Sauruman at "1500 Vault

[Kav]

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                                                 Slow (-4)      Study 1500 ft

near the bottom right is sauruman, why? OMG this is the nastiest vault I have ever seen. Nevermind the rediculous loot. There's 2 copies of Raal's and more, plus stupid amounts of priest books. Ho-Ly-Crap. I'm a little bit of the way through mostly teleporting other to steal the loot. I'm so scared one of them is going to one-shot me. I've never felt so alive

[Nick]

near the bottom right is sauruman, why?

Every second thing is up to 40 levels OOD

[Kav]

*Saruman

here are some actual screen dumps:

http://groesch.org:1337/angband/

I've already got more artifacts than I know what to do with. Got Raal's and there's another copy in there too. Blue DSM and more where that came from.

God, I'm going to die and I just know it. But look at that loot, I just can't help it!

[Kav]

Just added the char dump of what I made it out with when I had to teleport level to stay alive. The dump tells the story probably. Was gonna teleport other some guys when suddenly BAM! 70hps, teleported level immediatly. And before I got the Black DSM No matter, I came out with a sick amount of artifacts and Raal's, I ALWAYS have terrible luck finding Raal's.

Hilights are:
=speed +6
Full Plate Armour of Isildur [25,+25] (+1)
Cloak of Protection [1,+15]
Golden Crown of the Magi [0,+6] (+1)
Leather Gloves 'Cammithrim' [1,+10]
Metal Shod Boots of Thror [6,+20] (+3)
Gold Dragon Scale Mail (-2) [30,+20]
Two-Handed Sword 'Zarcuthra' (4d6) (+19,+21) (+4)

and a few other interesting tidbits.

This is the best vault I have ever seen, it let me fight (teleport other) the enemies one at a time (usually), and the spectral creatures couldn't get through the permanent wall!

I will forever remember this day long after this char is dead as the day I found the best loot ever and didn't even bring back 1/4 of it

[Daven_26d1]

lol, I usually take these kinds of vaults as a personal challenge, so normally this would be the last screen I see before the tombstone pops up! Well done you for actually escaping! One trick to bear in mind for the future: 'q' a !spd before you stone2mud walls that are hiding scary monsters, helps cut down on instadeath!

[Kav]

I usually never find very many speed pots, but I had haste self and I was DEFINITELY casting it before every section, and sometimes Scarabtarices resist if it was a particularly nasty baddie.

In all honesty I did stone to mud more than once since there were ghosts stuck in the wall I wanted to nail with teleport at the same time but waited too long for the teleport other and had to use the teleport level before they obliterated me.

It was crazy, right after the trip up to town the very next level had Anduril and Barukkheled. After not finding any loot for 1-25 I'm now hitting the jackpot each trip! 1500" best depth EVER!