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Saturday, 16th November 2013, 21:59
YAVP: OpFi * Cheibriados, runelocked
This game was fairly tough. I been wanting to play an OpFi of Ash. But there was an early Chei altar, and ##crawl encouraged me to make the bad choice. Fortunately I did start finding spellbooks afterwards - summoning mostly, which worked very nicely with chei. An early acquirement made a double sword of slicing which I rebranded to freezing, and before the d:13 lair I also found a dtrident of pain and dwhip of elec. Ridiculous weapons, but doublesword is not at all bad so I didn't see the need to train even more skills. Melee + summons was a fine killing plan all game long.
An early bailey provided 100 tomahawks of returning, for something else to do while waiting. Early luck also included the two rings of protection. Later on, great rings were scarce though.
Some stealth was very useful (coupled with Op's bonus) to avoid trouble or take it on my own terms. I generally kept shield training on a low priority, especially after getting to 11 - spells were fine and melee ok.
I did Shoals first as I had no rPois, which was mostly fine - a /invis helped a lot, and I avoided drowning to Kirke. Shoals upgraded my tomahawks to javelins (steel and returning).
Chei abilities were all crucial to survival, as was eventually learning Controlled Blink - every ?blink in the game was used or burned, mostly used, and only in situations where I felt death was very likely.
Depths was pretty crazy, fortunately Vaults was on U:2 (before the patch to make it 1-3, I think). I had to fight multiple tmons and golden dragons. I wanted to do Elf and Slime before vaults but with no MR or rCorr that didn't seem so hot. In fact the only usable MR item I found was the Elemental Staff, and using it all the time didn't seem so smart.
Vaults:5 featured a rather huge amount of personal stupidity (just to start , cblink is much better than ctele + blink) and I still can't believe I didn't die. If you want to see (including sgrunt helping me not die a little), !lm rchandra opfi br.end=vaults 1 -tv:<T92650:>T92850:new
Zot:1 had some super annoying jelly + yellow drac vault, and I was stubborn and didn't go find rCorr. so my hat and shield were very corroded and I was near-death many times. Afterwards I decided to switch from Spirit Shield to sInv hats, since I had Cblink anyway. Oh well I had plenty of enchant armour and nothing to use them on.
Zot:5 was mostly pretty easy - eldritch tentacle + melee killed most things (including an ancient lich that paralyzed me - thanks, no MR). But after I got the orb I was fighting two orbs of fire and decided to teleport. That took a while and sent me into the uncleared lung. a step from time made the situation less dire and another teleport got me out. A couple times on the orbrun I made a Malign Gateway before trying to escape from a panlord, and it killed it before the tele/blinks worked. One panlord had fire storm and I stepped from time again there.
I would not recommend OpFi * chei without spellbooks, I was very lucky to have useful ones.
http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/rchandra/mo ... 192724.txt
An early bailey provided 100 tomahawks of returning, for something else to do while waiting. Early luck also included the two rings of protection. Later on, great rings were scarce though.
Some stealth was very useful (coupled with Op's bonus) to avoid trouble or take it on my own terms. I generally kept shield training on a low priority, especially after getting to 11 - spells were fine and melee ok.
I did Shoals first as I had no rPois, which was mostly fine - a /invis helped a lot, and I avoided drowning to Kirke. Shoals upgraded my tomahawks to javelins (steel and returning).
Chei abilities were all crucial to survival, as was eventually learning Controlled Blink - every ?blink in the game was used or burned, mostly used, and only in situations where I felt death was very likely.
Depths was pretty crazy, fortunately Vaults was on U:2 (before the patch to make it 1-3, I think). I had to fight multiple tmons and golden dragons. I wanted to do Elf and Slime before vaults but with no MR or rCorr that didn't seem so hot. In fact the only usable MR item I found was the Elemental Staff, and using it all the time didn't seem so smart.
