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This is the first time I've done anything like this, so no promises.  I plan to update this thread (as time permits) until my little Spriggan is dead or I recover the Orb of Zot.

Happy Hedonist started life as a level 1 Spriggan Stalker.  I had started playing him before Schild created the Radicalthon, so this initial post will be a summary of what my little shit head has been up to thus far.

Here is a current char dump.


So far Happy Hedonist has stabbed, poisoned, and confused his way to the lair level 3.  My current plan is to grind my way through the lair and then head back to the Orcish Mines, which I skipped.  After clearing the mines I will head towards the swamp in hopes of recovering my first rune.  I will start doing more screenshots as I progress, but right now I only have a couple. 

Here we see HH's initial start.

(http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt215/saarsena/HH_start.jpg)

And here is my prized possession at the moment.  Now I just have to decide as to whether I want invisibility or teleport other next.

(http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt215/saarsena/bookofpower.jpg)

This is HH right now.

(http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt215/saarsena/current.jpg)

Here's hoping that ghost doesn't fuck me up and my next post is not my last!

Well fuck!  I killed my ghost with the help of a wand of fire, worked my way to lair level 7, and then proceeded to get ass-raped by a whole lot of yaks backed by brown snakes and giant frogs.  This game is hard.  I haven't quite decided what my next class/combo is going to be but I'm leaning towards deep elf conjurer. 

Here is my morgue file. 


Here are some interesting screen shots of things that happened before I died.

Dead ghost!
(http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt215/saarsena/Deadghost.jpg)

Me backstabbing a firedrake.
(http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt215/saarsena/deaddrake.jpg)

The entrance to lair level 6.
(http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt215/saarsena/entrancelair6.jpg)

I think for my next run I'm going to stop grinding in the lair after about level 5 and then head back to the Orcish Mines.  Lair Levels 6+ gets pretty mean.  This game is like crack!

What game is this?  I never got into the rogue-likes (if that's what this is) and am clueless.  Looks great.

It's Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (http://crawl-ref.sourceforge.net/).

Oh god.

This is going to be like learning DF all over again, isn't it?  Downloaded the tileset, not sure how to plug it in...  :uhrr:

Nope.

Deep elf Conjurer is quite good.
Also, Orc Priest of Beogh, leading around hordes of adoring orcs is hella sweet!  The ones that survive will gain xp/classes and get names.
Also Also, Sludge Elf Transmuter works pretty well, and is a bit of a different experience.  Exploding potions and blade hands.

Killed your own ghost but got slain by a yak?

Yeah, that's... yeah.

I wish I would have taken a screen shot, but I was too pissed at the time.  I was surrounded by about 6 yaks and several other snakes and such without enough mana to blink.  Getting killed by a herbivore... grrr.

Beware to all, lair 6+ seems to be chocked full of mean shit.  I just lost another character on lair level 8 last night.

I'm going to do another thread soon, probably next week.  I'm deciding between a Vampire Enchanter and a Deep Elf Conjurer.

Also, I  :heart: DCSS.  I haven't been this addicted to a game since EQ, no shit.

Yaks aren't that bad, it's the death yaks I hate...

Just visited L9 of the Lair myself with my 15 Conjurer.  Went down the stairs smack in the middle of 3 death yaks and 3 blink frogs.  If it wasn't for lucky rolls w/mephitic cloud, I would have met my end right there too.  Death Yaks do in fact suck.

Bah, I suck at this. Haven't managed to get deeper than L2 myself! No patience  :uhrr:

Personally, I usually get killed by some ogre or named guy (who turns invisible and rapes my face). I'm at the point where I'm just going to run from Ogres. I refuse to play Spriggans though.

I might be missing something, but I am not dominating this game by any means. I throw lots of shit, try kiting but in the end something dumb always gets me. It's like I'm missing one thing, some ability I don't know about and then I would be awesome for reals!

Sigmund sucks ass, especial on level 2.  At lunch I killed him by making him chase me down a hall and just shot arrows down hall.  In spite of being invisible, the arrows still hit him.

Is there a way for people who don't start with books can use the books they find?

I think it depends on the class and the book.  For instance my Spriggan Stalker could read the 'Book of Power' I found.

Yeah, you have to read scrolls until you gain the Spellcasting skill.  Be sure to read the scrolls while you have available xp.

So I finally got my Conj a see invisible item, took a scroll of acquirement to do it.  The elf rapeage has been commencing steadily.  Fireball and Mehpitic Cloud are excellent for elf raping. 

My main hint for starting:  Use auto explore

• it will automatically stop everytime an enemy shows up, so you don't give it any free hits.

My other hint:  Go slow, patience is a virtue.  Consider carefully your moves in tough situations, run away if possible, use your items, figure out what your items are before you get into tough spots so you can use them.
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I think the only reason I got as far as I did with my conjurer was a lucky roll got me a dagger of protection (+5 AC) early on.

Here he is, if anyone is interested.

Not being able to sell to merchants makes me QQ.

Yeah, I have been doing all that. Maybe I'm just getting unlucky or choosing shit classes. Half the time I random it for LOLs

Well, tried Deep Elf Conjurer...got like a 10k score so I feel better.

Ended up dying to 1 swing from a hill giant...From full to dead. I had SOOOO many ways I coulda got out of that situation, yet I tried for one more cast, not expecting the 45 point swing. I had 44 health. Lesson learned.

That's harsh.  Post up the Morgue file if you don't mind...

Most damage I've taken so far in 1 shot was from an Elven Sorc on L7 of Elven Halls, he throws some fire spell that does 65+ thru 2 levels of fire resist.  Ouch.  The second worst was from some elf with a lightning bolt that hit me 3 times off one cast.  Learned that lesson, watch how you stand in relation to things that might throw spells that bounce off walls.  But somehow my guy still lives on, getting so I don't want to play him because I know death is just around the corner.

Is it not true that Mephitic Cloud is the best thing ever?

Also, I might have totally messed up by sticking with a +1 robe. How does armor/weapons effect your spellcasting?

And yes....confusing nearing anything then nuking the fuck out of them is great. I found a transmutation book I think it was that allowed me to learn blink and some other stuff, and a war chant book that gave me haste and repel missiles. I was rockin.

Oh well. I'll post the morgue file tonight.

I also, throughout that whole time, never found a single ID scroll.

I believe that Leather and Robes are the same for casting, Heavy armor(pretty much anything else) makes casting "slightly more difficult" depending on your armor skill (which you get when you wear heavy armor).  What that means exactly I'm not too sure of, I've been sticking with the light stuff.  Pretty sure weapons don't effect casting at all.

Did you find yourself using Haste a lot?  How bad is the magical contamination from it?  I am having trouble deciding if I want a direct damage spell next or Haste.  Right now I regularly use fireball on single enemies because it's my highest damage spell, but that's rather wasteful.

No ID scrolls is a royal PITA.  FYI for some reason Identify is very hard to cast, I had to get my divination up to 8 or so before I had a fair chance to cast it, and it still failed all the time.  Fireball (same level) had a good or excellent cast chance when my fire magic was at the same level.  OTOH, it would be worth it if you had no id scrolls, and the spell I used to get Div way up there (detect creatures) is actually extremely useful, it tells you where every creature is on the level and what basic sort of creature they are.

Another hint for casters is to be sure and get some Fighting skill.  You can hit plants to get to level 2 in it, and that's a decent chunk of bonus hps.

I had a whip of electrocution that kicked some ass too. Whoever recommended the class, props to ya. They are just bombers!

I've spent the last couple days trying to get a Minotaur Berserker past level 5.  Ranged/Magic classes seem much easier to get up and running.  It could be the fact I'm sick as fuck and not thinking clearly, but I'm definitely having a more difficult time with melee classes.  It seems you really have to get lucky on drops to stand a chance whereas a ranged class can just kite.

My current run is looking promising, finally, and I'm hoping this all pays off a little later.  I haven't been looking at many spoilers so I'm hoping I get some pretty nice abilities soon.

Best I did was like a level 7 Chaos Knight, and that was because I was ole boy's 'plaything' and he gave me a demon that raped a few tough monsters for me. Then fucked with me, took my awesome scythe and animated it against me, i had to use a tele scroll to escape.

I think that should be the next challenge to all! Make a bad ass melee guy.

I think a straight melee is def. doomed to failure, you need some ranged attack.  There's just too much stuff that is too risky to fight in straight melee when you first run into it, especially at the lower levels.

Bows are excellent and plentiful once you bash some elves, blowguns use dart skill and poisonate everything, also plentiful if you see more than a few kobolds.

Getting dusted as a human fighter (totally original, I know).  Farthest I got was level 5.  Ogres for the lose at close range.  Still have a sense of "No!!!!!one!!" at the permadeath screen.

Am playing the fuck out of this game.

I've had luck with demonspawn Death Knights (of Yre-whatever).  I just pick up all the arrows and bolts  and use the first bow or crossbow I find.  A few lucky demonspawn mutations can make it a lot easier, and have a couple pet zombies running around can buy some critical extra time. 

Farthest I've gotten is with a draconian wizard who turned grey at 7 (actually the only drac I've had live long enough to change) - probably the best thing that could have happened, with the extra hp and ac.  Level 14, baby!  ... and then I ran out of mp in the middle of a crowd.  While starving.   :uhrr:   

Ok, having fun with a Demi-God Reaver.  How do I equip my second hand (d)? 

Anyone tried a Warper?

Equip second hand?  Not sure I follow, this game doesn't have dual wield afaik.  If you mean a 2 handed weapon, that is automatic.

I've tried a spriggan warper, found the translocate school to be lacking.  In order to control a casted blink, you have to have teleport control active and even then it's a crap shoot.  I'm bitter because I actually got pretty far and when I needed to blink it failed 2 times in a row, apparently because it couldn't place me in the direction I was trying to blink or somesuch.

I talking about the second weapon.  Like a dagger, the one you will throw and use to cut corpse.  I wanted cut a corpse with a knife since the description said it was good at it.   It always use my equiped dagger instead.

I think the knife mentions that it can be used to butcher just so it doesn't seem so useless?  Any edged weapon can butcher corpses.  If you equip the knife then butcher it should use it.

I finally gave up on the Minotaur Beserker and ended up trying out a Hill Orc Priest.  I'm in love.  A small army of fellow orcs + smite = love.  Just be sure to pick up the armor and shield skills asap.

I may do another little AAR with my new favorite class/race combo come Monday or Tue, but no promises.

Ok, this is ridiculous.  As if elves didn't have a hard enough time surviving the early levels.

Ha.  There's a hidden door in that picture - hit 5 (rest/search) and you'll find it. 

I'm learning there's a lot more hidden doors (occasionally with lewts behind them) than I previously thought.  There's a Traps and Doors skill- you can practice by hitting Control-(movement) towards a trap to try to disarm it.  Make sure you have experience in your pool and that your health is high... failing a trap disarm means setting off the trap.

Found Dwarven +3 Plate on D1 with my Demonspawn Deathknight of Yred!  :drill:



... and then I died in a gnoll/jackal staircase party on D3.  Time for a break. 

I am still trying to figure out why I got 3 demon to wffbbq me when I tried to summon my ice beast.

I know that the corresponding skill(ice magic) plays some role, sending demons out seems a bit extreme tho.  My current guy has summon hound, I cast it 3 times and summoned 3 hostile hounds, not sure wtf is with that either.

(http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/2998/ssoupsmsigmunddr1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

This is Aez the Grappler, my Ghoul Monk, just after I killed and looted Sigmund.  The fight was really fun, we both drank invisibility potion, Sigmund fired his staff at random a couple of time but didn't hit me.  I don't know which skill he had but he was able to follow me an shot his wand in my general direction even if I was invisible.  I ran down a narrow corridor and shotted back in the empty corridor with my wand of fire. It killed invisible Sigmund.  Now I have his +0 robe has a trophy!  Too bad he didn't leave a corpse so I could eat him.

My Ghouls Monk is pretty neat and very easy to play.  I run around with decent sneak and simply beat everything to death, then I eat them.  I'm still standing at lvl 8.  Ogre are a joke.  Eating raw and rotted flesh replenish your health.  An added bonus is the fight descriptions : I claw, head butt and kick.

2 annoyances so far :

It seems like I'm getting less and less corpses.  Maybe 1 out of 4 monster leave a corpse.

I have an annoying character description which says that my flesh is rotting faster than usual and I have no idea how to return to normal.

Haha.  So much for the bragging.  I used a wand of random effect on a Ogre and it turned him invisible and I tough it had killed him...

I believe you could have used a wand/potion of healing at full health to stop the excess rotting.
Invisible for you = extra dodge chance and monsters cannot target you accurately with ranged weapons, they still mostly know where you are and can see you... occasionally if you're away from them they'll switch back to ! status where they haven't noticed you.

My best character in a while, a level 10 Demonspawn Death Knight.  In addition to the normal zombie horde, Yred has given him a flayed ghost and two wights for company.  The wights don't last long but the ghost is ripping through everything.   The 3/4 longsword of freezing doesn't hurt either. 


Predict his death now!

Edit: Dead two minutes later.  I am no longer going to talk about still living characters here  :ye_gods:

Mountain Dwarf Beserker is fun, but I get to like Level 7-8 (char not dungeon) and I inevitably bite off more than I can crew and the slowness effect after zerking owns me. Fun combo though, I recommend it! Got to about 3k.

