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This is where [[User:PsyMar|PsyMar]]'s better/more instructive attempts at escaping with the Orb of Zot will go.

==Game 24 -- MiBe==
Morgue file: [http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/PsyMar/morgue-PsyMar-20100422-132828.txt]
===D:1===
* T28: Found a ring mail.  Spent 8 turns putting it on.  AC up to 4!
* T104: First kill, a rat.
* T119: First sacrifice, a giant bat.
* T154: Axes to Level 4
* T3xx: Kobold almost took me out; killed it and rested.
* T424: a knobbly jade ring.  I'll try it.
* T425: no obvious effect, but I'll keep it on in case it's some sort of awesome smiting ring.
* T576: Tried a THRE LOJ OSICK scroll (had 3).  Nothing appeared to happen.  Either charging or remove curse, then, or fear.
* T577: Tried ZIKOAL EZOHIO (had 2 by now). Identify! And my ring is a ring of life protection.  Not too useful early game but no reason to take it off.
* T890: Done exploring.
* T927: Went downstairs.
===D:2===
* Rat and Ijyb right away! Yikes! I back around a corner from Ijyb.  Kill a rat while waiting and reach level 2.  Ijyb shows up; after a few misses, I berserk.
* T955: Ijyb dead. Drops nothing. Bleah.
* T1134: After a fight with a goblin, giant bat, and kobold, acquire Trog's Hand ability.  Also got to level 3 in there somewhere.
* T1148: Dodging to level 3!
* T1275: Pair of gauntlets on previous turn; I'll wear.  Also got a glowing sling.
* T1278: ID'd sling as +2,+0, no other bonuses.  "meh".  Also, done exploring... but only found 2 staircases, so should come back.
* T1298: Went downstairs.
===D:3===
* found... a disco hall? wtf?
* hit teleport trap, will have to find way back.
* T:1468: Found upstairs back to D:2.
===D:2 revisited===
* Tried reading a scroll; it's Teleport.
* What the... Jessica AND sigmund?
* T:1622: Killed Jessica after berserking and killing sigmund.
* T:1740: Jessica dropped a (use-tested) +2 robe of magic resistance! Awesome!
* T:1741: And scroll of ID says Sigmund's scythe is of protection! Woot!  Given I have only 5 AC without the scythe, I'll use it for a while.
* Went back down.
===D:3 part 2: Electric Boogaloo===
* T:198x: found a second scroll of some type, forget which, it's fog though upon use.
* T:2020: With berserk, killed the ghost of Vesto the Skirmisher, a weakling DSCK of Lugonu.
* T:2069: Looked back at disco-ish area, found an altar.  It's Xom.  That explains a lot.
* T:2515: Found a Kiku altar.
* T:2774: Found one of my scrolls was detect curses (through use).
* T:2778: None of the glowing weapons I found have brands of awesomeness, so I'll stick with my protection scythe.
* T:2969: have explored all except part of Xom's disco hall.
* T:3028: Went downstairs.
===D:4===
* T:3029: saved.  
* T:3029: And I'm back!
* T:3046: Found a long ivory wand.
* T:3103: After zapping at a jackal twice with no effect, tried on myself, it's healing.
* T:3216: Found temple stairs.
* Went to temple, looked around a bit, came back.
* T:3296: Detected curses.  Had an ego-elven short sword I hadn't tried out, it's vampiric.
* T:3301: Ate bread ration, wielded elven vampiric short sword.
* T:3375: Got poisoned by a giant ant.  Tried wand of healing, which didn't cure the poison.  Tried random potions, got poison first, but next was healing.  Best ID of poison potion ever.
* T:3549: found a wand shop.  Entered. Bought frost and enslavement wands.
* T:3639: Gained Brothers in Arms.
* T:40xx: Done exploring.  Went down to D:5, swarmed by orcs, came back up and killed an ant that followed.  Then went down via other stairs.
===D:5===
* T:4094: fell through shaft to D:8.  Going back up now...
* T:4197: on D:6, found Blork the orc with a wand.  Took two hits, couldn't have taken a third, escaped up stairs.  Ran into orc horde, ran up stairs again, back to the stairs I went to D:5 via the second time.
* T:4549: After another orc horde battle, decided to switch to plate mail instead of the +2 MR robe.  My vamp short sword is +3,+1.
* T:4729: Quaff-ID'd a potion of mutation.  got:
** Protected by bone plates (AC +2, Dex -1)
** Flexible-but-weak muscles (Dex +1, Str -1)
** Partially covered in metallic scales (AC +3, Dex -2)
** Total: AC +5, Dex -2, Str -1, I'll take it!
* T:4783: Found an armor shop with two randarts! Particularly interesting is the +1 plate mail of the Amoeba (rN+ EV+2 Str+3).  Need 950 gold, though, and have... 33.  I'll come back later.
