PsyMar the Generic Whatever

This page is a Diary of a Crawler, the journal of an individual character. This page probably contains spoilers.

This is where PsyMar's better/more instructive attempts at escaping with the Orb of Zot will go.

Game 24 -- MiBe

Morgue file: [1]

D:1

• T28: Found a ring mail. Spent 8 turns putting it on. AC up to 4!
• T104: First kill, a rat.
• T119: First sacrifice, a giant bat.
• T154: Axes to Level 4
• T3xx: Kobold almost took me out; killed it and rested.
• T424: a knobbly jade ring. I'll try it.
• T425: no obvious effect, but I'll keep it on in case it's some sort of awesome smiting ring.
• T576: Tried a THRE LOJ OSICK scroll (had 3). Nothing appeared to happen. Either charging or remove curse, then, or fear.
• T577: Tried ZIKOAL EZOHIO (had 2 by now). Identify! And my ring is a ring of life protection. Not too useful early game but no reason to take it off.
• T890: Done exploring.
• T927: Went downstairs.

D:2

• Rat and Ijyb right away! Yikes! I back around a corner from Ijyb. Kill a rat while waiting and reach level 2. Ijyb shows up; after a few misses, I berserk.
• T955: Ijyb dead. Drops nothing. Bleah.
• T1134: After a fight with a goblin, giant bat, and kobold, acquire Trog's Hand ability. Also got to level 3 in there somewhere.
• T1148: Dodging to level 3!
• T1275: Pair of gauntlets on previous turn; I'll wear. Also got a glowing sling.
• T1278: ID'd sling as +2,+0, no other bonuses. "meh". Also, done exploring... but only found 2 staircases, so should come back.
• T1298: Went downstairs.

D:3

• found... a disco hall? wtf?
• hit teleport trap, will have to find way back.
• T:1468: Found upstairs back to D:2.

D:2 revisited

• Tried reading a scroll; it's Teleport.
• What the... Jessica AND sigmund?
• T:1622: Killed Jessica after berserking and killing sigmund.
• T:1740: Jessica dropped a (use-tested) +2 robe of magic resistance! Awesome!
• T:1741: And scroll of ID says Sigmund's scythe is of protection! Woot! Given I have only 5 AC without the scythe, I'll use it for a while.
• Went back down.

D:3 part 2: Electric Boogaloo

• T:198x: found a second scroll of some type, forget which, it's fog though upon use.
• T:2020: With berserk, killed the ghost of Vesto the Skirmisher, a weakling DSCK of Lugonu.
• T:2069: Looked back at disco-ish area, found an altar. It's Xom. That explains a lot.
• T:2515: Found a Kiku altar.
• T:2774: Found one of my scrolls was detect curses (through use).
• T:2778: None of the glowing weapons I found have brands of awesomeness, so I'll stick with my protection scythe.
• T:2969: have explored all except part of Xom's disco hall.
• T:3028: Went downstairs.

D:4

• T:3029: saved.
• T:3029: And I'm back!
• T:3046: Found a long ivory wand.
• T:3103: After zapping at a jackal twice with no effect, tried on myself, it's healing.
• T:3216: Found temple stairs.
• Went to temple, looked around a bit, came back.
• T:3296: Detected curses. Had an ego-elven short sword I hadn't tried out, it's vampiric.
• T:3301: Ate bread ration, wielded elven vampiric short sword.
• T:3375: Got poisoned by a giant ant. Tried wand of healing, which didn't cure the poison. Tried random potions, got poison first, but next was healing. Best ID of poison potion ever.
• T:3549: found a wand shop. Entered. Bought frost and enslavement wands.
• T:3639: Gained Brothers in Arms.
• T:40xx: Done exploring. Went down to D:5, swarmed by orcs, came back up and killed an ant that followed. Then went down via other stairs.

D:5

• T:4094: fell through shaft to D:8. Going back up now...
• T:4197: on D:6, found Blork the orc with a wand. Took two hits, couldn't have taken a third, escaped up stairs. Ran into orc horde, ran up stairs again, back to the stairs I went to D:5 via the second time.
• T:4549: After another orc horde battle, decided to switch to plate mail instead of the +2 MR robe. My vamp short sword is +3,+1.
• T:4729: Quaff-ID'd a potion of mutation. got:
  • Protected by bone plates (AC +2, Dex -1)
  • Flexible-but-weak muscles (Dex +1, Str -1)
  • Partially covered in metallic scales (AC +3, Dex -2)
  • Total: AC +5, Dex -2, Str -1, I'll take it!
• T:4783: Found an armor shop with two randarts! Particularly interesting is the +1 plate mail of the Amoeba (rN+ EV+2 Str+3). Need 950 gold, though, and have... 33. I'll come back later.
• T:4857: Have 6 of a scroll, so I try it, nothing happens. Probably remove curse then; I'll inscribe it.
• Done exploring.

