YAVP: First win, 4 rune SEEE
Posted: Monday, 5th March 2012, 23:25
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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0-14-ga75c42d character file.
1768012 0nan the Grand Master (level 27, 219/219 (222) HPs)
Began as a Sludge Elf Earth Elementalist on Mar 2, 2012.
Was the Champion of Cheibriados.
Escaped with the Orb
... and 4 runes on Mar 5, 2012!
The game lasted 16:11:54 (135626 turns).
0nan the Grand Master (SEEE) Turns: 135626, Time: 16:11:55
HP 219/219 (222) AC 14 Str 30 XL: 27
MP 45/45 EV 42 Int 39 God: Cheibriados [******]
Gold 6356 SH 36 Dex 43 Spells: 13 memorised, 6 levels left
Res.Fire : + + + See Invis. : . - Unarmed
Res.Cold : + . . Warding : . . X - +1 leather armour {rF+}
Life Prot.: . . . Conserve : . t - +0 shield {rC+}
Res.Acid. : . . . Res.Corr. : . k - +2 winged helmet
Res.Poison: + Clarity : . x - +1 cloak {rC+}
Res.Elec. : + Spirit.Shd : . u - +2 pair of dwarf gloves
Sust.Abil.: . . Stasis : . a - +1 pair of boots of Khall {Str+4 Dex+2 Dam
Res.Mut. : + Ctrl.Telep.: x B - amulet of resist mutation
Res.Rott. : . Levitation : . L - ring "Pseubud" {rF+ Str+3 Dex+5 Int+1}
Saprovore : . . . Ctrl.Flight: . d - ring "Taal" {Fire +Inv rElec rPois Acc+3}
@: very slow, very resistant to hostile enchantments, quite stealthy
A: blurry vision 1, breathe flames 1, fast metabolism 1, Dex -1
a: Bend Time, Temporal Distortion, Slouch, Step From Time, Renounce Religion,
Breathe Fire, Evoke Invisibility
}: 4/15 runes: decaying, serpentine, slimy, silver
You escaped.
You worshipped Cheibriados.
Cheibriados was exalted by your worship.
You were not hungry.
I'm so happy.
I started playing in 0.9, around this december. Never had a char making it past the Lair \ Orcish mines, just once i had a DrWz who was steamrolling everything and had 2 runes, but then i went for a fast E:5 and BAM, banished to the Abyss, first time I ever got in there, YASD.
From the beginning i have loved SETm, but with the new Tm without Evaporate I always got killed before even reaching the temple. So, frustrated and disoppointed, I noticed that Earth Elementalist was quite similar as a play style and that SE had all the right aptitudes for it, so I decided "what the heck, let's give it a try".
With a good combination of an early temple and good books in the lair, I was pretty much obliterating everything when I realized that I had a chance to make it. Indeed proceeded to take out The Swamp (with no rPois!) and then The Snake Pit; then began the interesting part (for me at least), beacuse I had never seen anything apart from Orc Mines \ Elven Halls and Lair with its subbranches.
Everything went smooth in Vaults and Crypt, got my 3rd rune and some decent loot, even though I found almost no branded armor all game apart from a couple of leather armours with Fire and Cold resistances, the cloak and the artifact boots.
Zot was pretty scary having never been there, but apart from a couple of times when I got surrounded by draconians I managed to slowly kill everything in there too without too many problems. Before Z:5 I wanted to have a couple of skills maxed (dodging, fighting + I still had not found a single book with blink, not to speak of controlled blink!), so I decided to give a try to the Tomb: there I almost YASDed when I got broght to like 20 hp by a greater mummy, but proceeded to step from time and managed to make it out. Tomb 1 was enough for me, though, so I headed to the Slime Pits (with just rCorr), where I managed to kill The Royal Jelly without much effort, and got a ton of spellbooks and various loot.
Headed back to Z:5 and started the ascension, and then I seriously shat my pants when I turned a corner and got broght form about 220 HP to 50 IN A SINGLE STEP. Damn pit fiend decided to pop right in front of the stairs up and tormented me twice in a row in the time I turned that goddamn corner. After a couple of seconds of pure terror, i stepped from time once again and (thanks god) he had gone somewhere else. The rest of the ascension was pretty easy, a Pan lord popped once but managed to escape, and with dig it didn't take me too long to make it to D:1.
Basically what I did the whole game was tabbing with either Blade hands or Statue form \ Stoneskin, which gave me pretty decent firepower in melee (and decent defense), with the addition of Sandblast and Stone arrow for the early game, Iron shot and Dispel undead for single target ranged attack and LRD for utility / AoE nuke, and a late addition of Phase shift.
I am so glad I finally made it .