Lately, I avoid casting classes. After Deep Elf Conjurer, they just seem OP. I wanna get a real meleer to 10k.

I have been using "Random Good" for a while now.  2700 is my record.

Ok, a cursed ring of teleportation is nasty.  It auto activates every ~50 turn.

Damnit.. I cleared the first level with my Minotaur Death Knight and had a nice army of 6 zombies following me around. I was feeling pretty badass. "This game isn't so hard" I thought. "I don't see why everyone's dying so quickly."

 Then I discovered the zombies don't take stairs with you and was killed by a snake on the first 5 tiles of level 2.  :awesome_for_real:

They will follow if they are on adjacent tiles.  The next ability recalls all your minions.

I love it, whenever I get in trouble I just run away until the Tele hits. :)

My best character so far... well, at least equipment wise.  Found a +7/+4, +7 AC axe on D5 that's helped quite a bit.   The undead entourage is currently ripping apart anythat that moves, usually before I can reach it myself. 

Also found a whole bunch of spellbooks, and am wondering if I should invest some exp in a few spells with what's currently a pure melee character.

That axe is fuckin insane man. Probably does other shit too. Great run so far!

I want to be less sucky at this I have a few strategy questions.

It becoming quite clear the almost every character needs a ranged weapon.  The advantages of the different types of ranged weapons?

Managing skills.  An tips besides turning off the ones you don't wish to practice?

Should I ignore the extremely difficult fights or will that screw me on xp?

Fought a dragon... and zombiefied it after I killed it  :awesome_for_real:  Then a hydra re-killed the dragon and all my followers, barely noticed repeated blasts from a wand of disintegration... so I got the hell out of there.  Will return in a few more levels.  Now to the Orcish mines!  If I can find them, that is; I seemed to have missed them on the way down.


My current melee mainly uses ranged to take down fleeing enemies or to plick when my undead hordes are attacking something scary.  I was lucky to find a bow of Flame, but even darts will do if you don't have anything else.  Notice that darts have the advantage over blowguns/bows/slings (all of which seem fine to me) in that you don't have to take a turn to equip something new.  Poison (needles, darts, whatever) is nice for chasing down creatures because it'll often kill a weak creature even if it manages to get offscreen.  Also, hand crossbows use darts, not bolts, and no doubt make them more effective.     


Not sure.  I think this matters more for the caster types but my don't usually make it past level 6 or so, probably because I don't use the deep elves.   :uhrr:


Avoid fights where you aren't sure if you can win, especially against a named or particulary nasty critter.  You can always come back when tougher and take them.  Motherfreaking Sigmund occasionally shows up on the second level and there are some characters that I'd rather not face his invisible scyth attacks with at that point.

Also, just because you see the entrance to the dungeon doesn't mean it's a good idea to enter.  Case in point: The Orcish Mines.  When you first see it, you're almost definitely not strong enough to enter it.  Go clear a few more levels and go back.  Conversely, you should be able to walk into the Lair and clear most of it when you find the entrance.   

The wiki here is full of good info:  http://www.chaosforge.org/crawl/index.php?title=CrawlWiki (http://www.chaosforge.org/crawl/index.php?title=CrawlWiki)

Edit:  Holy crap my Drain Life ability just killed 9 orcs at once. 

It was good while it lasted.  Survived another dragon and even getting tossed into the abyss (where I found some 'bloodstained plate mail' that I'm pretty sure was awesome but it was too heavy to carry AND run away from everything).  Also found an very nice randart amulet.   

Then I got caught between a rock and a hard place.  Or rather, a Stone Giant zombie and a shapeshifter Iron Troll.  Almost killed the troll, couldn't even scratch the stone giant.   :uhrr:   

Holy fuck dude...thats a helluva run.

Anyone can explain the spell system?  I have a lvl 6 character that can't learn a lvl 5 spell.  Is it related to the skill lvl?

edit:  I couldn't find the answer on the wiki but I got it from the game  help menu.

Finally had a decent run.  Made a mistake at the end not healing up.  The swarms of summoned creatures from Orc priest and vampires(?) were very over whelming for a melee dude. 

K so I just cleared the 9th level and its extremely slow.  Any advice?  Any of these spells worth getting another spec? Any game changers like meph cloud?

Lighting bolt is pretty damn good - it bounces off walls, so easy to get to hits for one cast. 

In other news, THERE WERE NO CURE MUTATION POTIONS IN THE WHOLE DAMN DUNGEON.   Although minor teleportitis is kinda fun with a control teleport ring.  Also, fuck losing all your hp in two turns.    :uhrr: :uhrr: :uhrr:

I really thought this guy was going to go all the way - Incredible armor (taken from an dead orc follower, heh) AND weapon, and one rune already in the bag.  Orc Fighters of Beorgh are awesome.  RIP Tuskarr IX  :heartbreak:

Lightning bolt is very nice, it goes thru multiple enemies and bounces off walls to hit them again.
Fireball is also very nice, 3x3 explosion with very nice damage.  You don't actually have to hit an enemy to detonate it, so you usually can hit multiple enemies with it.
Earth is a good skill to try to get, as the big single target unresisbable damage spells are earth based.
Personally I would probably go with the fire tree first, especially if you can find Sticky Flame, then go earth later on.

Raging Turtle:  Nice run!

Nice run Turtle.

I'm still having trouble getting past lvl 10.  Xom is my bestest buddy.  Wish I could worship him in real life.

(http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f540c9fed5.jpg) (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/)

Ok, never ever worship Xom.  He simply killed me.  I forgot to take a screenshot but it said : Xom killed you.  You die.

I was having fun with Xom when he was all about random buff/debuff and random friendly/hostile pet but instant death is simply not playable...


Edit : got the morgue file

Yeah, once he spawned 4 insane creatures on me and bitch made me.

/Evil laugh

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Char Dump file
This one is shaping out to be a good run :)

Hmm... Spriggans are good at transmutation and enchantments.  Wonder how effective a spriggan transmuter would be.  Hasted spriggan bladehands could be pretty sick, but the lack of hps would make it a lot tougher.

Nice spell levels btw Slayerik.  

Running a Draconian Wizard, too early for a character dump, but I just hit 7 and turned mottled!  80 apt in fire, no penalty... and I can breathe sticky flame.   :awesome_for_real:

Naturally he'll now die to a rat.    Nevermind.  Got stupid and it was a giant stag beetle. 

My highest score yet! 

I was rolling the dice and trying random unidentified scrolls and happened upon a scroll of fear which scared the hell out of my orc army.  My army scattered and within a few turns surrounded and viciously beat me to death.  Hurray!


Not sure what my next character is going to be.  I'm thinking about going back and trying a Spriggan Stalker.

I did the same thing with a fear scroll, only had 2 orcs at the time though.  I was forced to kill an orc knight that I had raised from a lowly regular orc.  We had been through a lot together.  There was a tear in my eye I tell you.

i'm pretty clueless as far as how the skill development portion works but still having fun, been playing hill orc chaos knight pretty much exclusively.  guess i should try an easier combo to see some stuff further in.  Wish i could find decent plate+shield+something gormaund, lots of AC seems to be pretty critical and food becomes a serious issue in places like the orc mines.  here is my best run to date:

How do you starve in the orc mines??  There's a billion orcs to eat!   :awesome_for_real:

Chop (c) up an orc, eat a piece (only possible when your character is at least hungry), if it makes you sick, eat the next piece and when you run out try another orc.  I'm pretty sure all sickness does is occasionally give you some temporary stat loss. 

ah for some reason i thought getting sick from food wasn't going to give me any credit for eating.

You had a +2 +1 prot flail....thats like 5 ac isnt it? wield that bitch :)

how does that work with weapons training I was using axes only, if i start training other weapons does that leave less training points to be spent on other stuff?

You're right that there's no benefit in eating food that makes you sick, but orc flesh only makes you sick some of the time, so it's worth chopping and tasting till you find a piece that's good.  Same as jackals or goblins or numerous other critters.  Some are always poisonous, like kobolds and hydras, and some like (brown) rats and bats are always fine.

Yes, this is true. But usually at some point in these crawls you will find some artifact weapon or really good one you havent specialized in, and you oughta change. I usually try on every runed weapon (as long as I have a detect or remove curse scroll) just to see if they are Draining, Crushing, speed, freezing, etc. Once I find one, I use my enchant scrolls and start fighting with them. Strangely named armor/weapons are usually artifacts, with crazy stuff. See: Polished Ring Mail or Slimy Mace.

I had an awesome Hill Orc berserker I got killed by changing my armor at the wrong time.

I found an Amulet of Resist Slowing early on, which means after my berserk wore off I was still in fast mode, and never went to slow. It was stupid good.

Not a bad run.  Lvl 15 ghoul monk.

My new best is Sprig Enchanter. I probably was going starve soon even I didn't get sniped by cyclops even with a ring of sustenance.

I've found more artifacts on this character than I have on the last 100.  Check out the sword, which goes nicely with the ring.

Still alive... for the moment.  Need some better armor!

Sigh.  Was probably going too deep, but I wasn't expecting to get whacked for almost half my health.  Think I'm going to take a break from this game.   :oh_i_see:

I made a few characters and got owned, fast, so I thought I'd do the tutorial and learn myself something at least. Cleared out the first level of the Orc mine, had three spellboks, was just ranging everything to death.. decided to take that last spell shot at killing the near dead ogre rather than run for the stairs.. one hit dead!

And so far my best character... :(

Trying a Vampire Assassin. I like the Vampire mechanics, though I'm not sure if they procress much beyond level 5 where you get to make your own blood potions. Been absolutly shafted with equipment drops on my recent run. Was getting frantic when I got down to level 4 and still hadn't found a scroll to remove the cursed tele ring I'd thrown on, but found one in the end.

Though maybe not having good equipment is a blessing, the previous game i found a +6 prot ring on level two, then got destroyed on level 3...

The fact that vamps cannot starve does make them somewhat attractive, and there is something about the less blood you have, the stronger you get, but I've never really tried one so not too sure.

Stealth doesn't seem all that effective in this game however, once you start getting deper, no matter how good your stealth is, things will invariably notice you before you get close enough to stick the knife in.  My best char had 2 arts of +stealth and level 6 stealth on top of that, and I still rarely could get close enough to surprise anything.

Good way to get fairly deep easily is play a troll berserker.  Anything fairly easy you can tear apart, and anything challenging just go berserk and tear it apart.  Works great for quite a while.  Also the fact that you can eat all your enemies and enjoy it, it's satisfying somehow.

Elven conjurers/wizards are good too, blasting everything to death, especially if you can find a way to increase your speed.  Use Mephitic cloud on them ogres tho!

Oh, and nice run Turtle.  Cold vuln + Freezing Wraith = bad!

Ok here's a point I'm still confused on. What does glowing and runed mean in regard to items?

I've been ignoring all non glowing or runes things on the premise that all the good stuff is going to be enchanted in some way, and that glowing and runed are indications of this. But looking about I can't seem to find out if this is true or not.

I have found glowing ranks slightly below runed. Any runed weapons I find I usually test out to see if they are Vorpal (of crushing, speed, holy wrath, etc). Once (or if) I find one, then I start busting out scrolls to improve them (as you can't use them on artifacts). I only test the type I am specialized in usually, unless it is a good weapon type that I wouldnt mind starting to skill up.

Also, if you use a scroll that has you try something from your inventory, try it on your best piece of armor. I have found a lot of the time they are enchant armor scrolls.

Recharge wand also asks you to target something in your inventory. 

Some other tips that might or might not be known: enchant armor on a piece of dragon skin turns it into the appropriate dragon armor, and using unidentified enchanted weapons in combat will eventually identify the weapon; the higher your weapon skill, the higher chance of identitying.   

Glowing and Runed are the low tier of magic items, the good stuff will be brightly glowing, twisted, smoking, humming, or some other interesting adjective.  Still worth testing the glowing stuff if it is something you are specced in tho.

Non glowing/runed can still have +'s, probably an indicator of quality or somesuch.

Gahhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

Early game with a Vampire Stalker is dull, I was enjoying this char, but got lazy :(

Grrrr at having to level another char up again...

Any tips on Summoners?  I always run into something that can mow down my minions sooner or later.

Do you know about o for autoexplore?  It makes the earlier levels fly by much faster.  capital G to go between places also makes the game a lot easier later on.

Also, Caputal F for finding items, then you can just push a letter and go right to them.  Can also search for "shop" or even "trap" tho I don't know why you'd want to.

I was trying hard to do a summoner for quite a while and having all kinds of problems.  I eventually arrived at the conclusion that I needed to be a conjurer first and then work on summons later.  Problem with that approach is that you never get around to working on summons tho...

Try Call Imp, that spell seems decent.

Yes, I do. Just a lot of time wasted with troublesome monsters (lots of annoying things that are hard to kill with just short blades and poison magic - and stalkers have low armor generally. In my recent game I've changed to running about with plate on most of the time, which works better). And Vampires level slowly. :)

Played another Vamp char. Did better. Got 3 hit through plate armor (with artifact sword at 19AC or so) in Goblin mines. Cleared the first three levels (pretty much 1-hiting half the mobs) and then got 3 hit by a respawn on the second level or something... would hit for more than my potions healed, and couldn't outrun it. When I went to use the tele scroll I died...