D:6

• Found stairs that didn't leave me back near blork. Did find an imp, and a couple wands that look interesting.
• T:5374: Found a dwarven cloak of darkness. Neato!
• T:5870: Killed Blork with wands.
• T:6034: Went downstairs.

D:7 and 8

• Found an armor shop on D:7. Forget what else happened.
  • Said armor shop had a couple randarts, one good, but I couldn't afford anything.
• On D:8, found the entrance to the orcish mines; ran back up.

D:9

• Found a centaur behind a bush; took it out with wand of fireball, then wand of frosted away the cloud of flame.
• took out imp, hungry ghost, and phantom, and found stairs to Lair; did not go down.
• Found stairs to Lair
• Finished exploring level, taking out stuff like a hippogriff in the process
• went to lair

Lair

• Lured up some monster, killed it
• Went down, got surrounded by rats and a frog, went back up, read scroll of immolation killing all the rats, then killed the frog
• Saved on D:9, restored, rested, went back down
• Surrounded again, went up, killed them one at a time
• T:9337: went back down, lured up some blink frogs
• T:9382: used trog's hand, used brothers in arms, died.
• Final score: 3270, new personal best by far!

Lessons learned

• Blink frogs are pretty buff
• Activate trog's hand and brothers in arms *before* entering lair, then berserk once you're there
• Turn off individual-weapons skills so as to train only fighting skill, since you don't know early on what weapons you'll be using the most

Game 33 -- MiBe

Morgue file: [2]

D:1-2

• Not much happened on D:1
• on D:2:
  • Identified potions of healing (had 2), berserk rage, agility, and invisibility
  • Identified scrolls of blinking, curse weapon, enchant weapon I, identify, random uselessness, and teleportation
  • Also have a scroll that was {tried on item} that I tried on armor, so that's recharging
  • scroll-ID'd a ring of poison resistance (yay!)
  • scroll-ID'd and wielded a +1,+0 dagger of distortion, which should be fun

D:3

• The dagger of distortion is, indeed, fun
• quaff-ID'd restore abilities and poison (which didn't affect me per the resistance ring)
• read a scroll, nothing happened
• quaff-ID'd paralysis, nothing killed me, yay
• quaff-ID'd brilliance
• Space warps horribly around the orc wizard! and killed it! yay!
• Got, and turned off, stealth skill
• found Okawaru altar, but I'm with Trog, so not now thanks
• Got to level 5 by end of level, can now withstand the potential 43 damage from distortion unwield

D:4

• Got my first banishment of an enemy, against a kobold. Kind of a waste...
• Found an ossuary, went in

Ossuary

• Killed a bunch of zombies
• Had to berserk a few times
• killed two mummies, got two items cursed
• killed a ghost
• got 2 ID scrolls, 3-4 scrolls of teleport, and 2 potions of speed, and 2 potions of blood (ick).

Back to D:4

• Quaff-ID'd a potion of mutation, got speckled scales (+1 AC), flexible-but-weak muscles (+1 dex, -1 str), and slow metabolism!
• scroll-ID'd the cursed +6,+6 hammer "Grevashre" {freeze, MR}
• Finished exploring, went down (still wielding distortion dagger since I can't uncurse the hammer)

D:5

• Found a brass wand, which turned out to be draining, awesome
• Found a Yred altar
• Killed Edmund
• ID'd a randart armor (+0 leather armor "Trug", rC+ Dex-2 Acc+2)
• ID'd a flail as being +6,+2 flail of holy wrath
• wielded flail, was not banished or killed by distortion unwield, though I did get 'ported
• Found wand, it's digging! yay!
• found scroll shop, got ID scrolls and an immolation scroll (for when needed)

D:6

• Fell down shaft to D:7 or D:8 (not sure which), was surrounded, went down stairs and port-blinked twice to get back up stairs to D:6
• was followed by a jelly; put on amulet of resist corrosion even though it was cursed, and killed the jelly
• ran into orc horde, while hungry; couldn't berserk and got pwned. DYWYPI?
• forgot about scrolls of blinking and teleport. Bleah.

