YAAP Bestar-Bar-Hum-Fem-Cha (MR/wish less)
Christian Bressler
after some (middly subtile) hints in RGRN I tried one MR free character.
Here is the story of Bestar the chaotic human barbarian with various
sexes, but first some precautious thoughts.
So what to expect without MR?
The first few dungeon levels obviously nothing unusual. But below DL8
you have to deal with polytraps thus there is the need of either =oPC
or "oUC or a nice collection of spare body armor.
The next danger comes from tele especially leveltele traps. So TC is
recommended. (And a whole lot of searching before ;-)
Later (if you destroyed/used the polytraps) the problem of magic using
monsters (Golden Naga, * Lich, Titan, * Priest, Angel, Archon) arises.
There is destroy armor, touch of death and the devastating magic
attacks of A's and Priests.
You can't prevent destroy armor, but you can maintain a distance
between the aggressor and you. The same goes for the other magic
attacks besides the touch of death. So /oT and /oDig are a must.
But because some of your armor will get destroyed you need spare parts
and don't waste ?oEA on consumption material.
The touch of death is a special case, since it's an instant killer you
need good means against it.
There is amongst others wear an "oLS and come with an instakill weapon
or walk around undead.
Now what character to choose?
First the Quest Artifact should not provide MR (BHPRaRoSV)and the
character should come with builtin firepower (BSV).
Samurais are lawful, Valks (LN) have a too heavy quest artifact so I
chose a chaotic barbarian.
Enough with the intro.
Bestar the female chaotic human barbarian started with a battle axe
and an oil lamp, she left Idefix at DLvl1 and smote her way down.
At DLvl2 she found a 3x5 potion-shop (three 300), but without
money ...
At DLvl3 there was a neutral altar and a 2x7 jewelry with some 200er
and some 300 rings and an amulet, but without money ...
And she also found a trapdoor and somehow herself at DLvl6 next to
the upstairs. She went up and arrived in sokoban.
After pushing some boulders she put her hands on a (BoH. One of the
rings in sokoban had a price of 300, later Bestar learned it was a
=oPC.
Now she looked for the gnomish mines and visited the town. There was a
coaligned altar, and all shops including a book-shop.
But Izchak only got 2 candles.
She priceIDed her possessions and used the near levels to collect some
armor and sacrifice-fodder.
She recveived Cleaver and had collected some +3 elvish mithril,
+3 dwarvish coat, +2 dwarvish helm and +2 iron shoes and bought 4AC.
Yet she reached for the Luckstone and arrived at the traditional
minesend. Soon she was in possession of a gray stone.
But why was she stressed, and why won't the stone leave her?
Lucky Bestar had one scroll priced 80 and guess what happend?
She called the uncursed stone load and left it alone, pheew.
Some time later she got another gray stone and realized the nature of
her quest artifact, doh.
So what, she went on and found at DLvl7 in the DoD a wand of
enlightenment. Here she identified her rings and amulet.
Main findings were a =oPC and a =oFA, the amulet was a "oPR.
Bestar now wore the =oPC and wandered around as male, female,
vampire lord or arch lich, depending on poly-traps.
She ignored the faint telepathic call and descended further,
some throne rooms presented some dragon, but only a orange left scales
thus she wore orange for a while.
But she gained all resistances that way, including disintegration.
Bestar collected various items, IDed them and made some holy water.
She bypassed a golden naga, some liches and he reached medusa. The version
without titan. He dug down, found a maze and searched the up-stairs.
Finally she went up blindfolded and killed medusa. Perseus presented
her a polished shield, levitation boots and an empty sack. Since she
lacked reflection but her weapon prevented using a shield she
stashed it away.
At the castle she saw a master lich, next to a silver, a black, a red
and a blue dragon. She poly'ed into a vampire lord and fought the
bugger, but lost some shoes.
The lich summoned nasties including a silver and a blue dragon.
There went the =oPC but the silver dragon and his/her silver fellow
inside both left scales.
She replaced her orange with silver enterd the castle and taught the
guard a lesson both fighting and culture (including music).
She enterd the armory piled up the remains and polypiled somewhat.
