emperor | [angband] Time to die soon...

This character is now 4th place, and as deep as I've ever been before, although noticably less tough than my previous character who was killed at this depth by an Ancient gold dragon on score 900918 after 3,034,800; my score is now 651887 after 2,503,600, so I'm lagging behind a bit.

Dlvl 40 is pretty scary, really. I keep having to run away! Still, I just took out Adunaphel the Quiet, who was quite a big fat kill.

  [Angband 3.0.5 Character Dump]

 Name   Matthew                                  Self  RB  CB  EB   Best
 Sex    Male              Age       125   STR:  18/97  +1  -5  +8 18/137
 Race   High-Elf          Height     80   INT:  18/93  +3  +3  +4 18/193
 Class  Mage              Weight    167   WIS:  18/85  -1  +0  +0  18/75
 Title  Conjurer          Status     41   DEX! 18/100  +3  +1  +2 18/160
 HP     304/304           Maximize    Y   CON:  18/52  +1  -2  +2  18/62
 SP     266/273           Preserve    Y   CHR:  18/70  +5  +1  +0 18/130

 Level           34       Armor     [23,+45]     Saving Throw     Heroic
 Cur Exp     647887       Fight     (+18,+9)     Stealth          Superb
 Max Exp     647887       Melee    (+27,+18)     Fighting         Heroic
 Adv Exp     805000       Shoot    (+41,+11)     Shooting      Legendary
 MaxDepth    Lev 40       Blows       4/turn     Disarming        Superb
 Gold        115584       Shots       1/turn     Magic Device  Legendary
                                                 Perception         Good
 Burden   156.8 lbs       Infra        80 ft     Searching          Fair

 You are one of several children of a Telerin Archer.  You have light
 grey eyes, straight black hair, and a fair complexion.



      abcdefghijkl@       abcdefghijkl@
 Acid:......+.+.... Blind:.............
 Elec:......+.+.... Confu:......+......
 Fire:......+.+.... Sound:.............
 Cold:......+.+.... Shard:.............
 Pois:............. Nexus:........+....
 Fear:............. Nethr:.............
 Lite:............+ Chaos:.............
 Dark:............. Disen:.............

      abcdefghijkl@       abcdefghijkl@
S.Dig:............. Stea.:......+.+....
Feath:............. Sear.:.............
PLite:............. Infra:.........+...
Regen:....+........ Tunn.:.............
Telep:............. Speed:...........+.
Invis:+...........+ Blows:.............
FrAct:+............ Shots:.............
HLife:............. Might:.............


  [Character Equipment]

a) a Broad Sword of Westernesse (2d5) (+9,+9) (+2)
   It increases your strength, dexterity, and constitution by 2.  It slays 
   orcs, trolls, and giants.  It grants you immunity to paralysis and the
   ability to see invisible things.  
b) a Light Crossbow of Accuracy (x3) (+23,+11)
c) a Garnet Ring of Strength (+6)
   It increases your strength by 6.  It sustains your strength.  
d) a Bloodstone Ring of Intelligence (+4)
   It increases your intelligence by 4.  It sustains your intelligence.  
e) a Pewter Amulet of Regeneration
   It speeds your regeneration.  
f) The Phial of Galadriel
   It lights the dungeon around you.  It cannot be harmed by the elements.
   It might have hidden powers.
g) Leather Scale Mail of Elvenkind (-1) [11,+12] (+3 to stealth)
   It increases your stealth by 3.  It provides resistance to acid, 
   lightning, fire, cold, and confusion.  It cannot be harmed by the
   elements.  
h) (nothing)
i) a Small Metal Shield of Elvenkind [3,+15] (+2 to stealth)
   It increases your stealth by 2.  It provides resistance to acid, 
   lightning, fire, cold, and nexus.  It cannot be harmed by the elements.
   
j) a Metal Cap of Infravision [3,-1] (+4)
   It increases your infravision by 4.  
k) (nothing)
l) a Pair of Metal Shod Boots of Speed [6,+8] (+4)
   It increases your speed by 4.  


  [Character Inventory]

a) 3 Books of Magic Spells [Magic for Beginners]
b) 3 Books of Magic Spells [Conjurings and Tricks] {25% off}
c) 3 Books of Magic Spells [Incantations and Illusions]
d) 2 Books of Magic Spells [Sorcery and Evocations]
e) a Book of Magic Spells [Resistances of Scarabtarices]
   It cannot be harmed by the elements.  
f) a Slimy Mushroom of Cure Blindness
g) 12 Red Mushrooms of Cure Confusion
h) 3 Green Speckled Potions of Speed
i) 4 Yellow Potions of Healing
j) 5 Dark Red Potions of Restore Mana
k) a Scroll titled "temab ipbu" of Teleportation
l) 3 Scrolls titled "mifa xseh" of Word of Recall {10% off}
m) 2 Scrolls titled "fritox nelgsat" of *Identify*
n) a Scroll titled "habit ipab" of Protection from Evil
o) a Nickel Rod of Restoration (charging)
   It cannot be harmed by electricity.  
p) an Aluminum-Plated Wand of Teleport Other (11 charges)
q) a Brass Wand of Dragon's Breath (4 charges)
   It cannot be harmed by the elements.  
r) a Bloodstone Ring of Intelligence (+3)
   It increases your intelligence by 3.  It sustains your intelligence.  
s) a Malachite Ring of Dexterity (+6)
   It increases your dexterity by 6.  It sustains your dexterity.  
t) Augmented Chain Mail of Elvenkind (-2) [16,+14] (+1 to stealth)
   It increases your stealth by 1.  It provides resistance to acid, 
   lightning, fire, cold, and blindness.  It cannot be harmed by the
   elements.  
u) a Cloak [1,+4]
v) a Halberd of Venom (3d5) (+11,+7)
   It is branded with poison.  
w) 7 Bolts of Venom (1d5) (+6,+7)
   It is branded with poison.  


