The great adventures of Nimlorn

[Sky]

21th recall: i dump everything and descend with my regular gear, 1 book of each, 8 extra recalls (i really need 4),3 rod of treasure,3 rod of mapping (need 2 of each), 1 enlightment, 15 CCW, 3 restore mana, 3 restore life levels.

i just need this stuff to cover one full dungeon level, and can go back to restock if i need more.

DL45:

the good news is my DM extends to almost the entire dungeon. i see fire hounds, small dragons, a umber hulk .. child's play.

A small chest drops me Mordekainen's Escapes; wow, endgame gear. Four more character levels before i can cast Rune Of Protection, and at this point, it's probably useful to grind the XP, as RoP means most uniques are as good as dead. Also useful, i won't have to carry recall scrolls anymore.

I find a long line of vrocks, which don't resist acid. i get killing (they have a lot of hp) and a death quasit shows up and starts draining my DEX mid-fight .. how rude.
I blink and kill it, take another couple hits, but i was gonna Vigor my DEX back anyway.

Level feeling is 5-5, so i head to the stairs.

DL46: i ESP a whole bunch of mature dragons, a 7-head hydra, and some impact hounds, all within 5 squares of me.
I put my back to the wall and try to avoid the force effect, and kill all the hounds. A young red dragon drops The Leather Boots of Beras, [2,+20], (+5, +7) +2 DEX, pFear, pConf, Regen, imm.lightn, not exactly endgame, but i will stash it until the Armorer raises his maximum pay score.

I kill a couple of Ancient Green Dragons without effort, and make away with a potion of *Heal. There is a Ancient Multi Hued Dragon here, but it's sleeping and i don't feel like dying, so i leave it alone.

Level feeling 5-5, i head for the stairs.

DL47:

a whole bunch of ghouls and ghasts; did these guys get the memo that i can cast fire bolt?

kill them, an elven dark sorcerer, light up the room, find a second Resistances, the level feeling is 6-4. i go to the stairs.

DL48: really small maze level. one potion of WIS, level feeling 5-4. stairs.

DL49: a marilith; i try to haste and melee it, but it turns out i'm not so tough. i blink and acid bolt it many, many times. it does pay out a good deal of XP, though.
A stupid Aranea burns one of my books .. i need to recall. This level was only 6-3 anyway.

22nd recall: the BM has a potion of Heal, and .. 13 scrolls of MBan.

all i need to do now, is find 13 greater vaults.

i sell my scrolls of recall, stash 12 of the MBan, and double up on the base mage books, it's time i did that. i'm also gonna start carrying one potion of Heal.

somewhere along the line, i have levelled up, and i am now CL33, 451 HP, and 261 SP.

DL47:

i recall next to some algoroths, and a maia, all sleeping and easily killed by acid bolt.

i make my way to the next room, and there is an ancient gold dragon here, 3 treasures, and 5 hellhounds. Instead of lighting the room, i S2M through an obstacle, see two of the three treasures (a potion of STR), and grab it just as the hellhounds wake up. i Tele Self; the hounds will burn my MBan, guaranteed.

the level feeling comes back as 6-6. i look at a coupel treasures, kill some ologs, then head for the stairs.
"you are hit by something strange"

i thought that message was weird, because i was sure i was being hit by some cold hounds. instead, it's a time vortex.

this actually works for me, i quaff a RLL and get back my 5 points of DEX i had lost to that quasit.

I decide to walk around a bit more, then i see an animal pit (hydras, winged horrors, werewolves ..) and decide against it: winged horrors breathe nether, which i do not resist.

stairs!

DL50: finally, this place seems terribly dangerous!

or so they say. all i can see is various flavours of trolls.

i make my way to the first bunch of trolls, when another death quasit comes at me with his passwall. oh no, not this time. i start blinking and Haste myself, then when i'm in a room, i nuke him with acid.
a law drake, innocent bystander, gets caught in the acid war and perishes.

i move to kill some ologs, and then i stupidly do battle with a ranger and a berserker. i need to haste, slow them both, and blink a few times, but i make away with my life and not more than 5k XP. However, i'm smiling because i recognize the colour of a potion the ranger dropped .. CERULEAN !

yep, a potion of Aug. but before i can reach it, Ren The Unclean shows up, ready to mess up my day.
I decide the best thing is to TO him, quaff the potion, and then decide. The level feeling has come back as 7-5, no artifacts here.

glubgluglugluglub aaah, i quaff the potion and can now count on STR 18/93, INT 18/200, WIS 18/30, DEX 18/70, CON 18/172 (!), 484 HP, and 264 SP. i can easily dig through granite, and melee for a pathetic 70 Dmg/round.

i don't get much time to decide anything. as i kill the water trolls in the next room, i can see Ren approaching, and i also spot Rognar, The Black Troll, sleeping next door.