* T:4857: Have 6 of a scroll, so I try it, nothing happens. Probably remove curse then; I'll inscribe it.
* Done exploring.
===D:6===
* Found stairs that didn't leave me back near blork.  Did find an imp, and a couple wands that look interesting.
* T:5374: Found a dwarven cloak of darkness.  Neato!
* T:5870: Killed Blork with wands.
* T:6034: Went downstairs.
===D:7 and 8===
* Found an armor shop on D:7. Forget what else happened.
** Said armor shop had a couple randarts, one good, but I couldn't afford anything.
* On D:8, found the entrance to the orcish mines; ran back up.
===D:9===
* Found a centaur behind a bush; took it out with wand of fireball, then wand of frosted away the cloud of flame.
* took out imp, hungry ghost, and phantom, and found stairs to Lair; did not go down.
* Found stairs to Lair
* Finished exploring level, taking out stuff like a hippogriff in the process
* went to lair
===Lair===
*Lured up some monster, killed it
*Went down, got surrounded by rats and a frog, went back up, read scroll of immolation killing all the rats, then killed the frog
*Saved on D:9, restored, rested, went back down
*Surrounded again, went up, killed them one at a time
*T:9337: went back down, lured up some blink frogs
*T:9382: used trog's hand, used brothers in arms, died.
*Final score: 3270, new personal best by far!
===Lessons learned===
*Blink frogs are pretty buff
*Activate trog's hand and brothers in arms *before* entering lair, then berserk once you're there
*Turn off individual-weapons skills so as to train only fighting skill, since you don't know early on what weapons you'll be using the most



==Game 33 -- MiBe==
Morgue file: [http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/PsyMar/morgue-PsyMar-20100426-145040.txt]
===D:1-2===
*Not much happened on D:1
*on D:2: 
**Identified potions of healing (had 2), berserk rage, agility, and invisibility
**Identified scrolls of blinking, curse weapon, enchant weapon I, identify, random uselessness, and teleportation
**Also have a scroll that was {tried on item} that I tried on armor, so that's recharging
**scroll-ID'd a ring of poison resistance (yay!)
**scroll-ID'd and wielded a +1,+0 dagger of distortion, which should be fun
===D:3===
*The dagger of distortion is, indeed, fun
*quaff-ID'd restore abilities and poison (which didn't affect me per the resistance ring)
*read a scroll, nothing happened
*quaff-ID'd paralysis, nothing killed me, yay
*quaff-ID'd brilliance
*Space warps horribly around the orc wizard! and killed it! yay!
*Got, and turned off, stealth skill
*found Okawaru altar, but I'm with Trog, so not now thanks
*Got to level 5 by end of level, can now withstand the potential 43 damage from distortion unwield
===D:4===
*Got my first banishment of an enemy, against a kobold.  Kind of a waste...
*Found an ossuary, went in
===Ossuary===
*Killed a bunch of zombies
*Had to berserk a few times
*killed two mummies, got two items cursed
*killed a ghost
*got 2 ID scrolls, 3-4 scrolls of teleport, and 2 potions of speed, and 2 potions of blood (ick).
===Back to D:4===
*Quaff-ID'd a potion of mutation, got speckled scales (+1 AC), flexible-but-weak muscles (+1 dex, -1 str), and slow metabolism!
*scroll-ID'd the cursed +6,+6 hammer "Grevashre" {freeze, MR}
*Finished exploring, went down (still wielding distortion dagger since I can't uncurse the hammer)
===D:5===
*Found a brass wand, which turned out to be draining, awesome
*Found a Yred altar
*Killed Edmund
*ID'd a randart armor (+0 leather armor "Trug", rC+ Dex-2 Acc+2)
*ID'd a flail as being +6,+2 flail of holy wrath
*wielded flail, was not banished or killed by distortion unwield, though I did get 'ported
*Found wand, it's digging! yay!
*found scroll shop, got ID scrolls and an immolation scroll (for when needed)
===D:6===
*Fell down shaft to D:7 or D:8 (not sure which), was surrounded, went down stairs and port-blinked twice to get back up stairs to D:6
*was followed by a jelly; put on amulet of resist corrosion even though it was cursed, and killed the jelly
*ran into orc horde, while hungry; couldn't berserk and got pwned. DYWYPI?
*forgot about scrolls of blinking and teleport. Bleah.

