The Angband Ladder: Splinter, Ent Rogue by evariste

  [FAangband 0.3.6 Character Dump]

 Name    : Splinter        Age                   132 Str     18/205   18/***
 Sex     : Male            Height                101 INT!    18/120
 Race    : Ent             Weight                209 WIS!    18/150
 Class   : Rogue           Social Class           51 Dex     18/115   18/160
***WINNER***                                         CON!    18/***
                                                     Chr      18/35    18/80

 Max Hit Points      895   Level                47   Max SP (Mana)        76
 Cur Hit Points      716   Experience      4154973   Cur SP (Mana)        34
                           Max Exp         4154973
        (Fighting)         Exp to Adv.     4200000          (Shooting)
 Blows/Round           4   Gold           10274237   Shots/Round         1.2
 + to Skill           63                             + to Skill           68
 Deadliness (%)      214   Base AC/+ To AC  48/165   Deadliness (%)      212
                           Game Turn        134124

 Fighting    : Heroic      Stealth     : Legendary   Disarming   : Heroic
 Bows/Throw  : Superb      Perception  : Superb      Magic Device: Excellent
 Saving Throw: Superb      Searching   : Superb      Infravision : 30 feet

                            (Character Background)
          You are the wandering offspring of an Entwife whose memory
          men cherish.  You have  five fingers and toes, and are
          covered in dark green skin.
          

  [Recent locations]

 Current Location : Angband Level 0
 Previous Location: Angband Level 99
 Recall Point 1   : Angband Level 99
 Recall Point 2   : Taur-Im-Duinath Level 0
 Recall Point 3   : Angband Level 80
 Recall Point 4   : Anfauglith Level 58

  [Resistances and Powers]

      abcdefghijkl@            abcdefghijkl@
 Acid:+.....+.*.+.. 100% Confu:...+.........  35%
 Elec:......+......  76% Sound:...+..+.+....  83%
 Fire:...*..+.....- 100% Shard:.............   0%
 Cold:+.....+......  84% Nexus:...-..+......  24%
 Pois:......++.....  82% Nethr:......+......  39%
 Lite:...+.........  40% Chaos:........+....  40%
 Dark:+...........+  61% Disen:... .........   0%

      abcdefghijkl@            abcdefghijkl@
S.Dig:+............      M-Mas:.............
Feath:...........+-      Stea.:.+.....+...+.
PLite:....+........      Sear.:.............
Regen:.+..+........      Infra:....+........
Telep:.........+...      Tunn.:.............
Invis:...++........      Speed:..++..+....+.
FrAct:....+...+....      Might:.............
HLife:.............      Shots:.............
Blind:...+.....+...      Throw:.............
NFear:+............      WlBal:.............


  [Specialty Abilities]

Unlight 
Mana Burn 


  [Stat Breakdown]

Stat Intrnl Rce Cls Oth Actual Currnt     abcdefghijkl@
Str: 18/100   4   2   9 18/*** 18/205     ....3...3...
Int: 18/100  -4   1   5 18/120            ...s3....2..
Wis: 18/100   2  -2   5 18/150            ...s3....2..
Dex: 18/100  -3   3   6 18/160 18/115     .2..3.....4.
Con: 18/100   3   1  12 18/***            ...33...3...
Chr: 18/100   0  -5   3  18/80  18/35     ....3.......

  [Last Messages]

> You hack at Morgoth, Lord of Darkness.
> You have slain Morgoth, Lord of Darkness.
> You feel something roll beneath your feet.
> The Long Bow disappears from view.
> The Lead-Filled Mace disappears from view. <2x>
> You feel something roll beneath your feet.
> The Two-Handed Sword disappears from view.
> The Adamantium-plated Rod of Restoration disappears from view.
> The Book of Magic Spells [Raal's Tome of Destruction] disappears from view.
> A magical staircase appears...
> You may learn a specialist ability using the 'O' key.
> *** CONGRATULATIONS ***
> You have won the game!
> You may retire (commit suicide) when you are ready.
> Character dump successful. <2x>


