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[inaluct]

Actually, I think that the only god I'm really unimpressed with is Makhleb. Trog is already the angry god and he does a better job. I don't think I've ever really gotten anything out of following Makhleb.

Makhleb grants you powers like Summon Demon, offensive spells, and demonic minions as gifts.

Xom summons friendly demons for you, Trog lets you summon two headed ogres, Kikubaaqudgha lets you summon reapers, and Lugonu lets you abyssify parts of a level. And Xom doesn't even require you to sacrifice corpses. I guess I've just had bad luck with Makhleb.

Dragooble, try playing as a Spriggan Assassin. Just sneak up on and stab everything. When you see something you can't kill in melee (hound, ogre, orc warrior) shoot curare tipped needles at them. Run away from things. If you'd rather just stab stuff, but still have a challenge, play a thief of almost any race.

Try a naga if you want to play a survival horror game where you hide from monsters instead of actually running up and killing them. The have the highest stealth of any race in the game, spit poison, and move slowly.

[Dragooble]

i just want to be able to play a midget that can obliterate everything by batting an eyebrow;D. looking at some of the spellbooks in this game, spellcasters seem to fit this bill.

[deadlycairn]

I picked random race and ended up as a Naga conjurer.
Not suited to my playing style AT ALL. I believe I died on the second level.
Previously I was a minotaur berserker, but that ended badly when I met an Ogre, with no helpful spells or potions on me, and hungry so I couldn't beserk.
Ill see if i can random me up a good character.

[inaluct]

This just in: nagas coil in front of altars. Also, I think I'll try a naga conjurer now.

[Il Palazzo]

anybody knows what are those Zot runes for?

[inaluct]

You need them to get into The Realm of Zot, the last dungeon branch.

[deadlycairn]

I believe you require 3 out of a possible ~16, and once you have those can enter the realm of zot from dungeon level 27. The Orb of Zot is on the 5th level of the realm of zot. I know this despite never getting beyond dungeon lvl 5

[inaluct]

Okay, so yeah, I can't play naga conjurers. Next time I try, I'm gonna pick the ice book. Not having Mephitic Cloud is probably what killed me.

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 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.4.4 (crawl-ref) character file.

270 Medusa the Ruinous (level 5, -16/37 HPs)
             Began as a Naga Conjurer on Jan 11, 2009.
             Was a Follower of Sif Muna.
             Demolished by an orc warrior
             ... wielding an orcish morningstar (19 damage)
             ... on Level 5 of the Dungeon.
             The game lasted 00:10:44 (1889 turns).

Medusa the Ruinous (Naga Conjurer)                  Turns: 1889, Time: 00:10:44

HP -16/37        AC  3     Str 10      Exp: 5/253 (60), need: 70
MP   0/9         EV  7     Int 17      God: Sif Muna *
Gold 93          SH  0     Dex 11      Spells:  3 memorised,  2 levels left

Res.Fire  : . . .   See Invis. : +   i - +0,+1 orc trident
Res.Cold  : . . .   Warding    : .   g - +0 orc leather armour
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   (no shield)
Res.Poison: +       Res.Corr.  : .   (no helmet)
Res.Elec. : .       Clarity    : .   (no cloak)
                                     (no gloves)
Sust.Abil.: .       Rnd.Telep. : .   (barding restricted)
Res.Mut.  : .       Ctrl.Telep.: .   (no amulet)
Res.Slow  : .       Levitation : .   (no ring)
Saprovore : . . .   Ctrl.Flight: .   (no ring)

@: slightly resistant to magic, stealthy
A: spit poison, poison resistance, see invisible, deformed body 1
a: Spit Poison, Channel Energy, Renounce Religion


You were on level 5 of the Dungeon.
You worshipped Sif Muna.
Sif Muna was most pleased with you.
You were not hungry.

You visited 2 branches of the dungeon, and saw 6 of its levels.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 a - a +0,+0 knife
 f - a +0,+0 spear (quivered)
 i - a +0,+1 orcish trident (weapon)
Armour
 b - a +0 robe
 e - a +0 dwarven chain mail of cold resistance
 g - a +0 orcish leather armour (worn)
Comestibles
 d - a bread ration
Jewellery
 h - a cursed -3 ring of protection
Books
 c - a book of Conjurations [fire]


 You had 60 experience left.

   Skills:
 + Level 1 Dodging
 + Level 4 Stealth
 + Level 2 Spellcasting
 + Level 6 Conjurations
 + Level 1 Earth Magic


You had 2 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power          Success   Level
a - Magic Dart            Conj           ####           Excellent   1
b - Throw Flame           Fire/Conj      ###...         Very Good   2
c - Stone Arrow           Erth/Conj      ###...         Very Good   3


Overview of the Dungeon

Branches:
Temple: D:5


                    Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

Armour fits poorly on your serpentine body.
You cannot wear boots.
You can spit poison.
You cover ground very slowly.
Your system is immune to poisons.
You have supernaturally acute eyesight.


Message History

<lightgrey>mail.<lightgrey>
The orc warrior is lightly wounded.
The stone arrow hits the orc warrior.
The orc warrior is moderately wounded.
You have gained Earth Magic skill!
The orc warrior hits you with an orcish morningstar!
Ouch! That really hurt!

