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[Tormuse]

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, (over a year ago?  Holy crap!)  :o  somebody made a request for me to get Marksman Diamond with a Sharpshooter build.  I made 39 total attempts, sporadically, once in a while, and finally did it tonight!  :D  (Explorer badge too!  Woo!)  :D  I recorded the whole thing in five hours of video posted below.  (Is anyone going to watch 5 hours of gameplay?  I don't know, but at least it's there for posterity)  :)

Part 1, Featuring: Hell's Arena, Chained Court (Plus!), Military Base, and Phobos Anomaly

Part 2, Featuring: Hell's Armory (briefly), the Containment Area (*very* briefly), the Abyssal Plains, Spider's Lair, and Tower of Babel

Part 3, Featuring: Unholy Cathedral (briefly), the Vaults, Limbo (terrifyingly!), Mt. Erebus, and Dis.

A few notes from this run:

There were too many close calls to count!  Actually, looking back, I'm surprised that I won at all.  Most notably, there was an extended section after Chained Court where I had no med packs and I was walking around with 4% health, expecting to die at any second, and at one point in Limbo, a barrage of enemy fire reduced me to 1% health!  Yikes!  :o  Still, somehow I pulled through and I can finally put this challenge behind me.  :)

I successfully completed Hell's Arena, Chained Court, and Military Base, so I was considering going for Conqueror, (as ridiculous as that would be for a Marksman game) but I screwed up Hell's Armory and had to retreat without even unleashing the Shambler, so I just went for Explorer instead.  :)

I still had high hopes for completing the Containment Area because I had an energy pistol which I was going to use to tunnel through the wall...  but I didn't have enough energy cells to do it, and had to abandon it.  :(  I was cursing my stupidity for that, especially because I had dropped some cells earlier while doing some inventory management.  :|

I dealt with the ambush in Abyssal Plains by phasing out and approaching them on my own terms with my energy pistol.  I would've been overwhelmed otherwise.

I should've been able to get Cyberdemon's Head easily, but I misremembered how fast I was firing and fired one shot too many right at the start.  Silly me.  :P

The Vaults had the Grammaton Cleric Beretta.  'Nuff said.  :D :D :D

Limbo was infuriating!  :|  I arrived invulnerable and fully intended to just rush the exit, but the barrage of Mancubus and Revenant fire was so intense that I couldn't get anywhere.  I was being thrown around like a rag doll and ended up having to retreat back to the centre of the map and taking out each of the enemies on the right side of the map one by one, knocking them into the lava.  I finally made it with all my med packs gone, down to 20% health, and fortunately, there was a med pack and supercharge still intact there.

I was invulnerable going into Dis, so I claimed the Mastermind's Brain easily.  Grammaton Cleric Cross!  Yeah!  :D

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Tormuse, level 18 Cacodemon 2nd Lieutenant Technician,
 defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
 He survived 211190 turns and scored 978454 points.
 He played for 5 hours, 30 minutes and 51 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 1862 out of 2108 hellspawn. (88%)
 He was an Angel of Marksmanship!

-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 11
  Levels completed : 6

-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------

  Grammaton Cleric Cross
  Mastermind's Brain
  UAC Star (gold cluster)
  Explorer Badge
  Hell Champion Medal
  Marksman Bronze Badge
  Marksman Silver Badge
  Marksman Gold Badge
  Marksman Diamond Badge

-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------

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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health 185/100   Experience 164860/18
  ToHit Ranged +6  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +0

-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------

  Class : Technician

    Ironman          (Level 5)
    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Son of a gun     (Level 3)
    Reloader         (Level 1)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 3)
    Dodgemaster      (Level 1)
    Whizkid          (Level 2)
    Sharpshooter     (Level 1)

  SoG->SoG->SoG->EE->EE->EE->MSs->Iro->Iro->WK->WK->HR->HR->DM->Rel->Iro->Iro->Iro->

-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nanofiber red armor [4] (P)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Grammaton Cleric Beretta (1d7)x6 [6/18]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   tactical boots [0/0] (100%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   energy pistol (2d6) [0/6] (P1)

