YAVP: DsNe^Kiku/Lugonu

[and into]

Sharing because kind of an interesting character and game, for a few reasons:

1.) Had bad luck with MR+. I don't think there was any point in this game when I was more than "very resistant" to hostile enchantments.
2.) Went Kiku, got full piety and a demon whip to painify, got abyssed (from a miscast due to misclicking and acci-casting phase shift with 99% failure, of all things, despite point 1. above), didn't feel like farting around in abyss so I converted to Lugonu
3.) Managed to use both brand weapon abilities on demon whips, crafting a d. whip of pain and a d. whip of distortion in the same game, which is something I always wanted to do actually
4.) Had bizarrely intense food problems, exacerbated by rolling snake and having to do it without rPois. I would have gone for slime and (obvs) abyss runes except for lack of food. I ascended without a single piece of food remaining in the game. I ate my last piece—an apple—to go from "very hungry" to "hungry" so that I could berserk right before hitting < to win.

Only regret: Didn't pop the final piece of my fire facet. Would have loved to hurl some hellfire with this guy.

  Code:

 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15-a0-112-g3b1490a (tiles) character file.

1375460 YODO the Eclecticist (level 25, 292/292 (301) HPs)
             Began as a Demonspawn Necromancer on Apr 26, 2014.
             Was the Champion of Lugonu.
             Escaped with the Orb
             ... and 3 runes on May 18, 2014!
             
             The game lasted 06:03:33 (105226 turns).

YODO the Eclecticist (Demonspawn Necromancer)     Turns: 105226, Time: 06:03:33

HP 292/292 (301) AC 25     Str 16      XL: 25   Next: 82%
MP  42/45        EV 45     Int 25      God: Lugonu [******]
Gold 3781        SH 15     Dex 28      Spells: 17 memorised,  0 levels left

rFire  + + .     SeeInvis +     b - +5,+3 demon whip (distort)
rCold  + + .     Clarity  .     g - +2 robe {rC+ rF+}
rNeg   . . .     Conserve .     s - -3 buckler {rC+}
rPois  .         rCorr    .     (helmet unavailable)
rElec  .         rRot     .     A - +3 cloak of Flash {+Fly EV+4}
SustAb . .       Spirit   +     h - +2 pair of gloves {Dex+3}
rMut   +         Warding  .     Y - +1 pair of boots
Saprov . . .     Stasis   .     Z - amulet of resist mutation
MR     ++...                    J - +5 ring of protection
                                Q - +4 ring of protection

@: regenerating (expiring), phasing, brilliant, agile, berserking, drained, very
quick, very resistant to hostile enchantments, extremely unstealthy
A: antennae 3, rugged brown scales 3, conserve scrolls, fire resistance 1, magic
resistance 1, spiny 3, magic shield, magic regeneration, magic link
a: Depart the Abyss, Bend Space, Banish, Corrupt, Enter the Abyss, Renounce
Religion, Evoke Flight
0: Orb of Zot
}: 3/15 runes: serpentine, barnacled, silver


You escaped.
You worshipped Lugonu.
Lugonu was exalted by your worship.
You were hungry.

You visited 9 branches of the dungeon, and saw 53 of its levels.
You visited the Abyss 1 time.
You visited 1 Ziggurat, and saw 3 of its levels.
You also visited: Bailey and Wizlab.

You collected 6510 gold pieces.
You spent 2729 gold pieces at shops.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 a - a +7,+6 demon whip of pain
 b - a +5,+3 demon whip of distortion (weapon)
 e - a +2 blowgun
Missiles
 i - 22 stones (quivered)
 D - 14 curare-tipped needles
Armour
 g - a +2 robe of resistance (worn)
 h - a +2 pair of gloves of dexterity (worn)
 s - a -3 buckler of cold resistance (worn)
 A - the +3 cloak of Flash (worn) {+Fly EV+4}
   (You found it on level 4 of the Vaults)   
   
