YAFAP: Ross-Wiz-Hum-Mal-Nue (genocideless, polyselfless)

rpresser

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May 27, 2006, 3:53:03 PM5/27/06

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Can't believe I actually made it.

I didn't keep many notes, so this won't be much of a story. I started
with a spellbook of drain life, and found a spellbook of identify
early. There were altars aplenty; I got Magicbane fairly soon after
surviving on the strength of thrown daggers. I hit a LOT of bones
levels, including one of my own and two of somebody named Duane or
something like that, and they rewarded me aplenty. The Orb of Fate,
PYEC, Demonbane, Fire Brand, lots of spellbooks. Most of my final armor
was picked out of bones piles, including the SDSM that I had even
before the Quest that really made the game for me.

I killed the minetown priest, after polymorphing her into a newt -- she
didn't get better -- but Ptah still got angry. But I survived that one
and converted the altar. I guess I should have converted the altar
after polymorphing her but before killing her. There was a coaligned
temple on DL12 I think. The poor priest there was probably carrying
150k zorkmids around by the time he was done, but it only got me down
to a naked AC of 5. The armor got me down to -48 at one point and I
ended with -42.

One of the bones levels got me somebody else's pet archon. I charmed
him and named him Archie. He made the castle a breeze; but a nasty
purple worm swallowed him on the VS level.

I wielded a +6 Magicbane almost the whole game, switching to +7
Demonbane a few times to kill some demons quickly. I lost Fire Brand
and whole bunch of good stuff by putting a bag of holding in another
one. Stupid! I never do that ... but there was still enough stuff in my
chest stash on DL6 that I was OK.

With the Ethiopian Eye to keep my Pw recharging and half damage magic
attacks, and the Orb of Fate to keep my Hp recharging and half damage
physical attacks, and +6 Magicbane to ward of curses ... how could I
lose?

Mind flayers hit me once or twice and made me forget things, but I kept
the identify spell and hardly noticed. A bones pile gave me four magic
markers, only one empty and all rechargable! So I wrote myself a book
of magic mapping to get through Gehennom; c?oGenocide to summon wraiths
on DL6 to get me up to XL30, and to summon nurses to increase my HP
over 300.

I forgot to blind myself before climbing to Medusa, but she took a look
at my SDSM and obligingly stoned herself before I saw her. Yay.

I created some unholy water by the infrequently-mentioned
cursed-confused-?oRemoveCurse technique, and used it to make
c?oGoldDetection. And I kept one uc?ofGoldDetecton and two !oConfusion
for the Fire plane.

I could go on and on, describing how spoiled I am ... but why bother.

I did the the ritual, descended to Moloch's sanctum. Jubilex was
hanging out there for some reason ... maybe because his level had been
a bones level, and the guy killed him there before dying of illness.
(That was an especially rich bones level.) I got the Amulet, climbed
out of Gehennom and the dungeon (Rodney showed up only twice, and the
Mysterious Force only four times), and made ready to leave the dungeon
.. and then I realized I only had four holy water left. Gulp ... but
it would have to be ok, there was no more time. I took my favorite
spellbooks along (I had been keeping all of my spellbooks in a
designated bag of holding on DL6, and level teleporting back whenever
necessary, but now I took my favorites and put them in my main bag of
holding). Made sure I still had the Amulet named REAL ONE, took an
assortment of wands of digging, death and teleportation, and climbed.

The Planes were a cakewalk. The Astral Plane was worrisome but not
hard either. I went to the right and my first altar was the correct
one. Famine tried to come near but my wands of teleportation and my
spell of teleport away kept him away.

So, barkeep, I'll have an ambrosia margarita, please, with salt on the
rim. And can you get that astral band of valkyries to play some Jimmy
Buffett?

(And everybody pray for me that I still have enough time to get my
homework done, it's due tonight at midnight.)

