Abyss Ambulator
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Joined: Sunday, 18th September 2011, 02:11
YAVP MuCK*Xom -- 2 million turns, 15 runes, 1 zig completion
I scummed for 1 million turns before going past D:10, getting abyssed 8 times in the process (which was just the beginning of my abyss trips; I visited 21 times in total). During this time, I built up a kit of equipment good enough to get me through the game--+10 CPA, loads of rods, as many wands of heal wounds, hasting, and teleport as I could possibly want, and so on and so forth. I had a few close calls during this time (such as one time Xom confused me in the abyss and another time I ran into a balrug at an inopportune moment), but lived to tell the tale. Much of my scumming time was spent in a bailey, where I used a rod of the swarm to kill a brimstone fiend that Xom summoned.
That was the hardest part of the game. After that, I pretty much tabbed through everything. Here are the notable parts:
- Trapped in V, Crypt, Tomb, and Blade (and Abyss technically) for 1 million turns because of a bug with fog generators
- Killed all 8 hellpan lords before taking their runes
- Confused for ~30 turns on Tar:7, teleporting all around the level
- Dumped in the middle of Hellion Island; used water card to drown most of the hellions and almost died because of it (enough survived to threaten me and I was very exposed); saved by disto unwield
- Ran away from 3 berserk orb guardians for about 20 turns on Zot:5; got down to 16 HP at one point
- Cleared a zig with the "help" of Xom -- first MuCK zig clear ever!
- 50000+ gold
- About 20 wands of healing in the game
- 66 AC if I had wanted it
- 4 pairs of boots of running
- Multiple copies of every rod in the game
- Artefacts in every slot but gloves and boots (because running); 17 slaying
- also I used wyrmbane but it seemed appropriate to wield mace of variability for xom
This is the fifth time a MuCK has gotten all 15 runes, along with being the longest-living MuCK ever.
Anyway, dump in the next few posts. I don't want to cut it down because I want its full majesty on display, so it won't fit in one.