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 #..# #......# #.#.#
 ...#.##########+#%#
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##.................#
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###..........%.....#
#  ...........o....#
#  .#.#####....@.).#
#  .#     #.######.#
###.#.#  ##.########
......#. #..........
....................
......#.#......o...
......# #..........
......# #..........
......# #.........


You could see an orc warrior.

Vanquished Creatures
  An imp (D:5)
  An orc priest (D:5)
  A hound (D:5)
  A giant ant (D:5)
  2 snakes (D:5)
  A worm (D:4)
  5 giant bats
  2 giant cockroaches (D:3)
  A giant gecko (D:4)
  3 goblins
  3 hobgoblins
  3 jackals (D:3)
  5 orcs (D:5)
  3 giant newts
  3 kobolds
  A quokka (D:4)
  4 rats
40 creatures vanquished.

Notes
Turn   | Place   | Note
--------------------------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1     | Medusa, the Naga Conjurer, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1     | Reached XP level 1. HP: 12/12 MP: 3/3
   236 | D:3     | Reached XP level 2. HP: 16/18 MP: 3/4
   336 | D:3     | Learned a level 2 spell: Throw Flame
   719 | D:5     | Entered Level 5 of the Dungeon
   786 | D:4     | Reached skill 5 in Conjurations
   848 | D:4     | Reached XP level 3. HP: 22/23 MP: 2/5
   991 | Temple  | Entered the Ecumenical Temple
  1074 | Temple  | Became a worshipper of Sif Muna the Loreminder
  1084 | D:5     | Reached XP level 4. HP: 29/30 MP: 2/7
  1386 | D:5     | Learned a level 3 spell: Stone Arrow
  1592 | D:5     | Reached skill 6 in Conjurations
  1661 | D:5     | Acquired Sif Muna's first power
  1790 | D:5     | Reached XP level 5. HP: 36/37 MP: 5/9
  1888 | D:5     | Reached skill 1 in Earth Magic
  1889 | D:5     | Demolished by an orc warrior

[deadlycairn]

See, I had a superior weapon and armour to that, but my first spell was that one (forgot the name) that illuminates them to make them easier to hit. Slightly luckier with my second spell, ensorcelled hibernation, then I got Mephitic Cloud, which helped me none at all. Then again, I'm a noob.

[DJ]

Oh man, I'm playing my best character ever. Gange Millows the Nibmle, a level 12 halfling of Nemelex Xobeh, who started as a thief. I've got AC 13 and evasion 28, thanks to an artefact ring. Nothing but those pesky electric eels can hit me reliably.

I got two decks of escape, a deck of destruction, a deck of summonings and a deck of defence. My main weapon was a +4 +3 short sword of electrocution, but now I've found a +6 +4 scimitar Hymibi that does extra damage, protects me from fire and enhances my eyesight. Just what I need for a certain fire drake I ran from. Well, either that or my trusty sling of frost.

I'm also learning magic, and it's going surprisingly quickly. I got spellcasting at 4 and fire magic at 2, and when I raise those two a bit more I'm going to learn fireball. In the meantime, I have a wand of fireball, as well as three wands of fire, two wands of cold and a wand of polymorph other (which is absolute murder on the uniques because it effectively strips them of equipment). Speaking of magic, blink + blowgun is insanely powerful.

Anyway, I wonder what this one will succumb to. I got plenty of means to escape (aforementioned decks plus 11 scrolls of teleport, and I'll be learning the teleport spell soon), so I don't see anything pinning me down long enough to kill me. The only thing that scares me right now is Abyss. Let's hope there aren't any orcs running around with weapons of distortion like the last time I got sent there. I've been to Abyss several times in my career, and I've never gotten out of it.

[Il Palazzo]

I got several weapons of distortion from Torg, but always discarded them. What do they do?

Also, is there a way to tell draconian skin-colour before lvl7? or a way to control/change it?

[Kagus]

Distortion.  Not half bad, if you ask me.

By the way Inaluct, that message isn't from Okawaru.  You get that naturally after you've trained up Traps 'n' Doors a couple levels.

Makhleb seems rather dull to me...  I don't think he gives gifts, and the only other benefits he provides are summoning and destruction spells.  Slightly bland.


Speaking of abyssifying, has anyone actually gotten it to work?  My latest attempt at a Lugonuian ended rather pathetically.

[deadlycairn]

Turns out it was Naga Enchanter, not conjurer. First spell was Corona.

[inaluct]

Yeah, I figured it was an enchanter when you described Corona. I've never actually played an enchanter seriously, so I don't have any tips. You might want to try a naga wizard, if you are amused by the thought of a medusa-thing slithering around wearing a wizard hat and killing kobolds. Mephitic Cloud poisons and confuses, which makes it superbly useful. I ended up dying because I wasn't fast enough to get away from that orc warrior and I couldn't kill it before it got to me. If I had had Mephitic Cloud, I could have confused it and stabbed the crap out of it mercilessly. Nagas are poison resistant, so I could have just used the cloud and kept stabbing without repercussion.

So, Traps and Doors has messages like that? Huh.

I've gotten a human chaos knight to abyssify The Ecumenical Temple before. I'll try and do some abyssifying again so I can show you guys a character dump of it in progress. I think ! is to take a living character and make a chardump.

[deadlycairn]

I completely suck at this game, and despite my preference for playing wizardy characters, I am better as a warrior. So I'm going for a mountain dwarf fighter.