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[popsofctown]

Dungeon Crawl is a roguelike game, a genre of single player PC games much like old school RPGs, except with an emphasis on randomly generated maps and the brutal finality of death.  Several players in this forum have been playing it and discussing it. 

Dominion challenges our concept of how fun a multiplayer game that easily divides into single player can actually be.  As a result, I've designed a 1v1 competitive format for Crawl so that people in this forum can add some rivalry to the single player experience. 

If you're reading this and you haven't played Crawl at all, you should know that:

1. Crawl is free to download.
2. Crawl is open source, free as in speech.  This makes it incredibly unlikely that glitches are a gamebreaking aspect of competing.
3. There's a built in tutorial which is rather good
4. No one on this forum that we know of has beaten it yet.  The game is designed around the risk that any attempt to beat the game could rather likely result in permanent failure. 
5. There's lots of luck involved.  Combined with 4, this means that if you download the game, play the tutorial and kick the tires around for a couple hours you stand a chance against anyone else.
6. It's totally turn based, you can step away from the game at any time
7. You can probably play from work or school if you want to, without downloading.  The interface is slightly less friendly though

That's about as much space as I'd like to spend selling the game to people.
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The format for matches in the tournament is based on drafting.  It is analogous to choosing which type of engine or whether to go BM in a Dominion game.  Unlike a dominion game, a game of crawl takes much longer than an hour, so mirror matches need be thrown out.


When your match starts with another player, I will generate two random "character configurations".  A character configuration includes a starting species, the background (class) to choose, the starting weapon to select, and what religions the character is allowed to worship.  Everything but the last is a natural part of creating a new character, the last is an external rule to add more strategy to the competition: the character will be prohibited from worshipping gods besides the 1, 2, or 3 randomly selected.   

You and your opponent will each secretly decide which character configuration you consider more powerful and PM the choice to me.  If your choices match, those two configs are thrown out and a new pair is used and the process repeats.  Eventually, you and your opponent will select different configs as being more powerful.

Once that happens, you are assigned the configuration you chose.  You get to do exactly 3 runs with that configuration.  You have ten days (tentative deadline), can do it whenever you like, and simply report your results by PM honestly.  Only the most successful run counts.  Whichever player has the most successful run wins the match.


The successfulness of a run is defined as follows:
A run that wins the game is always more successful than one that doesn't.
A run that ends with more runes collected is more successful than one that ends with fewer.
Runs that end with the same number of runes, but different types of runes, may take priority over eachother, roughly based on difficulty.  As follows:

Icy
Obsidian
Iron
Bone
Golden
Dark
Glowing
Magical
Fiery
Demonic
Slimy***
Silver
Barnacled or Gossamer or Decaying or Serpentine

***If one of the gods in your configuration is Jivya, who allows you to take the Slimy rune without combat, then the Slimy rune is treated as having less priority than Barnacled.  It still counts as a rune though, so 4 runes including slimy beats 3 runes no matter what those three are.

If things are still tied, the deepest floor of the main dungeon/zot reached breaks the tie, for failure runs, and lower turns taken breaks the tie for successful runs.
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I'm aiming to get 4 people for round robin, who's in? 
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I found a download link here: the official site seems to be down, but since it's an open source game it's naturally easy to find a copy anyplace.  http://sourceforge.net/projects/crawl-ref/

[Grujah]

/in.

Maybe to speed up the process, make configs in batch of 3-5 ? (also, morgues would be nice).

[popsofctown]

3-5 pairs at a time is probably a good idea, I guess.

[Jorbles]

In to die first, lvl 1 v lizard.

Or maybe I'll die to a tuff ghost. I will definitely die anyways.

[Jorbles]

I don't like the only random gods rule though. I think crawl is hard enough as is.

Edit: Unless all random gods chosen were viable. I'm not sure how to determine if gods are viable though.

[shraeye]

interesting...I'll take a look at Crawl.  For a complete newbie to all roguelike games, will I be totally lost?

[Grujah]

interesting...I'll take a look at Crawl.  For a complete newbie to all roguelike games, will I be totally lost?

3. There's a built in tutorial which is rather good

[shraeye]

can somebody with internet skilllzzz help me find a link to download this?  Is it the same or different as Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup?

[WalrusMcFishSr]

Sure I'm /in. Expect my results to be a little underwhelming though haha

[shraeye]

I found this and can read in a bit.  Hopefully I can figure out how to play from this:

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Playing_online

[Grujah]

It is the same as Stone Soup.

You can download it here.

http://crawl.develz.org/

It's just that their website found the most unfortunate time do go down; it should be back up soon, I hope.

[Jorbles]

Will we be playing on our own boxes or on one of the servers? (Or both)

[Grujah]

locally.

[popsofctown]

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is one of the most newbie friendly roguelikes.  I only learned it three weeks ago or something.
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It's Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, current version is 0.13.  I should have put Stone Soup up there, but I try to refer to the game as Dungeon Crawl when I can since Stone Soup was something they appended to celebrate a new version they were particularly proud of (0.10, maybe), and they might change that to something else soon.
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You can play on your own box, or on Webtiles. 

You may wipe all your ghosts before your first run, and you may wipe all your ghosts before each run if you wish.
You may NOT cherrypick ghosts from your own files and remove them.
You may NOT make suicide characters that have the intention of producing weak ghosts.
You need to decide whether you want to wipe ghosts before run1 before you find out what background you will be playing.  Waiting to find out you're playing a caster and then wiping your ghost files is frowned upon.
If you chose to wipe all, it's okay to wipe run 1 or run 1&2 based on what kind of ghost was created.  Before run 3, you must wipe both previous runs or neither, cherrypicking is considered non-kosher in crawl in general.


With sample size 3, it is probably easier to win if you wipe before the tournament.  Ghosts contribute to risks without providing item drops, it would seem doubtful the bit of experience is worthwhile.  I'm recommending everyone wipe their ghost files and play on their own boxes, but I don't want to impair anyone who prefers to play on Webtiles (where ghosts are mandatory) from participating.  They can play but expect to have a slight disadvantage.
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I'm not budging on the random gods, I think it is an important way of adding more skill to matches without increasing the sample size of games.  I'm not sticking to viable gods, I don't even intend to stick to viable classes: every class but wanderer can be picked (forgot to mention that exclusion, but wanderer is excluded because it conceals more pregame information than other classes).

The runs may be harder than normal crawl runs, but you don't have to beat the game, you have to beat the other player, who hopefully you outsmarted into picking an even weaker god.  Lower average power level is a good thing in terms of administrating a tournament, if we have a twelve rune run, a twelve rune run, and a thirteen rune run against a 3,6,14, that will take ages for us to get results back.

If you truly think things are corrupted such that progress is nigh impossible, I encourage you to cheat the system, max out Stealth, and see how deep in the dungeon you can get without dying and hope to win on 0 rune tiebreak.  You run the risk of someone clearing shoals at least once, or even dashing into spider pit with rPois and grabbing the last rune, then dying.  All this is to point out that in a competitive format weak gods don't ruin the game because success is redefined, just like Sea Hag - cultist game where 12 VP might be a winning score.

[popsofctown]

I'll let signups simmer a bit to see if heron has posted yea or nay on his participation, and see how shraeye feels about the game.

I can make myself available on instant message if you need help with anything.  I'll put a download link in the OP right now.

EDIT: by right now I guess I mean when I'm at a different computer, the library pcs aren't playing nice it seems.

[Jorbles]

I'm not budging on the random gods, I think it is an important way of adding more skill to matches without increasing the sample size of games.  I'm not sticking to viable gods, I don't even intend to stick to viable classes: every class but wanderer can be picked (forgot to mention that exclusion, but wanderer is excluded because it conceals more pregame information than other classes).

What if it's a class that starts with a god? Berzerker's for instance. I'm pretty sure there's others.

[popsofctown]

Religious backgrounds will get 1-3 gods, one of which will always be the god that they start with.

Except the species Demigods, no matter their background they can only worship Xom, Lugonu, Cheibrados, Beogh, or Ashenzari. 

[Grujah]

Except the species Demigods, no matter their background they can only worship Xom, Lugonu, Cheibrados, Beogh, or Ashenzari.

What?   

[shraeye]

i moved around a few times; the Webtiles thing doesn't seem to actually have the tutorial.  So i'm probably quite lost.  I have no idea what a religion is.  Unless getting swarmed by monsters and dying is a religion.

[popsofctown]

Except the species Demigods, no matter their background they can only worship Xom, Lugonu, Cheibrados, Beogh, or Ashenzari.

What?   

I mean it, if you worship Sif Muna as Demigod I will immediately DQ you.

[popsofctown]

i moved around a few times; the Webtiles thing doesn't seem to actually have the tutorial.  So i'm probably quite lost.  I have no idea what a religion is.  Unless getting swarmed by monsters and dying is a religion.

Check the OP for a download link.  Webtiles does indeed lack a tutorial and lack hints mode.

You'll figure out what a religion is naturally if you make it a few floors without dying.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

I'm assuming there's a policy of 'no practice runs'? Considering it's built into the round structure anyway, and we're all on the honor system.

BTW, just one hit KO'd Sigmund on Dungeon:2 with my sneaky Spriggan Assassin, there's a good feeling

[WalrusMcFishSr]

Also, when generating the build match-ups, you might consider discarding any viable vs. non-viable. I don't trust myself to go against the game's opinion yet so I would just pick the viable one each time. Maybe sticking to viable v. viable or non-viable v. non-viable would speed up the process.

[shraeye]

PSA: that download link in the first post came along with a potential malicious threat.  One should be careful that their computer is protectable before downloading.

[popsofctown]

Also, when generating the build match-ups, you might consider discarding any viable vs. non-viable. I don't trust myself to go against the game's opinion yet so I would just pick the viable one each time. Maybe sticking to viable v. viable or non-viable v. non-viable would speed up the process.

I'm gonna use large batches to keep things going quickly.  I'll post several pairs at a time and wait for pms on all the pairs, the earliest one that produces disagreement is the one I'll use.  Viable vs. non-viables should be pretty easy choices for the players and not add much thinking time.

[popsofctown]

I downloaded the link from sourceforge to test it, it came up as being a copy of the file I downloaded back when the official site was up.  It's not malicious.

[shraeye]

alright, must be my overly sensitive computer.

[shraeye]

so i met eustachio.  I hate him.

[Jorbles]

so i met eustachio.  I hate him.

He is really annoying if he gets a bunch of summons off. You need to be able to smash your way through to him or to kill him with a cloud spell usually. What were you playing as?

[shraeye]

uhhhh, some ogre thing; big guy, bashes stuff.

[Grujah]

Except the species Demigods, no matter their background they can only worship Xom, Lugonu, Cheibrados, Beogh, or Ashenzari.

What?   

I mean it, if you worship Sif Muna as Demigod I will immediately DQ you.

You cannot worship any god as a Demigod, I do not get this, still.

[popsofctown]

Except the species Demigods, no matter their background they can only worship Xom, Lugonu, Cheibrados, Beogh, or Ashenzari.

What?   

I mean it, if you worship Sif Muna as Demigod I will immediately DQ you.

You cannot worship any god as a Demigod, I do not get this, still.

Not with that attitude.

[popsofctown]

uhhhh, some ogre thing; big guy, bashes stuff.

When you see a unique, usually you want to use 'x', drag your cursor over to it, then hit 'v'.  That describes him, and says whether it's "extremely dangerous" or "dangerous".  That gives you a rough idea of how tough the unique is, although I might fear Sigmund even if my level is high enough that he is described as "dangerous" and I might try to kill Psyche even if she is described as "extremely dangerous". 

But for most extremely dangerous uniques, you want to skip the floor and keep progressing in the dungeon.  When you've cleared several more floors, you can go back up to the unique with your newfound strength and kill the unique for the experience and items.

If the unique tries to trap you into a one on one fight, use any escape abilities you have to flee, even the drastic scroll of teleportation if you must. 

[popsofctown]

I'm assuming there's a policy of 'no practice runs'? Considering it's built into the round structure anyway, and we're all on the honor system.

BTW, just one hit KO'd Sigmund on Dungeon:2 with my sneaky Spriggan Assassin, there's a good feeling

No practice runs, indeed. 

[popsofctown]

If there are no objections, I'll start running the tournament tomorrow, with shraeye, Jorbles, Walrus, and Grujah has entrants.  I won't enter myself because it should work better with an even number of entrants.

[Jorbles]

I like those odds.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

I'll do a Rocky training montage right now

[shraeye]

i'm doing a training montage.  Except it consists of looking at the tutorials.  And they're minimally helpful so far.

Also, it's really hard for me to skip a level in a dungeon.  I'm the kinda guy who has to explore every room and hallway.

[Jorbles]

Also, it's really hard for me to skip a level in a dungeon.  I'm the kinda guy who has to explore every room and hallway.

That's generally a good idea UNLESS you meet Sigmund or some dangerous player ghost, etc.

[popsofctown]

Round one, I'm going to pit Grujah against shraeye, and Jorbles against WalrusMcFish. 

The batch is coming up soon.

[popsofctown]

DO NOT COMMENT ON STRATEGY IN THREAD
shraeye versus Grujah
Config Drafting 



Config pair 1:
Rattala: Monotheistic Naga Beserker of Trog, spear in hand
Malisimon: Tritheistic Tengu Necromancer of Kikubaaqudgha, Xom, and Zin

Config pair 2:
Copplini: Monotheistic Naga Fighter of Mahkleb, short sword in hand
Iatodavid: Tritheistic Gargoyle Arcane Marksman of Okawaru, Sif Muna, and Vehemut, sling in hand

Config pair 3:
Solariska: Monotheistic Ghoul Venom Mage of Vehemut
Davikraken: Tritheistic Octopode Conjurer of Kikubaaqudgha, Okawaru, and Yredelemnul

Config pair 4:
Librigraz: Tritheistic Centaur Necromancer of Elyvilon, Fedhas Madhas, and the Slime god
Elcrow:Monotheistic Tengu Gladiator of Ashenzari, falchion in hand




Grujah and shraeye, please PM me the names of the characters you prefer from each pair.  The earliest of the pairs that produce a disagreement will determine the classes you play.  If you agree on all 4 pairs, more will be generated.

[popsofctown]

DO NOT COMMENT ON STRATEGY IN THREAD
Jorbles versus WalrusMcFish
Config Drafting 


Config pair 1
Opothekitch: Bitheistic Ogre Venom Mage of Vehemut and Yredelemnul
Entropyrus: Tritheistic High Elf Fire Elementalist of Mahkleb, the Shining One, and Xom

Config pair 2
Gloinuss: Bitheistic Deep Dwarf Enchanter of Sif Muna and Zin
Bob:  Monotheistic Human Death Knight of Yredelemnul

Config pair 3
Refliseptus: Bitheistic Vampire Ice Elementalist of Mahkleb and Ashenzari
T. M. 28: Bitheistic Gargoyle Death Knight of Yredelemnul and the Slime god

Config pair 4
Frostbite: Bitheistic Draconian Ice Elementalist of Vehemut and Ashenzari
Esma: Monotheistic Naga Chaos Knight of Xom


You two have similar instructions to Grujah and Jorbles.

You can use wikis and the learndb database to collect information, and you can create a character and stand in front of the entrance gate to look at stats.  Finding any information is ok, it's just not okay to ask for advice or analysis.  You can ask in thread right here a question like "Are halflings immune to mutations?", but not a question like "Would a halfling that worships the Slime god be good?"

[popsofctown]

Walrus pointed out I made a mistake, Gargoyle Death Knight is a forbidden class.  Whatever pick is made for that pairing will be ignored, only the other three count. 

[popsofctown]

Jorbles and Walrus agree, a new set will be generated.

[shraeye]

i'll look at them and pick soon.  Basically I'll pick whoever has a cool name, or whatever sounds fun.  My strategic thoughts are very limited.

[popsofctown]

Config pair 5
Putrefacti: Bitheistic Deep Dwarf Air Elementalist of Cheibriados and Yredelemnul
Ryzamere: Bitheistic Deep Elf Conjurer of Trog and Kikubaaqudgha

Config pair 6
Nightcrawler: Monotheistic Demonspawn Artificer of Lugonu
Ragdoll: Bitheistic Mummy Wizard of Xom and Jiyva

Config pair 7
Bloopex: Tritheistic Octopod Fire Elementalist of Trog, Ashenzari and Fedhas Madash
Digrat: Monotheistic Kobold Conjurer of Ashenzari

Config pair 8
Rhyderion: Monotheistic Gargoyle Fighter of Trog
Quantanide: Bitheistic Deep Elf Venom Mage of Lugonu and Xom

[popsofctown]

i'll look at them and pick soon.  Basically I'll pick whoever has a cool name, or whatever sounds fun.  My strategic thoughts are very limited.

You're welcome to use the wiki and study, or you can just wing it.  I would ask that you not pick based on cool names, since I made them up, and I wouldn't like to actually influence things that much.  At least pick based on the species, class, or gods.

[shraeye]

yeah, i'll pick mostly based on the species/class/gods.  If I'm set to worship a god, does that mean taht's the only god that I'm allowed to worship, assuming I find their altar...or do I start out automatically worshipping them?

[popsofctown]

The former.  Each set has up to three gods, and you can worship no gods aside from those.  You don't have to worship any of them if you don't want to.  You can only have one religion at one time, but you can switch between gods over the course of your run.  It's not recommended for you to leave a god, because if you do that god will try to kill you, and the gods in DCSS are as powerful as, well, gods.  The exception is TSO, Elyvilion, and Zin, they will be upset, but they won't punish you unless you go worship an evil god.

All gods are guaranteed to have an altar somewhere in floors 1-9 except Beogh, Jiyva, and Lugonu.  Jiyva has a guaranteed altar in the Slime Pits in Lair.  You don't have guaranteed access to Lugonu.

There are five backgrounds that automatically start out worshiping a god: Beserkers (Trog), Death Knights (Ydredemnul), Chaos Knights (Xom), Abyssal Knights (Lugonu), and Healers (Elyvilion).  If a config uses one of those backgrounds, then it starts out worshipping that god with 1 * of piety.

[popsofctown]

The gauntlet has been thrown!

Though Walrus and Jorbles agreed on every other pair presented, Walrus McFish regards Bloopex, the Fire Elementalist of Trog, Ashenzari, and Fedhas Madash as a powerful adventurer.  Has Jorbles never witnessed that a furious Blooper will borrow a fire flower from the great Piranha plant, and spit flames wherever it wanders!

Jorbles, however, has the utmost faith in the resourcefulness of Digrat.  Though teaching a normal type rat to dig might seem like a curse and not a blessing, with some Leftovers it can hide and eat all the time and out of battle it can conjure a useful escape.


It's recommended you two wipe your ghost files now.  You have ten days from whenever Grujah and shraeye finish up to finish 3 runs.
Every other day or so, please PM me updates on your progress. The only purpose in that is that if one player finishes all three runs, and another is midrun but has already beaten all three of those runs, I can call the match early, which frees up the victorious player to play other characters or whatever and save finishing that run for later.

[popsofctown]

I'm going to do one run of each type that actually gets drafted on my own time, just for fun, amusement, and comparison.  I won't release the results until after the match, of course

[popsofctown]

The official site being down makes life a lot harder, so I couldn't find an incredibly straightforward way to wipe the ghost files, aside from reinstalling.  Since it's such a small file when you install the game, it's not such a big deal I guess.  If you use Linux, it might be 10 times easier to find your ghost files and nuke them.

[popsofctown]

I reinstalled, and it didn't wipe my high scores, but did reset my init file (I know because the eating shortcut I set reverted).  I'm 90% sure that got the ghost files too.  Which is nice that you can keep your high scores. 

[shraeye]

you can play more than one character at once?

[popsofctown]

You can leave one save file on hold, and play a different character, yes.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

What can I say, I have a huge soft spot for Octopodes.

C'mon Bloopy!

[Jorbles]

I on the other hand dislike Octopodes. I thought this was the most likely one we would play. Though I thought there was a chance we might diverge on Nightcrawler and Ragdoll.

[Jorbles]

I've got a clean install on my computer. (I don't want to interrupt my current MiBe run on Webtiles which is going exceptionally better than my usual runs).

[popsofctown]

Bloopex juggled the horseshoe amongst all eight of his arms, until finally gripping it and hurling it towards the stake.  It hid dead center, and right as it struck he gave it a loud blast of fire for good measure.  "FOOM!".
The horseshoe became hot enough to melt and merge with the stake.  "Just to be sure.  Melted gold is still gold, so that's six points."

Digrat scowled at him, then hid a smirk. Bloopex only had a 3 point lead now but there was only one horseshoe left.  He had broken the Penultimate Gold Horseshoe Rule.

He cast a couple Magic Darts at the stake, to practice his aim.  None of them missed, that was a good sign.  Then he wound up, took a strong step forward, and threw the horseshoe...

which threw itself back.  It whirled around and reversed direction after traveling just six inches, than narrowed and shrunk, fastening itself around Digrat's wrist and glowing with text in Latin.  Damn Latin.  Digrat hated Latin.

Bloop fell back onto a flower patch, laughing in a gurgly glee.  "Ah haha, you threw it, and then it came back.. ahahaHAHA!"  His tentacles waved in the air uncontrollably, he could hardly stop laughing.
He waddled over to the sign he had setup for such occasions: "It has been {3} days since Digrat-" RIP! "It has been {0} days since Digrat has had an accident and cursed himself".

Digrat stamped the ground. "You know what? I'm sick of you and your disrespect.  I'm going to go get your family's barnacled rune of Zot and throw it in some lava.  Maybe grab the Orb while I'm at it, and come back a hero.  Definitely the first thing though.  Eat rot, Bloopex".

By the time Bloopex was done laughing and realized what he had heard, Digrat had already left.  "Wait... crap.. I'm pretty sure my parents said that I'm a disgrace to Trog for practicing magic and that they barely won't disown me entirely unless I let something happen to the rune.  Better go in there. Grahhh."

He trod over to the dim doorway, eight steps at a time.

[Jorbles]

If I get the Barnacled rune I will make a point of throwing it in lava.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

Hahahaha I wasn't expecting such flavor for this competition, good show, good show

I'll probably burn through at least one runthrough when I get home from work tonight.

[popsofctown]

Though the fourth pair also produced a disagreement, the earliest pair Grujah and shraeye disagreed on was the third.