I tentatively approach to set up the fight, when he wakes up, along with all his friends. I Haste, slow him, blink twice, then proceed as standard and nuke him with acid. He drops The Main Gauche 'Eirnendaur', (1d5) (+8,+22), acid brand, slays everything, but unfortunately no ESP or speed bonus.

i decide to have a go at Ren. My idea is, just keep walking and he will show up; and sure enough, he's there before i even cleared a single room.

i start as usual, but i only have 180 mana, from killing some ice trolls. i haste, slow him, and then nuke him, but i have to blink once and i wind up in the room to the north, where the rest of Rognar's friends decide to join the acid bath party. Eventually everything dies, with me at 6 SP.
Ren dropped 5 items, all junk.

stairs!

DL51:

i start next to an ancient gold dragon, but nothing else, so i slow him and nuke him, for his 3k XP.

instead, a Dreadmaster in the next room pays a lot more at 10k, with his erratic movement not helping him avoid my acid bolts.

this is a 8- feeling level, so i'm taking it easy. i find a potion of CON (put me at CON 18/178) lying around, and i try to rest, but a sorceres summons me, and i see that the next room is a 6-room demi-vault.
i kill a ranger before he has a chance to summon everything in the game, head back to the previous room, and rest.

a second dreadmaster shows up, and i have to blink and S2M to get to a room, otherwise he cannot be targeted by my spells as he has passwall. Once in the first room, i nuke him.
I go to the demi vault, and kill some ogres, two death knights, a non-death quasit .. which drops TWO potions of DEX .. and i find 3 potions of INT, which i guess i will sell.

The level feeling finally comes back as 8-$, and a good reason for that 8 might be that Fundin Bluecloak is here, and i sure do not have the gear to kill him. Obviously, i TO him away.
I grab a couple potions, and a death drake shows up. Another passwall, great.

I nuke him a lot, he breathes nether, and for some reason i get the message "you resist the effect". I guess i'm allowed a saving throw anyway?

I wear a nice Dwarven Chain Mail +2 STR +2 CON +2 Infra and carry on.

I finally have the area under control, and i quaff my Enlightment potion .. of which i actually have 5, on me, from various drops, and see that it might have been wasted. There is only one other item in the whole dungeon, everything else was here.

i rush the item. i meet some feeble resistance along the way, but with 550 HP from the Dwarven bonus, i can pretty much bully any mob short of a DL60 undead. It turns out to be a sellable, a chain of resistance, so i load up with stuff to sell and head back to town.

[Sky]

22nd recall..

i go through my pack and see The Executioner's Sword of Faulgon, (4d5), (+15,+17), +2 Blows, Poison Brand, FA. Not the most exciting drop, but it would bring me to 320 Dmg/round poison, 200 normal.

And also, the Pendant of Lirdaiach, +1 WIS, +1 Light, +1 Stealth, rDark, rLight, rSound, sCON, HL, nice but nowhere near as nice as what i have now.

The Black Market is selling a helm of telepathy ..
I'm still wearing a helm of intelligence +2, if i take that off, my SP should go down .. to ..

well this is weird. Wearing my Dwarven armour, and helm, brings me to 250 SP. taking off the helm of intelligence, brings me UP to 256 SP. (this is due to the armour weight penalty)

for testing, if i take off the dwarven armour, i go to 265 SP, and if i only wear the helm .. still 265. looks like INT 180 and INT 200 have the same spell point bonus.

i make an executive decision, buy the helm of ESP, and wield my newlyfound executioner's sword.
this drops me to +7 base speed, but with twice the DPS, and i can still Haste. 550 HP, 250 SP .. 320/200 damage ..

let's go dungeoneering!