Ross, neutral male human Wizard

@ x

Ross the Mage St:18/** Dx:21 Co:17 In:23 Wi:23 Ch:17
Neutral
Astral Plane $:0 HP:307(379) Pw:133(437) AC:-42 Xp:30/100154165
T:56059 Blind

Your inventory
Amulets
w - the blessed Eye of the Aethiopica
J - an uncursed amulet of magical breathing
Weapons
a - the blessed rustproof +6 Magicbane (weapon in hand)
Armor
A - a blessed +7 Hawaiian shirt (being worn)
B - a blessed +7 silver dragon scale mail (being worn)
C - a blessed fireproof +5 cloak of displacement (being worn)
D - a blessed fireproof +6 pair of speed boots <=== oh wow, forgot
to put these back on
E - a blessed +5 helm of brilliance (being worn)
F - a blessed fireproof +5 pair of gauntlets of dexterity (being
worn)
G - a blessed burnt +5 small shield (being worn)
K - an uncursed +0 pair of water walking boots (being worn)
Potions
n - 2 potions of holy water
Rings
f - an uncursed ring of levitation
p - an uncursed ring of slow digestion (on right hand)
Wands
k - a wand of teleportation (0:0)
r - a wand of death (1:3)
H - a wand of teleportation (0:0)
I - a wand of teleportation (0:0)
Tools
l - a blessed +0 unicorn horn
s - an uncursed lock pick
z - an uncursed sack named !! cancellation wands !!
O - the blessed Orb of Fate (0:4)
T - an uncursed magic whistle
Z - a blessed greased bag of holding
Gems
i - 3 blessed luckstones

Contents of the sack named !! cancellation wands !!:
a wand of wishing (1:2)
a wand of cancellation (0:3)
a cursed wand of cancellation (0:0)
an uncursed magic lamp <=== another thing I forgot to be using at the
end; I could have used the light

Contents of the bag of holding:
an uncursed amulet of reflection
a blessed amulet versus poison
the blessed rustproof +6 Demonbane
7 blessed +6 elven daggers <=== never even threw them from the
Castle on down
a +1 silver dagger
a blessed fireproof +6 cornuthaum
a blessed +5 pair of levitation boots
6 uncursed lizard corpses
11 uncursed scrolls of teleportation
4 blessed scrolls of charging
2 blessed scrolls of remove curse
a blessed spellbook of force bolt
an uncursed spellbook of haste self
an uncursed spellbook of protection
an uncursed spellbook of detect monsters
an uncursed spellbook of detect treasure
an uncursed spellbook of finger of death
an uncursed spellbook of fireball
an uncursed spellbook of dig
an uncursed potion of confusion
4 uncursed potions of object detection
an uncursed potion of extra healing
an uncursed ring of regeneration
an uncursed ring of conflict
a wand of digging (0:8)
a blessed wand of enlightenment (0:10)
an uncursed magic whistle
an uncursed oilskin sack
a +0 pick-axe
an uncursed stethoscope
an uncursed jade stone
3 uncursed aquamarine stones
an uncursed jasper stone

The oilskin sack is empty.

Final attributes
You were the Envoy of Balance
You were piously aligned
Your alignment was 290
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 were blinded
You saw invisible
You were telepathic
You were warned
You were displaced
You were stealthy
You could teleport
You had teleport control
You could walk on water
You had slower digestion
You were protected
You were fast
You had reflection
You were extremely lucky (12)
You had extra luck
Good luck did not time out for you
You survived after being killed thrice

Spells known in the end
Name Level Category Fail
a - force bolt 1* attack 0%
b - magic missile 2 attack 0%
c - drain life 2 attack 0%
d - detect monsters 1 divination 0%
e - detect treasure 4* divination 0%
f - protection 1 clerical 0%
g - identify 3 divination 0%
h - haste self 3 escape 0%
i - detect food 2* divination 0%
j - wizard lock 2* matter 0%
k - cancellation 7* matter 0%
l - light 1* divination 0%
m - dig 5 matter 0%
n - slow monster 2* enchantment 0%
o - finger of death 7 attack 0%
p - knock 1* matter 0%
q - fireball 4 attack 0%
r - detect unseen 3* divination 0%
s - clairvoyance 3* divination 0%
t - charm monster 3 enchantment 0%
u - extra healing 3 healing 0%
v - cone of cold 4* attack 0%
w - remove curse 3* clerical 0%
x - sleep 1* enchantment 0%
y - healing 1* healing 0%
z - invisibility 4* escape 0%
A - stone to flesh 3* healing 0%
B - magic mapping 5 divination 0%
C - create monster 2 clerical 0%
D - teleport away 6 escape 0%

