The Angband Ladder: Elfin, Noldor Feanor no-class by protopulse

  [Sil 1.3.0 Character Dump]

 Name   Elfin         Age    4,835       Str   3
 Sex    Male          Height    7'       Dex   6 =  4  +2
 Race   Noldor        Weight   165       Con   3 =  4      -1
 House  Feanor                           Gra   4 =  3  +1

 Game Turn   26,502   Melee  (+21,2d9)   Melee       21 = 15  +6  -1  +1
 Exp Pool     3,778   Bows   (+7,2d10)   Archery      7 =  0  +6      +1
 Total Exp   81,178   Armor [+25,5-15]   Evasion     25 = 15  +6  +4
 Burden       103.3                      Stealth     10 =  6  +6  -2
 Max Burden   172.8   Health     -1:34   Perception  15 =  6  +4  +5
 Depth         900'   Voice      10:41   Will        10 =  6  +4
 Min Depth     900'                      Smithing    32 = 27  +4      +1
 Light Radius     5                      Song        11 =  7  +4

 You are the only child of a warrior from the house of Feanor. You have
 light grey eyes, straight golden hair, and a fair complexion.






  [Last Messages]

> You see The Great Spear 'Ruin' (+1,1d13) [+2] 4.0 lb.
> You have The Great Spear 'Ruin' (+1,1d13) [+2] (u).
> You were wearing The Set of Gauntlets of Gamil Zirak (-1) [+0,1d2] <+3> (q).
> You are wearing The Set of Mithril Gauntlets 'Second Wind' (+1) [+1,1d1] <+1>
(k).
> You see a Flask of oil.
> You were wielding a Spear of the Vanyar (+0,1d10) <+1> {@w5} (t).
> You are wielding a Longsword of Nargothrond (+0,2d6) [+1] {@w2} (a).
> The Ururauko notices you.
> You have 53 Arrows of Piercing (n).
> You have 52 Arrows of Piercing (n).
> The Arrow of Piercing breaks.
> You miss the Ururauko. <2x>
> The Ururauko hits you!
> You are enveloped in flames!
> You die.


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  [Equipment]

a) a Longsword of Nargothrond (+0,2d6) [+1] {@w2} 3.0 lb
   It slays dragons and raukar.  
b) The Longbow 'Belthronding' (+1,2d7) <+1> 3.0 lb
   It improves your perception by 1.  It cannot be harmed by the
   elements.  It can shoot arrows 20 squares (with your current
   strength).
c) a Golden Ring of Dexterity <+1>
   It increases your dexterity by 1.  It sustains your dexterity.
   
d) a Chalcedony Ring of Perception <+4>
   It improves your perception by 4.  
e) a Silver Amulet of the Blessed Realm <+1>
   It increases your grace by 1.  It sustains your grace.  It 
   lights the dungeon around you.  
f) a Feanorian Lamp
g) The Leather Armour of Time Distortion [-1,1d4]
   It grants you great speed.  It cannot be harmed by the
   elements.  
h) a Cloak of Warmth [+1] {rcold}
   It provides resistance to cold.  
i) a Kite Shield of Deflection (-2) [+2,1d6]
   It cannot be harmed by the elements.  
j) The Helm 'Lionheart' [+0,1d2]
   It provides resistance to fire, poison, and fear.  It cannot
   be harmed by the elements.  
k) The Set of Mithril Gauntlets 'Second Wind' (+1) [+1,1d1] <+1>
   It increases your dexterity by 1.  It sustains your strength 
   and dexterity.  It cannot be harmed by the elements.  
l) a Pair of Greaves of Free Action [+0,1d2] {free action}
   It grants you freedom of movement.  
m) The Arrow 'Dailir' (+11)
   It cannot be harmed by the elements.  It can be shot 20
   squares (with your current strength and bow).
n) 52 Arrows of Piercing
   They cut easily through armour.  They can be shot 20 squares
   (with your current strength and bow).


  [Inventory]

a) 4 Mottled Herbs of Rage
b) 6 Clear Potions of Miruvor
c) 5 Yellow Potions of Healing
d) 4 Golden Potions of Voice
e) a Crimson Potion of Strength
f) 3 Brown Potions of Dexterity
g) 2 Black Potions of Constitution
h) 7 Shimmering Potions of Grace
i) an Ivory Horn of Thunder
j) a Willow Staff of Understanding (2 charges)
k) a Gnarled Staff of Revelations (2 charges)
l) an Ivory Staff of Treasures (0 charges)
m) a Ruby Ring of Accuracy (+2)
n) an Ivory Amulet of Constitution <+1>
   It increases your constitution by 1.  It sustains your 
   constitution.  
o) a Ruby Amulet of Haunted Dreams
   It grants you the ability to see invisible creatures, but it
   also draws wraiths to your level.  
p) 2 Feanorian Lamps
q) The Set of Gauntlets of Gamil Zirak (-1) [+0,1d2] <+3>
   It improves your smithing by 3.  It provides resistance to 
   fire.  It cannot be harmed by the elements.  
r) The Deathblade 'Delmereth' (+3,1d9) [+1] <+2> {@w1} 2.0 lb
   It improves your stealth by 2.  It drains life from your
   enemies.  It increases your hunger.  It cannot be harmed by
   the elements.  
s) The Bastard Sword 'Anguirel' (+1,3d3) [+1] {@w3} 5.0 lb
   It cuts easily through armour.  It increases your hunger.  It
   cannot be harmed by the elements.  It does extra damage when
   wielded with both hands.  
t) a Spear of the Vanyar (+0,1d10) <+1> {@w5} 3.0 lb
   It increases your grace by 1.  It can be thrown effectively
   (6 squares) and lights the dungeon around you.  It does extra
   damage when wielded with both hands.  It counts as a type of
   polearm.  
u) The Great Spear 'Ruin' (+1,1d13) [+2] 4.0 lb
   It is branded with venom.  It cannot be harmed by the
   elements.  It requires both hands to wield it properly.  It
   counts as a type of polearm.  
v) a Mattock of Belegost (-4,5d2) <+3> 9.0 lb
   It improves your tunneling by 3.  It requires both hands to
   wield it properly.  
w) 40 Pieces of Mithril