Grujah believes in the power of Davikraken, the conjurer of the seven seas that sinks ships with arcane blasts from his tentacles.  He raises men back up afterwards as slaves, putting a demon whip in each tentacle to keep them working.

shraeye, however, believes a mutiny is in order.  Solariska found some toxic junk in the hull, and he's training himself how to use it.  He'll show Davikraken that being alive can be a liability, and a voice in his head keeps explaining how.

[popsofctown]

Ghosts aren't recorded for floors one or two, so if you haven't made any super scary characters past floor 3 yet, you might be able to get away with skipping the reinstall and doing your runs directly, shraeye.  Grujah, you can take or leave the recommendation to remove the myriad of ghosts for an edge.

[shraeye]

I've got one guy who's doing great right now (on floor 7?) but nobody's actually died yet in my files, since I played online first.

[popsofctown]

You're good to go then.  You might want to put the floor seven guy on hold for your other runs.  I've never done that, I only know it's possible because Heron mentioned it.

I think you probably just hit capital s while you're playing, then reopen crawl, rename your character, and go to new. (I think the way heron mentioned it the renaming might be important.  You rename by just typing in while you're at the main menu, you don't have to even click the name box which is weird)

[popsofctown]

Just tested the method I described, it works.

[Grujah]

Website is back up!

Deleting ghosts:

Go to your crawl/saves folder (it is ~/.crawl/saves for me, I'm on Linux), delete all files named bones.* (* are floor names).
I actually just cut/pasted them somewhere else, so that I can return them later.

[shraeye]

Thanks I'll do that in the future

[popsofctown]

Jorbles has won his first match over WalrusMcFish!  Walrus completed his three runs and his best one reached DL8, no runes.  Although Jorbles' first run was no better than that, his second run is ongoing and has reached DL9.  So Jorbles could kill himself and win, e.g., it's over like the top of the ninth inning.

Jorbles is welcome to finish Digrat's run without the god restriction, although it could be nice to demonstrate how much of a margin over Walrus's drafting and play he can manage.

We are waiting on some combination of Grujah and shraeye to finish so that we can proceed to the next round of round Robin.

[Jorbles]

I'll keep going with Digrat the II and see how he does. I've already found the Ecumenical Temple and converted to Ashenzari so I'll stick with that. I'm curious to hear how Bloopex faired. My first run with Digrat ended with me constantly running from things after I had to escape Sigmund by running downwards. (and then kept running from threat after threat until I died somewhere on the 5th or 6th level). This second one is going better. I'll post the morgue file of it and my thoughts when I finish.

[Grujah]

Good thing (that I didn't do, but just remember that I should have) to do when you plan to post the morgue, like now, is to include annotations, by pressing, I think ":" .

[shraeye]

ok, so I'll play a runthrough tonight.  Might need help starting a new character without erasing the one I'm currently working on.  I'll keep y'all updated (not on the run's progress, I'll PM that to pops---plus a running commentary!)

[shraeye]

You're good to go then.  You might want to put the floor seven guy on hold for your other runs.  I've never done that, I only know it's possible because Heron mentioned it.

I think you probably just hit capital s while you're playing, then reopen crawl, rename your character, and go to new. (I think the way heron mentioned it the renaming might be important.  You rename by just typing in while you're at the main menu, you don't have to even click the name box which is weird)

how do I rename character?  I use the tiles implementation.

[Grujah]

You can't rename, AFAIK.

What pop means is, delete the name in top of the screen, than press "play", new character will be created. (or write in the new name).

Bascially, you write the name of the char that you want to play. If such name doens't exist, new char is made. Defualt name is last char played.

[shraeye]

that makes sense.

[popsofctown]

Digrat returned to D8 for a rest break between bouts of ownage on D9.  While he was there he saw an octopode corpse, lying on the ground.  It was Bloopex, with eight arrows stuck in his body.  "Pobrecito.  Guess arrows hit hard when you have low AC".  He picked them out, one at a time.  By the time he was done removing them, the body had rotted.  No matter.  He cut Bloopex's rotted corpse into eight pieces and gobbled them.
I see why they say this is a delicacy.  Well, that's all the vengeance I need, but I may as well keep going and see if I can get that lifelong fame and all

[shraeye]

Hmmm, I wonder what chance Twitch plays Crawl has of making any progress whatsoever.

[popsofctown]

Hmmm, I wonder what chance Twitch plays Crawl has of making any progress whatsoever.

LOL

[Jorbles]

Digrat the II died.  (DL12)

[Grujah]

Why aren't Solriska and Devikraken getting the awesome flavor?

[Jorbles]

Char dump:

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.1 (tiles) character file.

15700 Digrat I the Nimble (level 12, -4/61 HPs)
             Began as a Kobold Conjurer on Mar 3, 2014.
             Was an Initiate of Ashenzari.
             Slain by a spectral orc warrior
             ... wielding a -1,+2 orcish trident of flaming
             ... summoned by Nergalle
              (6 damage)
             ... while paralysed by a potion of paralysis
             ... on Level 12 of the Dungeon on Mar 6, 2014.
             The game lasted 04:41:42 (24079 turns).

Digrat I the Nimble (Kobold Conjurer)              Turns: 24079, Time: 04:41:42

HP  -4/61        AC 16     Str 10      XL: 12   Next: 53%
MP   5/29        EV  3     Int 22      God: Ashenzari [......]
Gold 618         SH  0     Dex 18      Spells:  9 memorised,  4 levels left

Res.Fire  : + . .   See Invis. : .   j - +0,+3 orc short sword (protect) (curse)
Res.Cold  : . . .   Warding    : .   a - +2 leather armour {rF+}
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   (no shield)
Res.Poison: .       Res.Corr.  : .   n - +1 wizard hat {MR+}
Res.Elec. : .       Clarity    : .   D - +1 dwarf cloak
Sust.Abil.: . .     Spirit.Shd : .   (no gloves)
Res.Mut.  : .       Stasis     : .   x - +2 pair of boots
Res.Rott. : .       Flight     : .   (no amulet)
Saprovore : + + .                    u - +3 ring of dexterity
                                     m - cursed +6 ring of intelligence

@: paralysed, about to teleport, heavily drained, quite resistant to hostile
enchantments, stealthy
A: disease resistance, carnivore 3, saprovore 2
a: Renounce Religion


You were on level 12 of the Dungeon.
You worshipped Ashenzari.
Ashenzari was noncommittal.
You were not hungry.

You visited 2 branches of the dungeon, and saw 13 of its levels.

You collected 598 gold pieces.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 j - a cursed +0,+3 orcish short sword of protection (weapon)
 o - a +1,+3 orcish dagger (quivered)
 q - a +2,+1 elven long sword
 H - a +1,+1 dagger of draining
Armour
 a - a +2 leather armour of fire resistance (worn)
 n - a +1 wizard hat of magic resistance (worn)
 x - a +2 pair of boots (worn)
 D - a +1 dwarven cloak (worn)
Magical devices
 d - a wand of teleportation (8)
 g - a wand of paralysis (16) {unknown}
 i - a wand of fireball (3)
 z - a wand of slowing (12) {unknown}
 B - a wand of disintegration (4)
Comestibles
 b - 5 meat rations
 L - 2 sausages
 M - a slice of pizza
Scrolls
 h - a scroll of noise {unknown}
 p - a scroll of fear
 r - a scroll of enchant weapon I {unknown}
 t - 2 scrolls of remove curse
 y - a scroll of summoning {unknown}
 A - a scroll of recharging
 C - a scroll of curse weapon
 E - a scroll of fog
 F - a scroll of random uselessness {unknown}
 I - a scroll of immolation {unknown}
 N - a scroll of teleportation
Jewellery
 m - a cursed +6 ring of intelligence (left hand)
 u - a +3 ring of dexterity (right hand)
Potions
 f - 3 potions of slowing
 v - a potion of mutation
 K - 5 potions of confusion
Books
 c - a book of Conjurations   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   *Magic Dart                        Conjuration                  1
   *Searing Ray                       Conjuration                  2
   *Dazzling Spray                    Conjuration/Hexes            3
   *Iskenderun's Mystic Blast         Conjuration                  4
   *Iskenderun's Battlesphere         Conjuration/Charms           4
   Fulminant Prism                    Conjuration/Hexes            5
 e - a book of Callings   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   *Summon Small Mammal               Summoning                    1
   Call Imp                           Summoning                    2
   Call Canine Familiar               Summoning                    3
   Summon Scorpions                   Summoning/Poison             4
   Summon Ice Beast                   Ice/Summoning                4
 s - a book of Wizardry   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   Summon Elemental                   Summoning                    4
   Agony                              Necromancy                   5
   *Force Lance                       Conjuration                  5
   *Fireball                          Conjuration/Fire             5
   Haste                              Charms                       6
   Invisibility                       Hexes                        6
Miscellaneous
 w - a stone of tremors


   Skills:
 + Level 2.4(0.0) Fighting
 + Level 4.6(1.8) Short Blades
 + Level 3.4(0.7) Armour
 + Level 10.1(6.9) Dodging
 + Level 5.4(2.6) Stealth
 + Level 9.8(6.6) Spellcasting
 + Level 9.9(6.7) Conjurations
 + Level 2.0(0.0) Hexes
 + Level 3.7(1.0) Charms
 + Level 4.0(1.3) Summonings
 + Level 1.0(0.0) Translocations
 * Level 2.4(0.0) Fire Magic


You had 4 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Magic Dart            Conj           ####         1%          1    None
b - Dazzling Spray        Conj/Hex       ###.....     8%          3    #......
c - Iskenderun's Battles  Conj/Chrm      ###.....     17%         4    ###....
d - Searing Ray           Conj           #####.       1%          2    None
e - Summon Small Mammal   Summ           ##..         6%          1    None
f - Fireball              Conj/Fire      ###.......   63%         5    #####..
g - Apportation           Tloc           #.........   10%         1    None
h - Iskenderun's Mystic   Conj           #####...     8%          4    ###....
i - Force Lance           Conj           #####...     17%         5    #####..


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (12/27)            Temple (1/1) D:6             Orc (0/4) D:10
  Lair: D:8-13     

Altars:
Ashenzari
Cheibriados
Elyvilon
Fedhas
Kikubaaqudgha
Makhleb
Nemelex Xobeh
Okawaru
Sif Muna
Trog
Vehumet
Xom
Yredelemnul
Zin

Annotations:
D:12 Nergalle


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You recuperate from illness quickly.
You are small and have problems with some larger weapons.
You are carnivorous and can eat meat at any time.
You can eat rotten meat.


Message History

The spectral orc warrior completely resists.
The bolt of negative energy hits you! You feel drained.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
The spectral orc warrior barely misses you.
The spectral orc warrior closely misses you.
The spectral orc warrior hits you but does no damage.
Read which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
As you read the scroll of teleportation, it crumbles to dust.
You feel strangely unstable.
The spectral orc warrior barely misses you.
The spectral orc warrior closely misses you.
The spectral orc warrior hits you but does no damage.
The spectral orc warrior barely misses you.
Drink which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
You suddenly lose the ability to move! It was a potion of paralysis.
Nergalle points at you and mumbles some strange words.
Orcish apparitions take form around you.
The spectral orc warrior hits you but does no damage.
The spectral orc warrior hits you from afar with a runed orcish trident.
You die...

   #.
   #.##    ###
 ###...    ..#
 #.....  ###.#######
##.....###..........
............>........
##.....#.#.#.###.###
 .###.#..#.#.#    ##
  ###....#...###.....
  #......###o...o....
.....###.###W###.....
.....  #.WW@W#    ..
....   #######
 ..


You could see Nergalle and 4 spectral orc warriors.

Vanquished Creatures
  Gastronok (D:8)
  Erolcha (D:8)
  2 hill giants (D:10)
  Joseph (D:8)
  A spriggan (D:7)
  A hippogriff (D:7)
  17 yaks
  Eustachio (D:4)
  A wraith (D:7)
  4 hungry ghosts
  Edmund (D:3)
  A manticore (D:7)
  A swamp drake (D:10)
  2 black bears
  4 ice beasts
  6 sky beasts
  4 orc warriors
  A yellow wasp (D:10)
  7 ogres
  6 centaurs
  A crocodile (D:9)
  Duvessa (D:7)
  4 phantoms
  A big kobold (D:9)
  4 giant frogs
  An eye of draining (D:10)
  A manticore skeleton (D:10)
  17 wights
  A troll zombie (D:8)
  A yak zombie (D:9)
  3 jellies
  19 killer bees
  5 goliath beetles
  The ghost of Digrat I the Ruinous, a weakling KoCj (D:5)
  Dowan (D:7)
  A centaur zombie (D:8)
  6 crimson imps
  6 orc priests
  A centaur skeleton (D:4)
  A black bear skeleton (D:5)
  6 hounds
  A giant frog skeleton (D:5)
  15 orc wizards
  3 spectral orcs (D:12)
  3 iguanas
  13 worker ants
  5 scorpions
  A mottled dragon zombie (D:8)
  Ijyb (D:3)
  2 crocodile skeletons
  An ogre skeleton (D:7)
  An ogre zombie (D:11)
  A mummy (D:7)
  A worker ant zombie (D:5)
  9 gnolls
  16 adders
  2 giant centipedes
  2 inept feature mimics
  7 giant mites
  6 worms
  An adder skeleton (D:9)
  A grey rat (D:8)
  A scorpion zombie (D:7)
  3 giant eyeballs
  55 orcs
  4 ball pythons
  A bat zombie (D:5)
  6 giant cockroaches
  26 hobgoblins
  11 jackals
  8 quokkas
  22 bats
  6 giant geckos
  9 giant newts
  3 giant spores (D:7)
  17 goblins
  A hobgoblin zombie (D:6)
  A jackal skeleton (D:5)
  20 kobolds
  A kobold skeleton (D:5)
  An orc skeleton (D:4)
  22 rats
  A rat skeleton (D:7)
  18 ballistomycetes (D:7)
474 creatures vanquished.

Vanquished Creatures (collateral kills)
  A wight (D:10)
  A jelly (D:9)
  A two-headed ogre skeleton (D:11)
3 creatures vanquished.

Vanquished Creatures (others)
  A big fish (D:9)
  A worker ant (D:6)
  2 orcs
  6 bats
  9 grey rats
  11 quokkas
  2 giant spores (D:7)
  13 rats
45 creatures vanquished.

Grand Total: 522 creatures vanquished

Notes
Turn   | Place    | Note
--------------------------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1      | Digrat I, the Kobold Conjurer, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1      | Reached XP level 1. HP: 10/10 MP: 3/3
   443 | D:1      | Reached XP level 2. HP: 15/15 MP: 1/4
   782 | D:1      | Reached skill level 4 in Conjurations
  1015 | D:1      | Reached XP level 3. HP: 19/19 MP: 1/5
  1601 | D:2      | Reached XP level 4. HP: 17/24 MP: 2/7
  1706 | D:2      | Reached skill level 1 in Short Blades
  2402 | D:2      | Learned a level 3 spell: Dazzling Spray
  2547 | D:2      | Reached XP level 5. HP: 28/28 MP: 0/8
  3337 | D:3      | Reached skill level 1 in Armour
  3492 | D:3      | Reached XP level 6. HP: 32/32 MP: 7/10
  3808 | D:4      | Noticed Eustachio
  3850 | D:3      | Reached skill level 5 in Conjurations
  4059 | D:3      | Noticed Ijyb
  4076 | D:3      | Killed Ijyb
  4158 | D:3      | Noticed an ogre
  4186 | D:3      | Killed an ogre
  4935 | D:3      | Reached skill level 1 in Fighting
  5218 | D:3      | Reached XP level 7. HP: 29/36 MP: 8/12
  5273 | D:3      | Learned a level 4 spell: Iskenderun's Battlesphere
  5372 | D:5      | Entered Level 5 of the Dungeon
  5427 | D:4      | Learned a level 2 spell: Searing Ray
  5613 | D:4      | Noticed Edmund
  5760 | D:3      | Killed Edmund
  7177 | D:5      | Reached skill level 5 in Dodging
  7296 | D:5      | Reached XP level 8. HP: 42/42 MP: 9/16
  8573 | D:5      | Reached skill level 6 in Conjurations
  8663 | D:5      | Paralysed by a giant eyeball for 4 turns
  8679 | D:5      | Paralysed by a giant eyeball for 4 turns
  9421 | D:6      | Reached skill level 1 in Hexes
  9818 | D:6      | Reached XP level 9. HP: 46/46 MP: 8/20
  9962 | D:6      | Reached skill level 5 in Spellcasting
 10451 | D:6      | Reached skill level 1 in Charms
 10850 | D:6      | Found a staircase to the Ecumenical Temple.
 10860 | Temple   | Entered the Ecumenical Temple
 10888 | Temple   | Became a worshipper of Ashenzari the Shackled
 11107 | D:4      | Killed Eustachio
 11271 | D:7      | Reached skill level 7 in Conjurations
 11632 | D:7      | Reached skill level 5 in Stealth
 12228 | D:7      | Reached XP level 10. HP: 52/52 MP: 16/22
 12499 | D:7      | Learned a level 1 spell: Summon Small Mammal
 12595 | D:7      | Reached skill level 1 in Summonings
 12633 | D:7      | Noticed a spriggan baker
 12643 | D:7      | Killed a spriggan baker
 12657 | D:7      | Learned a level 1 spell: Confusing Touch
 12659 | D:7      | Learned a level 1 spell: Apportation
 12723 | D:7      | Noticed Joseph
 12723 | D:7      | Noticed Duvessa
 13148 | D:7      | Reached skill level 8 in Dodging
 13397 | D:8      | Killed Joseph
 13476 | D:8      | Found a shimmering altar of Xom.
 13537 | D:8      | Learned a level 4 spell: Iskenderun's Mystic Blast
 13550 | D:8      | Noticed Gastronok
 14164 | D:8      | Noticed Erolcha
 14970 | D:7      | Noticed Dowan
 15003 | D:7      | Killed Dowan
 15268 | D:7      | Killed Duvessa
 15505 | Temple   | Learned a level 5 spell: Force Lance
 15637 | D:5      | Noticed a yak
 15637 | D:5      | Noticed Digrat I's ghost (weakling KoCj)
 15644 | D:5      | Killed Digrat I's ghost
 15644 | D:5      | Reached skill level 1 in Translocations
 15645 | D:5      | Killed a yak
 15645 | D:5      | Reached XP level 11. HP: 56/56 MP: 12/25
 16046 | D:8      | Killed Erolcha
 17334 | D:8      | Paralysed by a giant eyeball for 2 turns
 17742 | D:8      | Killed Gastronok
 18008 | D:8      | Reached skill level 9 in Conjurations
 18169 | D:9      | Found a white marble altar of Elyvilon.
 18172 | D:10     | Entered Level 10 of the Dungeon
 20628 | D:10     | Learned a level 5 spell: Fireball
 20890 | D:10     | Reached XP level 12. HP: 61/61 MP: 23/28
 21465 | D:10     | Reached skill level 1 in Fire Magic
 22754 | D:10     | Found a staircase to the Orcish Mines.
 23496 | D:11     | Reached skill level 10 in Dodging
 23590 | D:12     | Noticed Nergalle
 23656 | D:12     | HP: 3/61 [spectral orc knight/orcish long sword[Nergalle] (5)]
 24077 | D:12     | HP: 1/61 [Nergalle/bolt of negative energy (17)]
 24079 | D:12     | Paralysed by a potion of paralysis for 6 turns
 24079 | D:12     | Slain by a spectral orc warrior


Action                   |  1- 3 |  4- 6 |  7- 9 | 10-12 || total
-------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------++-------
Melee: Unarmed           |    11 |       |       |       ||    11
       Dagger            |    11 |   154 |   124 |       ||   289
       Short sword       |       |       |   137 |   278 ||   415
 Cast: Magic Dart        |    61 |   137 |   390 |   579 ||  1167
       Dazzling Spray    |       |     2 |     2 |       ||     4
       Searing Ray       |       |       |    26 |    79 ||   105
       Iskenderun's Batt |       |       |     1 |    51 ||    52
       Summon Small Mamm |       |       |       |    65 ||    65
       Apportation       |       |       |       |     5 ||     5
       Force Lance       |       |       |       |    17 ||    17
       Iskenderun's Myst |       |       |       |     8 ||     8
       Confusing Touch   |       |       |       |     2 ||     2
       Fireball          |       |       |       |     5 ||     5
  Use: Potion            |     1 |     2 |     2 |    14 ||    19
       Scroll            |       |     4 |    17 |    11 ||    32
 Stab: Sleeping          |       |     6 |     5 |     2 ||    13
       Invisible         |       |     1 |       |       ||     1
       Distracted        |       |       |       |     1 ||     1



[Grujah]

So, you read a TP wand, then quaffed a random potion which turned out to be paralysis? Harsh.

Ring is nice, and so are the wands, but not much like with the rest

Why train everything? I'd focus on getting Charms and Fire up, to get Fireball more reliable, make Battlespehere more powerful and maybe get that Haste going.

[Jorbles]

The wands were actually bad luck given that my god was Ashenzari and I was trying to build piety by keeping a cursed weapon equipped. Ashenzari was not an amazing god, and it was really difficult to build piety up. I don't think it's the variety of skill training that killed me here anyways. The wands could have saved me if I hadn't been following Ashenzari. I probably should have read a remove curse scroll to use the wands in the fight. I spent a large portion of my first fight with Nergalle sitting next to her waiting for Death's Door to wear off while she was almost only to have her recast it before it timed out. Oh well, I was playing a little riskier once I knew I'd won. I wanted to get back to my MiBe that's on the final level of the Spider Nest.

[popsofctown]

Why aren't Solriska and Devikraken getting the awesome flavor?

The way I wrote their backstory I have more idea about how to write their climax than how to add any more rising action.  For that, the round needs to end.

[Grujah]

The wands were actually bad luck given that my god was Ashenzari and I was trying to build piety by keeping a cursed weapon equipped. Ashenzari was not an amazing god, and it was really difficult to build piety up. I don't think it's the variety of skill training that killed me here anyways. The wands could have saved me if I hadn't been following Ashenzari. I probably should have read a remove curse scroll to use the wands in the fight. I spent a large portion of my first fight with Nergalle sitting next to her waiting for Death's Door to wear off while she was almost only to have her recast it before it timed out. Oh well, I was playing a little riskier once I knew I'd won. I wanted to get back to my MiBe that's on the final level of the Spider Nest.