==Game 35 -- MiBe==
Game 35 morgue: [http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/PsyMar/morgue-PsyMar-20100427-215030.txt]
===D:1===
*Start in an entrance vault with several secret doors; searched to find them to improve traps&doors skill.
*Got Axes skill to level 4, and turned off exp going to it, since I'll probably switch to another weapon soon enough.
*Such as this dagger of protection I found on T:694 from a kobold.
*T:826: got to level 2, gained short blades skill.
*Explored around stairs on D:2 a bit, then came back to D:1.
*My protection dagger is +2,+2.
*T:2310: finished exploring D:1.
===D:2===
*T:2403: Test-ID'd identify, identified remove curse scroll.
*Identified an amulet as being faith.  Put it on, because why not this early in the game?
*Finished exploring, T:2945.
===D:3===
*ID'd a bunch of scrolls and potions, most notably enchant armor and enchant weapon I.  Dagger is now +4,+2.
*Killed stuff and ate it.
*Finished exploring, T:3817.
===D:4===
*Killed my first Ogre of the game.
*Found an inaccessible-without-digging TSO altar.
*Went downstairs around T:4600.
===D:5===
*Suddenly, gnolls everywhere!
*Found a staircase to Temple, surrounded by translucent rock wall.  Good thing I'm a Troggite anyway or I'd be pissed.
*Oh, hey, go go secret door.  Not that I need it.
===D:6===
*Stuff happpened.
*Killed Sigmund.
*Suddenly, orcs and jellies everywhere!
*Brothers in arms + teleport scroll + berserk and I got out of it while my two-headed ogre killed everything.
*Another TSO altar?
===D:7===
*Stuff happened.
===D:8===
*Landed in a fight
*Fought off orcs by luring upstairs
*Found orcish mines, and a neato general store
*entered orcish mines
===Orcish Mines===
*Fought orcs (duh)
*Got a -4,-1 quick blade randart from Trog.  Yeah, elec brand, but... really, Trog?  I have TEN dex!
*Started wielding my +1,+1 great sword of holy wrath -- should've done that a long time ago.
*Got two levels deep before chickening out
*Did, however, take out a bunch of orcs and most of an ogre with a single scroll of immolation
===D:9===
*All three stairs landed near mobs
*Cleared out most of said mobs
*Had a sick-and-4-HP-and-hungry incident; survived with 1 HP and a ring of regen
*after getting back to full HP, went back to D:9
*Got hungry, encountered a troll, tried to eat to berserk, killed by troll.
===Lessons learned===
*Always eat immediately if hungry and fighting something nasty, so that you can then berserk.  Don't wait until you're one hit from death, then eat.
*rings of regen are awesome
*Don't be afraid to try out scrolls when surroudned, you might get immolation or fear.

==Game 38 -- DEWz (summonings)==
Morgue file:  [http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/PsyMar/morgue-PsyMar-20100429-204338.txt]
===D:1-4===
*Not much notable aside from an ogre I took out with Mephitic Cloud and spammals.
*ID'd scrolls of blinking, curse armour/weapon, detect/remove curse, fear, fog, ID, magic mapping, noise, and teleportation.
*ID'd rings of evasion, life protection, and levitation.
*ID'd potions of gain intelligence/strength, Heal wounds, healing, invis, magic, and restore abilities.
*Got lots of missiles and stuff, a +2 cloak of MR, and a +2 leather armour.  The ring of evasion I found is +3.
===D:5===
*Took Nemelex Xobeh.
*Used up a deck of destruction on a zombie of some sort.
*Got surrounded by an imp, an orc horde, etc.
*Escaped using mephitic clouds and a teleport scroll and spammals.
===D:6===
*Got a deck of summonings, used it to kill stuff.
*Finished exploring level and pwning stuff.
*Facing a jelly, drew from summonings deck, got "Famine".  Whoops.
*Ate a chunk I had in inventory, drew again, got Repulsiveness, killed jelly.
*Jelly never hit me due to EV of 19 (and insane luck).
===D:7===
*Found temple, not much else.
===D:8===
*Got surrounded by nasty stuff.
*Ran out of MP.
*Blink-ported out of it with scrolls.
*Into a room with a scorpion and a centaur with frost darts.
*And I had no deck left either.
*Finally blinked again, behind a door.
*Closed door.
*Rested... with 1 HP, while poisoned.  DYWYPI?
*Had 4 healing potions that I ignored.
*Fail.  And I'd just found a book of wizardry, too.

==Game 40 -- DDNe==
Game 40 morgue: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/PsyMar/morgue-PsyMar-20100503-142001.txt
===D:1===
*Started in a plants-and-butterflies vault, blocked in by a plant.  Took about 250 turns to kill said plant with my fists.
