YAAP: Funcrunch-Bar-Orc-Mal-Cha, artwishless (NAO)
funcrunch
memory. I'm glad it's over! This was an exercise in inefficiency,
aided and abetted by an unhelpful RNG. Never had so much trouble
ascending a silly Barbarian before!
First of all, I had a hell of a time finding either reflection or
magic resistance. No magic lamps in Minetown, no amulet in Sokoban.
Bags of holding up the wazoo, but that didn't help when I faced going
on my quest without those two key items. The trolls and ogres had a
field day zapping me and exploding my rings and wands, but I managed
to retrieve my (mostly worthless) quest item and the Bell at least. I
finally got magic resistance upon slaying a gray dragon on dungeon
level 20.
On the plus side, altars were a-plenty, including a co-aligned temple
in Minetown. I eventually received every nonaligned artifact weapon
and every chaotic weapon except the (nameable) elven ones (me being an
orc), but of course the one I wanted most, Frost Brand, came dead
last. (I used FB two-weaponed with silver saber until near endgame,
when I switched to Stormy.) Unfortunately I prayed too soon at one
point and lost nine hard-earned points of protection. Annoyed and
still desperate for reflection, I started a pudding farm at one altar
and kept at it until I got a magic lamp, which finally granted me an
amulet of reflection.
Then I set about gathering all the cash required to buy my protection
back. Never found Ludios - thanks, RNG. Plus, due to general idiocy I
had quaffed and wraithed myself to exp. level 22; protection,
especially without finding Ludios, was now going to be prohibitively
expensive. In the Valley temple, I took Stormbringer out of my bag and
threw it up in the air six times. Bought five AC points, charmed a
dragon, had him kill the priest of Moloch, picked up the cash (and his
robe), level-ported back to Minetown, bought the rest.
I figured I could get my levels back with blessed potions of full
healing as I'd read that in a spoiler somewhere. Unfortunately this
only worked for three of the levels. And I probably could have drained
only three and still had enough cash as it turned out. Not very smart.
Though my hit points hadn't suffered too much, my power and
spellcasting ability certainly had. I know, Barbarians, especially
orcish ones, have no business casting spells anyway, but I really
wanted magic missile. And thanks to the RNG relenting and giving me an
extremely successful polypile in the Castle, I'd managed to get a helm
of brilliance and gauntlets of dexterity with a single zap.
I did a bit of alchemy and eventually felt confident enough to descend
into Gehennom. Though the game had already lasted twice the length of
some of my ascensions, I fully explored each level to try to get more
potions for alchemy, among other things. I also collected every last
wand of teleportation, which had been scarce in previous games. I only
managed to find one scroll of genocide, unlike in previous games where
I'd wanted to play genoless. Eliminated mind flayers first, later
wrote off liches, and finally sea monsters immediately after entering
the Plane of Water; I wanted the points for offing eels and krakens
with magic missile wherever safe to do so.
In addition to the numerous teleport wands, I'd found four rings of
telecontrol. Since I'd already lost polyself conduct to an early
polytrap, once I finally get a ring of poly control I locked the Orcus
Town temple door, stripped, and prepared to Xornify myself. Both tins
of chameleon meat eaten instead produced "You feel like a new orc!" On
the plus side, I got my levels back. On the minus, I lost several
points of Constitution. And of course, since I had teleportitis, I had
to keep wearing that ring.
I charmed an assortment of purple worms and other beasties along the
way, but none survived terribly long. Rodney was moderately annoying,
especially as wand of death kept missing and I was short on charges.
He managed to steal the Amulet on Fire when I was right next to the
portal, which was nervewracking, but I got it back. Water was easier
once I geno'd things that could drown me. Took off conflict for Astral
so I could get my pet Angel; put the ring back on as soon as he died.
Didn't use jumping (burdened and spell forgotten), but teleported
things out of my way as much as possible. Second altar visited was the
right one, and I offered for my tenth NAO victory, second in a row
for the June tournament, earning my both-genders-ascension trophy
"Birdie with bells on". And as of this moment, I am number one on the
tournament's "Most extinctionist" list with 4684 kills. I do not
expect this particular honor to last very long at all however!
Funcrunch the Slayer St:18/50 Dx:20 Co:15 In:20 Wi:21 Ch:13
Chaotic S:2574320
Astral Plane $:0 HP:324(325) Pw:40(52) AC:-40 Xp:23/30013550 T:153907
Burdened
Vanquished creatures
Asmodeus
Baalzebub
Orcus
Yeenoghu // accidentally summoned early on with same-race sacrifice;
stoned him
Juiblex // never even got a chance to swallow me
The Wizard of Yendor (8 times)
Death
Famine (thrice)
4 arch-liches
a high priest
2 mastodons
Medusa
17 krakens
an Archon
[...]
4684 creatures vanquished.
Voluntary challenges
You genocided 17 types of monsters
You polymorphed 254 items
You changed form 3 times
You used 3 wishes // amulet of reflection, two magic markers
You did not wish for any artifacts
Goodbye funcrunch the Demigod...
