YAFAP: magus-Kni-Hum-Mal-Law (genoless, polyselfless, artiwishless)

[marcmagus]

(Crossposted to rec.games.roguelike.nethack)

Magus the Seignieur      St:18/** Dx:23 Co:18 In:23 Wi:23 Ch:18
Lawful
Astral Plane $:0 HP:302(307) Pw:137(281) AC:-49 Xp:27/70077908 T:76211
You offer the Amulet of Yendor to Lugh...--More--
An invisible choir sings, and you are bathed in radiance...--More--
The voice of Lugh booms out: "Congratulations, mortal!"--More--
"In return for thy service, I grant thee the gift of Immortality!"--More--
You ascend to the status of Demigod...--More--
Do you want your possessions identified? [ynq] (n) 

After the better part of a decade of playing off and on, I've finally done it. I went mounted almost the whole way, except for the final 10 steps or so . . . I'll get to that.

I forget now what took out my warhorse. Much sadness; I stashed the saddle somewhere and wandered around for a good while looking for a new mount. I think I picked up another horse for a little while, but I was running out of apples/carrots, and I remember one starved to death under me.

On foot for a while longer, then came up with a scroll of taming right around when I found the portal to Fort Ludios. I love riding silver dragons. I know at some point I cleared out the fort and gave all the money to the priest in Minetown. I'm pretty sure I was on the dragon when I did the quest. Then it ate a doppleganger, and a barrow wight just doesn't make a good mount.

Fortunately, by now I knew taming. I had the idea to try out mountain centaurs, and had seen one wandering around. There's definitely something nice about a mount who'll wear armor and wield weapons (and wear an amulet of reflection), and they're plenty fast (unlike the dragon). I'd take them earlier if I could in the future. Unfortunately, their lack of flight is a bit of a handicap.

My first big break came when I got to Medusa's Island. I saw a robe sitting around on a little island outside (nice), and thought I'd run and grab it before going back to do a bit of cleanup higher in the dungeon and try to come up with a better means of levitation than potions. So I drank my blessed potion of levitation, and a djinn popped out and offered me a wish. Handy. Silver dragon scale-mail means I don't have to keep wearing this amulet of reflection, and can start casting spells effectively.

I exhausted the charges in a wand of polymorph trying to get some better rings and spellbooks (ultimately largely successful, and kind of fun), then headed downward.

In the Castle, I wished for a blessed figurine of a ki-rin. *That* is a sweet mount. It gets bonus points for healing itself. I rode it for the rest of the game, until a mess of enemies on the Astral Plane brought it down as I was dashing for what turned out to be Lugh's altar (second one I looked at).

Not much else particularly interesting, except I suppose the little brag that this was the first time I saw the Wizard of Yendor. I was ready.

I'm sad I let the ki-rin drop on my way to the end, though. I'd even wished for a stethescope to keep an eye on it.