Best thing about Vamps is you never run out of healing poitions. The blood potions you make at level 6 give health and lower hunger, so you've pretty much always got something to slurp down. At one stage in the goblin mines I had about 20 of them. And 5 ##### rating with my God (who didn't save me when I needed him!).

The spellcasting thing isn't that great with a Vampire though. You don't have to worry about hunger (run about undead and then just drink some blood and rest if you need to heal) but you just level skills too slowly. Stealth and Stabbing is pretty useless too (unless stabbing works with invis, which might make it slightly better). Might run make a chaos or death knight for the next one and give up on the magic thing.

 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.4.5 (crawl-ref) character file.

197871 Smashy the Shatterer (level 20, -4/165 (174) HPs)
             Began as a Hill Orc Berserker on Mar 16, 2009.
             Was a High Priest of Trog.
             Slain by a frost giant
             ... wielding a battleaxe of freezing (13 damage)
             ... on Level 26 of the Dungeon on Mar 18, 2009.
             The game lasted 05:05:54 (53639 turns).

Smashy the Shatterer (Hill Orc Berserker)       Turns: 53639, Time: 05:05:54

HP  -4/165 (174) AC 34     Str 29      Exp: 20/302565 (1), need: 50435
MP  13/13        EV 10     Int  5      God: Trog *****
Gold 1845        SH 11     Dex 17      Spells:  0 memorised, 19 levels left

Res.Fire  : . . .   See Invis. : .   n - +1,+2 orc hand axe
Res.Cold  : + . .   Warding    : .   B - +2 orc plate mail
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   Q - +0 large shield
Res.Poison: .       Res.Corr.  : +   u - +0 helmet
Res.Elec. : .       Clarity    : .   N - +2 cloak
                                     w - +2 pair of gloves {Dex+3}
Sust.Abil.: .       Rnd.Telep. : .   p - +1 pair of boots
Res.Mut.  : .       Ctrl.Telep.: .   s - amulet of resist corrosion
Res.Slow  : .       Levitation : .   K - ring "Ikacsom"
Saprovore : + . .   Ctrl.Flight: .   D - ring of protection from cold

@: regenerating, exhausted, mighty, slowed, quite resistant to magic,
extremely unstealthy
A: slow metabolism 1, saprovore 1, Int -1
a: Burn Books, Berserk, Trog's Hand, Brothers in Arms, Renounce Religion


You were on level 26 of the Dungeon.
You worshipped Trog.
Trog was exalted by your worship.
You were not hungry.

You visited 8 branches of the dungeon, and saw 46 of its levels.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 l - a +1,+3 longbow of protection
 n - a +1,+2 orcish hand axe (weapon)
 y - a +2,+4 spiked flail of piercing
Missiles
 E - 7 +0 elven arrows
 H - a +0 bolt
 S - 6 +0 orcish arrows
Armour
 p - a +1 pair of boots (worn)
 u - a +0 helmet (worn)
 w - a +2 pair of gloves of dexterity (worn)
 B - a +2 orcish plate mail (worn)
 N - a +2 cloak (worn)
 Q - a +0 large shield (worn)
Magical devices
 b - a wand of draining (4)
 e - a wand of fireball (9)
 m - a wand of disintegration (4)
 G - a wand of lightning (7)
 I - a wand of confusion (5)
 L - a wand of disintegration (0)
 O - a wand of paralysis (9)
 P - a wand of slowing (7)
Comestibles
 a - 2 bread rations
 c - 5 meat rations
 v - 11 royal jellies
Scrolls
 d - 4 scrolls of detect curse
 i - 2 scrolls of random uselessness
 o - a scroll of enchant weapon III
 t - a scroll of enchant weapon II
 Z - 5 scrolls of remove curse
Jewellery
 f - an uncursed ring of protection from fire
 q - an uncursed ring of sustenance
 s - an amulet of resist corrosion (around neck)
 A - an uncursed ring of life protection
 D - a ring of protection from cold (left hand)
 K - the ring "Ikacsom" (right hand)
   (You bought it in a shop on level 13 of the Dungeon)   
   [ring of evasion]
   It affects your evasion (+5).
   It affects your accuracy (+3).
 W - an uncursed amulet of rage
Potions
 g - 4 potions of restore abilities
 k - 12 potions of healing
 z - 4 potions of might
Miscellaneous
 h - an ornate deck of escape
 C - a plain deck of defence


 You had 1 experience left.

   Skills:
 + Level 14 Fighting
 + Level 10 Axes
 + Level 22 Maces & Flails
 + Level 3 Bows
 - Level 1 Darts
 + Level 4 Throwing
 + Level 13 Armour
 - Level 1 Dodging
 + Level 13 Shields
 + Level 3 Traps & Doors
 + Level 2 Evocations


You had 19 spell levels left.
You didn't know any spells.

Overview of the Dungeon

Branches:
Temple: D:4       Lair  : D:12      Swamp : Lair:5    Snake : Lair:7
Hive  : D:13      Vault : D:17      Blade : Vault:4   Crypt : Vault:2

Altars:
Kikubaaqudgha: D:13
Vehumet: Lair:5
Elyvilon: D:7, D:13

Shops:
D:8: !+  D:13: =  D:21: *

Portals:
Hell: D:21 D:22 D:23 D:24 D:25
Abyss: D:21 D:23 D:25
Pan: D:21 D:24


                    Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You can tolerate rotten meat.
You have a slow metabolism.
You are dopey (Int -1).


Message History

<lightgrey>A yaktaur captain, wielding a crossbow.<lightgrey>
<lightgrey>It is paralysed.<lightgrey>
<lightgrey>A frost giant, wielding a runed battleaxe of freezing.<lightgrey>
The frost giant is moderately wounded.
You slash the frost giant!
The frost giant is moderately wounded.
The frost giant hits you with a runed battleaxe of freezing!

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You could see a frost giant, and a yaktaur captain.

Vanquished Creatures
  Frances (D:18)
  Francis (D:23)
  A frost giant (D:25)
  Louise (Snake:1)
  An azure jelly (D:18)
  4 stone giants
  Norbert (Snake:1)
  8 yaktaur captains
  2 dragons (Vault:4)
  4 great orbs of eyes
  8 vault guards (D:17)
  A death ooze (D:18)
  Josephine (Snake:1)
  2 ice dragons (Vault:3)
  10 hydras
  9 ogre-magi
  A grey snake (Snake:1)
  4 griffons
  An orc high priest (D:24)
  An elephant slug (Lair:7)
  12 centaur warriors
  The ghost of Donthate the Cudgeler, an experienced OgBe (D:9)
  3 giant amoebae
  A soul eater (D:23)
  A deep elf knight (Vault:3)
  An iron troll (D:22)
  15 hill giants
  5 skeletal warriors
  43 dancing weapons (Blade)
  2 iron troll skeletons
  3 stone giant skeletons
  A wizard (Vault:3)
  2 flayed ghosts (D:24)
  2 unseen horrors
  16 orc knights
  The ghost of Brainsplatter the Chopper, an experienced OgBe (D:8)
  An unseen horror (shapeshifter) (Vault:2)
  A red wasp (Vault:1)
  A crystal golem (D:22)
  2 orc sorcerers
  A spiny worm (Vault:2)
  An oklob plant (D:13)
  The ghost of ZOUNDS the Conjurer, an experienced DECj (Lair:1)
  The ghost of Blam the Conjurer, an experienced DECj (D:9)
  10 mimics
  84 slime creatures
  3 black snakes (Snake:1)
  A black snake (shapeshifter) (D:13)
  12 cyclopes
  A wolf spider (shapeshifter) (D:18)
  3 wolf spiders
  A naga mage (Snake:1)
  A smoke demon (D:23)
  16 giant brown frogs
  5 rock trolls
  Psyche (D:11)
  A dragon skeleton (Vault:2)
  A griffon skeleton (D:21)
  An ice dragon skeleton (Vault:2)
  2 spiny worm skeletons
  12 yaktaurs
  A stone giant simulacrum (D:17)
  6 trolls
  A wandering mushroom (D:17)
  6 redbacks
  7 komodo dragons
  2 queen bees
  4 giant snails
  3 spiny frogs
  A two-headed ogre (shapeshifter) (Vault:2)
  2 rock troll skeletons
  A troll (shapeshifter) (Vault:2)
  69 ugly things
  An ettin (D:16)
  A spiny frog (shapeshifter) (D:22)
  6 blink frogs
  6 hippogriffs
  2 vampires
  A fire giant zombie (Vault:4)
  2 stone giant zombies (Vault:4)
  15 two-headed ogres
  2 deep troll skeletons
  A grizzly bear (Lair:6)
  Edmund (D:6)
  10 giant slugs
  A yellow snake (Snake:1)
  A giant slug (shapeshifter) (D:13)
  A deep elf fighter (D:22)
  2 hungry ghosts
  A clay golem (Vault:2)
  5 giant blowflies
  31 yaks
  A cyclops skeleton (Vault:3)
  A swamp dragon skeleton (Snake:1)
  5 manticores
  2 wraiths
  A neqoxec (D:18)
  A soldier ant (shapeshifter) (D:19)
  2 orange demons
  3 wyverns
  An insubstantial wisp (Hell)
  A soldier ant (D:15)
  A swamp worm (Swamp:1)
  2 mottled dragons
  5 freezing wraiths
  A guardian naga skeleton (D:23)
  2 red wasp skeletons
  12 ugly thing skeletons
  A wolf spider skeleton (Snake:1)
  4 yaktaur skeletons
  An ogre (shapeshifter) (D:17)
  2 big kobolds
  6 phantoms
  3 necrophages
  38 ogres
  3 ice beasts
  22 centaurs
  9 giant lizards
  10 nagas (Snake:1)
  5 gila monsters
  A wolf (Lair:3)
  2 hill giant zombies
  6 wargs
  2 bumblebee skeletons
  2 brain worms (D:13)
  2 beasts
  A boring beetle (Vault:3)
  17 war dogs
  19 giant frogs
  15 brown snakes
  27 orc warriors
  A yellow wasp (D:15)
  A swamp drake (Swamp:1)
  3 deep troll zombies
  A giant slug zombie (Vault:2)
  A steam dragon (D:12)
  5 boulder beetles
  An eye of draining (D:21)
  A human (D:11)
  Blork the orc (D:7)
  An ugly thing simulacrum (Vault:3)
  2 cyclops zombies
  A manticore zombie (D:12)
  3 big fish
  A jellyfish (D:12)
  134 killer bees
  9 imps
  2 boring beetle zombies
  A giant blowfly skeleton (Vault:4)
  A naga skeleton (Snake:1)
  2 ugly thing zombies
  2 yaktaur zombies
  11 hounds
  4 giant beetles
  11 orc wizards
  7 orc priests
  2 shadows (D:13)
  A wight (D:10)
  8 orange rats
  7 giant ants
  2 scorpions
  2 sheep (D:20)
  2 troll zombies
  16 electrical eels
  13 giant iguanas
  14 boggarts
  A redback zombie (D:23)
  A two-headed ogre zombie (D:13)
  A giant blowfly simulacrum (D:15)
  8 jellies
  9 gnolls
  4 giant centipedes
  A mottled dragon zombie (D:20)
  An ogre zombie (Snake:1)
  25 snakes
  11 worms
  3 giant mites
  41 green rats
  4 mummies (D:17)
  A giant frog zombie (D:8)
  Terence (D:4)
  2 oozes
  2 butterflies
  A giant eyeball (D:6)
  2 giant ant zombies (D:5)
  A hound zombie (D:6)
  2 scorpion zombies
  35 giant bats
  7 giant cockroaches
  13 giant geckos
  A giant mosquito (Swamp:2)
  13 goblins
  56 grey rats
  19 hobgoblins
  97 orcs
  12 quokkas
  29 rats
  A butterfly zombie (D:14)
  12 giant newts
  18 jackals
  58 killer bee larvae
  28 kobolds
  A quokka zombie (D:5)
  A rat zombie (D:21)
  2 small snakes
  A small snake skeleton (Snake:1)
  A fungus (Lair:7)
  2 plants (Hive:4)
1570 creatures vanquished.

Vanquished Creatures (collateral kills)
  4 blink frogs
4 creatures vanquished.

Vanquished Creatures (others)
  A slime creature (Vault:3)
  A blink frog (D:17)
  A firedrake (shapeshifter) (D:25)
  A giant blowfly (D:15)
  2 ogres
  A killer bee (D:15)
  A hound (D:15)
  4 boggarts
  2 snakes
  2 hobgoblins
  7 orcs
  A giant bat (D:9)
  3 killer bee larvae (Hive:4)
  A rat (Lair:5)
28 creatures vanquished.

