I've recently killed Medusa (turned the bitch to stone yeah!) and I found a potion of gain level, which accelerated me to level 14, and now I'm on the quest. I've finally decided to ditch my Titan by locking him in an empty room. I hope that turns out alright.
The quest has a surprising number of cool things attached to it. It has multiple shops, barracks, and graveyards! After killing many soldiers, I finally got a bugle (yes! an instrument!). The shops didn't really have anything of value unfortunately.
However, luring the many wraiths to non-graveyard levels has skyrocketed me to level 19! Also, found a normal silver saber, I'll bring that along if I want to dual wield that with Grayswandir. I'll be the bane of demons everywhere!
I found a scroll of genocide, which I promptly blessed and used. DIE c DIE! I know L is dangerous, and that h is fearsome, but only c makes me quake in terror at how a single mistake might end my journey in it's tracks. I'll write more scrolls once I have my PYEC and charged up my marker. Then I'll wish for more if I have to. I'm so happy that nothing can stone me any more! SO SO HAPPY!
I found a spellbook of finger of death, but I'm not really interested in it (as my tourist would have no chance of casting such a high level spell) and so I left it where it lay.
Lastly, I found a ring of teleport, and thinking things over, I'm adding the following items to my wish-list:
-blessed greased fixed ring of polymorph control
-blessed greased fixed ring of teleport control
-blessed greased fixed ring of conflict
I'm serious, I want that ring of polymorph control. Poly'ing into a vampire lord is flipping awesome. They get like 3 attacks every turn, fly, have an extra 10 natural AC, have magical breathing (CAN'T DROWN ME!), and are undead, and thus naturally immune to the harmful effects of the touch of death.