My minotaur warrior Gluteus Max is
still kicking collective dungeon-beast ass. He's become a champion of Okawaru, and is kitted out in +2 plate mail of magic resistance, +2 gauntlets, +2 boots of running gifted to him from Okawaru, and a +1 shield. He's able to buff his stats thanks to Okawaru, and is armed with a +3 +4 elven long sword of holy wrath, and also got a +6 +1 scimitar of draining from Okawaru that could be useful. Also a backup sling and over 200 stones. Oh, and he's also gotten mutations that increase his rate of health regen and occasionally cause him to berserk in combat. Yeah,
berserk. I even have an amulet that lets me go berserk on command at 50% success rate. I'm a
crazy minotaur monster.
AC is at 27, SH is 26, and a Strength stat of 26. Experience level 12. 104 health total, not counting when 'zerking. I've killed so many awesome things I've lost track.
At one point he was sent to the Abyss during a raid in the Elven Halls. It was my first time. I killed some demons and made my way back out before a lich and black dragon skeleton got too close. Those were the most dangerous things I saw there, and I was thinking of fighting the lich until the dragon skeleton showed up.
The latest feat of awesome was a one on one fight with a 6-headed hydra, listed as
extremely dangerous. I had no blunt weapons at hand and risked lopping off hydra heads with my cutting weapons. I called on Okawaru to buff my stats, quaffed a potion of speed, pulled out my handy-dandy longsword and went berserk on the poor hydra.
There was much head-lopping and blood-spewing.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
I get the feeling this is gonna end like my first knight in Nethack, where everything goes hopelessly wrong. I've already had some close calls.