Amulets
J - an uncursed amulet of life saving (being worn)
Weapons
a - the blessed rustproof +6 Excalibur (weapon in hand)
b - a blessed rustproof +7 lance (alternate weapon; not wielded)
Armor
g - a blessed fireproof +5 pair of gauntlets of dexterity (being
worn)
r - a blessed fireproof +4 robe named fireproof (being worn)
B - a cursed fireproof +4 small shield named fireproof (being worn)
C - a blessed +5 Hawaiian shirt (being worn)
E - a blessed +5 helm of brilliance (being worn)
M - an uncursed +4 silver dragon scale mail (being worn)
W - an uncursed fireproof +5 pair of speed boots (being worn)
[...and assorted other stuff...]
Final Attributes:
You were the Hand of Elbereth.
You were piously aligned.
You were fire resistant.
You were cold resistant.
You were sleep resistant.
You were disintegration-resistant.
You were shock resistant.
You were poison resistant.
You were level-drain resistant.
You were magic-protected.
You saw invisible.
You were telepathic.
You had automatic searching.
You were invisible to others.
You were stealthy.
You could jump.
You had slower digestion.
You were protected.
You were very fast.
You had reflection.
You had free action.
Your life would have been saved.
You were extremely lucky.
You had extra luck.
Good luck did not time out for you.
You survived.
Vanquished creatures:
Asmodeus
Baalzebub
Orcus
Yeenoghu
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (4 times)
Pestilence
Famine (twice)
5 arch-liches
a high priest
Medusa
Croesus
8 krakens
[...]
2786 creatures vanquished.
Voluntary challenges:
You never genocided any monsters.
You never changed form.
You used 5 wishes.
You did not wish for any artifacts.
Fare thee well magus the Demigod...
You went to your reward with 3621192 points,
Excalibur (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
The Book of the Dead (worth 10000 zorkmids and 25000 points)
The Bell of Opening (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
The Magic Mirror of Merlin (worth 1500 zorkmids and 3750 points)
The Candelabrum of Invocation (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
    11 emeralds (worth 27500 zorkmids),
    10 rubies (worth 35000 zorkmids),
    5 diamonds (worth 20000 zorkmids),
    3 sapphires (worth 9000 zorkmids),
    3 black opals (worth 7500 zorkmids),
    2 dilithium crystals (worth 9000 zorkmids),
    3 amulets of life saving (worth 450 zorkmids),
    1 amulet of magical breathing (worth 150 zorkmids),
and 316 pieces of gold, after 76211 moves.
You were level 27 with a maximum of 307 hit points when you ascended. 

Comments

[buckydt.livejournal.com]

Congrats

[oldsilenus.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. :)

[muppetk.livejournal.com]

I beat the original version of rogue (one of the originals, 5.1 or something like that) about a year ago, and afterwards went around saying that I needed a shirt that said "I found the Amulet of Yendor and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." Someone, maybe T, maybe Chris, kept saying that I should wear it to a con. Pretty sure it was Chris. I believe my answer was "what do I need with a swarm of 50-something fanboys?"

Never played nethack or any version of the game younger than me... or at least, younger than my little sister. It's possible the version I was playing was from '82.

So anyhow, it sounds like fun, congrats!

[marcmagus]

Nice. I've never tried rogue.

There are plenty of younger people playing the rogue-likes. Of course, most people looking at the T-shirt would think it was about Nethack, I'd expect.

[penguinkraft.livejournal.com]

*high five*

[soulchanger.livejournal.com]

Holy shit dude.

Word.

[mneme]

Nice -- grats!

I need to try a melee class at some point; I've worked on monk, but that's kinda similar to wizard (only worse).

[marcmagus]

Thanks!

Yeah, you should. I should actually ascend a valkyrie sometime; as far as I've played them, they really do seem to be as easy as everybody says. Half damage from everything? Sweet.

I'm not sure I'd call knights a melee class. They actually do best mounted and dancing just out of melee reach with the lance, occasionally jousting for big damage and a stun. Then somewhere midgame they transition into a nice mixed pounding/casting class, with heals (keep mount healthy), create sacrifice, and obscenely powerful magic missiles added in to the tap, tap, pound, withdraw, repeat routine. Did I mention the obscenely powerful magic missiles?

I need to relearn how to play classes which start the game soft and squishy. I've been doing too much knight, valkyrie, and monk lately; I forget to keep back enough.

[tadhgka.livejournal.com]

Though I probably should have averted my eyes to avoid getting spoiled, I totally didn't, so congratulations! I'm deeply impressed.

[marcmagus]

Thank you. I'm curious what of what I said you found spoily; I didn't go into too much detail. Although in the interest of not helping spoil anybody else, perhaps I should ask you elsewhere.

[tadhgka.livejournal.com]

Well, "spoiled" is probably a bit strong. "Indications of things that might appear" and "clues of things to investigate in connection to each other" would have been more accurate.