Now she possessed 5 Shirts, 2 [BoS, 2 [BoWW, 2 [BoJ, a [HoT, 2 [GoP,
some cloak (elven, oilskin etc.) a magic marker (the only one 0:33)
...
and exactly six candles.
Around this time she ate unwisely a tin of housecat gaining aggravate
monster and a tengu aquiring only teleportitis without TC.
Before entering the VotD she genocided L's (without "oLS, =oPC and MR
off course, the risk was too high.)
She entered the VotD, gained some levels there and found precious
treasures in chests and boxes here and there, including a =oPC.
Now life went easy, she bought some AC, explored gehennom, he paid
major demons off, she found the VS and marked it with light.
Exploring gehennom with teleportitis but without TC is fun ;-)
After locating the VS he used a leveltele-trap and ended up one level
below orcus. While standig on the upstairs he polyed into a vampire
lord and soon faced the demon lord. Who wasn't that pleased, I guess
he misliked Bestars manners (hit, quaff, hit, ...).
Orcus left his wand at (0:1).
Now Bestar had a hard time in finding Vlads tower, but finally she
located Vlads stairs near the downstairs at DLvl40.
(Mental note, next time don't went down immediately but look around a
bit.)
She found the usual stuff in here and wore the "oLS. The chests at the
top of the tower held some surprises including a =oL, a =oTC, a =oSD.
And the main gift of the (t)rusty RNG. The chest from Vlad himself
held the last needed candle, thank you very much.
With TC she visited her quest, which equipped her with some extra "oLS
and an "oUC. Here she found her first ?oEA. Yes she wore only scales
all the time. Now she wore scale mail. Her AC was alldays at -6 that
changed to -12.
He (the vampire lord) visited Thoth Amon and got some bell and a
stone. But lost a oilskin cloak and speed boots. The cloak crumbled to
dust just before Thoth fell. Where are the spare parts, ahh there.
Now Bestar planned to visit Rodney, he entered his tower, cleaned the
place and stood in front of a wall surrunded by moat inside the WoY.
Ok now it's up for the final run.
Bestar enchanted a Shirt and the scale mail, polymorphed into a
vampire lord, drank some b!oFH, wore the "oUC and opend the wall.
Rodney was soon toast, now Bestar wore a new helmet and levelteled to
the VS rushed into the sanctum limited the number of undead there
froze some priest grabbed the "AoY (the /oD(0:1) stayed unused) and
hurried to the surface. Obviously that fast, the Wizard had no time to
reappear.
After a last glance at her stuff she climbed the last stairs, and
emptied the /WoD(0:1).
She located the stairs by confused reading ?oGD. She rushed to the
portals and had a hard time at Air, with almost 100HP an Air-elemental
is no fun. But with /WoSl, /WoP and /WoT and two b!oFH all went well.
Fire and water presented no problem, so Bestar arrived at the Astral
Plane.
Here she replaced her "oUC with a "oLS. Since she appeared at the left
and famine guarded the left high altar she recharged her /WoD(1:5)
and headed left.
Astrals with aggravate monster but without MR and with a AC:-19 is a
nice experience.
Bestar choped her way through the crowd, teled allmost all Angels
away, killed famine with the wand and reached a peaceful holy place.
She blew a whistle and offered the "AoY
The voice of Set rings out: "Congratulations, mortal!"
"In return for thy service, I grant thee the gift of Immortality!"
You ascend to the status of Denigoddess...
(The first altar correct aligned felt too easy, but ...)
Now it's time for the unavoidable boring detailed list:
Bestar the Reaver St:25 Dx:18 Co:18 In:13 Wi:16 Ch:16 Chaotic S:1274485
Astral Plane $:0 HP:346(427) Pw:78(78) AC:-19 Xp:19/2976665 T:36279 Satiated
(my complete notes)
2 mines 6/9
5 oracle
6 sokoban (BoH
13 bigroom
15 Quest
27 Castle
aabbb 0 0
ccddd 3 0
ccdef 3 1
ccdeg 3 2
ccged 2 3
ccdge 5 0
29 VotD -> 38-43 Vlad
30 Asmodeus
33 Juiblex
36 Baalzebub
40 Vlad dole
41 wiz1
42 wiz2
43 wiz3
44 Orcus
45 fakewiz
47 wiz tele
48c VS
Currently known spells
Name Level Category Fail
a - sleep 1* enchantment 100%
b - dig 5* matter 100%
c - protection 1* clerical 100%
d - create monster 2 clerical 100%
e - cause fear 3 enchantment 100%
f - detect unseen 3 divination 100%
g - detect food 2 divination 100%
h - create familiar 6 clerical 100%
i - light 1 divination 100%
j - invisibility 4 escape 100%
k - force bolt 1 attack 100%
l - teleport away 6 escape 100%
DYWYPI?
