YAFAP
Brilliand Galvin
easiest role to ascend (or maybe it's just my playing style). I
rather overprepared... I was actually intending to polypile every
scroll, potion, ring and amulet in the game into something useful, but
eventually I realized that I could easily ascend, and forced myself to
go through with it. I also polypiled a large number of gems, and
acquired some magic markers through wishing/polypiling that I used
more for spellbooks than for scrolls.
Pestilence and Famine ate Finger of Death spells whenever they came
close; Death I just ran past (he did shave ~20 points off my max
health). Right up at the end, I had several wishes left over, so I
spent two on Zorkmids for ~20,000 more points.
No boots of speed all game, but the levitation boots turned out to be
just as good, considering that I hade both the hast spell and the
jumping spell (though as it turned out, I never jumped). I used one
scroll of charging on the Astral Plane to recharge my Power.
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Brilliand the Mage St:18 Dx:23 Co:16 In:25 Wi:25 Ch:18 Chaotic S:
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Astral Plane $:10000 HP:432(432) Pw:410(661) AC:-33 Exp:30 T:52606
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Amulets
l - the blessed Eye of the Aethiopica
m - a blessed amulet of life saving (being worn)
Weapons
a - the blessed rustproof +7 Magicbane
Armor
b - a blessed greased rustproof +5 helm of brilliance (being worn)
c - a blessed fireproof +4 cloak of protection (being worn)
d - a blessed +5 silver dragon scale mail (being worn)
e - a blessed fireproof +5 pair of gauntlets of dexterity (being
worn)
t - a blessed fireproof +5 pair of levitation boots
Comestibles
H - 10 blessed K-rations
M - a blessed partly eaten chickatrice corpse (weapon in hand)
Spellbooks
V - the uncursed Book of the Dead
Rings
f - a blessed ring of free action (on left hand)
n - a blessed ring of slow digestion
o - a blessed ring of conflict
u - a blessed ring of regeneration
Wands
q - an uncursed wand of teleportation (0:4)
v - an uncursed wand of enlightenment (0:4)
L - an uncursed wand of wishing (1:0)
R - an uncursed wand of cold (0:7)
S - a blessed wand of lightning (0:7)
Y - an uncursed wand of digging (0:8)
Tools
g - a blessed greased bag of holding
h - a blessed +0 unicorn horn
i - a blessed stethoscope
j - a blessed oilskin sack
s - the uncursed Candelabrum of Invocation (7 candles attached)
x - a blessed +0 pick-axe
U - the uncursed Bell of Opening (0:2)
Contents of the bag of holding:
35533 gold pieces
an uncursed amulet of unchanging
a blessed amulet of life saving
a blessed amulet of life saving
a blessed amulet of life saving
a blessed +0 oilskin cloak
a blessed +0 mummy wrapping
19 blessed lumps of royal jelly named bee jelly
2 blessed lembas wafers
4 blessed pancakes
2 blessed lizard corpses
2 blessed scrolls of gold detection
2 blessed scrolls of genocide
2 cursed scrolls of blank paper
a cursed scroll of genocide
3 blessed scrolls of taming
a blessed scroll of earth
4 potions of holy water
6 potions of unholy water
a blessed potion of polymorph
a cursed potion of gain energy
a blessed ring of aggravate monster
a blessed ring of levitation
an uncursed towel
an uncursed tinning kit (0:67)
a blessed magic whistle
a blessed can of grease (0:20)
a blessed horn of plenty (0:5)
2 blessed jet stones
a blessed aquamarine stone
a blessed agate stone
6 blessed rubies
2 blessed dilithium crystals
4 blessed diamonds
2 blessed fluorite stones
a blessed luckstone
a blessed jade stone
3 blessed turquoise stones
3 uncursed opals
4 uncursed amber stones
an uncursed topaz stone
3 uncursed amethyst stones
a blessed topaz stone
a blessed touchstone
4 uncursed jade stones
a blessed amethyst stone
a blessed citrine stone
7 blessed emeralds
2 blessed sapphires
4 blessed garnet stones
3 uncursed diamonds
Contents of the oilskin sack:
2 potions of holy water
an uncursed wand of digging (0:5)
an uncursed wand of wishing (1:3)
an uncursed magic marker (0:92)
Final Attributes:
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 saw invisible.