Grand Total: 1602 creatures vanquished

Notes
Turn   | Place   | Note
--------------------------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1     | Smashy, the Hill Orc Berserker, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1     | Reached XP level 1. HP: 16/16 MP: 0/0
   283 | D:1     | Reached skill 4 in Axes
   445 | D:1     | Reached XP level 2. HP: 17/24 MP: 1/1
  1134 | D:1     | Reached XP level 3. HP: 24/30 MP: 1/1
  1454 | D:2     | Acquired Trog's second power
  1682 | D:3     | Reached XP level 4. HP: 31/39 MP: 2/2
  2279 | D:4     | Noticed Terence
  2307 | D:4     | Defeated Terence
  2885 | D:4     | Reached XP level 5. HP: 29/44 MP: 3/3
  2902 | D:4     | Reached skill 1 in Maces & Flails
  3567 | D:4     | Reached XP level 6. HP: 49/49 MP: 3/3
  3828 | D:5     | Entered Level 5 of the Dungeon
  4026 | D:5     | Reached skill 5 in Maces & Flails
  4026 | D:5     | Reached XP level 7. HP: 56/57 MP: 4/4
  4966 | D:6     | Reached skill 6 in Maces & Flails
  5165 | D:6     | Reached skill 5 in Fighting
  5376 | D:6     | Noticed Edmund
  5387 | D:6     | Defeated Edmund
  5387 | D:6     | Reached XP level 8. HP: 51/65 MP: 5/5
  5887 | D:7     | Noticed Blork the orc
  5941 | D:7     | Reached skill 7 in Maces & Flails
  5959 | D:7     | Defeated Blork the orc
  6119 | D:7     | Reached skill 5 in Armour
  6598 | D:7     | Reached skill 8 in Maces & Flails
  6674 | D:7     | Reached XP level 9. HP: 66/71 MP: 5/5
  7040 | D:8     | Defeated Brainsplatter's ghost
  7430 | D:8     | Reached skill 9 in Maces & Flails
  7947 | D:9     | Acquired Trog's third power
  7957 | D:9     | Defeated Blam's ghost
  8063 | D:9     | Reached skill 1 in Traps & Doors
  8148 | D:9     | Defeated Donthate's ghost
  8148 | D:9     | Reached XP level 10. HP: 20/80 MP: 6/6
  8418 | D:9     | Reached skill 1 in Darts
  8498 | D:9     | Reached skill 10 in Maces & Flails
  9235 | D:9     | Reached skill 11 in Maces & Flails
  9395 | D:10    | Entered Level 10 of the Dungeon
 10426 | D:11    | Reached skill 12 in Maces & Flails
 10597 | D:11    | Noticed Psyche
 10602 | D:11    | Defeated Psyche
 10878 | D:11    | Reached XP level 11. HP: 86/89 MP: 7/7
 11330 | D:12    | Reached skill 13 in Maces & Flails
 11840 | D:12    | Reached skill 14 in Maces & Flails
 11960 | Lair:1  | Entered Level 1 of the Lair of Beasts
 12016 | Lair:1  | Defeated ZOUNDS's ghost
 12971 | Lair:1  | Reached XP level 12. HP: 94/99 MP: 7/7
 13043 | Lair:1  | Reached skill 1 in Throwing
 13367 | Lair:2  | Reached skill 1 in Bows
 15326 | Lair:4  | Reached skill 10 in Fighting
 16941 | Swamp:1 | Entered Level 1 of the Swamp
 18026 | Lair:5  | Reached skill 15 in Maces & Flails
 18826 | Lair:6  | Reached XP level 13. HP: 98/108 MP: 8/8
 20041 | Lair:7  | Got a distressingly furry animal skin
 20248 | Lair:7  | Identified the +1 animal skin "Gotoif" (You found it on level 7 of the Lair of Beasts)
 20403 | Snake:1 | Entered Level 1 of the Snake Pit
 20606 | Snake:1 | Noticed Norbert
 20629 | Snake:1 | Defeated Norbert
 21087 | Snake:1 | Noticed Josephine
 21088 | Snake:1 | Reached skill 5 in Axes
 21098 | Snake:1 | Defeated Josephine
 21539 | Snake:1 | Noticed Louise
 21559 | Snake:1 | Defeated Louise
 21948 | Snake:1 | Reached skill 10 in Axes
 22107 | Snake:1 | Reached skill 10 in Armour
 22373 | Snake:1 | Reached skill 16 in Maces & Flails
 23320 | D:13    | A boring beetle changed form
 23326 | D:13    | Identified the ring "Ikacsom" (You bought it in a shop on level 13 of the Dungeon)
 23384 | D:13    | Reached XP level 14. HP: 72/121 MP: 9/9
 23464 | D:13    | Noticed a red wasp
 23468 | D:13    | A red wasp changed form
 23489 | D:13    | Reached skill 1 in Shields
 23971 | D:13    | Noticed a queen bee
 24336 | D:13    | Defeated a queen bee
 24496 | D:13    | Received a gift from Trog
 24497 | D:13    | Got a shiny flail {god gift}
 25621 | Hive:1  | Entered Level 1 of the Hive
 26190 | Hive:4  | Entered Level 4 of the Hive
 26548 | Hive:4  | Reached skill 5 in Shields
 26863 | Hive:4  | Gained mutation: You are dopey (Int -1).
 26863 | Hive:4  | Gained mutation: You have a slow metabolism.
 26979 | Hive:4  | Reached skill 1 in Evocations
 26981 | Hive:4  | Received a gift from Trog
 28591 | D:14    | Reached skill 17 in Maces & Flails
 29133 | D:15    | Entered Level 15 of the Dungeon
 29140 | D:15    | Received a gift from Trog
 29142 | D:15    | Reached XP level 15. HP: 129/129 MP: 9/9
 29148 | D:15    | Got a polished great mace {god gift}
 29196 | D:15    | Identified the -5,-5 great mace of the Lair of Beasts {god gift} (Trog gifted it to you on level 15 of the Dungeon)
 33477 | D:17    | Reached skill 18 in Maces & Flails
 33483 | D:17    | Received a gift from Trog
 33512 | Vault:1 | Entered Level 1 of the Vaults
 33654 | D:17    | Reached XP level 16. HP: 94/138 MP: 10/10
 36397 | Vault:2 | Reached skill 19 in Maces & Flails
 36797 | Vault:2 | Noticed a guardian naga
 36800 | Vault:2 | A guardian naga changed form
 37370 | Vault:3 | Reached XP level 17. HP: 116/145 MP: 11/11
 38816 | Vault:4 | Received a gift from Trog
 38828 | Vault:4 | Reached skill 10 in Shields
 39871 | Blade   | Entered the Hall of Blades
 40628 | Blade   | Reached skill 20 in Maces & Flails
 41368 | Blade   | Reached XP level 18. HP: 120/157 MP: 11/11
 41631 | Blade   | Reached XP level 17. HP: 135/150 MP: 10/10
 43942 | D:18    | Noticed Frances
 43956 | D:18    | Defeated Frances
 43959 | D:18    | Reached XP level 18. HP: 153/157 MP: 11/11
 44445 | D:20    | Entered Level 20 of the Dungeon
 45926 | D:20    | Reached skill 21 in Maces & Flails
 46019 | D:20    | Reached XP level 17. HP: 100/150 MP: 10/10
 46019 | D:20    | Reached XP level 18. HP: 103/157 MP: 11/11
 46349 | D:21    | Reached XP level 17. HP: 150/150 MP: 10/10
 46366 | D:20    | Reached XP level 18. HP: 137/157 MP: 11/11
 46956 | D:22    | Noticed a shining eye
 46957 | D:22    | A shining eye changed form
 47283 | D:13    | Reached XP level 19. HP: 162/165 MP: 12/12
 47475 | Lair:2  | Received a gift from Trog
 49780 | D:22    | Noticed a crystal golem
 49804 | D:22    | Defeated a crystal golem
 50354 | D:23    | Noticed Francis
 50374 | D:23    | Defeated Francis
 52019 | D:24    | Reached skill 22 in Maces & Flails
 52144 | D:25    | Entered Level 25 of the Dungeon
 52352 | D:25    | Got a crude chain mail
 52353 | D:25    | Identified the cursed -7 chain mail "Mecwiaro" (You found it on level 25 of the Dungeon)
 52505 | D:25    | Reached XP level 20. HP: 165/165 MP: 13/13
 53578 | Hell    | Entered The Vestibule of Hell
 53579 | Hell    | Noticed Geryon
 53637 | D:26    | HP: 6/165 [frost giant/bolt of cold (20)]
 53639 | D:26    | Slain by a frost giant

Well done sir.  I see the artifact gods were not being kind to you either...

 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.4.5 (crawl-ref) character file.

296393 Slay the Severer (level 21, -8/252 (273) HPs)
             Began as a Minotaur Berserker on Mar 21, 2009.
             Was a Priest of Trog.
             Killed from afar by a hell hound (12 damage)
             ... with a blast of fiery breath
             ... on Level 5 of the Iron City of Dis on Mar 31, 2009.
             The game lasted 11:07:50 (85713 turns).

Slay the Severer (Minotaur Berserker)           Turns: 85713, Time: 11:07:50

HP  -8/252 (273) AC 29     Str 30      Exp: 21/542074 (3), need: 46625
MP  14/14        EV 25     Int  2 (6)  God: Trog ***
Gold 4564        SH  0     Dex 15      Spells:  0 memorised, 22 levels left

Res.Fire  : . . .   See Invis. : +   o - +3,+7 battleaxe (holy)
Res.Cold  : + + .   Warding    : .   p - +7 dwarf scale mail {rC+} (curse)
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   (no shield)
Res.Poison: +       Res.Corr.  : .   q - +3 cap "Twostrad"
Res.Elec. : +       Clarity    : .   f - +1 cloak (curse)
                                     H - +2 pair of gloves
Sust.Abil.: .       Rnd.Telep. : +   G - +3 pair of boots of the Morning Star
Res.Mut.  : .       Ctrl.Telep.: .   r - amulet of resist slowing
Res.Slow  : +       Levitation : .   K - +5 ring of evasion
Saprovore : . . .   Ctrl.Flight: .   W - ring of sustenance

@: mighty, berserking, very quick, hasted, quite resistant to magic,
extremely unstealthy
A: slow metabolism 1, teleportitis 1, see invisible, horns 2, deterioration
1, -20% mp, Dex -2
a: Burn Books, Berserk, Trog's Hand, Renounce Religion, Evoke Berserk Rage,
Evoke Sense Surroundings, Evoke Invisibility, Evoke Teleportation


You were on level 5 of the Iron City of Dis.
You worshipped Trog.
Trog was greatly pleased with you.
You were not hungry.

You visited 9 branches of the dungeon, and saw 58 of its levels.
You visited the Abyss 1 time.
You visited 1 Labyrinth.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 j - the cursed +4,+6 hammer of Bloodstone
   (You bought it in a shop on level 4 of the Vaults)   
   A truly terrible weapon, it drains the life of those it strikes.
   It lets you teleport.
   It has a curse placed upon it.
 o - a +3,+7 battleaxe of holy wrath (weapon)
Armour
 f - a cursed +1 cloak (worn)
 p - a cursed +7 dwarven scale mail of cold resistance (worn)
 q - the cursed +3 cap "Twostrad" (worn)
   (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)   
   It affects your intelligence (+2).
   It insulates you from electricity.
   It has a curse placed upon it.
 G - the cursed +3 pair of boots of the Morning Star (worn)
   (You bought it in a shop on level 26 of the Dungeon)   
   It protects you from cold.
   It protects you from poison.
   It lets you turn invisible.
   It lets you teleport.
   It lets you go berserk.
   It lets you sense your surroundings.
   It has a curse placed upon it.
 H - a +2 pair of gloves (worn)
 M - the -1 shield of Servitude
   (You bought it in a shop on level 26 of the Dungeon)   
   It affects your damage-dealing abilities (+3).
   It increases your resistance to enchantments.
   It enhances your eyesight.
Magical devices
 b - a wand of hasting (2)
 c - a wand of frost (16)
 d - a wand of frost (9)
 i - a wand of draining (1)
 k - a wand of lightning (4)
 v - a wand of lightning (6)
 x - a wand of confusion (8)
 y - a wand of disintegration (8)
 F - a wand of fireball (5)
 I - a wand of slowing (2)
 N - a wand of polymorph other (9)
 O - a wand of teleportation (4)
 X - a wand of digging (6)
Comestibles
 B - 17 honeycombs
 D - 2 bread rations
 L - 2 meat rations
Scrolls
 e - a scroll of identify
 u - a scroll of detect curse
Jewellery
 h - a cursed ring of life protection
 m - an uncursed ring of protection from magic
 r - an amulet of resist slowing (around neck)
 s - a cursed ring of teleportation
 t - a cursed ring of sustenance
 w - a cursed ring of protection from magic
 A - a cursed ring of poison resistance
 C - the cursed ring "Heomeoto"
   (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)   
   [ring of protection from cold]
   It affects your strength (+3).
   It has a curse placed upon it.
 E - the ring of Vony
   (You found it on level 4 of the Dungeon)   
   [ring of protection from cold]
   It affects your intelligence (+3).
 K - a +5 ring of evasion (right hand)
 Q - an uncursed ring of see invisible
 T - a cursed amulet of the gourmand
 U - a cursed ring of fire
 V - the cursed amulet of Wuichuh
   (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)   
   [amulet of resist corrosion]
   It affects your strength (+3).
   It affects your dexterity (+2).
   It has a curse placed upon it.
 W - a ring of sustenance (left hand)
 Y - an uncursed ring of fire
 Z - a cursed ring of teleport control
Potions
 l - 2 potions of healing
 n - a potion of might
Miscellaneous
 a - a silver rune of Zot
 g - the horn of Geryon


 You had 3 experience left.

   Skills:
 + Level 17 Fighting
 + Level 24 Axes
 + Level 22 Maces & Flails
 + Level 1 Slings
 + Level 1 Darts
 + Level 3 Throwing
 + Level 10 Armour
 + Level 17 Dodging
 - Level 2 Stealth
 + Level 10 Shields
 + Level 5 Traps & Doors
 + Level 15 Unarmed Combat
 + Level 1 Spellcasting
 + Level 2 Evocations


You had 22 spell levels left.
You didn't know any spells.