  [Notes]

Elfin of the Noldor
Entered Angband on 24 Oct 2022

   Turn     Depth   Note

      0     50 ft   (Jeweller)
     78     50 ft   leather armour! nice
    343    100 ft   100 ft
    492    100 ft   !slow poison id'ed
    614    100 ft   3 use forge
    673    100 ft   Made a Ruby Ring of Accuracy (+1)  0.1 lb
    734    100 ft   Made a Topaz Ring of Evasion [+1]  0.1 lb
    845    100 ft   Made a Silver Amulet of the Blessed Realm <+0>  0.1 lb
    847    100 ft   feels good having 2 light radius this early
    981    150 ft   150 ft
  1,030    150 ft   (0,2d5)[1] longsword 3 lbs from orc scout
  1,175    150 ft   these are some early orc archers...
  1,176    150 ft   only [2-5] protection still
  1,216    150 ft   adamant ring...what could it be?
  1,267    150 ft   ooo
  1,267    150 ft   defender longsword?
  1,267    150 ft   love it
  1,268    150 ft   3 lbs too, thank you orc scout
  1,338    150 ft   just need a shield now
  1,402    200 ft   200 ft
  1,500    200 ft   set of gauntlets [0,1d1] 3.5 lbs
  1,500    200 ft   again from an orc scout, how generous
  1,500    200 ft   (Finesse)
  1,863    250 ft   250 ft
  1,863    250 ft   going to have to watch for false floors now
  1,896    250 ft   mail corslet noice
  1,937    250 ft   great spear (-1,1d13)[1] doing work here
  1,937    250 ft   without a shield, this is my best weapon option i think
  1,937    250 ft   2d16s this early is just amazing
  1,972    250 ft   oh?
  1,972    250 ft   (-1,3d5)[1] greatsword
  2,063    250 ft   sword spider, oof that's some poor timing
  2,063    250 ft   33/41 hp
  2,069    250 ft   not bad
  2,119    250 ft   and another?
  2,195    250 ft   mewlip...
  2,225    250 ft   oo, cloak [1] {special} that doesn't auto-id
  2,225    250 ft   could be rcold :o
  2,493    300 ft   300 ft
  2,500    300 ft   (Leaping)
  2,863    300 ft   finally, we have a round shield
  2,863    300 ft   also just got drained by a !awkwardness
  2,866    300 ft   on the bright side, we haven't id'ed !dex yet
  2,866    300 ft   so we might just randomly cure this drain while id'ing 
  2,866    300 ft   potions
  2,967    300 ft   alright, this floor is fucking with me
  2,967    300 ft   on one end, i can leap over one way but not back 
  2,967    300 ft   because there's nowhere for me to get a running start
  2,967    300 ft   on the other end, it's blocked by rubble and i don't 
  2,967    300 ft   have a digger yet
  2,967    300 ft   can't access stairs so i guess i have to drop down a
  2,967    300 ft   chasm
  3,067    300 ft   Fell into a chasm
  3,067    400 ft   oof, skipped 350 ft 
  3,067    400 ft   400 ft
  3,265    400 ft   9 perception isn't enough to find hidden doors?
  3,603    400 ft   no longer dex drained!
  3,603    400 ft   turns out i had 2 herbs of restoration
  3,619    400 ft   oo (-2)[2,1d6] kite shield
  3,631    400 ft   ivory amulets all over the place, has to be adornment 
  3,631    400 ft   right?
  3,640    400 ft   [1,1d1] boots?
  3,640    400 ft   erm, irime?
  3,642    400 ft   Found The Pair of Boots of Irime
  3,819    400 ft   irime overrides dark serpent's breath heh
  3,914    400 ft   found a ring of perception finally
  3,914    400 ft   that should help me with some of those pesky hidden 
  3,914    400 ft   doors
  4,000    400 ft   (Armoursmith)
  4,072    400 ft   brass lantern {special} that doesn't auto-id
  4,072    400 ft   must be true sight
  4,370    450 ft   450 ft
  4,405    450 ft   robe {special}...probably rpois or blight?
  4,466    450 ft   our first giant
  4,466    450 ft   shouldn't be too bad?
  4,469    450 ft   18 evasion, yea
  4,629    450 ft   robe of venom's end, took forever to id it
  4,629    450 ft   this distended spider just couldn't land a hit on me
  4,693    450 ft   snow trolls?!
  4,693    450 ft   thought they didn't show up this early 
  4,728    450 ft   darn they couldn't even get in a hit to help me id my 
  4,728    450 ft   cloak
  4,803    450 ft   Encountered Othrod, the Orc Lord
  4,820    450 ft   Slew Othrod, the Orc Lord
  4,836    450 ft   gloves of the forge [0,1d1]<+2> from othrod
  4,836    450 ft   this will be very useful
  5,460    450 ft   werewolf??
  5,460    450 ft   that's 200 feet out of depth wow
  5,470    450 ft   not just 1, but 2 of them
  5,493    450 ft   3??
  5,493    450 ft   what's going on here?
  5,565    450 ft   there has to be a kennel somewhere
  5,630    450 ft   great helm of brilliance [-2,1d3] 8 lbs from orc thief
  5,630    450 ft   that last fight went really poorly
  5,630    450 ft   got overconfident and had to blow 1 !healing, 1 !orcish
  5,630    450 ft   liquor
  5,630    450 ft   which leaves me with just 3 !orcish liquors and 1 
  5,630    450 ft   !healing
  5,777    450 ft   ooh, interesting
  5,777    450 ft   one of my cloaks is winter's chill, but the other is 
  5,777    450 ft   of warmth
  5,777    450 ft   and one of my unidentified rings is ring of frost
  5,777    450 ft   the other was ring of sustenance, which i have already
  5,777    450 ft   ditched
  5,777    450 ft   the vault that i blew my !healing and !orcish liquor on
  5,777    450 ft   also rewarded me with a small steel chest
  5,777    450 ft   inside, i found a [0,1d3] mithril greaves 4.5 lbs
  5,777    450 ft   once i find a forge, i will melt that down into some 
  5,777    450 ft   faenorian lamps
  5,777    450 ft   i'm a bit concerned about consumables, but otherwise, 
  5,777    450 ft   this run is going well