*Pained a goblin to death, restored MP.
*Lather, rinse, repeat.
*Ack! Kobold with me out of MP! Hide around corner, regen MP.  It never noticed me.
*Couple miscasts on a goblin; didn't wake it, so went back, regenned, killed it.
*ID'd detect curse, found my ring uncursed, wore it.
*Killed a kobold, got to level 2.
*Killed a rat, got Necromancy to level 5.
*Found a spear of reaching; wielded it for now.
*Wasted a lot of time meleeing a plant to get to an otherwise-inaccessible area... which held nothing.
===D:2===
*Killed a giant bat, got from near starving back to hungry.
*Ran into three hobgoblins.
*Killed one, read a scroll of teleport which didn't take me far.
*Restored some MP to kill the second, then meleed the third.
*Used up one potion of heal wounds in there.
*Got surrounded and near starving, again.
*ran through chokepoint to upstairs, only taking one goblin with me.
*Killed it and ate it.  yay survival.  Restored MP, went back down.
*Lured a few more enemies up the stairs to kill them one by one.
*No longer hungry, yay.
*These stairs were near a forest; I predict Crazy Yiuf -- think I can take him.
*Was right. Barely.  Had to zap healing wand at myself, and use the retreat-to-regen-mana strategy.  Managed to use the stairs, though, so at least I could retreat towards the known.
*Went down another staircase to D:2.
*Tried reading scrolls against a newt; first was ID.  Id'd my ring (see invis), then my other two unknown scrolls (enchant weapon I and fear.)
*Found a runed mace; determined it uncursed (via detect curse scroll); wielded it, because why not, it might be good.
*Quaff-ID'd paralysis.  Nothing showed up, phew.
*Found a runed orcish hammer, picked it up.
*Quaff-ID'd berserk.  Uh-oh.
*Good thing I had food.
*Ran into a snake that took 7 pains without dying.  Killed it with my mace, and quaffed my second heal wounds.
*Killed a worm... with *nine* pains, and I have 7 MP.  Fortunately it was fleeing when I ran out of MP so I could regen.
*Went down, finally, at T:35xx.
===D:3===
*Found an orc.  Killed it, but it shouted, so I took another stairs back down.
*Found a +2 pair of orcish gauntlets, yay!
*Discovered scroll of curse armor the hard way.
*Found the orc horde, including a wizard.
*Ran to upstairs, killed the wizard alone.
*Got to level 5.  Time to learn vampiric draining.
*Done.  Back to D:3...
*Oh crud, a ghost.  Time to use crazy yiuf's qstaff, I guess.
*Ghost disappeared, no idea what happened to it.  It fled, though, I think.  Now to deal with gnolls...
*Ok, three down one to go thanks to vampiric draining and stairs to regen MP.
*Found the ghost again.  Back to the qstaff, I guess.
*PsyMar the Reanimator (L5 DDNe) killed the ghost of nhawdge the Skirmisher, an average HOFi on turn 4914. (D:3)
*After that close encounter, was advised to learn dispel undead; did so.
===D:4===
*Found a shiny ring mail.
*Found a scroll of remove curse; now I can try the shiny ring mail (which wasn't cursed, I detect cursed.)
*+1 ring mail, all spells still very good or better.
*Found a couple wands.
*First one: digging.
*Second one: Confusion. Nice.
*Took out a black bear and raided its honey.
===D:5===
*Still going strong.
*Had to eat the honeycombs due to being near starving and nothing dropping corpses.
*Found a lava-y area surrounding a bunch of demons.
*Confused the strongest demon with my wand, got over 400 EXP!!!!
*Now, just must remember DO NOT TELEPORT ON THIS LEVEL.
*killed an orc priest, got to level 8.
===D:6===
*Found Temple, went with Makhleb.
*Killed a centaur and got a bow of flame out of it.
*Killed Edmund on turn 8073 and got a ring mail of MR out of it. (+1 enchanted, too!)
===D:7===
*Got encumbered.
*Went back to temple to stash stuff, particularly Crazy Yiuf's staff (don't want that falling in the wrong hands!)
*Got a flail of pain; as a necromancer, this is awesome.
*Found a kobold storm near an upstaircase in a corridor.
*???
*Profit!
*Ack, one big kobold had a dagger of freakin' distortion.
*Killed it; keeping the dagger for emergencies.
*Reached level 9.
===D:8===
*Not much happened here.
*found an altar of zin, with an angel behind translucent rock wall.  Left it alone.
*Reached XL 10 for the first time in any game.