Amulets
Y - an uncursed amulet of life saving (being worn)
Weapons
a - the blessed rustproof +7 Cleaver (weapon in hands)
Armor
A - an uncursed +4 Hawaiian shirt (being worn)
B - a blessed +5 silver dragon scale mail (being worn)
C - an uncursed very burnt +0 oilskin cloak (being worn)
D - an uncursed thoroughly burnt +0 pair of speed boots (being worn)
E - a blessed +0 pair of gauntlets of power (being worn)
G - an uncursed greased very rusty very corroded +1 helm of telepathy (being worn)
Comestibles
i - an uncursed lizard corpse
r - an uncursed clove of garlic
Rings
h - an uncursed ring of slow digestion
m - a blessed +2 ring of increase damage
H - an uncursed ring of regeneration
M - a cursed ring of conflict
N - a cursed ring of polymorph control (on right hand)
Q - an uncursed ring of free action (on left hand)
Wands
b - a cursed wand of cancellation (0:5)
c - a wand of secret door detection (0:10)
e - a wand of striking (0:3)
g - a wand of magic missile (0:3)
j - a wand of cold (0:1)
n - a wand of teleportation named leer (0:0)
o - a wand of death (1:4)
t - a wand of teleportation (0:0)
u - a wand of polymorph (0:3)
y - a blessed wand of cancellation (0:6)
F - a wand of digging (0:4)
J - a wand of teleportation (0:3)
K - a wand of cancellation (0:6)
P - a cursed wand of sleep (0:5)
R - a wand of cold (0:8)
Tools
d - a blessed +0 unicorn horn
f - an uncursed blindfold
l - a cursed magic lamp (lit)
q - a blessed bag of holding
s - an uncursed skeleton key
w - an uncursed stethoscope
x - an uncursed magic whistle
T - an uncursed towel
Gems
Z - the blessed Heart of Ahriman
Contents of the bag of holding:
10 cursed scrolls of teleportation
2 blessed scrolls of earth
2 blessed scrolls of enchant weapon
2 uncursed cloves of garlic
2 uncursed diluted potions of extra healing
2 uncursed lizard corpses
2 uncursed potions of paralysis
2 uncursed scrolls of fire
2 uncursed scrolls of genocide
2 uncursed scrolls of stinking cloud
20 uncursed scrolls of blank paper
3 cursed scrolls of create monster
3 potions of unholy water
3 uncursed scrolls of earth
4 blessed scrolls of remove curse
4 uncursed carrots
4 uncursed food rations
5 uncursed scrolls of create monster
8 potions of holy water
a +0 unicorn horn
a blessed +1 pair of leather gloves
a blessed +1 ring of protection
a blessed luckstone
a blessed scroll of fire
a blessed scroll of genocide
a blessed touchstone
a can of grease (0:22) (0:25)
a cursed scroll of gold detection
a tinning kit (0:10)
a wand of cold (0:6)
a wand of create monster (0:10) (0:13)
a blessed wand of digging (0:6) (0:1) (0:3) (0:5) (0:6) (0:6) (0:7)
a wand of enlightenment (0:7)
a wand of fire (0:4) (0:5)
a wand of light (0:13)
a wand of lightning (0:3)
a wand of magic missile (0:1) (0:1) (0:7) (0:8)
a wand of make invisible (0:4)
a wand of opening (0:5)
a wand of polymorph (0:1)
a wand of probing (0:5)
a wand of sleep (0:3)
a wand of slow monster (0:4)
a blessed wand of striking (0:6) (0:4) (0:8)
a wand of teleportation (0:3) (0:4) (0:7)
a wand of undead turning (0:4) (0:5) (0:6) (0:8)
a wand of wishing (0:1) // souvenir
an uncursed +0 T-shirt
an uncursed +0 cloak of magic resistance // unused souvenir
an uncursed +0 mummy wrapping
an uncursed +0 pair of levitation boots
an uncursed +0 pair of water walking boots
an uncursed -1 ring of gain constitution
2 uncursed amulets of life saving
an uncursed amulet of unchanging
an uncursed blindfold