What? You don't need to wield wands to use, you can use them while your weapon is cursed.

[shraeye]

i'll do another run tomorrow, possibly two.  This is an ultra-busy time for me.

[Jorbles]

The wands were actually bad luck given that my god was Ashenzari and I was trying to build piety by keeping a cursed weapon equipped. Ashenzari was not an amazing god, and it was really difficult to build piety up. I don't think it's the variety of skill training that killed me here anyways. The wands could have saved me if I hadn't been following Ashenzari. I probably should have read a remove curse scroll to use the wands in the fight. I spent a large portion of my first fight with Nergalle sitting next to her waiting for Death's Door to wear off while she was almost only to have her recast it before it timed out. Oh well, I was playing a little riskier once I knew I'd won. I wanted to get back to my MiBe that's on the final level of the Spider Nest.

What? You don't need to wield wands to use, you can use them while your weapon is cursed.

Seriously? I thought you needed to have them equipped to evoke them. How do you use them?

[popsofctown]

'i' -> [key matching the wand] -> 'v' -> [use arrow keys to aim your shot] -> 'enter'

[popsofctown]

thematically it makes little sense.  And there are these rare staffs in the game that also producse spell effects, but you have to wield those to use them, which is consistently inconsistent.  In 0.14 Felids will somehow be able to use wands even though they can't grasp small objects well enough to throw them

[Jorbles]

Huh, well that would have been really handy to know. There's so many little quirks to this game.

[popsofctown]

for future reference, you should not wait until you get into a dangerous situation to start using a wand.  You usually want to use-ID it by casting it on a distant minion, preferably a weak one.  (this is usually worth the saved ID scroll, because quaff IDing is much more dangerous than wand use IDing.)

[popsofctown]

Huh, well that would have been really handy to know. There's so many little quirks to this game.

If Felids get the Blade Hands mutation, they get the bonus damage like anyone else; however, since they walk on all four legs and metal is noisy against stone, they get a major penalty to stealth.


There's lots of nuances.

[Grujah]

thematically it makes little sense.  And there are these rare staffs in the game that also producse spell effects, but you have to wield those to use them, which is consistently inconsistent.  In 0.14 Felids will somehow be able to use wands even though they can't grasp small objects well enough to throw them

Rods and decks you need to equip, wands no.

I am also quite irked that you need to actually equip a chunk for Sublimation of Blood.

[popsofctown]

You have to equip stones to optimally use sandblast too.

Nemelex followers don't have to equip decks to use them, which is huge.

[popsofctown]

shraeye and Grujah, you have 4 days left for your runs.  If you do not finish all, your best one is used.

[Grujah]

I've finished mine (some time ago). No rush, tho, shra.

My run #1 was particularly fun.

[shraeye]

i have no idea what a deck is.  I'm starting another run today.  Sorry if I don't get all 3 in but I'm trying hard on the runs I make.  But regardless, I'm having a fun time exploring a new game.

[popsofctown]

A deck is a type of rare item.

Grujah I knew you were finished, but there is some amount of strategic info divulged by saying so I made announcements as though you hadn't.

[shraeye]

eh, i figured he'd do the runs before me.  I'm just a slow person.

[Grujah]

A deck is a type of rare item.

Grujah I knew you were finished, but there is some amount of strategic info divulged by saying so I made announcements as though you hadn't.

I know, I know. You are keeping it as low info as possible, for no amount of advantage for any player. 

[shraeye]

what time is the deadline tomorrow?

[popsofctown]

Midnight, whatever time zone you live in

[shraeye]

Well, I finished my runs.  I'm not sure that I won

[Jorbles]

Are you both done? You could post results if you are.

[shraeye]

you done grujah?  I am.

[popsofctown]

grujah won

[popsofctown]

Solariska gritted his teeth, glancing at the vile chemicals he had hidden in his leg pocket.  Not his pants pocket, his leg pocket, ghoul skin gets flappy, so stop being judgmental why don't you.  He knew everyone on this ship would tolerate the Mephitic Cloud he could bust out, except Maurice, who was only pretending to be dead, but he had that bandana he always kept over his mouth so he would be fine.

"Maaaaurisssse" Solariska whispered.  He thought of himself as stealthy, in reality he was beyond loud enough for Davikraken to hear all the chatter while they swabbed the deck, he just didn't give enough damns to pay attention to it.
"Yeah?"
"I need you to go snatch Davikraken's potions of curing.  Then I can bust out a cloud and the ship will be ours."
"Ok"
Maurice didn't really listen to the second sentence.  If you suggested stealing something that was pretty much what he would do.
Maurice snuck up behind Davikraken, but Davikraken was level 12.  "What are you doing?" he asked as he snapped around.  He picked up Maurice by the neck, ghouls don't need to breathe to answer questions.  When Maurice's neck snapped and his eyes stopped moving he realized Maurice wasn't actually a ghoul after all.  Davikraken chuckled mirthfully.  "That explains a lot."  He fished through Maurice's possessions and found an amulet of clarity.  "Aha, I didn't misplace that after all".  He put it on, then thanked Kikubuqghda for delivering him another corpse. "Wi te pakoaoo me kikkini affun". 
Maurice arose from the dead, a ghoul.
"Get back to swabbing the deck".
And so things returned to routine.

[Davikraken defeats Solariska, DL15 to DL12]

[popsofctown]

Shraeye will now face Jorbles, and Grujah will face Walrus McFish. 

I'm going to change the rules slightly for the second round, with the goal of bringing head to head strategy closer to normal single players strategy. 

Firstly, a modification of the definition of how successful a run is:

Less important than rune count and identity, and more important than main dungeon exploration, is "best (highest HD) unique thoroughly defeated".  There are many things you can ~do~ to a unique in crawl, so ~defeat~ can seem a subjective term.  This how "thoroughly defeated" is defined for our purposes:  If you received an amount of experience based on the unique's HD or identity, and you also caused its item drops to be accessible to you, you have thoroughly defeated it.
If the unique dies and doesn't drop any items, it has to have died in a way that you would be able to get 1 gold if it had had 1 gold in its pocket.
You don't have to actually collect the drops.
Receiving experience based on its HD means that its HD has to be a cause of why you gained how much experience you actually did.  For instance, draining a monster will subtract 1 from its HD and give you slightly less experience, but since (HD-1) is based on the original HD, that counts.  Polymorphing a monster transforms it into another monster with HD that is based on its former HD, so if you then kill that new monster, you'll get experience based on the unique's HD.

Slimify converts a monster into a slime that always has a fixed, low HD, so if you kill that slime and receive experience, it doesn't count because that's not tied to the unique's HD.

As a fun, extreme case, you can roll a Merfolk Abyssal Knight, Banish Ijylb to the Abyss (which gives you 50% of the normal amount of experience as killing it, tied to the normal value), then banish yourself to the Abyss, watch a neutral monster confuse Ijylb, watch Ijylb walk into deep water giving you no additional experience, then walk away and it counts, because as a Merfolk you can swim in deep water to collect Ijylb's drops, and you received experience based on Ijylb's HD back when you banished it.

And as a second rules modification, to nerf slime god a bit and hopefully let it see play

In addition to the low priority rule, if one of your gods is the slime god, the slimy rune of zot does not count towards your rune total unless you have two or more other runes.

As a special note, these two rule tweaks have a small link: While the passivity of the royal jelly is less useful for bolstering your rune count, you can however take a legendary dagger, drink a potion of might, and brutally brutusly stab the royal jelly in the back to improve your "best unique thoroughly defeated".  The slime god and the other slimes on the floor might not like that at all, but if no one else kills an HD21 unique...

[popsofctown]

I'll field objections and clarifications before batches for the next round start

[Grujah]

This was my thinking during char choosing, will post analasys of my morgue later (bit drunk ATM):

Ratalla: NaBe of Trog, spear
Milisimon: TeNe of Kiku, Xom or Zin

This was actually hard. Both are strong.
I don't like playing Nagas that much as you are so slow which means that one wrong decision can completely wreck you. But, as a Berserker you have a powerful panic button that can get you out of many jams (esp with super high health).
Tengus and Necros are something I do enjoy, and you do get the best Necro god. Frail but powerful combo, though, the problem was that I knew that even though shra is new, Zerkers can make pretty good runs and It wouldn't be unlikely that he beats me.

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Copplini: NaFi of Mahkleb, short sword
Iatodavid: GrAM of Oka, Sif or Vehumet, sling

Ok, we got a melee naga again, but a worse one. Even though Mahk is great, losing the panic button does make it quite harder.
OTOH, Gargoyles are pretty strong race, Oka is great god for archer (I wouldn't really go for others, though they are a possibility), you have claws and talons as great backup weapon.. It was more reliable.
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Solariska: GhVM of Vehumet
Davikraken: OpCj of Kiku, Oka and Y

Ok, Venom Mage got the superior god, and being immune to poison makes some spells easier on you (Cloud, Radiance), but Ghoul has such low starting INT that I didn't think he is a competant caster.
Octopedes are good casters, I am very comfortable with Cjs, Kiku is not that great of a good but can serve a purpose. (Oka is horrible, Y is meh).

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Librigraz: CeNe of Evylion, Fedhas or Jiyva
Elcrow: TeGl or Ashe, Falchrion

I don't think Centaurs are competant as casters, also, God choice aren't very good either.
TeGl might be a bit frail, but you get loads of Evasion with flying and are good at both dodging at armor and weapons, so this build is good. Ashe is not Oka, but OK god here.

[shraeye]

whoa, you thought that out way more than me.  And gave me much more credit than I deserve in my thinking process.

#1 Naga Berserker.  That means that I'm like a snake-dude who hulks out; that's badass.  Tengu, I'm not sure what that is, probably sucks.

#2 Hey, I picked a Naga last time.  Better pick the Gargoyle now.  Also, marksman sounds like they shoot stuff, and the biathlon is a cool winter olympics event.

#3 Ghoul Venom Mage!!?? I have no idea what that is, but conjuring venom is way better than being an octupus...and worshipping a god I can't even pronounce.

#4 That flippin' Tengu again!  No!  I will be a Centaur, they have hooves.

[popsofctown]

Walrus or jorbles?

[Grujah]

Well, I finished my runs.  I'm not sure that I won

And actually it was close.

[shraeye]

I made a deep run and decided to try and just sprint to victory on #2, but then I got distracted and convinced myself that I could kill this cyclops thing.  I couldn't.

[shraeye]

Run #1:

Solariska:

Cool name; ok, let’s get this thing started.  What was the monster again?  What was the class-thing?  Ok, cool.  Wait, some of these classes are greyed out, can I even click Venom Mage?  It appears I can.  Maybe that means this is not a recommended build.  Whatever, I’m awesome. 

Ok, soooo I’m a magic user.  What spells do I get?  Oh, that’s the abilities tab; well I have immune from like all this stuff…torment, cold, negative energy, poison.  Neat.  I wonder what “thrives on rotten meat means,” eh, I’ll figure it out.

Anyway, I poison people apparently.  Not much unarmed fighting, maybe poison/run away is my whole gig?  Stealthy and all?  I can do that.

Wheee, I’m shooting spells at goblins, now rats.  Wait, I’m out of MP…run away!!!!  Somehow that succeeded, but I should probably attack back instead of running into unknown areas.  Gotta be clever, shraeye.  Hey I poisoned somebody!  Run away and let poison do the work.  Oh, the poison wears off, then they almost kill me.  Bad plan; next time, administer more poison.

Found Ashenzari, can’t worship that.  Ok, gained a level AND got better at dodging.  Not abysmal so far.  I might need a backup for when poison doesn’t work.  Slings seem to take the spot where I’d rather spell them.  Maybe a dagger?  That seems thematically good for sneaky/poison dude.  I like thematic stuff. 

Getting potions and scrolls, yay!  Got double potion, but those are scary.  I’ll wait until I get more scrolls and hope to get identify.  Or I can read something as a ‘reward’ once I’ve cleared floor one.  Ok, floor one done.  Not brave enough to read, though I have two of VIGRYO WE GOXT.  I like trying to read those names.

Floor 2: Hey look, two sleeping dudes.  Maybe I can sneak-kill one.  Nope, they’re awake.  Now another is around.  Aaaaaah, I can’t get back to the stairs.  And I’m out of MP, dang.  Run away!  Stairs to level 3, yes please!  And only one came with me.  Let’s see if I survive. Success.  Now eat rotten flesh.  Gotta get me some more of that.  Uhoh, going back up is a bad idea.  Out of MP, low on health, 1 goblin to go.  Bright idea: go to floor 3…doesn’t work.  Now I’m running away blind down the halls.  0MP, 2HP.  Got enough MP!  And miscast…. More running 1MP!  And another miscast….

Oh god, 3 more monsters.  Stairs to floor 4!  Yes please!  Well, I’m basically dead, but am really making progress   And I’m back alive.  Miracle.  Going back to floor 2 to do this proper.  Oh, and put more focus into stealth.  Yeah, that’s definitely what screwed me up earlier.  Reaching level 3, get Dexterity.  Hmmm, my flesh keeps rotting away.  How do I stop that?  Oh, eat more.  Got it.  Level 2 going nice, hard to get food.  Oh, theeeere are all the monsters; I’d better run away.  Unsuccessful.  Dead.

[shraeye]

run#2

So through a bit of research (shuffled through ‘viable options’ and then looked them up to see if they were bright grey or dark grey), I learned that Ghoul Venom Mage is ‘not a viable character’.  Perfect!

Anyway, this is run #2, and this time the commentary will be more clear.  Instead of using level for character level AND dungeon depth, I’ll call the dungeon levels by names.  Dungeon 1, or D1, is the starting floor.  I like that.  So level is my character strength.  I’m aiming for level 6.  I think that would be brilliant.  I wonder what D-# that is achievable at.

Ok, D1 is weird, a lot of diagonals and stuff.  That will make it harder for me to shoot people at range?  Also, I wonder if the ‘claws’ weapon is strong enough to justify only training unarmed.  Look at me!  I’m attempting to use strategic thinking!  Well who knows what’s best.  Good players, I assume.  But for right now, I’ll do what’s the most fun.

First monster is a rat.  He’s sleeping, “sucker!”.  Miscast.  Missed shot…uh…I mean, “you’re a worthy adversary and I honor your presence and stuff”.  Used last MP and killed him.  Ok, I guess I have to honor the monsters before I can hit them.  Picked up a ring mail, but those things are heavy and annoying, definitely not wearing it.  Doing normal stuff, killing monsters like it’s my job (why is this class not viable?) and getting some loot.  Ooh! A potion!  I totally want to drink it.  I’m doing it.

What luck!  It was a potion of Heal Wounds.  AAAANNNND, right through the next door was another Potion of Heal Wounds.  Solariska is awesome!  Now I got a scroll named YNOSIO GUSAFF, and I had a good feeling about that name, so I read it.  Scroll of identify.  Then found another that I could use twice (is that random or something?).  Now I’ve identified potions of healing and cure wounds.  AND a scroll of teleportation.  Life is awesome.

Made it to level 3 without leaving D1.  I wonder if that’s common.  Anyway, I take Intelligence because my spellcaster somehow only had 10 Int to start with; that seems low.  Onward to D2!!  I kill a bunny, I get wrecked by a snake, bad snake.  Retreating to D1, and remembering why ghouls are the worst.  Where’s my regen, yo??  Ruminating on that, I log off for the time being.

Part 2

Starting D2, things have been good so far.  But lucks supposed to average out, so worries are up ahead.  Nothing crazy is happening, a large number of snakes it seems, and I have a heck of a time with them.  Two situations at or below 6HP, don’t like those.  I wonder what’s better to be quivered/thrown.  Darts or clubs; is there any place where I can see base damage and stuff?  Kobolds, no prob.  Rats, quokka (?), whatever.  But snakes?  Man, I hate them.  And I’m even poison resistant!  Also, I see an altar to Vehemut, is he the guy I can worship?  It is!! Unfortunately the altar is surrounded by lava, so I have no idea how to get there.

Well, I’m annoyed by how fragile I am.  What’s the way around that?  Anyway, D2 cleared out and now I’m on to D3, yay.  Here the monsters be! Cockroach, snake, goblin.  All waiting for me, so the excitement begins.  First two dealt with, but the snake remains and I’m running low on MP.  Will I resort to the classic tactic of “running away in cowardice”?  Not this time, the snake has slunk away.  But there are bigger problems, for Sigmund has been spotted.  And he’s spotted me, this is terrible.  Running towards a revealed staircase, I find an orc warrior/wizard duo.  Perfect, simply perfect.  Up and down, up and down.  All 3 staircases to D3 lead to essentially neighboring rooms, and Sigmund is tracking me like a crazed demon.  Will he ever stop??  He seems to be leaving me alone for now but I’m paranoid.  Meanwhile, Solariska has gone to Level 5.  Which reminds me that I should check for new spells to memorize.

No spells, and Sigmund is still AWOL.  However, I have picked up a special dagger (those purple, more likely to be awesome/terribles), cavalierly equipped it and got a dagger of speed.  Sounds good.  Crapper, he found me, fired a magic missle, then blinked.  I have no idea where he’s at, this is terrifying.  I will escape to D4.

Down here I see new monsters, never yet killed.  Ants and ball pythons, interesting.  Somehow, I have 4 scrolls of teleportation, and no scrolls of identify.  I thought the latter was supposed to be common.  A warren (?) of orcs comes upon me, four of them.  Backing towards some stairs to D5, I sling a few spells at them.  Olgreb’s Toxic Radiance sounds neat, but I still wait for the day when I successfully cast it.  However, a few well timed Stings plus some fancy dagger-work seems to be working.  Level 6! More intelligence!  Olgreb’s Toxic Radiance is awesome!  Ran into a club (?) of orcs, with wizards and priests and all that weird stuff.  They dead now.  Things are good, D4 is cleared and I’m trying on new clothes.  One of them is a +2 robe.  I’m learning about different armors, some are good for AC, some for evasion.  I like the evasion of the robe, with the +2 for nice AC.  Keeping that.  Also, none of the armor that I’ve picked up is cursed… what is it with the luck and stuff?  Got a scroll of identify, and found that I had a stack of 4 magic mappings.  Those sound neat.

Part 3

D5 achieved.  A whole slew of people are waiting, so I burst the Toxic Orb, and watch them die.  Except for this dumb snake.  He keeps hitting me.  I don’t like it.  Oh, he’s poison resistant, that’s great for a Venom Mage, jeez.  Used magic mapping, and learned that there is a secret room on D5 reachable from a staircase on D6.  Excited for that.  Anyway, I’m onto D6, nothing to it.

What is this madness??!?? The floor is burning and it’s an “excluded area”???  What the heck is that?  Also, ice bear or something, and another monster that was new.  Super exciting.  I still have no idea what a rune is, so hopefully I can beat Grujah just on levels.  Well I killed Blork the Orc, so decided to go back and slay Sigmund.  He’s a pansy.  But I still can’t figure out how to worship Vehumet, because of the lava.  I need flight or something.  Hopefully a shop has this. Or I can identify a scroll of flight.  I’ll keep delving for now.

On to D7.  Ecumenical Temple found!  I hope Vehumet is in there!  Saving again; time for drinks! 

interlude
Ecumenical Temple.  No Vehumet, very boring.  Dang, swarm of wights chased me upstairs.  Hit 2 more monsters, now I’m dancing between D5,6,7 and trying to take on only one at a time.  Huge swarms of poison immune creatures, not my Venom Mage’s favorite.

Survived them, after much dancing.  Took a quick trip down and back a stairs to D8 in case that helps me beat Grujah.  Will play more tomorrow.

Part 4
Continuing on; D7 is cleared so I’m now entering D8 fully.  Character is doing fine, and I’m beginning to rely on Mephitic Cloud more.  However, it causes hunger and right now Sting is hunger-free.  Oh crap, it’s Eustachio.  I think I’ll try to take him on.  Start with Toxic Radiance, boom.  Now confuse the mean-pants. He got no summons off; killed him plus a swarm of bees using antoerh Toxic Radiance plus a few Stings.  Brilliant.  Ok, I’ve found a lake that apparently spawns infinite monsters.  Nothing too tough but when there are multiple electric eels plus land-people chasing me, HP gets dangerously low.  So I back up and come in again, but no matter how many I kill there are still scores of monsters.  And by scores I mean 3+.  That’s still a fair number.

Finally cleared that out only to run into Erolcha.  She turns me to stone and wails on me.  I finally confuse them for time and teleport out.  Safe for now!  Exploring the rest of the level; Erolcha is not to be found.  I peek quickly into D9, hoping that it’s enough to edge out Grujah.  Saving for now.

conclusion:
The conclusion:

Getting tired of playing it safe.  Just put on a cloak blind.  It was +2Dex, +4Int, huzzah!  Another is Robe of Boredom, with +Invis and rPois.  However, the rPois isn’t really useful, and I have no evoke skill, so that fails 71% of the time.  I’d rather wear my +2 robe than this +0 robe, sorry.

Quick peek into D10, then into D11.   Hey, a 5 headed hydra zombie!  That sounds terrifying!  I also spotted a +12,+16 plutonium sword that causes contam when not equipped.  I probably want that.  Equipped; now I’m a badass.  Whoa, a fake door just bit me, better bust his butt.  Done and done.

Found a Cyclops...aaaaaand I’m dead.  Dang.  That was a fun run!

So I made it down to 11.  I'm gonna do a sprint-runthrough to see if I can get lower.  But I think runes are out of the question.

[shraeye]

run #3

Speed run.  No time to think or be careful.  Already grabbed a cursed dagger, and then cursed a ring I picked up…oh well.  Oh crap, now I’ve blind-read a teleportation spell.  Hope I survive this!  Survived.  And then I enchanted my cursed dagger twice.  I feel like I’ll keep it even if I uncurse it at this rate, geeeez.

Wore a shield, it just kills my magic.  That’s not happening again.  Jumped down a shaft on D2, came out on D4.  Is there a limit on how low a shaft can drop you? Dancing with a scorpion, and apparently alerted an entire room filled with orcs.  Tons and tons of orcs, how’d that happen?  Now I’m searching for stairs. Being chased by approximately 10 monsters, but found stairs and am only bringing one with!

There’s an entrance to the sewers on D3!  I want to find it!  I’ll use a scroll of mapping that I managed to identify (my current scroll strategy is to read everything I get as soon as I get it).  I’m in the sewers now, and killed a bunch of bats.  This is exciting.  Until a crocodile killed me, less exciting now.  And that’s the last of my runs.

