User:Mogri

Current character of awesome

Kletian-Ran-Hum-Mal-Neu found two magic lamps in Minetown and blessed them for two wishes (+2 SDSM and the PYEC).

He has cleared out the Big Room. He didn't do Sokoban (he already has reflection and a BoH), but he did stop by there after ID'ing a cursed scroll of genocide so he could summon nurses. His max HP is now 170, pretty good for a character at XL12. His AC is only at -7; I haven't bought any protection, nor can I afford any at this point. I'm hoping to stumble on Fort Ludios or enchant my armor to the point that it doesn't matter anymore.

He has identified all of the really useful scrolls (enchant weapon, enchant armor, genocide, and of course identify) and many of the more useful potions. He has about 10 holy waters in his bag of holding to help bless anything he needs; he also has a stash of around seven blank scrolls, but up until now no magic marker.

That is, until he ran into a box with an un-ID'd wand on DL14. I engrave tested it and it turned out to be a wand of wishing. Rock on! My first wish was a magic marker. I'm going to write a ton of scrolls, enchant my helm of brilliance up to +5, and genocide L and h. Then I'll have to decide what to do with the other four or five wishes I get from that wand... plus another five or six from the wand in the castle... I like how this game is going.

I got Giantslayer (a longsword) from sacrificing, so my longsword skill is now unrestricted and I have a decent melee weapon at last. My dagger and bow skills are both at Expert and the five enchant weapon scrolls in my bag of holding will go nicely on the Longbow of Diana and whatever longsword I choose for my primary weapon (probably Frost Brand or Fire Brand). I have a ring of teleportation AND a ring of teleport control, but right now I'm only wearing my ring of slow digestion.

I'm feeling lucky again! Maybe this is the game I'll finally ascend!

Past characters of note

• Eiko, a female gnomish Healer. This time, I finally made it down to Minetown at XL1. After donating all of my gold and getting some lucky equipment drops (a +3 pair of boots from a watchman my large cat killed!), my AC was now -9, the lowest I'd ever gotten it. I died on DL 8 when I attempted to pray with 2 HP left. I was killed before I finished my prayer.

• Lily, a female human Monk. I was doing wonderfully. I had a wand of death, great protection, two artifacts, a bag of holding, awesome Luck, and three potions of full healing. I reached DL 20 and saw a giant in the room. I walked toward him to fight when I see a black line and those dreadful words: DYWYPI? Giant with a death ray. Holy crap.

• Marion, a female human Barbarian. I cleared out an opulent throne room early in the game and got two wishes from sitting on it! I wished for a blessed +2 gray dragon scale mail (got +0) and a blessed fireproof +2 pair of boots of speed. Cleared the Mines and Sokoban, then dove a bit. At level 20, I got shot by a death ray and immediately recognized the bones level from my last character, Lily (see below). I looted her stuff and got down to -6 AC. I continued my dive but trapdoored through Medusa's level. This was unfortunate because I didn't have a means of levitation. I cleared out the castle, the Valley of the Dead, and the first floor of Gehennom before breaking down and wasting a wish on a ring of levitation. I returned, cleared the Quest, and donated my way to -17 AC. I have now descended into Gehennom, slaying Juiblex, Vlad, and the Wizard of Yendor and driving off Orcus. Marion finally died at the Wizard's hands after slaying him eight times. I attribute her death to her lack of fire resistance: the fire traps in Gehennom lowered her to 136 max HP. YASD. This was my first non-Wizmode game to get past Medusa and by far my best game to date.

• Lara, a female dwarven Archeologist. (I swear I play guys sometimes.) A successful protection run had her at -8 AC with pretty lame equips, then later at -12 with +2 GDSM (ditching some bulky equipment in favor of spellcasting). A few polymorphs later, my pet was a fire giant, and I crossed paths with Fire Brand quite by accident, which was my weapon of choice despite no proficiency. I cleared Sokoban for an amulet of reflection. I made it down to the Big Room, which was also my quest level. I didn't know they could be on the same level, but there you have it. A few levels below that, I found a nurse and did the nurse thing for a bit, then ran into a cockatrice. Yep, you guessed it. Forgot to re-equip my weapon. YASD. This one had promise, too.