[Sky]

DL51: this could be trouble.

i recall in a corridor, ESP range to Eol, The Dark Elf, an Elder Vampire (passwall), a whole bunch of Time Hounds .. level feeling 8-. i cut to the chase and quaff my single Enlightment potion right away.

Ok, there are two vaults here. One is the sideways-zigzag vault, and the other is a proper vault, with impassable stone. Where to use my Mban?

well, it's a risk, i should probably see the other vault first, but i HATE time hounds.

.. and then i realize something must have burned my MBam .. DAMN!

i try to nuke the vault, but there is no way i can do this in one pass.

also, to the north, there is a room full of dangerous mobs, a range chieftain, a patriarch .. and Eol wakes up. i TO him, then i TS myself, for some reason in that order. The loss of that MBan is too much for my brain to take.

I keep TS to avoid fighting passwalls that drain life in small corridors. i wind up waking a Crystal Drake which engages me in a extended battle, and i have to resort to Meteor Swarm (31% fail rate) to kill it, with several TO in between and him always finding the way back. Finally i kill it, and ding! to CL34, 565 HP, 258 SP.

i decide to clear a room to the south, to have the left side of the map completely cleared. I fight an enchantress which has time to summon a Death Drake, that hurts me so bad i have to quaff two Heal.

next, is a room close enough for ESP, and it's a troll pit, chock full of troll priests. i haste to the door, and fill it with Acid Ball. Inside, the Steel Shod Boots of Lothil, [7,+12], +7 Speed. Well, it's something.

I go to check out the other vault. I find the elder vampire that's been chasing me, and manage to slow it and he kindly follows me through a corridor, so i fire bolt him. I wake up Medusa, The Gorgon, and TO her away.

In the vault, i see.. well, nothing excessive. I kill some annoying gravity hounds, and a ranger chieftain (i just found a ring of damage +0,+12), and The Scimitar of Moron (accent on the second "o", this is a +2 Blows, 4d2 +12, +15 artifact that i will sell), a AMHD, which i decide to kill .. after all, i have Resistances, so let's put it to use.

And what do you know, he was sitting on The Iron Helm of Helmalir [7,+14] which not only grants ESP, but also +5 DEX, rPois, rDark (which i didnt have), bringing my DPS from 349 to 424 (278 vs resist).

Well, i'm not done yet.

i move around the map, clearing everything before i go to the other vault. i run into Eol, Fundin again, and TO them, then clear a "soldier's room" with lots of mobs in it, TO Medusa, and find myself face to face with Lorgan, Chief Of The Easterlings, who i cannot fight right now.

I TO him, and then something burns my Mage3 books .. i have no acid bolt.

I try my best with Frost Bolt and Magic Missile, and kill some Kobolds, including Mugash, The Kobold Lord, which at this point is just a fat kobold. Somehow, Lorgan managed to find his way into this vault, so i TO him again. ..
The time hound breathes time, and while i'm not hit (i dont know what happened), it kills a bunch of stuff that i wanted dead anyway.

I area-effect the time hounds. i dont kill a single one, but i wound them a lot. eventually i get breathed on and i TS.

I make it back to the vault, i try several times to not engage, but i get swarmed, in the end i accept i will not make any XP out of these hounds, and just straight up murder them with my big sword, then use my RLL and clear the vault.

I find a scroll of MBan .. (ha .. ha .. so funny ..), The Long Sword Of Baraur (3d5) (+14,+16), *Slay Undead*, +2 WIS, Fire Brand, Blessed. A priest's sword, and i'm no priest.

I test zap a rod, and the air around me becomes charged .. well, just at the right time.

[Sky]

23rd recall:

back at home, i sell almost everything. i managed to pick up a Tensner's, which is completely useless. i test the two spells for the XP, then sell it .. not even worth keeping. Imho, it should contain Greater Recharge, to make it worthwhile, and i wouldn't mind if it also had Heroism or Berserker, like it used to.

Somewhere along the line i must have levelled up, and i am now CL35, HP 577, SP 263. I can now cast Rift, which is super useful for things like Fundin.
I test cast it, failing the first 2 castings at 15%.