[Grujah]

Davikraken the First

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.1 (tiles) character file.

24 DavikrakenI the Ruinous (level 1, -1/11 HPs)
             Began as an Octopode Conjurer on Mar 4, 2014.
             Slain by a giant gecko (5 damage)
             ... on Level 1 of the Dungeon.
             The game lasted 00:00:43 (65 turns).

DavikrakenI the Ruinous (Octopode Conjurer)           Turns: 65, Time: 00:00:43

HP  -1/11        AC  1     Str  7      XL: 1   Next: 60%
MP   1/3         EV 12     Int 17      God:
Gold 20          SH  0     Dex 12      Spells:  1 memorised,  2 levels left

Res.Fire  : . . .   See Invis. : .   (no weapon)
Res.Cold  : . . .   Warding    : .   (no shield)
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   (helmet restricted)
Res.Poison: .       Res.Corr.  : .   (no amulet)
Res.Elec. : .       Clarity    : .   (no ring)
Sust.Abil.: . .     Spirit.Shd : .   (no ring)
Res.Mut.  : .       Stasis     : .   (no ring)
Res.Rott. : .       Flight     : .   (no ring)
Saprovore : . . .                    (no ring)
                                     (no ring)
                                     (no ring)
                                     (no ring)

@: not resistant to hostile enchantments, quite stealthy
A: almost no armour, amphibious, 8 rings, constrict 8, camouflage 1, AC +1
a: no special abilities


You were on level 1 of the Dungeon.
You were not hungry.

You visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and saw 1 of its levels.

Inventory:

Comestibles
 a - a chunk of giant cockroach flesh
 b - a bread ration
Books
 c - a book of Conjurations   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   *Magic Dart                        Conjuration                  1
   Searing Ray                        Conjuration                  2
   Dazzling Spray                     Conjuration/Hexes            3
   Iskenderun's Mystic Blast          Conjuration                  4
   Iskenderun's Battlesphere          Conjuration/Charms           4
   Fulminant Prism                    Conjuration/Hexes            5


   Skills:
 - Level 2.0 Dodging
 - Level 2.6 Stealth
 + Level 1.5 Spellcasting
 - Level 4.0 Conjurations


You had 2 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Magic Dart            Conj           ##..         4%          1    ##.....


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (1/27)           

Altars:


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You cannot wear most types of armour.
You are amphibious.
You can wear up to eight rings at the same time.
You can use your tentacles to constrict many enemies at once.
Your skin changes colour to match your surroundings (Stlth).
Your rubbery body absorbs attacks (AC +1).


Message History

You kill the bat!
a - a chunk of giant cockroach flesh
Things that are here:
a dagger; a goblin corpse
A giant gecko comes into view.
Casting: Magic Dart
Confirm with . or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells.
You don't have enough magic to cast that spell.
Unknown command.
The giant gecko barely misses you.
You barely miss the giant gecko. Your grab misses the giant gecko. The giant gecko closely misses you.
The giant gecko bites you.
You hit the giant gecko but do no damage.
Your grab misses the giant gecko. The giant gecko bites you.
You barely miss the giant gecko. Your grab misses the giant gecko. The giant gecko barely misses you.
The giant gecko closely misses you.
Things that are here:
a dagger; a goblin corpse
The giant gecko bites you.
You die...

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          #.# #.#    #.#
          #.# #.#    #.#
          ..#        ...


You could see a giant gecko.

Vanquished Creatures
  A bat (D:1)
  A giant cockroach (D:1)
  A goblin (D:1)
3 creatures vanquished.

Notes
Turn   | Place    | Note
--------------------------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1      | DavikrakenI, the Octopode Conjurer, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1      | Reached XP level 1. HP: 11/11 MP: 3/3
    65 | D:1      | Slain by a giant gecko


Action                   || total
-------------------------++-------
Melee: Unarmed           ||     7
 Cast: Magic Dart        ||     4
So, I am on D:1. I kill a bat, a cockroach and a goblin. Inner voice in my head says that I should play more carefully than usual. Than, t 90% HP and only 1MP I do autoexplore. Find a gecko. Cast a magic missile, miss, out of mana, try fighting. Die.

So much for being careful. Maybe OpCj was a horrible choice. Ugh.

[Grujah]

Davikraken the Second

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.1 (tiles) character file.

18666 DavikrakenII the Conjurer (level 12, -2/74 HPs)
             Began as an Octopode Conjurer on Mar 4, 2014.
             Was an Elder of Kikubaaqudgha.
             Slain by a sixfirhy (8 damage)
             ... summoned by a shadow demon
             ... on Level 15 of the Dungeon.
             The game lasted 01:40:34 (18852 turns).

DavikrakenII the Conjurer (Octopode Conjurer)      Turns: 18852, Time: 01:40:34

HP  -2/74        AC  8     Str 12      XL: 12   Next: 53%
MP  26/27        EV 15     Int 23      God: Kikubaaqudgha [****..]
Gold 753         SH  0     Dex 13      Spells:  7 memorised,  5 levels left

Res.Fire  : + . .   See Invis. : .   w - +2 flail (protect)
Res.Cold  : + . .   Warding    : .   (no shield)
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   S - +2 wizard hat {Int+3}
Res.Poison: .       Res.Corr.  : .   C - amulet of clarity
Res.Elec. : .       Clarity    : +   i - ring of sustenance
Sust.Abil.: . .     Spirit.Shd : .   n - ring of protection from fire
Res.Mut.  : .       Stasis     : .   g - ring of flight
Res.Rott. : .       Flight     : .   Q - ring of protection from cold
Saprovore : . . .                    T - ring of sustenance
                                     I - +3 ring of strength
                                     (no ring)
                                     (no ring)

@: very slightly contaminated, somewhat resistant to hostile enchantments, quite
stealthy
A: almost no armour, amphibious, 8 rings, constrict 8, camouflage 1, AC +1
a: Receive Corpses, Renounce Religion, Evoke Flight


You were on level 15 of the Dungeon.
You worshipped Kikubaaqudgha.
Kikubaaqudgha was greatly pleased with you.
You were hungry.

You visited 2 branches of the dungeon, and saw 16 of its levels.

You collected 733 gold pieces.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 m - the +2,+1 flail "Ogre's Funeral" {venom, Str+2}
   (You found it on level 14 of the Dungeon)   
   
   It poisons the flesh of those it strikes.
   
   It affects your strength (+2).
 w - a +2,+2 flail of protection (weapon)
 D - a +1,+2 flail of electrocution
 Z - the +7,+8 trident "Jelly's Peril" {slay drac, -Cast rC+}
   (You found it on level 12 of the Dungeon)   
   
   This legendary weapon is deadly to all dragonkind.
   
   It protects you from cold.
   It prevents spellcasting.
Armour
 S - a +2 wizard hat of intelligence (worn)
Magical devices
 l - a wand of cold (4)
 o - a wand of enslavement (5) {unknown}
 F - a wand of fireball (2)
 N - a wand of fire (7)
Comestibles
 u - a honeycomb
 A - 2 sausages
 G - 4 pears
 P - 5 meat rations
 Y - 2 bread rations
Scrolls
 a - 2 scrolls of remove curse
 p - 2 scrolls of teleportation
 q - a scroll of enchant armour
 r - 2 scrolls of enchant weapon I
 t - 3 scrolls of enchant weapon II
 v - 2 scrolls of fear
 y - a scroll of immolation
 B - a scroll of noise
Jewellery
 d - an uncursed amulet of warding {unknown}
 g - a ring of flight (on tentacle)
 i - a ring of sustenance (left tentacle)
 n - a ring of protection from fire (right tentacle)
 C - an amulet of clarity (around mantle)
 I - a +3 ring of strength (on tentacle)
 Q - a ring of protection from cold (on tentacle)
 T - a ring of sustenance (on tentacle)
Potions
 b - 2 potions of paralysis {unknown}
 e - 3 potions of curing
 h - 2 potions of agility {unknown}
 E - a potion of resistance
 K - a potion of mutation {unknown}
 L - a potion of restore abilities {unknown}
 R - a potion of might
 U - 3 potions of flight {unknown}
Books
 c - a book of Conjurations   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   *Magic Dart                        Conjuration                  1
   *Searing Ray                       Conjuration                  2
   Dazzling Spray                     Conjuration/Hexes            3
   *Iskenderun's Mystic Blast         Conjuration                  4
   *Iskenderun's Battlesphere         Conjuration/Charms           4
   Fulminant Prism                    Conjuration/Hexes            5
 f - Kikubaaqudgha's Papyrus of Sinister Rituals
   (Kikubaaqudgha gifted it to you on level 7 of the Dungeon)   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   Pain                               Necromancy                   1
   Lethal Infusion                    Charms/Necromancy            2
   Sublimation of Blood               Necromancy                   2
   Regeneration                       Charms/Necromancy            3
   Control Undead                     Necromancy                   4
 j - a book of Callings   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   Summon Small Mammal                Summoning                    1
   Call Imp                           Summoning                    2
   Call Canine Familiar               Summoning                    3
   Summon Scorpions                   Summoning/Poison             4
   Summon Ice Beast                   Ice/Summoning                4
 z - a book of Annihilations {highlevel}   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   *Poison Arrow                      Conjuration/Poison           6
   Orb of Destruction                 Conjuration                  7
   Chain Lightning                    Conjuration/Air              8
   Lehudib's Crystal Spear            Conjuration/Earth            8
   Ice Storm                          Conjuration/Ice              9
   Fire Storm                         Conjuration/Fire             9
 J - a book of Enchantments   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   Cause Fear                         Hexes                        4
   Silence                            Hexes/Air                    5
   Tukima's Dance                     Hexes                        5
   Deflect Missiles                   Charms/Air                   6
   Haste                              Charms                       6
   Discord                            Hexes                        8
 M - a Grand Grimoire {highlevel}   
   This book is beyond your current level of understanding.
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   Demonic Horde                      Summoning                    6
   Mass Abjuration                    Summoning                    6
   Haunt                              Necromancy/Summoning         7
   Summon Greater Demon               Summoning                    7
   Malign Gateway                     Summoning/Translocation      7
   Summon Horrible Things             Summoning                    8
 O - a book of Spatial Translocations   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   Apportation                        Translocation                1
   Portal Projectile                  Translocation                2
   *Blink                             Translocation                2
   Shroud of Golubria                 Charms/Translocation         2
   Teleport Other                     Translocation                3
   Passage of Golubria                Translocation                4
 V - a book of Minor Magic   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   *Magic Dart                        Conjuration                  1
   *Blink                             Translocation                2
   Call Imp                           Summoning                    2
   Repel Missiles                     Charms/Air                   2
   Slow                               Hexes                        2
   Conjure Flame                      Conjuration/Fire             3
   *Mephitic Cloud                    Conjuration/Poison/Air       3
 X - Kikubaaqudgha's Compendium of Darkness
   (Kikubaaqudgha gifted it to you on level 11 of the Dungeon)   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   Animate Dead                       Necromancy                   4
   Excruciating Wounds                Charms/Necromancy            5
   Agony                              Necromancy                   5
   Dispel Undead                      Necromancy                   5
   Death Channel                      Necromancy                   6
Miscellaneous
 s - a box of beasts


   Skills:
 - Level 6.0 Fighting
 - Level 6.0 Dodging
 - Level 2.6 Stealth
 + Level 8.1 Spellcasting
 - Level 10.7 Conjurations
 - Level 6.5 Charms
 * Level 7.0 Necromancy
 - Level 6.0 Translocations
 * Level 5.1 Poison Magic
 - Level 5.0 Evocations


You had 5 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Magic Dart            Conj           ####         1%          1    None
b - Poison Arrow          Conj/Pois      #####.....   50%         6    ######.
d - Iskenderun's Mystic   Conj           ######..     1%          4    ###....
e - Iskenderun's Battles  Conj/Chrm      #####...     1%          4    ###....
f - Mephitic Cloud        Conj/Pois/Air  ####....     2%          3    None
q - Blink                 Tloc           N/A          1%          2    None
s - Searing Ray           Conj           ######       1%          2    None


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (15/27)            Temple (1/1) D:5             Orc (0/4) D:9
  Lair: D:8-13      Vaults: D:15-20     

Altars:
Ashenzari
Cheibriados
Elyvilon
Fedhas
Kikubaaqudgha
Makhleb
Nemelex Xobeh
Okawaru
Sif Muna
Trog
Vehumet
Xom
Yredelemnul
Zin
the Shining One

Shops:
D:7 /   D:14 =

Portals:
Ziggurat: D:13 (12200 gp)
Trove: D:10 (give +4 storm dragon armour)

Annotations:
D:4 Sigmund
D:8 Joseph


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You cannot wear most types of armour.
You are amphibious.
You can wear up to eight rings at the same time.
You can use your tentacles to constrict many enemies at once.
Your skin changes colour to match your surroundings (Stlth).
Your rubbery body absorbs attacks (AC +1).


Message History

The sixfirhy hits you! The sixfirhy shocks you!
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
Read which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
Blink to where?
Press: ? - help, Dir - move target cursor
As you read the scroll of blinking, it crumbles to dust.
You are very lightly contaminated with residual magic.
The slime creature quivers.
The centaur wields a bow. The centaur shoots an arrow. The arrow hits you!
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
The arrow dissolves into shadows!
The centaur shoots an arrow. The arrow hits you!
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
The arrow dissolves into shadows!
The shadow demon gestures.
The sixfirhy closely misses you. The sixfirhy hits you!
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
The sixfirhy shocks you!
You die...
Kikubaaqudgha rasps: "You have failed me! Welcome... death!"

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You could see 3 slime creatures, a shadow demon, 2 sixfirhies, a rotting devil,
a giant frog, a centaur and a rock worm zombie.

Vanquished Creatures
  2 hill giants
  Pikel (D:6)
  A wolf spider zombie (D:15)
  A cyclops (D:14)
  Maurice (D:13)
  Psyche (D:8)
  2 trolls
  A komodo dragon (D:12)
  2 two-headed ogres
  6 slime creatures
  A griffon zombie (D:12)
  2 ugly things (D:15)
  17 yaks
  4 hungry ghosts
  A wyvern (D:14)
  4 hippogriffs
  Grum (D:9)
  A steam dragon (D:8)
  A merfolk (D:9)
  2 manticores
  A clay golem (D:14)
  Edmund (D:5)
  3 wolves (D:9)
  A necrophage (D:12)
  7 orc warriors
  A swamp drake (D:9)
  3 slaves (D:6)
  5 sky beasts
  A black bear (D:12)
  7 ice beasts
  8 ogres
  4 phantoms
  3 centaurs
  A warg (shapeshifter) (D:14)
  12 giant frogs
  A cyclops zombie (D:14)
  An eye of draining (D:14)
  2 jellies
  2 hippogriff zombies
  7 killer bees
  14 wights
  A yak zombie (D:12)
  2 quasits
  4 goliath beetles
  7 crimson imps
  2 giant frog zombies
  4 orc priests
  3 big fish (D:9)
  A scorpion (D:14)
  5 hounds
  5 iguanas
  12 orc wizards
  A gnoll shaman (D:5)
  12 worker ants
  A crocodile zombie (D:5)
  A hound zombie (D:8)
  A mottled dragon skeleton (D:13)
  A mummy (D:14)
  A worker ant zombie (D:6)
  8 gnolls
  10 adders
  A giant mite (D:5)
  A white imp (D:11)
  An ufetubus (D:11)
  4 worms
  An adder skeleton (D:7)
  2 giant eyeballs (D:11)
  A giant centipede simulacrum (D:11)
  An ooze (D:2)
  33 orcs
  A bat skeleton (D:7)
  2 giant cockroaches
  18 hobgoblins
  23 jackals
  17 kobolds
  5 quokkas
  15 bats
  8 giant geckos
  5 giant newts
  6 goblins
  2 hobgoblin skeletons (D:4)
  A quokka skeleton (D:4)
  11 rats
  A rat skeleton (D:8)
379 creatures vanquished.

Vanquished Creatures (collateral kills)
  A ball python (D:7)
  A bat skeleton (D:6)
  A kobold (D:7)
3 creatures vanquished.

Vanquished Creatures (others)
  A centaur (D:15)
  2 crimson imps (D:5)
  A giant spore (D:15)
4 creatures vanquished.

Grand Total: 386 creatures vanquished

Notes
Turn   | Place    | Note
--------------------------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1      | DavikrakenII, the Octopode Conjurer, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1      | Reached XP level 1. HP: 11/11 MP: 3/3
   350 | D:1      | Reached XP level 2. HP: 17/17 MP: 1/4
   358 | D:1      | Learned a level 2 spell: Searing Ray
  1059 | D:1      | Reached XP level 3. HP: 21/21 MP: 4/6
  1598 | D:1      | HP: 1/21 [poisoned by an adder]
  2069 | D:2      | Reached XP level 4. HP: 27/27 MP: 3/9
  2536 | D:3      | Found a blossoming altar of Fedhas.
  2736 | D:3      | Noticed an ogre
  2952 | D:3      | Found a sparkling altar of Nemelex Xobeh.
  3119 | D:4      | Reached XP level 5. HP: 26/31 MP: 2/11
  3448 | D:4      | Noticed an ogre
  3453 | D:4      | Killed an ogre
  3453 | D:4      | Reached skill level 5 in Conjurations
  3587 | D:4      | Learned a level 2 spell: Call Imp
  3624 | D:4      | Noticed an ogre
  3636 | D:4      | Killed an ogre
  3636 | D:4      | Reached XP level 6. HP: 36/36 MP: 3/13
  3692 | D:4      | Reached skill level 6 in Conjurations
  3788 | D:4      | Noticed an ogre
  3807 | D:4      | Killed an ogre
  3883 | D:4      | Reached XP level 7. HP: 39/41 MP: 1/15
  4035 | D:4      | Noticed Sigmund
  4054 | D:5      | Entered Level 5 of the Dungeon
  4257 | D:5      | Reached skill level 7 in Conjurations
  4638 | D:6      | Found a snail-covered altar of Cheibriados.
  4682 | D:6      | Reached skill level 8 in Conjurations
  4769 | D:6      | Learned a level 4 spell: Iskenderun's Battlesphere
  4956 | D:7      | Reached skill level 1 in Charms
  4966 | D:7      | Reached XP level 8. HP: 41/46 MP: 5/16
  5416 | D:5      | Found a staircase to the Ecumenical Temple.
  5434 | Temple   | Entered the Ecumenical Temple
  5559 | Temple   | Became a worshipper of Kikubaaqudgha
  5595 | D:5      | Reached skill level 9 in Conjurations
  6104 | D:5      | Reached skill level 1 in Fighting
  6226 | D:6      | Noticed Edmund
  6589 | D:5      | Killed Edmund
  7211 | D:6      | Reached XP level 9. HP: 51/53 MP: 6/18
  7217 | D:6      | Learned a level 4 spell: Iskenderun's Mystic Blast
  7590 | D:7      | Found Pliur's Magical Wand Shoppe.
  7593 | D:7      | Acquired Kikubaaqudgha's first power
  7593 | D:7      | Received a gift from Kikubaaqudgha
  7596 | D:7      | Identified Kikubaaqudgha's Papyrus of Sinister Rituals (Kikubaaqudgha gifted it to you on level 7 of the Dungeon)
  7705 | D:8      | Found a basalt altar of Yredelemnul.
  7777 | D:8      | Reached skill level 1 in Evocations
  7965 | D:8      | Reached skill level 5 in Spellcasting
  7999 | D:8      | Learned a level 3 spell: Regeneration
  8168 | D:8      | Reached skill level 1 in Necromancy
  8262 | D:8      | Noticed Joseph
  8657 | D:8      | Noticed Psyche
  8664 | D:8      | Killed Psyche
  8664 | D:8      | Reached XP level 10. HP: 15/60 MP: 6/23
  8899 | D:8      | Learned a level 2 spell: Blink
  9309 | D:9      | Reached skill level 5 in Evocations
  9550 | D:9      | Reached skill level 1 in Translocations
 10197 | D:9      | Acquired Kikubaaqudgha's second power
 10229 | D:9      | Noticed Grum
 10249 | D:9      | Killed Grum
 10435 | D:9      | Reached skill level 5 in Dodging
 10889 | D:6      | Noticed Pikel
 10895 | D:6      | Killed Pikel
 11055 | D:7      | Reached skill level 5 in Translocations
 11273 | D:7      | Reached XP level 11. HP: 64/66 MP: 13/25
 11276 | D:7      | Reached skill level 5 in Fighting
 12239 | D:9      | Found a staircase to the Orcish Mines.
 12971 | D:10     | Entered Level 10 of the Dungeon
 13011 | D:10     | Identified a scroll of acquirement
 13452 | D:10     | Noticed a hill giant
 13463 | D:10     | Killed a hill giant
 13463 | D:10     | Reached skill level 5 in Charms
 13743 | D:10     | Found a portal to a secret trove of treasure.
 13791 | D:11     | Received a gift from Kikubaaqudgha
 13811 | D:11     | Identified Kikubaaqudgha's Compendium of Darkness (Kikubaaqudgha gifted it to you on level 11 of the Dungeon)
 13897 | D:11     | Paralysed by a giant eyeball for 2 turns
 13900 | D:11     | Paralysed by a giant eyeball for 2 turns
 14573 | D:12     | Got a steaming trident
 14662 | D:12     | Reached skill level 10 in Conjurations
 15093 | D:12     | Acquired Kikubaaqudgha's third power
 15488 | D:12     | Reached XP level 12. HP: 51/74 MP: 7/27
 15623 | D:13     | Reached skill level 5 in Necromancy
 15640 | D:13     | Learned a level 6 spell: Poison Arrow
 15708 | D:13     | Reached skill level 1 in Poison Magic
 15849 | D:13     | Found a gateway to a ziggurat.
 15875 | D:13     | Noticed Maurice
 15881 | D:13     | Killed Maurice
 16373 | D:14     | Entered Level 14 of the Dungeon
 16417 | D:14     | Got an ancient flail
 16725 | D:14     | Identified the +2,+1 flail "Ogre's Funeral" {venom, Str+2} (You found it on level 14 of the Dungeon)
 16725 | D:14     | Identified the +7,+8 trident "Jelly's Peril" {slay drac, -Cast rC+} (You found it on level 12 of the Dungeon)
 16804 | D:14     | Found Voanos' Jewellery Boutique.
 16827 | D:14     | Learned a level 3 spell: Mephitic Cloud
 17167 | D:14     | Found a burning altar of Makhleb.
 17561 | D:15     | Entered Level 15 of the Dungeon
 18797 | D:15     | Reached skill level 5 in Poison Magic
 18852 | D:15     | Found a burning altar of Makhleb.
 18852 | D:15     | Slain by a sixfirhy


Action                   |  1- 3 |  4- 6 |  7- 9 | 10-12 || total
-------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------++-------
Melee: Unarmed           |    14 |     3 |       |       ||    17
       Dagger            |       |     5 |     4 |       ||     9
       Flail             |       |       |       |    21 ||    21
Throw: Javelin           |       |       |     8 |       ||     8
 Cast: Magic Dart        |    74 |    70 |   200 |   404 ||   748
       Searing Ray       |     5 |    10 |    37 |    76 ||   128
       Call Imp          |       |     3 |     6 |       ||     9
       Iskenderun's Batt |       |       |    30 |   120 ||   150
       Iskenderun's Myst |       |       |     1 |    11 ||    12
       Blink             |       |       |       |    20 ||    20
       Regeneration      |       |       |       |     1 ||     1
       Mephitic Cloud    |       |       |       |     3 ||     3
Evoke: Wand              |       |       |     3 |     5 ||     8
  Use: Potion            |     3 |       |     2 |     3 ||     8
       Scroll            |       |    11 |     4 |    20 ||    35
This is more interpreting the log with trying to reconstruct what actually happened than anything else.

