Day 11-14: Chilling, spectating, splatting some DEHu
In the first half of the second week I played remarkably less. My main project was to try and win DEHu, Nemelex's choice, but did not succeed. It's not a bad combo. My only win from these days was a GnFi : wanted something good & straightforward for a change. I went Kiku, tried to use corpse delivery a lot (one of my mistakes is that I tend to underuse god abilities). All in all, it was a fun game.
Win Nr 6: GnFi of Kiku
https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/magi ... 111820.txtDay 15-17: Get some more banners
Suddenly, a reasonable combo appeared as Nemelex's Choice: GnAs. Come on, let's do it! Unfortunately, a lot of other guys agreed, so it became a bit of a race. I found a gold dragon armour on D:10 (still pre-Lair), so I decided that bye-bye sneaking, let's bash.
Orc had the Pan ending, with demonspawns guarding the portal and the shops, and one of them gave me a demon trident of flaming. Thanks! My endgame weapon was not that, but Wyrmbane that I found in Elf. In the end I managed to be in the first 8 to win the cmbo, my first Nemelex's Choice III banner ever.
Win Nr 7: GnAs of Ru
https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/m ... 093628.txtI decided to steal some high score from a previously won combo, for another banner. Let's look around for some low-scoring Be in the highscore table! I found HaBe, went for it. I picked up an early sling, trained it up... until in Lair, I found the Leech demon blade (you know, the vamp weapon that is better than vamp). C'mon! Should I give up my nice sling for that crap?! How am I going to beat hydras with that?! Or anything else dangerous, really? OK, let's try it anyway... and it proved to be super powerful. In the endgame, I had an antimagic demon blade to switch to against Orbs, liches and whatnot, but I hardly did.)
In Vaults, I was banished by an elf sorcerer to Abyss:3 (Pay attention, dude! Trog's hand!). I found the rune vault before the exit, it was the bee hive, one of the easy ones. In the end I won the game with 4 runes, which would have been easily enough to grab the highscore... only Rchandra won the combo in the meantime with 5 runes. Oh well.
Win Nr 8: HaBe of Trog
https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/m ... 173340.txtNext, I went for the "win a game in under 50k turns", tried it with another DD. I got an exec axe in D, before the rune branches, and when I branded it I got vamp. Nice.
The game went well with that gear, until Zot: 5. There I got teleportitis 1, and when I tried to cure it I got teleportitis 2... and ran out of mut potions. A few turns later, I was dropped in the middle of one of the inside lungs, with a ton of monsters and all their family in sight. I buffed up, read teleport and started fighting... and cleared almost all the dudes when tele kicked in, and dropped me to the other lung. Renew buffs, fight again, kill-kill-kill, then I teleported out to safety. After that, there were hardly any enemies left on the level, the 2 huge battles cleared them all.
Teleportitis was also kicking in on the orb-run, teleporting me from the cleared path on Z:4 to an uncleared area, full of dracs. Facepalm.
Win Nr 9: DDFi of Makhleb
https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/m ... 093541.txtMy last deed was on the last day was my first ever Speed demon Banner: the 2nd tier (find a rune in 81 minutes), I did it in 80 minutes and 1 second. Great!
(Meanwhile, the fastest win of the tournament is 23 minutes... Is that a world record? Sounds like that).
So 9 wins in all, my best. Comfortably in the top 100. Had fun, good tournament, thanks to the organizers! Also, congrats to the madmen who played competitively, they are fantastic, especially Yermak.