YAVP: Titanium Man
Sami Mäki
endings and one restricted challenge (gray elven wizard who used only
spells to kill monsters and ended the game with all weapon skills at level
0) so I decided to try some real challenge game.
After dozens of unlucky adventurers I finally managed to finish the game
with level 1 character with no experience points.
So the result were this Titanium Man who were kind to every monster and
didn't kill anyone (but can't say same from my loyal companions).
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Bard St:39 Le:34 Wi:38 Dx:54 To:43 Ch:40 Ap:21 Ma: 5 Pe:23 N=
DV/PV:135/61 H:94(94) P:1(1) Exp: 1/0 DrCh Sp: 110
Strained! Coward
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Background Information
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Name: Bard Race: female Dwarf Class: Bard
Eye color: brown Hair color: brown Complexion: tanned
Height: 3'8" Weight: 132 pounds
Age: 87 (grown-up, 26 years of unnatural aging added in)
Star sign: Candle Birthday: 3/Candle (day 273 of the year)
YOUR HISTORY:
Your father is a guildmaster. Your family generally is rather
wealthy and well-known in your home town.
As a child your parents cared a lot for you. Despite all
circumstances you enjoyed a happy and fine childhood.
During your youth you embarked on many small journeys to nearby
towns on behalf of your parents. You learned to know lots of people and
made many friends.
Your path was always clearly lying before you. You knew about your
destiny since your earliest years and fortunately your grandfather
supported your wishes. You managed to find a competent trainer and began
your studies.
You decided to become a Bard.
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Inventory
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Total weight: 11709 stones Carrying capacity: 7575 stones
He: uncursed crown of leadership [+2, +7] {Ch+18} [65s]
Ne: blessed amulet of life saving [3s]
Bo: uncursed white dragon scale mail (-2, -4) [-2, +14] [200s]
Gi: uncursed girdle of giant strength [+0, +0] {St+12} [30s]
Cl: blessed cloak of protection [+0, +3] [20s]
RH: uncursed medium obsidian shield "Protector" [+20, +4] {To+2} [46s]
LH: uncursed tower eternium shield (+2) [+13, +4] [70s]
RR: uncursed ring of teleport control [1s]
LR: uncursed ring of the master cat [+0, +5] {Dx+16} (+16 spd) [1s]
Br: uncursed bracers of resistance [+0, +0] [10s]
Ga: uncursed black leather gauntlets [+0, +4] [10s]
Bo: blessed eternium boots (+1, +1) [+0, +7] [55s]
MW: -
Mi: bundle of 5 uncursed drakish scurgari of returning (+2, 2d6+1) [50s]
Tl: uncursed pick axe (+1, 1d6+1) [75s]
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Stuff
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Total weight: 11073 stones Carrying capacity: 7575 stones
<Snip>
If you really want to see the whole inventory list then visit
http://www.students.tut.fi/~maki36/adom/bard.flg
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Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required
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Unarmed fighting 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 15
Daggers & knives 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 15
Clubs & hammers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 15
Maces & flails 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 15
Swords 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 15
Axes 2 +2 +1 +0 basic 40
Whips 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 15
Pole arms 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 15
Twohanded weapons 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 15
Staves 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 15
Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required
marks
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Slings 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Bows 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Crossbows 4 +8 +6 +1 skilled 36
Thrown axes & hammers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown daggers 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown rocks & clubs 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Thrown spears 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Boomerangs & scurgari 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Shields Lvl DV Level Required
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Shields 13 +26 Mastery 6206
Damage caused with your melee weapons:
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No melee weapons available.
