Most ridiculous run

[zdzichorowerzysta]

So first, I've found GOLD DRAGON ARMOUR in Dungeon:2! I was like wtf...



And then, in Lair: 5 a DAMN PORCUPINE killed me -.- pathetic



Post your most ridiculous runs

[sweetrabies]

VpEE, shafted from D:1 to D:3 before fighting anything, landed near some up stairs which led to an immediate ambush by Jessica and some other monsters, tried to kill Jessica with a couple of sandblasts to get some XP but failed, ran to another down stairs which put me near a gnoll and a bat, so I tried running away from them while kiting with sandblasts before finally getting run down and killed.

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 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.2 (tiles) character file.

0 Carmina the Sneak (level 1, -2/13 HPs)
             Began as a Vampire Earth Elementalist on Sept 6, 2015.
             Slain by a gnoll
             ... wielding a +0 whip
              (4 damage)
             ... on level 3 of the Dungeon.
             The game lasted 00:02:04 (70 turns).

Carmina the Sneak (Vampire Earth Elementalist)        Turns: 70, Time: 00:02:04

Health: -2/13      AC:  2    Str:  7    XL:     1   Next: 0%
Magic:  0/3        EV: 12    Int: 17    God:   
Gold:   0          SH:  0    Dex: 14    Spells: 1 memorised, 3 levels left

rFire  . . .     SeeInvis +     b - 15 stones
rCold  . . .     Clarity  .     c - +0 robe
rNeg   + . .     SustAb   .     (no shield)
rPois  .         Gourm    .     (no helmet)
rElec  .         Spirit   .     (no cloak)
rCorr  .         Warding  .     (no gloves)
rMut   .         Stasis   .     (no boots)
MR     .....                    (no amulet)
Stlth  ++........               (no ring)
                                (no ring)

@: not resistant to hostile enchantments, unstealthy
A: bottle blood, fangs 3, see invisible, unbreathing
a: no special abilities


You were on level 3 of the Dungeon.
You were not thirsty.

You visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and saw 3 of its levels.

Inventory:

Missiles
 b - 15 stones (in hand)
Armour
 c - a +0 robe (worn)
Scrolls
 e - a scroll of remove curse {unknown}
Potions
 a - a potion of blood
Books
 d - a book of Geomancy   
   
    Spells                             Type                      Level
    a - Sandblast                    Earth                         1
    b - Stoneskin                    Transmutation/Earth           2
    c - Passwall                     Transmutation/Earth           3
    d - Stone Arrow                  Conjuration/Earth             3
    e - Petrify                      Transmutation/Earth           4
    f - Lee's Rapid Deconstruction   Earth                         5


   Skills:
 - Level 2.1 Dodging
 - Level 3.0 Stealth
 - Level 2.0 Spellcasting
   Level 1.1 Transmutations
 + Level 3.0 Earth Magic


You had 3 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Sandblast             Erth           ##....       6%          1    #......


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (3/15)           

Altars:

Annotations:
D:2 Jessica


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You can bottle blood from corpses.
You have razor-sharp teeth.
You have supernaturally acute eyesight.
You can survive without breathing.


Message History

The gnoll is severely wounded.
The bat closely misses you. The gnoll barely misses you.
The bat hits you.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
Unknown command.
Unknown command.
The bat hits you.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
Found an iron ring. Found a stone staircase leading down.
The bat misses you.
The bat hits you but does no damage.
The bat closely misses you.
There is a stone staircase leading up here.
The bat closely misses you.
The bat closely misses you.
The bat hits you but does no damage.
The bat closely misses you.
There is a stone staircase leading down here.
The bat hits you but does no damage. The gnoll hits you with a whip.
You die...

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  ..........b@........
  ..........g.........
 ....................
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You could see a gnoll and a bat.


Notes
Turn   | Place    | Note
--------------------------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1      | Carmina, the Vampire Earth Elementalist, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1      | Reached XP level 1. HP: 13/13 MP: 3/3
    38 | D:2      | Noticed Jessica
    70 | D:3      | Slain by a gnoll


Action                   || total
-------------------------++-------
 Cast: Sandblast         ||     5

[milski]

So first, I've found GOLD DRAGON ARMOUR in Dungeon:2! I was like wtf...