Overview of the Dungeon

Branches:
Lair  : D:10      Hive  : D:13      Vault : D:16      Blade : Vault:4
Crypt : Vault:3   Tomb  : Crypt:3   Dis   : Hell      Zot   : D:27   

Altars:
The Shining One: Lair:1
Yredelemnul: D:6, D:9, Crypt:5
Okawaru: D:16, D:17
Makhleb: D:23

Shops:
D:9: %  D:15: [  D:25: /  D:26: [  D:27: (  Lair:2: !  Lair:4: =  Vault:4: (
Vault:5: !

Portals:
Hell: D:21 D:22 D:23 D:24 D:25 D:26 D:27
Abyss: D:23 D:25
Pan: D:24 D:25


                    Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You have a pair of horns on your head.
You have a slow metabolism.
You are clumsy (Dex -2).
Space occasionally distorts in your vicinity.
You have supernaturally acute eyesight.
Your body is slowly deteriorating.
Your magical capacity is very low (-20 percent mp).


Message History

You feel yourself moving faster!
You feel mighty!
Your amulet glows brightly.
You feel yourself speed up.
You feel somewhat more hungry.
The hell hound breathes.
The blast of flame hits you!

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You could see two wraiths, a hell hound, a hellion, and a reaper.

Vanquished Creatures
  Boris (D:21)
  9 greater mummies
  Geryon (Hell)
  The ghost of Smashy the Shatterer, a mighty HOBe (D:26)
  2 Fiends
  A curse skull (Crypt:5)
  2 liches (Crypt:5)
  Rupert (D:27)
  3 acid blobs
  6 sphinxes (Tomb:1)
  5 shadow dragons (Vault:8)
  3 Shadow Fiends
  2 golden dragons (Vault:8)
  3 Balrugs
  Francis (Blade)
  3 Ice Fiends
  A skeletal dragon (Crypt:5)
  Frances (Blade)
  3 tentacled monstrosities
  An Executioner (Dis:1)
  2 frost giants
  Duane (Blade)
  2 azure jellies (D:21)
  4 storm dragons
  5 Green Deaths
  6 fire giants
  2 Pit Fiends
  2 Blue Deaths
  33 stone giants
  Norbert (D:17)
  3 Cacodemons
  A minotaur (Lab)
  34 yaktaur captains
  10 mummy priests
  2 dragons
  A hydra (shapeshifter) (Vault:8)
  24 vault guards (Vault:7)
  An ice dragon (shapeshifter) (Vault:8)
  10 hydras
  6 ogre-magi
  11 death oozes
  2 ice dragons
  2 great orbs of eyes
  A death yak (shapeshifter) (Vault:8)
  A rakshasa (D:19)
  3 griffons
  4 golden dragon skeletons
  5 hell-hogs
  An orc high priest (Vault:7)
  5 hill giants
  12 centaur warriors
  5 deep trolls
  7 giant amoebae
  6 soul eaters
  3 deep elf knights (D:19)
  5 shadow wraiths
  58 dancing weapons (Blade)
  4 fire giant skeletons
  3 frost giant skeletons
  4 iron troll skeletons
  15 stone giant skeletons
  4 ice devils
  23 flayed ghosts
  112 skeletal warriors
  2 vampire magi
  14 orc knights
  6 unseen horrors
  4 red wasps
  2 crystal golems (Crypt:5)
  A spiny worm (D:17)
  Urug (Vault:1)
  3 orc sorcerers
  2 giant orange brains (shapeshifter)
  4 storm dragon skeletons
  9 hellions
  17 spectral warriors
  An iron troll (D:25)
  2 necromancers
  A queen ant skeleton (Crypt:5)
  26 reapers
  An eye of devastation (D:17)
  43 yaktaurs
  6 mimics
  49 slime creatures
  A shadow dragon simulacrum (Tomb:2)
  A shining eye (shapeshifter) (D:27)
  12 cyclopes
  6 giant brown frogs
  27 guardian mummies
  Psyche (D:13)
  A dragon skeleton (Vault:2)
  2 griffon skeletons
  An ice dragon skeleton (Crypt:5)
  5 spiny worm skeletons
  A very ugly thing skeleton (Crypt:4)
  12 tormentors
  A black snake (Lair:4)
  16 hellwings
  4 giant snails
  6 iron dragon zombies
  2 elves (shapeshifter)
  12 rock trolls
  7 smoke demons
  A mermaid (shapeshifter) (D:26)
  13 two-headed ogres
  A queen bee (Hive:4)
  10 trolls
  3 rock troll skeletons
  A spiny frog (Lair:1)
  4 ettins
  2 trolls (shapeshifter)
  4 redbacks
  A rotting hulk (Crypt:5)
  73 ugly things
  5 fire giant zombies
  2 frost giant zombies
  An iron troll zombie (D:22)
  4 stone giant zombies
  A blink frog (shapeshifter) (Vault:8)
  2 yaktaurs (shapeshifter)
  8 blue devils
  4 hippogriffs
  16 brown oozes
  3 deep troll skeletons
  2 large abominations (Abyss)
  36 yaks
  A giant slug (shapeshifter) (D:20)
  8 hungry ghosts
  5 neqoxecs
  8 very ugly things
  4 bears (shapeshifter)
  2 deep elf conjurers (Vault:3)
  9 beasts
  5 giant slugs
  7 ynoxinuls
  2 wood golems
  6 deep elf fighters
  A black draconian zombie (Dis:3)
  3 death yak zombies
  2 mottled draconian zombies
  2 purple draconian zombies
  A red draconian zombie (Dis:2)
  A storm dragon zombie (Crypt:5)
  A white draconian zombie (Dis:3)
  5 boulder beetle skeletons
  2 cyclops skeletons
  2 death drake skeletons
  4 draconian skeletons
  A manticore skeleton (Tomb:1)
  3 vampires
  6 blink frogs
  4 orange demons
  4 water elementals (Hell)
  4 giant blowflies
  A firedrake (D:10)
  33 hell hounds
  A soldier ant (D:17)
  2 hairy devils
  28 wraiths
  2 minotaur zombies (Crypt:5)
  A manticore (shapeshifter) (Vault:8)
  A manticore (Vault:1)
  5 mottled dragons
  22 iron devils
  A hill giant simulacrum (Tomb:1)
  17 necrophages
  5 red wasp skeletons
  21 ugly thing skeletons
  2 wolf spider skeletons (Crypt:5)
  A yaktaur skeleton (D:18)
  14 red devils
  14 big kobolds
  4 phantoms
  2 dragon zombies
  8 ice dragon zombies
  A spiny worm zombie (Crypt:1)
  A very ugly thing zombie (Crypt:5)
  21 freezing wraiths
  35 ogres
  28 centaurs
  3 ice beasts
  A deep troll simulacrum (D:20)
  5 giant lizards
  3 gila monsters
  A grey snake zombie (Dis:3)
  A hill giant zombie (D:14)
  2 rock troll zombies
  A black snake skeleton (Crypt:5)
  An ettin skeleton (Crypt:4)
  A spiny frog skeleton (Tomb:1)
  Sigmund (D:4)
  A giant lizard (shapeshifter) (D:23)
  3 ghouls
  5 wargs
  A wolf (shapeshifter) (Vault:8)
  A centaur (shapeshifter) (D:27)
  A naga (shapeshifter) (Vault:5)
  A deep elf mage (Vault:3)
  36 orc warriors
  4 brain worms
  A cyclops simulacrum (Crypt:5)
  10 giant frogs
  5 boulder beetles
  A boulder beetle (shapeshifter) (D:24)
  2 boring beetles
  A boring beetle (shapeshifter) (Vault:7)
  7 brown snakes
  An eye of draining (D:13)
  2 firedrake skeletons
  85 killer bees
  4 redback skeletons
  A two-headed ogre skeleton (Crypt:4)
  A yellow snake skeleton (Crypt:2)
  2 kobold demonologists (D:21)
  3 ugly thing simulacra
  A boulder beetle zombie (Crypt:5)
  A cyclops zombie (Crypt:1)
  13 death drake zombies
  A draconian zombie (Dis:5)
  2 lindwurm zombies
  2 moth of wrath zombies
  A swamp dragon zombie (Crypt:1)
  4 wandering mushrooms (Lair:1)
  A big fish (Hell)
  39 imps
  5 abominations
  2 boring beetle zombies
  A brain worm skeleton (D:24)
  A bumblebee simulacrum (Vault:3)
  A giant beetle skeleton (Crypt:2)
  A giant brown frog zombie (Crypt:3)
  2 giant lizard skeletons
  A gila monster skeleton (Crypt:3)
  A merfolk zombie (Dis:3)
  2 mermaid zombies
  An ogre skeleton (Crypt:3)
  A wolf spider zombie (Crypt:5)
  A wyvern skeleton (Crypt:4)
  A yaktaur zombie (D:15)
  10 hounds
  13 orc priests
  A quasit (D:14)
  2 giant beetles
  2 deep elf soldiers
  An orange rat (Tomb:1)
  12 orc wizards
  20 wights
  12 giant ants
  2 electrical eels
  An elf zombie (Crypt:3)
  7 giant goldfish zombies (D:6)
  6 giant iguanas
  A grizzly bear zombie (Crypt:5)
  A spiny frog zombie (Dis:3)
  2 yak zombies
  A two-headed ogre simulacrum (Tomb:1)
  20 shadows
  10 sheep
  Ijyb (D:3)
  A brown snake skeleton (D:20)
  4 giant frog skeletons
  A war dog skeleton (Crypt:5)
  A warg skeleton (Crypt:4)
  A wolf skeleton (Crypt:2)
  A yellow wasp skeleton (Crypt:5)
  21 jellies
  2 scorpions
  A black bear zombie (Dis:3)
  A hog zombie (Crypt:4)
  A soldier ant zombie (D:9)
  A giant blowfly simulacrum (Crypt:5)
  58 flying skulls
  6 gnolls (D:8)
  7 lemures
  2 brain worm zombies
  A giant beetle zombie (Crypt:4)
  3 giant blowfly zombies
  3 giant lizard zombies
  A mottled dragon zombie (Crypt:5)
  2 naga zombies
  An ogre zombie (Tomb:1)
  12 snakes
  A wyvern zombie (Crypt:1)
  A giant iguana skeleton (Tomb:1)
  A killer bee skeleton (Crypt:3)
  10 manes
  4 giant centipedes
  18 green rats
  6 midges (Abyss)
  11 white imps
  4 worms
  7 giant mites
  25 mummies
  5 big fish zombies (D:6)
  5 centaur zombies
  2 giant frog zombies
  A swamp drake zombie (Crypt:1)
  17 oozes
  A giant eyeball (D:7)
  A snake skeleton (Crypt:3)
  A giant ant zombie (Crypt:5)
  A giant eyeball zombie (Crypt:3)
  A giant iguana zombie (Dis:2)
  2 killer bee zombies
  2 scorpion zombies
  A sheep zombie (Dis:1)
  32 ufetubi
  6 giant cockroaches
  7 giant geckos
  41 grey rats
  21 hobgoblins
  14 jackals
  78 orcs
  7 quokkas
  24 rats
  2 small snakes
  An ant larva zombie (Crypt:1)
  A boggart zombie (Crypt:5)
  A butterfly zombie (Crypt:2)
  26 giant bats
  A giant bat zombie (Crypt:4)
  A giant centipede zombie (D:14)
  A giant cockroach zombie (Dis:4)
  A giant gecko skeleton (Crypt:3)
  A giant gecko zombie (Crypt:5)
  7 giant newts
  12 goblins
  A goblin skeleton (Crypt:3)
  A goblin zombie (Dis:1)
  A grey rat zombie (Tomb:1)
  A hobgoblin skeleton (Crypt:1)
  A hobgoblin zombie (Crypt:5)
  A human zombie (Crypt:5)
  21 illusory rakshasas (D:19)
  48 killer bee larvae
  68 kobolds
  A quokka zombie (Crypt:5)
  A rat skeleton (Crypt:1)
  2 rat zombies
  2 small snake skeletons
  A small snake zombie (Dis:4)
  A snake zombie (Dis:3)
  6 plants
2491 creatures vanquished.

Vanquished Creatures (collateral kills)
  A fire giant (Hell)
  A yaktaur captain (Hell)
  A hydra (Vault:4)
  An ogre-mage (Vault:7)
  A hill giant (D:12)
  An orc knight (Vault:7)
  An orc sorcerer (D:16)
  A spiny worm (D:17)
  A spectral warrior (Hell)
  A slime creature (D:17)
  2 yaktaurs (Hell)
  A very ugly thing (Vault:7)
  3 ugly things (Vault:4)
  4 yaks
  2 two-headed ogres
  A giant goldfish (Lair:3)
  A giant slug (D:17)
  A deep elf fighter (Vault:1)
  A water elemental (Hell)
  A giant blowfly (D:17)
  3 ogres
  A giant lizard (Lair:3)
  An orc warrior (Vault:7)
  A boulder beetle (D:19)
  An ugly thing zombie (D:14)
  An orc priest (Vault:7)
  A giant mite (D:14)
  A giant gecko (Lair:2)
  2 orcs
  A quokka (Lair:2)
40 creatures vanquished.

