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[Morlockk]

Ok, after an abstinence of over a year I finally made my way back into this game which I always really enjoyed.
Instead of wasting character after character I will try to pursue a more wholesome approach this time in which I value every single character of mine.
This is the first one I created and I have already been blessed heavily by the RNG gods.
The falchion I found made me change my play style quite a bit and basically I just need a bit of advice on how to put the stuff I found to good use since I almost exclusively played pure casters and pure melee characters (winning my first game with MiBe)
Feel free to share your knowledge on how to "hybrid" this boi the best.
Also, would it be better to train Short Blades and then cross train since I have the manual?

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.23.2 (tiles) character file.

Game seed: 6742586072808402759

Laj the Destroyer (Demigod Conjurer) Turns: 13770, Time: 00:54:08

Health: 88/88 AC: 4 Str: 16 XL: 10 Next: 33%
Magic: 17/17 EV: 12 Int: 25 God:
Gold: 392 SH: 14 Dex: 16 Spells: 8/15 levels left

rFire . . . SeeInvis . A - +10 falchion "Ronem" {venom, rElec}
rCold . . . Gourm . q - +1 shield
rNeg . . . Faith . D - +1 robe {Archmagi}
rPois . Spirit . (no helmet)
rElec + Reflect + w - +0 cloak
rCorr . Harm . (no gloves)
MR +.... (no boots)
Stlth ++........ p - +4 amulet of reflection
HPRegen 0.24/turn (no ring)
MPRegen 0.15/turn j - +5 ring of strength

@: studying Short Blades
A: high mp 1
a: no special abilities


You are on level 10 of the Dungeon.
You are hungry.

You have visited 2 branches of the dungeon, and seen 11 of its levels.

You have collected 616 gold pieces.
You have spent 224 gold pieces at shops.

Inventory:

Hand Weapons
A - the +10 falchion "Ronem" (weapon) {venom, rElec}
(You found it on level 5 of the Dungeon)

It poisons the flesh of those it strikes.

It insulates you from electricity.
Armour
a - a +0 robe
q - a +1 shield (worn)
w - a +0 cloak (worn)
B - a +0 scale mail of poison resistance
D - a +1 robe of the Archmagi (worn)
Magical Staves
I - an uncursed staff of power
Jewellery
j - a +5 ring of strength (right hand)
p - a +4 amulet of reflection (around neck)
E - a twisted copper amulet
Wands
t - a wand of paralysis (12)
C - a wand of iceblast (20)
G - a wand of flame (8)
Scrolls
d - 4 scrolls of remove curse
g - 2 scrolls of fog
o - a scroll of blinking
u - 3 scrolls of magic mapping
v - 3 scrolls of identify
x - 5 scrolls of fear
y - 8 scrolls of teleportation
z - a scroll of amnesia
F - 4 scrolls labeled TEUDIBL BAAMO
H - a scroll of enchant weapon
Potions
b - 2 potions of might
e - a silvery potion
f - 3 potions of brilliance
k - a fuming orange potion
l - 4 potions of haste
m - a bubbling yellow potion
n - 4 potions of curing
r - a bubbling sapphire potion
s - an inky potion
Books
h - a manual of Short Blades
Comestibles
c - 18 rations


Skills:
+ Level 7.7 Fighting
- Level 8.0 Long Blades
- Level 3.4 Dodging
- Level 1.7 Stealth
- Level 4.5 Shields
- Level 3.0 Spellcasting
- Level 8.1 Conjurations
- Level 1.2 Evocations


You have 8 spell levels left.
You know the following spells:

Your Spells Type Power Failure Level Hunger
a - Magic Dart Conj #### 1% 1 None
b - Searing Ray Conj ###### 1% 2 ##.....
c - Iskenderun's Mystic Conj ######.. 14% 4 ####...

Your spell library contains the following spells:

Spells Type Power Failure Level Hunger
Dazzling Spray Conj/Hex #####. 22% 3 ###....
Apportation Tloc #..... 36% 1 None
Summon Butterflies Summ #....... 36% 1 None
Summon Small Mammal Summ #... 36% 1 None
Call Imp Summ #....... 50% 2 ##.....
Force Lance Conj/Tloc #####... 58% 4 ####...
Fulminant Prism Conj/Hex #####..... 58% 4 ####...
Call Canine Familiar Summ #....... 75% 3 ###....
Lesser Beckoning Tloc #......... 75% 3 ###....
Summon Guardian Golem Hex/Summ #....... 75% 3 ###....
Tukima's Dance Hex #....... 75% 3 ###....
Summon Ice Beast Ice/Summ #....... 98% 4 ####...
Summon Lightning Spire Summ/Air #....... 98% 4 ####...
Alistair's Intoxication Tmut/Pois #....... 100% 5 ######.
Invisibility Hex #....... 100% 6 #######