   It affects your evasion (+4).
   It lets you fly.
 Y - a +1 pair of boots (worn)
Magical devices
 j - a wand of teleportation (9)
 y - a wand of heal wounds (4)
 E - a wand of hasting (3)
 G - a wand of disintegration (0)
 M - a wand of digging (1)
Scrolls
 c - a scroll of silence
 k - a scroll of summoning
 p - 4 scrolls of teleportation
 q - 6 scrolls of fog
 B - 3 scrolls of identify
 I - a scroll of fear
 O - a scroll of remove curse
 T - a scroll of vulnerability
Jewellery
 v - an uncursed amulet of stasis
 z - an uncursed ring of poison resistance
 F - an uncursed amulet of resist corrosion
 J - a +5 ring of protection (right hand)
 N - an uncursed ring of fire
 Q - a +4 ring of protection (left hand)
 Z - an amulet of resist mutation (around neck)
Potions
 d - a potion of flight
 o - 2 potions of resistance
 t - 2 potions of restore abilities
 u - 2 potions of magic
 S - a potion of heal wounds
Books
 L - a book of the Warp   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   *Control Teleport                  Charms/Translocation         4
   *Phase Shift                       Translocation                5
   Warp Weapon                        Charms/Translocation         5
   Summon Forest                      Summoning/Translocation      5
   Dispersal                          Translocation                6
   *Controlled Blink                  Translocation                7
   Disjunction                        Translocation                8
Magical staves
 w - an uncursed staff of poison


   Skills:
 - Level 13.1(11.7) Fighting
   Level 10.0(8.7) Short Blades
 - Level 12.1(10.8) Maces & Flails
 - Level 14.9(13.5) Dodging
 - Level 1.7(0.7) Stealth
 - Level 12.3(11.0) Shields
 - Level 19.0(17.5) Spellcasting
 - Level 8.0(6.8) Conjurations
 - Level 3.2(2.1) Charms
 - Level 14.0(12.6) Summonings
 - Level 16.1(14.7) Necromancy
 + Level 16.6(15.1) Translocations
 - Level 3.0(1.9) Air Magic
 - Level 14.4(13.0) Invocations


You couldn't memorise any spells.
You knew the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Phase Shift           Tloc           #######...   1%          5    None
b - Death Channel         Necr           #######...   1%          6    ###....
c - Swiftness             Chrm/Air       #####...     1%          2    None
d - Bolt of Draining      Conj/Necr      ######....   1%          5    None
e - Blink                 Tloc           N/A          0%          2    None
f - Apportation           Tloc           #######...   0%          1    None
g - Dispel Undead         Necr           #######.     1%          5    None
h - Haunt                 Necr/Summ      #######...   1%          7    #####..
i - Controlled Blink      Tloc           N/A          1%          7    #####..
k - Animate Skeleton      Necr           N/A          0%          1    None
m - Animate Dead          Necr           N/A          1%          4    None
q - Recall                Summ/Tloc      N/A          1%          3    None
r - Regeneration          Chrm/Necr      ######....   1%          3    None
s - Vampiric Draining     Necr           #######...   0%          3    None
t - Control Teleport      Chrm/Tloc      ######....   1%          4    None
v - Flight                Chrm/Air       #####.....   1%          3    None
w - Summon Butterflies    Summ           #######.     0%          1    None


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (15/15)            Temple (1/1) D:5             Orc (4/4) D:10
    Elf (0/3) Orc:3          Lair (8/8) D:10         Shoals (5/5) Lair:3
  Snake (5/5) Lair:4        Slime (0/6) Lair:6       Vaults (5/5) D:14
  Blade (0/1) Vaults:3      Crypt (0/5) Vaults:2        Zot (5/5) Depths:5
 Depths (5/5) D:15       

Altars:
Ashenzari
Cheibriados
Dithmenos
Elyvilon
Fedhas
Kikubaaqudgha
Makhleb
Nemelex Xobeh
Okawaru
Sif Muna
Trog
Vehumet
Xom
Yredelemnul
Zin
The Shining One
Lugonu

