PREAMBLE: Based on a character from an ongoing story of mine. Game began Apr 30, 2007 - thus around the days of Hayate, perhaps shortly before her extended nap. Intention was to ascend a Rogue given that Sesshomaru was earmarked for death (following his polymorphing snafu). Three prior Corry incarnations died Apr 26. EARLIER GAME: Aligned priest in minetown. Amulet of reflection in Sokoban. Set up a stash at lawful altar on level 2. Primary stash ending up at converted from neutral altar on level 15. Wand of wishing at castle was not only cursed, it had only one charge! Kept it for later. UnIDed amulet caused Corry to become female. Must have paid off Asmodeus (didn't kill him). Later on his level, tripped a magic trap and had a mind flayer suck knowledge that had to be reconstructed. Wished for charging scrolls and (I think?) a blessed spellbook of identify to speed things. Dungeon ended at level 46. Couldn't get magic resistance anywhere! Started collecting gems. TWO ice boxes - one in a shop in minetown, the other put next to altar on DL15. Saved enchantment scrolls for silver or grey dragon scales; in the meantime, wore orange, and ended up polymorphing into orange on trip back to mines. Created babies. Later switched to black, and ended up polymorphing into black on DL45. Created babies. Part of the long delay was not feeling like herding at least 5 small black dragons around. Finally decided to plunge through to endgame in late December. One dragon got big, and was eventually the only one to survive (Dr5) - made him fast and invisible. He killed a shopkeeper on DL3. (Before, an orange one had softened up the priest at Valley of Dead, netting a robe.) PREPARATIONS: Finally got sick of waiting for needed dragons and wished for grey dragon scale mail followed by bag of holding (which had not been found either). Killed a grey dragon on the rogue level shortly thereafter. Then, on non-teleport Wizard zoo level (but outside zoo) Yeengohu turned up, thanks to a devil who ALSO had a scroll of create (many) monsters. One a cockatrice. After taking a few whacks but being confused by Yeeny, used cursed scroll of teleportation to 'port two levels above. Came back down, dealt with Yeeny in singular then edged back into maze to kill the rest and get Dr5 back. Trips between stash on DL15 and DL2, including polymorphs on DL15; obtained a third amulet of life saving. Also lots of scrolls of enchant armor, which saved charges on the only marker I'd found. (Did write one cursed scroll of destroy, to fireproof.) Wrested last charge out of wishing wand to get helm of brilliance - had been casting spells. Then, coming up from castle stash, Dragon Dr5 seemed reluctant to attack things. Unexpectedly offed by a mastadon while out of my sight. Used wand of undead turning but he came back hostile. Left him on there, on DL18, along with the statue of Julie4 (petrified by cockatrices from a nest). Never did get a stethoscope, or would have checked up on him. By this point, random wraith corpses had already lifted Corry to level 29. Made at least 25 potions of (diluted) extra healing and drank them; got past 500 HP. Went down to start the run - discovered after stripping for a nurse that almost all protection had been lost! Must have been either when Kos was upset that time I killed the peacful gremlin infestation on Medusa's level, or that time I prayed too early. Decided to head on regardless; armour, including a found Hawaiian shirt, put me at -31 anyway. SANCTUM UP: Killed a cockatrice just outside the Wizard's Tower. Decided to get cute, and stoned the Wizard instead of death zap. Brief fear that book would be inside statue (had replaced pickaxe with ample wands of digging), but it was underneath. Down to the sanctum. The graveyard was asleep; killed everything quietly. Resisted temptation of two wraith corpses, being Satiated and not wanting a stupid death. (Like Luci!) Had wand of undead turning with one charge, but must have zapped too late towards Hayate's corpse; it was gone when I stepped there. Killed things in Sanctum. Then Wizard reappeared! Decided to try a melee, since I didn't have the Amulet yet. He took a couple hits then VANISHED. To the upstair? No, he was inside the altar room! Weird. Killed a few more things, then message "Double Trouble..." Ah, that's a first. o.O A cockatrice also appeared next to me, so I attacked it only to get the message "Wait, that's the Wizard of Yendor!" He then went to join his buddy inside the altar room. Decided getting in there was now priority. Searched clockwise from lower left, found door at upper right - opened by a horned(?) devil, which I hit and confused thanks to a scroll I'd read (rather then have it be burned). Saw Wizard and High Priest were lined up! Death zapped. Another Wizard stepped over and picked up the Amulet. Death zapped again. Walked in to get the stuff, offed the devil on the way out. Mind flayer on the level, back to the left. Decided to off him and the other misc. priests as well as complete my