Vanquished Creatures (others)
  A death ooze (D:20)
  A stone giant (Vault:8)
  A skeletal warrior (Dis:1)
  3 two-headed ogres
  A spiny worm skeleton (D:18)
  A yaktaur (shapeshifter) (Vault:8)
  2 guardian mummies (Tomb:1)
  A deep elf conjurer (D:19)
  An ugly thing (D:22)
  6 ogres
  A hell hound (Dis:2)
  A giant brown frog skeleton (Lair:3)
  A warg (Vault:7)
  An orc wizard (D:10)
  2 shadows
  A sheep (Vault:5)
  2 abominations
  7 flying skulls
  A lemure (D:22)
  4 mummies (Tomb:1)
  An ufetubus (Abyss)
  2 orcs (D:10)
  A giant cockroach skeleton (Dis:1)
  A giant newt (D:11)
  A goblin zombie (Dis:2)
  A jackal (Lair:1)
  2 kobolds
  A quokka zombie (Tomb:1)
  A rat skeleton (Crypt:5)
50 creatures vanquished.

Grand Total: 2581 creatures vanquished

Notes
Turn   | Place   | Note
--------------------------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1     | Slay, the Minotaur Berserker, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1     | Reached XP level 1. HP: 17/17 MP: 0/0
     6 | D:1     | Noticed a spiny worm
     6 | D:1     | Noticed a giant ant
     9 | D:1     | Reached skill 4 in Axes
   149 | D:1     | Reached XP level 2. HP: 20/24 MP: 0/0
   938 | D:2     | Reached XP level 3. HP: 23/31 MP: 1/1
  1502 | D:2     | Reached skill 1 in Maces & Flails
  1899 | D:3     | Acquired Trog's second power
  2227 | D:3     | Reached XP level 4. HP: 32/38 MP: 1/1
  2242 | D:3     | Noticed Ijyb
  2245 | D:3     | Defeated Ijyb
  2604 | D:4     | Noticed it
  2622 | D:4     | Defeated Sigmund
  2622 | D:4     | Reached XP level 5. HP: 31/45 MP: 2/2
  2644 | D:4     | Got a heavily runed platinum ring
  2646 | D:4     | Identified the ring of Vony (You found it on level 4 of the Dungeon)
  2741 | D:4     | Reached XP level 6. HP: 52/52 MP: 2/2
  3062 | D:4     | Reached skill 5 in Maces & Flails
  3151 | D:4     | Reached skill 1 in Unarmed Combat
  3152 | D:4     | Reached skill 5 in Fighting
  3250 | D:4     | Reached XP level 7. HP: 47/61 MP: 3/3
  3347 | D:4     | Reached skill 6 in Maces & Flails
  3772 | D:4     | Reached skill 1 in Shields
  3773 | D:4     | Reached skill 5 in Dodging
  3775 | D:4     | Reached skill 7 in Maces & Flails
  3929 | D:5     | Entered Level 5 of the Dungeon
  4017 | D:5     | Got a jewelled leather armour
  4025 | D:5     | Identified the cursed -5 leather armour of Giopn (You found it on level 5 of the Dungeon)
  5688 | D:6     | Reached skill 8 in Maces & Flails
  5694 | D:6     | Reached XP level 8. HP: 24/69 MP: 3/3
  6683 | D:7     | Reached skill 9 in Maces & Flails
  6947 | D:7     | Reached XP level 9. HP: 47/75 MP: 4/4
  7164 | D:7     | Acquired Trog's third power
  7268 | D:8     | Reached skill 10 in Maces & Flails
  8703 | D:9     | Reached skill 11 in Maces & Flails
  9188 | D:10    | Entered Level 10 of the Dungeon
  9572 | D:10    | Reached skill 5 in Axes
  9730 | D:10    | Reached XP level 10. HP: 26/89 MP: 4/4
 10130 | D:10    | Received a gift from Trog
 10140 | D:10    | Gained mutation: Your mind is acute (Int +1).
 10535 | D:10    | Reached XP level 9. HP: 124/124 MP: 3/3
 10536 | D:10    | Reached XP level 10. HP: 89/89 MP: 4/4
 11006 | D:10    | Reached skill 1 in Stealth
 11046 | D:11    | Reached skill 5 in Unarmed Combat
 11119 | D:11    | Gained mutation: Your mind is acute (Int +2).
 12261 | D:12    | Reached skill 12 in Maces & Flails
 12903 | D:13    | Reached skill 1 in Traps & Doors
 13260 | D:12    | Reached skill 1 in Throwing
 13373 | D:12    | Reached skill 10 in Axes
 13518 | D:12    | Reached XP level 11. HP: 95/96 MP: 5/5
 14137 | D:13    | Noticed Psyche
 14143 | D:13    | Defeated Psyche
 14360 | D:14    | Reached skill 10 in Fighting
 14643 | D:14    | Reached skill 13 in Maces & Flails
 14674 | D:14    | Reached skill 5 in Armour
 14786 | D:14    | Reached skill 1 in Darts
 15284 | D:14    | Reached skill 14 in Maces & Flails
 15480 | D:15    | Entered Level 15 of the Dungeon
 15970 | D:15    | Reached XP level 12. HP: 106/106 MP: 5/5
 18003 | D:17    | Noticed Norbert
 18013 | D:17    | Defeated Norbert
 18225 | D:17    | Reached skill 1 in Slings
 18344 | D:17    | Reached skill 15 in Maces & Flails
 19016 | D:16    | Noticed an orc sorcerer
 19020 | D:16    | Defeated an orc sorcerer
 19238 | Vault:1 | Entered Level 1 of the Vaults
 19847 | Lair:1  | Entered Level 1 of the Lair of Beasts
 19908 | Lair:1  | Noticed a wandering mushroom
 19911 | Lair:1  | Noticed a wandering mushroom
 20106 | Lair:1  | Defeated a wandering mushroom
 20344 | Lair:1  | Noticed a wandering mushroom
 20346 | Lair:1  | Noticed a wandering mushroom
 20416 | Lair:1  | Defeated a wandering mushroom
 20416 | Lair:1  | Reached XP level 13. HP: 113/116 MP: 6/6
 20492 | Lair:1  | Defeated a wandering mushroom
 21871 | Lab     | Entered a Labyrinth
 23211 | Lab     | Gained mutation: You are partially covered in brown scales (AC + 2).
 23211 | Lab     | Gained mutation: You have tough skin (AC +1).
 23211 | Lab     | Gained mutation: You are clumsy (Dex -1).
 23693 | Lair:4  | Reached skill 1 in Evocations
 24524 | Lair:4  | Received a gift from Trog
 26022 | Lair:1  | Defeated a wandering mushroom
 26258 | Hive:1  | Entered Level 1 of the Hive
 26361 | Hive:1  | Reached skill 1 in Spellcasting
 26627 | Hive:4  | Entered Level 4 of the Hive
 27009 | Hive:4  | Received a gift from Trog
 27680 | Hive:3  | Received a gift from Trog
 28211 | D:17    | Reached skill 10 in Dodging
 28453 | D:18    | Got a crystal whip
 28455 | D:18    | Identified the cursed -1,-3 whip "Miumalas" (You found it on level 18 of the Dungeon)
 29172 | D:19    | Noticed a deep elf conjurer
 29187 | D:19    | Defeated a deep elf conjurer
 29189 | D:19    | Reached XP level 14. HP: 79/122 MP: 9/9
 29757 | D:19    | Reached skill 15 in Axes
 30680 | D:20    | Entered Level 20 of the Dungeon
 30699 | D:20    | Reached skill 10 in Unarmed Combat
 31349 | D:21    | Noticed Boris
 31368 | D:21    | Reached skill 16 in Maces & Flails
 31995 | D:21    | Got an ichor-stained dagger
 32740 | D:22    | Gained mutation: You are clumsy (Dex -2).
 33833 | Vault:1 | Reached XP level 15. HP: 127/132 MP: 10/10
 33897 | Vault:1 | Noticed Urug
 34519 | Vault:1 | Received a gift from Trog
 34546 | Vault:1 | Defeated Urug
 35202 | Vault:2 | Got a pitted animal skin
 35212 | Vault:2 | Identified the +2 animal skin "Ratay" (You found it on level 2 of the Vaults)
 36996 | Vault:3 | Noticed a deep elf conjurer
 37004 | Vault:3 | Noticed a deep elf conjurer
 37006 | Vault:3 | Defeated a deep elf conjurer
 37012 | Vault:3 | Defeated a deep elf conjurer
 37027 | Vault:3 | Noticed a deep elf mage
 37032 | Vault:3 | Defeated a deep elf mage
 37456 | Vault:4 | Received a gift from Trog
 37849 | Vault:4 | Reached skill 5 in Shields
 37873 | Vault:4 | Got a jewelled golden mace
 37875 | Vault:4 | Cast into the Abyss (distortion unwield)
 37906 | Abyss   | Noticed a wood golem
 37920 | Abyss   | Defeated a wood golem
 38190 | Abyss   | Reached XP level 16. HP: 113/141 MP: 14/14
 38326 | Abyss   | HP: 9/211 [hellion (22)]
 38594 | Vault:3 | You pass through the gate.
 38694 | Vault:4 | Reached skill 17 in Axes
 39153 | Vault:4 | Got a polished hammer
 39156 | Vault:4 | Got a smoking war axe
 39158 | Vault:4 | Identified the +7,+2 war axe of Smyl (You bought it in a shop on level 4 of the Vaults)
 39237 | Vault:4 | Identified the +4,+6 hammer of Bloodstone (You bought it in a shop on level 4 of the Vaults)
 41106 | Vault:6 | Got a steaming leather armour
 41114 | Vault:6 | Identified the +1 leather armour of Pnexeem (You found it on level 6 of the Vaults)
 42145 | Vault:7 | Reached XP level 17. HP: 147/147 MP: 15/15
 42545 | Vault:7 | Gained mutation: You occasionally shout uncontrollably.
 42554 | Vault:7 | Reached XP level 16. HP: 210/210 MP: 14/14
 42556 | Vault:7 | Gained mutation: You are frail (-10 percent hp).
 42556 | Vault:7 | Reached XP level 17. HP: 132/132 MP: 15/15
 43318 | Vault:8 | Entered Level 8 of the Vaults
 43585 | Blade   | Noticed Frances
 43585 | Blade   | Entered the Hall of Blades
 44135 | Blade   | Reached XP level 16. HP: 84/126 MP: 14/14
 44136 | Blade   | Reached XP level 17. HP: 83/132 MP: 15/15
 44691 | Blade   | Reached skill 18 in Maces & Flails
 45023 | Blade   | Noticed Francis
 45038 | Blade   | Defeated Francis
 45876 | Vault:7 | Gained mutation: You possess an exceptional clarity of mind.
 45877 | Vault:7 | Gained mutation: You have a slow metabolism.
 45878 | Vault:7 | Gained mutation: You sometimes yell uncontrollably.
 45879 | Vault:7 | Gained mutation: You have supernaturally acute eyesight.
 46587 | Vault:8 | Noticed a golden dragon
 46829 | Vault:8 | Got an ancient iron amulet
 46882 | Vault:8 | Identified the amulet of Wuichuh (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)
 46910 | Vault:8 | Defeated a golden dragon
 48154 | D:21    | Reached skill 19 in Maces & Flails
 48300 | D:21    | Defeated Boris
 48300 | D:21    | Reached XP level 18. HP: 74/136 MP: 15/15
 48946 | D:23    | Reached skill 15 in Fighting
 49362 | D:23    | Reached skill 10 in Armour
 51571 | D:24    | Noticed a shining eye
 51756 | D:24    | Lost mutation: You have tough skin (AC +1).
 51757 | D:24    | Lost mutation: You possess an exceptional clarity of mind.
 51969 | D:24    | Reached skill 20 in Maces & Flails
 52115 | D:25    | Entered Level 25 of the Dungeon
 52140 | D:25    | Reached skill 15 in Dodging
 53514 | D:26    | You fall through a shaft!
 53514 | D:27    | Entered Level 27 of the Dungeon
 53542 | D:27    | Reached XP level 17. HP: 40/128 MP: 14/14
 53978 | D:26    | Reached XP level 18. HP: 118/135 MP: 15/15
 54175 | D:26    | Defeated Smashy's ghost
 54516 | D:26    | Got an encrusted shield
 54521 | D:26    | Identified the cursed -1 shield of Servitude (You bought it in a shop on level 26 of the Dungeon)
 54523 | D:26    | Got a pair of warped boots
 54526 | D:26    | Identified the +3 pair of boots of the Morning Star (You bought it in a shop on level 26 of the Dungeon)
 54527 | D:26    | Got a faintly humming splint mail
 54543 | D:26    | Identified the +0 splint mail "Khumni" (You bought it in a shop on level 26 of the Dungeon)
 55373 | D:27    | Noticed a shining eye
 55374 | D:27    | Defeated a shining eye
 55881 | D:27    | Noticed Rupert
 55910 | D:27    | Defeated Rupert
 56915 | Hell    | Entered The Vestibule of Hell
 56916 | Hell    | Noticed Geryon
 56933 | Hell    | Reached skill 21 in Maces & Flails
 58141 | Crypt:1 | Entered Level 1 of the Crypt
 59809 | Crypt:3 | Reached XP level 19. HP: 141/141 MP: 16/16
 61538 | Crypt:4 | Got an ichor-stained blowgun
 61540 | Crypt:4 | Identified the +2,+4 blowgun "Ghuiz" (You found it on level 4 of the Crypt)
 61675 | Crypt:5 | Entered Level 5 of the Crypt
 61793 | Crypt:5 | Got a slimy flail
 61798 | Crypt:5 | Identified the cursed -4,-4 flail of the Archmagi (You found it on level 5 of the Crypt)
 62348 | Crypt:5 | Gained mutation: You have a pair of large horns on your head.
 62829 | Crypt:5 | Noticed a lich
 62837 | Crypt:5 | Defeated a lich
 63158 | Crypt:5 | Got a steaming robe
 63159 | Crypt:5 | Identified a rod of warding (You found it on level 5 of the Crypt)
 63160 | Crypt:5 | Identified the +0 robe "Xeqoocec" (You found it on level 5 of the Crypt)
 63598 | Crypt:5 | Noticed a lich
 63603 | Crypt:5 | Defeated a lich
 65668 | Blade   | Defeated Frances
 65964 | Blade   | Noticed Duane
 65994 | Blade   | Defeated Duane
 66967 | Vault:8 | Reached XP level 20. HP: 130/150 MP: 17/17
 67053 | Vault:8 | Got a crude quarterstaff
 67068 | Vault:8 | Reached XP level 19. HP: 180/214 MP: 15/15
 67164 | Vault:8 | Got a pitted leather armour
 67165 | Vault:8 | Identified the -1 leather armour of the Orb (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)
 67382 | Vault:8 | Got an encrusted cap
 67385 | Vault:8 | Identified the +3 cap "Twostrad" (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)
 67557 | Vault:8 | Noticed a quicksilver dragon
 67567 | Vault:8 | A quicksilver dragon changed form
 67606 | Vault:8 | Got a warped lead amulet
 67609 | Vault:8 | Got a sparkling copper ring
 67613 | Vault:8 | Got a bloodstained morningstar
 67614 | Vault:8 | Identified the +2,+2 morningstar "Ahuyfaph" (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)
 67617 | Vault:8 | Identified the ring "Heomeoto" (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)
 67759 | Vault:8 | Got a shimmering war axe
 67792 | Vault:8 | Lost mutation: You have a pair of large horns on your head.
 67792 | Vault:8 | Lost mutation: Your mind is acute (Int +2).
 67792 | Vault:8 | Lost mutation: You are frail (-10 percent hp).
 67792 | Vault:8 | Lost mutation: You sometimes yell uncontrollably.
 67792 | Vault:8 | Lost mutation: You are clumsy (Dex -2).
 67816 | Vault:8 | Got a transparent leather armour
 67827 | Vault:8 | Identified the cursed -4 leather armour of the Echidna (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)
 67880 | Vault:8 | Identified the +2,+1 war axe of the Fulmar (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)
 68116 | Vault:8 | Noticed a golden dragon
 68161 | Vault:8 | Reached skill 22 in Maces & Flails
 68239 | Vault:8 | Defeated a golden dragon
 68247 | Vault:8 | Noticed a shining eye
 68249 | Vault:8 | A shining eye changed form
 68352 | Vault:8 | Gained mutation: Your magical capacity is low (-10 percent mp).
 68353 | Vault:8 | Lost mutation: You are partially covered in brown scales (AC + 2).
 68434 | Vault:8 | Got a shimmering jade amulet
 68460 | Vault:8 | Got a silver rune of Zot
 68474 | Vault:8 | Gained mutation: Space occasionally distorts in your vicinity.
 68477 | Vault:8 | Gained mutation: You are clumsy (Dex -2).
 68525 | Vault:8 | Identified the amulet "Rithram" (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)
 70114 | Hell    | Reached skill 10 in Shields
 71028 | Hell    | Defeated Geryon
 72223 | Dis:1   | Entered Level 1 of the Iron City of Dis
 74824 | Tomb:1  | Entered Level 1 of the Tomb of the Ancients
 74962 | Tomb:1  | Reached XP level 20. HP: 166/166 MP: 14/15
 76230 | Tomb:1  | Reached skill 15 in Unarmed Combat
 78928 | Tomb:1  | Reached skill 5 in Traps & Doors
 80481 | Tomb:2  | Gained mutation: Your magical capacity is very low (-20 percent mp).
 80484 | Tomb:2  | Reached skill 23 in Axes
 80908 | Vault:3 | Lost mutation: Your mind is acute (Int +1).
 80908 | Vault:3 | Lost mutation: You occasionally shout uncontrollably.
 81375 | Dis:1   | Noticed a Fiend
 81381 | Dis:1   | Defeated a Fiend
 81926 | Dis:1   | Gained mutation: Your body is slowly deteriorating.
 83411 | Dis:2   | Reached skill 24 in Axes
 83807 | Dis:2   | Reached XP level 21. HP: 135/171 MP: 14/14
 85712 | Dis:5   | HP: 3/168 [the effects of Hell (49)]
 85713 | Dis:5   | Killed from afar by a hell hound