  5,869    450 ft   wow that was an unlucky acid trap
  5,869    450 ft   destroyed my cloak of winter's chill before i could get
  5,869    450 ft   the xp for identifying it
  5,869    450 ft   and damaged my gloves of the forge
  6,124    450 ft   brass lantern of brightness found as well
  6,124    450 ft   though doubt i'll keep it around for long
  6,435    500 ft   500 ft
  6,475    500 ft   hello sulrauko
  6,475    500 ft   you can't hide from me!
  6,500    500 ft   (Assassination)
  6,500    500 ft   (Opportunist)
  6,815    500 ft   ooh, thought that longsword was final rest
  6,815    500 ft   turns out it's nargothrond, even better?
  6,815    500 ft   i will need to find a source of free action eventually 
  6,815    500 ft   though
  6,917    500 ft   another longsword (0,2d5)[1] {special} 3 lbs
  6,917    500 ft   this one has to be final rest...?
  6,992    500 ft   Encountered Ulfang the Black
  6,992    500 ft   here i am bashing my face into every door i see in hopes 
  6,992    500 ft   of getting stunned so i can id !clarity
  6,992    500 ft   probably not the wisest of ideas?
  6,992    500 ft   these easterling warriors and Ulfang don't seem very 
  6,992    500 ft   pleased to be woke so rudely from their restful slumber
  6,996    500 ft   oh, they were guarding a 2 use forge
  6,997    500 ft   (15,2d8)[20,5-16]
  6,997    500 ft   winnable, yea?
  7,058    500 ft   Slew Ulfang the Black
  7,059    500 ft   that took a while...
  7,143    500 ft   2 use forge
  7,212    500 ft   Made a Feanorian Lamp  1.0 lb
  7,282    500 ft   Made a Feanorian Lamp  1.0 lb
  7,359    500 ft   _sanctity id'ed off a vampiric spear
  7,374    500 ft   really would like a digger already
  7,431    500 ft   Encountered Uldor, the Accursed
  7,542    500 ft   let's drop our great helm of brilliance here
  7,542    500 ft   don't think i'll find a use for it anymore
  7,772    500 ft   Slew Uldor, the Accursed
  7,844    500 ft   [0,1d3] helm from a snow troll yay
  7,857    500 ft   just use id'ed a _summoning, that doesn't happen very 
  7,857    500 ft   often
  7,857    500 ft   tempted to spam it for fodder to kill...
  7,857    500 ft   eh..nah
  7,859    550 ft   550 ft
  7,859    550 ft   main concern now is to find more rings of perception
  7,859    550 ft   and a digger
  7,859    550 ft   other than that, this run is in a really good spot
  8,201    550 ft   Encountered Nan, the Giant
  8,201    550 ft   was trying to kill that easterling spy before it could 
  8,201    550 ft   cry out
  8,201    550 ft   now i have to contend with nan, a ringrauko, and a 
  8,201    550 ft   werewolf, plus whatever else is behind them
  8,201    550 ft   at least the silent watcher is still asleep
  8,201    550 ft   oh right, i need to forge myself a source of rpois...
  8,210    550 ft   4d8 for 30 dmg on Nan on first strike, nice bit of luck
  8,210    550 ft   he also got in a hit though (3d13...oof)
  8,212    550 ft   he seriously just hit me for 26 dmg?
  8,227    550 ft   shiiiiit
  8,227    550 ft   i forgot i swapped to irime and no longer have free 
  8,227    550 ft   action
  8,227    550 ft   stepped on that caltrop to save time and now i'm slowed
  8,248    550 ft   Slew Nan, the Giant
  8,261    550 ft   apparently !miruvor does not remove slow
  8,261    550 ft   had to blow 2 !orcish liquors, 1 !miruvor, and 1 
  8,261    550 ft   !quickness there
  8,261    550 ft   i'm left with 1 herb of healing, 4 !orcish liquors, 1 
  8,261    550 ft   !healing, and 0 !quickness
  8,261    550 ft   this is really not looking good
  8,261    550 ft   but i also know if i didn't use up those resources i'd 
  8,261    550 ft   be dead
  8,264    550 ft   Found The Greatsword 'Glend'
  8,500    550 ft   (Clarity)
  8,649    550 ft   a second silent watcher vault
  8,667    550 ft   (1,1d9)[1] deathblade 2.5 lbs
  8,667    550 ft   not worth carrying with us 
  8,668    550 ft   glend made real quick work of it 
  8,681    550 ft   Encountered Delthaur, Balrog of Terror
  8,681    550 ft   we skipped over Duruin and went straight to Delthaur?
  8,759    550 ft   Destroyed Delthaur, Balrog of Terror
  8,785    550 ft   awkward fight
  8,785    550 ft   didn't have a source of rFear so had to blow 2 !orcish 
  8,785    550 ft   liquors to keep fighting - also spent 1 !con
  8,785    550 ft   can't remember the last time my consumables situation 
  8,785    550 ft   was this bad
  8,785    550 ft   on hindsight, didn't need to spend that !con
  8,785    550 ft   oh, used an herb of rage to cure fear once too
  8,785    550 ft   probably should have started the fight with it since it
  8,785    550 ft   provides rfear
  8,944    550 ft   what a vault
  8,944    550 ft   chasm right into a door on 2 sides
  8,944    550 ft   if i had a _freedom i could get past those doors...
  8,944    550 ft   not seeing any alternative 
  9,307    600 ft   600 ft
  9,307    600 ft   shovel!
  9,307    600 ft   it's no mattock of belegost but still very much welcome
  9,307    600 ft   oh pearl ring was rpois, so i have all 3 resists now
  9,346    600 ft   that's a shadow
  9,614    600 ft   good thing we found that shovel
  9,614    600 ft   so much rubble on this floor
 10,044    600 ft   ugh
 10,044    600 ft   _recharging got destroyed by fire-drake hatchlings
 10,115    600 ft   pretty late lurking horror
 10,279    650 ft   650 ft
 10,279    650 ft   this run has been pretty light on forges eh?