*Cleared the level; went down.
*I have never been to D:10, so... this'll be a test.
===D:9===
*Got a couple more wands from a vault.
*Found Maurice already killed by a flame cloud.
*Got a cloak of poison resistance from where maurice was, then hauled out of there.
*Found the +3,+5 scythe "Finisher" (weapon) {speed, Str+3} and started using it.
===D:10===
*First time to D:10!
*Found the orcish mines entrance.
*Cleared level, hauled some junk back to Temple so that it wouldn't get picked up by monsters, came back.
*Took out a two-headed ogre -- *barely*.
*Went to D:11 in search of lair.
===D:11===
*Cleared out a beehive with tons of honeycombs and two royal jellies (not the monster kind).
*Found a spellbook of air; memorized mephitic cloud, and shock (so I could train for casting mephitic cloud).
*Found and killed sonja; got to XL11.
*Killed a cyclops, yay.
===D:12===
*Took out a bunch of stuff
*Found a vault/zig/something; will need 8 potions of resistance to get in (after paying 120 gold to the imp)
*Found a fire drake guarding the Lair (surrounded by plants); took it out
*entered the lair, came out, killed an iguana
===Lair:1===
*Not too much notable here, aside from a bunch of shops, which gave me, among other things:
**the quarterstaff "Beefita" {venom, Hunger rPois rC+ rN+ EV+4}
***Still wielding my +5,+2 flail of pain, though
**the ring "Teuc Nue" {EV+5 Dex-3 Int+2 SInv}
**IDs for amulet of inaccuracy, ring of hunger and scroll of weapon
**2 ID scrolls and 2 scrolls of enchant weapon II
**A cursed -4 ring mail randart with -3 to str (They can't all be winners, kid)
*Found 2 unknown potions that turned out to be mutation upon quaff; after two quaffs, I have herbivore 1 and +10% MP. Not a bad tradeoff.
===Lair:2===
*Found and entered a labyrinth.
*Got to the center quick enough, and took out the minotaur with meph cloud. Loot included:
**Cursed splint mail with other nasty stuff, which I left in the lab
**the ring "Ghewkuix" {rF+ rC+ SInv Stlth+}
**An amulet I am wearing which is either clarity, conservation, resist corrosion, resist mutation, or warding (The others would either ID, give me abilities, or I've already ID'd them, or be stasis -- and I can teleport with it on)
*Thanks to spamming shock, mephitic cloud is now at "fair".
===Lair:3===
*Oooh, watery level.
*Lots of yaks and rats and a few electric eels.
*Found staircase to shoals; went down and up just to say I'd been there.
*Also found a bottled efreet, which I stashed on lair:2.
*Found a staff of wizardry, also stashed on lair:2 (this DDNe likes to melee a bit with pain brand.)
===Lair:4===
*Found a cruddy weapons shop.
*Found and cleared an anthell vault.
*Found an altar of TSO.  Pfft.
*Also found some shallow water with various monsters in it.  Need to learn more autoexplore exclusions kthx.
*Cleared level
===Lair:5===
*Found entrance to swamp.
*Learned how to use exclusions.
*Killed some stuff, including a hippogriff followed (barely) by a hydra.
*Found the blowgun of Offence {speed, rF+ rC+, was cursed}
*Found an ID scroll; my long-unID'd ring was a ring of fire.
*Sang some Frank Sinatra.
*Killed a black mamba.  Insert Kobe Bryant joke here.
*Found a spellbook of Wizardry.
===Lair:6===
*Fought my first death yak.  Then a few more.
*Man, those things are tough.
*I'd better go back and do orc.
===Orc:1===
*Killed some orcs.
*Saw only two downstairs.
*Went down to Orc:2, killed an ogre, came up, found Harold.
*Harold hit a teleport trap.
*He went to the other half of Orc:1.
*Killed Harold.
===Orc:2===
*Encountered Joseph upon going downstairs.
*Went upstairs, took other downstairs.
*Dug back to first area, so I'd have a line of retreat.
*Killed lots of orcs.
*Found an Okawaru altar.
*Killed Eustachio.
===Orc:3===
*Found a staircase to the Elven Halls.
*Found Nessos, and a horde of orcs, and an ogre -- yay for mephitic cloud.  Killed all.
*Found Jozef, killed him.
*Saw Orc:4, saw orc knights and stuff, decided to finish lair instead.
===Lair:6-7===
*Not much happened.
*Death yak horde fell to Mephitic Cloud.
===Lair:8===
*Vastly underestimated an 8-headed hydra.
*Died.  49381 points is still by far my high score, however.