Fuckin shit, thought this was the one. Tried the tomb....didnt have sustain abilities amulet so it was a bitch and i left. City of Dis sucks ass. I got half healthed a couple times by the random effect along with other shit. Had like 3 hp left and tried to zerk run unsuccessfully.

273 HP!!!  Nice resists, nice AC/Evade, good equipment.  Hell of a run.

I've gotta get playing this again, been so damn busy with stuff, still have my high elf sitting at the bottom of the vault.

Yeah 273 berserked, and with an Amulet of resist slowing you never go into SLOW mode (AKA dead mode) after zerking. The Iron City of Dis is Nasty, they just keep nuking you over and over and draining half your life. I think my Teleportitis killed me actually, ported me to a bad spot.

Awesome run man!  You have motivated me to fire this back up when I get home from work.  I'm going to spend the day pondering between a Spriggan assasin and a Dwarf fighter.

I recommend if you go melee, go berserker. Rage at 'almost' any time, the regen ability, and calling in ogres and shit to fight with you are awesome abilities! If you stumble upon a resist slowing amulet, you will become insane...wading through monsters. Just make sure on corpses you don't want to eat, hit "p" for pray then chop the corpse, it sacrifices to your god.

Good hunting and may you never reach the tomb and not have a sustain abilities necklace :)

I haven't played a berserker since my first couple runs.  That's actually a great suggestion.  Now that I know the game better a Troll Berserker should be pretty bad ass.  I forsee a long evening of DCSS!

I liked minotaur because it gives very solid stats, and the only real drawback I saw was lack of wearing helmets (but you can wear caps). Troll resists armor, and later on you are going to want all the artifacts you can get :)

Kobold was great because you could eat all the fucking time. The thing about berserker is you need to be in a safe around when you come out of rage, or its your ass (or get resist slowing amulet). Hill Orc zerker is good....zerkers are just good :)

Good hunting!

Found the +12/+16 longsword of Plutonium today - I could kill ANYTHING in a few swings. 

Of course, it was cursed, and I couldn't find a remove curse scroll for 3 levels, and enchant scrolls didn't help because it was an artifact.

And it gives off mutagenic energy.  Plutonium and all.  No amulet of resist mutation, either.

I had about 20 mutations by the time I was able to unequip the damn thing, most of them bad  :why_so_serious:  I didn't last long with a lightning fast metabolism, severe teleportitis, and a rapidly deteriorating body  :ye_gods:

I did end up rolling a Troll Berserker, but I will try a Mino next.  I've read the wiki but I'm still confused as to when I should trade my claws for a weapon.  For instance, Trog gifted me this today. 

(https://dl-web.getdropbox.com/get/Photos/axeoftheendsmall.JPG?w=f799e018)

I equiped it mainly because the effects are bad ass, but would I be better off using my claws? 

Here is a partial character dump.

Wow, that War Axe is INSANE. +5 evasion and it has speed enchanted into it...with lightning resist.   Get a shield to go with it.

Starting using it now, your unarmed combat still comes in handy, for headbutts and other strikes. Your fast regening body doubled with Using that Trog regen ability will be awesome.

EDIT: No shield eh?

I'm loving this berserker.  This is turning out to be my best run by far.  I cleared Lair through about level 8 and headed back to the Orcish Mines after doing some shopping.  Here's a character dump, any advice would be appreciated :)

Find a 2-Hander of Holy Wrath, huge axe of sorts and start pumping all your enchant weapons into it. If you are ever banished to the Abyss or when you start with Hell/tombs and stuff they are nice.

Nice run man, keep it up!

Died at the end. Fuckin' shit.

Fucked up and left my sustenance ring on. Food was a problem as I was made into a herbivore by mutations. GRR. Teleportitis killed me as well, cause I had to wear a amulet of stasis to not get ported to my death.

End of this game is a bitch. Fuck.

Ah the lowly smoke demon.  Killed my best run too.

Started playing this again.  Still going the High Elf Wizard route.  Swiss army approach ftw.

I dislike Ice Dragons.  That is all.

No it isn't.  I hit you, you bastard, with a flaming sword +6/+6, when you were "almost dead".  You were supposed to die, not me!

My last run, got up to Level 12, down to D11, Lair3 and died on Orc 4.  Never found a book.  Never found a decent weapon.  Never found any decent armor I could use (amazing scale mail, but couldn't use it)  Was killing everything with Mephitic cloud and a billion magic Darts.  5 Warrior and 1 Warlord was waiting on Orc 4.

This run I already found a book STORE!  Score!!!  Orc mines were full of cash too, got almost 1k.  No super great equipment yet though, and almost no scrolls.  I only found 2 remove cuirse and already had to burn one (down to D8).  It's very worrying.

Somebody start playing this with me.

Current run is going well, good chance of becoming epic.  Books out the ass.  I have a line of spells waiting for spell levels.  Next up is Freezing Cloud, then probably Fireball, or maybe Haste or Invis, or teleport self, or Abjuration...  I need more spell levels.  Lots of spell levels.

Orb of Destruction is amazing and very fun.  Coat the dungeon walls with the blood and chunks of your enemies.  Can almost one-shot a hill giant.

Still way short on Jewelry, but only cleared Lair and Orc so far.  Still haven't found the Hive, but it will be cake as soon as I do.  No Shoals this game, snake and swamp which shouldn't be too bad.  I'll do them after Hive and Elf.  Hope I find some decent artifacts soon.

Still only 1 shop, but it was Books after all, so I guess I can't complain.

I shall continue talking to myself.

I died.  I'm sure that's no surprise to anyone.  Some named guardian serpent slept me and beat me to death in my dreams.  The swamp sure is harder than it used to be.

The next decent game was not kind in items.  I had ac7 in Lair3 and took a few too many slight risks.  I had an amulet of Gourmand too.  sigh.

This game is not being kind in items either.  I have 10ac but no spellbooks yet and Sif hasn't been kind enough to give me one, but I'm almost there...  so what do I have to deal with?  I go into lair, and there's a 7hydra waiting on l1.  I have magic dart and wands of frost/flame, I can't deal with that... so I go to Orc, and there's a Sorcerer on level 1  Argh.  I can't deal with that either, so I'm stuck confusing cyclops and spamming magic dart in the dungeon... I doubt I'll last much longer, but maybe I'll get a book from Sif, and maybe it won't be the book of annihilations or stalking or transmuting or some other useless crap...  Maybe also pigs will fly out of my ass and kill all the monsters for me...

I died down in the last room. Haven't got myself to roll another guy since.

What was it that you got there with?  Some form of Berserker IIRC?

The game is harder now too, significantly so.

I'm trying to come up with a character worth posting about, but I suck and usually die to something mundane at level 8. Maybe I need to stop obsessively playing kobolds.

Heh.  Hope that's no crime.  I'm obsessively playing High Elf Wizards.  Every now and then I'll do a something of Xom for fun.

Arrgh.

So, my favorite thing to play is KoTm. I don't play it like a proper transmuter; I actually skip all the form-changing spells (except for spider form, which I use as a poor man's swiftness) and just abuse evaporation to blow away everything in the early game. By mid game, most things dangerous enough to use a potion on are resistant to either magic effects or poison, either of which pretty much renders evaporation useless. So it's basically up to my god to allow me to deal with undead, jellies, etc. I'm still figuring out what works best - Kiku is great but still leaves me no recourse against demons; Okawaru and Vehumet take a long time to give me anything good; I haven't tried the more utility-based gods like Chei and Fedhas but I doubt they'll provide the punch I need.

Of course, sometimes a KoTm comes together just right and actually manages to cover all the bases. These are the memorable ones. They don't die due to monsters; they can handle pretty much anything the dungeon throws at them. No, these characters die to the most latent, aggravating weakness the combo has: its low carrying capacity.

See, as a Tm you're constantly distilling corpses into potions; you don't think of potions as being very heavy but they add up, 4 aum at a time. I don't like to have less than a dozen of each of the common ones (poison, confusion) so I'm constantly trying to decide what I can stand dropping to avoid being encumbered. Get an armor upgrade? Looks like I'll have to leave my spare weapon behind. Find a wand of teleport? This spellbook can stay on the floor til I need it next.

Of course, sometimes I fuck it up. This latest one made it to level 11 before I accidentally left myself encumbered while diving through two or three levels of hostile monsters looking for a good choke point. And encumbered is not a good thing to be when you're level 11 and running away from a large slime creature.