Shops:
D:5 (?   D:8 !   D:9 *(   D:11 *   Orc:4 (?}!   Shoals:1 *   Vaults:5 *   Depths:3 }

Portals:
Hell: Depths:1 Depths:2 Depths:3 Depths:4 Depths:5
Abyss: Depths:2 Depths:4
Pandemonium: Depths:2 Depths:3 Depths:5

Annotations:
D:5 exclusion: inept feature mimic
D:14 Azrael
Shoals:2 exclusion: Roxanne, Roxanne
Zot:3 2 exclusions
Zot:4 3 exclusions
Zot:5 exclusion: upstairs
Abyss:1 Frances, Rupert
Depths:4 Boris


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You have a pair of large antennae on your head (SInv).
You are completely covered in rugged brown scales (AC +3, +7% HP).
You are very good at protecting items from fire.
Your flesh is heat resistant.
You are completely covered in sharp spines.
When hurt, damage is shared between your health and your magic reserves.
You regenerate magic rapidly.
When low on magic, you restore magic in place of health.
You are resistant to hostile enchantments.


Message History

Your skin crawls.
Drink which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
You feel agile all of a sudden.
Drink which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
You feel clever all of a sudden.
Drink which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
You feel extremely strange.
You feel resistant to hostile enchantments.
Your skin is crawling a little less now.
Drink which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
You're too hungry to go berserk.
Eat which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
You are feeling hungry.
You continue eating.
You finish eating. Mmmm... Yummy apple.
Drink which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
A red film seems to cover your vision as you go berserk!
You feel yourself moving faster! You feel mighty!
You feel a strong urge to attack something.
You have escaped!

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Action                   |  1- 3 |  4- 6 |  7- 9 | 10-12 | 13-15 | 16-18 | 19-21 | 22-24 | 25-27 || total
-------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------++-------
Melee: Unarmed           |     1 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       ||     1
       Dagger            |    11 |       |       |   869 |  1222 |       |       |       |       ||  2102
       Short sword       |     5 |     6 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       ||    11
       Long sword        |       |     4 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       ||     4
       Cutlass           |       |     8 |   295 |    31 |       |       |       |       |       ||   334
       Demon whip        |       |       |       |       |   908 |  1851 |  1987 |  1458 |   639 ||  6843
 Fire: Blowgun           |       |       |       |       |     2 |     2 |       |       |       ||     4
Throw: Stone             |     1 |       |     1 |     1 |     7 |    10 |    11 |    11 |     4 ||    46
 Cast: Pain              |    67 |    58 |    83 |   144 |    34 |       |       |       |       ||   386
       Animate Skeleton  |    14 |    13 |    18 |    26 |    28 |    22 |    33 |    14 |     6 ||   174
       Vampiric Draining |       |     3 |    32 |    49 |    17 |    40 |    50 |     5 |    17 ||   213
       Animate Dead      |       |       |     4 |    43 |    96 |    96 |    83 |     8 |     3 ||   333
       Control Undead    |       |       |     1 |     3 |       |       |       |       |       ||     4
       Regeneration      |       |       |     1 |     4 |     6 |    30 |    41 |    14 |    15 ||   111
       Recall            |       |       |       |     1 |     3 |     4 |     2 |       |       ||    10
       Dispel Undead     |       |       |       |       |    32 |    29 |    60 |    81 |    25 ||   227
       Bolt of Draining  |       |       |       |       |    53 |   109 |   194 |    82 |       ||   438
       Flight            |       |       |       |       |    22 |    46 |     6 |       |       ||    74
       Phase Shift       |       |       |       |       |     8 |    53 |    32 |    43 |    15 ||   151
       Swiftness         |       |       |       |       |       |     7 |       |       |       ||     7
       Summon Butterflie |       |       |       |       |       |     6 |    25 |     4 |       ||    35
       Sublimation of Bl |       |       |       |       |       |     2 |     3 |       |       ||     5
       Haunt             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |    30 |     9 ||    39
       Control Teleport  |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |     8 |     2 ||    10
       Blink             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |     9 |     1 ||    10
       Death Channel     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |     1 |       ||     1
       Controlled Blink  |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |     2 ||     2
       Apportation       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |     2 ||     2
Invok: Receive Corpses   |       |       |       |       |     4 |       |       |       |       ||     4
       Depart the Abyss  |       |       |       |       |     1 |       |       |       |       ||     1
       Banish            |       |       |       |       |       |    19 |     5 |       |       ||    24
       Corrupt           |       |       |       |       |       |     2 |     1 |     1 |     1 ||     5
       Bend Space        |       |       |       |       |       |     1 |       |       |       ||     1
Evoke: Wand              |       |     5 |    23 |    31 |    24 |    12 |    12 |    19 |    16 ||   142
       Phial of floods   |       |       |       |       |     1 |       |       |       |       ||     1
       Rod               |       |       |       |       |       |       |     1 |       |       ||     1
  Use: Scroll            |       |     6 |     7 |    18 |    22 |    27 |    22 |    17 |     7 ||   126
       Potion            |       |       |     4 |     6 |    17 |    14 |     3 |    17 |    18 ||    79
 Stab: Sleeping          |     1 |       |     2 |     7 |     8 |    10 |     7 |     1 |       ||    36
       Betrayed ally     |       |     1 |       |       |     4 |       |       |       |       ||     5
       Distracted        |       |       |     2 |     7 |    20 |    11 |    15 |    16 |     2 ||    73
       Invisible         |       |       |       |     1 |     3 |       |       |       |       ||     4
       Paralysed         |       |       |       |     2 |       |       |       |       |       ||     2



