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[drkpaladin]

For lulz I made a halfling enchanter and worshipped the first god I came across, Xom.  I planned on betraying him as soon as I got to the temple, except the temple in my dungeon is completely surrounded by translucent walls, therefore inaccessible, and any other altar I would want is similarly inaccessible.

Xom however, even though he made his usual couple attempts on my life, actually saved this char from death at one point, only my second time seeing that despite playing chaos knights about 500 times in a row (prior to this tourney).  I was doing well, I found three handaxes of returning and a poison dagger which I enchanted up.  I neglected my magic since the halfling proficiency is so low, but I found a few spellbooks which I might be able to use, including fulsome's distillation and evaporate and an amulet of clarity.  My character's skills are spread a little thin, a little more fighter than mage definately, but I managed to fight my way to the entrance of the lair on D9.  I figured I could take it nice and slow down there and make something my guy. 

Unfortunately as I was making sure that D9 was clear, after storing my gear, I fell down a shaft to d11.  With some difficulty, I was able to take out a couple cyclopsi one at a time on the spot I fell down.  I was searching for the stairs up I saw one set guarded by a unique, I backed off since she didn't see me.  But then a group further north did see me, but it was in a narrow corridor.  Unfortunately Xom decided to holy smite my ass down to 1 HP, doing far less damage to the enemies around me while he was at it.  I started backing up, but the noise woke up the unique in the other room.  So with one HP with a hill giant in my face and a zombie something or other, I did the only thing I could, I popped down a scroll of fog, crossed my fingers, dodged the attacks, popped a scroll of fear to make at least one extra back off, then a scroll of tele and another dodge while moving in the  fog.  I stayed alive long enough for the tele to get off, popped up right in front a a centaur, who actually missed his shot (first time ever for a centaur), I popped another scroll of fog, moved away, he chases me through the fog, I throw some confuse spells at him, takes more than one since my spellcasting sucks pretty hardcore, I charge at him and rip him like a pillowcase.

Where I tele'd was cornered by giants on either side, and not far from the first group, I was forced to run away deeper into the dungeon. 

So now I'm at the low end of character level 11, and on d12.  Damn, If I could make it to the surface, I think I'd just escape.

[Seriyu]

I think if you hit search near the hallways ending in the transluscent walls surrounding the temple it'll find doors in at least one of them.

[Meanmelter]

For lulz I made a halfling enchanter and worshipped the first god I came across, Xom.  I planned on betraying him as soon as I got to the temple, except the temple in my dungeon is completely surrounded by translucent walls, therefore inaccessible, and any other altar I would want is similarly inaccessible.

Xom however, even though he made his usual couple attempts on my life, actually saved this char from death at one point, only my second time seeing that despite playing chaos knights about 500 times in a row (prior to this tourney).  I was doing well, I found three handaxes of returning and a poison dagger which I enchanted up.  I neglected my magic since the halfling proficiency is so low, but I found a few spellbooks which I might be able to use, including fulsome's distillation and evaporate and an amulet of clarity.  My character's skills are spread a little thin, a little more fighter than mage definately, but I managed to fight my way to the entrance of the lair on D9.  I figured I could take it nice and slow down there and make something my guy. 

Unfortunately as I was making sure that D9 was clear, after storing my gear, I fell down a shaft to d11.  With some difficulty, I was able to take out a couple cyclopsi one at a time on the spot I fell down.  I was searching for the stairs up I saw one set guarded by a unique, I backed off since she didn't see me.  But then a group further north did see me, but it was in a narrow corridor.  Unfortunately Xom decided to holy smite my ass down to 1 HP, doing far less damage to the enemies around me while he was at it.  I started backing up, but the noise woke up the unique in the other room.  So with one HP with a hill giant in my face and a zombie something or other, I did the only thing I could, I popped down a scroll of fog, crossed my fingers, dodged the attacks, popped a scroll of fear to make at least one extra back off, then a scroll of tele and another dodge while moving in the  fog.  I stayed alive long enough for the tele to get off, popped up right in front a a centaur, who actually missed his shot (first time ever for a centaur), I popped another scroll of fog, moved away, he chases me through the fog, I throw some confuse spells at him, takes more than one since my spellcasting sucks pretty hardcore, I charge at him and rip him like a pillowcase.

Where I tele'd was cornered by giants on either side, and not far from the first group, I was forced to run away deeper into the dungeon. 

So now I'm at the low end of character level 11, and on d12.  Damn, If I could make it to the surface, I think I'd just escape.

Keep going! Maybe you can speedrun grab the orb?

[drkpaladin]

I think if you hit search near the hallways ending in the transluscent walls surrounding the temple it'll find doors in at least one of them.

That didn't even cross my mind, lol. 

Oh well, I made it out and hit up the lair, killed some player ghost in there with a Xom summoned army in my favor, found the necronomicon and my lucky streak ended with a hydra chasing me down like a dog while I tried to escape with the loot.

I've never beat this game, so a speed run would be totally accidental. 

I'm always extra dissapointed when it isn't Xom that kills me.

Edit: In hindsight, I wasn't totally completely unprepared for the Lair, but the venom-mage player ghost I ran into prompted me to use a scroll of tele, and between the activation and the teleport, Xom's army came to beat him down for me, (So a ghost kill for a player more powerful than me I was). and then proceeded to try and regroup on my position while leading the hydra to me.  So I guess in a way I can blame Xom, since he saved my char earlier that just evens the score.

[Meanmelter]

Xom doesn't kill you, he just helps others kill you. Xom is usually nice until Dungeon 5. Where he starts getting real bitchy. Either way, its still random.

[Seriyu]

Yeah, one of my best charecters way back when was a Xommite. Got down to the vaults. He's not as terrible as people make him out to be, but why make the game more random then it needs to be?

EDIT: Incidentally drkpaladin, I just killed a ghost of yours in the lair, was tossin mephetic clouds everywhere.

[drkpaladin]

Yeah, one of my best charecters way back when was a Xommite. Got down to the vaults. He's not as terrible as people make him out to be, but why make the game more random then it needs to be?

EDIT: Incidentally drkpaladin, I just killed a ghost of yours in the lair, was tossin mephetic clouds everywhere.

haha, its good to know someone ran into him, I didn't expect him to be a threat to anyone though lol.  I'm glad it was someone on bay12 that got the points for the kill though.

[Seriyu]

Anything that knows any version of mephetic cloud (or evaporate) is an inevitably deadly ghost to anything without Rpois or a nice stack of healing potions.

[freeformschooler]

God I love the part of DCSS where everything you pick up has some crazy enchantments.

[Robsoie]

Just cleared Snake Pit, my first online rune !
The team is already over 500 points, that's great.

[freeformschooler]

YES. I just killed a player ghost, of who was it... RexBael? A well equipped Dwarf Fighter. I really would have been dead without that Wand of Cold.

Now it's time to micromanage my skill points using that ludicrous amount of filthy player ghost reward XP.

[ggeezz]

Boris!!!

[Robsoie]

I love finding potions of experiences, instant one level gain, it helps a very lot, though i waited until i was level 18 to drink it, big risk as i could have died before while i was in Snake Pit.

I just hope to find more of them , too bad thery're very very rare

[Meanmelter]

Damn I'm really slacking point-wise.

[freeformschooler]

Why are some classes so much harder to start with >:c
For example, what REALLY is the strategy for Ice Elementalists? If you're an Ice+Air Conjurer you're set, but otherwise the moment you hit your first ice beast, if you haven't been really sinking the points into a backup plan (melee/throwing/praying to find an alternate spellbook?) you get pretty screwed over.