0.29 Tournament Character #4

[wizard44]

So after that disaster of a loss of my last character, I start a newly randomly generated one, which is a Draconian Earth Elementalist. Unfortunately, this was *another* disaster that instantly got killed because I got caught off guard and didn’t have the right items to take Duvessa and Dowan out in time.

YASD #4: Bad Luck and a Poor Selection of Items = Death.

I initially train Fighting, Dodging, Transmutations, and Earth Magic, with focus on the latter two skills. Upon reaching level 3, I train Conjurations to get Stone Arrow online. On D:4, I read-id scrolls of enchant weapon (which I use on a short sword), immolation, silence, identify, fear, and teleportation, and identify potions of heal wounds. I run into Duvessa and Dowan there, and kill Dowan with three Sandblast castings. I evade Duvessa by retreating upstairs, but soon run into her again, and am unable to evade from her. I use all of my magic and cast Stone Arrow and Sandblast, but get killed by her berserked blows.

Below is the death flag in case anyone wants to laugh at me.

  Code:

 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.29.0 (webtiles) character file.

Game seed: 12681860521346846161

165 wizard44 the Digger (level 5, -3/41 HPs)
             Began as a Draconian Earth Elementalist on Sept 5, 2022.
             Slain by Duvessa
             ... wielding a +0 short sword
              (16 damage)
             ... on level 4 of the Dungeon.
             The game lasted 00:25:53 (3393 turns).

wizard44 the Digger (Draconian Earth Elementalist)  Turns: 3393, Time: 00:25:54

Health: -3/41      AC:  5    Str: 10    XL:     5   Next: 22%
Magic:  1/8        EV: 12    Int: 17    God:   
Gold:   168        SH:  0    Dex: 12    Spells: 2/8 levels left

rFire   . . .      SeeInvis .   e - +0 dagger (venom)
rCold   . . .      Faith    .   (no shield)
rNeg    . . .      Spirit   .   (body armour unavailable)
rPois   .          Reflect  .   (helmet restricted)
rElec   .          Harm     .   (no cloak)
rCorr   .          Rampage  .   (no gloves)
Will    +....                   (no boots)
Stlth   ++........              (no amulet)
HPRegen 0.13/turn               b - ring of willpower
MPRegen 0.11/turn               (no ring)

@: no status effects
A: AC +5, unfitting armour, cold-blooded
a: no special abilities


You were on level 4 of the Dungeon.
You visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and saw 4 of its levels.

You collected 168 gold pieces.

Inventory:

Hand Weapons
 e - a +0 dagger of venom (weapon)
Jewellery
 b - a ring of willpower (left hand)
 l - a ring of willpower
Potions
 c - a potion of berserk rage {unknown}
 d - 3 potions of curing {unknown}
 g - 2 potions of might {unknown}
 h - 4 potions of heal wounds
 j - a potion of degeneration {unknown}
 n - a potion of mutation {unknown}


   Skills:
 + Level 1.8 Fighting
 + Level 2.3 Dodging
 - Level 1.7 Stealth
 - Level 2.0 Spellcasting
 * Level 1.9 Conjurations
 - Level 2.3 Transmutations
 * Level 4.2 Earth Magic


You had 2 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power      Damage    Failure   Level
a - Sandblast             Erth           32%        2d9       3%          1
b - Passwall              Tmut/Erth      10%        N/A       8%          2
c - Stone Arrow           Conj/Erth      24%        3d8       16%         3

Your spell library contained the following spells:

 Spells                   Type           Power      Damage    Failure   Level
 Spider Form              Tmut/Pois      5%         N/A       36%         3
 Petrify                  Tmut/Erth      12%        N/A       45%         4


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (4/15)           
Temple: D:4-7       

Altars:
Ashenzari
Vehumet

Annotations:
D:4 Duvessa


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

Your plain brown scales are hard. (AC +5)
You cannot fit into any form of body armour.
You are cold-blooded and may be slowed by cold attacks.