Damage caused with your missile weapons:
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Ammunition: 5, base range: 2, +8 bonus to hit, 2d6+10 damage
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Skills
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Alchemy ................... 15 (mediocre) [+4d5]
Bridge building ........... 15 (mediocre) [+4d5] (mr)
Climbing .................. 43 (fair) [+4d5]
Cooking ................... 94 (superb) [+1d5] (ma)
Detect item status ........ 96 (superb) [+1d3]
Detect traps ..............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Dodge ..................... 16 (mediocre) [+4d5]
First aid ................. 64 (good) [+3d5]
Fletchery ................. 22 (mediocre) [+4d5] (ma)
Haggling .................. 40 (fair) [+4d5]
Healing ...................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Herbalism .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Listening .................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Literacy ..................100 (superb) [+1d5]
Metallurgy ................ 60 (good) [+3d4]
Mining .................... 85 (great) [+1d3]
Music .....................100 (superb) [+2d4]
Pick locks ................ 92 (superb) [+2d4]
Pick pockets ..............100 (superb) [+2d4]
Smithing .................. 24 (mediocre) [+4d5]
Swimming .................. 15 (mediocre) [+4d4]
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Spells
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Cure Light Wounds: 5, 9pp (Effectivity: +0)
Darkness : 366, 4pp (Effectivity: +0)
Frost Bolt : 229, 12pp (Effectivity: +1)
Know Alignment : 148, 10pp (Effectivity: +0)
Light : 313, 3pp (Effectivity: +0)
Magic Lock : 322, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Mystic Shovel : 12, 188pp (Effectivity: +0)
Remove Curse : 10, 95pp (Effectivity: +0)
Slow Monster : 245, 7pp (Effectivity: +0)
Strength of Atlas: 4, 19pp (Effectivity: +0)
Teleportation : 178, 22pp (Effectivity: +3)
Web : 210, 12pp (Effectivity: +0)
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Her further life:
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After she leaves the Drakalor Chain she is welcomed by her people with great
honors. They acknowledge her noble deeds, her valor, her cunning and her
great skills that helped to prevent the complete destruction of the world
she knows. She returns to her lands victorious and is hailed as a great
leader. Eventually she becomes queen and rule your subjects with an iron
fist for a long and peaceful time, allowing her people to prosper and grow.
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Her achievements during her adventures:
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Bard, the dwarven bard, saved the world with her brave efforts and became a
great ruler while saving herself 47 times.
She scored 4352936 points.
She survived for 0 years, 63 days, 14 hours, 59 minutes and 45 seconds
(113506 turns).
31 companions were killed during her adventures.
Bard visited 109 places.
Her strength score was modified by +11 during her career.
Her learning score was modified by +15 during her career.
Her willpower score was modified by +21 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by +23 during her career.
Her toughness score was modified by +24 during her career.
Her charisma score was modified by +8 during her career.
Her appearance score was modified by +5 during her career.
Her mana score was modified by -6 during her career.
Her perception score was modified by +8 during her career.
She was unnaturally aged by 26 years.
She was a member of the thieves guild.
She brought back joy into the life of a tiny girl.
She defeated the arch enemy of a mighty karmic wyrm.
She adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
She saved Khelavaster from certain death.
She left the Drakalor Chain after completing her quest and became a great
leader and famous heroine.
She did not manage to vanquish any monsters.
The following 17 artifacts were generated during her adventure:
the si
the scythe of corruption "Moon Sickle"
the ring of the master cat
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Water
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Air
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Fire
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Earth
the scorched spear
the elemental gauntlets
the ring of the High Kings
the phial of Caladriel
the crown of science
the black torc
the Chaos Orb of Elemental Mana
the black rune-covered dagger "Needle"
the medium obsidian shield "Protector"
the crown of leadership
She possessed the following intrinsics:
She was fire resistant (enhanced through an item).
She was poison resistant (enhanced through an item).
She was cold resistant (gained through an item).
She was acid resistant.
She was lucky.
Fate smiled upon her (enhanced through an item).
She was sleep resistant (gained through items).
She was able to teleport.
She was able to control teleportation (gained through an item).
She was stun resistant (gained through an item).
She was resistant to death rays (gained through an item).
She was shock resistant (enhanced through an item).
She was able to see invisible things (gained through items).
She was immune to ice attacks (gained through an item).
She was able to resist confusion attacks (gained through items).
She had the following talents: Boon to the Family, Charming, Heir, Long
Stride.
She had a final speed score of 110 (final base speed: 114).
She cheated Death once.
She was a messiah of Clamgaddin.
She asked for 1 divine intervention.
She was neutrally aligned.
She was slightly tainted by Chaos.
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Sami Mäki
Maxwell Armada
challenge. Getting companions to slay -everything- for em>
Okay. the flg is nice and all, but can we get some more information?
How did you start the game? What companions were the most usefull, any
tough points?..
Where did you get the artifacts from? You would have gotten experience
from live saccing, did you just use corpses from your companion kills,
scum herbs?..
Sami Mäki
> <Snip info about Sami Maki claiming victory in the titanium man
> challenge. Getting companions to slay -everything- for em>
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> Okay. the flg is nice and all, but can we get some more information?
> How did you start the game? What companions were the most usefull, any
> tough points?..
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The second hardest part were the early game where the only companions were
greater claw bugs and my HP were so low that almost every trap could kill
me but luckily that didn't happen.
