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Tele is guaranteed to wake up everything. Haste might not. Ahhh, choices!

Just got shafted from D:7 (still almost unexplored) to D:10. Standing next to a Hound, in range of an Orc Priest, Orc (trident) and in LOS of six (6!) Killer Bees (Yes, they are faster than me). Got a spare life, so not a complete disaster, but still the most dangerous shafting I've experienced. Unl...

The link goes to a MiBe, so I can't comment on the VpEn. I'd recommend posting an actual dump in code tags.

By the way, what happened to the other posts in this thread? How do posts disappear?

And, that's it. Finished the character off after a five month break. Unsurprisingly, it was still very strong when I continued. Stuck with Vehumet in the end. Used Shatter, Glaciate, OoD and LCS to kill anything that foolishly entered my square of sight. Well, except Lom Lobon and Dispater and, oh w...

Just found the Book of Annihilations. It has all the spells Vehumet offers plus Fire Storm. Right now the character has a comfortable (but not perfect) spell set up. Between Freezing Cloud, Bolt of Magma and Iron Shot stuff just dies. For trouble in the distance I've got OoD. Got a book with Haste, ...

It's a bit annoying that Nem can backfire with stuff liks this. My personal pet hate in destructions is degeneration. It does 'helpful' things like turn vault sentinels into ghost moths.

Well, static discharge is obviously the best kind of discharge. Glad I took it. Turned down bolt of draining (got bolt of magma in a book). Might avoid training earth for a little while because the same book as shatter and I don't want to 'waste' my final gift. This character feels extremely strong....

Nothing particularly exiting so far. I didn't take Shock and Freeze. Bad idea? Freeze would've allowed me to train some Ice, to get better spell selection later. Now Vehumet offered Static Discharge. Gr have rElec and SD bypasses AC and can do a lot of damage. Unfortunately Gr have poor Air apt. Tak...

Admittedly, I'm not a Cheixpert. However, it looks like you've done really well! Typically Chei is weakest just after taking him. You managed to get to the point where you've got crazy stats and slouch. The big thing Chei lets you do is casting in heavy armour and still have high EV. You definitely ...

Aaaaand, done! Memorised Ozo's Armour and Spectral Weapon. Asked Rupert kindly for his Great Mace of Holy Wrath. Mostly wore Troll Leather of rC+. Regen is really useful in Pan and Hell, but sources were limited because Faith is life insurance and Zin hates Necromancy. Nearly had an accident with Ni...

Could go mottled rather than steam, as I've got a hide lying around.

So! Still alive and walking. Decided to go with axes, enchanted a battle axe of freezing up to full. Carrying a broad axe of flaming for hydras (the battle axe of flaming misses too often). Bought a ring of protection (+6) and some swappable resists. Went to finish off dungeon, enjoyed getting shaft...

What were you doing with those 400 000 turns on the MuCK? Farming lair or something similar?

I'd pick up one or two points of AC and a bit more fighting.

Then get your end game kill spell going?

Decided to stick with regen armour, grabbed some of the other loot and left the labyrinth. Lair was going fine. Pointlessly trained a bit of stuff for shroud of golubria, which I then didn't really use. Bumped into Rupert on Lair 6. Good news is that he has a great mace of holy wrath, which I want t...

For what it's worth, I've been aware of intentional piety dropping back when the whole thing was a mere idea, I've never witnessed any of it, and I was/am prepared to do something about it should it happen. If you fail to see the difference between spell gifts and single-spell book gifts: your loss...

WildSam wrote:[...]
Ok, may be writings will clarify?
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Very slightly contaminated, bloodless, non-regenerating, repel missiles
(But non-real screenshoots as pictures feel like fraud, shame)

I suppose there's the best reason yet for me to try to come up with a 'proper' name.

To say that this is going well would be an exaggeration. The good news is that assassin is a strong background. The bad news is Fo. Fo has decent stealth aptitude, so in the very early dungeon avoiding stuff is easy. D:2 had Jessica, Sigmund and Robin. Just put down some exclusions and left them (ca...

What made you wait two weeks before continuing the character? Real life or something else? Because you can forget where you're headed with a character after such a break. I only play a few floors every few days. A typical winning game takes me over a month usually. I wasn't in the right frame of mi...

Aaaand dead. Meh. Things were going fairly well. Got a nice set of resists, finished off Spider Nest, got the Shoals rune, did the end of Dungeon. Vaults 1-4 wasn't much of a problem. And then I made a rather annoying error of judgement. Instead of going to Elf, Depths or whereever, I went straight ...

I realised yesterday that the main reason I play extremely slowly is that I obsess (way too much) about my inventory. I find it a real struggle to decide what to take and what to leave. Ever since I lost a Gh in the abyss to stat death, with a pile of RestAb in my stash I have been paranoid. What ca...

Using silence in combination with stair-dancing can prevent the welcome party from attracting any further attention. If it works then the stairs don't get flooded and remain reasonably safe. Not everybody has multiple scrolls or the spell though. Of course then you are also silenced, but since you c...

I stacked a few legendary escape decks already, and removed faith. I went with the Lajatang mostly because it's a bit different from my previous characters. I've never actually gone 2-handed to win I think. Also the aptitude is marginally better and there were no shields available. That's not a huge...

Barring some disaster (or stupidity) this character should be able to win. There was an early floor with a centaur zombies and ogres that was pretty tough, but judicious running away helped. Had an early Yred altar, but skipped it because it seemed redundant for Ne. More HP would be nice. Defences a...

Never trust your own memory I guess.

