Thanks for the pointers, I went with Trog. Turns out there was a Pak altar nearby too. Also found a lightning rod, so that would've been nice with DD's Evo apt. I seem to struggle a bit with piety, I guess I'm too slow somehow.
Anyway, the character is still alive and on D:14 now. Had an extremely close call with a hornet. Berserk at half health was definitely not clever, no curing identified at that point. Was at 1 health after recharging my heal wand, then things got better.
The skill training is really less than great. Never got a decent M&F (+4 dire flail best so far). Miraculously took down Rupert and got his vamp greatsword. The healing is nice, but I miss a lot. Defences feel low.
Bad news: No amulet, no cloak, no enchant armour, bad rings, too little identification.
Good news: Wand of hasting, 2 wands of tele, lightning rod, and...
Just found a Lab and went in, hungry ghosts are a royal pain in the neck. The minotaur is wearing the Orange Crystal Plate! That's great, but how do I kill it?
The options I can see:
- Berserk and hope for the best. Probably disaster.
- Drop down to *** by using BiA. I'd rather keep my piety. Also it's not guaranteed to work.
- Vulnerability and polymorph. If I do that, will I lose the gear? The monster is HD:13, could I end up with something lethal?
- Vulnerability and confuse, hope I don't get hit too much. If it times out badly that could be poor.
- Vulnerability and recharge / paralyze. Might still take a while to kill with that stupid amount of armour.
Any of the non-berserk options have might/haste included. What would
you do?
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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1-48-g4cf74bf (webtiles) character file.
8Hooves2Appendages the Basher (DDWn) Turns: 21706, Time: 05:33:11
Health: 113/117 AC: 16 Str: 17 XL: 13 Next: 12%
Magic: 18/18 EV: 12 Int: 14 God: Trog [****..]
Gold: 743 SH: 0 Dex: 17 (18) Spells: 0 memorised, 12 levels left
rFire . . . SeeInvis . c - +1 great sword (vamp)
rCold . . . Gourm . U - +3 chain mail
rNeg . . . Faith . (shield currently unavailable)
rPois + Spirit . Y - -1 helmet
rElec . Dismiss . (no cloak)
rCorr . Reflect . s - +0 pair of gloves
SustAt . Harm . v - +0 pair of boots
MR +.... (no amulet)
Stlth .......... p - +3 ring of dexterity
b - ring of poison resistance
@: non-regenerating, drained, somewhat resistant to hostile enchantments,
extremely unstealthy
A: damage resistance, recharge devices, sense surroundings 2, slow regeneration
3
a: Device Recharging, Berserk, Trog's Hand, Brothers in Arms, Burn Spellbooks,
Renounce Religion
You are in a labyrinth.
You worship Trog.
Trog is greatly pleased with you.
You are hungry.
You have visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and seen 14 of its levels.
You have also visited: Labyrinth.
You have collected 743 gold pieces.
Inventory:
Hand Weapons
a - a +5 dire flail
c - a +1 vampiric great sword (weapon)
Missiles
t - 322 stones (quivered)
J - 4 silver tomahawks
Armour
s - a +0 pair of gloves (worn)
v - a +0 pair of boots (worn)
U - a +3 chain mail (worn)
Y - a -1 helmet (worn)
Jewellery
b - a ring of poison resistance (left hand)
m - an uncursed ring of positive energy
p - a +3 ring of dexterity (right hand)
G - an uncursed ring of see invisible
Wands
e - a wand of heal wounds (9/9)
o - a wand of teleportation (0/9)
u - a wand of iceblast (1/15)
D - a wand of paralysis {empty}
H - a wand of confusion (7/48)
Q - a wand of teleportation (2/9)
T - a wand of polymorph (11/24)
W - a wand of hasting (2/9)
X - a wand of digging {zapped: 6}
Scrolls
g - 2 scrolls of vulnerability
w - 2 scrolls of fog
x - a scroll of blinking
y - 4 scrolls of magic mapping
B - 6 scrolls of remove curse
F - a scroll labeled JISIUGA QIASKU
N - a scroll labeled QECSIKKUOLE
Z - a scroll labeled BAMUUTHRYLY
Potions
i - a smoky golden potion
j - a potion of haste
q - a potion of curing
z - a golden potion
C - an emerald potion
I - a glowing pink potion
O - a fizzy cyan potion
R - 2 potions of heal wounds
V - 2 potions of might
Books
L - a book of the Earth
Spells Type Level
a - Leda's Liquefaction Hexes/Earth 4
b - Bolt of Magma Conjuration/Fire/Earth 5
c - Statue Form Transmutation/Earth 6
d - Iron Shot Conjuration/Earth 6
e - Shatter Earth 9
Trog disapproves of the use of such an item.