Vaults:5 featured a rather huge amount of personal stupidity (just to start , cblink is much better than ctele + blink) and I still can't believe I didn't die. If you want to see (including sgrunt helping me not die a little), !lm rchandra opfi br.end=vaults 1 -tv:<T92650:>T92850:new
Zot:1 had some super annoying jelly + yellow drac vault, and I was stubborn and didn't go find rCorr. so my hat and shield were very corroded and I was near-death many times. Afterwards I decided to switch from Spirit Shield to sInv hats, since I had Cblink anyway. Oh well I had plenty of enchant armour and nothing to use them on.
Zot:5 was mostly pretty easy - eldritch tentacle + melee killed most things (including an ancient lich that paralyzed me - thanks, no MR). But after I got the orb I was fighting two orbs of fire and decided to teleport. That took a while and sent me into the uncleared lung. a step from time made the situation less dire and another teleport got me out. A couple times on the orbrun I made a Malign Gateway before trying to escape from a panlord, and it killed it before the tele/blinks worked. One panlord had fire storm and I stepped from time again there.
I would not recommend OpFi * chei without spellbooks, I was very lucky to have useful ones.
http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/rchandra/mo ... 192724.txt
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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14-a0-883-g02d7e00 (console) character file.
2439639 rchandra the Demonologist (level 27, 177/203 HPs)
Began as an Octopode Fighter on Nov 12, 2013.
Was the Champion of Cheibriados.
Escaped with the Orb
... and 5 runes on Nov 16, 2013!
The game lasted 14:26:36 (111436 turns).
rchandra the Demonologist (Octopode Fighter) Turns: 111436, Time: 14:26:36
HP 177/203 AC 16 Str 35 XL: 27
MP 45/45 EV 35 Int 46 (47) God: Cheibriados [******]
Gold 6800 SH 56 Dex 28 Spells: 11 memorised, 1 level left
Res.Fire : + + . See Invis. : + a - +8 double sword (freeze) {ribbed for her pleasure}
Res.Cold : + + + Warding : . y - +2 large shield {AC+3}
Life Prot.: + . . Conserve : + L - +2 cap {SInv}
Res.Poison: . Res.Corr. : . S - amulet of conservation
Res.Elec. : . Clarity : . g - +4 ring of protection
Sust.Abil.: . . Spirit.Shd : . F - +5 ring of protection
Res.Mut. : . Stasis : . D - ring of Qirhuemn {rC+ Str+3 Int+4}
Res.Rott. : . Flight : . K - ring of protection from fire
Saprovore : . . . s - ring of magical power
v - ring of positive energy
x - +4 ring of intelligence
G - ring of Triwie Tauph {+cTele Contam rF+ rC++ Int+4 Acc+4}
@: very slow, quite resistant to hostile enchantments, quite stealthy
A: almost no armour, amphibious, 8 rings, constrict 8, camouflage 1, -10% mp, AC
+2
a: Bend Time, Temporal Distortion, Slouch, Step From Time, Renounce Religion,
Evoke Teleport Control
0: Orb of Zot
}: 5/15 runes: serpentine, barnacled, slimy, silver, abyssal
You escaped.
You worshipped Cheibriados.
Cheibriados was exalted by your worship.
You were not hungry.
You visited 12 branches of the dungeon, and saw 69 of its levels.
You visited the Abyss 2 times.
You also visited: Labyrinth, Trove, Bailey, Ice Cave and Wizlab.
You collected 10059 gold pieces.
You spent 3259 gold pieces at shops.
Inventory:
Hand weapons
a - a +8,+8 double sword of freezing (weapon) {ribbed for her pleasure}
(You acquired it on level 6 of the Dungeon)
b - a +5 blowgun
e - the +8,+10 crossbow of Treagun {frost, +Blink rPois rC+}
(You found it in a treasure trove)
It turns projectiles fired from it into bolts of frost.
It protects you from cold.
It protects you from poison.
It lets you blink.
f - a +4,+5 demon blade of flaming
(You took it off a hell knight on level 1 of the Depths)
j - the +4,+12 Glaive of Prune {chop}
(You found it on level 5 of the Shoals)
It inflicts extra damage upon your enemies.
k - the +12,+8 Mace of Variability {chaos}
(You found it on level 5 of the Vaults)
Each time it hits an enemy it has a different, random effect.