 10,279    650 ft   not that i can make anything impressive yet
 10,279    650 ft   up to 14 smithing right now
 10,279    650 ft   would really like some better perception rings...
 10,279    650 ft   literally have to whip out my great spear of the vanyar
 10,279    650 ft   just to find hidden doors
 10,279    650 ft   10 perception is not doing the job
 10,279    650 ft   really hope i don't step on a false floor
 10,304    650 ft   Encountered Duruin, Least of the Balrogs
 10,304    650 ft   hate meeting uniques right after finding myself on a new 
 10,304    650 ft   floor
 10,304    650 ft   shouldn't be too bad if it's a fair one on one though
 10,304    650 ft   i'll just pop an herb of rage and get to work
 10,325    650 ft   'An Oathwraith comes up the stairs, forcing you out of 
 10,325    650 ft   the way! The Oathwraith notices you.'
 10,325    650 ft   seriously?
 10,336    650 ft   oh, he left me a !grace
 10,377    650 ft   starting the fight against duruin with 26 hp
 10,377    650 ft   because a ringrauko got in 2 lucky hits in a row
 10,377    650 ft   (18,3d8)[25,5-17] are pretty good stats for duruin 
 10,377    650 ft   stat line is 15-0-15-6-6-6-7-0
 10,388    650 ft   5d8 for 18 dmg, good stuff
 10,388    650 ft   Destroyed Duruin, Least of the Balrogs
 10,393    650 ft   Found The Pair of Greaves of Orodreth
 10,393    650 ft   ooh, it's actually orodreth
 10,393    650 ft   odds were far better it was just greaves of treacherous
 10,393    650 ft   paths
 10,393    650 ft   dropping irime here for sure, don't know how much use 
 10,393    650 ft   i'll get out of orodreth, since i like my boots to have
 10,393    650 ft   free action
 10,393    650 ft   duruin also dropped me a mithril shield [0,1d7] 3 lb
 10,393    650 ft   going to melt that down when i get a chance
 10,393    650 ft   it's double fine though...
 10,393    650 ft   perhaps worth using instead?
 10,451    650 ft   6d8 for 29 dmg on a sleeping fire-drake hatchling
 10,633    650 ft   that could be great spear of melkor...
 10,643    650 ft   or hador's house?
 10,644    650 ft   Found The Great Spear of Melkor
 10,644    650 ft   an amazing weapon, guaranteed 2d17s on anything weak to
 10,644    650 ft   poison
 10,644    650 ft   never found much use for it in my previous runs, but 
 10,644    650 ft   success with aeglos have forced me to re-evaluate
 10,644    650 ft   but, i just don't have space
 10,644    650 ft   what shall i drop?
 10,689    650 ft   3d17 on ruby serpent, yea this thing is...powerful
 10,938    650 ft   3 use forge
 11,047    650 ft   _slumber, _revelations found and id'ed
 11,047    650 ft   horn from the same vault id'ed as blasting
 11,149    650 ft   Made an Ivory Horn of Thunder  1.0 lb
 11,316    650 ft   Made an Ivory Amulet of Constitution <+1>  0.1 lb
 11,485    650 ft   Made a Crystal Amulet of Grace <+1>  0.1 lb
 11,486    650 ft   -1 dex, -2 con, -2 gra drain
 11,486    650 ft   time to munch on an herb of restoration
 11,733    650 ft   woah
 11,733    650 ft   2 deathblades in the same vault
 11,738    650 ft   3d10 for 17 dmg on a deathblade? hell yea
 11,839    650 ft   cave troll and oathwraith dropped 2 !quickness in rapid
 11,839    650 ft   succession, for a total of 4 !quickness
 11,839    650 ft   2 ,healing, 3 ,rage, 2 !healing, 4 !orcish liquors
 11,839    650 ft   consumables situation improving
 11,857    650 ft   bronze ring is warmth or free action, i reckon
 11,863    650 ft   ringrauko destroyed one of my !quickness...
 11,975    700 ft   700 ft
 11,993    700 ft   kemenrauko
 11,993    700 ft   would spell doom for us if we find him in a corridor
 11,993    700 ft   with only a shovel to dig
 12,091    700 ft   that has to be umuiyan
 12,091    700 ft   5d7 for 19 dmg on me?
 12,091    700 ft   seriously?
 12,094    700 ft   Encountered Umuiyan, the Doorkeeper
 12,094    700 ft   there he is
 12,141    700 ft   Slew Umuiyan, the Doorkeeper
 12,142    700 ft   i've never struggled that much against umuiyan before
 12,142    700 ft   used 5 !orcish liquors...wow
 12,142    700 ft   just couldn't land a hit on him, while he shredded me 
 12,142    700 ft   like i was naked
 12,142    700 ft   !quickness would have made the fight easy, but i didn't
 12,142    700 ft   want to use those
 12,500    700 ft   (Weaponsmith)
 12,500    700 ft   (Artifice)
 12,537    700 ft   another shovel
 12,691    700 ft   2d17 for 30 dmg on creeping horror, sweet
 12,785    700 ft   oo, a third faenorian lamp
 12,785    700 ft   probably will melt it at some point?
 12,863    700 ft   found an amulet of the blessed realm <+1>, a straight 
 12,863    700 ft   upgrade from my amulet of grace <+1>
 12,972    700 ft   please, send me a mattock of belegost or a forge
 12,972    700 ft   a better ring of perception would be nice too
 12,972    750 ft   750 ft
 13,002    750 ft   first grotesque of the game
 13,002    750 ft   not too worried with 3 strength and glend
 13,085    750 ft   as usual, took ~40 turns to kill the grotesque
 13,097    750 ft   Encountered The Deathblade 'Delmereth'
 13,203    750 ft   Subdued The Deathblade 'Delmereth'
 13,203    750 ft   Found The Deathblade 'Delmereth'
 13,204    750 ft   definitely beginning to feel the effects of capped stats 
 13,204    750 ft   up to 21 smithing right now (almost 22)
 13,204    750 ft   28-32 is the goal
 13,204    750 ft   i should be close to that point by 800 ft
 13,204    750 ft   considering taking delmereth with me 