One more CL to Rune Of Protection.

[Sky]

DL51 again:

i recall next to a marilith that is now a much easier target.

I walk around a bit to get a feeling, kill a couple death knights, and find Scatha, The Worm.

Haste, Resistance, Shield, Slow Monster, and then i decide to try Shock Wave, and by luck the first casting stuns Scatha, which then dies a miserable death.
Scatha drops the rather nice Iron Crown Of Neith [0, +19], +3 STR, +3 INT, rSound, pBlind, sWIS, Regen, SeeInv, it does not have ESP and it's also cursed with Hit Chance curse, so for now it will have to stay in stash.
And also The Morning Star 'Luing', (4d6) (+6,+12), slays everything, Acid Brand, rNether, +4 INT, less damage but the very useful resist nether; i make the swap.

I can pretty much walk around the dungeon undisturbed. I TS a bit, pick up some XP, a potion of CON, one of STR, and head for the stairs with a majestic 629 HP at CL35.

DL52:

a DM reveals absolutely nothing to wait for. Kobolds at this depth are a disgrace. i head for the stairs.

DL53:

more of the same. trolls, a golem pit ...i murder some dragons but not drops.

DL54:

i go down the stairs and find myself standing RIGHT NEXT to Eol, The Dark Elf. I decide this is a sign from above and i must kill him.
Haste, Resistance, Shield, Slow, and then Shock Wave again, and again i stun him on the first try. I melee him furiously, and when he becomes unstunned, i shock him again and he misses his save, so i finish him off.

Eol is dead, but his drops are pathetic. I get ready to move, when i feel a dark presence coming over me .. Ji Indur Deathdawn, sword in hand, is coming to fight me.

I try Shock Wave many times, but Ji cannot be stunned. I try Acid Bold, but he just laughs it off .. this will have to be melee, and so be it.

I fight him for a while, he decides to summon a hand druji, which could mean my instant death, but i manage to TO the druji.
We keep fighting, and he destroys my stats, but finally he has enough and starts to run, so i quaff my RLL and acid bolt him to his final death.

AND HIS DROPS ARE EVEN WORSE.

Bleah. Let's leave this 5-5 level.

DL55:

gosh .. what happened to finding greater vaults at DL45 ..

but no, it's orcs and vampires and trolls. level feeling 6-5.

DL56:

aah yes, a vault. Small, but still a vault.

too happy, i clear the outside perimeter, when i see the vault is in direct contact with a Hydra pit ..

Now, i dont mind a hydra pit, it's good exp with not much work, but i might as well just throw away my scrolls.

So, i TS, with the plan of dropping my scrolls somewhere and then picking back up after i clean.
After the TS, i see a sleeping Smaug The Golden. Smaug is not particularly strong, so i prep and go in for the kill.

Smaug resists my attempts to stun him many times, but finally fails a save, and we melee. I have to blink once, and quaff some CCW, but the battle ends in him dropping two artifacts, but sadly no Arkenstone.
The Wicker Shield Of Inquen, a +5 SPD, +5 INT shield which is nice, but i dont need it now. And the Jewel 'Naurossar', rPois, rNeth, +3 SPD.

As i finish my battle with Smaug, and pick up the drops, a Ringwraith comes along, and i TO it. I then try to kill a bunch of ghouls so i can rest, and Shelob decides to try her luck. Unfortunately, i am still buffed, and i stun her easily, and she dies.

Ding!!

what's that spell, that requires mage CL36 to cast? That's right children, it's Rune Of Protection. CL36, 651 HP, 271 SP.

Now, i finally have time to rest and look around. The level feeling is 8-8, and i see a vault. I have 2 Mban, i can easily use one.

I move to the vault, and i see Dwar, Dog Lord of Waw. i prepare as usual, and i'm in the middle of stunning him as i see Maeglin, The Traitor of Gondolin, who used to be annoying before, but with the new pathfinding algorithm is a veritable pain in the buttocks.

I change tactic, TO Dwar, and prepare to TO Maeglin - who i will not be killing this time.

I plan to raid the vault in a hurry, as i know there are no artifacts here. I TO the uniques a couple times, break some granite doors, and fail to disarm a trapdooooooooooooooooooooooor.