And then, in Lair: 5 a DAMN PORCUPINE killed me -.- pathetic



Post your most ridiculous runs

There are several things deeply wrong with this picture.

[daggaz]

Your best weapon is a +0 flail and you are in Lair:5
You have a stack of unused ?EA and ?EW
You have blink and tele up the wazzoo and could easily have left
You have a stack of ?removecurse and are wearing a cursed ring of loudness
You have a ring of protection you are not wearing
You have a stack of ?fear
You are wearing an amulet of warding
You have a stack of !might and !agi and !rage and arent using them here
You died to a porcupine

I'm sure there is more...

[twelwe]

there was nothing you could do, and there never is, and don`t listen to people who say otherwise. rest...

[Turukano]

Post your most ridiculous runs

This should be the following one, I think I already mentioned it to be my shortest game ever. Yes, there are shorter games from other players but that's another story.

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Turn   | Place    | Note
--------------------------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1      | Turgon, the Ogre Monk, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1      | Reached XP level 1. HP: 20/20 MP: 0/0
     0 | D:1      | --OgWz failed, Ce ghost :-|
     3 | D:1      | --immediately gnoll, what is this??
    12 | D:1      | --easy answer
    12 | D:1      | --it's a new game
    12 | D:1      | Slain by a gnoll


Full morgue file is here.

[daggaz]

The very first time I decided I knew enough about crawl to try to play a squishy caster, I was torn to shreds by a pack of jackals IN the starting vault. Fun times. Fun times.

[dynast]

When i saw d:2 GDA on a gargoyle i thought you were going to get double smite on the next floor, but then you made it even more epic by dying because you decided to attack a porcupine.

[milski]

Your best weapon is a +0 flail and you are in Lair:5
You have a stack of unused ?EA and ?EW
You have blink and tele up the wazzoo and could easily have left
You have a stack of ?removecurse and are wearing a cursed ring of loudness
You have a ring of protection you are not wearing
You have a stack of ?fear
You are wearing an amulet of warding
You have a stack of !might and !agi and !rage and arent using them here
You died to a porcupine

I'm sure there is more...

He's still carrying around negative potions/scrolls.
He has invested up to 27 strength despite only needing 23 for GDA.
His highest skill is shields, somewhere between 15 and 20; any investment past 15 was definitely worthless.
It looks like he has zero investment in the dodging skill despite having enough EXP to mindelay weapon+depenalize shield. Though he is in an older version, so maybe it's a really old version with minimum ranks before dodging becomes useful.

[WingedEspeon]

27 strength isn't too bad as he is wearing a ring of strength which he probably want to ditch later. also getting a little bit of strength (25 ish for GDA) above the ER of your armour is actually good.

[duvessa]

He has invested up to 27 strength despite only needing 23 for GDA.

this idea that you should have str equal to encumbrance rating needs to go away
it is completely, utterly, egregiously wrong
the actual amount of str you want (as opposed to raising dex or int) is almost always higher if you use spells, and almost always lower if you don't

[nago]

From my experience, raising str>ER is better than raising dex to get some ev, at least up some point, like +10/20% str
Isn't that so?

[daggaz]

STR also increases your damage with melee weapons it would seem by a fairly decent amount.

At any rate, I was going to mention his abysmal EV score as well but figured there was more than enough there as it was. I mean, I didn't even mention his two wands which he could have used to dig a kill hole for the previous elephants or to just paralize the stupid porcupine.

[dynast]

If you are wearing GDA, have a negative dodging apt and less than 20 dex, why would you even bother with EV? the early exp investment will just handcap you considering you could train something else, like invo or evo.
I gotta agree with duvessa though, if you are not increasing str for the sake of spells you are not increasing your survivability.

[Siegurt]

If you are wearing GDA, have a negative dodging apt and less than 20 dex, why would you even bother with EV? the early exp investment will just handcap you considering you could train something else, like invo or evo.
I gotta agree with duvessa though, if you are not increasing str for the sake of spells you are not increasing your survivability.

At some point, training dodging will give you better survivability returns than anything else, that point is usually before the end of a 3 rune game even with poor aptitude, gdr, and <20 dex, but it may not be until quite late in those specific circumstances.

[Ceann]

I am inclined to believe that the cause of death was overconfidence in GDA and excessive application of elbow to the Tab key.