YASD: KoCK of Lugonu

[mageykun]

First established character on the new laptop bites the dust. No numpad, so I had to learn to use YUBN for diagonals. Not that hard to get used to- it just slowed me down a little. Probably not a bad thing.

So: Chaos Knight of Lugonu just because I like the flavor, and kobold cause they're fun, scrappy, and easily fed. Possibly not the best race / job match, but whatevers.

Highlights:

Found a short sword of venom and amulet of rage early on. Played like a KoBe while I was building up piety and invocations, saved banishment for emergencies.

The swamp was filled with uniques. Frigging Mara was waiting on swamp 5, and I was only level 14! I managed to use stairs to sneak around him to the vault, corrupted my way in, apported the rune, and ran for it.

Had the Lair end with dire elephants vault- once you're deep enough in, the dire elephant statues at the entrance come to life and come after you! To whoever designed that vault- that was inspired! Fun and scary.

Awful game for loot- I found only one source of rPois the whole game, fairly late, and every single artifact I found was heavy negative, or something too big for me. Took forever to find see Invs too- I kept having to retreat from things I couldn't see. (Invisible lightning throwers drove me from the wizlab!)

Was planning on enchanting and corrupting a quick blade of distortion if I ever found one. Maybe I waited too long to make my distortion weapon? Would have been easier to find a good base weapon to use if I was playing a different race.

In the end, I was wishing I'd gone with Okawaru. Really could have used some good god gifts, and all that Lugonu piety wasn't doing anything for me...

  Code:

 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.7.1-1-g7ce9b19 character file.

207134 Snipe the Spry (level 20, -9/138 HPs)
             Began as a Kobold Chaos Knight on Dec 21, 2010.
             Was the Champion of Lugonu.
             Killed from afar by a merfolk aquamancer (64 damage)
             ... with a shard of ice
             
             ... on Level 5 of the Shoals on Dec 24, 2010.
             The game lasted 13:03:33 (97167 turns).

Snipe the Spry (Kobold Chaos Knight)                                                   Turns: 97167, Time: 13:03:33

HP  -9/138       AC 11     Str 15      Exp: 20/328267 (2), need: 24733
MP  32/33        EV 31     Int 10      God: Lugonu [******]
Gold 828         SH 24     Dex 28      Spells:  7 memorised, 20 levels left

Res.Fire  : . . .   See Invis. : .   a - +3,+4 short sword (venom)
Res.Cold  : . . .   Warding    : .   K - +1 ring mail {MR}
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   Z - +2 elf buckler
Res.Poison: .       Res.Corr.  : .   R - +0 horned helmet
Res.Elec. : .       Clarity    : +   (no cloak)
Spirit.Shd: .       Stasis     : .   H - +0 pair of gauntlets {Str+3}
Sust.Abil.: . .     Rnd.Telep. : .   n - +1 pair of dwarf boots
Res.Mut.  : .       Ctrl.Telep.: .   F - amulet of clarity
Res.Rott. : .       Levitation : +   A - +5,+4 ring of slaying
Saprovore : + + .   Ctrl.Flight: .   V - +6 ring of dexterity

@: levitating, very slightly glowing, very resistant to hostile enchantments, extraordinarily stealthy
A: carnivore 3, saprovore 2, Str -1
a: Depart the Abyss, Bend Space, Banish, Corrupt, Enter the Abyss, Renounce Religion


You were on level 5 of the Shoals.
You worshipped Lugonu.
Lugonu was exalted by your worship.
You were completely stuffed.

You visited 12 branches of the dungeon, and saw 61 of its levels.
You visited the Abyss 2 times.
You visited 1 bazaar.
You visited 1 portal chamber: wizlab.

You collected 4405 gold pieces.
You spent 3597 gold pieces at shops.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 a - a +3,+4 short sword of venom (weapon)
 b - a +0 blowgun
 T - a +2,+3 orcish falchion of holy wrath
Missiles
 h - 31 +1 dwarven darts (quivered)
 k - 19 poisoned +0 needles
 B - 4 +2 needles of slowing
 D - 9 curare-tipped +0 needles
Armour
 n - a +1 pair of dwarven boots (worn)
 H - a +0 pair of gauntlets of strength (worn)
 K - a +1 ring mail of magic resistance (worn)
 R - a +0 horned helmet (worn)
 Z - a +2 elven buckler (worn)
Magical devices
 c - a wand of cold (7)
 d - a wand of fire (4)
 i - a wand of digging (4)
 j - a wand of confusion (1)
 p - a wand of teleportation (7)
 w - a wand of magic darts (9)
 E - a wand of disintegration (8)
 N - a wand of lightning (1)
 O - a wand of draining (4)
 S - a wand of polymorph other (3)
 U - a wand of paralysis (10)
Comestibles
 G - a chunk of snapping turtle flesh
Scrolls
 g - 2 scrolls of teleportation
 m - a scroll of detect curse
 t - 4 scrolls of remove curse
 z - a scroll of enchant weapon I
Jewellery
 f - an uncursed amulet of resist mutation
 l - an uncursed amulet of rage
 q - an uncursed ring of teleportation
 r - the ring of Blitzuko {MP+9, unknown}
   (You found it on level 3 of the Shoals)   
   [ring of magical power]
   It affects your accuracy (+2).
   It makes you much less stealthy.
 x - an uncursed ring of see invisible
 y - an uncursed amulet of conservation
 A - a +5,+4 ring of slaying (right hand)
 F - an amulet of clarity (around neck)
 M - an uncursed ring of protection from fire
 Q - an uncursed ring of poison resistance
 V - a +6 ring of dexterity (left hand)
 Y - an uncursed ring of teleport control
Potions
 e - a potion of might
 v - 2 potions of speed
 C - a potion of invisibility
 I - 4 potions of healing
 P - 2 potions of restore abilities
 W - 2 potions of heal wounds
Magical staves
 s - a +0 rod of destruction [lightning,iron,fireball] (14/14)
   (You found it on level 3 of the Shoals)
Miscellaneous
 o - a lantern of shadows


 You had 2 experience left.