Game 35 -- MiBe

Game 35 morgue: [3]

D:1

• Start in an entrance vault with several secret doors; searched to find them to improve traps&doors skill.
• Got Axes skill to level 4, and turned off exp going to it, since I'll probably switch to another weapon soon enough.
• Such as this dagger of protection I found on T:694 from a kobold.
• T:826: got to level 2, gained short blades skill.
• Explored around stairs on D:2 a bit, then came back to D:1.
• My protection dagger is +2,+2.
• T:2310: finished exploring D:1.

D:2

• T:2403: Test-ID'd identify, identified remove curse scroll.
• Identified an amulet as being faith. Put it on, because why not this early in the game?
• Finished exploring, T:2945.

D:3

• ID'd a bunch of scrolls and potions, most notably enchant armor and enchant weapon I. Dagger is now +4,+2.
• Killed stuff and ate it.
• Finished exploring, T:3817.

D:4

• Killed my first Ogre of the game.
• Found an inaccessible-without-digging TSO altar.
• Went downstairs around T:4600.

D:5

• Suddenly, gnolls everywhere!
• Found a staircase to Temple, surrounded by translucent rock wall. Good thing I'm a Troggite anyway or I'd be pissed.
• Oh, hey, go go secret door. Not that I need it.

D:6

• Stuff happpened.
• Killed Sigmund.
• Suddenly, orcs and jellies everywhere!
• Brothers in arms + teleport scroll + berserk and I got out of it while my two-headed ogre killed everything.
• Another TSO altar?

D:7

• Stuff happened.

D:8

• Landed in a fight
• Fought off orcs by luring upstairs
• Found orcish mines, and a neato general store
• entered orcish mines

Orcish Mines

• Fought orcs (duh)
• Got a -4,-1 quick blade randart from Trog. Yeah, elec brand, but... really, Trog? I have TEN dex!
• Started wielding my +1,+1 great sword of holy wrath -- should've done that a long time ago.
• Got two levels deep before chickening out
• Did, however, take out a bunch of orcs and most of an ogre with a single scroll of immolation

D:9

• All three stairs landed near mobs
• Cleared out most of said mobs
• Had a sick-and-4-HP-and-hungry incident; survived with 1 HP and a ring of regen
• after getting back to full HP, went back to D:9
• Got hungry, encountered a troll, tried to eat to berserk, killed by troll.

Lessons learned

• Always eat immediately if hungry and fighting something nasty, so that you can then berserk. Don't wait until you're one hit from death, then eat.
• rings of regen are awesome
• Don't be afraid to try out scrolls when surroudned, you might get immolation or fear.

Game 38 -- DEWz (summonings)

Morgue file: [4]

D:1-4

• Not much notable aside from an ogre I took out with Mephitic Cloud and spammals.
• ID'd scrolls of blinking, curse armour/weapon, detect/remove curse, fear, fog, ID, magic mapping, noise, and teleportation.
• ID'd rings of evasion, life protection, and levitation.
• ID'd potions of gain intelligence/strength, Heal wounds, healing, invis, magic, and restore abilities.
• Got lots of missiles and stuff, a +2 cloak of MR, and a +2 leather armour. The ring of evasion I found is +3.

D:5

• Took Nemelex Xobeh.
• Used up a deck of destruction on a zombie of some sort.
• Got surrounded by an imp, an orc horde, etc.
• Escaped using mephitic clouds and a teleport scroll and spammals.

D:6

• Got a deck of summonings, used it to kill stuff.
• Finished exploring level and pwning stuff.
• Facing a jelly, drew from summonings deck, got "Famine". Whoops.
• Ate a chunk I had in inventory, drew again, got Repulsiveness, killed jelly.
• Jelly never hit me due to EV of 19 (and insane luck).

D:7

• Found temple, not much else.

D:8

• Got surrounded by nasty stuff.
• Ran out of MP.
• Blink-ported out of it with scrolls.
• Into a room with a scorpion and a centaur with frost darts.
• And I had no deck left either.
• Finally blinked again, behind a door.
• Closed door.
• Rested... with 1 HP, while poisoned. DYWYPI?
• Had 4 healing potions that I ignored.
• Fail. And I'd just found a book of wizardry, too.

