My most successful run just found a sad ending. I played a Minotaur Berserker and he actually became my first character to get his hands on the Orb of Zot. He got three runes from the Snake Pit, the Swamp and the Slime Pits (where he had to drink three potions of cure mutation). Also he successfully did the Crypt and the Elven Halls, which I never managed to do before. During his quest he got banished to the Abyss twice and both times managed to reach a portal back. Somehow Trog did never really favor him. In the whole run he did not make use of a single God's gift, just being spammed with branded battleaxes and missile weapons from the beginning to the end. However, in the end he got some nice equipment anyway, wielding a freezing Executioner's Axe +9, wearing a Crystal Plate Armor +9 and alot of nice jewelry for resistance. However, he didn't find any nice boots or gloves.
In the end he died on the way back up on Z1. Stupidly I used berserk against a Pandaemonium Lord. Just after the rage was gone, an Executioner appeared and I just wasn't able to get away from him. Should rather have cast haste and run away from the Lord in the first place. Well, next time I'll be a little bit smarter. And well, somehow it's really cool that I got that close for the first time