Zot Zealot
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Joined: Thursday, 16th August 2018, 21:19
YASD: Naga Transmuter, murdered in V:5, but don't know why..
Oka ended up giving me the +8 longbow "Zephyr" {speed, Dex+3 SInv}, and I had some fun shooting with it at 0 skill, so I decided to train for it. The alternative would have been to get some offensive ranged spells going, but since I never found any and the bow was nice, I'm happy with my choice.
I realise I accidentally dropped Zephyr instead of a less-good artefact bow at some point. This may have contributed to my demise.
Oka also gave me the +2 helmet "Xeacae" {rC- Int+7} and some other good gear, and I ended up with pretty high Stength, Int, Dex, MR, and AC. The only slot I didn't get something good in was my cloak.
I finished the Shoals, Spider, Elf, Depths, Crypt, and V:1-4. Vault felt rather easy, and I'd done Crypt after doing V:1-4. I just needed one more rune to enter ZOT and claim the Orb. I buffed up with Heroism, took a shaft into V:5, and got absolutely massacred. I still don't understand why.
I landed in a treasure vault, in sight of some books and evokables. I read a scroll of mapping, shot the bow a few times. At that point I realised enemies were arriving faster than I could kill them with the bow. I thought that I'd killed a few enemies in my current location, and the whole map would be full of enemies, so it wouldn't make sense to teleport. I switched to blade hands, and got Finesse. Read a scroll of summoning which appeared to work. Somehow my summons were getting killed, despite them outnumbering their enemies. I read another scoll of summoning. Got stuck between a gold dragon and a storm dragon. Quaffed heal wounds. Tried to kill the storm dragon. And then got killed by lightning.
Last time I shafted into V:5 (with a Formicide) I didn't need to fight near as many enemies. Also, I didn't expect the enemies I fought to be much tougher than they'd been in V:4.
I certainly could have equipped more appropriate gear. The +1 naga barding of Contentment {rElec rF+ rC+} in particular would have provided better protection against lighting.
Here's the character dump: https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/petercordia3/morgue-petercordia3-20190212-105633.txt
[Edited to correct the link and clarify a statement]