S - a book of Enchantments
Spells Type Level
a - Cause Fear Hexes 4
b - Yara's Violent Unravelling Hexes/Transmutation 5
c - Silence Hexes/Air 5
d - Deflect Missiles Charms/Air 6
e - Haste Charms 6
f - Discord Hexes 8
Trog disapproves of the use of such an item.
Comestibles
f - 5 bread rations
n - 8 fruits
A - 8 slices of pizza
Skills:
- Level 8.0(7.6) Fighting
+ Level 8.8(8.3) Long Blades
- Level 11.2(10.7) Maces & Flails
Level 6.0(5.6) Crossbows
- Level 8.1(7.7) Armour
- Level 10.3(9.9) Dodging
- Level 2.0(1.6) Stealth
Level 1.1(0.7) Shields
Level 1.5(1.2) Hexes
Level 2.6(2.3) Ice Magic
- Level 10.0(9.5) Evocations
You have 12 spell levels left.
You don't know any spells.
Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations
Branches:
Dungeon (14/15) Temple (0/1) D:6 Lair (0/8) D:8
Orc (0/2) D:12
Vaults: D:13-14
Altars:
Dithmenos
Pakellas
Trog
Xom
Annotations:
D:6 exclusion: downstairs
D:7 exclusion: downstairs
D:8 exclusion: downstairs
D:9 exclusion: 2 downstairs
D:10 exclusion: downstairs
D:11 exclusion: 2 downstairs
D:12 exclusions: door and 2 downstairs
Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations
You are resistant to damage.
You can recharge devices by infusing magical energy.
You passively map the area around you.
You do not regenerate naturally.
Message History
You feel yourself slow down.
You feel a little less mighty now.
You feel a sudden draft!
Your magical contamination has completely faded away.
You are feeling hungry.
Eat which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
Okay, then.
Press: ? - help, v - describe, . - travel
A crystal wall.
A minotaur comes into view. It is wielding a great sword.
The minotaur throws a stone. The stone hits you but does no damage.
Found a shiny scale mail. Found an escape hatch in the ceiling.
Evoke which item? (* to show all) (? for menu, Esc to quit)
Zapping: T - a wand of polymorph (11/24)
Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line, f - minotaur
Aim: a minotaur, wielding a great sword and wearing the +8 orange crystal plate armour {Archmagi, Int+3 Clar SustAt} (chance to defeat MR: 31%)
Okay, then.
Press: ? - help, v - describe, . - travel
Here: a minotaur, wielding a great sword and wearing the +8 orange crystal plate armour {Archmagi, Int+3 Clar SustAt}
The floor.
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You can see a minotaur.
Vanquished Creatures
A death yak (D:8)
A tengu warrior (D:12)
An unseen horror (D:12)
3 hill giants
2 deep elf magi (D:13)
4 ugly things
A hornet (shapeshifter) (D:13)
A salamander (D:11)
A manticore (D:11)
Joseph (D:7)
A queen bee (D:11)
2 trolls
Grinder (D:3)
A wind drake (shapeshifter) (D:12)
3 two-headed ogres
15 slime creatures
A vampire (D:9)
A redback (Lab)
A wyvern (D:11)
22 yaks
2 basilisks (Lab)
4 hungry ghosts
4 hippogriffs
Menkaure (D:7)
2 water moccasins
Duvessa (D:6)
9 orc warriors
6 phantoms
A black bear (D:12)
A wasp (D:10)
An eye of draining (D:11)
5 ice beasts
7 ogres
A necrophage (D:6)
7 centaurs
2 crocodiles (D:8)
3 big kobolds
12 giant frogs
Blork the orc (D:5)
A wyvern zombie (D:8)
A water moccasin zombie (D:6)
Dowan (D:6)
2 wyvern skeletons
7 scorpions
33 killer bees
10 wights
3 howler monkeys
12 crimson imps
2 quasits
4 centaur zombies
12 hounds
2 jellies
10 orc priests
3 centaur skeletons
3 giant frog skeletons
14 orc wizards
An iguana (D:6)
7 worker ants
A sheep (D:9)
A hound zombie (D:6)
2 hound skeletons
The ghost of Yamtom the Sneak, a weakling KoEn (D:3)
A worker ant zombie (D:8)
A howler monkey skeleton (D:6)
11 adders
2 shadow imps
2 oozes (D:1)
An adder skeleton (D:4)
6 worms
A dart slug (D:2)
6 giant geckos
42 orcs
4 giant cockroaches
9 goblins
10 hobgoblins
2 jackals (D:10)
33 kobolds
5 quokkas
A ball python (D:1)
A ball python zombie (D:6)
3 bats
7 giant newts
A quokka zombie (D:6)
6 rats
A butterfly (D:6)
423 creatures vanquished.