 13,204    750 ft   the question is less, should i, and more, what can i 
 13,204    750 ft   afford to give up to make space for it?
 13,430    750 ft   5d11 for 35 dmg on sleeping emerald serpent
 13,430    750 ft   oh yea, taking delmereth was so worth it
 13,430    750 ft   who needs glend when you have delmereth,
 13,430    750 ft   the serpent-killer?
 13,480    750 ft   ururauko
 13,483    750 ft   took 3 poisoned arrows
 13,483    750 ft   i cannot afford to let those things close in on me
 13,509    750 ft   this inventory management minigame is giving me a 
 13,509    750 ft   headache
 13,516    750 ft   _revelations revealed a 4 use forge on this floor
 13,516    750 ft   let's not get ourselves false floored now
 13,597    750 ft   young cold-drake
 13,598    750 ft   with a kemenrauko and amethyst serpent...
 13,598    750 ft   dangerous vault, i need to back out
 13,812    750 ft   7d8 for 33 dmg on sleeping young cold-drake
 13,957    750 ft   2 !healing, 1 !quickness from small steel chest
 13,961    750 ft   usually would be disappointed at potions chests
 13,961    750 ft   but i actually appreciate this one
 13,961    750 ft   don't need anything fancy to succeed this run
 13,961    750 ft   just some consumables, a digger, perception rings, and
 13,961    750 ft   a few 3-4 use forges
 14,000    750 ft   (Song of Aule)
 14,309    750 ft   4 use forge
 14,311    750 ft   24 smithing
 14,311    750 ft   700+800+900+1000=3400 XP
 14,311    750 ft   meaning it'd be cheaper to get a point of smithing
 14,311    750 ft   via 4 points of song using song of Aule when i reach
 14,311    750 ft   34 smithing
 14,311    750 ft   actually, if i suppose i have 20 grace, that puts me at
 14,311    750 ft   26 song, 28 song is the next multiple of 4
 14,311    750 ft   so it appears the most optimal song to have is 8
 14,311    750 ft   if i put in a point of song right now, that lets me 
 14,311    750 ft   reach 25 smithing, which is perfect
 14,311    750 ft   i'll put in the 8th point in song much later
 14,672    750 ft   Made The Helm 'Lionheart' [+0,1d2]  5.0 lb
 14,728    750 ft   Made a Mattock (-5,5d2) <+2>  12.0 lb
 14,882    800 ft   800 ft
 15,036    800 ft   26 smithing
 15,215    800 ft   27 smithing
 15,223    800 ft   Encountered Scatha the Worm
 15,247    800 ft   Slew Scatha the Worm
 15,247    800 ft   that wasn't bad
 15,247    800 ft   the other vault residents gave me far more trouble
 15,247    800 ft   ururauko got in a hit but luckily rolled low
 15,247    800 ft   and a vampire managed to drain my strength
 15,284    800 ft   11 perception enough to open small jewelled chest
 15,284    800 ft   just barely though - took 15 turns
 15,292    800 ft   got a jewelled crown of terror and crown of clarity from 
 15,292    800 ft   that, free 200 xp
 15,292    800 ft   a lot of mithril items to melt down in this vault
 15,292    800 ft   no space though
 15,292    800 ft   if there's a forge on this level, we can have some fun
 15,372    800 ft   crown of dark secrets probably
 15,375    800 ft   Found The Crown of Dark Secrets
 15,421    800 ft   4d11 for 37 dmg on cave troll :o
 15,492    800 ft   uhh
 15,492    800 ft   young fire-drake
 15,492    800 ft   that is a fearsome foe
 15,687    800 ft   28 smithing
 15,747    800 ft   5 turns to kill a grotesque, that's a record?
 15,747    800 ft   2 grotesques were chasing me, so i decided i might as 
 15,747    800 ft   well pop a !str and cure my strength drain 
 15,944    800 ft   great axe of nogrod?
 15,945    800 ft   Found The Great Axe of Nogrod
 16,093    800 ft   i missed a shot on a sleeping great cold-drake from 3 
 16,093    800 ft   tiles away, im feeling second hand embarassment for my 
 16,093    800 ft   elf
 16,094    800 ft   wait i missed again!
 16,134    800 ft   oof, that was really rough
 16,134    800 ft   i mean, i saw it coming since ekkair went through a 
 16,134    800 ft   similar experience
 16,134    800 ft   but still, wow
 16,134    800 ft   i cannot delve deeper than 850 ft until i make more 
 16,134    800 ft   artefacts
 16,140    800 ft   (1,2d5)[1] longsword of nargothrond 3 lbs
 16,140    800 ft   nice upgrade
 16,228    850 ft   850 ft
 16,228    850 ft   29 smithing
 16,229    850 ft   _treasures reveal anguirel/anglachel, belthronding, ring 
 16,229    850 ft   of accuracy
 16,229    850 ft   going to try to carefully make my way over there
 16,229    850 ft   that extra perception from belthronding will be useful
 16,245    850 ft   also might be an _earthquakes on this floor
 16,245    850 ft   _freedom or _warding also possible
 16,339    850 ft   first encounter of a gwathrauko
 16,415    850 ft   shouldn't have backed up
 16,484    850 ft   that was the last of my herbs of healing
 16,508    850 ft   well that's bullshit
 16,508    850 ft   i got feared through my rfear
 16,552    850 ft   that...was dreadful
 16,552    850 ft   used up 3 !healing, 2 herbs of healing, 1 !quickness
 16,552    850 ft   this is not sustainable
 16,552    850 ft   found a mattock of belegost for the trouble at least
 16,591    850 ft   30 smithing
 16,594    850 ft   Found The Longbow 'Belthronding'
 16,698    850 ft   ring of accuracy +2...could be better
 16,712    850 ft   5d11 for 32 dmg on sleeping lesser vampire, sweet
 16,747    850 ft   Encountered Smaug the Golden
 16,747    850 ft   yea, of course anguirel/anglachel would be guarded by 
 16,747    850 ft   one of the most fearsome dragons who ever lived