And done! Game was fairly smooth in the end. Depths:1 had its moments. The Enchantress was at the first staircase in Depths:2, within sight of another upstair. Couldn't do too much about summons though! Memorised Phase Shift and Aura of Abjuration. AoA is a pretty nice defensive summoning spell! It ...

Cleared Vaults:1-4. About to head to Depths. Loot hasn't improved much, except a Wand of Heal Wounds and an MR+ Cloak is now available. Picked up a few more points of various defences and some Evo. Seems pretty solid now. Got access to a wide variety of spells, including almost all (horrible things ...

Hmm. I'll probably keep wiz cursed and walk around with rF+ and rC+. The spell boost from cursed jewellery is nice.

Yeah, there's an rF+ robe and an artifact (WTF) +1 rC+ robe. Nothing with the actual 'resistance'-ego.

Man I play slowly. Let's blame it on Naga speed and lag. Still trucking along though. Got both Lair runes, cleared Dungeon, Orc and Elf. Had a couple of teleport moments in Spider (Emperor Scorpions) and Swamp (can't run from anything), but nothing too dramatic. Also had to teleport from a Hell Sent...

Everything is still fine. Got some more defences: A couple of points of EV, a bit of stealth and some HP. Found a cloak of +Inv which has been nice against hydras. Can now constrict as well. Got Ash to to 6*, used scrying a couple of times to peak into vaults, which is nice. Found a volcano because ...

I know, shields is in fact overtrained for bucklers. I got an actual shield lying around though, and with Ash I probably only have to get shields to ~6-7 to reduce the penalties completely.

That early luck with scrolls and items has translated reasonably well into a decently strong character. Went with Ash after some discussion on IRC. Sacrificed two scrolls and got a great split, getting to fully bound immediately. Reached [***...] only two and a half floors later. Nice! Skill boosts ...

I was considering Sif. It sort of guarantees getting good summoning spells as well. Then I might put a couple more stats into Int and pick up all sorts of useful spells. I have slight misgivings that I currently would rather train non-magic skills. Is that an issue? I have only 1 remove curse scroll...

Thanks for the useful advice. I splatted the first one, but the second one is doing alright. Found a nice robe, a barding and a wiz ring. Got lightning spire on 6%, debating whether to memorise golem or ice beast, but probably ice beast. Currently looking for temple, not sure which god I want. So fa...

Just started a NaSu, and then realised that I'm not sure what to do. So far been slithering around D:1 spitting poison and throwing stones. Book of Callings looks pretty solid. I imagine Ice Beasts and Lightning Spire are strong. Should I bother with Imp and/or Canine Familiars? Is there any tangibl...

That's a great robe, but a heavy xDA is probably the way to go later. Your skill training is extremely lean, which is cool. It can be worth picking up a bit of stealth early. It works reasonably well with robes and not being noticed is pretty good defence. It's probably too late now, you'll wear xDA...

That went reasonably well! As always, I played quite slowly, although not always very carefully... Decided to abandon Fedhas after finding an Imp vault in Depths and a TSO altar in Vaults. One ignores omens at one's peril. Crypt provided a lot of piety, although there were a few hairy moments with C...

There were absolutely loads of ways to save this character, but I just couldn't be bothered anymore. The damage -> eating -> healing -> waiting loop of Vp was just way too tedious. Next time I would definitely choose Makh over Kiku, then maybe none of this would've mattered. The character was reason...

Hello everyone! I'd like to get some opinions on where to take this character. Essentially this is a Ha who uses a +9 scimitar of electrocution, has some reasonably solid defences, a decent set of resistances, a few useful spells and lots of Mushrooms. Finished Orc, Lair (except for the forest vault...

Posting a character dump would help to give advice. While in game press #. Then put the content of the file in code tags. [code][/code] You don't necessarily need a ranged weapon. Often stones are enough to pull one enemy at a time from range. But let's see what your character actually looks like.

Still going well. Found Maud on L:7 and wondered whether to pick a fight or not. Suddenly realised that I had forgotten about Orc. Was pretty easy with Invis. Killed a bunch of uniques: Psyche, Fannar, Urug and Grum. Went back to kill Maud. Realised I had cash and bought a book with Ozo's Armour, ni...

I don't like the idea of equipment slot limitations, and I also doubt that it would get implemented. So far the discussion has thrown up some useful pointers, thanks! 1) There needs to be an reason to continue worshiping the god when the player deems their equipment to be good enough. I suppose ther...

This is partly inspired by some previous discussions, like this and that . The point of this god is to allow players to interact with their equipment in new (and hopefully fun) ways that don't currently exist. Before we get into the details, I would ask people to please refrain from bikeshedding. Fl...

The Invis-zombie combo is indeed pretty strong. My horde of polar bears and wolves took out a frost giant in an ice cave fairly casually. I tend to be a bit too protective of my zombies... Just reached 6 stars with Kiku. I'm probably not going for the book. Don't need Necromut, Borg and DD probably ...

Just received the next book from Kiku. Pretty good with Animate Dead, Bolt of Draining and Simulacrum. Right now I'm unsure about the direction to take the character in. My ring of invis / stabbing combo will be pretty strong for a while. I could pursue that and get Enslavement to deal with any prob...

I feel like I don't know anything, and it's probably true. Thanks for the clarification.

I had no idea skeletons disappeared, thanks. But still, I find blood bottling destroying corpses and skeletons counter-intuitive. Just to be sure I tested it just now. Use which ability? (? or * to list) You start bottling blood from the giant frog corpse. You continue bottling blood from the corpse...

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