Game 40 -- DDNe

Game 40 morgue: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/PsyMar/morgue-PsyMar-20100503-142001.txt

D:1

• Started in a plants-and-butterflies vault, blocked in by a plant. Took about 250 turns to kill said plant with my fists.
• Pained a goblin to death, restored MP.
• Lather, rinse, repeat.
• Ack! Kobold with me out of MP! Hide around corner, regen MP. It never noticed me.
• Couple miscasts on a goblin; didn't wake it, so went back, regenned, killed it.
• ID'd detect curse, found my ring uncursed, wore it.
• Killed a kobold, got to level 2.
• Killed a rat, got Necromancy to level 5.
• Found a spear of reaching; wielded it for now.
• Wasted a lot of time meleeing a plant to get to an otherwise-inaccessible area... which held nothing.

D:2

• Killed a giant bat, got from near starving back to hungry.
• Ran into three hobgoblins.
• Killed one, read a scroll of teleport which didn't take me far.
• Restored some MP to kill the second, then meleed the third.
• Used up one potion of heal wounds in there.
• Got surrounded and near starving, again.
• ran through chokepoint to upstairs, only taking one goblin with me.
• Killed it and ate it. yay survival. Restored MP, went back down.
• Lured a few more enemies up the stairs to kill them one by one.
• No longer hungry, yay.
• These stairs were near a forest; I predict Crazy Yiuf -- think I can take him.
• Was right. Barely. Had to zap healing wand at myself, and use the retreat-to-regen-mana strategy. Managed to use the stairs, though, so at least I could retreat towards the known.
• Went down another staircase to D:2.
• Tried reading scrolls against a newt; first was ID. Id'd my ring (see invis), then my other two unknown scrolls (enchant weapon I and fear.)
• Found a runed mace; determined it uncursed (via detect curse scroll); wielded it, because why not, it might be good.
• Quaff-ID'd paralysis. Nothing showed up, phew.
• Found a runed orcish hammer, picked it up.
• Quaff-ID'd berserk. Uh-oh.
• Good thing I had food.
• Ran into a snake that took 7 pains without dying. Killed it with my mace, and quaffed my second heal wounds.
• Killed a worm... with *nine* pains, and I have 7 MP. Fortunately it was fleeing when I ran out of MP so I could regen.
• Went down, finally, at T:35xx.

D:3

• Found an orc. Killed it, but it shouted, so I took another stairs back down.
• Found a +2 pair of orcish gauntlets, yay!
• Discovered scroll of curse armor the hard way.
• Found the orc horde, including a wizard.
• Ran to upstairs, killed the wizard alone.
• Got to level 5. Time to learn vampiric draining.
• Done. Back to D:3...
• Oh crud, a ghost. Time to use crazy yiuf's qstaff, I guess.
• Ghost disappeared, no idea what happened to it. It fled, though, I think. Now to deal with gnolls...
• Ok, three down one to go thanks to vampiric draining and stairs to regen MP.
• Found the ghost again. Back to the qstaff, I guess.
• PsyMar the Reanimator (L5 DDNe) killed the ghost of nhawdge the Skirmisher, an average HOFi on turn 4914. (D:3)
• After that close encounter, was advised to learn dispel undead; did so.

D:4

• Found a shiny ring mail.
• Found a scroll of remove curse; now I can try the shiny ring mail (which wasn't cursed, I detect cursed.)
• +1 ring mail, all spells still very good or better.
• Found a couple wands.
• First one: digging.
• Second one: Confusion. Nice.
• Took out a black bear and raided its honey.

D:5

• Still going strong.
• Had to eat the honeycombs due to being near starving and nothing dropping corpses.
• Found a lava-y area surrounding a bunch of demons.
• Confused the strongest demon with my wand, got over 400 EXP!!!!
• Now, just must remember DO NOT TELEPORT ON THIS LEVEL.
• killed an orc priest, got to level 8.

D:6

• Found Temple, went with Makhleb.
• Killed a centaur and got a bow of flame out of it.
• Killed Edmund on turn 8073 and got a ring mail of MR out of it. (+1 enchanted, too!)

D:7

• Got encumbered.
• Went back to temple to stash stuff, particularly Crazy Yiuf's staff (don't want that falling in the wrong hands!)
• Got a flail of pain; as a necromancer, this is awesome.
• Found a kobold storm near an upstaircase in a corridor.
• ???
• Profit!
• Ack, one big kobold had a dagger of freakin' distortion.
• Killed it; keeping the dagger for emergencies.
• Reached level 9.

D:8

• Not much happened here.
• found an altar of zin, with an angel behind translucent rock wall. Left it alone.
• Reached XL 10 for the first time in any game.
• Cleared the level; went down.
• I have never been to D:10, so... this'll be a test.