 16,782    850 ft   i have to stop missing shots on sleeping drakes...
 16,954    850 ft   ancient ruby serpent gave me a lot of trouble too...
 16,954    850 ft   what doesn't give me trouble around here?
 16,954    850 ft   praying hard for a 3 use forge soon
 16,954    850 ft   it's been over 2k turns since my last one
 17,009    850 ft   20 smithing investment
 17,009    850 ft   31 smithing
 17,042    850 ft   6d8 for 23 dmg on Smaug :)
 17,043    850 ft   Slew Smaug the Golden
 17,043    850 ft   that was actually trivial, but i think it would have 
 17,043    850 ft   been messy if i didn't quaff !quickness
 17,043    850 ft   either he gets lucky rng and rolls consecutive hits on 
 17,043    850 ft   me in the same turn, or he runs off and i can't chase 
 17,043    850 ft   down the kill
 17,053    850 ft   let's see which you are
 17,054    850 ft   Found The Bastard Sword 'Anglachel'
 17,054    850 ft   mm, i prefer nogrod
 17,283    850 ft   50% of the floor explored, no forges yet
 17,303    850 ft   rosewood staff of warding, oh well
 17,310    850 ft   Encountered Tevildo, Prince of Cats
 17,310    850 ft   poor place for this fight
 17,310    850 ft   he'll escape up those stairs if i get him low
 17,311    850 ft   Encountered Oikeroi, Guard of Tevildo
 17,349    850 ft   Slew Tevildo, Prince of Cats
 17,355    850 ft   Slew Oikeroi, Guard of Tevildo
 17,357    850 ft   Dailir
 17,381    850 ft   Found The Arrow 'Dailir'
 17,383    850 ft   jewelled crown of command [0,1d1] from oikeroi
 17,383    850 ft   never mind, that was from tevildo
 17,383    850 ft   dailir was from oikeroi
 17,692    850 ft   32 smithing
 17,777    850 ft   longbow of radiance?
 18,029    850 ft   my god
 18,029    850 ft   the very last room i enter on this floor has a 3 use 
 18,029    850 ft   forge, what are the odds
 18,029    850 ft   3 use forge
 18,029    850 ft   great speed artefact is higher priority than better raw
 18,029    850 ft   stats, imo
 18,326    850 ft   149 turns to recover from 0 to 49 voice
 18,474    850 ft   147 turns out of 320 turns for each 49 voice
 18,526    850 ft   Made The Leather Armour of Time Distortion [-1,1d4]  5.5 
                    lb 
 18,527    850 ft   -1 con ouch, 16 hp
 18,682    900 ft   900 ft
 18,682    900 ft   we've slowed down our pace quite a bit
 18,682    900 ft   this turn count for 900 ft is pretty average
 18,685    900 ft   not a particularly big floor
 18,685    900 ft   we're still going to be struggling a bit until i can 
 18,685    900 ft   find another 3 use forge
 18,685    900 ft   i see durin not too far from us, hopefully not guarded 
 18,685    900 ft   too heavily
 18,882    900 ft   Found The Mail Corslet of Durin
 18,934    900 ft   yep, definitely getting our butt kicked, even with great 
 18,934    900 ft   speed
 18,934    900 ft   turns out great speed doesn't really matter if you're 
 18,934    900 ft   getting whacked by troll guards left and right
 18,955    900 ft   33 smithing btw
 19,223    900 ft   Encountered Belegwath, Balrog of Shadow
 19,223    900 ft   not too concerned about belegwath...but i don't know who 
 19,223    900 ft   he has with him
 19,260    900 ft   _recharging got destroyed by belegwath
 19,260    900 ft   that's really unfortunate
 19,260    900 ft   Destroyed Belegwath, Balrog of Shadow
 19,265    900 ft   did this vampire just drain my strength 3 turns in a row 
 19,343    900 ft   oo
 19,343    900 ft   that has to be anguirel
 19,444    900 ft   Found The Bastard Sword 'Anguirel'
 19,828    900 ft   34 smithing
 19,840    900 ft   chances of a forge on this floor looking kinda bleak
 19,900    900 ft   think i'll backtrack to be safe
 19,902    900 ft   Fell through a false floor
 19,902    950 ft   OH, i guess forced descent is on
 19,902    950 ft   950 ft
 19,902    950 ft   this is honestly...kind of terrifying
 19,967    950 ft   finally, ring of perception <+4>
 19,967    950 ft   hopefully that means no more false floors
 20,028    950 ft   these vampires are really giving me problems
 20,800    950 ft   35 smithing
 20,822    950 ft   y'know, the point of this run was to prove that i can 
 20,822    950 ft   run this build in a way that i wouldn't be rng dependent 
 20,822    950 ft   but it's actually proving that this build is going to be 
 20,822    950 ft   rng-dependent unless i compromise even more
 20,822    950 ft   looks like i forgot that it wasn't just throne room that 
 20,822    950 ft   i struggled with on ekkair
 20,822    950 ft   definitely need luck to find perception rings so you 
 20,822    950 ft   don't get false floored, also significant dependence on
 20,822    950 ft   forges
 20,822    950 ft   even now, if i continue to only find 2 use forges, this
 20,822    950 ft   run may very well fail
 20,861    950 ft   Encountered Ancalagon the Black
 20,868    950 ft   i'm at a loss how i'm supposed to kill that thing
 21,088    950 ft   7d9 for 37 dmg on sleeping great cold-drake
 21,141    950 ft   draugluin?
 21,142    950 ft   Encountered Draugluin, Sire of Werewolves
 21,183    950 ft   Slew Draugluin, Sire of Werewolves
 21,210    950 ft   this game is just dire
 21,210    950 ft   3 !miruvor, 4 !healing, 3 !voice, 1 !str, 1 !dex, 2 !con 
 21,210    950 ft   1 herb of restoration, 6 !grace remaining
 21,212    950 ft   Found The Wolf-Hame of Draugluin
 21,419    950 ft   hithrauko is kicking my ass too?
 21,419    950 ft   i can't see this thing without a source of true sight
 21,526    950 ft   36 smithing
