PREAMBLE: Miaka's name was randomly taken from the anime "Fushigi Yuugi". She had no prior incarnations (the only Miaka in the dungeons ascended), but was not the first Valkyrie role attempted. STORY: Tamahome (pet) died reasonably early on... stashes were set up on levels near aligned altars (there were a reasonable number, including one near a soldier barracks). Mjollnir and Magicbane were early gifts from sacrifices. Being one of the first characters to actually plunge into Gehennom, demons were bribed. Miaka's path through hell had several levels with stairs close to each other, and the dungeon stopped at level 45. Her ascension was put on hold in favour of bringing other characters to this point, to learn more. (Mulder discovered liches are bad.) Other characters would then wait for Miaka, except Sesshomaru who was brought up to the Plane, and he toiled on the last altar (his, ironically) until killed by Death - didn't wear amulet of lifesaving. (He had polymorphed into an eel just below Medusa, so I restarted him before discovering morphing wasn't permanent.) At the restart, found Miaka some silver dragon scales to replace the dwarvish mail, which meant carrying more and ditching the amulet of reflection. Perma-weilded Magicbane, enchanted up a silver sabre. Shuttled some stuff to level 1. Back on Orcus' went up from Exp level 19 using gain level potions, before facing the Wizard; ate one wraith in the sanctum and quaffed the rest of the potions on the way up through my stash at Orcus'. Except a cursed one, which I eventually double blessed and quaffed on level 1. A priest in the lower sanctum had another wand of death (yay!), and there was a blessed scroll of genocide down there by the stairs too (bye h!). Going up through hell, met Yeenoghu(!) on Baalzebub's level. Took stairs back down to keep him from teleporting away. Bad move - mysterious force kept me off Baalzebub's level half a dozen stairs after. Tracked back once to my stash for a new wand of digging only to walk past the stash again. Saw first two Archons *ever* on the way up, one in the regular Dungeon (on same level as Ludios portal and touchstone throne), one on the Plane of Air (he summoned nasties and blinded me). Escaped the level both times without fighting. Also resigned to fighting the Wizard in the Dungeon once after *4* death bolts were evaded. He summoned monsters twice, but thankfully never stole or doubled himself; followed me upstairs, then he cast one finger of death (just before his death) but it didn't work. Planes was mostly avoidance. Arrived at Astral Plane to the right. Death is at the far left. Shoot for Famine on the right. Kill Famine. Gregg the healer-type has Fire Brand and wand of lightning. Put him to sleep, eventually kill him, get those. Kill Famine again. Get to Loki's altar (using magic whistle to bring my angel). Damn Loki. Bet he's laughing over this being the wrong altar. On the way out, have a sad feeling. Oh well, poor Angel. Going for the middle altar, start using wands of teleport to make paths. Pestilence is waiting AT the next door. Zap wand of death... it misses, and goes all the way through the far door, making the Angel of Odin angry! Dammit. Takes two more zaps to down Pesty, during which monsters appear from nowhere. Get in, and as far as the doorway to the altar. Some Ranger inside "flees" - good, right place! Zapped wand of death backwards to dispatch the revived Pestilence and (presumably) Famine returning behind him. Reflected off the shield of an Angel in front of them! Zipped by me and hit the priest of Odin! He gets angry! (Lightning hits the priest/altar!?) He dies! I'm called a murderer! I lose my telepathy, several points of my AC and everything goes dark! Holy hell! And there's another angel in my way. Becomes a battle of attrition in the temple doorway, me and my unicorn horn against Pestilence and his ability to sicken AND stun (with me Burdened and Satiated). He avoids a wand of death twice (and once I fire it into the wall, stunned). I know if I take my potions of full healing out, I'll be Stressed. Finally occurs to me... zap wand of teleport at the Angel in my way. Kill insect that took it's place. Get through door. Pestilence was to the side, so it's the reflecting Angel that steps in behind me. Apply unicorn horn. (What a relief!) But I'm at 60 LP (of 400+). Get full healing potions out. Quaff. Get to altar. (Drop amulet first before realizing.) Get it right. #offer What do you want to sacrifice? [BF or ?*] F You offer the Amulet of Yendor to Odin... An invisible choir sings, and you are bathed in radiance... The voice of Odin booms out: "Congratulations, mortal!" "In return for thy service, I grant thee the gift of Immortality!" You ascend to the status of Demigoddess... Miaka the Champion St:25 Dx:18 Co:18 In:13 Wi:18 Ch:12 Neutral Astral Plane $:0 HP:420(437) Pw:141(141) AC:-26 Exp:29 T:120731 Satiated Stressed Do you want your possessions identified? [ynq] (n) y AMULETS k an uncursed amulet of life saving C an uncursed amulet of life saving (being worn) WEAPONS a the blessed rustproof +2 Magicbane (weapon in hand) u 21 blessed +3 daggers named Mine (in quiver) l a blessed +7 silver saber (wielded in other hand) ///snip/// SCROLLS f 2 blessed scrolls of charging *just taken out of the bag, for the wands of death ///snip/// RINGS r a blessed ring of slow digestion (on left hand) y an uncursed ring of free action (on right hand) *got slow digestion ring by wresting the last charge out of the recharged wand of wishing (back before the Wizard). Not sure what happened to my first ring, might have been lost when the forked wand on Juiblex's level blew up my first bag of holding... NEVER saw a bag of holding that wasn't wished for! *got free action ring by killing something on the way up. Thank god, because a lot of things on the Astral Plane tried to paralyze me. ///snip/// TOOLS c a blessed +3 unicorn horn g the blessed Orb of Fate (0:1) I the uncursed Candelabrum of Invocation (7 