Cheibriados disapproves of the use of such an item.
p - the cursed +9,+9 Sword of Zonguldrok {reap, Curse}
(You found it in a wizard's laboratory)
If a monster killed with it leaves a corpse in good enough shape, the corpse
will be animated as a zombie friendly to the killer.
It may recurse itself.
It has a curse placed upon it.
z - the +6,+6 dark maul {crush}
(You found it on level 6 of the Pits of Slime)
It inflicts extra damage upon your enemies.
H - the +8,+8 storm bow {elec}
(You found it on level 1 of the Vaults)
It charges the ammunition it shoots with electricity; occasionally upon a
hit, such missiles may discharge and cause terrible harm.
T - a +2,+4 elven scimitar of distortion
(You took it off a deep elf fighter on level 1 of the Elven Halls)
Z - the +3,+3 Elemental Staff {rElec rF++ rC++ MR++ AC+5}
(You found it on level 4 of the Depths)
It affects your AC (+5).
It greatly protects you from fire.
It greatly protects you from cold.
It insulates you from electricity.
It affects your resistance to hostile enchantments.
Missiles
u - 9 steel javelins
M - 7 javelins of returning (quivered)
Q - 32 curare-tipped needles
Armour
y - a +2 large shield of protection (worn)
(You bought it in a shop on level 4 of the Vaults)
L - a +2 cap of see invisible (worn)
(You found it in a treasure trove)
Magical devices
h - a wand of invisibility (4)
i - a wand of disintegration (7)
n - a wand of teleportation (7)
A - a wand of draining (4)
O - a wand of digging (8)
R - a wand of heal wounds (8)
Comestibles
d - 13 chokos
V - 6 meat rations
Scrolls
o - 4 scrolls of remove curse
J - 2 scrolls of teleportation
Jewellery
g - a +4 ring of protection (left tentacle)
(You took it off Blork the orc on level 5 of the Dungeon)
r - an uncursed amulet of resist mutation
(You found it on level 1 of the Vaults)
s - a ring of magical power (on tentacle)
(You found it on level 2 of the Realm of Zot)
v - a ring of positive energy (on tentacle)
(You found it on level 5 of the Depths)
w - the amulet "Psiutoe" {Ward Str-2 Dex+3 Acc+4}
(You found it on level 5 of the Vaults)
[amulet of warding]
It affects your strength (-2).
It affects your dexterity (+3).
It affects your accuracy (+4).
x - a +4 ring of intelligence (on tentacle)
(You found it on level 2 of the Depths)
D - the ring of Qirhuemn (on tentacle) {rC+ Str+3 Int+4}
(You took it off a centaur warrior on level 4 of the Vaults)
[ring of strength]
It affects your strength (+3).
It affects your intelligence (+4).
It protects you from cold.
F - a +5 ring of protection (right tentacle)
(You found it on level 6 of the Dungeon)
G - the ring of Triwie Tauph (on tentacle) {+cTele Contam rF+ rC++ Int+4 Acc+4}
(You took it off a mermaid on level 2 of the Shoals)
[ring of teleport control]
It affects your intelligence (+4).
It affects your accuracy (+4).
It protects you from fire.
It greatly protects you from cold.
It causes magical contamination when unequipped.
K - a ring of protection from fire (on tentacle)
(You found it on level 5 of the Depths)
P - an uncursed amulet of clarity
(You found it on level 4 of the Depths)
S - an amulet of conservation (around mantle)
(You took it off a deep elf annihilator on level 3 of the Elven Halls)
Potions
m - 2 potions of magic
t - 2 potions of agility
B - 5 potions of brilliance
I - 6 potions of curing
Miscellaneous
l - a phial of floods
q - a lamp of fire
C - a phial of floods
E - a phial of floods
N - a lamp of fire
U - a lantern of shadows
W - a fan of gales
X - a fan of gales
Y - a fan of gales
Rods
c - a +6 rod of frigid destruction (11/11) {!a}
Skills:
+ Level 19.5 Fighting
+ Level 18.5 Long Blades
- Level 4.0 Throwing
- Level 21.4 Dodging
+ Level 17.0 Stealth
- Level 21.0 Shields
- Level 13.0 Spellcasting
- Level 2.1 Charms
- Level 21.6 Summonings
- Level 15.0 Translocations
- Level 2.0 Air Magic
Level 6.7 Poison Magic
+ Level 14.7 Invocations
- Level 13.0 Evocations
You had one spell level left.