Before doing anything else in the game I wore my inherited 7LB and went
to the bug temple where I tamed some greater claw bugs to help me.
After taming the greater claw bugs I headed to the arena where I bought
some food supplies from ratling traders and went to get pick pockets
skill from Yergius.
The puppy cave weren't too hard to take down with one moderately
experienced greater claw bug but the cute dog were slightly harder to
protect than normally but still managed to get it out alive.
After making the tiny girl happy I went to the SMC and HMV but there
weren't anything special. The SMC is quite easy for level 1 PC but I had
to keep the pet near all the time because it seemed to be impossible to
tame any animals in SMC thus it was quite easy to get stuck between
monsters.
I got my first (and the only one) good herb scumming place in big room but
that wasn't any problem. When I collected herbs my pets were training
themselves and kept my surroundings clear from evil monsters.
Next interesting place were the dwarftown and the dwarven graveyard.
Thrundarr refused to give me his five quest because I weren't experienced
enough but the 'portal' quest is still available to everybody.
At the graveyard my DV were already around 80 while coward and PV weren't
bad either. Due to the herb scumming HP were also around 30-40.
About 2 minutes after entering the graveyard the RNG decided to help me a
little bit to clear the rest of the graveyard by generating a cloak of
invisibility.
I got a SoFS at graveyard and a bit later one AoLS and WoWi from 4th and
5th level of ToTHK. The wish were used for magical writing sets so I could
write some more SoFS. Reading about 8 scrolls in dwarven halls resulted 2
stone grues, 2 greater fire elementals and some greater earth elementals
which were a lot better companions than my previous greater claw bugs.
With a greater earth elemental it was quite easy to clear the darkforge
and collect the weapons (useless) and armors from the rooms there. There
were one eternium armor and one red dragon scale male which were useful in
that point since the ToEF were the next place I had to visit.
The ToEF and the ACW were the hardest part of the game. I had only about
50 HP which were too few against the ACW's bolt which killed me when
luring him off from 4th level of the tower... but luckily my precious
amulet immediately resurrected me.
The ACW were powerful enough to kill also my highly experienced greater
earth elemental and very experienced greater fire elemental.
I had found one more magical writing set from somewhere (around D:20-D:25
I think) and decided to use it for even more scrolls of familiar
summoning. One of them gave me a balor and it were my companion for the
rest of the game. After training him a little bit he were able to take
down the ACW easily and I were able to continue my quest.
The balor made the end game almost too easy. With him I could just go down
and let him to kill every encountered monster.
Surprisingly I weren't killed any cats and the cat lord gave me the
RoTMC... even I ate one cat corpse in front of him. :)
The balor were already extremely experienced when I were at the entrance
of the blue dragon caves and he was powerful enough to knock down the
Srraxxarrakex in a single turn. Also Nuurag-Vaarn were killed by him in
only one turn.
Next slightly harder (and corrupting) part come when I had to clear D:48
from weak monsters that could die by the fire damage caused by the orb of
fire. It took quite a plenty of time and gave me ~2 corruptions but
finally me and my 3 companions were able to kill almost everybody in that
level and all remaining monsters survived from the heat.
In D:50 I used 6 SoFS to summon 3 writhing masses of primal chaos and
3 greater earth elementals to help me in the final challenge. The greater
earth elementals were tough enough to take down all rooms except the
biggest room around the chaos gate. First 2 balors initially standing
on the gate levers were killed by my companions and I was able to pull
both levers.
Soon after pulling the levers about 4 balors came in the room where I was
with my elemental pets, summoned the room full of random monsters and
killed all my elementals. I teleported to the other room and summoned some
monsters on the lever to keep the balors off from it and quickly
teleported back to the stairway. The monsters were able to keep the levers
closed and let me to flee the level and finish my quest.
> Where did you get the artifacts from? You would have gotten experience
> from live saccing, did you just use corpses from your companion kills,
> scum herbs?..
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I got only 3 randomly generated artifacts in this game. First were the
protector which I got from casino shop, the second were the scorched spear
from Sharad-Waador and the last one were the crown of leadership which was
the uselessness gift in D:49.
I sacrificed mostly gold to my god but also some other items were used.
Living sacrifices weren't used at all.
Scumming herbs (and some sickness) were quite important to get my really
low HP up at least a little bit. Also every potion of extra healing and
ultra healing were blessed and drank to get some more HP.
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Sami Mäki