D:9

• Got a couple more wands from a vault.
• Found Maurice already killed by a flame cloud.
• Got a cloak of poison resistance from where maurice was, then hauled out of there.
• Found the +3,+5 scythe "Finisher" (weapon) {speed, Str+3} and started using it.

D:10

• First time to D:10!
• Found the orcish mines entrance.
• Cleared level, hauled some junk back to Temple so that it wouldn't get picked up by monsters, came back.
• Took out a two-headed ogre -- *barely*.
• Went to D:11 in search of lair.

D:11

• Cleared out a beehive with tons of honeycombs and two royal jellies (not the monster kind).
• Found a spellbook of air; memorized mephitic cloud, and shock (so I could train for casting mephitic cloud).
• Found and killed sonja; got to XL11.
• Killed a cyclops, yay.

D:12

• Took out a bunch of stuff
• Found a vault/zig/something; will need 8 potions of resistance to get in (after paying 120 gold to the imp)
• Found a fire drake guarding the Lair (surrounded by plants); took it out
• entered the lair, came out, killed an iguana

Lair:1

• Not too much notable here, aside from a bunch of shops, which gave me, among other things:
  • the quarterstaff "Beefita" {venom, Hunger rPois rC+ rN+ EV+4}
    • Still wielding my +5,+2 flail of pain, though
  • the ring "Teuc Nue" {EV+5 Dex-3 Int+2 SInv}
  • IDs for amulet of inaccuracy, ring of hunger and scroll of weapon
  • 2 ID scrolls and 2 scrolls of enchant weapon II
  • A cursed -4 ring mail randart with -3 to str (They can't all be winners, kid)
• Found 2 unknown potions that turned out to be mutation upon quaff; after two quaffs, I have herbivore 1 and +10% MP. Not a bad tradeoff.

Lair:2

• Found and entered a labyrinth.
• Got to the center quick enough, and took out the minotaur with meph cloud. Loot included:
  • Cursed splint mail with other nasty stuff, which I left in the lab
  • the ring "Ghewkuix" {rF+ rC+ SInv Stlth+}
  • An amulet I am wearing which is either clarity, conservation, resist corrosion, resist mutation, or warding (The others would either ID, give me abilities, or I've already ID'd them, or be stasis -- and I can teleport with it on)
• Thanks to spamming shock, mephitic cloud is now at "fair".

Lair:3

• Oooh, watery level.
• Lots of yaks and rats and a few electric eels.
• Found staircase to shoals; went down and up just to say I'd been there.
• Also found a bottled efreet, which I stashed on lair:2.
• Found a staff of wizardry, also stashed on lair:2 (this DDNe likes to melee a bit with pain brand.)

Lair:4

• Found a cruddy weapons shop.
• Found and cleared an anthell vault.
• Found an altar of TSO. Pfft.
• Also found some shallow water with various monsters in it. Need to learn more autoexplore exclusions kthx.
• Cleared level

Lair:5

• Found entrance to swamp.
• Learned how to use exclusions.
• Killed some stuff, including a hippogriff followed (barely) by a hydra.
• Found the blowgun of Offence {speed, rF+ rC+, was cursed}
• Found an ID scroll; my long-unID'd ring was a ring of fire.
• Sang some Frank Sinatra.
• Killed a black mamba. Insert Kobe Bryant joke here.
• Found a spellbook of Wizardry.

Lair:6

• Fought my first death yak. Then a few more.
• Man, those things are tough.
• I'd better go back and do orc.

Orc:1

• Killed some orcs.
• Saw only two downstairs.
• Went down to Orc:2, killed an ogre, came up, found Harold.
• Harold hit a teleport trap.
• He went to the other half of Orc:1.
• Killed Harold.

Orc:2

• Encountered Joseph upon going downstairs.
• Went upstairs, took other downstairs.
• Dug back to first area, so I'd have a line of retreat.
• Killed lots of orcs.
• Found an Okawaru altar.
• Killed Eustachio.

Orc:3

• Found a staircase to the Elven Halls.
• Found Nessos, and a horde of orcs, and an ogre -- yay for mephitic cloud. Killed all.
• Found Jozef, killed him.
• Saw Orc:4, saw orc knights and stuff, decided to finish lair instead.

Lair:6-7

• Not much happened.
• Death yak horde fell to Mephitic Cloud.

Lair:8

• Vastly underestimated an 8-headed hydra.
• Died. 49381 points is still by far my high score, however.