You knew the following spells:
Your Spells Type Power Failure Level Hunger
a - Apportation Tloc ########.. 0% 1 None
b - Blink Tloc N/A 0% 2 None
k - Shadow Creatures Summ N/A 0% 5 None
m - Repel Missiles Chrm/Air #####..... 1% 2 None
q - Summon Butterflies Summ ######## 0% 1 None
u - Summon Hydra Summ ########.. 1% 7 ###....
A - Mass Abjuration Summ ########.. 1% 6 None
B - Controlled Blink Tloc N/A 1% 7 ###....
K - Summon Greater Demon Summ ########.. 1% 7 ###....
Q - Demonic Horde Summ ########.. 1% 6 None
Y - Malign Gateway Summ/Tloc ########.. 1% 7 ###....
Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations
Branches:
Dungeon (16/16) Temple (0/1) D:4 Orc (4/4) D:7
Elf (3/3) Orc:3 Lair (8/8) D:13 Shoals (5/5) Lair:5
Snake (5/5) Lair:3 Slime (6/6) Lair:8 Vaults (5/5) Depths:2
Blade (1/1) Vaults:3 Tomb (0/3) Forest:3 Zot (5/5) Depths:6
Forest (5/5) Vaults:2 Depths (6/6) D:16
Altars:
Cheibriados
Elyvilon
Makhleb
Nemelex Xobeh
Sif Muna
Trog
Vehumet
the Shining One
Beogh
Jiyva
Shops:
D:4 ! Orc:2 ? Orc:3 ? Orc:4 ?%%* Elf:3 [ Shoals:1 } Vaults:2 [
Vaults:4 [ Vaults:5 %} Depths:2 [
Portals:
Hell: Depths:1 Depths:2 Depths:3 Depths:4 Depths:5 Depths:6
Abyss: Depths:3 Depths:4
Pandemonium: Depths:1 Depths:3 Depths:5
Annotations:
Lair:1 good demon weapons
Shoals:1 exclusion: oklob plant
Shoals:5 good javs
Forest:1 exclusion: 2 tengu reavers, Boris, Sojobo
Forest:2 exclusion: oklob plant
Forest:5 exclusion: 2 doors
Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations
You cannot wear most types of armour.
You are amphibious.
You can wear up to eight rings at the same time.
You can use your tentacles to constrict many enemies at once.
Your skin changes colour to match your surroundings (Stlth).
Your rubbery body absorbs attacks (AC +1).
You are partially covered in icy blue scales (AC +1).
Your magical capacity is low (-10% MP).
Message History
Your lemure dies!
The blast of hellfire engulfs you!
Your crimson imp hits Cradour but does no damage.
You climb upwards.
You sense a powerful magical force warping space.
There is a stone staircase leading down here.
Huge Dmg: -21%(-42hp) hp: 76%(153hp)
There is a stone staircase leading up here.
You climb upwards.
You sense a powerful magical force warping space.
There is a stone staircase leading down here.
Magic restored.
There is a stone staircase leading up here.
You climb upwards.
You sense a powerful magical force warping space.
There is a stone staircase leading down here.
There is a fountain of clear blue water here.
You feel your intelligence returning.
There is a staircase leading out of the dungeon here.
You have escaped!
