The Hengband Screenshots Gallery: Two Great Hell Wyrms at Clvl 37 by <NeoTiamatI@fuse.net>

                                                                                                            
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                                                                                     Fast(+10)        Lev 27

Message Recall (0-34 of 2047), Offset 0                                                                     
                                                                                                            
You feel a little better.                                                                                   
You miss the Great Hell Wyrm.                                                                               
You backstab the fleeing the Great Hell Wyrm!                                                               
You are suddenly very hot!                                                                                  
*** LOW HITPOINT WARNING! ***                                                                               
The Great Hell Wyrm is unaffected.                                                                          
You backstab the fleeing the Great Hell Wyrm!                                                               
You are suddenly very hot!                                                                                  
*** LOW HITPOINT WARNING! ***                                                                               
The Great Hell Wyrm is unaffected.                                                                          
The Great Hell Wyrm seems weakened.                                                                         
You miss the Great Hell Wyrm.                                                                               
The Great Hell Wyrm flees in terror!                                                                        
The Great Hell Wyrm breathes fire.                                                                          
*** LOW HITPOINT WARNING! ***                                                                               
One of your Arrow (1d4) (+7,+7) (110/110) {@f1!d!k!v=g} (t) was destroyed!                                  
You are no longer walking extremely fast.                                                                   
You begin to walk extremely fast.                                                                           
You are mantled in weak shadow from ordinary eyes.                                                          
The Great Hell Wyrm misses you. <x2>                                                                        
The Great Hell Wyrm claws you.                                                                              
*** LOW HITPOINT WARNING! ***                                                                               
The Great Hell Wyrm gets zapped!                                                                            
You are exposed to common sight once more.                                                                  
The Great Hell Wyrm misses you.                                                                             
You miss the Great Hell Wyrm. <x3>                                                                          
You backstab the fleeing the Great Hell Wyrm!                                                               
You are suddenly very hot!                                                                                  
*** LOW HITPOINT WARNING! ***                                                                               
You miss the Great Hell Wyrm. <x2>                                                                          
You backstab the fleeing the Great Hell Wyrm!                                                               
You hit the Great Hell Wyrm on a fatal spot!                                                                
You have slain the Great Hell Wyrm.                                                                         
You feel something roll beneath your feet. <x2>                                                             
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[008]Target:a Great Hell Wyrm(Level 55, almost dead) [r, q,t,p,o,+,-,<dir>]                                 
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                                                                                     Fast(+19)        Lev 27




The Great Hell Wyrm ('D')/('D'): [(r)ecall, ESC]                                                            
You have killed at least 2 of these creatures.                                                              
A vast dragon of immense power.  Fire leaps continuously from its huge form.  The air around it scalds you. 
Its slightest glance burns you, and you truly realize how insignificant you are.                            
It is normally found on dungeon level 55, and moves quickly.  A kill of this evil dragon is worth about     
25384.62 points for a 37th level character.  It is surrounded by flames.  It may breathe fire, and is also  
magical, casting spells which terrify or blind; about 1 time in 5.  It can push past weaker monsters.  It is
shining.  It is suitable for riding.  It cannot be confused.  It may carry up to 10 good objects.  It can   
claw to attack, claw to attack, claw to attack, and bite to attack.                                         
                                                                                                            


Garm, Guardian of Hel ('C')/('C'): [(r)ecall, ESC]                                                          
You have slain this foe.                                                                                    
Garm is a gigantic hound, whose job is to guard that none escapes the tortures of Hel, the Norse place of   
punishment for the wicked and cowardly dead.                                                                
It is normally found on dungeon level 49, and moves quickly.  Killing this natural evil creature is worth   
about 27641.03 points for a 37th level character.  It may breathe frost or darkness, and is also magical,   
casting spells which summon hounds or summon an undead; about 1 time in 2.  It can push past weaker         
monsters.  It cannot be confused.  It may carry up to 5 good objects.  It can claw to attack, claw to       
attack, bite to attack, and bite to attack.                                                                 
                                                                                                            


The Jabberwock ('H')/('H'): [(r)ecall, ESC]                                                                 
You have killed at least 1 of these creatures.                                                              
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!"                                  
It is normally found on dungeon level 65, and moves very quickly.  A kill of this natural evil creature is  
worth about 31666.67 points for a 37th level character.  It is magical, casting spells which cause mortal   
wounds; about 1 time in 5.  It is suitable for riding.  It can claw to attack, claw to attack, bite to      
attack, and bite to attack.                                                                                 
                                                                                                            

Two Great Hell Wyrms at Clvl 37
So I'm in this huge vault and I'm doing fine. I manage to kill Dwar and Garm, Guardian of Hel by poking in and out of granite walls they can't go through, smacking them, moving away, moving back to get stealth and a powerful blow and at my speed, half the time, not even get hit much.