  [Home Inventory]

a) 2 Books of Magic Spells [Magic for Beginners]
b) 2 Books of Magic Spells [Conjurings and Tricks] {25% off}
c) 4 Books of Magic Spells [Incantations and Illusions]
d) 5 Books of Magic Spells [Sorcery and Evocations]
e) a Book of Magic Spells [Tenser's Transformations]
   It cannot be harmed by the elements.  
f) a Dark Green Mushroom of Restoring
g) a Green Speckled Potion of Speed
h) 2 Brown Speckled Potions of Restore Life Levels
i) a Pink Speckled Potion of Restore Intelligence
j) a Scroll titled "fritox nelgsat" of *Identify*
k) 3 Scrolls titled "habit ipab" of Protection from Evil
l) a Scroll titled "nintue jo xi" of Mass Banishment
m) a Tortoise Shell Ring of Protection [+13]
n) a Moonstone Ring of Free Action
   It grants you immunity to paralysis.  
o) 2 Marble Rings of Constitution (+2)
   It increases your constitution by 2.  It sustains your constitution.  
p) a Ruby Ring of Damage (+8)
q) The Star of Elendil
   It lights the dungeon around you.  It cannot be harmed by the elements.
   It might have hidden powers.
r) Chain Mail (Dwarven) (-2) [14,+13] (+1)
   It increases your strength and constitution by 1.  It increases your 
   infravision by 1.  It grants you immunity to paralysis.  It cannot be
   harmed by acid or fire.  
s) The Soft Leather Armour 'Hithlomir' [4,+20] (+4)
   It increases your stealth by 4.  It cannot be harmed by the elements.  
   It might have hidden powers.
t) Soft Leather Armour of Elvenkind [4,+15] (+1 to stealth)
   It increases your stealth by 1.  It provides resistance to acid, 
   lightning, fire, cold, and nether.  It cannot be harmed by the
   elements.  
u) The Dagger 'Narthanc' (2d4) (+4,+6)
   It cannot be harmed by the elements.  It might have hidden powers.
v) a Broad Sword of *Slay Giant* (2d5) (+6,+4) (+2)
   It increases your strength by 2.  It slays giants.  It sustains your 
   strength.  
w) a Beaked Axe (Defender) (2d6) (+8,+6) [+2] (+4 to stealth)
   It increases your stealth by 4.  It provides resistance to acid, 
   lightning, fire, and cold.  It sustains your constitution.  It makes
   you fall like a feather and speeds your regeneration.  It grants you 
   immunity to paralysis and the ability to see invisible things.  It
   cannot be harmed by the elements.  
x) a Lucerne Hammer of Westernesse (2d5) (+7,+7) (+1)
   It increases your strength, dexterity, and constitution by 1.  It slays 
   orcs, trolls, and giants.  It grants you immunity to paralysis and the
   ability to see invisible things.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

See, when you get that deep you get all that really cool-looking stuff. I haven't yet got deeper than DL6 or 7, and then I tend to die embarrassingly. Clearly I haven't got the strategy right yet...

I have that sort of problem too...

See below for the odd hopefully-useful tip. You might find the spoilers useful, especially for monsters. I don't think it's worth having a character killed to discover that carrion crawlers have a paralysis attack, for example!

A few random things I do at low levels (as a mage, but I suspect generally applicable):
i) rest a lot. If you're not on max HP/SP, rest.
ii) search a lot. Run around with search on all the time until you get a thing (spell/rod/staff) that can find traps and doors
iii) scrolls of identify are your friend, once you can start to afford them; until then, pick up all the stuff you find, and don't worry too much about selling it to ID it. The exceptions are if you have good pseudo-id (in which case, drop ordinary weapons and armour), or things dropped by uniques
iv) try and detect monsters before fighting them. You really don't have to fight everything, and running away is often a good plan
v) carry 2 WoR scrolls in the dungeon - that way if one gets burned, you can use the other!
vi) if you're going to die anyway, no harm in trying un-id'd potions/mushrooms - otherwise, avoid them

Level 40 is certainly scary without poison resistance! I'd be tempted to hang around there until stats max out, in the hope of getting something to provide that, before venturing much deeper.

I have the spell version, which should do against things that aren't AMHDs or Dracolichs.

And you're a mage, which means that as long as you keep yourself prophylactically hasted and temporary-rpois, AMHDs and drolems never get a second shot because you teleport them away. (A Dracolich will still own your pasty-white elven butt.)

So do you have it up all the time while exploring? Lots of characters die to off-screen drolems breathing poison at them, below level 40! I haven't played really since I won, but I remember being paranoid about going below 40 until I got poison resistance. Anyway, best of luck :-)

[angband] Time to die soon...

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