Action | 1- 3 | 4- 6 | 7- 9 | 10-12 | 13-15 | 16-18 | 19-21 | 22-24 | 25-27 || total
-------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------++-------
Melee: Falchion | 72 | 193 | 48 | 21 | | | | | || 334
Double sword | | | 163 | 363 | 930 | 1235 | 1257 | 1604 | 2704 || 8256
Scimitar | | | | 6 | 9 | 8 | | | || 23
Demon blade | | | | | | | 34 | 4 | 12 || 50
Unarmed | | | | | | | | 16 | || 16
Staff | | | | | | | | | 10 || 10
Fire: Sling | | 2 | | 9 | | | | | || 11
Blowgun | | | 4 | 42 | 13 | 1 | | | || 60
Throw: Dart | | 8 | 2 | | | | | | || 10
Tomahawk | | | | 69 | 187 | 81 | | | || 337
Javelin | | | | | | 69 | 117 | 81 | 142 || 409
Cast: Summon Scorpions | | | | | 6 | 11 | 4 | 1 | || 22
Repel Missiles | | | | | 2 | 26 | 46 | 43 | 88 || 205
Shadow Creatures | | | | | 15 | 24 | 44 | 12 | 15 || 110
Call Canine Famil | | | | | 8 | 3 | 2 | | || 13
Summon Hydra | | | | | | 17 | 30 | 23 | 60 || 130
Demonic Horde | | | | | | | 4 | 4 | 12 || 20
Malign Gateway | | | | | | | | 3 | 33 || 36
Controlled Blink | | | | | | | | | 14 || 14
Summon Greater De | | | | | | | | | 10 || 10
Mass Abjuration | | | | | | | | | 5 || 5
Blink | | | | | | | | | 4 || 4
Apportation | | | | | | | | | 2 || 2
Invok: Slouch | | | | 8 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 23 | 11 || 82
Bend Time | | | | 5 | | 5 | 7 | 11 | 28 || 56
Temporal Distorti | | | | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 || 21
Step From Time | | | | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 || 6
Abil: Evoke Teleport Co | | | | | | | | 3 | 6 || 9
Evoke: Wand | | 5 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 9 | 14 || 70
Miscellaneous | | | | | | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 || 19
Rod | | | | | | | | | 3 || 3
fan of gales | | | | | | | | | 1 || 1
lamp of fire | | | | | | | | | 1 || 1
Use: Scroll | | 11 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 24 | 36 || 135
Potion | | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 18 || 51
Stab: Sleeping | 1 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 35 | 52 | 47 | 89 | 96 || 343
Distracted | | | 1 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 30 | 14 | 31 || 98
Invisible | | | | | | 49 | | 7 | 35 || 91
Held in net/web | | | | | | 1 | | | || 1
Fleeing | | | | | | | 2 | | 5 || 7
Confused | | | | | | | 1 | | || 1
Paralysed | | | | | | | 1 | | || 1
Petrifying | | | | | | | | | 1 || 1
92668 | Vaults:5 | Entered Level 5 of the Vaults
92668 | Vaults:5 | Noticed an ancient lich
92698 | Vaults:5 | Reached skill level 13 in Stealth
92705 | Vaults:5 | Huge Dmg: 37 dmg
92707 | Vaults:5 | Huge Dmg: 85 dmg
92709 | Vaults:5 | SGrunt: don't die
92709 | Vaults:5 | do I gamble on no warden by stairs or another corridor?
92711 | Vaults:5 | SGrunt: rip
92711 | Vaults:5 | I forgot to bring !magic, too
92714 | Vaults:5 | Huge Dmg: 44 dmg
92718 | Vaults:5 | Huge Dmg: 35 dmg
92718 | Vaults:5 | HP: 5/190 [vault warden/great sword of draining (5)]
92719 | Vaults:5 | Huge Dmg: 16 dmg
92722 | Vaults:5 | SGrunt: IMO use the fire lamp?
92728 | Vaults:5 | now if only I had more blinking
92729 | Vaults:5 | SGrunt: There's another warden kicking around...
92734 | Vaults:5 | nonononono
92734 | Vaults:5 | that sentinil will seal this
92734 | Vaults:5 | SGrunt: You could phial the sentinel?
92739 | Vaults:5 | good sh
92744 | Vaults:5 | 1mp for horde, 2 for cblink
92744 | Vaults:5 | but spirit shield might make it fail
92745 | Vaults:5 | I think I need to cheimove
92749 | Vaults:5 | Reached skill level 7 in Evocations
92756 | Vaults:4 | SGrunt: \o/
Last edited by rchandra on Monday, 18th November 2013, 00:21, edited 1 time in total.
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