an uncursed burnt +0 pair of speed boots
an uncursed diluted potion of gain level
an uncursed magic whistle
an uncursed potion of gain energy
an uncursed potion of gain level
an uncursed potion of oil
an uncursed ring of free action
an uncursed ring of levitation
an uncursed ring of polymorph
an uncursed ring of protection from shape changers
an uncursed ring of shock resistance
an uncursed ring of stealth
an uncursed ring of teleport control
an uncursed rotted +0 robe
an uncursed scroll of gold detection
an uncursed scroll of taming
an uncursed skeleton key
an uncursed thoroughly burnt +0 pair of jumping boots
an uncursed thoroughly burnt +3 dwarvish cloak
an uncursed tin of stone giant meat
an uncursed tin opener
an uncursed towel
an uncursed wooden harp
...
The oilskin sack is empty.
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 saw invisible.
You were telepathic.
You were invisible to others.
You were stealthy.
You aggravated monsters. // fine
You could teleport.
You were protected.
You had polymorph control.
You were very fast.
You had reflection.
You had free action.
Your life would have been saved.
You were very lucky.
You had extra luck.
Good luck did not time out for you.
You survived. // yikes
Vanquished creatures:
Orcus
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (twice)
Famine
a high priest
4 mastodons
Medusa
8 krakens
an iron golem
2 master liches // strange, can't recall the second
...
Thoth Amon
5 purple worms
2 gray dragons // no scales
4 silver dragons // two scales
3 red dragons // one scale
4 white dragons // one scale
an orange dragon // one scale
4 black dragons // one scale some tins ;-)
4 blue dragons // dito
a green dragon // no scales
2 yellow dragons // one scale
...
2 demiliches
Vlad the Impaler
a stone golem
2 master mind flayers
4 Olog-hai
3 Nazguls
...
2 liches
...
a golden naga
...
2 mind flayers
...
6 air elementals // all but two in the main dungeon
a fire elemental
2 earth elementals
4 water elementals
...
2 tengu // one corpse
...
16 cockatrices // for hard teeth bite these ;-)
...
11 chickatrices // or ...
...
a white unicorn
a gray unicorn
...
3 violet fungi // unused alternate avoid touch of death strategy
...
2 paper golems // never ment to write much, anyway
...
a sewer rat // lowest single kill
...
1587 creatures vanquished.
Genocided species:
liches, demiliches, master liches, arch-liches
4 species genocided.
Voluntary challenges:
You genocided 4 types of monsters.
You used no wishes.
Goodbye Bestar the Demigoddess...
You and the guardian Angel of Set
went to your reward with 2593769 points,
Cleaver (worth 1500 zorkmids and 3750 points)
The Heart of Ahriman (worth 2500 zorkmids and 6250 points)
4 rubies (worth 14000 zorkmids),
2 black opals (worth 5000 zorkmids),
1 dilithium crystal (worth 4500 zorkmids),
1 sapphire (worth 3000 zorkmids),
1 turquoise stone (worth 2000 zorkmids),
1 citrine stone (worth 1500 zorkmids),
1 amber stone (worth 1000 zorkmids),
1 topaz stone (worth 900 zorkmids),
1 garnet stone (worth 700 zorkmids),
1 amethyst stone (worth 600 zorkmids),
1 jasper stone (worth 500 zorkmids),
1 obsidian stone (worth 200 zorkmids),
1 agate stone (worth 200 zorkmids),
3 amulets of life saving (worth 450 zorkmids),
1 amulet of unchanging (worth 150 zorkmids),
and 5759 pieces of gold, after 36279 moves.
You were level 19 with a maximum of 427 hit points when you ascended.
You made the top ten list!