DL:57

i just want to go home.

i walk around a bit, and get a level feeling 5-3. Ok, i recall now.

[Sky]

24th recall:

i clean up a bit, selling staves of treasure detection, drop my artifact, sell the flail of Borno (won't need it), and stash most of my potions.

my current run is 816k game turns, 120k standard, 60k resting. not sure what this means, though.

DL57:

i blink a few times to kill a dreadmaster, and get a level feeling of 6-3. As i make my way to the stairs, i get pounced on by Ariel, Queen of Air. Shame that her only strong point is her confusion attack, and i have resisted confusion since .. idk, DL20.

I try to make it to the stairs but see a Balance Drake, and i want to kill it. I get within range of a Crystal Drake, go for the kill, and wooosh, get hit by a time hound.

I TS out of there with my stats halved, and i find myself with a bunch of Mumaks (AKA XP Bags) to one side and Al-Pharazon The Golden to the other.

The mumaks die pretty easily, but the fight with Al-Pharazon takes forever .. he keeps teleporting me away, and summoning everything. i resort to TO his summons and trying to stun him, i finally land a second stun and finish him.
He drops the Great Axe of Taunfauru (5d4) (+11,+16), +2 Blows, +3 DEX, Weak Acid Brand (why do these things even exist), slays undead and dragons. meh. I mean sure, not bad, but nothing amazing.

DL58:

Harowen, The Black Hand, comes to harass me. I keep blinking because he's basically a better Master Rogue, he can steal some useful stuff. Then i remember i have Rune Of Protection, and i dig myself in, but he gets stuck behind an air hound because the two AI conflict, and i need to dig him a way to come to me .. to get murdered.

He starts dancing around me, i stun him once, deal a lot of damage, then try to stun him a second time, but fail, he breaks my circle, and puff! he blinks and i cannot find him. I TS several times, find an undead beholder, an eye druji .. things i do not want to fight.

The level feeling is 5-2, so i leave.

DL59:

another level without much, feeling 5-3. I walk around to kill some basic mobs, and see a sleeping Uvatha, The Horseman. This is a pretty easy kill, as he does not resist acid and only rarely casts a feeble nether bolt. He drops a second Mordekainen's. I decide to recall.

[Sky]

24th recall, i just sell everything and head back down.

DL59: i barely see this level. it's a 4-4 feeling and a maze level, with an undead beholder, some aether hounds, a basilisk ... why risk it.

DL60:

Lokkar again tries to ruin my day, i cast Rune, the whole shebang, and melee him, and he summons everything including an undead beholder, but i just Acid Ball him and then TO the summons away. He drops nothing, but the level feeling comes back as 6-$. It's a relatively small level, with a few large rooms.

I move to the first bunch of items, and find 4 plasma hounds, which i nuke from out of line of sight with my ice storm spell. The next room has Azog, King Of The Uruk-Hai in it, and he dies immediately. i ID a potion of Life ..

I find a .. human pit? priest pit? illusionist pit! And i fire 3 ice storms in it and everyone dies.

In a chequer room i find the Flail Of Isteluin, a 3d6 flail with +5 INT, slay almost everything, rDisenchant, and some artifact caestus with +4 WIS that i cannot use.

I'm really strong so i just waltz around the level, nothing can harm me, except some ethereal hounds ..
i kill two, then TS. They chase, and i kill 3 more. I keep myself hasted and attack them fiercely, without giving them time to form a pack. In the end they are dead and i am left with 50k XP more than i started with.

I lost a scroll of MBan to a breath, but it's ok. i recall to sell and see what the BM has in store.

[Sky]

25th recall .. not much ado, the BM has nothing valuable.

DL60:

i'm looking for Kelek's. Or large vaults in general. I find two potions of STR, which is good, but the level feeling is only 6-6, so i leave.

DL61:

i try to take on Arien, Maiar of the Sun, and it doesn't go well. i lose two Heal, one *Heal, and i bail out. She outmatches on on everything, casting, melee, stunning, summons, i need to leave. Fortunately it's a 5-3 level so i can take the next stairs i find.

