2 shopkeepers
28 aligned priests
3 captains
a shade
6 liches
a clay golem
5 nurses
2 ice devils
2 nalfeshnees
a lurker above
4 frost giants
an ettin
2 golden nagas
a black pudding
33 vampires
5 lieutenants
a watch captain
37 ghosts
a barbarian
a queen bee
3 winged gargoyles
2 mind flayers
8 giant mimics
3 zruties
5 fire giants
5 ogre kings
an ice troll
13 rock trolls
3 umber hulks
5 Elvenkings
2 doppelgangers
3 hezrous
4 bone devils
6 large mimics
2 wumpuses
2 fire vortices
a baby long worm
5 long worms
6 couatls
14 stalkers
7 air elementals
2 fire elementals
22 earth elementals
2 water elementals
2 hill giants
5 giant mummies
31 xorns
11 giant zombies
11 elf-lords
11 sergeants
4 barbed devils
6 vrocks
7 wargs
a winter wolf
3 hell hound pups
6 small mimics
a glass piercer
3 warhorses
6 steam vortices
6 xans
4 ettin mummies
5 ogre lords
6 quantum mechanics
10 trolls
2 sasquatches
4 wood golems
3 erinyes
a marilith
2 djinn
a shark
4 gelatinous cubes
5 pyrolisks
3 large dogs
3 freezing spheres
7 flaming spheres
3 shocking spheres
4 large cats
2 tigers
3 gargoyles
2 dwarf kings
3 tengu
6 ochre jellies
3 leocrottas
4 energy vortices
a mountain centaur
an elf mummy
5 human mummies
4 red nagas
a green slime
4 pit vipers
3 pythons
2 cobras
43 wraiths
2 carnivorous apes
9 ettin zombies
12 Grey-elves
54 soldiers
4 watchmen
6 horned devils
4 succubi
2 incubi
6 chameleons
3 crocodiles
37 giant beetles
6 quivering blobs
9 cockatrices
6 wolves
10 winter wolf cubs
2 lynxes
3 panthers
31 gremlins
24 leprechauns
3 iron piercers
2 mumakil
11 giant spiders
a scorpion
3 horses
2 ice vortices
5 black lights
8 vampire bats
2 forest centaurs
7 gnome kings
an orc mummy
a dwarf mummy
7 ogres
2 brown puddings
6 rust monsters
11 owlbears
3 yetis
5 gold golems
a werewolf
8 Green-elves
2 piranhas
12 giant eels
15 lizards
4 chickatrices
2 dogs
2 dingos
4 jaguars
a dwarf lord
a blue jelly
a white unicorn
4 black unicorns
4 dust vortices
8 ravens
4 plains centaurs
4 gnome mummies
13 snakes
a water moccasin
7 apes
14 human zombies
a rope golem
7 Woodland-elves
30 soldier ants
11 fire ants
12 bugbears
3 lemures
6 quasits
7 wood nymphs
3 water nymphs
a mountain nymph
4 Mordor orcs
9 Uruk-hai
4 rock piercers
2 rock moles
a woodchuck
2 ponies
3 fog clouds
12 yellow lights
2 shriekers
4 violet fungi
21 gnome lords
7 gnomish wizards
a red naga hatchling
a black naga hatchling
5 gray oozes
2 barrow wights
20 elf zombies
10 ghouls
3 straw golems
3 paper golems
a jellyfish
34 giant ants
a little dog
9 floating eyes
23 dwarves
5 homunculi
a kobold lord
2 kobold shamans
8 hill orcs
7 rothes
a rabid rat
5 centipedes
2 giant bats
a monkey
19 orc zombies
12 dwarf zombies
a wererat
2 iguanas
46 killer bees
4 acid blobs
7 coyotes
2 gas spores
7 hobbits
18 hobgoblins
3 giant rats
5 cave spiders
a brown mold
a yellow mold
43 gnomes
4 garter snakes
9 gnome zombies
3 geckos
6 jackals
2 foxes
a kobold
6 sewer rats
3 grid bugs
2 lichens
12 kobold zombies
4 newts
1630 creatures vanquished.
Voluntary challenges:
You went without food.
You never hit with a wielded weapon.
You were illiterate.
You never genocided any monsters.
You never polymorphed an object.
You never changed form.
You used 7 wishes. (1 potion, 2 thrones, 1 magic lamp, 3 from castle wand)
Goodbye cbus the Demigoddess...
You went to your reward with 2251870 points,
Vorpal Blade (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points) <-- dropped from a
barbarian at astral, made sure to /oDeath him)
The Bell of Opening (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
The Platinum Yendorian Express Card (worth 7000 zorkmids and 17500 points)
The Eyes of the Overworld (worth 2500 zorkmids and 6250 points)
The Orb of Fate (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
The Candelabrum of Invocation (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
The Book of the Dead (worth 10000 zorkmids and 25000 points)
8 emeralds (worth 20000 zorkmids), <- hello gray unicorns!
3 rubies (worth 10500 zorkmids),
3 amulets of life saving (worth 450 zorkmids),
and 10 pieces of gold, after 35474 moves.
You were level 15 with a maximum of 113 hit
-- cbus_at_~.se
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that
have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally
mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Sledge
topics above this one) =(
I dont understand how you could fight your way through the sanctum and
endgames with that AC and hp. Mine was -25 AC with about 180 hp and I
just barely got out of them, and you couldnt even use elbereth. Did you
have pets to help with it? Mine had all died before doing the run.
Congrats.
cbus
> I dont understand how you could fight your way through the sanctum and
> endgames with that AC and hp. Mine was -25 AC with about 180 hp and I
> just barely got out of them, and you couldnt even use elbereth. Did you
> have pets to help with it? Mine had all died before doing the run.
I could run around with conflict without any problem.
Sanctum was basicly, go downstairs, wait for purple L, kill, go back up,
levelteleport to sanctum, end up next to >, k, up, n100. retry, end up at the
left part of the map, then go kill priest and then start running.
Conflict helped alot.
If you want further details you can check the ttyrec at:
http://nethack.is.pointless.se/cbus/8conducts-endgame.ttyrec.tgz
> Congrats.
Thanks.
tg
cbus wrote:
<long YAAP conduct post>
Wow, that is one serious set of conducts. Many kudos for this truly
difficult ascension. I use elbereth as my crutch, and it's saved my ass
many times. "Illiterate" alone would be very challenging for me. Then
to add on the hugely annoying "never hit with a wielded weapon" conduct
with a pick-axe just waiting to be used. And then foodless / polyless /
survival. Does that mean you never used "You feel like a new man!"? I'm
assuming so. And just drank potions / slow digestion / praying?
Awesome job.
--
Croupier aka Tyler
Sledge
tg wrote:
Does that mean you never used "You feel like a new man!"? I'm
> assuming so. And just drank potions / slow digestion / praying?
Feeling like a new man/woman wont break poly-self conduct. It happened
with my monk when I stepped on a polytrap in the mines. Was a close
call.
cbus
> Does that mean you never used "You feel like a new man!"? I'm
> assuming so. And just drank potions / slow digestion / praying?
rerolled stats (and the nutrition is reset) without actually losing polyself.
I didnt do this though. I got my first wish very early and that kept me non
hungry until around turn 9000. The only way I actually kept from starving was
by praying when weak (happened 2-3 times if i remember correctly), and by
quaffing the 5-6 b!oFJ i had with me (I think I quaffed 1-2 uncursed water too
but im not completely sure about that, each uncursed water giving 1d10
nutrition).
I didnt have any real problems losing polyself either since I asked for the
PYEC as soon as I got to minestown and found that preblessed magic lamp.