Vanquished Creatures (collateral kills)
Rupert (D:12)
A rakshasa (D:12)
4 hungry ghosts (Lab)
A mottled dragon (D:13)
7 creatures vanquished.
Vanquished Creatures (others)
3 jackals (D:1)
A giant newt (D:1)
4 creatures vanquished.
Grand Total: 434 creatures vanquished
Notes
Turn | Place | Note
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0 | D:1 | 8Hooves2Appendages the Deep Dwarf Wanderer began the quest for the Orb.
0 | D:1 | 8Hooves2Appendages set off with: a book of Frost, a +0 mace, a scroll of teleportation, a +0 robe, a wand of heal wounds (5/9), a bread ration
0 | D:1 | Reached XP level 1. HP: 15/15 MP: 2/2
229 | D:1 | Reached XP level 2. HP: 17/22 MP: 3/3
234 | D:1 | Reached skill level 3 in Maces & Flails
689 | D:1 | Reached XP level 3. HP: 19/28 MP: 4/4
1141 | D:2 | Reached skill level 4 in Maces & Flails
1162 | D:2 | Found a bloodstained altar of Trog.
1162 | D:2 | Found a shadowy altar of Dithmenos.
1165 | D:2 | Became a worshipper of Trog the Wrathful
1347 | D:2 | Found an oddly glowing altar of Pakellas.
1458 | D:2 | Reached skill level 1 in Fighting
1582 | D:2 | Reached XP level 4. HP: 19/38 MP: 5/5
1697 | D:2 | Reached skill level 1 in Dodging
2152 | D:3 | Noticed Yamtom's ghost (weakling KoEn)
2156 | D:3 | Killed Yamtom's ghost
2219 | D:3 | Reached * piety under Trog
2336 | D:3 | Noticed Grinder
2336 | D:3 | Paralysed by Grinder for 5 turns
2430 | D:3 | Killed Grinder
2430 | D:3 | Reached XP level 5. HP: 45/50 MP: 6/6
2430 | D:3 | Reached XP level 6. HP: 51/57 MP: 7/7
2706 | D:3 | Found a shimmering altar of Xom.
3418 | D:4 | Reached skill level 5 in Maces & Flails
3488 | D:4 | Reached XP level 7. HP: 35/64 MP: 8/8
3761 | D:4 | Reached skill level 6 in Maces & Flails
3995 | D:4 | Reached ** piety under Trog
4579 | D:5 | Entered Level 5 of the Dungeon
4742 | D:5 | Noticed Blork the orc
4760 | D:5 | Killed Blork the orc
4760 | D:5 | Reached skill level 7 in Maces & Flails
4885 | D:5 | Identified the Papyrus of Creative Enchantment
4987 | D:5 | Reached XP level 8. HP: 58/72 MP: 10/10
5233 | D:5 | Reached skill level 8 in Maces & Flails
6630 | D:6 | Reached skill level 5 in Evocations
6725 | D:6 | Found a staircase to the Ecumenical Temple.
6957 | D:6 | Noticed Dowan
7000 | D:6 | Killed Dowan
7007 | D:6 | Noticed Duvessa
7069 | D:6 | Killed Duvessa
7069 | D:6 | Gained mutation: You passively map the area around you. [Deep Dwarf growth]
7069 | D:6 | Reached XP level 9. HP: 78/78 MP: 13/13
7106 | D:6 | Reached skill level 5 in Armour
7447 | D:6 | Reached *** piety under Trog
7711 | D:6 | Noticed a troll
7786 | D:6 | Killed a troll
7786 | D:6 | Reached skill level 5 in Dodging
8394 | D:6 | Found an oddly glowing altar of Pakellas.
8648 | D:7 | Noticed Joseph
8730 | D:7 | Reached skill level 5 in Fighting
9296 | D:7 | Noticed Menkaure
9298 | D:7 | Killed Menkaure
9773 | D:8 | Found a staircase to the Lair.