Message History

Duvessa hits you with a +0 short sword! Duvessa hits you with a +0 short sword.
Magic courses through your body. Duvessa closely misses you.
Casting: Sandblast (safe; 3% risk of failure)
Confirm with . or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells.
Aiming: Stone Arrow (dangerous; 16% risk of failure)
Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line, f/p - Duvessa
Aim: Duvessa, wielding a +0 short sword and wearing a +0 leather armour
(moderately wounded, berserk, 72% to hit)
The stone arrow hits Duvessa!
Duvessa is severely wounded.
Duvessa hits you but does no damage. Duvessa barely misses you.
Casting: Stone Arrow (dangerous; 16% risk of failure)
Confirm with . or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells.
Aiming: Stone Arrow (dangerous; 16% risk of failure)
Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line, f/p - Duvessa
Aim: Duvessa, wielding a +0 short sword and wearing a +0 leather armour
(severely wounded, berserk, 72% to hit)
The stone arrow hits Duvessa!
Duvessa is almost dead.
Duvessa hits you with a +0 short sword.
An orc comes into view. It is wielding a +0 short sword.
Casting: Stone Arrow (dangerous; 16% risk of failure)
Confirm with . or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells.
Aiming: Sandblast (safe; 3% risk of failure)
Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line, f/p - Duvessa
Aim: Duvessa, wielding a +0 short sword and wearing a +0 leather armour (almost
dead, berserk, 84% to hit)
The blast of sand hits Duvessa.
Duvessa is almost dead.
Duvessa closely misses you. Duvessa misses you.
A giant cockroach comes into view.
Duvessa barely misses you.
Casting: Sandblast (safe; 3% risk of failure)
Confirm with . or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells.
Aiming: Sandblast (safe; 3% risk of failure)
Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line, f/p - Duvessa
Aim: Duvessa, wielding a +0 short sword and wearing a +0 leather armour (almost
dead, berserk, 84% to hit)
The blast of sand hits Duvessa but does no damage.
Duvessa is almost dead.
Duvessa hits you with a +0 short sword!
A hobgoblin comes into view.
Duvessa hits you with a +0 short sword!
You die...

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You could see Duvessa (berserk), an orc and a hobgoblin.

Vanquished Creatures
  Dowan (D:4)
  3 adders
  A shadow imp (D:4)
  A worm (D:3)
  4 dart slugs
  2 orcs
  6 endoplasms
  7 goblins
  5 hobgoblins
  4 jackals (D:1)
  7 kobolds
  4 quokkas
  10 ball pythons
  4 bats (D:2)
  2 frilled lizards
  13 rats
74 creatures vanquished.

Notes
Turn   | Place    | Note
-------+----------+-------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1      | wizard44 the Draconian Earth Elementalist began the quest
                  | for the Orb.
     0 | D:1      | Reached XP level 1. HP: 14/14 MP: 3/3
   100 | D:1      | Reached XP level 2. HP: 22/22 MP: 0/5
   116 | D:1      | Learned a level 2 spell: Passwall
   832 | D:1      | Reached XP level 3. HP: 27/27 MP: 4/6
   835 | D:1      | Reached skill level 1 in Fighting
   839 | D:1      | Learned a level 3 spell: Stone Arrow
  1627 | D:2      | Got Xowo Juast's Compendium of Toxicity and Silt
  2110 | D:2      | Reached XP level 4. HP: 35/35 MP: 5/7
  2264 | D:3      | Found a faded altar of an unknown god.
  2285 | D:3      | Found a broken altar of Ashenzari.
  2378 | D:3      | Found a radiant altar of Vehumet.
  2403 | D:3      | Reached skill level 1 in Conjurations
  2617 | D:3      | Identified the +0 robe "Ybem" {Str+2}
  3098 | D:4      | Noticed Duvessa
  3098 | D:4      | Noticed Dowan
  3119 | D:4      | Killed Dowan
  3120 | D:4      | Reached skill level 4 in Earth Magic
  3120 | D:4      | Reached XP level 5. HP: 41/41 MP: 5/8
  3393 | D:4      | Slain by Duvessa

Illustrated notes

Levels and vault maps discovered:
D:1:      nicolae_arrival_somewhat_less_tricky_arrival, layout_loops_ring
D:2:      layout_basic
D:3:      layout_rooms, lemuel_coloured_pillars_altar,
          mainiacjoe_overflow_paths, shapermc_ecumenical_altar_venn
D:4:      layout_basic, minmay_misc_feat_x, uniq_duvessa, uniq_robin

Skill      XL: |  1  2  3  4 |
---------------+-------------+-----
Dodging        |     2       |  2.3
Fighting       |        1    |  1.8
Transmutations |        2    |  2.3
Conjurations   |           1 |  1.9
Earth Magic    |           4 |  4.2
Stealth        |             |  1.7
Spellcasting   |             |  2.0

Action                   |  1- 3 |  4- 6 || total
-------------------------+-------+-------++-------
Melee: Short sword       |     1 |       ||     1
 Cast: Sandblast         |    67 |    38 ||   105
       Stone Arrow       |       |     4 ||     4
  Use: Scroll            |       |     6 ||     6
       Potion            |       |     1 ||     1
Armor: Skin              |     4 |     8 ||    12
Dodge: Dodged            |    14 |    16 ||    30


[petercordia]

You probably would've survived if you hadn't killed Dowan.
The nice thing about Dowan & Duvessa is they can't follow you up stairs. But berserk Duvessa is *nasty*.

[wizard44]

Thanks for the reply. Dowan was too close for me to attempt a retreat upstairs, so I killed him and really tried to be careful not to encounter Duvessa when I healed back up. Alas, I couldn't and was locked in an unwinnable scenario with a berserked Duvessa.