It was worth the trouble

[Ugramoth]

9-7 feeling on DL9.

9 turned out to be 2(!) pits of minor demons which lead to 2 very tedious (and dangerous for low level HE mage) fights, but the reward was:

Rod of Speed with only 200 turn recharge at normal speed! But that's not all: in the other pit, boots of Elvenkind, +7 to speed!!

I already had been lucky enough to find good stockpile of potions of speed so now this mage can go +17 in practically all difficult situations.

Time to deep descent.

[sffp]

Your @ will feel like a god for a while

But remember thou too are mortal

It breathes. You die.

[malcontent]

Just to double check - are you sure one or both of those were not dropped by a demon? I would think those items together, or even the boots by themselves, rate higher than 7 at DL 9.

Regardless - wreak some havoc!

[Ugramoth]

Boots were on the floor and rod was a lucky drop from a quasit.