DL62: a giants pit, with Baphomet right next door .. there's another tough cookie i don't want to mess with. i TO him when he wakes, and kill the giants. A Berserker reminds me i still have no pFear, and i remind him i can cast Acid Bolt.
I Blink once to avoid a death quasit, and find myself in the next room. There is an eye druji behind a wall, but i had not noticed also the Lernean Hydra, which i TO right away.
The level feeling is 7-2, so i leave.

DL63:

Medusa shows up, and i remind her that she's out of her league, here. I get once more bitten by the fact that i have no pFear, but finisher her off with my spells. Before i have a chance to rest, Dwar shows up again, and i send him away with a TO. I find the Halaberd 'Helemerlon', a really basic artifact that i will keep for money. I now have 400k Gold, but you never know when a stack of *Acquirement is gonna show up.
I make my way to the stairs and i get the level feeling 3-5 ..

DL64:

right next to the stairs is a demonic qultlyug, that summons a lesser balrog .. i can melee the balrog, he takes 300 hp off me but then dies, but it's a shame i don't know what spell to insta nuke the Q with.
A breath attack burns both my mage3, so i need to go back.

[Pete Mack]

It's worth carrying a stack of !hero, not just because of fear, but because of Mage's terrible melee and archery spells. The extra +10 bonus counts for +30 base skill points. You will notice the difference against high-AC opponents. Recommend using Ice Storm or Shock Wave to soften up opponents for melee. It's a lot cheaper than Rune, and works roughly as well.

[Sky]

26th recall, nothing for sale. i just sell my stuff and recall. i'm now carrying 3 of each mage book.

DL64:

I recall next to a red dragon, and it seems impolite to not kill it. while i finish him, a 7 headed hydra shows up and burns 2 of my books .. how rude.

it's a 5-5 level, so i leave.

DL65:

a 6-4 level, i walk around picking up potions of heal, augment and enlight, and i spot Tselakus, The Dreadlord; too close to even buff properly, i blink and haste, then slow him, then blink, shield. i melee him and TO some of his more offensive summons. i use my second potion of mana of the entire game.
Eventually he dies, i need to quaff a RLL before delivering the final blow. Ding!, CL38, 694 HP, 287 SP.

He drops the Partial Plate Armour of Suleg, [40,+25], +1 INT, +5 search .. +5 infra .. and rChaos, rNexus, rDark, pConf, pBlind. Not bad, but also not great.

stairs!

DL66:

i'm close to a vampire, a bunch of earth hounds, a crystal drake (i do not resist shards), mumaks, and some smaller mobs. i move to kill them, and ID a rod of TO and a nice scroll of *remove curse*, for that artifact i have at home.
The level feeling comes back as 6-5, so i leave.

DL67:

level feeling 4-6, i leave, or so i think. i run into Vargo, Tyrant of Fire, and decide to kill him. For some reason, he is smart and decides to not melee me, until i lose it and step off the Rune and hack him to pieces.
He has no drops, but at least he pays a bit of XP. I see Saruman and The Phoenix rushing me, i Detect Traps and Stairs, and i see a trapdoor .. i (W)alk into it.

DL68:

another maze level. And there's Ariel here. She's nothing like Vargo, so i cannot take her on now without using up all my consumables.

She wakes up and rushes me, i TO her and then try to walk around to get the level feeling, but i get ganked by a mystic. I fail a blink due to stun, then blink again .. risky, but it works. The level feeling comes at 5-4, so i blink again and i am next to some stairs.

DL69:

ANOTHER maze level, this time with impassable walls and plasma hounds.
this one has a level feeling of 5-$, and a Master Mystic .. deadly without stun protection and at least +20 speed.
The artifact in question happens to be a super-cursed crown, with negative stats, but i want to see all the treasure on the level before i leave.
Nope, nothing. i recall.

[Sky]

nothing new from my 27th recall.

DL69: whatever happened to those nice big levels with big juicy vaults in them?

This level starts decently well, i kill a fire giant, some fire hounds.. levle feeling 7-$, and a vault! YAY!

I TO Fundin Bluecloak (he really wants to die, uh?) and start to explore.
Gaah .. time hounds. I spend a lot of time trying to hit them in the AoE of Ice Storm, it takes forever, but i kill them all and walk away with 70k XP more.