Davikraken shares Solariska's hatred for Snakes. I hate that they are sometimes a wash and sometimes they poison you really hardly and even a heal pot cannot save you. This was one of those times, I barely survived poison with 1 hp left, almost died again on D1 for total embarrassment.

I skip Dazling Spray as that is what I used to do. I find an early Book of Calling and learn summon Imp. I used it only a little, he was a pain and got in the way of my Searing Rays which was my main method of dealing with stuff.

D:4 I run away from Siggy. No thanks. D:6 I learn the Battlesphere and pretty much spam that and Searing Ray or Magic Dart to deal with anything. D:8 I notice Joseph and scram. He is very scary, among my 100 best runs, he has most kills than any other unique. I do have to go back to D:8 a few times and it was dreadful experience whenever I had to sleep there. I think it was cause D9 had a giant herd of yaks. D9 I also find a Translocation Book, also wanted Passage but never learned it.

 D:10 I find a scroll of acquirement which grants me, I think, either +2 hat of Int or a random ring, cannot recall. D:12 I find an artifact trident which was non surprisingly good except that it disabled casting. Yeah, right. I also learn Poison Arrow, which I got from the book that every Conjurer wants to find: the Book of Annihilation. Also Meph Cloud for the heck of it, as I am doing poison. At this point I got plenty of spellslots left but I am stupidly saving them even though I had like 3 amnesia scrolls in Temple. I didn't learn any necro which was bad. Kiku was completely underutilized.

D:14 I find a RING SHOP. Awesome. I can get rPois ring now which will help with Lair, and am 80gp short for 800gp ring of TP control, which is great. I was not that lucky with ring so far, but I did have rF+ and rC+, so I was fine.

Than I go to D:15. I am fighting a yak or something. I notice an enemy that I've never seen before. A Shadow Demon. In Hindesight, there was also some corrupt, abyss like terrain near him, should have known it is a vault or something. He casts something and I decide to run. Go back to D:14, take another stairs down. They take me to a space very near, and move away from the stairs, demon jumps me, I try to cast something, he conjuers demons, than centaurs, than more stuff, like slime creatures. I get ganked upon, try to run, try to blink, no use, centaurs blocking stairs, demons chasing me, read scroll of blink, no use as these blue demons have the fastest speed in game, I die.

Very unfairly, I have to say, to a Shadow Demon which is a tier-2 demon usually only found in Hells and Abyss and the likes, as I later found on wiki (my bad for not wiki-ing it right away).

[Grujah]

DavikrakenIII was unimpressive and not worth mentioning, died D:4 to some orcs.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.1 (tiles) character file.

205 DevikrakenIII the Ruinous (level 4, 0/27 HPs)
             Began as an Octopode Conjurer on Mar 4, 2014.
             Killed from afar by an orc wizard (11 damage)
             ... with a puff of flame
             
             ... on Level 3 of the Dungeon.
             The game lasted 00:07:49 (2232 turns).

DevikrakenIII the Ruinous (Octopode Conjurer)       Turns: 2232, Time: 00:07:50

HP   0/27        AC  1     Str  7      XL: 4   Next: 77%
MP   1/10        EV 12     Int 18      God:
Gold 103         SH  0     Dex 12      Spells:  2 memorised,  8 levels left

Res.Fire  : . . .   See Invis. : .   (no weapon)
Res.Cold  : . . .   Warding    : .   (no shield)
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   (helmet restricted)
Res.Poison: +       Res.Corr.  : .   (no amulet)
Res.Elec. : .       Clarity    : .   e - ring of poison resistance {unknown}
Sust.Abil.: . .     Spirit.Shd : .   (no ring)
Res.Mut.  : .       Stasis     : .   (no ring)
Res.Rott. : .       Flight     : .   (no ring)
Saprovore : . . .                    (no ring)
                                     (no ring)
                                     (no ring)
                                     (no ring)

@: slightly resistant to hostile enchantments, quite stealthy
A: almost no armour, amphibious, 8 rings, constrict 8, camouflage 1, AC +1
a: no special abilities


You were on level 3 of the Dungeon.
You were not hungry.

You visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and saw 4 of its levels.

You collected 83 gold pieces.

Inventory:

Comestibles
 b - 2 bread rations
 o - a rotting chunk of jackal flesh
Scrolls
 a - a scroll of noise {unknown}
 g - a scroll of magic mapping {unknown}
 h - a scroll of enchant weapon I
 i - a scroll of remove curse {unknown}
 j - 2 scrolls of teleportation {unknown}
 k - a scroll of random uselessness {unknown}
 m - a scroll of blinking {unknown}
Jewellery
 e - a ring of poison resistance (left tentacle) {unknown}
Potions
 l - a potion of brilliance {unknown}
 n - 2 potions of might {unknown}
Books
 c - a book of Conjurations   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   *Magic Dart                        Conjuration                  1
   *Searing Ray                       Conjuration                  2
   Dazzling Spray                     Conjuration/Hexes            3
   Iskenderun's Mystic Blast          Conjuration                  4
   Iskenderun's Battlesphere          Conjuration/Charms           4
   Fulminant Prism                    Conjuration/Hexes            5


   Skills:
 - Level 2.0 Dodging
 - Level 2.6 Stealth
 + Level 4.0 Spellcasting
 - Level 4.0 Conjurations


You had 8 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Magic Dart            Conj           ###.         2%          1    None
s - Searing Ray           Conj           ###...       4%          2    ##.....


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (4/27)           
Temple: D:4-7       

Altars:

Annotations:
D:2 Sigmund


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You cannot wear most types of armour.
You are amphibious.
You can wear up to eight rings at the same time.
You can use your tentacles to constrict many enemies at once.
Your skin changes colour to match your surroundings (Stlth).
Your rubbery body absorbs attacks (AC +1).


Message History

The orc wizard casts a spell at you.
The magic dart hits you! The orc hits you with an orcish whip!
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
Drink which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
You feel much better. You constrict the orc wizard.
The orc wizard hits you with an orcish dagger.
The quokka misses you. The orc barely misses you. The orc wizard closely misses you.
You hit the orc wizard but do no damage.
Your squeeze misses the orc wizard.
The orc wizard is moderately wounded.
You constrict the orc wizard. The quokka bites you. The orc wizard closely misses you.
The orc hits you with an orcish whip.
You hit the orc wizard.
The orc wizard is heavily wounded.
You constrict the orc wizard.
The orc wizard hits you with an orcish dagger.
The quokka bites you. The orc hits you with an orcish whip.
The orc wizard points at you and mumbles some strange words.
The puff of flame hits you!
You die...

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       ...


You could see an orc wizard, an orc and a quokka.

Vanquished Creatures
  A hound (D:4)
  An adder (D:2)
  A giant eyeball (D:4)
  5 orcs
  A giant cockroach (D:3)
  4 goblins
  8 hobgoblins
  6 jackals
  8 kobolds
  A quokka (D:3)
  3 bats
  2 giant geckos (D:1)
  11 giant newts
  6 rats
58 creatures vanquished.

Notes
Turn   | Place    | Note
--------------------------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1      | DevikrakenIII, the Octopode Conjurer, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1      | Reached XP level 1. HP: 11/11 MP: 3/3
   220 | D:1      | Reached XP level 2. HP: 12/17 MP: 2/4
   336 | D:1      | Learned a level 2 spell: Searing Ray
   651 | D:1      | Reached XP level 3. HP: 21/21 MP: 1/6
  1080 | D:2      | Noticed Sigmund
  1928 | D:4      | Reached XP level 4. HP: 20/27 MP: 2/9
  2232 | D:3      | Killed from afar by an orc wizard


Action                   |  1- 3 |  4- 6 || total
-------------------------+-------+-------++-------
Melee: Unarmed           |     6 |     7 ||    13
 Cast: Magic Dart        |    82 |    24 ||   106
       Searing Ray       |     2 |       ||     2
  Use: Scroll            |       |     3 ||     3
       Potion            |       |     3 ||     3

[Grujah]

Comments in bold:

Run #1:

Solariska:

Cool name; ok, let’s get this thing started.  What was the monster again?  What was the class-thing?  Ok, cool.  Wait, some of these classes are greyed out, can I even click Venom Mage?  It appears I can.  Maybe that means this is not a recommended build.  Whatever, I’m awesome. 

Ok, soooo I’m a magic user.  What spells do I get?  Oh, that’s the abilities tab; well I have immune from like all this stuff…torment, cold, negative energy, poison.  Neat.  I wonder what “thrives on rotten meat means,” eh, I’ll figure it out.

You get more nutrition from Rotten Meat, I think.

Anyway, I poison people apparently.  Not much unarmed fighting, maybe poison/run away is my whole gig?  Stealthy and all?  I can do that.

Wheee, I’m shooting spells at goblins, now rats.  Wait, I’m out of MP…run away!!!!  Somehow that succeeded, but I should probably attack back instead of running into unknown areas.  Gotta be clever, shraeye.  Hey I poisoned somebody!  Run away and let poison do the work.  Oh, the poison wears off, then they almost kill me.  Bad plan; next time, administer more poison.

Yeah, low MP is bane of casters early, I always focus Spellcasting to like level 4 early to make up for it

Found Ashenzari, can’t worship that.  Ok, gained a level AND got better at dodging.  Not abysmal so far.  I might need a backup for when poison doesn’t work.  Slings seem to take the spot where I’d rather spell them.  Maybe a dagger?  That seems thematically good for sneaky/poison dude.  I like thematic stuff. 

Getting potions and scrolls, yay!  Got double potion, but those are scary.  I’ll wait until I get more scrolls and hope to get identify.  Or I can read something as a ‘reward’ once I’ve cleared floor one.  Ok, floor one done.  Not brave enough to read, though I have two of VIGRYO WE GOXT.  I like trying to read those names.

Floor 2: Hey look, two sleeping dudes.  Maybe I can sneak-kill one.  Nope, they’re awake.  Now another is around.  Aaaaaah, I can’t get back to the stairs.  And I’m out of MP, dang.  Run away!  Stairs to level 3, yes please!  And only one came with me.  Let’s see if I survive. Success.  Now eat rotten flesh.  Gotta get me some more of that.  Uhoh, going back up is a bad idea.  Out of MP, low on health, 1 goblin to go.  Bright idea: go to floor 3…doesn’t work.  Now I’m running away blind down the halls.  0MP, 2HP.  Got enough MP!  And miscast…. More running 1MP!  And another miscast….

In case you don't have it figured out, only monsters right next to you follow you down/up

Oh god, 3 more monsters.  Stairs to floor 4!  Yes please!  Well, I’m basically dead, but am really making progress   And I’m back alive.  Miracle.  Going back to floor 2 to do this proper.  Oh, and put more focus into stealth.  Yeah, that’s definitely what screwed me up earlier.  Reaching level 3, get Dexterity.  Hmmm, my flesh keeps rotting away.  How do I stop that?  Oh, eat more.  Got it.  Level 2 going nice, hard to get food.  Oh, theeeere are all the monsters; I’d better run away.  Unsuccessful.  Dead.

[Grujah]

run#2

So through a bit of research (shuffled through ‘viable options’ and then looked them up to see if they were bright grey or dark grey), I learned that Ghoul Venom Mage is ‘not a viable character’.  Perfect!

Anyway, this is run #2, and this time the commentary will be more clear.  Instead of using level for character level AND dungeon depth, I’ll call the dungeon levels by names.  Dungeon 1, or D1, is the starting floor.  I like that.  So level is my character strength.  I’m aiming for level 6.  I think that would be brilliant.  I wonder what D-# that is achievable at.

Ok, D1 is weird, a lot of diagonals and stuff.  That will make it harder for me to shoot people at range?  Also, I wonder if the ‘claws’ weapon is strong enough to justify only training unarmed.  Look at me!  I’m attempting to use strategic thinking!  Well who knows what’s best.  Good players, I assume.  But for right now, I’ll do what’s the most fun.

They do justify it.

<REDACTED>

What is this madness??!?? The floor is burning and it’s an “excluded area”???  What the heck is that?  Also, ice bear or something, and another monster that was new.  Super exciting.  I still have no idea what a rune is, so hopefully I can beat Grujah just on levels.  Well I killed Blork the Orc, so decided to go back and slay Sigmund.  He’s a pansy.  But I still can’t figure out how to worship Vehumet, because of the lava.  I need flight or something.  Hopefully a shop has this. Or I can identify a scroll of flight.  I’ll keep delving for now.

Excluded Area is something that is static game deems dangerous, so it warns you. It usually means a statue, an oklob plant or some exploding gas or similar. You can change behavior of this (for example, I included eels).

On to D7.  Ecumenical Temple found!  I hope Vehumet is in there!  Saving again; time for drinks! 

interlude
Ecumenical Temple.  No Vehumet, very boring.  Dang, swarm of wights chased me upstairs.  Hit 2 more monsters, now I’m dancing between D5,6,7 and trying to take on only one at a time.  Huge swarms of poison immune creatures, not my Venom Mage’s favorite.

Survived them, after much dancing.  Took a quick trip down and back a stairs to D8 in case that helps me beat Grujah.  Will play more tomorrow.

Part 4
Continuing on; D7 is cleared so I’m now entering D8 fully.  Character is doing fine, and I’m beginning to rely on Mephitic Cloud more.  However, it causes hunger and right now Sting is hunger-free.  Oh crap, it’s Eustachio.  I think I’ll try to take him on.  Start with Toxic Radiance, boom.  Now confuse the mean-pants. He got no summons off; killed him plus a swarm of bees using antoerh Toxic Radiance plus a few Stings.  Brilliant.  Ok, I’ve found a lake that apparently spawns infinite monsters.  Nothing too tough but when there are multiple electric eels plus land-people chasing me, HP gets dangerously low.  So I back up and come in again, but no matter how many I kill there are still scores of monsters.  And by scores I mean 3+.  That’s still a fair number.

Finally cleared that out only to run into Erolcha.  She turns me to stone and wails on me.  I finally confuse them for time and teleport out.  Safe for now!  Exploring the rest of the level; Erolcha is not to be found.  I peek quickly into D9, hoping that it’s enough to edge out Grujah.  Saving for now.

conclusion:
The conclusion:

Getting tired of playing it safe.  Just put on a cloak blind.  It was +2Dex, +4Int, huzzah!  Another is Robe of Boredom, with +Invis and rPois.  However, the rPois isn’t really useful, and I have no evoke skill, so that fails 71% of the time.  I’d rather wear my +2 robe than this +0 robe, sorry.

That is a quite fine cloak, esp given your low intelligence. I mean, Solariska's not shraeye's

Quick peek into D10, then into D11.   Hey, a 5 headed hydra zombie!  That sounds terrifying!  I also spotted a +12,+16 plutonium sword that causes contam when not equipped.  I probably want that.  Equipped; now I’m a badass.  Whoa, a fake door just bit me, better bust his butt.  Done and done.

Actually, it causes contamintion when you unequip it, not while in inventory unequiped. It is a quite powerful sword, but one that is likely to screw you sometimes, as chaos brand and random miscast on enemies can backfire. Kinda High-risk high-reward thing.

Found a Cyclops...aaaaaand I’m dead.  Dang.  That was a fun run!
They are a bitch

So I made it down to 11.  I'm gonna do a sprint-runthrough to see if I can get lower.  But I think runes are out of the question.

run #3

Speed run.  No time to think or be careful.  Already grabbed a cursed dagger, and then cursed a ring I picked up…oh well.  Oh crap, now I’ve blind-read a teleportation spell.  Hope I survive this!  Survived.  And then I enchanted my cursed dagger twice.  I feel like I’ll keep it even if I uncurse it at this rate, geeeez.

Wore a shield, it just kills my magic.  That’s not happening again.  Jumped down a shaft on D2, came out on D4.  Is there a limit on how low a shaft can drop you? Dancing with a scorpion, and apparently alerted an entire room filled with orcs.  Tons and tons of orcs, how’d that happen?  Now I’m searching for stairs. Being chased by approximately 10 monsters, but found stairs and am only bringing one with!

Dunno, I fell like 4-5 floors at times

There’s an entrance to the sewers on D3!  I want to find it!  I’ll use a scroll of mapping that I managed to identify (my current scroll strategy is to read everything I get as soon as I get it).  I’m in the sewers now, and killed a bunch of bats.  This is exciting.  Until a crocodile killed me, less exciting now.  And that’s the last of my runs.
Croc that early ain't much fair

[popsofctown]

Chaos branded weapons can be unwielded safely.  I think what shraeye stumbled upon was a distortion-branded weapon, which can cause contamination when unequipped, or banishment, which is worse.  Using the distortion branded weapons doesn't cause contamination, and since they have a chance on hit to do massive damage they are very good weapons, especially for low strength users.  You just have to consider it a deep commitment when you put it on, you won't be taking it off for a while.

Also, I don't know whether ghouls get more nutrition from rotten meat, but what's much more important is that rotten meat cures them of rot, and they rot over time naturally.

[Grujah]

Chaos branded weapons can be unwielded safely.  I think what shraeye stumbled upon was a distortion-branded weapon, which can cause contamination when unequipped, or banishment, which is worse.  Using the distortion branded weapons doesn't cause contamination, and since they have a chance on hit to do massive damage they are very good weapons, especially for low strength users.

Also, I don't know whether ghouls get more nutrition from rotten meat, but what's much more important is that rotten meat cures them of rot, and they rot over time naturally.

He found this, I believe:
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Plutonium_sword

[popsofctown]

Oh, ok.  Didn't think plutonium sword would be the exact name for a unique weap.

[Grujah]

BTW. I am thinking of videoing my runs vs Walrus, but have problems with recording DCSS properly. :s

@Shra - and also, ID scrolls have 80% one charge, and 10% for 2 or 3 charges each.

[shraeye]

nice, did you recover those logs from the morgue file or something?  I was thinking videoing things would be neat.  But I have never done any videoing things, AND I'm crazy slow at going though this game.

[Grujah]

Yeah, you have all character files in the morgue ( ~/.crawl/morgue for me). You want the ones with .txt extension.

Thing is that 90% of the times when I record, crawl lags in the resulting video (shows every 10th turn or so), and I cannot determine why. I will try, though.

[Grujah]

Pairs?

[popsofctown]

I was hoping to hear something, anything, from walrus or Jorbles before doing more pairs.  I am still generating pairs by hand for now, and It'd be a lot of effort to do so only for them to flake out.

[Jorbles]

Oh sorry, I'm still paying attention, just haven't had anything to say recently. I've been playing more Dwarf Fortress than Stone Soup recently, but I'll fire it up for a match.

[popsofctown]

Jorbles versus Shraeye, round 2 pairs

Pair 1
Aimhack: Monotheistic Centaur Arcane Marksman of Trog, Sling in hand
Don Quixote: Monotheistic Centaur Chaos Knight of Xom, short sword in hand

Pair 2
Marsus: Demigod Skald, Falchion in hand
Phil Jenkins: Monotheistic High Elf Assassin of Nemelex Xobeh

Pair 3
Molteactive: Bitheistic Gargoyle Fire Elementalist of Xom and the Slime God
EagleScout: Monotheistic Centaur Venom Mage of the Shining One

Pair 4
Vanellopir: Bitheistic Human Assassin of Sif Muna and Lugonu
Kerrigan: Tritheistic Naga Assassin of Zin, Kikubaaqudgha, and the Slime God

Pair 5
FriendlyGiant: Tritheistic Ogre Summoner of Okawaru, Fedhas Madash, and Kikubaaqudgha
Figrat: Tritheistic Kobold Venom Mage of Ashenzari, Slime God, and Cheibrados

Pair 6
AlliteratiTROG: Monotheistic Minotaur Monk of Trog
JohnnyZombieSeed: Monotheistic Centaur Monk of Yredelemnul

Pair 7
Ponyo: Bitheistic Merfolk Abyssal Knight of Lugonu and Zin, Falchion in hand
Murcrow: Monotheistic Tengu Death Knight of Yredelemnul, Falchion in hand

[Grujah]

I was hoping to hear something, anything, from walrus or Jorbles before doing more pairs.  I am still generating pairs by hand for now, and It'd be a lot of effort to do so only for them to flake out.

Dude, just ask!

Here it is:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20240121/DCSSFDSv1.0.jar

It works like this:

1. Pick random race
2. Pick random background (if not compatible, re-pick)
3. 1/3 of having 1, 2 or 3 gods (unless Demigod)
4. Picks gods (first always class-god for Zealots, otherwise random, re-pick non-compatible)
5. Pick weapon that is available (claws/rocks/tridents/spears/staffs all work as expected).

(names not generated, left to you ).

If it is supposted to work differently, just PM me and I'll make changes.

Here are 10k results, so that you can check if everything is as it should be:
http://pastebin.com/w2yDtJ4L

Edit: yeah, you run it from command line with java, like so:

java -jar DCSSFDSv1.0.jar X

where X is number of pairs that you want to generate.