search. Fireball spell still seemed to work (at 15% fail), then found scroll of enchant armor - so, worth it. Killed a captain, but he had an amulet of life saving, so killed him again. Same thing happened not five minutes later with some other thing! Annoying. Fairly uneventful trip up; wands of death worked to kill Wizard. While creating diluted potions of full healing on DL2, many monsters appeared; one with a wand of create monster. Much hack and slash but no major danger; also charged up shield of reflection with the enchant armor. Quaffing potions of full healing and gain level (which added to spellcasting power!) brought HP to 737. Had to kill Wizard again on way out of level 2. PLANES: Plane of Earth. Went around merrily killing things, then stepped on a pancake which had been left on the portal and got to Air prematurely. Oops. Still, got ring on, and with two weaponing, killed most of everything up there without effort. Ate a grey dragon corpse since was no longer Satiated and had replaced ring of slow digestion for levitation (kept free action so lightning strikes wouldn't paralyze). Then went to fire. Fire elementals are definitely harder to kill. Then suddenly, monsters appeared around me, one of them an ARCHON, who blinded me and stunned me and there was a master mind flayer right next to me! Baffled as to how to deal with this (scrolls of taming were in my bag), ended up zapping teleport in the wrong direction. Mind flayer's tentacles wiped the grease off my helmet, then my life sucked. Applied unicorn horn twice, then zapped death at flayer, then zapped death at other flayer on other side, then meleed with Archon. Shockingly, didn't seem to have forgotten any items, and intelligence was still at 22 - I know flayer sucked, did helm protect me? Weird. Then had to melee with all the fire elementals who'd taken the time to come over. HP was never in any real danger though! Quaffed a few healing potions taken from misc. things and ended up getting even higher levels. Somehow more monsters including another Archon appeared, but were dealt with. Portal was near the middle; decided to go through rather than take on the few elementals and third Archon on the left. Decided not to genocide on Water. The things can apparently go into the air bubbles, but I tended to take them down in two hits (except kraken). Fired off some fireball too (by now only 4% fail) and magic missile; tried to recharge by quaffing blessed gain energy, but it only seemed to give me 10. Turned out one eel or something must have been on the portal when I killed it, because the portal ended up under a corpse - kind of lucky to have walked on it that time. ASTRAL: Ended up on the right, so went right, dropping spellbook of identify since it seemed I wouldn't be forgetting that spell after all. Pestilence actually opened the door to meet me, so zapped him with death. Walked in, zapped teleport at a dragon to get in, then beat up on some Ranger-player-type. He turned out to have NO artifact weapons, a LOADSTONE, and what I identified to be a +4 DUNCE HAT. Yeesh. Killed priests (one zapped divine intervention, blowing up my rings, some wands of teleport and cold - got replacement rings out) and angels (while MY angel killed insects), then offed Pestilence again and headed for the altar. First serious issue - in the narrow doorway, things kept getting in my way, ending with a silver dragon. Pestilence gets revived and comes in BEHIND me, then dodges the last death blast I had. I try to zap teleport at the stuff in my way, but the silver dragon's immune. Pesty makes me sick and stunned. I cast Cure Sickness at 0% (can't trust that Unihorn). Pesty immediately makes me sick again. So I alternate whacks at him with casting Cure, and he goes down in about three hits. Then, being stunned, walk backwards on the corpse. Sigh. Take out the silver dragon. Take out the priest who replaced him (and there's a mind flayer in the back!). Walk forward, whack at an angel - Pesty's back! We play our game where I whack him and cast Cure. He goes down and finally I make it into the area. What's more, this turns out to be my altar! Pondering whether to leave it at that, I recharge my wand of death and walk around in behind to off some offending angels. Off Pesty again on the way, as well as the elves he summoned - pick up excess create monster scrolls at this point. Pesty ultmiately follows me around back, but I leave him there. Decide to just win. Go to sacrifice the amulet - I don't HAVE it!! Right, put it down when IDing the dunce hat (how ironic - at least I didn't forget it on the Water plane!). In retrospect, probably good I didn't have it while playing Cast Cure with Pesty, but now need to get it. Go out, retrieve, kill troll, return - having to off Pesty again - then use magic whistle to pull in my Angel of Kos. She'd actually offed the peaceful priest of Kos by then (oh, and I grabbed coins on the way back inside too). Finally everything's in order! #offer What do you want to sacrifice? [bsy or ?