No Points Name Hp [max]
1 3421304 Novol-Kni-Hum-Fem-Law ascended to demigoddess-hood. 346 [346]
2 3408738 Jplay-Cav-Hum-Fem-Neu ascended to demigoddess-hood. 325 [325]
3 3172836 Hochda-Val-Hum-Fem-Law ascended to demigoddess-hood. 375 [375]
4 2808204 Weichling-Wiz-Elf-Fem-Cha ascended to
demigoddess-hood. 260 [306]
5 2593769 Bestar-Bar-Hum-Fem-Cha ascended to demigoddess-hood. 346 [427]
6 2480578 Oplias-Ran-Elf-Fem-Cha ascended to demigoddess-hood. 96 [219]
7 2161678 Klarc-Arc-Dwa-Fem-Law ascended to demigoddess-hood. 228 [228]
(Only from version 3.4.2)
Marvin
Tars_Tarkas
> Hi,
>
> after some (middly subtile) hints in RGRN I tried one MR free character.
Ah so, I figured you had already made it a long time ago, but was too
lazy to check the archives... Well, congratulations!
[ snip tale of How-It's-Done for advanced nethackers ]
> 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 saw invisible.
> You were telepathic.
> You were invisible to others.
> You were stealthy.
> You aggravated monsters. // fine
> You could teleport.
> You were protected.
> You had polymorph control.
> You were very fast.
> You had reflection.
> You had free action.
> Your life would have been saved.
> You were very lucky.
> You had extra luck.
> Good luck did not time out for you.
> You survived. // yikes
Congrats again (esp. the missing You resisted magic. ;). You make it
sound so easy, though...
--
GP_Spukgestalt, gnomish Healer, killed by an Arch-Lich.
Martin Read
>Christian Bressler <gas...@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
>> The touch of death is a special case, since it's an instant killer you
>> need good means against it.
>
No, because it's a touch attack!
m.
--
\_\/_/| Martin Read - my opinions are my own. share them if you wish.
\ / | a passer by was staring deep into your open skirt as we lay there
\/ | in the dirt as we lay there in the dirt should we make ourselves do
------+ painful things? and do they really hurt? -- Naevus, "Harm"
Dylan O'Donnell
> Christian Bressler <gas...@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
[magic-resistance-lessness]
> > You can't prevent destroy armor, but you can maintain a distance
> > between the aggressor and you. The same goes for the other magic
>
> Most of us would have just genocided N, L and either titans or all H, and
> had some serious trouble with the rest of the list..
Titans are ungenocidable.
--
: Dylan O'Donnell http://www.spod-central.org/~psmith/ :
: "... and in the silence you hear no plaint of flute or roar :
: of gong, but instead the crash of porcelain shattering." :
: -- Yoon Ha Lee, "The Moonlit Tower" :
Christian Bressler
: Christian Bressler wrote:
:> after some (middly subtile) hints in RGRN I tried one MR free character.
: Ah so, I figured you had already made it a long time ago, but was too
: lazy to check the archives... Well, congratulations!
Thanks, I think I did something like that a while ago, but ...
:> Final Attributes:
:> ...
:> You survived. // yikes
: Congrats again (esp. the missing You resisted magic. ;). You make it
: sound so easy, though...
Maybe that's just because it is easy.
: GP_Spukgestalt, gnomish Healer, killed by an Arch-Lich.
Marvin
Christian Bressler
:> after some (middly subtile) hints in RGRN I tried one MR free character.
: Somehow I'm not surprised to see that when somebody actually reports
: ascension without MR, it's YOU.. :-)
: Congratulations!
Thank you.
:> You can't prevent destroy armor, but you can maintain a distance
:> between the aggressor and you. The same goes for the other magic
: Most of us would have just genocided N, L and either titans or all H, and
: had some serious trouble with the rest of the list..
Hmm, genociding L's felt wrong, though.
: Jukka Lahtinen
Marvin
Ian Beckett
> First the Quest Artifact should not provide MR (BHPRaRoSV)and the
I don't see why this matters. You don't need to pick up the quest
artifact to complete the game.
--
Ascended: h,w
Post quest: a,h,R,w
Reached quest: a,b,c,h,k,m,r,R,v,w