You were telepathic.
You were warned.
You had infravision.
You were invisible to others.
You were stealthy.
You could teleport.
You had teleport control.
You were protected.
You were protected from shape changers.
You had polymorph control.
You were very fast.
You had reflection.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
You had free action.
Your life would have been saved.
You were very lucky.
You survived after being killed once.
2229 creatures vanquished.
Genocided or extinct species:
soldiers (extinct)
erinyes (extinct)
jellyfish
piranhas
sharks
giant eels
electric eels
krakens
6 species genocided.
2 species extinct.
Voluntary challenges:
You genocided 6 types of monsters.
You used 8 wishes.
Goodbye Brilliand the Demigod...
You went to your reward with 3174972 points,
Magicbane (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
The Eye of the Aethiopica (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
The Candelabrum of Invocation (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
The Bell of Opening (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
The Book of the Dead (worth 10000 zorkmids and 25000 points)
7 diamonds (worth 28000 zorkmids),
7 emeralds (worth 17500 zorkmids),
6 rubies (worth 21000 zorkmids),
5 jade stones (worth 1500 zorkmids),
4 amber stones (worth 4000 zorkmids),
4 garnet stones (worth 2800 zorkmids),
4 amethyst stones (worth 2400 zorkmids),
3 turquoise stones (worth 6000 zorkmids),
3 opals (worth 2400 zorkmids),
2 dilithium crystals (worth 9000 zorkmids),
2 sapphires (worth 6000 zorkmids),
2 topaz stones (worth 1800 zorkmids),
2 jet stones (worth 1700 zorkmids),
2 fluorite stones (worth 800 zorkmids),
1 citrine stone (worth 1500 zorkmids),
1 aquamarine stone (worth 1500 zorkmids),
1 agate stone (worth 200 zorkmids),
4 amulets of life saving (worth 600 zorkmids),
1 amulet of unchanging (worth 150 zorkmids),
and 45533 pieces of gold, after 52606 moves.
You were level 30 with a maximum of 432 hit points when you ascended.
Jistan Idiot
> Well, I've finally ascended!
Congratulations!
> Chaotic wizard, which I suspect is the
> easiest role to ascend (or maybe it's just my playing style).
When I first started playing I thought that would be the case, but I
think monks or knights might be the easiest.
> M - a blessed partly eaten chickatrice corpse (weapon in hand)
Partly eaten chickatrice corpse??? I think you get style points for
that. Did you poly into something that was stoning resistant?
> You were level 30 with a maximum of 432 hit points when you ascended.
Congrats again!
Brilliand Galvin
> On Nov 25, 11:13 pm, Brilliand Galvin <yapquest2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > M - a blessed partly eaten chickatrice corpse (weapon in hand)
>
> Partly eaten chickatrice corpse??? I think you get style points for
> that. Did you poly into something that was stoning resistant?
No, I wished for it like that. I got impatient when the second high
altar I checked wasn't the right one, and I had wishes to burn, so I
wished up the lightest petrifying weapon (blessed) to speed my way
through those angels.
tim...@gmail.com
something a bit different - ascending a Tourist.
Unfortunately, I couldn't play on alt.org due to a horrid college
internet connection, so I couldn't copy-paste all the text. This
screenshot will have to do: http://yfrog.com/17yafapp
I wound up using fourteen wishes and genociding a bunch of species
(including all liches, mind flayers, and ;) to ensure victory. In
fact, I was insanely lucky with wishes from the beginning. I wound up
finding a magic lamp before I even hit Minetown, then found three more
in Minetown itself (two at Izchak's and one at the general store). The
wand of wishing at the castle was fully charged, and I used blessed
charging to get three more, plus wresting the final charge from the
wand. I found yet another magic lamp inside the mazes underneath the
castle, and two more from pudding farming (forgive me) much later
after clearing out Gehennom. Had a few more wishes from thrones (two)
along the way. Still had three magic lamps (two blessed, one uncursed)
on me at the end.