[popsofctown]

I didn't think the task had quite yet reached enough use to merit automation, but I guess the script is written, now.

I'm at a school pc, so I can't use the file to make the pairs for you and Walrus, but that should be a snap in three hours.

[Grujah]

I didn't think the task had quite yet reached enough use to merit automation, but I guess the script is written, now.

Doing anything more than twice merits an automation XD

[Jorbles]

I've submitted my picks!

[popsofctown]

You misspelled Nemelex Xobeh

[popsofctown]

Grujah vs. Walrus

Pair 1
Buttons: Monotheistic Kobold Artificer of Nemelex Xobeh
Windexela: Tritheistic Tengu Death Knight of Yredelemnul, Xom, and Trog, spear in talons

Pair 2
Mortaraid: Bitheistic Gargoyle Earth Elementalist of Kikubaaquadgha and Elyvion
Crematologus: Monotheistic Ghoul Fire Elementalist of Sif Muna

Pair 3
Anchors: Bitheistic Merfolk Necromancer of  Ashenzari and Nemelex Xobeh
Tradewinds: Monotheistic Centaur Air Elementalist of Ashenzari

Pair 4
Capugue: Tritheistic Ogre Venom Mage of Yredelemnul, Elyvion, and Ashenzari
Vadeler: Bitheistic Troll Necromancer of Makhleb and Yredelemnul

Pair 5
Krunk: Bitheistic Ogre Venom Mage of Kikubaaquadgha and Xom
GrimRipper: Bitheistic Demonspawn Assassin of Kikubaaquadgha and Yredelemnul

Pair 6
Whistles: Bitheistic Deep Elf Air Elementalist of Okawaru and the Slime God
Redwalla: Monotheistic Kobold Fighter of Elyvion, short sword in hands

Pair 7
NobleBrigand: Tritheistic Human Hunter of The Shining One, Kikubaaquadgha, and Vehemut, crossbow in hands
Slink: Bitheistic Ghoul Gladiator of Lugonu and Sif Muna, quarterstaff in hands

Pair 8
Drarge: Bitheistic Octopode Necromancer of Ashenzari and Okawaru
Rarity: Monotheistic Centaur Healer of Elyvion

Pair 9
Raskolnikov: Tritheistic Kobold Death Knight of Yredelemnul, Kikubaaquadgha, and The Shining One, hand axe in hands
Randyosh: Monotheistic Draconian Monk of Xom

[Jorbles]

We're both vs shraeye?

Edit: Ignore. Fixed now.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

Hey sorry, I'm here, and still down like a clown. I'll get my choices in shortly.

[Jorbles]

I think my favourite pairings are when two absolutely atrocious pairs are up. Good luck with Pair 4 guys!

[popsofctown]

don't have much time, but figrat vs. the friendly giant is the matchup.  J, figrat, shraye, BFG

[Jorbles]

Figrat, son of Digrat! I'm just glad we didn't make it to Pair 6. I was not looking forward to playing one of those (I picked the Minotaur).

[shraeye]

so did I!

[Grujah]

Some hard choices, sent my picks and immediately I've regretted one, but it's fine I guess.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

I've submitted mine as well, and I agree there were some head scratchers. The first pair was the trickiest for me.

[Grujah]

6 was worst for me, first didn't give me that much trouble.

Also, what does "no practice runs" mean? I get "no runs before you choose to check them", and also "no practice runs with a combo after it is announce you are playing it". But what can I actually play right now and not violate that rule? (not trying to cheat the system, just don't wanna do something frowned upon by accident).

[Jorbles]

so did I!

That's a relief. Did you pick the Merfolk for 7 or the Tengu? I had a tough time deciding between the two, but went Merfolk.

[shraeye]

Tengu; wasn't feeling the Merfolk vibe.

[Jorbles]

Tengu; wasn't feeling the Merfolk vibe.

Aww, I would have rather done that match. Oh well. Kobold Caster again for me I guess.

[Jorbles]

@pops: How are we handling tiebreakers? (Or are we just allowing ties).

For instance let's say Grujah's highest HD unique killed was Sigmund (3), and Walrus killed Ijyb (also 3, if you can believe it), and Dowan (also 3). Is that a tie?

Deepest floor of the main dungeon is still a tiebreaker amongst those two situations

[shraeye]

What is HD?

[Jorbles]

What is HD?

Hit dice, it's basically how you measure the levels of monsters.

[shraeye]

I've never seen such a thing; how does one find those numbers?

[WalrusMcFishSr]

Grujah do you want to just post your picks now that we've selected? I'm impatient and I want to start meditating on the nature of my character hehe. Here's the PM I sent pops, in spoilers just in case.

If you don't...well I'm sure we'll find out soon enough anyway.

Windexela...this was actually a tough choice. Buttons seems theoretically awesome, but I suck with Nemelex. I'm better with Tengu, but I don't trust their Invocations for DK. Could go either way on this one. In fact I've already changed my mind twice, but Windexela is fine.

Mortaraid...duh

Tradewinds...doesn't sound too bad in theory. Kiting + Lightning bolts = Kitening bolts.

Vadeler...this guy seems viable enough. I like Trolls and dislike Ogres

GrimRipper...no I will not play an Ogre VM thank you

Whistles...Redwalla seems too clunky for a Kobold, although I do love the premise.

NobleBrigand...yeah

Rarity...I believe in the Healer class. And Bloopex hath failed me

Randyosh...I love monks. C'mon Xom don't be a prick

Also, are Dowan and Duvessa like incestuous lovers, or what? Maybe I just don't understand the familial closeness of elven society

[Jorbles]

I've never seen such a thing; how does one find those numbers?

I always look them up on the crawl wiki (http://crawl.chaosforge.org/). They might be viewable somewhere in game, maybe when you look at creatures descriptions? I've always just looked them up before.

[Grujah]

@J - since when do we compare HDs of Uniques? I didn't see that.

@Walrus - this is what I've sent to pops, you fell right into my trap, as you will note in Pair 6 text.

Pair 1
Buttons: Monotheistic Kobold Artificer of Nemelex Xobeh
Windexela: Tritheistic Tengu Death Knight of Yredelemnul, Xom, and Trog, spear in talons

Tengu is fine, but Buttons looks like perfect Artificer, just what you want. Main issue is that I am inexperenced with both Xobeh and Artificer class.


Pair 2
Mortaraid: Bitheistic Gargoyle Earth Elementalist of Kikubaaquadgha and Elyvion
Crematologus: Monotheistic Ghoul Fire Elementalist of Sif Muna

Reading up on Ghouls teaches me that they ain't THAT bad casters as I though. Still, they suck at fire and while Sif is better god choice, I think Gargoyle with his Earth affinity is better here.


Pair 3
Anchors: Bitheistic Merfolk Necromancer of  Ashenzari and Nemelex Xobeh
Tradewinds: Monotheistic Centaur Air Elementalist of Ashenzari

Merfolk aren't that good with Necro, and gods are not ideal. Still, Cent has even worse god choice and while HP and speed is very valuable, not too keen on playing a Cent Mage.

Pair 4
Capugue: Tritheistic Ogre Venom Mage of Yredelemnul, Elyvion, and Ashenzari
Vadeler: Bitheistic Troll Necromancer of Makhleb and Yredelemnul

Ah, this one.
Ogre is generally better at magic and a faster learned (better XP apt) than troll, but not as hardy.
Troll actually has better Necro stat that Ogre's Poison one, but his spellcasting is horrid. Good thing is that you get to worship Makhleb. Can be played as a mostly melee guy with harder start and some necro support.

Pair 5
Krunk: Bitheistic Ogre Venom Mage of Kikubaaquadgha and Xom
GrimRipper: Bitheistic Demonspawn Assassin of Kikubaaquadgha and Yredelemnul

DS isn't the stealthiest race out there, but god choices are decent and it's quite playable.

Pair 6
Whistles: Bitheistic Deep Elf Air Elementalist of Okawaru and the Slime God
Redwalla: Monotheistic Kobold Fighter of Elyvion, short sword in hands

DEAE is a beast. God choices are aweful. Oka at least gives some decent armor, I guess but is completely useless otherwise. I'd probably go with Jiyva actually, ugh. If at least it was a High Elf so I could do a decent Hybrid.
KoFi with sword is decent, Elyvion isn't the worst thing out there, some good panic buttons. He sucks with armor, you'd have to scrap that, I think. He is also frail for straight melee, to an extent, but Elyvion helps there. Gaining piety with his seems to be a bitch too.
Hmm... This was the one I decided on last, definitely hardest one. In the end, KoFi seems a bit more clunky. But my mind says he is better and that armor thing is easier to overcome that I am making it and that god can work. Still frail. Hearth goes with DE. I grew attached to DEs and he can get the slime rune easily if it gets to there.
This would be a lot easier if Walrus just chooses Windexela in the first pair and I kick his butt (instead me cursing when I lose because of a bad choice here. )

Pair 7
NobleBrigand: Tritheistic Human Hunter of The Shining One, Kikubaaquadgha, and Vehemut, crossbow in hands
Slink: Bitheistic Ghoul Gladiator of Lugonu and Sif Muna, quarterstaff in hands

Hunter is fine. TSO's stabbing restriction is a pain in the butt, but depending on your start, other Gods are a good choice as well.
Ghoul it just a mess, not sure how much do you need a QStaff, Gods are completely useless.. JUST NO.

Pair 8
Drarge: Bitheistic Octopode Necromancer of Ashenzari and Okawaru
Rarity: Monotheistic Centaur Healer of Elyvion

Octo Necro is decent combo. Gods are less than ideal, again. Walrus gonna choose this, he likes Octos.
Centaur Healer seems powerful but SO BORING. Walrus went to D:8 with his last Octo run. Can this guy do better? I think YES.

Pair 9
Raskolnikov: Tritheistic Kobold Death Knight of Yredelemnul, Kikubaaquadgha, and The Shining One, hand axe in hands
Randyosh: Monotheistic Draconian Monk of Xom

Both are decent, but I have to choose the funner one.

[shraeye]

Hmmm, I'm not planning on looking anything up.  So that kinda frustrates my strategy if that's the main determiner of 'winning'.

[Jorbles]

Also, are Dowan and Duvessa like incestuous lovers, or what? Maybe I just don't understand the familial closeness of elven society

I never really interpreted it that way, I thought they were just close siblings. I'd probably be pretty upset if one of my relatives (who I do not have incestuous relations with) were murdered in front of me by some random adventurer.

[Jorbles]

@J - since when do we compare HDs of Uniques? I didn't see that.

Shraeye will now face Jorbles, and Grujah will face Walrus McFish. 

I'm going to change the rules slightly for the second round, with the goal of bringing head to head strategy closer to normal single players strategy. 

Firstly, a modification of the definition of how successful a run is:

Less important than rune count and identity, and more important than main dungeon exploration, is "best (highest HD) unique thoroughly defeated".  There are many things you can ~do~ to a unique in crawl, so ~defeat~ can seem a subjective term.  This how "thoroughly defeated" is defined for our purposes:  If you received an amount of experience based on the unique's HD or identity, and you also caused its item drops to be accessible to you, you have thoroughly defeated it.
If the unique dies and doesn't drop any items, it has to have died in a way that you would be able to get 1 gold if it had had 1 gold in its pocket.
You don't have to actually collect the drops.
Receiving experience based on its HD means that its HD has to be a cause of why you gained how much experience you actually did.  For instance, draining a monster will subtract 1 from its HD and give you slightly less experience, but since (HD-1) is based on the original HD, that counts.  Polymorphing a monster transforms it into another monster with HD that is based on its former HD, so if you then kill that new monster, you'll get experience based on the unique's HD.

Slimify converts a monster into a slime that always has a fixed, low HD, so if you kill that slime and receive experience, it doesn't count because that's not tied to the unique's HD.

As a fun, extreme case, you can roll a Merfolk Abyssal Knight, Banish Ijylb to the Abyss (which gives you 50% of the normal amount of experience as killing it, tied to the normal value), then banish yourself to the Abyss, watch a neutral monster confuse Ijylb, watch Ijylb walk into deep water giving you no additional experience, then walk away and it counts, because as a Merfolk you can swim in deep water to collect Ijylb's drops, and you received experience based on Ijylb's HD back when you banished it.

And as a second rules modification, to nerf slime god a bit and hopefully let it see play

In addition to the low priority rule, if one of your gods is the slime god, the slimy rune of zot does not count towards your rune total unless you have two or more other runes.

As a special note, these two rule tweaks have a small link: While the passivity of the royal jelly is less useful for bolstering your rune count, you can however take a legendary dagger, drink a potion of might, and brutally brutusly stab the royal jelly in the back to improve your "best unique thoroughly defeated".  The slime god and the other slimes on the floor might not like that at all, but if no one else kills an HD21 unique...

[Grujah]

1 and 3 are only disagreements.

[Jorbles]

Hmmm, I'm not planning on looking anything up.  So that kinda frustrates my strategy if that's the main determiner of 'winning'.

Well runes are still the main determiner as far as I know. This is just the determiner if we don't reach any runes.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

Ahaha, but what you don't realize Grujah is you have fallen into my DOUBLE trap! Buttons is a NOMBO...Death bird power will win the day!

Haha, I like how we both described KoFi as "clunky". Anchors vs. Tradewinds could have been interesting too.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

Also, are Dowan and Duvessa like incestuous lovers, or what? Maybe I just don't understand the familial closeness of elven society

I never really interpreted it that way, I thought they were just close siblings. I'd probably be pretty upset if one of my relatives (who I do not have incestuous relations with) were murdered in front of me by some random adventurer.

Haha, maybe I just have a disturbed mind. I definitely got more of a "lovers" vibe from them before I looked it up.

[shraeye]

question.

What's the difference between a +1, +1 mace, and a +0,+2 mace?  What do those numbers mean?

[Grujah]

First number is accuracy bonus, second is damage bonus.

Same goes for rings of slaying. Damage is usually more important.

[shraeye]

I've got a minotaur figher who's super AC'ed up (25 right now) and I'm trying to see if the 0,2 weapon of protection is better than the 1,1 weapon of protection.  Or if a 2,4-weapon is good enough that it's worth losing the 'of protection'.  They're all the same thing, axe, or mace...can't quite remember off the top of my head.

[popsofctown]

Buttons will go into battle, maybe you guys figured it out

[Jorbles]

I've got a minotaur figher who's super AC'ed up (25 right now) and I'm trying to see if the 0,2 weapon of protection is better than the 1,1 weapon of protection.  Or if a 2,4-weapon is good enough that it's worth losing the 'of protection'.  They're all the same thing, axe, or mace...can't quite remember off the top of my head.

They're all better in different situations. If something is hard to hit, the extra accuracy is better, but if something is easy to hit, the damage is better. I guess if something is both hard to hit and hard to kill the damage would probably be better because then when you hit you you'd have a better chance of killing them. Those numbers (1,1 vs 0,2) aren't really different enough that it'll make much difference though, it's a bigger deal when you're comparing something like (4,2 vs 0,7). As long as you aren't having to rest too often you're probably doing fine. I think there's some damage types that go through AC (smiting?) and if you are fighting those things the pure 2,4 weapon would be better against them since your AC isn't going to do much for you. I try to carry around a few different weapons to switch between as the situation demands it, but it's usually more determined by the brands. Usually you have time to switch while gaps get closed (or you duck around a corner).

If I'm playing a caster than "of protection" is great because I don't expect things to get to close to me very often, or the only things I plan on meleeing are weak things (rats and the like). If I'm playing a melee based character than I want a more offensive brand probably (of freezing, of draining, of fire, vorpal, of electrocution, of poison, of anti-magic) and that's going to depend on what dungeon branch I'm in. Certain areas have more characters vulnerable to certain types of damage.

[popsofctown]

@pops: How are we handling tiebreakers? (Or are we just allowing ties).

For instance let's say Grujah's highest HD unique killed was Sigmund (3), and Walrus killed Ijyb (also 3, if you can believe it), and Dowan (also 3). Is that a tie?

Deepest floor of the main dungeon is still a tiebreaker amongst those two situations

I accidentally editted this instead of quoting it in a new post

Runes and rune priority are still the biggest trump, aside from the even bigger tasks of collecting the orb of Zot and showing the orb of Zot that there is a bright shiny world outside the dungeon.

[popsofctown]

+0/+1 is almost always better than +1/+0.  The game itself implies that because Enchant Weapon Scroll I's are more common and give you +1/+0, and Enchant Weapon Scroll II's are less common and give you +0/+1.

[Grujah]

Jeez, most disapointing Orc:4 ever.

A quite hard level, a spiral structure in middle swarming with enemies (including a warlord, some sorcs and high priests). There I found 2 potion shops, 1 scroll shop (no acquirement) and 1 armor shop with no armor I can wear.

Sigh.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

I hope this isn't already Buttons we're talking about...

[Grujah]

Actually will be keeping Buttons Progress secret till the end.

This is SpEn.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

Hahaha yeah I thought so. That would have been intimidating.

[popsofctown]

The crawl forums told me that great maces and morningstars are better than maces and hand axes of any brand, because of the high base damage.  Although enough +'s on a mace will bring it up to the same damage as a great mace.

[popsofctown]

I want to discuss things, but I'll stick to discussing the previous round for now, in the interest of impartiality.  For the interested, here's my comments on the round 1 picks.

Config pair 1:
->Rattala: Monotheistic Naga Beserker of Trog, spear in hand
Malisimon: Tritheistic Tengu Necromancer of Kikubaaqudgha, Xom, and Zin

This is easily Rattala, the naga.  Low speed is going to matter very little when you have trogs attack damage, solid base strength, and spit poison's great earlygame damage.  Furthermore Trog covers up naga escape issues very well, activating a wand or scroll of teleport and then beserking for the 50% health boost is a very effective escape tactic if you have the foresight to begin executing an escape early.

Config pair 2:
Copplini: Monotheistic Naga Fighter of Mahkleb, short sword in hand
->Iatodavid: Tritheistic Gargoyle Arcane Marksman of Okawaru, Sif Muna, and Vehemut, sling in hand

Short sword is the wrong weapon, and Mahkleb is the wrong god.  Poor escape is an even bigger issue when your overall head to head combat potential is low.  Iatodavid following Okawaru has little weaknesses to be concerned about.

Config pair 3:
->Solariska: Monotheistic Ghoul Venom Mage of Vehemut
Davikraken: Tritheistic Octopode Conjurer of Kikubaaqudgha, Okawaru, and Yredelemnul

I think Grujah outplayed shraeye with a weaker pick.  Characters are flexible in crawl, and often you can transition into something different from your opening.  Venom mage has enough raw power that even with low int Solariska can get to Mephitic Cloud, which is a very powerful utility spell that doesn't require high int to be effective, imo.  Stopping at Mephitic cloud and transitioning into a weapon based strategy before climbing up to the more int-dependent parts of the poison tree seems like a good gameplan to me.  And Vehemut will protect you from Mephitic Cloud miscast effects even if you spam it with a low success rate, look at that synergy right there.

Davikraken on the other hand is an endgame oriented species worshipping endgame oriented gods in an endgame oriented class.  With sample size 100, Davikraken might have more 15 rune runs, but at sample size 3 I expect Solariska to get deeper in the dungeon.

Config pair 4:
Librigraz: Tritheistic Centaur Necromancer of Elyvilon, Fedhas Madhas, and the Slime god
Elcrow:Monotheistic Tengu Gladiator of Ashenzari, falchion in hand

It's the Tengu.  Both these guys get slow or absent god support, but the Tengu has a proper species/background linkup.

Config pair 1
Opothekitch: Bitheistic Ogre Venom Mage of Vehemut and Yredelemnul
Entropyrus: Tritheistic High Elf Fire Elementalist of Mahkleb, the Shining One, and Xom
Entropyrus.  The mage that grasps algebra
Config pair 2
Gloinuss: Bitheistic Deep Dwarf Enchanter of Sif Muna and Zin
Bob:  Monotheistic Human Death Knight of Yredelemnul
Bob. Religious backgrounds get really strong earlygame boosts, a non-religious background that is superior is an exception
Config pair 3
Refliseptus: Bitheistic Vampire Ice Elementalist of Mahkleb and Ashenzari
T. M. 28: Bitheistic Gargoyle Death Knight of Yredelemnul and the Slime god
T.M. 28, religious
Config pair 4
Frostbite: Bitheistic Draconian Ice Elementalist of Vehemut and Ashenzari
Esma: Monotheistic Naga Chaos Knight of Xom
I think both players made a mistake, and Esma is stronger here.  Xom is chaotic, but there are ways to make sure things work out for you well on average.  Learning ice magic with no proficiency is a much slower start than a guaranteed upgraded weapon.  I notice now that I forgot to randomly select the starting weapon for Esma, which may have served as a reminder that religious backgrounds get strong starting weapons, and I'm sorry about that
Config pair 5
Putrefacti: Bitheistic Deep Dwarf Air Elementalist of Cheibriados and Yredelemnul
Ryzamere: Bitheistic Deep Elf Conjurer of Trog and Kikubaaqudgha

Deep Dwarfs have lots of synergy with Yredelemnul, actually, but I don't expect a Deep Dwarf air elementalist to get to the Ecumenical temple consistently. Deep Elf Conjurers with their epic magic proficiency can.
Config pair 6
Nightcrawler: Monotheistic Demonspawn Artificer of Lugonu
Ragdoll: Bitheistic Mummy Wizard of Xom and Jiyva
This pairing was what caused me to want to change the rules : even though Mummy's can't mutate and get far less benefit from Jiyva for that reason, the Mummy wizard dominated this pair by the consistent access to a waltz-in rune that Nightcrawler wouldn't be guaranteed to match.  This is too different from standard gameplay.
Config pair 7
Bloopex: Tritheistic Octopod Fire Elementalist of Trog, Ashenzari and Fedhas Madash
Digrat: Monotheistic Kobold Conjurer of Ashenzari
My digrat got further than my Bloopex.  I found Searing Ray much more reliable than anything in the fire elementalist book, and before you find 8 rings octopodes are far behind kobolds in terms of overall strength.  It's also the choice I would have made before trying.
Config pair 8
Rhyderion: Monotheistic Gargoyle Fighter of Trog
Quantanide: Bitheistic Deep Elf Venom Mage of Lugonu and Xom
Rhyderion.  Slightly overpowered species of a slightly overpowered class worshipping a slightly overpowered god, ??, profit!