Vanquished creatures
Asmodeus
Orcus
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (5 times)
3 arch-liches
a high priest (4 created)
6 mastodons (9 created)
Medusa
6 krakens (17 created)
an Archon (2 created)
3 iron golems (5 created)
5 master liches
6 storm giants (11 created)
3 glass golems (4 created)
a balrog (3 created)
6 purple worms (9 created)
a gray dragon (3 created)
a silver dragon (5 created)
5 red dragons (11 created)
5 white dragons
3 orange dragons (4 created)
6 black dragons (8 created)
4 blue dragons (5 created)
a green dragon (4 created)
3 yellow dragons (7 created)
18 minotaurs (24 created)
3 jabberwocks (5 created)
The Dark One
4 baluchitheria (6 created)
2 demiliches (7 created)
Vlad the Impaler
3 master mind flayers (9 created)
10 Olog-hai (8 created)
a Nazgul (2 created)
3 pit fiends (12 created)
2 sandestins (4 created)
2 hell hounds (9 created)
4 titanotheres (8 created)
a trapper (6 created)
6 disenchanters (11 created)
23 vampire lords (27 created)
4 skeletons (5 created)
14 aligned priests (42 created)
a captain (5 created)
6 shades
8 liches (12 created)
a water troll (2 created)
3 clay golems (5 created)
11 nurses (20 created)
8 ice devils (12 created)
3 nalfeshnees (5 created)
5 lurkers above (11 created)
3 Aleaxes
10 frost giants
3 ettins (7 created)
3 golden nagas
9 black puddings (7 created)
28 vampires (39 created)
12 lieutenants
45 ghosts (49 created)
a knight (0 created)
3 queen bees
3 winged gargoyles (6 created)
2 mind flayers (4 created)
7 giant mimics (13 created)
2 zruties (8 created)
7 ogre kings (12 created)
3 ice trolls (2 created)
18 rock trolls (20 created)
6 umber hulks (12 created)
5 flesh golems (6 created)
5 Elvenkings
4 doppelgangers
2 hezrous (9 created)
11 bone devils (15 created)
10 large mimics
2 wumpuses (3 created)
2 fire vortices (9 created)
2 baby long worms (1 created)
a baby purple worm
7 long worms (9 created)
12 stalkers (21 created)
10 air elementals (21 created)
4 fire elementals (29 created)
3 earth elementals (30 created)
5 water elementals (28 created)
17 hill giants (20 created)
2 giant mummies (3 created)
a black naga
16 xorns (20 created)
19 giant zombies (21 created)
7 elf-lords (11 created)
14 sergeants (20 created)
9 barbed devils (16 created)
4 salamanders (13 created)
12 wargs (13 created)
5 winter wolves
20 hell hound pups
16 small mimics (26 created)
5 glass piercers (6 created)
5 warhorses (8 created)
6 steam vortices (11 created)
12 xans (17 created)
8 ettin mummies
6 ogre lords (7 created)
13 quantum mechanics (15 created)
21 trolls (12 created)
4 wood golems
3 erinyes
6 mariliths (7 created)
a djinni (5 created)
3 sharks (8 created)
5 gelatinous cubes (9 created)
5 pyrolisks
5 large dogs
4 freezing spheres
8 flaming spheres (10 created)
4 shocking spheres (8 created)
6 large cats (8 created)
4 tigers (9 created)
6 gargoyles (8 created)
2 dwarf kings (3 created)
17 tengu
9 ochre jellies (16 created)
9 leocrottas (14 created)
7 energy vortices (10 created)
4 mountain centaurs (5 created)
5 stone giants (10 created)
5 elf mummies
7 human mummies (9 created)
6 red nagas (10 created)
6 green slimes (8 created)
5 pit vipers (12 created)
3 pythons (5 created)
3 cobras (9 created)
78 wraiths (85 created)
5 carnivorous apes (9 created)
20 ettin zombies (26 created)
3 leather golems (4 created)
8 Grey-elves (14 created)
57 soldiers (58 created)
8 horned devils
7 succubi (10 created)
8 incubi (11 created)
10 chameleons
2 crocodiles (3 created)
10 giant beetles (12 created)
4 quivering blobs (9 created)
16 cockatrices (20 created)
12 wolves
10 winter wolf cubs (13 created)
4 lynxes (5 created)
5 panthers (6 created)
12 gremlins (18 created)
a spotted jelly (3 created)
37 leprechauns (40 created)
an orc-captain (3 created)
8 iron piercers (11 created)
6 mumakil
11 giant spiders (13 created)
5 scorpions (12 created)
9 horses (13 created)
4 ice vortices
4 black lights (5 created)
62 vampire bats (70 created)
a forest centaur
6 gnome kings (7 created)
7 orc mummies
6 dwarf mummies (8 created)
11 ogres (13 created)
6 brown puddings (3 created)
15 rust monsters
17 owlbears (20 created)
10 yetis (13 created)
a gold golem (2 created)
a werewolf
6 Green-elves (9 created)
2 piranhas (6 created)
10 giant eels (24 created)
13 lizards (17 created)
11 chickatrices (14 created)
4 dogs
9 dingos (7 created)
5 housecats (6 created)
6 jaguars (7 created)
6 dwarf lords
6 blue jellies (8 created)
7 white unicorns (9 created)
3 black unicorns (5 created)
4 dust vortices (8 created)
14 ravens (18 created)
6 plains centaurs (8 created)
7 gnome mummies (9 created)
3 snakes (4 created)
8 apes (9 created)
34 human zombies
4 rope golems (5 created)
29 Woodland-elves
16 soldier ants (21 created)
7 fire ants (9 created)
10 bugbears
4 imps (6 created)
14 lemures (13 created)
11 quasits (14 created)
3 wood nymphs (6 created)
8 water nymphs (10 created)
4 mountain nymphs (7 created)
14 Mordor orcs
13 Uruk-hai (17 created)
4 orc shamans
4 rock piercers (7 created)
3 rock moles (4 created)
7 ponies (6 created)
10 fog clouds (14 created)
11 yellow lights (16 created)
4 shriekers
5 violet fungi (4 created)
26 gnome lords (29 created)
5 gnomish wizards (6 created)
5 kobold mummies (6 created)
2 red naga hatchlings
a black naga hatchling
2 golden naga hatchlings
a guardian naga hatchling
5 gray oozes (8 created)
4 barrow wights (7 created)
28 elf zombies (27 created)
10 ghouls
5 paper golems
3 jellyfish (9 created)
4 baby crocodiles
19 giant ants (20 created)
11 floating eyes (15 created)
12 kittens (14 created)
22 dwarves
12 homunculi
2 kobold lords
6 kobold shamans
46 hill orcs
17 rothes (20 created)
5 centipedes
13 giant bats
a monkey
29 orc zombies
17 dwarf zombies (18 created)
a wererat
2 werejackals
14 iguanas (13 created)
63 killer bees (64 created)
19 acid blobs (21 created)
3 coyotes
7 gas spores
2 hobbits
12 manes
4 large kobolds
6 hobgoblins
9 giant rats (13 created)
13 cave spiders (12 created)
3 brown molds (5 created)
6 yellow molds (10 created)
2 green molds (3 created)
a red mold
55 gnomes (56 created)
11 garter snakes (16 created)
18 gnome zombies
17 geckos
21 jackals
3 foxes
a kobold
3 goblins (2 created)
10 sewer rats
6 grid bugs
8 bats
6 lichens (7 created)
21 kobold zombies
15 newts (16 created)
2379 creatures vanquished.

