Wednesday, May 19, 2004
I've got a new knight going.
Dipped for Excalibur, and then went after the mines. In the shop level I found _two_ magic lamps. Two wishes later I have Grey Dragon Scale Mail and Speed Boots.
Up to the Sokoban, collect bag of holding. Bless it.
Back to the mines. Clear the entire thing and get the luckstone.
Along the way I pick up a set of robes. With Grey Dragon Scale Mail and robes, I can dump metal armor and cast spells! Of course, I'm too dumb to read spell books, but I bless the pair I own and find that they are force bolt and ID. Even with crappy %, I can still eventually ID all of my crap. Helm of Brilliance is good...
I have a ring of levitation and slow digestion, but no teleport control or conflict.
No means of reflection, but I did find a scroll of genocide. I blessed it and wiped out L's. Then I found a magic marker! Bye bye ;'s, h's and R's. I think that's everything you need to genocide.
I've enchanted Excalibur up to +7, and I am using a silver saber and twoweaponing. I don't know if I am doing more damage or not. I'm also a skilled rider, so one of my wishes will be for a blessed figurine of a dragon, so I can ride it through Hell.
I need to do Medusa and then the Castle. After that I might be level 14, and would be able to do the quest. With the Magic Mirror, my spell damage doubles, so the two spellbooks I need to find are Magic Missile and Magic Mapping.
My vision of a mighty knight riding a dragon may soon come true. From long range he blasts you with magic missiles, and at short he twoweapons with Excalibur and a Silver Saber.
I'm doomed, aren't I?
OK, I killed Medusa. Went down and cleared the castle. Wand of Wishing produced an amulet of reflection and a blessed figurine of a red dragon. One saddle later and I'm flying around the dungeon on a dragon of my own.
Let me just say that riding a dragon kicks ass. Repeat, kick ass.
I got the level 14 by cleaning out the castle, so time to do the quest. Ixoth jumps me, so we throw down. He's doing thing, teleporting to the up staircase to heal and then coming back to pound on me. I fly to the staircase (I should eat something to get teleport ability now that I have the proper ring), and Ixoth runs upstairs. I follow, he hits me, and I go downstairs. Ixoth follows me. So now I'm standing on the up staircase and he can't do squat. I get ready to hit Ixoth, but my dragon whomps him like three or four times and kills him.
So I need to eat a Leprechaun, get a spellbook of Magic Mapping and then take on Hell. I've got the mirror, so my forcebolts are doing double damage. I also have protection and (normal) healing, so I've got some decent combat spells. I've got enough spellpoints to make me play like a wizard at long distance and a Samurai-lite at short distance, and, oh yeah, I've got a dragon.
Knights riding Dragons that can teleport are even cooler...
But stupidity sucks.
I flew down into the first level of Hell and got surrounded by monsters. They pounded me, and I died. I did at least three things wrong here. First of all, I went down without a light source on. Therefore I had no idea where the up staircase, and hence escape, was. Also, I was wearing a ring of teleport control, rather than my +3 ring of protection. Also, I knew the protection spell, and didn't bother casting it a few times before I flew down to Hell.
So I've lost two very strong characters in a row in the first levels of Hell. That's nothing bu sloppy.
:(
Dipped for Excalibur, and then went after the mines. In the shop level I found _two_ magic lamps. Two wishes later I have Grey Dragon Scale Mail and Speed Boots.
Up to the Sokoban, collect bag of holding. Bless it.
Back to the mines. Clear the entire thing and get the luckstone.
Along the way I pick up a set of robes. With Grey Dragon Scale Mail and robes, I can dump metal armor and cast spells! Of course, I'm too dumb to read spell books, but I bless the pair I own and find that they are force bolt and ID. Even with crappy %, I can still eventually ID all of my crap. Helm of Brilliance is good...
I have a ring of levitation and slow digestion, but no teleport control or conflict.
No means of reflection, but I did find a scroll of genocide. I blessed it and wiped out L's. Then I found a magic marker! Bye bye ;'s, h's and R's. I think that's everything you need to genocide.
I've enchanted Excalibur up to +7, and I am using a silver saber and twoweaponing. I don't know if I am doing more damage or not. I'm also a skilled rider, so one of my wishes will be for a blessed figurine of a dragon, so I can ride it through Hell.
I need to do Medusa and then the Castle. After that I might be level 14, and would be able to do the quest. With the Magic Mirror, my spell damage doubles, so the two spellbooks I need to find are Magic Missile and Magic Mapping.
My vision of a mighty knight riding a dragon may soon come true. From long range he blasts you with magic missiles, and at short he twoweapons with Excalibur and a Silver Saber.
I'm doomed, aren't I?
OK, I killed Medusa. Went down and cleared the castle. Wand of Wishing produced an amulet of reflection and a blessed figurine of a red dragon. One saddle later and I'm flying around the dungeon on a dragon of my own.
Let me just say that riding a dragon kicks ass. Repeat, kick ass.
I got the level 14 by cleaning out the castle, so time to do the quest. Ixoth jumps me, so we throw down. He's doing thing, teleporting to the up staircase to heal and then coming back to pound on me. I fly to the staircase (I should eat something to get teleport ability now that I have the proper ring), and Ixoth runs upstairs. I follow, he hits me, and I go downstairs. Ixoth follows me. So now I'm standing on the up staircase and he can't do squat. I get ready to hit Ixoth, but my dragon whomps him like three or four times and kills him.
So I need to eat a Leprechaun, get a spellbook of Magic Mapping and then take on Hell. I've got the mirror, so my forcebolts are doing double damage. I also have protection and (normal) healing, so I've got some decent combat spells. I've got enough spellpoints to make me play like a wizard at long distance and a Samurai-lite at short distance, and, oh yeah, I've got a dragon.
Knights riding Dragons that can teleport are even cooler...
But stupidity sucks.
I flew down into the first level of Hell and got surrounded by monsters. They pounded me, and I died. I did at least three things wrong here. First of all, I went down without a light source on. Therefore I had no idea where the up staircase, and hence escape, was. Also, I was wearing a ring of teleport control, rather than my +3 ring of protection. Also, I knew the protection spell, and didn't bother casting it a few times before I flew down to Hell.
So I've lost two very strong characters in a row in the first levels of Hell. That's nothing bu sloppy.
:(