  [Character Equipment]

a) The Battle Axe of Belron (3d8) (+14,+16)
b) a Long Bow of Ossiriand (x4) (+19,+15) (+2)
c) a Marble Ring of Warfare (+7,+7) (+9 to speed)
d) The Ring of Carimphru (+10,+10) [+15] (+3 to speed) (charging)
e) The Necklace of the Dwarves (+3) (charging) {!!}
g) Multi-Hued Dragon Scale Mail of Resistance (-2) [30,+21] (+4 to speed)
h) a Shadow Cloak of Aman [4,+22] (+1 to stealth)
i) The Small Metal Shield of Khazad-dum [5,+21] (+3)
j) The Hard Leather Cap of Mablung [2,+10] (+2)
k) The Set of Cesti of Fingolfin (+10,+10) [4,+15] (+4)
l) a Pair of Hard Leather Boots of Elvenkind [3,+9] (+4)


  [Character Inventory]

a) 2 Books of Magic Spells [Magic for Beginners]
b) 2 Books of Magic Spells [Conjurings and Tricks]
c) 2 Books of Magic Spells [Incantations and Illusions]
d) a Book of Magic Spells [Mordenkainen's Escapes]
e) a Book of Magic Spells [Tenser's Transformations]
f) a Grey Mushroom of Restoring
g) 4 Green Potions of Speed
h) a Blue Speckled Potion of Healing
i) 4 Cloudy Potions of *Healing*
j) a Golden Brown Potion of Life
k) 4 Lavender Potions of Restore Mana
l) a Carnation Potion of Restore Strength (squelch)
m) a Shimmering Potion of Restore Dexterity (squelch)
n) 43 Scrolls titled "pople burea" of Phase Door {!*}
o) 18 Scrolls titled "temsne botman" of Magic Mapping (squelch)
p) 4 Scrolls titled "grepay man er" of *Destruction* {!*}
q) 3 Scrolls titled "soval flit" of Genocide {!*}
r) a Scroll titled "umon valmon" of Mass Genocide {!*}
s) 3 Jeweled Rods of Teleport Away (3 charging) {!!}
t) The Rod of Delving


  [Home Inventory]

a) 9 Magnesium Rods of Perception {a@1}
b) 4 Brass Rods of Sense Surroundings (2 charging) {!!}
c) 9 Zirconium Wands of Teleport Away (7 charges)
d) a Marble Ring of Warfare (+9,+8) (+7 to speed)
e) The Ring 'Ninniach' (+8,+7) [+12] (+2 to stealth)
f) The Elfstone 'Elessar' (+7,+7) [+10] (+2) (charging)
g) The Amulet 'Finaelron' (+3)
h) The Amulet of Denethor (+18,+0) (+2)
i) The Mithril Plate Mail of Celeborn (-3) [35,+25] (+4)
j) The Shadow Cloak of Tuor [4,+15] (+4 to stealth)
k) The Small Leather Shield of the Elements [3,+15]
l) The Hard Leather Cap 'Masada' [2,+15] (+4 to speed)
m) The Barbut of Finarfin [4,+14] (+3)
n) The Steel Helm of Ecthelion [6,+17] (+3)
o) The Set of Leather Gloves 'Cambeleg' (+8,+8) [1,+12] (+2)
p) The Pair of Hard Leather Boots 'Vainquen' [3,+10] (+3 to speed)
q) The Executioner's Sword 'Crisdurian' (4d6) (+18,+19)
r) The Trident of Wrath (3d7) (+16,+18) (+2)


