Fenrir's Thread

[Fenrir]

A recent NetHack-winner ventures into the true merciless territory of Angband...

The first twenty-or-so attempts are not pretty... but after much dying, Fenrir stops playing half troll warriors and tries out rangers.

The second ranger attempt, a human ranger, is currently doing very well:

-- Bullroarer dropped some artifact gauntlets. (Pauraegen)

-- Smeagol dropped some artifact gauntlets. (Paurhach)

-- Got a defender weapon.

-- Found the metal cap of Thengel.

-- Found the phial.

-- Found boots of speed (+6)

So Fenrir is currently running around '2100, at level 32 and with nearly everything maxed.

[Nile]

Boots of speed are very rare - you are fortunate! Make sure to get poison resist, if you don't have it already.

[Bandobras]

Hmm, a ranger? And you don't mention your beloved bow? Ha, those humans, no appreciation for woodcraft...

[Fenrir]

Oh yes, I had forgotten!

-- Got a superb feeling and found Green dragon scale mail.

Got free action via the ring, also.

My bow is +9 +9 and an unique dwarf almost made me scream when he disenchanted it all the way back to +3 when I was careless



I now understand why everyone hates the hounds. It has happened to me 983246 times in this same game that I go down the > and there's a huge pack of inertia/gravity hounds that attacks me in the first turn and get me down to 4 hp before I get a move.

But I plain just _refuse_ to get any more "It breathes. You die." Yay for teleport staves and levelport scrolls!

[Zikke]

Nick made FA so that the player always gets the first turn when going up or down stairs. That's a feature that, in my opinion, should be implemented in V.

[Fenrir]

Getting the first turn would really decrease the number of "it breathes. You die"



-- A troll dropped a suspicious 2d4 dagger, turned out ot be Nimthanc.

-- Found another suspicious 2d4 dagger in the next level.

I'd get two blows with any of these, but I can't change my defender weapon, I need all these resists.

-- Found elvenkind armor.

Still not willing to swap my green dragon scale mail due to poison res.

The defender weapon's resist turned out to be paralysis, so I left my ring at home. I wish I hadn't sold that ring of accuracy! I just can't seem to hit anything anymore (even though my arrows are +7 to hit).

A big scare with a demonologist who summoned a death quasit that summoned vroks and then erynis and so on. I teleported and landed right in front of medusa, who immediately surrounded me with hydras and had to levelport out of there with minimal hp.

A gray 'e' disenchanted my bow again. Also, there was another big scare with a master dread and a room full of dreads and a shade and patriarch. Aren't 'G's detected with detect monsters? I will need to carry a staff of detect evil after that...

Got a superb feeling, and there was a huge, HUGE, vault full of Wyrms of Power. I thought I had a chance to snatch that black dragon scale mail and the longbow before something killed me (with the help of my three wands of teleport away), but I couldn't even get inside the vault to start with!


Thinking about it, it was good I couldn't get inside of that vault. Even though believe me, I tried.

[PowerDiver]

Originally Posted by Fenrir

The defender weapon's resist turned out to be paralysis

Defenders always resist paralysis among other abilities. The "hidden power" on a defender is a random sustain.

[Nile]

Originally Posted by Fenrir

Aren't 'G's detected with detect monsters? I will need to carry a staff of detect evil after that...

'G's are invisible, so you will need to use detect invisible to see them (third book, spell g). Always mcg after mab.

[Zikke]

Originally Posted by Nile

Always mcg after mab.

Sounds like a good T-shirt ^_^

[Donald Jonker]

Originally Posted by Zikke

Sounds like a good T-shirt ^_^

...with obscure shakespearean/shellyan overtones :P