[popsofctown]

Hmmm, I'm not planning on looking anything up.  So that kinda frustrates my strategy if that's the main determiner of 'winning'.

Shraeye, you can get a rough estimate of the HD of a unique in game by examining it.  It will be described as "harmless", "easy", "dangerous", or "extremely dangerous".  Those descriptors are based on comparing your current level to the monster's HD. 

[Grujah]

You are probably right on Solariska vs Davikraken. I underestimate Ghouls, it seems.

[popsofctown]

Shraeye: I spammed MiBe to try to figure out the relationship between your own level and the descriptor on a unique.  At level 7, Eustachio (HD4) was described "extremely dangerous", at level 8 he was downgraded to "dangerous".  It's mostly safe to assume that extremely dangerous uniques have an HD of at least your level-3.

Because the HD of a monster is closely tied to how likely it is to kill you, you're not very deprived if you don't know the exact HDs.  Knowing Eustachio has an HD of 4 tells you that you should be more motivated to kill him for the tie breaker, but it also tells you that you maybe shouldn't attempt to kill him because HD4 indicates he may very well kill you first.  The HD value is heavily used in formulas for important things like casting disables on you, resisting your disables, and even physically attacking you.

[popsofctown]

I reached XL level 13 and Eustachio was described as "easy".  So easy monsters are about 9 levels below your experience level.  And dangerous monsters are 4-8 levels below you.

[shraeye]

Pair 5
FriendlyGiant: Tritheistic Ogre Summoner of Okawaru, Fedhas Madash, and Kikubaaqudgha
Figrat: Tritheistic Kobold Venom Mage of Ashenzari, Slime God, and Cheibrados

So this is me?  I'm gonna start today.

[Jorbles]

Pair 5
FriendlyGiant: Tritheistic Ogre Summoner of Okawaru, Fedhas Madash, and Kikubaaqudgha
Figrat: Tritheistic Kobold Venom Mage of Ashenzari, Slime God, and Cheibrados

So this is me?  I'm gonna start today.

I've started! I'll let you know when I'm finished.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

Yeah I'm done with mine already...I just can't help myself. In fact, I've already slain Windexela's ghost in another game haha

[Grujah]

Pretty sure you won,  my inexperience with Artificers proved to be fatal to Buttons.

[Jorbles]

I've also finished. Figrat the 1st was unlucky, Figrat the 2nd is an embarassment, Figrat the 3rd did respectably though perhaps should have a greater appreciation of the danger certain monsters present.

[popsofctown]

Walrus defeats Grujah, HD 12 to HD 6! 

I'm too addicted to goko to write flavor text, and for that, I am sorry.

[Jorbles]

How's it going shraeye? If you've been playing all this time you've probably beaten me already.

[shraeye]

i'm reaalllly slow at playing.

[Jorbles]

i'm reaalllly slow at playing.

Haha, okay, no worries, just thought I'd check in.

[popsofctown]

Jorbles defeats shraeye! Joseph has more HD than Ijyb.

[Jorbles]

My thoughts on the picks as I sent them originally, and then with extra thoughts edited in.

Pair 1 (This actually seems pretty good, except for starting with a sling instead of a bow. Much better than worshipping Xom anyways.)
Aimhack: Monotheistic Centaur Arcane Marksman of Trog, Sling in hand
Don Quixote: Monotheistic Centaur Chaos Knight of Xom, short sword in hand

Pair 2 (I don't really like demigods, but I really don't want to play a high elf worshipping the slot machine.)
Marsus: Demigod Skald, Falchion in hand
Phil Jenkins: Monotheistic High Elf Assassin of Nemelex Xobeh

Pair 3 (This one seemed pretty straight forward. edit: A Venom Mage worshipping the Shining One is so bad, especially when it's from a race that's bad at casting like Centaurs.)
Molteactive: Bitheistic Gargoyle Fire Elementalist of Xom and the Slime God
EagleScout: Monotheistic Centaur Venom Mage of the Shining One

Pair 4 (This seems like an okay stealth-caster build if you can survive long enough to get books from Sif. Plus Naga's are too slow. edit: In retrospect Kerrigan doesn't seem quite as bad, but Humans are generally a safe choice as they are so flexible.)
Vanellopir: Bitheistic Human Assassin of Sif Muna and Lugonu
Kerrigan: Tritheistic Naga Assassin of Zin, Kikubaaqudgha, and the Slime God

Pair 5 (I guess I just like Kobolds. edit: I stand by this decision even though it didn't go as smoothly as I'd hoped. Ogre casters IMO seem to need to get lucky starts to go far, whereas Kobolds have an easier early game, and make good Venom Mages. Hard to transition into the mid game without a good book though.)
FriendlyGiant: Tritheistic Ogre Summoner of Okawaru, Fedhas Madash, and Kikubaaqudgha
Figrat: Tritheistic Kobold Venom Mage of Ashenzari, Slime God, and Cheibrados

Pair 6 (These are both pretty awful, I hope I don't end up playing this. edit: I was worried I might have to play this, but I don't know why, Centaur Monk is worse than Minotaur Monk.)
AlliteratiTROG: Monotheistic Minotaur Monk of Trog
JohnnyZombieSeed: Monotheistic Centaur Monk of Yredelemnul

Pair 7 (This was actually a really tough choice, both are very close to good, but I don't like playing summoners, which playing with hordes of undead amounts to. So even though it would bother me to play as a Merfolk with a sword instead of a spear it seemed slightly better. edit: I kinda wish this had been the one we'd gone with so I could have played a non-Kobold.)
Ponyo: Bitheistic Merfolk Abyssal Knight of Lugonu and Zin, Falchion in hand
Murcrow: Monotheistic Tengu Death Knight of Yredelemnul, Falchion in hand

I'll try to post my morgue and as much as I remember of the run when I get time later.

[Jorbles]

Here's the morgue of the death to hydra (those things hit harder than I thought they would):

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.1 (tiles) character file.

10587 Figrat III the Nimble (level 11, -5/59 HPs)
             Began as a Kobold Venom Mage on Mar 19, 2014.
             Slain by a four-headed hydra (15 damage)
             ... on Level 1 of the Lair of Beasts on Mar 21, 2014.
             The game lasted 03:15:05 (14938 turns).

Figrat III the Nimble (Kobold Venom Mage)          Turns: 14938, Time: 03:15:05

HP  -5/59        AC  6     Str  8      XL: 11   Next: 82%
MP  25/25        EV 22     Int 16      God:
Gold 711         SH 13     Dex 26      Spells:  4 memorised, 12 levels left

Res.Fire  : + . .   See Invis. : +   N - +4,+0 dagger (drain)
Res.Cold  : . . .   Warding    : .   v - +0 leather armour "Cecsal" {rF+ Dam+4 SInv}
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   H - +0 buckler
Res.Poison: .       Res.Corr.  : .   (no helmet)
Res.Elec. : .       Clarity    : .   K - +1 elf cloak
Sust.Abil.: . .     Spirit.Shd : .   q - +0 pair of gauntlets
Res.Mut.  : .       Stasis     : .   (no boots)
Res.Rott. : .       Flight     : .   V - amulet of rage
Saprovore : + + .                    z - +4 ring of dexterity
                                     d - +6 ring of dexterity

@: somewhat resistant to hostile enchantments, extremely stealthy
A: disease resistance, carnivore 3, saprovore 2
a: Evoke Berserk Rage


You were on level 1 of the Lair of Beasts.
You were very full.

You visited 4 branches of the dungeon, and saw 14 of its levels.

You collected 842 gold pieces.
You spent 151 gold pieces at shops.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 e - a -1,+1 orcish flail of draining
 j - a +6,+2 orcish short sword
 u - a +0,+3 dagger of distortion
 L - a +5,+2 elven sabre
 M - a +1,+2 whip of flaming
 N - a +4,+0 dagger of draining (weapon)
Missiles
 g - 31 darts (quivered)
 x - 59 poisoned needles
 B - 2 poisoned darts
 O - 9 darts of frost
Armour
 q - a +0 pair of gauntlets (worn)
 v - the +0 leather armour "Cecsal" (worn) {rF+ Dam+4 SInv}
   (You found it on level 8 of the Dungeon)   
   
   It affects your damage-dealing abilities (+4).
   It protects you from fire.
   It enhances your eyesight.
 y - a +2 robe of magic resistance
 H - a +0 buckler (worn)
 J - a +3 orcish leather armour
 K - a +1 elven cloak (worn)
 T - a +2 orcish robe of fire resistance
Magical devices
 n - a wand of confusion (9)
 r - a wand of frost (8)
 A - a wand of teleportation (2)
 E - a wand of slowing (9)
 P - a wand of polymorph (1)
Comestibles
 c - 2 meat rations
 f - a beef jerky
 t - a chunk of bat flesh
 S - 2 chunks of orc flesh
Scrolls
 a - a scroll of curse jewellery
 i - a scroll of recharging
 k - 4 scrolls of remove curse
 l - a scroll of fog
 m - a scroll of magic mapping
 o - 3 scrolls of amnesia
 p - a scroll of fear
 w - a scroll of blinking
 D - 6 scrolls of teleportation
 X - 2 scrolls of identify
Jewellery
 d - a +6 ring of dexterity (left hand)
 s - an uncursed amulet of resist mutation
 z - a +4 ring of dexterity (right hand)
 G - an uncursed ring of regeneration
 V - an amulet of rage (around neck)
 Y - an uncursed amulet of the gourmand
Potions
 h - a potion of mutation {unknown}
 C - 3 potions of heal wounds
 Q - a potion of flight
 R - a potion of curing
Books
 b - a Young Poisoner's Handbook   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   *Sting                             Conjuration/Poison           1
   *Cure Poison                       Poison                       2
   *Mephitic Cloud                    Conjuration/Poison/Air       3
   Olgreb's Toxic Radiance            Poison                       4
   *Venom Bolt                        Conjuration/Poison           5


   Skills:
 + Level 4.9 Fighting
 + Level 7.9 Short Blades
 - Level 3.6 Throwing
 + Level 9.3 Dodging
 - Level 9.0 Stealth
 - Level 1.2 Shields
 + Level 6.6 Spellcasting
 - Level 6.1 Conjurations
 - Level 4.2 Air Magic
 - Level 7.0 Poison Magic
 - Level 2.0 Evocations


You had 12 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Sting                 Conj/Pois      ####         1%          1    None
b - Cure Poison           Pois           ####......   1%          2    None
c - Mephitic Cloud        Conj/Pois/Air  ###.....     10%         3    ##.....
d - Venom Bolt            Conj/Pois      ####......   43%         5    #####..


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (10/27)            Temple (1/1) D:7             Orc (2/4) D:8
   Lair (1/8) D:9         

Altars:
Ashenzari
Cheibriados
Elyvilon
Fedhas
Kikubaaqudgha
Makhleb
Nemelex Xobeh
Okawaru
Sif Muna
Trog
Vehumet
Xom
Yredelemnul
Zin
the Shining One
Lugonu

Shops:
D:9 (*((


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You recuperate from illness quickly.
You are small and have problems with some larger weapons.
You are carnivorous and can eat meat at any time.
You can eat rotten meat.


Message History

You climb downwards. Welcome to the Lair of Beasts! The four-headed hydra bites you.
You block the four-headed hydra's attack.
The four-headed hydra bites you!
The four-headed hydra completely misses you.
The four-headed hydra bites you but does no damage.
The four-headed hydra misses you.
The four-headed hydra barely misses you.
There is a staircase back to the Dungeon here.
You hit the four-headed hydra but do no damage.
You drain the four-headed hydra!
You hit the four-headed hydra. You drain the four-headed hydra!
The four-headed hydra is lightly wounded.
You block the four-headed hydra's attack.
The four-headed hydra misses you.
The four-headed hydra closely misses you.
The four-headed hydra bites you!
You hit the four-headed hydra. You drain the four-headed hydra! The four-headed hydra bites you! The four-headed hydra bites you!
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
The four-headed hydra bites you!
You die...

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You could see a four-headed hydra.

Vanquished Creatures
  A centaur warrior (D:8)
  A hill giant (D:9)
  Joseph (D:10)
  Pikel (D:8)
  Maurice (D:8)
  Psyche (Orc:2)
  A komodo dragon (D:9)
  An ugly thing (D:8)
  Eustachio (D:8)
  19 yaks
  Grum (D:7)
  A hill giant skeleton (D:9)
  5 wolves
  5 orc warriors
  5 ogres
  7 sky beasts
  2 hippogriffs
  2 phantoms
  3 giant frogs
  A cyclops zombie (D:8)
  3 killer bees (D:8)
  3 centaurs
  3 slaves (D:8)
  3 jellies
  4 wights (D:6)
  3 crimson imps
  3 hounds
  A quasit (D:8)
  7 orc priests
  2 goliath beetles
  4 iguanas
  10 orc wizards
  4 worker ants
  A crocodile skeleton (D:6)
  A green rat (Lair:1)
  A worker ant zombie (D:6)
  4 gnolls (D:3)
  11 adders
  A giant centipede (Lair:1)
  An inept feature mimic (D:9)
  2 worms
  A scorpion zombie (D:5)
  An adder skeleton (D:8)
  An adder zombie (D:8)
  A grey rat (D:7)
  2 giant eyeballs
  4 giant geckos
  77 orcs
  16 bats
  10 giant cockroaches
  A giant mite (D:8)
  15 goblins
  12 hobgoblins
  15 jackals
  11 kobolds
  7 quokkas
  2 ball pythons
  4 giant newts
  A hobgoblin zombie (D:6)
  A kobold skeleton (D:8)
  13 rats
327 creatures vanquished.

Vanquished Creatures (others)
  A slave (D:8)
  An ooze (D:4)
  A hobgoblin (Orc:2)
  A quokka (D:8)
  2 fungi (Lair:1)
  4 plants
10 creatures vanquished.

Grand Total: 337 creatures vanquished

Notes
Turn   | Place    | Note
--------------------------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1      | Figrat III, the Kobold Venom Mage, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1      | Reached XP level 1. HP: 10/10 MP: 3/3
   296 | D:1      | Reached XP level 2. HP: 15/15 MP: 2/4
   598 | D:1      | Reached skill level 1 in Conjurations
   921 | D:2      | Reached XP level 3. HP: 19/19 MP: 2/5
  1471 | D:2      | Found a burning altar of Makhleb.
  1759 | D:2      | Reached XP level 4. HP: 17/24 MP: 3/7
  1799 | D:2      | Learned a level 2 spell: Cure Poison
  2543 | D:2      | Found a glowing silver altar of Zin.
  2648 | D:3      | Learned a level 3 spell: Mephitic Cloud
  2890 | D:3      | Reached XP level 5. HP: 16/28 MP: 3/9
  3665 | D:4      | Reached skill level 1 in Throwing
  3665 | D:4      | Reached XP level 6. HP: 28/32 MP: 4/11
  3741 | D:4      | Found a glowing golden altar of the Shining One.
  3744 | D:4      | Found a basalt altar of Yredelemnul.
  3946 | D:4      | Learned a level 2 spell: Cure Poison
  4191 | D:4      | Found a bloodstained altar of Trog.
  4255 | D:4      | Found a deep blue altar of Sif Muna.
  4542 | D:5      | Entered Level 5 of the Dungeon
  4575 | D:4      | Reached skill level 1 in Air Magic
  4637 | D:5      | Paralysed by a giant eyeball for 2 turns
  4641 | D:5      | Paralysed by a giant eyeball for 3 turns
  4664 | D:4      | Reached XP level 7. HP: 34/36 MP: 9/13
  4717 | D:5      | Paralysed by a giant eyeball for 4 turns
  5072 | D:5      | Noticed a sky beast
  5143 | D:5      | Killed a sky beast
  5143 | D:5      | Reached skill level 5 in Poison Magic
  5371 | D:5      | Noticed an ice beast
  5396 | D:5      | Noticed an ice beast
  5414 | D:5      | Noticed a sky beast
  5415 | D:5      | Noticed a sky beast
  5859 | D:5      | Reached skill level 1 in Short Blades
  6328 | D:5      | Killed a sky beast
  6328 | D:5      | Reached skill level 1 in Fighting
  7270 | D:7      | Found a staircase to the Ecumenical Temple.
  7280 | Temple   | Entered the Ecumenical Temple
  7345 | D:7      | Reached XP level 8. HP: 27/42 MP: 6/17
  7819 | D:7      | Reached skill level 5 in Dodging
  8227 | D:8      | Noticed Eustachio
  8341 | D:7      | Reached skill level 5 in Stealth
  8409 | D:8      | Reached XP level 9. HP: 47/47 MP: 4/19
  8547 | D:8      | Noticed Pikel
  8624 | D:8      | Killed Pikel
  8624 | D:8      | Reached skill level 6 in Stealth
  8737 | D:8      | Noticed Grum
  8901 | D:7      | Killed Grum
  9247 | D:8      | Killed Eustachio
  9247 | D:8      | Reached skill level 7 in Stealth
  9411 | D:8      | Found an iron altar of Okawaru.
  9454 | D:8      | Noticed a cyan ugly thing
  9465 | D:8      | Found a shimmering altar of Xom.
  9465 | D:8      | Found a bloodstained altar of Trog.
  9476 | D:8      | Noticed a centaur warrior
  9537 | D:8      | Found a radiant altar of Vehumet.
  9562 | D:8      | Noticed Maurice
  9843 | D:8      | Killed Maurice
  9843 | D:8      | Reached XP level 10. HP: 28/53 MP: 15/21
  9853 | D:8      | Killed a centaur warrior
  9853 | D:8      | Reached skill level 5 in Short Blades
 10032 | D:8      | Reached skill level 5 in Spellcasting
 10071 | D:8      | Found a staircase to the Orcish Mines.
 10160 | D:8      | Got a transparent leather armour
 10177 | D:8      | Identified the cursed +0 leather armour "Cecsal" {rF+ Dam+4 SInv} (You found it on level 8 of the Dungeon)
 10240 | D:8      | Killed a cyan ugly thing
 10357 | D:8      | Found a white marble altar of Elyvilon.
 10438 | D:9      | Found a sparkling altar of Nemelex Xobeh.
 10521 | D:9      | Found Maoh's Assorted Antiques.
 10547 | D:9      | Bought a scroll of identify for 60 gold pieces
 10820 | D:9      | Found Ofemeula's Weapon Boutique.
 10861 | D:9      | Found a staircase to the Lair.
 10897 | D:9      | Reached skill level 1 in Shields
 10897 | D:9      | Reached skill level 5 in Conjurations
 10955 | Lair:1   | Entered Level 1 of the Lair of Beasts
 11190 | Lair:1   | Reached XP level 11. HP: 58/58 MP: 6/23
 11447 | Lair:1   | Reached skill level 8 in Dodging
 11560 | Lair:1   | Noticed a spiny frog
 11674 | Lair:1   | Noticed a six-headed hydra
 11751 | Lair:1   | Noticed a four-headed hydra
 11900 | D:9      | Found Ytuewnet's Antique Weapon Shop.
 11909 | D:9      | Bought a runed elven sabre for 91 gold pieces
 11975 | D:9      | Found Xehiec's Weapon Boutique.
 12106 | D:9      | Noticed a hill giant
 12129 | D:9      | Killed a hill giant
 12226 | Orc:1    | Entered Level 1 of the Orcish Mines
 12714 | Temple   | Learned a level 5 spell: Venom Bolt
 12769 | D:6      | Reached skill level 9 in Stealth
 12828 | D:6      | Reached skill level 1 in Evocations
 12985 | D:6      | Found an ancient bone altar of Kikubaaqudgha.
 13547 | D:10     | Entered Level 10 of the Dungeon
 13547 | D:10     | Noticed Joseph
 13554 | D:10     | Killed Joseph
 14071 | Orc:1    | Found a bloodstained altar of Trog.
 14469 | Orc:2    | Noticed Psyche
 14558 | Orc:2    | Killed Psyche
 14938 | Lair:1   | Slain by a four-headed hydra


Action                   |  1- 3 |  4- 6 |  7- 9 | 10-12 || total
-------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------++-------
Melee: Whip              |    33 |    16 |       |       ||    49
       Short sword       |       |    12 |   212 |    41 ||   265
       Dagger            |       |       |   172 |    76 ||   248
       Sabre             |       |       |    32 |   220 ||   252
Throw: Dart              |     8 |    25 |   151 |    37 ||   221
 Cast: Sting             |    51 |   100 |   145 |   201 ||   497
       Cure Poison       |       |     1 |     1 |     2 ||     4
       Mephitic Cloud    |       |     2 |    31 |    60 ||    93
 Abil: Evoke Berserk Rag |       |       |       |     2 ||     2
Evoke: Wand              |       |     2 |     3 |     7 ||    12
  Use: Scroll            |       |     4 |     2 |    20 ||    26
       Potion            |       |     1 |     5 |     7 ||    13
 Stab: Sleeping          |     2 |     1 |     7 |    16 ||    26
       Confused          |       |       |    12 |    27 ||    39
       Fleeing           |       |       |       |     1 ||     1



[WalrusMcFishSr]

I was proud of my Windexela, she(?) is currently one of my top 10 characters I believe. And the success of a "commander" character was what inspired me to go for the fateful Beogh game.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.1 (console) character file.

86373 Windexela the Impaler (level 15, -7/91 HPs)
             Began as a Tengu Death Knight on Mar 18, 2014.
             Was the Champion of Yredelemnul.
             Mangled by an orc warrior
             ... wielding a +0,+0 orcish hand axe
              (10 damage)
             ... on Level 4 of the Orcish Mines on Mar 19, 2014.
             The game lasted 02:46:19 (25959 turns).

Windexela the Impaler (Tengu Death Knight)         Turns: 25959, Time: 02:46:20

HP  -7/91        AC 13     Str 13      XL: 15   Next: 79%
MP  27/27        EV 32     Int 14      God: Yredelemnul [******]
Gold 2178        SH  0     Dex 27      Spells:  4 memorised,  8 levels left

Res.Fire  : . . .   See Invis. : .   l - +6,+4 trident (vamp)
Res.Cold  : + . .   Warding    : .   K - +2 ring mail {rC+}
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   (no shield)
Res.Poison: .       Res.Corr.  : .   L - -1 cap
Res.Elec. : .       Clarity    : .   A - +1 orc cloak
Sust.Abil.: . .     Spirit.Shd : .   f - +1 pair of gloves
Res.Mut.  : .       Stasis     : .   (boots unavailable)
Res.Rott. : .       Flight     : .   x - amulet of rage
Saprovore : . . .                    C - +4 ring of dexterity
                                     d - ring of sustenance

@: about to teleport, invisible, exhausted, agile, slowed, very slow, somewhat
resistant to hostile enchantments, stealthy
A: able to fly continuously, beak, talons 3, spit poison 1, EV +2
a: Spit Poison, Fly, Animate Dead, Recall Undead Slaves, Injury Mirror, Drain
Life, Enslave Soul, Renounce Religion, Evoke Berserk Rage


You were on level 4 of the Orcish Mines.
You worshipped Yredelemnul.
Yredelemnul was exalted by your worship.
You were hungry.