Splinter the Ent Rogue
Began the quest to kill Morgoth on Feb 19 09

============================================================
                                  CHAR.
|   TURN  |      LOCATION        |LEVEL| EVENT
============================================================
|        1| Taur-Im-Duinath Town |  1  | Gained the Unlight specialty.
|    20196|          Andram   7  |  5  | Reached level 5
|    36600|       Amon Rudh  16  | 10  | Reached level 10
|    37670|       Amon Rudh  15  | 10  | Found The Lamp of Gwindor
|    42590|   Ephel Brandir Town | 11  | Killed The Complainer
|    48180|        Gondolin Town | 12  | Moved house to Gondolin.
|    60860|      Anfauglith  48  | 14  | Found The Short Sword 'Dagmor'
|    68545|      Anfauglith  46  | 15  | Reached level 15
|    76725|      Anfauglith  58  | 14  | Found The Barbut of Finarfin
|    77937|      Anfauglith  56  | 14  | Found The Full Plate Armour of 
|  continued...                  |     | Nevrast 
|    78283|      Anfauglith  58  | 14  | Found The Small Metal Shield of 
|  continued...                  |     | Khazad-dum 
|    81529|      Anfauglith  58  | 17  | Found The Spear 'Nimloth'
|    81972|      Anfauglith  56  | 19  | Found The Steel Helm of Ecthelion
|    82281|      Anfauglith  58  | 19  | Found The Broad Sword 'Orcrist'
|    82506|      Anfauglith  58  | 20  | Reached level 20
|    82738|      Anfauglith  58  | 22  | Found The Broad Axe 'Barukkheled'
|    83212|      Anfauglith  58  | 22  | Found The Trident of Wrath
|    84990|      Anfauglith  58  | 25  | Reached level 25
|    86216|      Anfauglith  58  | 26  | Found The Battle Axe of Belron
|    86733|      Anfauglith  58  | 27  | Found The Set of Leather Gloves 
|  continued...                  |     | 'Cambeleg' 
|    86892|      Anfauglith  58  | 27  | Found The Halberd 'Osondir'
|    88486|        Lothlann  56  | 29  | Found The Katana 'Aglarang'
|    89154|      Anfauglith  58  | 29  | Found The Set of Steel Gauntlets 
|  continued...                  |     | 'Camlost' 
|    89665|      Anfauglith  58  | 29  | Found The Small Sword of Idril
|    89860|      Anfauglith  58  | 30  | Reached level 30
|    90262|      Anfauglith  56  | 30  | Found The Pearl 'Nimphelos'
|    92809|       Amon Rudh  30  | 30  | Killed Mim, Betrayer of Turin
|    92812|       Amon Rudh  30  | 30  | Gained the Mana Burn specialty.
|    93170|       Amon Rudh  30  | 30  | Killed Ibun, Son of Mim
|    98854|      Anfauglith  58  | 32  | Found The Flail 'Totila'
|    99412|      Anfauglith  58  | 33  | Found The Small Leather Shield of 
|  continued...                  |     | the Elements 
|   100793|      Anfauglith  58  | 33  | Found The Augmented Chain Mail of 
|  continued...                  |     | Gabel 
|   101162|      Anfauglith  58  | 33  | Killed Eol, the Dark Elven Smith
|   101401|      Anfauglith  56  | 33  | Found The Metal Brigandine Armour 
|  continued...                  |     | of Oromiri 
|   102968|      Anfauglith  58  | 34  | Found The Executioner's Sword 
|  continued...                  |     | 'Crisdurian' 
|   104862|         Angband  65  | 34  | Killed Scatha the Worm
|   105517|         Angband  65  | 35  | Reached level 35
|   105517|         Angband  65  | 35  | Killed Evil Iggy
|   105633|         Angband  66  | 35  | Found The Scimitar of Eglamoth
|   105748|         Angband  68  | 35  | Killed Erotars, Lord of Gaverone
|   106724|         Angband  68  | 37  | Found The Steel Helm 'Deluder'
|   107312|         Angband  68  | 37  | Found The Iron Helm of Vinyamar
|   110429|         Angband  81  | 40  | Reached level 40
|   110505|         Angband  81  | 40  | Found The Amulet of Ranth
|   110655|         Angband  81  | 40  | Killed Draugluin, Sire of All 
|  continued...                  |     | Werewolves 
|   110732|         Angband  81  | 40  | Found The Stone of Lore
|   111627|         Angband  90  | 40  | Found The Amulet of Carlammas
|   111636|         Angband  90  | 40  | Found The Ring of Carimphru
|   113446|         Angband  91  | 40  | Destroyed Vargo, Tyrant of Fire