9775 | D:8 | Noticed a death yak
9986 | D:8 | Reached skill level 9 in Maces & Flails
9986 | D:8 | Reached XP level 10. HP: 48/88 MP: 16/16
10844 | D:9 | Reached **** piety under Trog
11045 | D:9 | Reached skill level 10 in Maces & Flails
12371 | D:10 | Entered Level 10 of the Dungeon
13314 | D:11 | Reached XP level 11. HP: 56/97 MP: 17/17
13500 | D:11 | Reached ***** piety under Trog
13880 | D:11 | Noticed a green ugly thing
13943 | D:11 | Reached skill level 10 in Evocations
14113 | D:11 | Killed a green ugly thing
14471 | D:10 | Reached skill level 11 in Maces & Flails
15301 | D:11 | Noticed a white ugly thing
15311 | D:11 | Killed a white ugly thing
16061 | D:10 | Reached skill level 10 in Dodging
16297 | D:7 | Killed Joseph
16465 | D:8 | Killed a death yak
16617 | D:11 | Received a gift from Trog
16689 | D:11 | Reached skill level 1 in Crossbows
17174 | D:12 | Reached XP level 12. HP: 52/109 MP: 19/19
17408 | D:12 | Reached skill level 5 in Crossbows
17528 | D:12 | Noticed Rupert
17529 | D:12 | Paralysed by Rupert for 3 turns
17669 | D:12 | Killed Rupert
17679 | D:12 | Noticed a rakshasa
17682 | D:12 | Killed a rakshasa
18048 | D:12 | Found a staircase to the Orcish Mines.
18206 | D:11 | Reached skill level 1 in Long Blades
19005 | D:12 | Reached skill level 5 in Long Blades
19178 | D:12 | Noticed a salamander stormcaller
19684 | D:13 | Paralysed by a hornet for 1 turns
19687 | D:13 | Paralysed by a hornet for 2 turns
19693 | D:13 | HP: 8/165 [poisoned by a hornet]
19694 | D:13 | HP: 1/110 [poisoned by a hornet]
19708 | D:13 | Noticed a tengu warrior
19932 | D:13 | Noticed a tengu warrior
19932 | D:13 | Noticed a tengu warrior
20132 | D:12 | Killed a tengu warrior
20348 | D:13 | Reached XP level 13. HP: 108/117 MP: 18/18
20536 | D:13 | Received a gift from Trog
21027 | D:14 | Found a labyrinth entrance.
21039 | Lab | Entered a labyrinth
21705 | Lab | Noticed a minotaur
Skill XL: | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 |
---------------+----------------------------------------+-----
Maces & Flails | 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 | 11.2
Fighting | 1 4 5 6 7 8 | 8.0
Dodging | 2 3 6 8 10 | 10.3
Evocations | 3 5 8 10 | 10.0
Armour | 4 6 7 8 | 8.1
Stealth | 2 | 2.0
Crossbows | 3 6 | 6.0
Long Blades | 8 | 8.8
Shields | | 1.1
Hexes | | 1.5
Ice Magic | | 2.6
Action | 1- 3 | 4- 6 | 7- 9 | 10-12 | 13-15 || total
-------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------++-------
Melee: Mace | 110 | 102 | 145 | | || 357
Flail | | | 238 | 306 | || 544
Dire flail | | | | 299 | || 299
Hand axe | | | | 10 | || 10
Great sword | | | | 223 | 90 || 313
Fire: Hunting sling | 41 | 64 | 68 | 22 | || 195
Blowgun | | | 37 | 73 | || 110
Shortbow | | | | 66 | || 66
Arbalest | | | | 43 | || 43
Throw: Stone | 11 | 2 | 18 | 95 | 7 || 133
Tomahawk | | 1 | 16 | 8 | || 25
Throwing net | | | | | 1 || 1
Invok: Berserk | | 6 | 19 | 47 | 3 || 75
Burn Spellbooks | | 1 | | 2 | || 3
Trog's Hand | | | | 3 | 1 || 4
Brothers in Arms | | | | 2 | 2 || 4
Abil: Device Recharging | | | | 2 | || 2
Evoke: Wand | | 3 | 11 | 36 | 9 || 59
Rod | | | 34 | 75 | || 109
Use: Scroll | 2 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 1 || 26
Potion | | | | 4 | 1 || 5
Stab: Paralysed | | 11 | 15 | | || 26
Confused | | | | 7 | 1 || 8
Distracted | | | | 1 | || 1
Held in net/web | | | | | 3 || 3
Eat: Chunk | 2 | 11 | 36 | 61 | 5 || 115
Bread ration | | | 1 | 2 | || 3
Royal jelly | | | 1 | 8 | 3 || 12
Beef jerky | | | | 2 | || 2
Meat ration | | | | 1 | || 1
Armor: Scale mail | 41 | 32 | 84 | | || 157
Chain mail | | | 28 | | 50 || 78
Plate armour | | | 63 | 91 | 1 || 155
Ring mail | | | | 190 | || 190
Dodge: Dodged | 53 | 33 | 125 | 642 | 41 || 894