   Skills:
 + Level 15 Fighting
 - Level 15 Short Blades
 - Level 3 Long Blades
 - Level 5 Throwing
 + Level 7 Armour
 + Level 15 Dodging
 + Level 14 Stealth
 + Level 14 Stabbing
 + Level 9 Shields
 + Level 3 Traps & Doors
 + Level 3 Unarmed Combat
 + Level 6 Spellcasting
 + Level 3 Enchantments
 - Level 4 Summonings
 + Level 9 Translocations
 - Level 2 Air Magic
 + Level 13 Invocations
 - Level 3 Evocations


You had 20 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power          Success   Level
a - Apportation           Tloc           ####......     Excellent   1
b - Summon Butterflies    Summ           ###.......     Great       1
c - Magic Dart            Conj           #....          Fair        1
d - Blink                 Tloc           N/A            Excellent   2
e - Levitation            Air/Ench       ##........     Good        2
f - Repel Missiles        Air/Ench       ##........     Good        2
g - Swiftness             Air/Ench       ##........     Good        2


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (19/27)            Temple (1/1) D:7             Orc (4/4) D:6
    Elf (7/7) Orc:4          Lair (8/8) D:11          Swamp (5/5) Lair:2
 Shoals (5/5) Lair:6        Slime (1/6) Lair:8         Hive (2/2) D:12
  Vault (7/8) D:16          Blade (1/1) Vault:5       Crypt (1/5) Vault:4

Altars:
Cheibriados
Elyvilon
Fedhas
Kikubaaqudgha
Makhleb
Nemelex Xobeh
Okawaru
Sif Muna
The Shining One
Trog
Vehumet
Xom
Yredelemnul
Zin
Beogh

Shops:
D:4: ?  D:6: (  D:10: *  D:12: /  D:16: %  Orc:3: +  Elf:1: (  Elf:2: %  Elf:3: =  Elf:5: [  Vault:3: ?
Vault:4: (  Vault:5: *  Vault:6: [

Portals:
Hell: D:18

Annotations
D:3 exclusions: 2 downstairs and upstairs
D:4 Snake's ghost!
D:5 exclusion: upstairs
D:13 exclusion: downstairs
D:15 exclusions: downstairs and upstairs
D:16 exclusion: Roxanne
D:17 exclusion: upstairs
Lair:4 exclusion: downstairs
Swamp:4 exclusion: downstairs
Swamp:5 Mara, corrupted!
Shoals:3 exclusion: oklob plant
Vault:1 Stash hidden in crystal stairs vault
Vault:4 exclusion: downstairs
Crypt:1 Frederick!


                    Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You recuperate from illness quickly.
You are small and have problems with some larger weapons.
You are carnivorous and can eat meat at any time.
You can eat rotten meat.
You are weak (Str -1).


Message History

You are engulfed in a cloud of scalding steam!
You hit the merfolk aquamancer.
The merfolk aquamancer is moderately wounded.
You are engulfed in a cloud of scalding steam!
The merfolk aquamancer points at you and mumbles some strange words.
The shard of ice hits you!
You die...

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You could see a merfolk aquamancer, a manticore and a merfolk.



I think this the first time I've died in the shoals. Before, I've always waited till I could breeze through, or had the wits to steer clear and get killed somewhere else.

[radzia]

Wandering through the shoals can be very deadly, it is like fighting with lich, it can be easy but something can go wrong = YASD,

Awful game for loot

you didnt mentioned about this ring of slaying thou , your damage dealing abilities were good, venom works well even in deeper regular dungeon,in your place i would go deeper into regular to hunt some gigants, the closed spaces are safer and easier for stabbing purposes

Maybe I waited too long to make my distortion weapon?

yep, if you looked for "normal" 3-runer you should get distort - with distortion sword, ring of slaying and those enchant weapon scrolls hidden in your stash, it would be enough to clear zot i suppose

[lucy_ferre]

I usually create a distortion weapon at level 16, when I worship Lugonu. High damage potential and a chance to banish monsters are worth the risks to me. Though, I mainly worship her for speed runs.

[danr]

How do you create a distortion weapon?

[Un67]

Corrupt your weapon - If you pray on an altar while your Piety is >= 160 and wielding a non-artifact weapon which doesn't have the Distortion brand, Lugonu will corrupt your weapon. Corrupting a weapon removes any curse, adds +1d2/+1d2 to its enchantment, and adds the Distortion brand to it. This is free, but can only be done once per game.

[mageykun]

The ring of slaying was a late acquisition- I bought in in a shop in elf 5 I think. And I was in elf right before the shoals. So... really didn't have very long at all to be grateful for that.

Any advice on what base I should have used to make my distortion weapon with? Obviously a quick blade would have been killer- but I wasn't sure what to go with in leu of that. I think holding out too long for elusive the quick blade was my biggest mistake.

[gb]

Any advice on what base I should have used to make my distortion weapon with? Obviously a quick blade would have been killer- but I wasn't sure what to go with in leu of that. I think holding out too long for elusive the quick blade was my biggest mistake.

if i were you i would use a sabre, i think with kobolds where you're maxing DEX you need the biggest base damage you can get, especially if you're not worshipping trog. i've never thought quick blades were that great, however.