Genocided or extinct species:
erinyes (extinct)
1 species extinct.

Voluntary challenges
You never genocided any monsters
You polymorphed 46 items <== trying to get a scroll of charging
after wasting my last one by mistake.
You never changed form
You used 4 wishes <== a magic marker, a scroll of charging, not sure
what else. No armor, that was all from bones
You did not wish for any artifacts

Your skills at the end
Fighting Skills
bare handed combat [Basic]
Weapon Skills
dagger [Expert]
long sword [Basic]
quarterstaff [Basic]
Spellcasting Skills
attack spells [Expert]
divination spells [Expert]
enchantment spells [Skilled]
clerical spells [Basic]
escape spells [Skilled]
matter spells [Expert]

Goodbye Ross the Demigod...
You went to your reward with 2919560 points,
Magicbane (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
The Eye of the Aethiopica (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
The Orb of Fate (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
Demonbane (worth 2500 zorkmids and 6250 points)
3 aquamarine stones (worth 4500 zorkmids),
1 jasper stone (worth 500 zorkmids),
1 jade stone (worth 300 zorkmids), <=== there were hundreds of
gems in my stash, but I didn't bother
1 amulet versus poison (worth 150 zorkmids),
1 amulet of reflection (worth 150 zorkmids),
1 amulet of magical breathing (worth 150 zorkmids),
and 0 pieces of gold, after 56059 moves.
Killer: ascended <=== the dump patch inserts this line. Shouldn't say
"Killer", somebody should change it.
You were level 30 with a maximum of 379 hit points when you ascended.

You made the top ten list!

