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-Alternatively, dig a hole on each side of the SLEP (the straight-line-Elbereth-path, remember?). ''Also entirely doable with pickaxe, patience, and a masochistic streak.
 
-Alternatively, dig a hole on each side of the SLEP (the straight-line-Elbereth-path, remember?). ''Also entirely doable with pickaxe, patience, and a masochistic streak.
 
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[[User:Joyous Cow|Joyous Cow]] 10:29, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

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So I'm sitting at my stash contemplating my ascension run. (Actually more like a descension-ascension run - I've gotten down to the Valley of the Dead and I think I have everything I'll need to descend through Gehennom, map it as I go, get the amulet, and come back up all in one go. Someone tell me if this is bad idea for some reason.)

Anyway, I was thinking of my first ascension when I took the time to dig a straight line between every set of staircases on every level of the dungeon. And I wondered, what would be the most absurd, neurotic, over-prepared way to prepare for your ascension run? Not as a discussion of actual strategy, but just as a thought exercise/mockery of my first massively over-prepared ascension.

Ideas so far:

-Dig a straight line between every set of staircases on every level. Easily doable with a pickaxe and patience

-Engrave an Elbereth on every tile of the path you just made. I was tempted to say "permanent Elbereth" but that would probably be impossible to accomplish in a single lifetime. Semi-permanent, however, would also be doable with an athame and patience

-Make one long boulder fort walling off each side of the straight-line-Elbereth-path? Um? Lots of scrolls of earth? Lots of reverse genociding giants to throw boulders at you? I'm not sure if this could be done.

-Alternatively, dig a hole on each side of the SLEP (the straight-line-Elbereth-path, remember?). Also entirely doable with pickaxe, patience, and a masochistic streak.

Joyous Cow 10:29, 29 September 2011 (UTC)