|   114958|         Angband  96  | 41  | Found The Augmented Chain Mail of 
|  continued...                  |     | Caspanion 
|   115360|         Angband  93  | 41  | Found The Mithril Chain Mail 
|  continued...                  |     | 'Belegennon' 
|   116104|         Angband  97  | 42  | Found The Ring 'Ninniach'
|   116121|         Angband  97  | 42  | Found The Rod of Delving
|   116572|         Angband  97  | 43  | Found The Long Sword 'Narsil'
|   116653|         Angband  97  | 43  | Found The Staff of Winds
|   116684|         Angband  97  | 43  | Found The Elfstone 'Elessar'
|   116688|         Angband  97  | 43  | Found The Amulet 'Finaelron'
|   116754|         Angband  97  | 43  | Found The Ring of Mirieni
|   117132|         Angband  97  | 43  | Found The Necklace of the Dwarves
|   117279|         Angband  97  | 43  | Found The Rod of Portals
|   117310|         Angband  97  | 43  | Found The Long Sword 'Elvagil'
|   117752|         Angband  97  | 44  | Found The Amulet of Ingwe
|   118313|         Angband  97  | 44  | Found The Iron Helm of Gorlim
|   118430|         Angband  97  | 44  | Found The Broad Sword 'Glamdring'
|   118684|         Angband  97  | 44  | Found The Hard Leather Cap of 
|  continued...                  |     | Mablung 
|   119020|         Angband  97  | 44  | Found The Staff of the Kelvar
|   119037|         Angband  97  | 44  | Found The Shadow Cloak of Tuor
|   119219|         Angband  97  | 44  | Found The Rod of Air
|   119494|         Angband  97  | 45  | Reached level 45
|   120216|         Angband  97  | 45  | Found The Amulet of Denethor
|   120231|         Angband  97  | 45  | Found The Ring of Barahir
|   120475|         Angband  97  | 45  | Found The Wand of Osse
|   123197|         Angband  97  | 45  | Found The Chain Mail (Dwarven) of 
|  continued...                  |     | the Mormegil 
|   124565|         Angband  98  | 46  | Found The Amulet of Valaur
|   125132|         Angband  98  | 46  | Found The Wand of Beguiling
|   125153|         Angband  98  | 46  | Found The Mithril Plate Mail of 
|  continued...                  |     | Celeborn 
|   125421|         Angband  98  | 46  | Found The Pair of Hard Leather 
|  continued...                  |     | Boots 'Vainquen' 
|   125817|         Angband  96  | 46  | Found The Hard Leather Cap 'Masada' 
|   125997|         Angband  96  | 46  | Found The Amulet 'Misericordia'
|   126190|         Angband  96  | 46  | Found The Set of Steel Gauntlets of 
|  continued...                  |     | Maeglin 
|   126200|         Angband  96  | 46  | Found The Set of Cesti of Fingolfin 
|   127127|         Angband  98  | 46  | Found The Ring of Faria
|   127270|         Angband  97  | 46  | Killed The Phoenix
|   127971|         Angband  97  | 47  | Found The Torque of Boromir
|   127981|         Angband  97  | 47  | Found The Chain Mail of Valdin
|   128570|         Angband  97  | 47  | Killed Orcogar, Son of Orcobal
|   128781|         Angband  97  | 47  | Destroyed Ji Indur Dawndeath
|   129460|         Angband  97  | 47  | Killed Smaug the Golden
|   129462|         Angband  97  | 47  | Found The Hard Leather Armour of 
|  continued...                  |     | Himring 
|   129468|         Angband  97  | 47  | Found The Set of Leather Gloves of 
|  continued...                  |     | Nurendor 
|   129745|         Angband  97  | 47  | Found The Metal Cap 'Holhenneth'
|   129766|         Angband  97  | 47  | Found The Quarterstaff of Galdor
|   129824|         Angband  97  | 47  | Killed Maeglin, Betrayer of 
|  continued...                  |     | Gondolin 
|   129832|         Angband  97  | 47  | Found The Ring of Tulkas
|   131864|         Angband  98  | 47  | Found The Rod 'Mantle of Shadow'
|   132077|         Angband  99  | 47  | Killed Errata the Mage
|   134121|         Angband 100  | 47  | Killed Morgoth, Lord of Darkness
============================================================
|   134124|         Angband Town | 47  | Still alive
============================================================