 21,774    950 ft   robe of aredhel
 21,779    950 ft   Found The Robe of Aredhel
 21,832    950 ft   and calris from the chest
 21,834    950 ft   Found The Greatsword 'Calris'
 21,924    950 ft   no forge this floor either?
 22,108    950 ft   time's ticking
 22,108    950 ft   37 smithing
 22,108    950 ft   we've got quite a bit of smithing now
 22,108    950 ft   we just need to actually be able to use it
 22,182    900 ft   900 ft revisited
 22,183    900 ft   thank god
 22,183    900 ft   3 use forge on this floor
 22,236    900 ft   7d11 for 44 dmg on sleeping lesser vampire
 22,600    900 ft   received -2 str and -2 con drain from a vampire lord
 22,600    900 ft   and vampire pair
 22,600    900 ft   strength was so low i was encumbered - good thing i 
 22,600    900 ft   noticed it
 22,651    900 ft   3 use forge
 23,165    900 ft   Made The Set of Mithril Gauntlets 'Second Wind' (+1) 
                    [+1,1d1] <+1>  1.5 lb 
 23,167    900 ft   and there goes my last herb of restoration
 23,167    900 ft   this is a game of inches
 23,185    900 ft   uh the game just deleted my great spear of melkor
 23,185    900 ft   i think i've discovered a bug
 23,185    900 ft   if you shoot dailir and walk over it, you pick it up 
 23,185    900 ft   but somehow the game thinks it should delete another 
 23,185    900 ft   artefact on the floor at the same time
 23,185    900 ft   i dropped it because i was strength drained and it was 
 23,185    900 ft   too heavy for me
 23,185    900 ft   i guess i kept it around as an early solution against 
 23,185    900 ft   serpents, but i have anguirel for those now
 23,185    900 ft   so it's obsolete, but i'd still rather not just randomly 
 23,185    900 ft   lose artefacts because i dropped them on the floor for a 
 23,185    900 ft   few turns...
 23,240    900 ft   oh, gauntlets of the forge <+3> from a troll guard
 23,240    900 ft   that brings me to 38 smithing?
 23,496    900 ft   Found The Set of Gauntlets of Gamil Zirak
 23,496    900 ft   oh interesting...
 23,496    900 ft   guess that makes the new gauntlets of the forge <+3> 
 23,496    900 ft   disposable
 23,509    900 ft   first ancient sapphire serpent
 23,513    900 ft   7d6 for 22 dmg (1h Anguirel), not bad
 23,571    900 ft   7d11 for 30 dmg on sleeping vampire
 23,571    900 ft   i hate those things so much, good riddance
 23,682    900 ft   that's...a lot of vampires
 23,827    900 ft   oh we can return to 950 ft with this false floor
 23,827    900 ft   how convenient
 23,827    900 ft   could use a 2 use forge honestly
 23,827    900 ft   +4 acc, +4 eva rings will boost my rings bonus from 
 23,827    900 ft   +1 acc, +3 eva (4 pts) to 8 pts
 23,827    900 ft   but for sure, 3 use is by far preferable still
 23,827    900 ft   Fell through a false floor
 23,827    950 ft   950 ft (2nd time)
 23,827    950 ft   reached 950 ft last time via a false floor too ha
 23,883    950 ft   consumables situation slowly recovering
 24,049    950 ft   39 smithing
 24,357    950 ft   Encountered Gostir, the Dread Glance
 24,358    950 ft   Encountered Dagorhir, the Elfbane
 24,358    950 ft   fun vault
 24,358    950 ft   i'll lure dagorhir out just in case i get confused or 
 24,358    950 ft   entranced by gostir
 24,423    950 ft   okay, i guess i played that pretty poorly
 24,466    950 ft   i got drained through sustain str and con?
 24,671    950 ft   oh
 24,671    950 ft   2.5 lb (0,2d6)[1] longsword, that's narsil, no?
 24,672    950 ft   Found The Longsword 'Narsil'
 24,731    950 ft   there he is again
 24,766    950 ft   Slew Dagorhir, the Elfbane
 24,768    950 ft   note to self: use sharp weapons against dagorhir
 24,768    950 ft   he has so much protection, no wonder i struggled earlier 
 24,817    950 ft   Encountered Shelob, Spider of Darkness
 24,817    950 ft   oh.
 24,817    950 ft   SHIT
 24,817    950 ft   what the fuck is even this vault?
 24,838    950 ft   3d15?!
 24,846    950 ft   Slew Shelob, Spider of Darkness
 24,847    950 ft   okay, she just crit me
 24,847    950 ft   she was actually easier than dagorhir
 24,882    950 ft   Slew Gostir, the Dread Glance
 25,216    950 ft   herb of restoration please?
 25,216    950 ft   or a forge?
 25,406    950 ft   7th !grace 
 25,572    950 ft   40 smithing
 25,709    950 ft   3 !healing from a small wooden chest
 25,709    950 ft   sadly, i actually need those
 25,783    950 ft   turn 22651 was last forge, it's been 3k turns
 25,783    900 ft   900 ft (3rd time)
 25,785    900 ft   woooo
 25,785    900 ft   3 use forge on this floor
 25,785    900 ft   going to craft my artefact weapon here
 25,785    900 ft   and hopefully that's enough to prepare me for the
 25,785    900 ft   throne room
 25,785    900 ft   there's still a chance i can find another forge after
 25,785    900 ft   but i wouldn't count on it
 25,886    900 ft   first time meeting an adamant serpent 
 25,886    900 ft   that's really late
 25,950    900 ft   3 use forge
 25,950    900 ft   let's get to work
 26,223    900 ft   hungry...
 26,223    900 ft   why has it been so long since we found food?
 26,471    900 ft   Made The Great Spear 'Ruin' (+1,1d13) [+2]  4.0 lb
 26,477    900 ft   what a hauntingly beautiful weapon
 26,478    900 ft   let's find ourselves some food
 26,478    900 ft   that flask of oil looks appetizing...
 26,478    900 ft   would have preferred to put lifesteal on my spear too
 26,478    900 ft   but not enough !str and herbs of restoration