I keep walking, and Fundin rushes me again, then fills the corridor with annoying summons, including two basilisks. I TS away, and find myself next to the vault.

This vault has a relatively easy entrance, i haste, rush to the middle without waking anything, and read my Mass Banishment

Vault is clear except for two uniques, Itangast the Fire Drake, and Ugluk, The Uruk.
I also see a Kelek's ... Now, i could cheat and TO Itangast, but since when i take Kelek's it's basically game over, i decide to kill him.
Actually, i feel kind of sad. Itangast doesn't hit me once, he doesn't even breathe.

I cry a lone tear, and then gather my takings.

I find a semi decent rapier with lightning brand, +2 STR +5 INT, but only 1d6 base damage, so i discard it.
Also the Mithril Shod Boots 'Uniwe', which are just boots of speed +10 with rLight.

I create a keymap for phf (Mass Banishment), recall, sell everything, then set off down to DL90 to grab a few extra artifacts and finish the game.

[Sky]

28th recall (and 29th)

i recall to DL69, and walk up to some earth hounds, and smugly press my MBan key, and i fail the 24% fail rate spell four times. I'm out of mana and i see The Mouth Of Sauron heading my way.

i walk .. run .. back a few steps and Tele Self.

I teleport to a room at the edge of the map, and rest, but before i'm done two more Nazgul walk in on me. I TS again, and this time i wind up next to Ariel and i see The Mouth nearing.

I recall. (level feeling 7-7)

29 recall, nothing changed.

DL69:

just a pack of Time Hounds, another painfully slow AoE massacre, out of which i get enough XP to ding! CL39, 716, 297 SP.

DL70:

i pop out right next to a pacman vault, which i MBan, but the level feeling comes to 7-7, no luck.

DL71:

two vaults.

first vault, Ulmo, Ungoliant, a Nazgul, and Feagwath. All TO. Two artifacts on the ground.

DL72:

Nothing.

DL73:

nothing

DL74:

an undead pit (MBan) with The Iron Shood Boots of Tiluin, who was known for being really fast, as they give +13 Speed and +3 Stealth. BOOM.

30th recall ..

i sell my stuff, ID a potion of Experience, and *Enlight, both of which i buy back.

[Sky]

damn, i'm falling asleep ..

DL74:

a vault and not much else, just Radagast walking around. A quick MBan later i own a Ring of Nibil, (+1,+8), +5 STR, +3 INT, +5 CON, rPois, and Hoarmurath Of Dir walking alone .. doesn't he know it's dangerous?

And, as i speak, a terrible accident befalls him .. he accidentally slips and hits his head repeatedly on my morning star, dying.

ok, i've had enough for one day, i'm out.

[Sky]

31st recall.. nothing useful.

DL74:

just a mouse and a death mold. level feeling 5-3.

DL75:

i find Fundin Bluecloak asleep in a microvault. no way for him to escape. i lay down some Runes, buff up, slow him, stun him, and maul him with my flail.

He drops a pick, pretty decent but 1d3 base and not much damage.

DL76:

level feeling 5-4.

DL77: HUGE level with 2 vaults and 1 demi-vault. I kill Uldor The Accursed without even noticing, on my way to the more dangerous Draugluin, Sire Of All Werewolves.

Draugluin takes a bit to kill, he's not particularly strong but he does summon annoying stuff, like Patriarchs, and Time Hounds. I don't have that much mana after my buffs and Runes, and i fail too many times the MBan, so many times i don't want to count it. Should be somewhere in the region of 60% fail, rather than 20%.

I TO away Saruman, Ungoliant, Glaurung, Ancalong, and only stop to kill Kavlax, The Many Headed, because he's basically a DL30 mob and shouldn't be at this depth.

The drops are two useless weapons, a useless cloak (+6 Stealth, if you really want to not wake up anything), and a ring +1 STR, +1 CON ... +2 Shots.
With this i can shoot 700 dmg acid arrows with a x4 Longbow of Loth-Lorien.

I still haven't found any artifact shooters, but it looks like my winner build might be based on this ring. A nice x7 Crossbow with Bolts of Holy Might should drop Morgoth in an instant.

[Pete Mack]

You are easily strong enough to kill Saruman at this point, and I believe he's DROP_GREAT. Certainly worth killing.