[DracheReborn]

3.) Managed to use both brand weapon abilities on demon whips, crafting a d. whip of pain and a d. whip of distortion in the same game, which is something I always wanted to do actually

That's pretty cool. With Lugonu allowing you to switch weapons freely, that's a neat combo for offense.

got abyssed (from a miscast due to misclicking

Console reasons

[Sprucery]

I'd say keyboard reasons ;)

[and into]

Oh yeah, misclick was a bit of misnomer. Typo. Was using keyboard, hit za. Used to have something else slotted in there, but switched phase shift in. Instinctively hit za and bam, abyssed. Turned out well enough though cause I like Lugonu.

[Sandman25]

Congrats!
Probably game should request confirmation when you are trying to cast a red spell with 50+% failure chance.
I keep reading about rPois not needed and food is not an issue but I had serious food problems in Snakes and all game starting from that too on one of my recent characters, food generation is too random IMHO.

[and into]

Thanks, Sandman.

Yeah, a single food shop would easily have made abyss and slime possible, but not a single food shop spawned. Just a weird game. Food problems do sometimes occur, just rarely. Not scientific, but my sense is that I've only ever been really concerned—even just for a short period of time—about food in somewhere between 1 and 3% of games I've played. We do have the guaranteed food vault, but otherwise, random generation is random, and (on rare occasions, assuming decent play/resource management) food ends up being a bother.

On this guy I did train more spell casting than I otherwise would have in order to mitigate hunger costs. I leaned on the distortion d. whip to end fights quickly, corrupted Z:5, apported orb and booked it. Even then I just barely avoided starving to death. All in all, pretty fun. I just wish I could have gotten 5 runes on this dude. And gotten hellfire.

[Sandman25]

Oh, wait, does Kiku's wrath destroy corpses in LoS? It could somewhat explain food problems in your game though I don't know how long his wrath lasts and it's not listed in the morgue.

[Sar]

Lugonu abilities are very hunger-costy, which probably did not help.

[and into]

Nah Kiku doesn't remove corpses. If you happen to get hit with wrath effect while some corpses are in LOS, they will get hostile animate dead on them too, but it is not common that this happens. AFAIK Kiku doesn't go out of his way to, uh, corpse-block you.

^ Sar: Yes, and I used corrupt a lot.