 26,502    900 ft   Slain by an Ururauko.
 26,502    900 ft   Died on 04 November 2022.




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On 11.12.2022 07:42 protopulse wrote:
I said I would try to redo my Ekkair run but refine the build so it's less RNG-reliant, and this was one attempt at it. Unfortunately, it ended tragically. I took a break, and when I came back, I forgot I hadn't equipped my amulet of constitution after using my amulet of blessed realm for the grace bonus when smithing. I was already -1 con drained, and being low on restoration herbs and !con potions, I was thinking ahead so I could restore it all at once at the next forge (which would drain my stats again), as long as I play carefully until then. I missed 2 shots on the Ururauko with my bow, then I miss the Ururauko twice in a row in melee range, and thinking surely I'll get another hit in next...I chanced it instead of kiting back with my great speed, and what you know...the ururauko one shot me from full health.

I had 34 health and rfire. The ururauko rolled a critical on my 25 evasion, and then near a max roll on the 5d10 damage for ~43 dmg. I had 5-15 protection and rolled I think an 8? All told, I was left with -1 health, so it did 35 damage.

Had to take a break after that one. This one hurt.




On 11.12.2022 08:02 protopulse wrote:
Definitely will be retrying this character since I had a lot of fun with it and I'm determined to make one succeed again. But one thing I learned is that no matter how I structure the build, it is going to be RNG-reliant.

1) False floors are always just terribly random. I did the calculation for how much perception you would need to mostly avoid them, and I did not like what I saw. The difficulty for detection of a trap is half dungeon lvl + 10 + 5 for each square of distance from you according to the manual. So say you're at 400 feet, that's dungeon level 8, halved is 4 + 10 = 14 difficulty at 1 tile away. You roll a 1d10 + skill score against that difficulty + 1d10. And you have to beat that. Using anydice, if your perception is 14 at 400 feet, you still only have a 45% chance to detect traps if you have 1 light radius, and nobody's perception is 14 at 400 feet (with 3 grace start, that's 11 perception investment). It boils down to you getting lucky that you just manage to avoid the tiles, you finding plenty of light early on, or taking Eye for Details. And seeing as this build aims to minimize any unnecessary XP investment as to be able to pour more into smithing later on...it kinda defeats the purpose.

2) It's a smithing build. Smithing builds need forges. You get very few forges during your run? Too bad. That's RNG. You get enough forges but they're all 2 use forges? No artefacts for you. You get forges but you hit false floors before you find them? They're gone for good.

3) The opportunity to smith a mattock won't come until quite a bit later. Even if you take leaping, which lets you deal with chasms cutting off part of the level, rubble blocking pathways and vaults encased in quartz won't be accessible until you have a digger.

4) Vampire lords/vampires drained me multiple times through my sustain stats protection. This is probably a skill issue, since I should have used arrows more liberally against them. I got complacent after getting those resistances and thought I wouldn't be in danger of getting stat-drained. Smithing already drains stats, so coupled with vampires, I would be reliant on RNG spawning me sufficient !con/!str/!dex/!gra and ,restoration.

Also, I discovered this run that there is a bug with Dailir. When you shoot it and then pick it up, it makes another artefact on the level straight up disappear. I dropped my Great Spear of Melkor right by the forge and shot Dailir at an enemy that interrupted my smithing. When I picked it up, that spear disappeared from right in front of me. I recorded the game so I watched it again to confirm that it happened. Interestingly enough, this might have been a large reason I died to that ururauko. After discovering the bug, I never again fired Dailir. With my +1 dex ring, belthronding, and +11 from Dailir, I would have almost certainly killed any and all ururakos from range. Instead, I whiffed 2 shots with my bow using my arrows of piercing which have no bonus to archery. Just going to have to be more careful with ururakos in the future. In the end, it was still my fault for forgetting to put my amulet of constitution back on and not respecting the ururauko damage.









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