Nipsy has a lot of missiles to pick up, and a lot of health to regain. She's also got some victory dancing to do, or in this case Pyrrhic victory dancing.
Nipsy plays the ID game and comes up with nothing. What a stark contrast her crappy luck is to that of another fellow we'll meet when she dies. She heads down to D5 with her unbranded +0 weapon which is the best she's found in her class so far.
Ice beast? Burny-types live for those. Enjoy the feeling of power while you can, Nipsy.
Six casts of Throw Flame later. Way to bring the pain, honey... (the ice beast eventually succumbs after a chase through half the dungeon).
Nipsy finds a randart robe which we can categorize as Stupid but Ever So Slightly Better Than Nothing. But Stupid.
MUST CONTROL RAGE. I take a minute to review the thread to remember what I'm supposed to do when I see jellies. I decide to polymorph it.
Oh, I just could not be more pleased with how that turned out.
Nipsy relies on her superior evasion to keep the ogre from smashing her, and she achieves eighth level. Good for you, Nips! Str increases of its own accord, because of course it does.
Nipsy finds a fucking food shop. A cock sucking fucking piece of shit food shop. Fuck you.
Well this is a fine way to start a level. Let's try another stairway. Eustachio, by the way, is one of my least favorites. All demon summoners are my least favorites. I don't even understand how they're in the same universe as any other type of monster. WAIT let me try to polymorph him! Research on this subject is inconsequential, although I wonder if I'm just missing something that's so obvious to everyone else that no one thought to write it down. I give it a shot.
Oh, that is sweet.
You menace. I believe you won't find Nipsy such easy prey this time. Maybe.
Either that's a mimic, or who fucking cares anyway? (It's not a mimic. I've never actually seen a pearl dragon. Hmmm, the armor that would result from this either has a -2 or -3 EV penalty, depending on whether you believe the wiki or the LearnDB. -2 wouldn't be SUCH a gimping of spellcasting, and it could be a ghetto artifact...)
The question is academic since I lack any enchant armour scrolls. Plus armor doesn't fit right on nagas anyway. And where's the fucking temple, anyway? And why are people on the street below my window loudly protesting Domino's Pizza, of all places? You can't make this shit up.
Frigging centaurs. Nipsy backs away....
...and stumbles into a sewer level! Very nice. Retroactively repeating myself, I remind you that nagas suffer a movement penalty in water, but no combat penalty.
This is the suckiest, most tedious, least dangerous, most loot-less-est shit sewer ever. And Nipsy makes ninth level. I choose Int.
Time to take out the trash.
(Nipsy subsequently discovers a scroll of Enchant Armour, rendering the Pearl Dragon Hide question un-academic.)
Woe, this again (retrospectively).
Battle turns ugly. Do you know what I DON'T expect to read when I'm wielding a halberd (base dmg: 13) and sporting a 20 Str? "You hit the big kobold, but do no damage" twice in a row. WHAT THE FUCK?
The fight goes on forever, and I see that accursed message so many times that my brain shuts down. It's a very close affair, and I wonder if I'll ever get a naga character who can actually kill anything because the Nipster does not seem to be that character at all.
Bit of a party at the entrance to the Mines. The Nipster discovers an artifact dagger, wonder how awesome THAT will be. (As usual, since it's a useless item type, the properties are useful)
Nipsy's first few steps on D7 take her to a shaft which deposits her on D10. Guess the game doesn't want her to have a god. And look who's here to welcome the new arrival! 3 zaps of the poly wand are still a small price to pay. (The resulting killer bee actually takes more than half Nipsy's health before it's vanquished, the sort of thing which is leading me to believe I don't have a viable character on my hands here. :sadface: )
After a long, ugly haul, the Nipster is back where she started. Can she have a god now please? Also note that she's got one scroll of detect curse and zero scrolls of remove curse, which limits her ability to try stuff on.
Burninating a necrophage gets our godless heroine to level 10. Level 10, no temple, two rings and no amulets the entire game. Still using a 0, +1 unbranded weapon. Bravo, Nispy. Bravo.
I haven't been trying out wands, I'd better remember to do that. (2 wands get resisted, which annoys the fuck out of me)
I got your stupid fucking temple right here (rude gesture omitted)! (Inside are all 15 altars you might hope for.)
I'm thinking Cheibriados, because frankly I'm always thinking Cheibriados. No one is giving up less by agreeing to go slow than a naga. Him or the blow-stuff-up guy. But I'm definitely playing her more as a hybrid, and Che is good for that.
3 more scrolls of Enchant Armour, but not one of Remove Curse. Sure would like to try out that plain trident I found, but it's probably not worth the risk. And any thoughts on the Pearl Dragon hide?
And Nipsy should probably memorize some more spells.
Code:
Skills:
+ Level 3 Fighting
- Level 5 Polearms
- Level 2 Throwing
- Level 1 Armour
- Level 2 Dodging
+ Level 6 Stealth
- Level 1 Stabbing
+ Level 5 Spellcasting
+ Level 8 Conjurations
- Level 3 Translocations
+ Level 8 Fire Magic
You have 13 spell levels left.
You know the following spells:
Your Spells Type Power Success Level Hunger
a - Apportation Tloc ###....... Great 1 None
b - Throw Flame Fire/Conj #####.. Excellent 2 Strawberry
c - Conjure Flame Fire/Conj #####.... Excellent 3 Choko