No Points Name
Hp [max]
1 2919560 Ross-Wiz-Hum-Mal-Neu ascended to demigod-hood.
307 [379]
2 2093192 Ross-Val-Hum-Fem-Neu died in The Dungeons of Doom on
level 22 [max 50]. Killed by the Wizard of Yendor.
- [198] <== this was definitely one of the bones levels I hit.
3 2034418 Ross-Wiz-Hum-Fem-Neu died on the Plane of Fire.
Dissolved in molten lava (with the Amulet) {112548}.
309 [309]
4 1155024 Ross-Val-Hum-Fem-Neu turned to stone in Gehennom on
level 31. Petrified by a chickatrice corpse.
230 [231]
5 469255 Ross-Wiz-Hum-Mal-Neu died in The Dungeons of Doom on
level 24. Killed by a gremlin {48134}.
- [168]
6 165846 Ross-Val-Hum-Mal-Neu choked on his food in The
Dungeons of Doom on level 14. Choked on a stone
giant corpse.
100 [100]
7 17893 Ross-Mon-Hum-Fem-Neu died in The Gnomish Mines on
level 10. Killed by a forest centaur {4907}.
- [75]
8 11231 Ross-Cav-Hum-Mal-Neu died in The Dungeons of Doom on
level 9. Killed by a mumak {5352}.
- [82]
9 258 Ross-Mon-Hum-Fem-Neu died in The Dungeons of Doom on
level 2. Killed by a system shock {487}.
- [14]
10 228 Ross-Cav-Hum-Mal-Neu died in The Dungeons of Doom on
level 3. Killed by a small mimic {670}.
- [24]
11 151 Ross-Cav-Hum-Mal-Neu died in The Dungeons of Doom on
level 2. Killed by a water elemental {227}.
- [16]
12 55 Ross-Mon-Hum-Fem-Neu escaped the dungeon [max level
1].
14 [14]

rpresser

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May 27, 2006, 4:34:40 PM5/27/06

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rpresser wrote:
> Can't believe I actually made it.
>

I should mention that I played my first game of nethack before 3.0 came
out ... around 1987 or 1988, I guess. (I remember being very annoyed
by doors at first.)

I cut my teeth and got my hjkl fingers on a version of rogue for CP/M.
So, 18 years... long time.

John H.

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May 27, 2006, 7:44:21 PM5/27/06

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rpresser wrote:
> Can't believe I actually made it.

Congratulations!

> I didn't keep many notes, so this won't be much of a story. I started
> with a spellbook of drain life, and found a spellbook of identify
> early. There were altars aplenty; I got Magicbane fairly soon after
> surviving on the strength of thrown daggers. I hit a LOT of bones
> levels, including one of my own and two of somebody named Duane or
> something like that, and they rewarded me aplenty. The Orb of Fate,
> PYEC, Demonbane, Fire Brand, lots of spellbooks. Most of my final armor
> was picked out of bones piles, including the SDSM that I had even
> before the Quest that really made the game for me.

Wow, sounds like your way was paved before you, heh.

> One of the bones levels got me somebody else's pet archon. I charmed
> him and named him Archie. He made the castle a breeze; but a nasty
> purple worm swallowed him on the VS level.

Ah, way to change a potential peril into an advantage!

> Mind flayers hit me once or twice and made me forget things, but I kept
> the identify spell and hardly noticed. A bones pile gave me four magic
> markers, only one empty and all rechargable!

Since mind flayers start causing amnesia, they've become a prime
genocide target for me. Spellcasters have the most to fear since they
don't like metal helmets.

> So I wrote myself a book
> of magic mapping to get through Gehennom; c?oGenocide to summon wraiths
> on DL6 to get me up to XL30, and to summon nurses to increase my HP
> over 300.

Getting to Level 30 isn't *that* important, although you were playing
the class it's arguably most important for.

> I forgot to blind myself before climbing to Medusa, but she took a look
> at my SDSM and obligingly stoned herself before I saw her. Yay.

Ooh, close call. Playing Nethack well is largely a matter of 1.
reading the spoilers, and 2. remembering them! #2 is considerably more
difficult than #1.

> I created some unholy water by the infrequently-mentioned
> cursed-confused-?oRemoveCurse technique, and used it to make
> c?oGoldDetection. And I kept one uc?ofGoldDetecton and two !oConfusion
> for the Fire plane.

The Plane of Fire's not so bad really -- it's Air that I hate finding
the portal on. Don't forget that wearing or wielding the Amulet can
help you track down the portal in a pinch.

> I could go on and on, describing how spoiled I am ... but why bother.

Well, up to you. Good luck with the homework!

- John H.