You went to your reward with 5310740 points,
Stormbringer (worth 8000 zorkmids and 20000 points)
Werebane (worth 1500 zorkmids and 3750 points)
Fire Brand (worth 3000 zorkmids and 7500 points)
Frost Brand (worth 3000 zorkmids and 7500 points)
The Heart of Ahriman (worth 2500 zorkmids and 6250 points)
10 turquoise stones (worth 20000 zorkmids),
7 diamonds (worth 28000 zorkmids),
7 rubies (worth 24500 zorkmids),
6 emeralds (worth 15000 zorkmids),
4 jacinth stones (worth 13000 zorkmids),
4 black opals (worth 10000 zorkmids),
3 amber stones (worth 3000 zorkmids),
1 sapphire (worth 3000 zorkmids),
2 amulets of life saving (worth 300 zorkmids),
1 amulet of reflection (worth 150 zorkmids),
1 amulet of magical breathing (worth 150 zorkmids),
and 0 pieces of gold, after 153907 moves.
You were level 23 with a maximum of 325 hit points when you ascended.
You reached the 739th place on the top 2000 list.
739 5310740 funcrunch-Bar-Orc-Mal-Cha ascended to demigod-hood.
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anni...@gmail.com
> Just finished one of my longest games, turncount-wise (>150K), in
> memory. I'm glad it's over!
Congratulations :)
> In the Valley temple, I took Stormbringer out of my bag and
> threw it up in the air six times.
Sorry I'm not very experienced with Stormbringer and how you can
use it. Do you mean that you dropped Stormbringer to lose level-
drain resistance against all the Vampires, Vamp Lords, Wraiths,
etc in VotD, or are you actually able to hit yourself with
Stormbringer
by throwing it at yourself somehow?
<snip elemental planes, now in Astral>
> Didn't use jumping (burdened and spell forgotten), but teleported
> things out of my way as much as possible.
Burdened on astral? As my friend sweet Rose likes to say in her
southern
accent: "Are you NUTS?" (although you did end up doing just fine while
burdened, but still I would have dropped that tinning kit and
spellbooks
at the least just before entering the portal but to each their own!)
> [...] and I offered for my tenth NAO victory, second in a row
> for the June tournament, earning my both-genders-ascension trophy
> "Birdie with bells on". And as of this moment, I am number one on the
> tournament's "Most extinctionist" list with 4684 kills. I do not
> expect this particular honor to last very long at all however!
Very nice achievement! I noticed your points skyrocketed after this
ascension. Go Team RGRN! :)
-Annie
Jove
<1182149484.1...@d30g2000prg.googlegroups.com>:
>On Jun 17, 9:26 pm, funcrunch <web-goog...@funcrunch.org> wrote:
>> Just finished one of my longest games, turncount-wise (>150K), in
>> memory. I'm glad it's over!
>
>Congratulations :)
>
>> In the Valley temple, I took Stormbringer out of my bag and
>> threw it up in the air six times.
>
>Sorry I'm not very experienced with Stormbringer and how you can
>use it. Do you mean that you dropped Stormbringer to lose level-
>drain resistance against all the Vampires, Vamp Lords, Wraiths,
>etc in VotD, or are you actually able to hit yourself with
>Stormbringer
>by throwing it at yourself somehow?
>
Anything you throw straight up, '<', will come back down and hit you
on the head. Being hit with a weapon this will have its usual attack
effects, as long as you are not wearing a helmet.
From what funcrunch wrote, I'd say six XL were lost this way. That
should make buying divine protection cheaper by $2400 per purchase.
--
Welcome to NetHack. | I take what I'm given.
| You exploit the game.
All the best, | He's an abusive cheater.
Jove (Joe Bednorz)
funcrunch
> Anything you throw straight up, '<', will come back down and hit you
> on the head. Being hit with a weapon this will have its usual attack
> effects, as long as you are not wearing a helmet.
>
> From what funcrunch wrote, I'd say six XL were lost this way. That
> should make buying divine protection cheaper by $2400 per purchase.
Yep, that's what I did - and it worked even though I was wearing a
helmet. Never thought I'd intentionally level-drain myself, but it was
handy in a pinch! (I've used Fire Brand in such a manner before to
burn away green slime.)
- funcrunch
funcrunch
wrote:
> Burdened on astral? As my friend sweet Rose likes to say in her
> southern
> accent: "Are you NUTS?" (although you did end up doing just fine while
> burdened, but still I would have dropped that tinning kit and
> spellbooks
> at the least just before entering the portal but to each their own!)
I think there's only a couple of times I've been *not* burdened in the
endgame. If I were more mindful of noting at which turn I'd read the
books, I could have felt more comfortable dropping them - though of
course I realize I'd have precious little time to re-study them on
Astral! I'm just a packrat, but it hasn't stopped me from ascending
10x since January so...
- funcrunch
funcrunch
> Very nice achievement! I noticed your points skyrocketed after this
> ascension. Go Team RGRN! :)
Forgot to say Thanks, and congratulations on your Birdie as well! :-D
- funcrunch