You visited 4 branches of the dungeon, and saw 23 of its levels.
You also visited: Ice Cave.

You collected 2158 gold pieces.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 l - a +6,+4 vampiric trident (weapon)
Missiles
 v - 7 javelins of penetration (quivered)
 I - 3 throwing nets
Armour
 f - a +1 pair of gloves (worn)
 A - a +1 orcish cloak (worn)
 K - a +2 ring mail of cold resistance (worn)
 L - a -1 cap (worn)
Magical devices
 c - a wand of random effects (16)
 j - a wand of confusion (0)
 m - a wand of magic darts (18)
 r - a wand of cold (2)
 t - a wand of digging (7)
 w - a wand of disintegration (5)
 B - a wand of paralysis (12)
 G - a wand of polymorph (7)
 M - a wand of slowing (13)
 P - a wand of invisibility (3)
Comestibles
 F - 6 bread rations
 H - 10 grapes
Scrolls
 e - 11 scrolls of remove curse
 i - 5 scrolls of identify
 s - 7 scrolls of teleportation
Jewellery
 d - a ring of sustenance (left hand)
 q - an uncursed ring of ice
 x - an amulet of rage (around neck)
 C - a +4 ring of dexterity (right hand)
Potions
 a - a potion of restore abilities
 h - 2 potions of flight
 n - a potion of speed
 o - 3 potions of resistance
 p - a potion of agility
 u - 2 potions of magic
 O - 2 potions of berserk rage


   Skills:
 + Level 11.4 Fighting
 * Level 16.3 Polearms
   Level 2.0 Slings
 + Level 10.2 Armour
 + Level 14.1 Dodging
 + Level 7.1 Invocations
 - Level 3.0 Evocations


You had 8 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Blink                 Tloc           N/A          50%         2    ###....
b - Infusion              Chrm           #.....       34%         1    ##.....
c - Shroud of Golubria    Chrm/Tloc      #.........   50%         2    ###....
d - Apportation           Tloc           #.........   34%         1    ##.....


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (10/27)            Temple (1/1) D:4             Orc (4/4) D:8
    Elf (0/3) Orc:3          Lair (8/8) D:8           Swamp (0/5) Lair:4
  Snake (0/5) Lair:4        Slime (0/6) Lair:8     

Altars:
Ashenzari
Cheibriados
Elyvilon
Fedhas
Kikubaaqudgha
Makhleb
Nemelex Xobeh
Okawaru
Sif Muna
Trog
Vehumet
Xom
Yredelemnul
Zin
the Shining One
Beogh

Shops:
Orc:2 *


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You can fly continuously.
You have a beak for a mouth.
You have claws for feet.
You are surrounded by a mild repulsion field (EV +2).
You can spit poison.


Message History

You feel agile. You can now fly continuously.
The orc knight shouts!
The orc warrior hits you with an orcish hand axe!
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
The orc warrior hits you with an orcish morningstar.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
The orc warrior misses you.
The orc warrior completely misses you.
The orc knight roars a battle-cry!
The orcs go into a battle-frenzy!
The orc warrior completely misses you.
Drink which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
Okay, then.
Read which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
Okay, then.
Drink which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
You fade into invisibility!
The orc warrior hits you with an orcish hand axe!
You die...
Your body rises from the dead as a mindless zombie.

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#.....#    ...oo
#######   ...{§.
         ....44.
         ...554o
         ##....o###
        #.....4)o.#


You could see an orc knight, an orc high priest, 6 orc warriors, a rotting
devil, an orc priest (frenzied), an orc wizard (frenzied), 6 orcs and an orc
zombie (wandering).

Vanquished Creatures
  Maud (Lair:3)
  The ghost of Troll of Space-Time the Grappler, a powerful TrWr of Cheibriados (Lair:8)
  2 hydras
  9 death yaks
  The ghost of Cosmic Owl the Martial Artist, an experienced TeMo of Zin (D:9)
  A giant amoeba (Lair:8)
  An orc sorcerer (Orc:4)
  A griffon (Lair:4)
  5 elephants
  A black mamba (Lair:6)
  A spriggan druid (Lair:4)
  8 spiny frogs
  14 polar bears (IceCv)
  3 komodo dragons
  28 blink frogs
  A two-headed ogre (D:9)
  Prince Ribbit (D:6)
  A giant leech (Lair:8)
  2 grizzly bears
  3 brown oozes (Lair:8)
  A basilisk (Lair:3)
  18 yaks
  An elephant slug (Lair:7)
  4 vampire mosquitoes (Lair:8)
  6 hippogriffs
  3 hungry ghosts
  12 wolves
  A swamp worm (Lair:4)
  3 nagas (Lair:4)
  7 ice beasts
  A jelly (D:6)
  7 porcupines
  2 ogres
  3 phantoms
  5 sky beasts
  A giant goldfish (Lair:8)
  An orc warrior (Orc:2)
  4 centaurs
  5 crocodiles
  A giant slug (Lair:6)
  13 water moccasins
  Blork the orc (D:7)
  14 giant frogs
  2 agate snails
  A hippogriff zombie (D:8)
  A troll zombie (D:6)
  2 electric eels (Lair:4)
  2 goliath beetles
  A jellyfish (Lair:4)
  A centaur zombie (D:5)
  3 crimson imps
  8 hounds
  9 iguanas
  4 orc priests
  3 big fish (Lair:4)
  A centaur skeleton (D:8)
  An orange rat (Lair:8)
  8 orc wizards
  3 scorpions
  3 worker ants
  8 sheep
  2 ogre skeletons
  A hound zombie (D:6)
  42 green rats
  26 adders
  3 giant centipedes
  6 gnolls
  5 worms
  An adder skeleton (D:5)
  A giant eyeball (D:6)
  4 giant geckos
  68 orcs
  A ball python (D:3)
  20 bats
  4 giant cockroaches
  A gnoll skeleton (D:6)
  20 hobgoblins
  21 kobolds
  10 quokkas
  2 giant newts (D:4)
  17 goblins
  22 jackals
  A kobold zombie (D:5)
  A quokka zombie (D:7)
  27 rats
  2 ballistomycetes (D:6)
568 creatures vanquished.

Vanquished Creatures (collateral kills)
  A frost giant (IceCv)
  The ghost of Master Race the Bludgeoner, a mighty GrAK of Lugonu (Orc:4)
  A dragon (Lair:1)
  Nessos (Orc:3)
  A hydra (Lair:3)
  6 death yaks
  A sun demon (Orc:4)
  Erolcha (Orc:3)
  An ice statue (IceCv)
  An orc knight (Orc:4)
  3 orc sorcerers
  5 elephants
  A sixfirhy (Orc:4)
  2 black mambas
  2 fire drakes
  11 spiny frogs
  3 komodo dragons
  A blue devil (D:10)
  2 polar bears (IceCv)
  4 wandering mushrooms (Lair:2)
  2 giant leeches (Lair:8)
  13 blink frogs
  2 basilisks
  13 yaks
  A vampire mosquito (Lair:8)
  An elephant slug (Lair:7)
  Grum (Orc:1)
  12 wolves
  3 hippogriffs
  2 swamp worms (Lair:4)
  A naga (Lair:4)
  5 porcupines
  A yellow wasp (D:8)
  3 ice beasts
  16 orc warriors
  5 ogres
  A centaur (D:6)
  A rotting devil (Orc:4)
  5 crocodiles
  A big kobold (D:9)
  A giant slug (Lair:8)
  2 wargs
  4 water moccasins
  10 giant frogs
  4 electric eels (Lair:8)
  2 jellyfish (Lair:8)
  A goliath beetle (Lair:6)
  A crimson imp (Orc:4)
  2 hounds
  7 orc priests
  8 orc wizards
  5 iguanas
  3 orange rats (Lair:8)
  3 worker ants
  10 sheep
  10 adders
  A gnoll (D:5)
  16 green rats
  A worm zombie (D:5)
  3 giant mites
  A giant centipede (Lair:2)
  2 worms
  6 ufetubi (Orc:4)
  A giant gecko (Lair:4)
  85 orcs
  4 goblins
  3 hobgoblins
  3 jackals
  8 kobolds
  4 quokkas
  4 bats
  An orc skeleton (D:4)
  2 orc zombies (Orc:4)
  A rat (Lair:2)
  A ballistomycete (D:6)
  8 fungi
  11 plants
377 creatures vanquished.

Vanquished Creatures (others)
  A ghoul (Orc:4)
  A death cob (Orc:4)
  3 skeletal warriors
  A flayed ghost (Orc:4)
  3 phantasmal warriors
  2 elephant slug zombies (Lair:7)
  2 death yak zombies (Lair:6)
  A hydra zombie (Lair:7)
  6 flying skulls
  4 wraiths
  7 blink frog zombies
  6 spiny frog zombies
  5 freezing wraiths
  2 elephant zombies (Lair:7)
  A blink frog skeleton (Lair:5)
  A vampire mosquito zombie (Lair:8)
  A grizzly bear zombie (Lair:4)
  7 yak zombies
  A giant goldfish zombie (Lair:8)
  3 polar bear zombies (IceCv)
  A hippogriff zombie (Lair:8)
  A hippogriff skeleton (Lair:4)
  5 wolf zombies
  8 giant frog zombies
  An orc priest (Orc:4)
  2 water moccasin zombies
  3 porcupine zombies
  A sky beast zombie (D:8)
  2 crocodile zombies
  An ogre zombie (D:9)
  5 hound zombies
  A mummy (D:8)
  A worker ant zombie (D:9)
  A big fish zombie (Lair:4)
  A worm (D:3)
  4 electric eel zombies
  A scorpion zombie (D:5)
  12 adder zombies
  2 giant centipede zombies
  2 iguana zombies (Lair:2)
  35 orc zombies
  4 sheep zombies (Lair:4)
  An orc (Orc:4)
  6 bat zombies
  3 giant mite zombies
  3 gnoll zombies
  2 hobgoblins
  A giant cockroach zombie (D:6)
  A giant spore (D:6)
  A goblin skeleton (D:5)
  4 goblin zombies
  14 green rat zombies
  2 hobgoblin skeletons
  A hobgoblin zombie (D:4)
  A jackal skeleton (D:4)
  8 jackal zombies
  A kobold skeleton (D:4)
  11 kobold zombies
  3 orc skeletons
  2 quokka zombies
  A rat skeleton (D:10)
  6 rat zombies
  10 fungi
  6 plants
240 creatures vanquished.

Grand Total: 1185 creatures vanquished

Notes
Turn   | Place    | Note
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     0 | D:1      | Windexela, the Tengu Death Knight, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1      | Reached XP level 1. HP: 12/12 MP: 2/2
    89 | D:1      | Reached XP level 2. HP: 17/17 MP: 2/4
   608 | D:1      | Reached XP level 3. HP: 16/21 MP: 6/6
   772 | D:2      | Reached skill level 3 in Polearms
   833 | D:2      | Acquired Yredelemnul's second power
   885 | D:2      | Learned a level 2 spell: Blink
  1100 | D:2      | Reached XP level 4. HP: 27/27 MP: 7/7
  1103 | D:2      | Found a white marble altar of Elyvilon.
  1161 | D:2      | HP: 1/27 [poisoned by an adder]
  1550 | D:2      | Found a snail-covered altar of Cheibriados.
  1550 | D:2      | Found a burning altar of Makhleb.
  2410 | D:3      | Reached XP level 5. HP: 32/32 MP: 10/10
  2876 | D:3      | Found a basalt altar of Yredelemnul.
  2886 | D:3      | Noticed a profane servitor
  2890 | D:3      | Found a glowing golden altar of the Shining One.
  2891 | D:3      | Noticed an angel
  2970 | D:3      | Reached skill level 4 in Polearms
  3157 | D:4      | Noticed an angel
  3238 | D:4      | Acquired Yredelemnul's third power
  3322 | D:4      | Found a staircase to the Ecumenical Temple.
  3360 | D:4      | Noticed an iron devil
  3407 | Temple   | Entered the Ecumenical Temple
  3415 | Temple   | Learned a level 2 spell: Blink
  3646 | D:4      | Reached XP level 6. HP: 35/37 MP: 11/11
  4349 | D:5      | Entered Level 5 of the Dungeon
  4362 | D:5      | Got a smoking sling
  4364 | D:5      | Identified the cursed sling "Ghudod" {venom, rF+ rC+ Dex+4 Int-2} (You found it on level 5 of the Dungeon)
  4831 | D:5      | Reached skill level 1 in Slings
  5064 | D:5      | Reached skill level 5 in Polearms
  5064 | D:5      | Reached XP level 7. HP: 33/41 MP: 12/12
  6065 | D:6      | Noticed Prince Ribbit
  6143 | D:6      | Reached skill level 5 in Fighting
  6299 | D:6      | Found a glowing silver altar of Zin.
  6301 | D:6      | Found a blossoming altar of Fedhas.
  6379 | D:6      | Reached skill level 5 in Dodging
  6405 | D:6      | Reached XP level 8. HP: 21/48 MP: 15/15
  6607 | D:6      | Reached skill level 6 in Polearms
  6774 | D:6      | Acquired Yredelemnul's fourth power
  7270 | D:6      | Killed Prince Ribbit
  7270 | D:6      | Reached skill level 7 in Polearms
  7649 | D:6      | Reached XP level 9. HP: 51/53 MP: 16/16
  7912 | D:6      | Reached skill level 8 in Polearms
  8184 | D:7      | Noticed Blork the orc
  8205 | D:7      | Killed Blork the orc
  9096 | D:8      | Found a staircase to the Lair.
  9264 | D:8      | Reached skill level 9 in Polearms
  9297 | D:8      | Found a bloodstained altar of Trog.
  9500 | D:8      | Acquired Yredelemnul's fifth power
  9507 | D:8      | Found a staircase to the Orcish Mines.
  9523 | D:8      | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
  9545 | D:8      | Reached skill level 10 in Polearms
  9545 | D:8      | Reached XP level 10. HP: 60/60 MP: 18/18
 10389 | D:9      | Found a shimmering altar of Xom.
 10509 | D:9      | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 10715 | D:9      | Noticed Cosmic Owl's ghost (experienced TeMo)
 10755 | D:9      | Killed Cosmic Owl's ghost
 11194 | D:9      | Reached skill level 11 in Polearms
 11413 | D:10     | Entered Level 10 of the Dungeon
 11432 | D:10     | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 11773 | Lair:1   | Entered Level 1 of the Lair of Beasts
 12070 | Lair:1   | Noticed a black mamba
 12076 | Lair:1   | Killed a black mamba
 12489 | Lair:1   | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 12843 | Lair:1   | Noticed a dragon
 12862 | Lair:1   | Killed a dragon
 12862 | Lair:1   | Reached XP level 11. HP: 19/65 MP: 19/19
 13536 | Lair:2   | Reached skill level 12 in Polearms
 13550 | Lair:2   | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 13595 | Lair:2   | Reached skill level 1 in Evocations
 13612 | Lair:2   | Reached skill level 5 in Armour
 13882 | Lair:2   | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 13906 | Lair:2   | Got a twisted scale mail
 13907 | Lair:2   | Identified the cursed -6 scale mail of Decompression {+Inv rPois rC++ Str-1} (You found it on level 2 of the Lair of Beasts)
 14613 | Lair:3   | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 14623 | Lair:3   | Reached skill level 10 in Dodging
 14643 | Lair:3   | Noticed Maud
 14663 | Lair:3   | Killed Maud
 14731 | Lair:3   | Reached XP level 12. HP: 72/72 MP: 21/21
 14798 | Lair:3   | Reached skill level 13 in Polearms
 14809 | Lair:3   | Noticed a seven-headed hydra
 14817 | Lair:3   | Killed a seven-headed hydra
 14913 | Lair:3   | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 15595 | Lair:4   | Found a staircase to the Swamp.
 16141 | Lair:4   | Learned a level 1 spell: Infusion
 16144 | Lair:4   | Learned a level 2 spell: Shroud of Golubria
 16284 | Lair:4   | Found a staircase to the Snake Pit.
 16602 | Lair:4   | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 17189 | Lair:5   | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 17309 | Lair:5   | Reached skill level 10 in Fighting
 17310 | Lair:5   | Reached skill level 14 in Polearms
 18406 | Lair:6   | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 18437 | Lair:6   | Noticed a death yak
 18474 | Lair:6   | Killed a death yak
 18474 | Lair:6   | Reached XP level 13. HP: 61/78 MP: 19/23
 18598 | Lair:6   | Noticed a death yak
 18645 | Lair:6   | Noticed a death yak
 19113 | Lair:7   | Reached skill level 5 in Invocations
 19114 | Lair:7   | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 20041 | Lair:6   | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 20334 | Lair:6   | Noticed a death yak
 20335 | Lair:6   | Noticed a death yak
 20343 | Lair:6   | Noticed a death yak
 20349 | Lair:6   | Killed a death yak
 20353 | Lair:6   | Killed a death yak
 20353 | Lair:6   | Reached skill level 15 in Polearms
 20358 | Lair:6   | Killed a death yak
 20586 | Lair:6   | Killed a death yak
 20643 | Lair:8   | Entered Level 8 of the Lair of Beasts
 21142 | Lair:6   | Noticed a death yak
 21142 | Lair:6   | Noticed a death yak
 21144 | Lair:6   | Noticed a death yak
 21166 | Lair:6   | Killed a death yak
 21166 | Lair:6   | Killed a death yak
 21178 | Lair:6   | Killed a death yak
 21190 | Lair:6   | Killed a death yak
 21242 | Lair:8   | Found a staircase to the Slime Pits.
 21285 | Lair:8   | Reached XP level 14. HP: 84/84 MP: 26/26
 21342 | Lair:8   | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 21591 | Lair:8   | Noticed Troll of Space-Time's ghost (powerful TrWr)
 21763 | Lair:8   | Killed Troll of Space-Time's ghost
 21827 | Lair:8   | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 21876 | Lair:8   | Identified the Almanac of Unholy Translocation
 21879 | Lair:8   | Learned a level 1 spell: Apportation
 21891 | Lair:8   | Identified Rugerou's Reference Book on Floating Evil
 21905 | Lair:8   | Got a brightly glowing leather armour
 21906 | Lair:8   | Identified the -4 leather armour of Feasting {rPois SInv Stlth--} (You found it on level 8 of the Lair of Beasts)
 22165 | Lair:8   | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 22865 | Orc:1    | Entered Level 1 of the Orcish Mines
 22865 | Orc:1    | Found a frozen archway.
 22890 | Orc:1    | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 23011 | IceCv    | Entered an ice cave
 23299 | IceCv    | Reached skill level 16 in Polearms
 23315 | IceCv    | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 23430 | IceCv    | Noticed a frost giant
 23450 | IceCv    | Killed a frost giant
 23852 | IceCv    | Gained mutation: You are surrounded by a mild repulsion field (EV +2). [potion of beneficial mutation]
 23853 | IceCv    | Gained mutation: You can spit poison. [potion of beneficial mutation]
 23955 | Orc:1    | Found a bloodstained altar of Trog.
 24124 | Orc:1    | Noticed Grum
 24138 | Orc:1    | Killed Grum
 24138 | Orc:1    | Reached skill level 10 in Armour
 24375 | Orc:2    | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 24406 | Orc:2    | Found a roughly hewn altar of Beogh.
 24572 | Orc:2    | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 24700 | Orc:2    | Found Qovuomud's General Store.
 25002 | Orc:3    | Noticed Nessos
 25014 | Orc:3    | Killed Nessos
 25303 | Orc:3    | Noticed Erolcha
 25306 | Orc:3    | Killed Erolcha
 25421 | Orc:4    | Entered Level 4 of the Orcish Mines
 25432 | Orc:4    | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 25493 | Orc:4    | Noticed Master Race's ghost (mighty GrAK)
 25505 | Orc:4    | Killed Master Race's ghost
 25850 | Orc:4    | Noticed an orc warlord
 25857 | Orc:4    | Received a gift from Yredelemnul
 25933 | Orc:3    | Found a staircase to the Elven Halls.
 25943 | Orc:4    | Paralysed by an orc sorcerer for 2 turns
 25958 | Orc:4    | Reached XP level 15. HP: 16/91 MP: 27/27
 25958 | Orc:4    | HP: 3/91 [orc warrior/orcish morningstar (2)]
 25959 | Orc:4    | Mangled by an orc warrior


Action                   |  1- 3 |  4- 6 |  7- 9 | 10-12 | 13-15 || total
-------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------++-------
Melee: Spear             |   121 |   268 |   318 |       |       ||   707
       Trident           |       |       |   133 |   864 |   887 ||  1884
 Fire: Sling             |       |     1 |       |       |       ||     1
Throw: Javelin           |       |       |     1 |       |       ||     1
 Cast: Blink             |       |     1 |       |       |       ||     1
       Infusion          |       |       |       |     1 |     1 ||     2
       Shroud of Golubri |       |       |       |     1 |       ||     1
Invok: Animate Remains   |    11 |    12 |       |       |       ||    23
       Animate Dead      |       |     8 |    26 |    64 |    75 ||   173
       Recall Undead Sla |       |       |       |     1 |     1 ||     2
       Enslave Soul      |       |       |       |       |     4 ||     4
 Abil: Evoke Berserk Rag |       |       |       |     2 |    11 ||    13
Evoke: Wand              |       |     2 |     1 |     7 |    12 ||    22
  Use: Scroll            |       |    15 |     2 |    12 |    18 ||    47
       Potion            |       |     4 |    11 |     3 |    14 ||    32
 Stab: Sleeping          |     1 |     2 |     1 |       |     2 ||     6
       Distracted        |     1 |     1 |     2 |    11 |    13 ||    28
       Fleeing           |       |       |       |       |     2 ||     2