Forum:Ultimate ascension run preparation?
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.