So then I'm traipsing along in a whirlwind of stealthy strikes when I run into THIS beast. Now, normally, I'm not very lucky. With these, I was. The first one I thought was an ancient red dragon so I hacked at it a few turns before realizing its hp weren't going anywhere and checked the messages. Lo! It's a Great Hell Wyrm. Well, I'm not dead yet, so I poke at it again and BAM I get a fatal injury and it's down to half HP. Well... from there, it took a while. It breathed fire on me twice and I had to use up several Healing potions. Once I got it low, it teleported out of the vault and I followed it. The first one was really hard, and I was taken down to 80 hp by its first breath attack. Then I run into ANOTHER one. And FIRST strike I get a fatal injury! WHOO! I repeated the prior maneuver of hacking away at it and following once it teleported. This time it summoned, but I dispatched its minions easily.

Then I head back and run into a Jabberwock on the inside middle of the left half of the vault. XD Well, that one was extremely lucky. After luring it back to a wall, I got a fatal injury, then a fatal strike and instakilled it. Those things hit HARD though!

Probably the four toughest enemies I've taken down so far... two Great Hell Wyrms, a Jabberwock and Garm, Guardian of Hel. Maybe I'm a newb, but I'm proud of this run. Also picked up four artifacts... Mittens of Paurnen, Hat of Thengol, Stabbity 'Tinythorn' and Hack-Axe of Balli Stonehand.

Posted on 17.11.2005 04:19



Comments?

On 17.11.2005 09:20 mugsynj@optonline.net wrote:
How did you string together all these images into one screenshot?

On 17.11.2005 13:55 Elliott946@aol.com wrote:
Nice work taking those guys out with a clevel 37 character. All are solid opponents.

On 17.11.2005 18:38 NeoTiamatI@fuse.net wrote:
Thanks! Elliott! I nearly died doing it, but it was awesome! >=) Anyway, what fun is it if I don't take risks SOMETIMES?

To combine screenshots, just open up the .html file in Notepad or a similar text editor. Copy out whatever you're interested in and paste it inside the "pre" tags. Remember, you can apparently only have one pre tag per html file. It works easier if you set the text editor to not wrap the text, so that way each new line in the file is the next line from the screenshot.

I also colored some of the text in the message to make it stand out more. To do that, just stick it inside a FONT tag and change the colors to whatever you want. The hex colors go RRGGBB where RR is a hex number for red, GG is green, BB is blue. Valid numbers are 0-9, A-F. So A is 10, B is 11, etc. Or at least, that's an easy way to remember it. So FF is white. So to do pure red, you'd use FF0000. That's 256 red, 0 green, 0 blue. You can also just put "red" in instead of #ff0000. It'll handle the obvious color names.

But if you know nothing about HTML or HEX colors, just Google them and read up. It's very easy. If you can play Hengband, you can handle simple HTML.

Advice when you start trying? Backup the screenshot first if it's important to you. Then just modify it, and open the file to see what that did. Modify, refresh. Modify, refresh.

On 18.11.2005 01:36 chriskousky@hotmail.com wrote:
Wow, that is a whole lot of crap for DL27!! This has been one of my running complaints on Heng 1.7.0 ... I am impressed on the Jabberwock slay!

But you were double resisting fire vs. those hell wyrms, no? That and hide in mud coupled with stone to mud (so you can rest up to full hp) should have made them easy. Their breaths should only have done 80 or so hp if you are double resisting and standing on a wall.

On 18.11.2005 01:43 chriskousky@hotmail.com wrote:
Oooh ... scratch that ... I see you are in the mountain :)

Yes, that would make Hell Wyrms about 20x harder then normal. Congrats on those as well!!!!

On 18.11.2005 16:40 NeoTiamatI@fuse.net wrote:
Actually, you're half right and half wrong. I used double fire resistance initially to survive their breath attack, but I fought them 80% in the vault. Unfortunately, while I _TRIED_ using Hide in Mud to hide sneak back backstab hide sneak back backstab and rest up when needed, I couldn't! They regenerated HP faster than I could damage them, and plus they saw me EVERY time. I could never sneak up on them, even with superstealth and stealth at Amber [32]. So I just had to melee them, Hit and Away when low on HP, quaff healing, mow them down with arrows as they charged me, pray they didn't breath, then smack on them some more!

The Jabberwock was MUCH easier. XD I used the Hide in Mud trick, the first blow was a Powerful Blow _AND_ a fatal injury that took it down to half hp. Then a few blows later I hit it on a fatal spot and insta-killed it.

Though I will say one thing! It's not Hengband 1.7's fault! I have Ironman Unusual Rooms on, and then to always generate unusually small levels. So it always generates nothing BUT vaults. Which leads to massively out of depth enemies.

But the fun thing is, the smallest teleportation in a vault will move you OUT of the vault, every time. Then there's only four or five pathways between vaults where an enemy could have gone, so I can just teleport until I'm on it, and I've got a nice narrow, twisty path to fight them on. >=) Yay! Did I mention my ninja is Lucky? Mwahaha, at Clvl 25 I got a Staff of Mana Storm! I keep 5 charges on that sucker. It can't be harmed by the elements. >=)

On 18.11.2005 16:42 NeoTiamatI@fuse.net wrote:
Pardon, I meant Clvl 35 on that staff. God would it have been too easy if I had it at Clvl 25. XD



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