New WR for turn speedrunning!
Posted: Thursday, 3rd January 2019, 06:04Oh yes, this sweet taste of victory!
Best spells of the run:
Each time when new WR is set, I hear someone saying "It's pretty much the limit, you can't really go faster!" So, before anyone says it this time, consider the fact that I arrived at Vaults on turn 8464, 2k turns later than Sapher, previous WR holder, on his run (yes, by this moment we had the same number of runes, all of them being from Lair). So feel free to try 13k turns 15-rune run!
http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue/ ... 045616.txt
Best spells of the run:
- BVC: kills monsters while you keep moving (0.21 Ne reasons).
- Statue Form: defence & offence.
- PoG: for fast movement and juking Cerebovs.
- Summon Forest (yes, you read it right!): same function as BVC.
- LRD: for breaking into rune vaults (again, 0.21).
- On D:7 there were two books shops with a number of useful spells, so I decided to visit orcs before Lair to buy them. Orcish jewellery shop offered amulet of magic regeneration, ring {rF+ rC+ MR+ Dex+3 Stlth+} and ring {rElec MR+ MP+9}. I could buy only one thing, so I bought Statue Form and headed to Lair. Got 3 Lair runes and 2k extra gold (660 gold came from ?acquirement). But by this time book shops on D:7 could only offer Me Blink spell, so I decided not to backtrack there from D:11, and I've already found mp regenerating amulet. But I still ventured to Orcs and bought {rF+ rC+ MR+ Dex+3 Stlth+}.
- Usually I explore all quadrants of Vaults:5, but this time I decided to stop at 2 after getting silver rune, since I was pretty much set with spells and items.
- Tomb:3 was extremely lucky experience: I teleported from the start, landed in los of golden rune, read ?tele again, apported it, and landed in los of stairs.
- Entered Pan at XL21. I don't remember anything interesting happening in Pan and Hells, it was just lots of PoG using.
- After I recognized stairs vault on Zot:1, it was smooth descending, each next floor gave downstairs just in couple of steps from upstairs.
- I issued ?tele as soon as I arrived at Zot:5, landed in vestibule, fought my way to the Orb, teleported again and landed in a safe area. Lucky.
- On Depths:5 I decided to learn CBlink as a substitution of Blink (haha), to shave some turns when it's appropriate. I ended up using it 3 times, shaving around ~10 turns. Now think about the fact that I already had some blink scrolls and memorisation costed Me 9 turns... Yeah, mistake (:
Each time when new WR is set, I hear someone saying "It's pretty much the limit, you can't really go faster!" So, before anyone says it this time, consider the fact that I arrived at Vaults on turn 8464, 2k turns later than Sapher, previous WR holder, on his run (yes, by this moment we had the same number of runes, all of them being from Lair). So feel free to try 13k turns 15-rune run!
Congrats, it was amazing even to read.