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (10/15) Temple (1/1) D:4 Lair (0/6) D:9
Orc (0/2) D:10

Shops:
D:5 ? D:6 * D:9 }

Annotations:
D:6 Sigmund


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You have an increased reservoir of magic. (+10% MP)


Message History

Aim: a gargoyle, wielding a +0 dire flail (hasn't noticed you)
Okay, then.
Items here: )) [[ †
a +0 dagger; a +0 robe; a +0 dagger; a +0 robe; a bullfrog corpse
Things that are here:
a +0 trident; an orc corpse
There is an open door, spattered with blood here.
You close the door.
You start resting.
Magic restored.
There is an open door here.
Things that are here:
a +0 trident; an orc corpse
There is an open door here.
Done exploring.
Done exploring.
Save game and exit?
Okay, then.
Char dumped to 'morgue/Laj.txt'.
Save game and exit?

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There are no monsters in sight!

Vanquished Creatures
Pikel (D:6)
A guardian serpent (D:9)
A komodo dragon (D:9)
A troll (D:7)
2 hippogriffs
A wraith (D:10)
2 hungry ghosts (D:9)
5 orc warriors
A slave (D:6)
2 sky beasts
2 black bears
An ice beast (D:10)
3 ogres
A necrophage (D:3)
3 centaurs
2 bullfrogs
A wyvern skeleton (D:9)
2 scorpions
3 killer bees (D:9)
8 wights
6 howler monkeys
4 crimson imps
2 quasits
A centaur zombie (D:9)
A bullfrog skeleton (D:6)
5 jellies
5 orc priests
6 hounds
10 orc wizards
A centaur skeleton (D:4)
An iguana (D:4)
5 worker ants
3 hound skeletons
16 gnolls
11 adders
4 shadow imps
6 oozes
An adder zombie (D:6)
2 adder skeletons
2 worms
4 dart slugs
9 leopard geckos
34 orcs
A ball python (D:4)
7 giant cockroaches
6 goblins
5 hobgoblins (D:1)
4 jackals
6 kobolds
4 quokkas
6 bats (D:1)
8 frilled lizards
A leopard gecko zombie (D:6)
A quokka zombie (D:7)
3 rats
234 creatures vanquished.

Vanquished Creatures (others)
18 plants (D:9)
18 creatures vanquished.

Grand Total: 252 creatures vanquished

Notes
Turn | Place | Note
-------+----------+-------------------------------------------
0 | D:1 | Laj the Demigod Conjurer began the quest for the Orb.
0 | D:1 | Reached XP level 1. HP: 14/14 MP: 5/5
347 | D:1 | Reached XP level 2. HP: 20/20 MP: 2/7
792 | D:1 | Found a snail-covered altar of Cheibriados.
968 | D:1 | Reached XP level 3. HP: 26/26 MP: 5/8
1119 | D:2 | Learned a level 2 spell: Searing Ray
1476 | D:2 | Reached skill level 5 in Conjurations
1866 | D:2 | Reached XP level 4. HP: 33/33 MP: 4/9
2637 | D:3 | Reached XP level 5. HP: 38/38 MP: 8/10
2670 | D:3 | Noticed a necrophage
2678 | D:3 | Killed a necrophage
2855 | D:3 | Found a burning altar of Makhleb.
2928 | D:3 | Reached skill level 1 in Shields
3066 | D:4 | Reached XP level 6. HP: 31/45 MP: 4/13
3197 | D:4 | Found a staircase to the Ecumenical Temple.
3229 | D:4 | Found a shimmering altar of Xom.
3255 | D:4 | Reached skill level 1 in Evocations
3468 | D:3 | Learned a level 4 spell: Iskenderun's Mystic Blast
4539 | D:5 | Entered Level 5 of the Dungeon
4591 | D:5 | Reached XP level 7. HP: 44/50 MP: 9/14
4836 | Temple | Entered the Ecumenical Temple
5258 | D:5 | Found Qicwor's Magic Scroll Shop.
5261 | D:5 | Bought 2 scrolls of teleportation for 84 gold pieces
5261 | D:5 | Bought a scroll of teleportation for 42 gold pieces
5261 | D:5 | Bought 2 scrolls of fear for 98 gold pieces
6036 | D:5 | Got an iridescent falchion
6037 | D:5 | Identified the +10 falchion "Ronem" {venom, rElec} (You
| found it on level 5 of the Dungeon)
6393 | D:6 | Found Cujurchi's General Store.
7198 | D:6 | Reached XP level 8. HP: 57/57 MP: 10/15
7271 | D:6 | You fall through a shaft!
7416 | D:6 | Noticed Sigmund
7613 | D:6 | Noticed Pikel
7623 | D:6 | Killed Pikel
8003 | D:7 | Noticed a hippogriff
8013 | D:7 | Killed a hippogriff
8665 | D:7 | Noticed a troll
8673 | D:7 | Killed a troll
8673 | D:7 | Reached skill level 5 in Long Blades
8673 | D:7 | Reached XP level 9. HP: 70/70 MP: 2/16
11210 | D:9 | Noticed a guardian serpent
11548 | D:9 | Killed a guardian serpent
11832 | D:9 | Noticed a komodo dragon
11973 | D:9 | Killed a komodo dragon
11973 | D:9 | Reached skill level 5 in Fighting
11973 | D:9 | Reached XP level 10. HP: 81/81 MP: 5/17
12060 | D:9 | Found a staircase to the Lair.
12067 | D:9 | Found Mesibboke's Gadget Shoppe.
12356 | D:10 | Entered Level 10 of the Dungeon
13033 | D:10 | Found a staircase to the Orcish Mines.

