Thirsty the VpEn

[treerex5]

After reading a guide by DeathKnyte (Props to you), the idea of a VpEn became more appealing. I just tried him out. This is my logfile... after KILLING SIGMUND. AT LEVEL 4. BY STABBING HIM AFTER EH'IN HIM.

  Code:

  Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.0 (tiles) character file.

Thirsty the Vexing (Vampire Enchanter)              Turns: 5666, Time: 00:18:12

HP  35/35        AC  4     Str  8      XL: 5   Next: 54%
MP   7/9         EV 13     Int 17      God:
Gold 130         SH  0     Dex 14      Spells:  3 memorised,  1 level left

Res.Fire  : . . .   See Invis. : +   a - +2,+1 dagger {=f}
Res.Cold  : + + .   Warding    : .   b - +2 robe
Life Prot.: + + +   Conserve   : .   (no shield)
Res.Poison: +       Res.Corr.  : .   (no helmet)
Res.Elec. : .       Clarity    : .   (no cloak)
Sust.Abil.: . .     Spirit.Shd : .   (no gloves)
Res.Mut.  : .       Stasis     : .   (no boots)
Res.Rott. : +       Flight     : .   (no amulet)
Saprovore : . . .                    (no ring)
                                     e - ring of teleport control

@: non-regenerating, slightly resistant to hostile enchantments, quite stealthy
A: fangs 3, see invisible, unbreathing
a: Bat Form, Evoke Teleport Control


You are on level 3 of the Dungeon.
You are bloodless.

You have visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and seen 3 of its levels.

You have collected 110 gold pieces.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 a - a +2,+1 dagger (weapon) {=f}
Missiles
 d - 12 darts (quivered)
Armour
 b - a +2 robe (worn)
Magical devices
 f - a wand of frost {zapped: 7}
Scrolls
 g - a scroll of teleportation
 i - a scroll of curse jewellery
Jewellery
 e - a ring of teleport control (left hand)
 h - an uncursed ring of ice
Books
 c - a book of Maledictions   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   *Corona                            Hexes                        1
   *Sure Blade                        Hexes/Charms                 2
   *Ensorcelled Hibernation           Hexes/Ice                    2
   Confuse                            Hexes                        3
   Enslavement                        Hexes                        4
   Invisibility                       Hexes                        6


   Skills:
 * Level 3.3 Short Blades
 - Level 0.7 Throwing
 + Level 2.9 Dodging
 * Level 5.5 Stealth
 - Level 1.0 Spellcasting
 * Level 5.9 Hexes
 + Level 0.9 Charms


You have one spell level left.
You know the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Corona                Hex            ###....      1%          1    ##.....
b - Ensorcelled Hibernat  Hex/Ice        ##....       12%         2    ###....
c - Sure Blade            Hex/Chrm       ##........   10%         2    ###....


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (3/27)           

Altars:
Trog
Xom


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You do not heal naturally.
You have razor-sharp teeth.*
You have supernaturally acute eyesight.
You can survive without breathing.*


Message History

Found a spear.
You see here a spear.
You open the door.
Found a bloodstained altar of Trog and a shimmering altar of Xom.
There is an open door here.
There is an open door here.
Found a leather armour.
Jessica comes into view. She is wielding a dagger.
Jessica shouts!
Found a dwarven dagger.
Found a horned helmet.
Aiming: Ensorcelled Hibernation
Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line, f - Jessica
Aim: Jessica, wielding a dagger and wearing a robe
Jessica looks drowsy...
The helpless Jessica fails to defend herself.
You bite Jessica, and draw her blood! You feel slightly less thirsty. You slice Jessica!!
You kill Jessica!
Char dumped to '/Users/qaasimschool/Library/Application Support/Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup/morgue/Thirsty.txt'.
Save game and exit?

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There are no monsters in sight!

Vanquished Creatures
  Sigmund (D:3)
  Jessica (D:3)
  6 adders
  An adder skeleton (D:2)
  An ooze (D:1)
  2 orcs
  4 giant cockroaches (D:2)
  6 goblins
  7 hobgoblins
  7 kobolds
  2 quokkas (D:2)
  11 bats
  7 giant newts
  A goblin zombie (D:2)
  A jackal skeleton (D:2)
  A kobold zombie (D:2)
  An orc zombie (D:2)
  6 rats
66 creatures vanquished.

Notes
Turn   | Place    | Note
--------------------------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1      | Thirsty, the Vampire Enchanter, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1      | Reached XP level 1. HP: 13/13 MP: 4/4
  1252 | D:1      | Reached XP level 2. HP: 11/19 MP: 5/5
  1891 | D:1      | Learned a level 2 spell: Ensorcelled Hibernation
  2345 | D:2      | Reached XP level 3. HP: 15/24 MP: 2/6
  2902 | D:2      | Reached skill level 5 in Hexes
  3549 | D:2      | Reached XP level 4. HP: 10/30 MP: 0/8
  4000 | D:2      | Learned a level 2 spell: Sure Blade
  4992 | D:3      | Noticed Sigmund
  5012 | D:3      | HP: 1/30 [Sigmund/wand of frost (2)]
  5553 | D:3      | Killed Sigmund
  5553 | D:3      | Reached skill level 5 in Stealth
  5553 | D:3      | Reached XP level 5. HP: 35/35 MP: 6/9
  5632 | D:3      | Found a bloodstained altar of Trog.
  5632 | D:3      | Found a shimmering altar of Xom.
  5658 | D:3      | Noticed Jessica
  5664 | D:3      | Killed Jessica


Action                   |  1- 3 |  4- 6 || total
-------------------------+-------+-------++-------
Melee: Dagger            |   212 |    67 ||   279
 Cast: Ensorcelled Hiber |    17 |    11 ||    28
       Corona            |     1 |       ||     1
       Sure Blade        |       |     5 ||     5
 Abil: End Transformatio |     1 |     3 ||     4
       Bat Form          |     1 |     3 ||     4
       Evoke Teleport Co |     1 |       ||     1
  Use: Scroll            |     6 |     6 ||    12
       Potion            |     5 |     1 ||     6
 Stab: Sleeping          |     9 |     8 ||    17




Now I know i'm going to die humiliatingly to a gecko.
DeathKnyte's AWESOME guide is herehttps://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=12&p=114719#p114719

EDIT: Updated for my incredibly short battle with Jess.

[Amnesiac]

Sure blade is not so useful IMO, because you want to just put everything to sleep and stab in one go... Learn confuse, it's much more useful. Also, I think you need to focus on training hexes, mostly, but keeping your eye on the damage you do with stabbing and if you can't kill something, train more stealth and short blades. Also, training some spellcasting (1/3 of hexes or 1/2) should be useful, because otherwise I think you won't be able to learn all the spells like enslave and invisibility in time. Don't disregard using confuse and enslavement, those are very powerful spells, because they cut through magic resistance much better and can affect cold resistant monsters(like undead), unlike EH.

[treerex5]

aand i died.

[Lyrick]

You are skilling strangely

Focus usually pays off earlier and better than generalizing in everything.

I get hexes to 6, while trying out every single dagger I find.

Then depending on what I've found so far its either Short Blades or Stealth to 8, then the other to 8.

Stealth works out sometimes, but occassionally you run into the pack of orc priests that just won't go to sleep. And player ghosts are always a problem if all you trained was stealth.

Sigmund's paltry 30 hit points do not stand up well against a bloodthirsty vampire who has his way with him.