*] ? You offer the Amulet of Yendor to Kos... An invisible choir sings, and you are bathed in radiance... The voice of Kos thunders: "Congratulations, mortal!" "In return for thy service, I grant thee the gift of Immortality!" You ascend to the status of Demigod... Corry the Thief St:18/** Dx:18 Co:18 In:22 Wi:22 Ch:18 Chaotic Astral Plane $:195 HP:760(760) Pw:197(327) AC:-31 Exp:30 T:185116 Burdened Do you want your possessions identified? [ynq] (n) AMULETS P an uncursed amulet of life saving (being worn) WEAPONS n 13 +1 daggers (in quiver) E a blessed +6 silver saber (wielded in other hand) Z the blessed rustproof +6 Stormbringer (weapon in hand) ///snip/// Contents of the bag of holding: a crystal ball (0:1) (** created by polymorph with three charges; used to find portals along with two scrolls) a cursed spellbook of protection (** tan spellbook, picked up on Fire - being cursed explains why I couldn't read it) an uncursed pair of lenses (** the lenses Hayate forgot?) 2 uncursed scrolls of genocide (** one from a chest in the lower Sanctum) a +0 silver arrow (** seemed novel) the blessed rustproof +4 Sunsword the corroded +0 Frost Brand the rustproof +0 Fire Brand the blessed rustproof +1 Demonbane the +0 Grimtooth (** a leftover, found while wandering the mines) a blessed tallow candle (** no magic lamps; this candle not on Candelabrum simply because three cursed ones bought from Izchak near end) an uncursed cockatrice egg (**Never had one before! Was to be a backup.) ///snip/// Do you want an account of creatures vanquished? [ynq](n) y Vanquished creatures: Baalzebub Orcus Yeenoghu Juiblex The Wizard of Yendor (7 times) Pestilence (7 times) a high priest 4 mastodons Medusa Croesus 11 krakens 2 Archons ///snip/// 14 baby black dragons (** most laid by me...) ///snip/// 26 long worms (** These were a pain - one generated a near fatal error while redescending through Asmodeus' level, so had to restore from last start.) ///snip/// 15 black unicorns (**most of them lured to death by Dr5) ///snip/// Do you want a list of species genocided? [ynq](n) y Genocided species: liches demiliches master liches arch-liches 4 species genocided. Do you want to see your conduct? [ynq](n) y Voluntary challenges: You genocided 4 types of monsters. You used 5 wishes. You did not wish for any artifacts. (**changed form on a poly-trap into a bloody horse while in the Rogue Quest. Couldn't open doors, had to go up a level and throw myself into a pit a few times in order to change back to normal.) Goodbye Corry the Demigod... You and the guardian Angel of Kos went to your reward with 6812688 points, Sunsword (worth 1500 zorkmids and 3750 points) Frost Brand (worth 3000 zorkmids and 7500 points) Fire Brand (worth 3000 zorkmids and 7500 points) Demonbane (worth 2500 zorkmids and 6250 points) Grimtooth (worth 300 zorkmids and 750 points) The Book of the Dead (worth 10000 zorkmids and 25000 points) The Candelabrum of Invocation (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points) The Master Key of Thievery (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points) The Bell of Opening (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points) Stormbringer (worth 8000 zorkmids and 20000 points) 39 obsidian stones (worth 7800 zorkmids), 18 jet stones (worth 15300 zorkmids), 17 opals (worth 13600 zorkmids), 16 black opals (worth 40000 zorkmids), 16 topaz stones (worth 14400 zorkmids), 15 rubies (worth 52500 zorkmids), 15 chrysoberyl stones (worth 10500 zorkmids), 15 jasper stones (worth 7500 zorkmids), 15 fluorite stones (worth 6000 zorkmids), 15 jade stones (worth 4500 zorkmids), 14 jacinth stones (worth 45500 zorkmids), 13 emeralds (worth 32500 zorkmids), 13 amber stones (worth 13000 zorkmids), 12 sapphires (worth 36000 zorkmids), 11 amethyst stones (worth 6600 zorkmids), 10 garnet stones (worth 7000 zorkmids), 8 agate stones (worth 1600 zorkmids), 6 diamonds (worth 24000 zorkmids), 6 citrine stones (worth 9000 zorkmids), 4 aquamarine stones (worth 6000 zorkmids), 3 turquoise stones (worth 6000 zorkmids), 2 dilithium crystals (worth 9000 zorkmids), 3 amulets of life saving (worth 450 zorkmids), 3 amulets of change (worth 450 zorkmids), 2 amulets of strangulation (worth 300 zorkmids), 2 amulets of unchanging (worth 300 zorkmids), 2 amulets of magical breathing (worth 300 zorkmids), 1 amulet of ESP (worth 150 zorkmids), 1 amulet of restful sleep (worth 150 zorkmids), 1 amulet versus poison (worth 150 zorkmids), 1 amulet of reflection (worth 150 zorkmids), and 195 pieces of gold, after 185116 moves. You were level 30 with a maximum of 760 hit points when you ascended. You made the top ten list! No Points Name Hp [max] 1 7110536 Hayate-Wiz-Hum-Fem-Cha ascended to demigoddess-hood. 484 [484] 2 6812688 Corry-Rog-Hum-Mal-Cha ascended to demigod-hood. 760 [760] 3 5346754 Miaka-Val-Hum-Fem-Neu ascended to demigoddess-hood. 420 [437] 4 2055797 Sesshomaru-Rog-Orc-Mal-Cha died on the Astral Plane. Killed by Death (with the Amulet). - [32] January 2, 2008; ~12:45pm