I did everything I possibly could to survive. Had a full set of +5
armor (GDSM, AoR, T-Shirt, GoP, HoT, Speed Boots) and a +7 Grayswandir/
Silver Saber combo. I wound up using one of my many wishes on
Magicbane, and wound up barely using it. I found Cleaver inside Orcus
Town, and Trollsbane/Frost Brand/Mjollnir/Dragonbane from sacrificing
the many puddings (200+) that I farmed in Minetown (which happened to
have a sink and a co-aligned altar). By the way, on the unlikely
chance that anyone from the DevTeam reads this post, you should put in
a ritual in the next version to turn three or more Bane weapons into
some sort of Omnibane.
The puddings I farmed out of necessity - I had reached the Vibrating
Square, marked it, and was about to go kill Rodney when I realized I
had no idea which scroll was gold detection. I wound up farming
puddings and never finding ANY gold detection scrolls, but was able to
figure out which one was which by going down my Discoveries list and
figuring out I had all but two scrolls identified - the other turned
out to be Punishment.
With my posessions in hand (plus a blessed horn of plenty, a blessed
unicorn horn, a blessed can of grease, the PYEC, and 15 bottles of
holy water) I killed Rodney and grabbed the book to preform the
invocation. Going back up Gehennom turned out to be a lot tougher than
I thought. Even though I had taken plenty of time to dig a clear path
between the staircases, I wound up getting the Mysterious Force at
LEAST twenty times, until I finally managed to escape to the Castle
and (relative) safety. The Elemental Planes were, surprisingly, not
all that bad with gold detection to find the portal - except for Fire,
and even then that was largely due to the hundreds of resist messages
generated by the elementals. I had Rodney appear around five times,
and killed him each time with a Wand of Death blast.
My last bit of luck came from finding the correct High Altar on my
first try - in fact, I THOUGHT I was going to the center altar and
didn't realize until it was too late. However, with -50 AC and the
best sword in the game, nothing could even touch me. A few Wand of
Death blasts cleared out most of the area and let me get my 2 bits
from the High Priest of the Lady before offering up the amulet.
I think what I've taken away from this is that Tourist is definitely
not a weak role - although it turned out to be a pain trying to make
it to Minetown to do protection racket, even WITH the GDSM I was
wearing at the time. I've also learned the value of having your pet
kill everything for you.
I'd like to thank everyone who helped me with my near-ascension two
years ago, and the people who wrote the spoilers that I wound up
referring to so often to refresh my memory. I'd also like to thank The
Shrewd Dude and the Pudding Rights Society. Go team @!
Janis Papanagnou
> Almost two years after nearly ascending a Valkyrie, I decided to try
> something a bit different - ascending a Tourist.
>
> I wound up using fourteen wishes [...]
> In fact, I was insanely lucky with wishes from the beginning. [...]
>
> The puddings I farmed out of necessity - [...]
???
> I had reached the Vibrating
> Square, marked it, and was about to go kill Rodney when I realized I
> had no idea which scroll was gold detection.
Why not just use a single wish to wish for two or three scrolls of gold
detection, then write some more (as many you need) with a magic marker?
> I wound up farming puddings and never finding ANY gold detection scrolls,
> [...]
> I think what I've taken away from this is that Tourist is definitely
> not a weak role - although it turned out to be a pain trying to make
> it to Minetown to do protection racket, even WITH the GDSM I was
> wearing at the time.
A tourist is a very hard class to play; certainly one of the hardest,
probably the hardest. Without your many wishes I'm sure the game would
have evolved very differently. Any class that gets so many wishes will
be easy to ascend.
> I've also learned the value of having your pet
> kill everything for you.
Mind that your pet may be killed, so you should foster your character as
well.
And congrats, BTW :-)
Janis