Zot Zealot
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sudden death challenge week 4 - FoEn
6 consecutive weeks there is a race-background combo you're encouraged to play, and there are additional challenges, such as worshipping particular gods and getting the 1st rune without going into lair.
CSDC imposes a Formicid Enchanter this week, with the gods Vehumet, Cheibriados, Wu Jian. The challenge is to get to end of Lair with XL<12, and to the end of Vaults with XL<18.
I'm almost certainly going to go with Chei, and I'll try to enter Zot at XL 20.
I'm actually slightly worried about the initial period where I have a speed of 1.3 and no boosts. I spend a lot of time kiting with my Formicide because my hexes keep not applying. OK that's not entirely fair because sometimes my hexes work the first time. However some enemies resist >6 hexes in a row.
One question which isn't really related to the challenge: I have this unidentified artifact spear. It's probably junk, but it could have *contam or the distortion brand or +10 Int, +inv. Would you wield-id it, scroll-id it or neither? On a normal character I'd just yolo wield-id it, but this game I actually mind if that causes a game-over.
https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/pete ... cordia.txt