candles attached) m a magic flute (0:4) n the Bell of Opening named Orbed (0:2) x a blessed greased bag of holding named NoFork z an uncursed towel E an uncursed sack named sack K an uncursed magic whistle U a blessed oil lamp named Oiled (lit) X an uncursed skeleton key *Orb of Fate used to detect portal on first three planes; on water it made me hallucinate, so used backup scroll of gold instead. *Lighting was a problem, no magic lamps. (Four markers though, can't complain.) Decided not to take the brass lanterns I'd left on level one, in favour of candles and the lamp which I'd just filled with my last oil. Used Candelabrum of Invocation until it was very short, switched to the lamp; no flickers. *Used the flute at one point on the planes (while fighting Gregg) to shut up the other monsters and let my Angel kill them. ///snip/// Contents of the bag of holding named NoFork: an uncursed lembas wafer an uncursed partly eaten lembas wafer (*Partly eaten after Famine made me unsatiated.) 4 uncursed potions of full healing named Diffs (*Tried to name 2 groups of these potions when quaffing the first one on the way out of Loki's. Didn't make me unstressed.) an uncursed dilithium crystal (*Aha, I thought that's what Gregg had! One of my few unIDed gems.) the rustproof +5 Fire Brand (*Also pilfered from Gregg.) 6 potions of holy water (*Thanks to Magicbane, could have done without the holy water!) a +3 athame (*Dropped by an arch-lich on Medusa's level - he followed me up from the Castle right below - in one of my more fearsome fights, before they got genocided. Heck, before I knew what they were. IDed it on level 1 before ascending. Oh well.) a blessed touchstone named sneaky (*So named because I thought it was the Gnomish luckstone until I sat on a throne, was granted an insight, and discovered it's true identity. Had to go back down into the mines for the luckstone.) 55985 gold pieces (*Probably why I was Burdened, but what the hell. None of it was from the zoo under the Wizard either, left that all there.) a wand of polymorph (0:6) (*Didn't seem to work on the Air Archon.) an uncursed ring of regeneration (*Had a backup, never used, left on the Plane of Water.) an uncursed sprig of wolfsbane (*Taken from a chest in the sanctum. Shrug.) 6 blessed +2 daggers named Mine (*Didn't know that was a Disenchanter when I threw them.) 38 blessed +3 daggers named Mine (*Also why I was Burdened. Meant to throw these more, only did while entering Loki's place.) ///snip/// Contents of the sack named sack: a wand of cancellation (0:8) (*grabbed in the sanctum.) 3 potions of holy water a +0 unicorn horn Do you want to see your attributes? [ynq] (n) y Final Attributes: You were the Envoy of Balance. You were piously aligned. You were fire resistant. You were cold resistant. You were sleep resistant. You were disintegration-resistant. You were shock resistant. You were poison resistant. You were magic-protected. You saw invisible. You were warned. You were invisible to others. You were stealthy. You had slower digestion. You were protected. You were very fast. You had reflection. You had free action. Your life would have been saved. You were wielding two weapons at once. You were extremely lucky. You had extra luck. Good luck did not time out for you. You survived after being killed once. (*The being killed once was really stupid. Had just found first amulet of lifesaving. Switched it for the amulet of reflection I had from Sokoban. A short while later, while I'm playing with my stash on the Messy level (peaceful umber hulk) an elf zapped me with a wand of sleep and wailed on me until I died. Reincarnated, I put the reflection back on, nullifying the usefulness of his wand, and killed him. Incidentally, used to have telepathy and such too, before the incident on the Planes.) Do you want an account of creatures vanquished? [ynq] (n) y Vanquished creatures: Orcus Yeenoghu Juiblex The Wizard of Yendor (5 times) Pestilence Famine (thrice) 2 arch-liches 2 high priests 2 mastodons Medusa Croesus 17 krakens ///snip/// 3925 creatures vanquished. (*The titan was from Medusa's level. The djinni was conflict on the Plane of Air. One Arch-lich on Castle/Medusa's, followed to the stairs, silly me; no idea on the other.) Do you want a list of species genocided? [ynq] (n) y Genocided species: 17 species genocided. (*L's earlyish on. h's in the sanctum. ;'s on Plane of Water.) Do you want to see your conduct? [ynq] (n) y Voluntary challenges: You genocided 17 types of monsters. You never changed form. You used 6 wishes. You did not wish for any artifacts. Farvel Miaka the Demigoddess... You went to your reward with 5346754 points, Magicbane (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points) The Book of the Dead (worth 10000 zorkmids and 25000 points) The Orb of Fate (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points) The Candelabrum of Invocation (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points) The Bell of Opening (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points) Fire Brand (worth 3000 zorkmids and 7500 points) Cleaver (worth 1500 zorkmids and 3750 points) Trollsbane (worth 200 zorkmids and 500 points) Giantslayer (worth 200 zorkmids and 500 points) Mjollnir (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points) Vorpal Blade (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points) 10 diamonds (worth 40000 zorkmids), 7 rubies (worth 24500 zorkmids), 1 dilithium crystal (worth 4500 zorkmids), 3 amulets of life saving (worth 450 zorkmids), and 55985 pieces of gold, after 120731 moves. You were level 29 with a maximum of 437 hit points when you ascended. You made the top ten list! No Points Name Hp [max] 1 5346754 Miaka-Val-Hum-Fem-Neu ascended to demigoddess-hood. 420 [437] 2 2055797 Sesshomaru-Rog-Orc-Mal-Cha died on the Astral Plane. Killed by Death (with the Amulet). - [32] 3 1182168 Candi-Tou-Hum-Fem-Neu was poisoned in Gehennom on level 32. Poisoned by Juiblex. 195 [195] August 24, 2007; ~5pm