  [Options]

Adult: Never return to less danger before winning: no  (adult_ironman)
Adult: Start as a thrall at the gate of Angband  : no  (adult_thrall)
Adult: View and spell distances halved           : no  (adult_small_device)
Score: Peek into object creation                 : no  (score_peek)
Score: Peek into monster creation                : no  (score_hear)
Score: Peek into dungeon creation                : no  (score_room)
Score: Peek into something else                  : no  (score_xtra)
Score: Know complete monster info                : no  (score_know)
Score: Allow player to avoid death               : no  (score_live)

Posted on 25.2.2009 13:28
Last updated on 26.2.2009 03:08

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On 25.2.2009 13:28 evariste wrote:
My first Splinter had a very successful suicidal run to Angband (along the way I picked up Balli Stonehand, which is an incredible early find), but then I lost the character to a player ghost crash -- apparently looking at a Lich player ghost is a bad idea... I now have a timed autosave on, so this shouldn't be such a large problem.

It took several attempts to duplicate the success of the first Splinter, but this attempt has been going very well... I just cleared a red dragon pit with 30-40 Winged Dragons in it, which gave me four levels and many, many artifacts. I'm not sure what the best equipment selection is, nor precisely what more I need before trying to win... presumably more healing potions will be needed, at least.

On 25.2.2009 14:15 Psi wrote:
Oh my goodness.

I see Anf58 is still coughing up the goodies. That is quite some MHDSM too.

I fear the bar has been raised a little out of my sight with this one. All the best against Morgoth...

On 25.2.2009 19:43 Seany C wrote:
Crikey, 122k turns to Ang 97 without getting mashed looks unmatchable. I was busy being proud of myself that my best Splinter got to Menegroth in 70k turns... :)

On 26.2.2009 03:08 evariste wrote:
Okay, Morgoth is dead. I was inefficient at the end for a few silly reasons (which probably cost me five to ten thousand turns):

1. I forgot that this is FA and that Sauron does not need to be killed and certainly does not show up on Angband 99! But I chose equipment for Sauron and searched 1.5 lvls of Angband 99 for him... I only realized what was going on when teleport level took me downwards! And then I had to recall to get stuff for fighting Morgoth...

2. I had also forgotten how easy Morgoth is for a character with a reasonably good melee attack and Mana Burn. Splinter probably could have killed Morgoth immediately after I posted the previous character dump, or at least certainly didn't need so many healing potions.

Anyway, this just means that there is definitely room for someone else to come under this turncount... :-)

On 26.2.2009 09:14 Cave Man wrote:
Fantastic effort. Well done. However, if 'banding is ever going to make it as an Olympic sport, I insist on seeing whether Splinter can pass a dope test. I've heard rumours that the use of performance enhancing fertilizer is becoming rife in the Ent community.



On 26.2.2009 18:24 Donald Jonker wrote:
What I wouldn't give for a ttyrec of this game...

On 27.2.2009 00:25 evariste wrote:
Do Potions of Heroism count as performance-enhancing fertilizer? I'm not sure, but Morgoth might have dispelled away the evidence...