Skill XL: | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
---------------+-------------------------------+-----
Conjurations | 4 5 6 8 | 8.1
Spellcasting | 3 | 3.0
Shields | 1 3 4 | 4.5
Evocations | 1 | 1.2
Fighting | 3 5 7 | 7.7
Long Blades | 5 8 | 8.0
Dodging | 2 3 | 3.4
Stealth | | 1.7

Action | 1- 3 | 4- 6 | 7- 9 | 10-12 || total
-------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------++-------
Melee: Unarmed | 10 | 3 | | || 13
Falchion | | | 95 | 46 || 141
Cast: Magic Dart | 90 | 118 | 310 | 103 || 621
Iskenderun's Myst | | 5 | 29 | 8 || 42
Searing Ray | | | 14 | 5 || 19
Evoke: Wand | | | 3 | || 3
Use: Scroll | 4 | 7 | 3 | || 14
Potion | | 1 | 5 | || 6
Stab: Sleeping | | 1 | 1 | || 2
Eat: Chunk | 3 | 10 | 6 | 6 || 25
Ration | | | 7 | || 7
Armor: Robe | 1 | 7 | 13 | 3 || 24
Dodge: Dodged | 12 | 33 | 45 | 11 || 101
Block: Other | | | 4 | || 4
Shield | | | 65 | 24 || 89
Reflection | | | 10 | 3 || 13
Rpst.: Falchion | | | 8 | 3 || 11

[Sorcerous]

In terms of spells, I'd try to get Summoning up. Butterflies and Spire can do a lot for survival. Spellcasting is also low, you might want to put points into that one too. The manual is a lucky find, with the XP rate and aptitudes from Dg you need all the help you can get. Definitely train short blades, you likely won't need LB training by the time you're done with the manual.
Long term, you can probably work towards Mana vipers and Shadow summons to shut down late game threats.

[Sprucery]

The manual won't help your LB training at all (it gets a portion of the xp you put into SB, which the manual doesn't change). It is always better to train the skill you actually want instead of a cross-training skill.

Use your id scrolls on potions. I wouldn't wear a shield, a buckler is fine if you have one somewhere. Read-id the stack of 4 scrolls.

[petercordia]

i'm fairly certain that the manual increases the number of xp-points you get into short-blades by 100%, and 40% of the short-blade xp-points count towards long-blades. In total you'll get 80% of what you'd 'normally' get.
I haven't actually looked into the code, but this seems like the only plausible way for it to work.

[Sprucery]

AFAIK the manual doubles the skill points you get from experience (raising your skill apt by +4 does this), but cross-training is based on experience points, not skill points.

[Sorcerous]

AFAIK the manual doubles the skill points you get from experience (raising your skill apt by +4 does this), but cross-training is based on experience points, not skill points.

And this is the description of my "get skills quick" schemes getting murdered. I didn't know this stuff, just saw manuals as free XP when compatible with the current build.

[acoolguy]

As a general rule for hybrids, focus on training one way of killing things and shore up your defenses before trying to kill things in other ways.In your case, I would train for fulminant prism, train defenses and then get's some general weapon skill (you could training long blades instead of fulm. prism first instead). Picking up summon lightning spire and summon butterflies is also a good move.

[Airwolf]

Use scrolls of identify on potions. Read one of the stack of 4 unknown scrolls. Put on the unknown amulet.

[mopl]

Also use [code] tags for your dump next time, it's much more readable