Ah well. Experienced the labyrinth for the first time, so at least I learned how that works. I'm considering just putting every point into str on my next character but a short blade/caster hybrid putting points into strength is just a little too dissonant for me.

Hell, I don't know.  I like Freezing Cloud.  That kills things good.  Also Poison Cloud. 

But I guess if you were going that route you wouldn't be a Kobold, and you wouldn't be a Transmuter.

Is Dragon Form any good?

I'll see if I can get Vehumet to give me some ice stuff sometime, this was my first decent game worshipping him.

Never gotten high enough for Dragon Form. Like I said, I suck.

Dragon form is L8 apparently, I've never cast a L8 spell either.

I'm doing ok this game, I've been focusing lots of xp on fighting and have over 100hp at lvl18 with a high elf.

Cleared out snake with ease with freezing cloud.  Lots and lots of freezing cloud.  Just cleared Elf the same way, but man can that place get hairy.  Damn sorcerers and demonologists summoning fiends and executioners really make life interesting, but they all died eventually, even the damn sorcerer wearing armor of cold/poison/elec resist.  He was a pain, I had to run from him twice before I finally got him to sit on a conjured flame and roast to death. 

Control Teleport with blink is amazing.  That is all.

I'm thinking Vaults next maybe, or I might try Shoals, I've never been there before.  Here's hoping that death isn't right around the corner.

Vaults are now clear.  Waiting for me at V8 was 24 vault guards, 5 stone giants, 2 storm dragons, a bone dragon, a half a dozen shapeshifters, a high orc priest who only raised dead once and smited me once, thank god.  Various yakaurs and random trolls were there too, all that within a dozen turns of my descending the stairs.  It was interesting.  Fought my first lich in one of the vaults too, those things love to spam Balrug and other super nasties.  I machine gunned him down and ran like hell.

Got a few spellbooks for my trouble, but no randarts that were amazing enough to use.  Boots of levitaition which levitate forever, very nice but not extremely helpful.  I think that means I do Shoals next though, levitation forever there will probably be extra special nice.  Wish I could do Swamp, but don't have that option.  Maybe could do Tomb instead but not sure I have access to dispel undead yet...

Here's hoping that death is not right around the corner...

Ok, so there was really nothing to fear in the Shoals.  Everything died to Poison Cloud, even the Kraken.  Got some halfway decent C++ gloves and my third rune, some other random junk too.

Hrm... wonder what I do now?  Slime terrifies me, and I'm not too set up for fighting legions of undead...they don't care so much about freezing and poison cloud...

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/91035/crawl-frosty.jpg)

So I'm wandering through the dungeon and come across a structure, a clear glass cage full of death yaks.  I naturally give them a frozen surprise and they all die.  Then I teleport inside and inside the vaults is a meat freezer with automatic frozen cloud generation!  There must be a twisted Micky D's down here somewhere...

The Slime Pits suck.  I'm not going there until I have decent artefacts and can afford to cast Dig 9 bajillion times to keep the walls from beating the crap outta me.  Crypt is much more doable, liches and all.

Fell through a shaft down to Crypt5.  Took forever to find the stairs, waded through tons of hell knights, bone dragons and other fun.  Finally did find the stairs and then tackled the end vault.  Killed 1 lich, lured away the other and the ancient lich.  What was in the vault that they were guarding?  A somewhat decent quarterstaff, 2 scrolls, some gold and some barely magical junk.  sigh.  You'd think an ancient lich would have more to show for all his years.

Guess I'll work on the regular dungeon for a while, really not looking forward to doing the slime pits.

Sif was nice enough to gift me a book with Orb of Destruction in it, so now I'm a death machine again.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/91035/Screen0010.JPG)
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/91035/Screen0011.JPG)

and down on level 22 of the dungeon what do I find but a bookstore with Book of Annihilations inside, now I don't have to worry about where to get that.

Figured that while I was clearing the basic dungeon it was a good time to switch gods, went with Kiku for the torment resistance and corpse granting abilities.  Sif's wrath is somewhat of a pain.  I've already gotten 4 bad mutations from her forced miscasts and she paralyzed me in the middle of a largish fight.  Fortunately I had already freezing clouded everything, but it still was not good.  I have the feeling I've got a long way to go with it too, maybe I'll burn some permanent food and wait it out for a while.

Slime pits are clear down to level 5, but Sif Muna still hasn't made peace with me, and the miscasts and punishments are plenty bad enough to get me killed if they happen while fighting the Royal Jelly.

Base dungeon is completely clear.  Lots of portals to Zot on the bottom level.  First time I've done that.  Only branches left are Slime, Crypt, Hell, Pan and the Abyss.  Everything else is picked clean.

Burned all my scrolls of acquirement looking for a decent weapon.  I got a -2-1 triple sword of flaming Ev+3, a sling of frost ev+3 rpois and a TRIDENT OF REACHING!  sigh.  My best randart weapon is the Singing Sword (+7 +7).  No art boots or helmet or shield.  My armor is a leather +4 +lev.  Armor is a problem for me.

Sif Muna needs to stop being mad at me.  It really sucks.  I only have 1 cure mut potion left, had to burn my other one when I got to moderately glowing from sif's miscasts and a bunch of bad mutations got through my resist mutation pendant.

I've got 3 piety stars with Kiku but they'll be gone if I have to wait out the rest of Sif's wrath, and the only other reasonably safe place to go is Crypt and Kiku doesn't give piety for killing undead.

Things are sub optimal.  Maybe I should go wander in the abyss.

Currently working on a KoTr that's had an excellent start. Was going to go Kiku and spellcasting heavy, but I found a dagger of speed on D:2 and a corrupted Temple on D:4 full of altars to Lugonu (I guess this is a new thing in 0.8, which I just upgraded to recently). I've never taken a Lugonu character far, so I decided to go that route and see where it took me.

The dungeon made up for the early weapon and temple by throwing all sorts of uniques, orc bands, and demons at me at inconvenient times - I think I had to leave three consecutive levels to be cleared later - but I actually managed to survive it all to the first couple branches. Lair was full of hard-to-kill snails and poisonous snakes and frogs, so I decided to go orc until I could get the money to buy some better gear. Orc, of course, had Kirke waiting for me, so I just had to leave and scrounge up the gold from the main dungeon.

Now I have an rPois cloak, daggers of speed and venom, and sabers of distortion (thanks, Lucy! And thank you, amulet of faith!) and holy wrath. Only real mishap so far has been -1 dex thanks to magical radiation from a distortion unwield. And I just found a +4 robe of Night {+Inv MR sInv Stlth++} in Lair:5. So I guess I might be ready to try Snake. I say "guess" and "might" because I've never done snake. So I will probably die in the first 50 turns.

Here goes.

edit: Never mind. Gave up on Snake after some unique roughed me up a bit too much, went on with the main dungeon until I underestimated a dragon and his friends. Forgot that spider form removed my rF++. Got burned to death waiting for a teleport to kick in.

Sorry to hear that man.  Nice robe tho.
Snake really isn't that bad if you can reliably kill trolls and have poison resist.  Must have poison resist tho.  It's easy to line up the nagas in there so bolt spells/wands do wonders.

I'm still soldiering on, decided to try and clear the last level of Slime.

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Eat pink bowling balls you gelatinous bastard!

Last level of slime hasn't been so bad.  Acid blobs are a bit scary but I can handle them.  Azure jellies aren't bad with 3 levels of cold resist, and everything else is just fodder.  Now that I've got the Royal Jelly almost dead he runs whenever he sees me, just have to clean up the rest of the stuff and get one more whack on him and the treasure is all mine!!! Hope there's at least something decent in there...

Ed:  Finished the level off...

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Only thing useful was an amulet of controlled flight, see invis which replaced my amulet of controlled flight... whee.

Went and cleared the vestibule of Hell.  Geryon was a decent challenge.  I really don't want to play around in Hell too much more though, so I guess I go to Xot and do the first few levels now...

First 2 levels of Zot are clear.  Storm dragons are easy for me now and there's nothing else there really that's much of a challenge.  Found a somewhat decent ringmail randart (+2, ev+6, Str+3).  I'd use it except it hurts my castings slightly and I'm working towards firestorm.  Without any items of wizardry I can cast it at (bad).  Progress!

Sif Muna is still mad at me.  Today she damaged my brain.


Ed:  Had to chop off a bunch of history because apparently there is a post limit size.

Level 3 of Zot is mostly clear.  Orbs of fire really suck.  I've never been happier that my Resist Mutation necklace also has RF++.  Electric golems also pretty much suck.  Everything eats pink bowling balls until it dies, then I fill up the magic meter with dragon bits or just my own body and cast regen.  I love regen.

I fought 2 storm dragons and an ice dragon at the same time and it was much easier than one stinking orb of fire.  Those things are a menace, but so far only mutated me once with a fast metabolism.  At least there are lots of dragons to eat around there.

Sif is still mad at me, still causing the occasional miscast.  I really hope that ends soon, it could be very bad.

I've got 5 piety stars with Kiku now, soon I will get necromutation and won't have to worry about mutating anymore.  I'd much rather rely on my 30 healing potions than my 1 cure mutation.  I wish there was someplace safer I could go to gain piety, maybe I'll take a look at Dis or Gehenna.

Stepped on a Zot trap while clearing the Hell vestibule and got tossed into the Abyss.  Wandered around in there for a while, picked up a frail mutation and a bit of rotting.  Slaughtered a lot of demons and whatnot, except for the Ancient Lich and the Pit Fiend.  I left them alone.  Got my 5th piety star briefly but lost it again, need to gain it back so I can get the necro book with Necromutation in it.  Running out of places to kill things, it's either Hell or Zot now, not even sure which is better.  Probably will go to Genehha and see how bad it is.  Need to get Necromutation running so I can stop worrying about bad mutations.

E2a:

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Oh Hell Yes!  This is holding a staff of Wizardry, but almost there!  And hunger is only a Strawberry!  I'll be blowing shit up for serious!

Zot 3 is clear.  Cocytus is clear and the icy rune is mine.  Antaeus took plenty of firestorms to take down.  I now have the Necronomicon but must work on my transmutation as I can only cast Necromutation at bad.  Dumping all xp from Zot4 into Transmutation and hopefully I can get my success to fair.

I am now at the point where I either go for the orb, go to Gehenna, or go to Pan.  The orb actually seems like it might be the best option now even though I don't quite feel ready... but I probably never will.

I've been working on the orb chamber/all the live long day... it's seriously slow going.  Go in, maybe I'll see some draconians and firestorm their asses, or maybe I'll see an orb of fire or an electric golem or an ancient lich and have to retreat a bit and deal with it, then regen mana, maybe request corpses from kiku and animate them after I chop up some for mana food.  Zombies come in handy for distracting things while I get set up to blast everything, also for getting in the way of orbs from ancient liches.  Also butterflies.

Necromutation is very nice.  Having complete Fire/Cold/Neg resists comes in very handy.

Had a seriously close call involving an electric golem spawning outside the orb vault.  I firestormed it twice hoping it would die, it didn't, I was all out of mana and had no good options at all for hurting it.  It kept throwing lightning, whittling me down until luckily it blinked away and I was able to regen enough for one more firestorm.  Serious nailbiter that was.

Hope I don't die.

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Morgue file. (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/91035/morgue-Freg-20110529-115725.txt)

Grats!

Thx!  Sure took long enough.

Found these "cherry picked bad ideas" (https://sites.google.com/site/cherrypickedbadideas/) on the main Crawl site.  Amazing hilarity after much crawling.

Rise from your temporary grave!  Temporary b/c i keep dying over and over but it's a fun time waster when needed on a low end computer.
General pattern is to either die on levels 1 or 2, or make it to level 10ish and die in the orc mines. Last run was my best so far but still got smoked by a named lich in the shoals (my first time there).  Made it to level 14 as a mino zerker, had several artifacts and my +8 Plate Mail.  I am not looking forward to meeting this ghost.  Still dont know how to get a caster high enough to cast the good stuff.  I seriously doubt i will ever "win" at this game.

Oh, forgot to post here but beat this a while back. Think I posted about it in PC gaming....
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Demonspawn Monk...

In search of a amulet of resist mutation I decided to head back and clear the Elven Halls, where I stumbled upon an Adamantium blade. Turned out to be a +13, +13  sword of Pain that prevents casting. Who needs casting with a +13 FUCKIN SWORD WOOOOO. Cleared slime to level up long sword for the Zot run. GG fuckers.

Playing this again.  Watch out for herds of mummies.  Don't fight them without a sustain abilities ring.  Did pretty well with this guy.  Tornado is ridiculously overpowered.

Morgue here. (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/91035/morgue-Freg-20130323-123056.txt)

Nice run! 9/15 runes is strong.

Thanks.

I could have done Zot, but I had never done the hells before.  They sucked but I finished 3 of them.  The fourth had too many shadow fiends, which did not mesh well with my constant necromutation.  Then I had never seen Pan before, it's really not bad.  Pan lords can be a bit tricky but are weaker than the bosses of Hell IMO.  Then I had never seen a Ziggurat before so had to try that.  I was chewing through it no problem dropping everything with Tornado in 1 or 2 casts, then got a bit cocky and tried to plow through a herd of Mummies.  Was doing fine, then 2 death curses hit my strength and that was it.  Lying on the floor twitching while a giant pile of stuff tried to beat on me.

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