No ttyrec here, but I can give the general outline of what Splinter did:

1. Recall to Amon Rudh and go up to the wilderness. This moves Splinter closer to Angband, which is the initial goal. (Actually, I first set a recall point right outside Taur-Im-Duinath in order to be able to recall to the town later, but this really wasn't very useful to me... I think I got one potion of healing and one potion of restore mana out of it. It would have probably been much more useful had I realized that buying out a traveling merchant shop works...)

2. Run through the wilderness to Gondolin. Pick up items as they show up, but the goal is to travel as quickly as possible. This only starts to become a little tricky near Gondolin, since high stealth and efficient movement allows one to evade most enemies. Even hounds are not usually a major problem at this point, since breath attenuation means that you can just run from them and take the breaths

3. Move home to Gondolin, identify/sell the loot picked up (there wasn't much if I remember correctly) and use the money to buy scrolls of teleportation and teleport level.

4. Continue running through the wilderness towards Angband. It was probably fairly close to night (50000 turns) at Gondolin, so Splinter will soon be able to take full advantage of unlight's stealth bonus. This makes things easier, but the creatures start getting very dangerous at this point. This is where the teleportation/teleport level come in -- you will need to use them from time to time. Although teleport level takes Splinter out of the wilderness, it is usually not difficult to find stairs to come back; alternatively, another teleport level will always work (so two scrolls of teleport level act as alter reality in the wilderness. Try to get as far as possible before daybreak (60000 turns); this Splinter got to Anfauglith 48.

5. Wait 10000 turns for night. Splinter spent most of that time hanging around the edges of Anfauglith 46 and 48, picking up items. The main gain from this time was a decent number of stat potions. Also, Splinter recalled back to Gondolin at some point to restock on teleport.

6. Run to Anfauglith 58. This is not too bad in the night with enough teleport, even at CL 14.

7. Profit -- There are many artifacts at Anfauglith 58, as well as other useful items. This is very dangerous at first (I believe that Splinter fell to 0hp once after a nexus vortex teleported him into a mass of inertia hounds...), but not too bad if you stay near the edge of the map. Gain experience from the frequent groups of Vrocks and Mumak... they both provide large quantities of experience and are quite easy to kill (even at very low levels using archery/wands). Splinter stayed at Anfauglith for ~25000 turns and was quite strong by the end -- the luckiest find there was the +9 speed Ring of Warfare, which induced me to descend into Angband.

Oh, and getting items from Anfauglith 58 is more annoying at night (though still perfectly doable with object detection), so Splinter went and killed Mim during part of one such night to get Mana Burn.

8. Go down. Splinter's only source of telepathy at this point was a weapon of Gondolin (and he didn't find another source until the party at Angband 97), so switching weapons all the time was annoying. But descending through Angband was straightforward enough. Splinter was mainly just looking for doable demon/dragon pits on his way down, since they provide a lot of loot and experience. Packs of Mumak were also slaughtered for experience whenever found. I think that Splinter may have found a couple of lesser dragon pits, but nothing particularly exciting showed up until the rather nice artifact ring I used until the end.

9. Kill Winged Dragons. At this point, Splinter was easily strong enough to kill Winged Dragons of Fire or Bile, with the desired immunities and resistances. Splinter bounced around in the 90s of Angband for a while looking for dragons and eventually found a pit which was almost half Winged Dragons of Fire. The resulting gains provided almost everything remaining needed to win, though Splinter still went around killing more dragons and accumulating more consumables for a little while afterwards.

10. Kill Morgoth. Splinter had +20 speed from equipment, all relevant resists, a reasonably good Mana Burning melee attack, and more than enough healing potions. Retire.

On 27.2.2009 11:30 Psi wrote:
I'm trying a very similar strategy at the moment and I actually reached Anf58 quicker than you. After nightfall I recalled back... only to discover I'd forgotten to move home - D'OH! I've now wasted any advantage in making my way back to Gondolin again...

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