-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------

    [a] storm pistol (1d8)x2 [12/12] (B1)
    [b] speedloader pistol (2d4) [6/6]
    [c] nuclear BFG 9000 (8d6) [40/40]
    [d] BFG 9000 (10d6) [100/100]
    [e] red armor [4/4] (100%)
    [f] ballistic vest [3/3] (100%) (P)
    [g] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [h] 10mm ammo (x46)
    [i] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [j] power cell (x50)
    [k] power cell (x50)
    [l] power cell (x44)
    [m] small med-pack
    [n] small med-pack
    [o] large med-pack
    [p] large med-pack
    [q] envirosuit pack
    [r] envirosuit pack
    [s] lava element
    [t] phaseshift boots [4/4] (100%)
    [u] 10mm ammo chain (x196)
    [v] power battery (x46)

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    Bullet     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Melee      - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Shrapnel   - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Acid       - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Fire       - internal 60%   torso 73%   feet 60% 
    Plasma     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 

-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------

    201 former humans
    140 former sergeants
    86 former captains
    235 imps
    112 demons
    484 lost souls
    71 cacodemons
    49 hell knights
    42 barons of hell
    95 arachnotrons
    19 former commandos
    58 pain elementals
    63 revenants
    60 mancubi
    44 arch-viles
    32 nightmare imps
    10 nightmare cacodemons
    32 nightmare demons
    3 nightmare arachnotrons
    7 elite former humans
    5 elite former sergeants
    7 elite former commandos
    2 bruiser brothers
    1 lava elemental
    1 agony elemental
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind
    1 Arena Master

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 1 he assembled a speedloader pistol!
  On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
  He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
  On level 7 he marched into the Military Base.
  He purified his fellow comrades.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
  He left the Armory without drawing too much attention.
  On level 11 he assembled a tactical boots!
  On level 11 he arrived at the Containment Area.
  Not knowing what to do, he left.
  On level 12 he assembled a storm bolter pistol!
  On level 12 he assembled a energy pistol!
  On level 12 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
  He barely escaped the trap set for him.
  On level 13 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
  On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
  He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 17 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  He fled the Unholy Cathedral seeing no chance to win.
  On level 19 he entered the Vaults.
  On level 19 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
  He cracked the Vaults and cleared them out!
  On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter Limbo!
  He managed to escape from Limbo!
  On level 22 he arrived at Mt. Erebus.
  He managed to raise Mt. Erebus completely!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 flinched! You need to taste blood!
 You reload the Grammaton Cleric Beretta. You need to taste blood!
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a Spider Mastermind (mortally wounded) | blood | [ m ]ore
 The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider
 Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind
 flinched! The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind
 flinched! The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind
 flinched! The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind
 flinched! You need to taste blood!
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a Spider Mastermind (almost dead) | blood | [ m ]ore
 The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! The
 missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! The
 missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies.
 Congratulations! You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 84 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 65 of those were killed.
 10 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 2 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 7 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 4 killed the bitch and survived.
 1 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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P.S.  If anyone else has any more requests, I'll welcome them.  :)

[thelaptop]

I think you need to do this with Conqueror badge.  =P

[Tormuse]

You're going to have to settle for the time I did it in an Ultraviolence game, because I'm not doing this again.  :)

(Not for a while, anyway)  ;)

EDIT:  Funnily enough, there are some interesting parallells between this game and that one; found GCB in the Vaults and had lots of trouble in Limbo after entering invulnerable.

EDIT2:  Oh yeah, and one other thing I wanted to mention:  There seemed to be an uncanny running theme of people acting as human shields in this game.  (Or former human shields?  Demonic shields?)  ;)  I was saved from taking damage quite a few times by enemies that got caught in the crossfire, often enough for me to joke about it during the recording, most notably at one point in Phobos Anomaly when I was down to 3% health and a Nightmare Demon took a plasma ball for me.  (Lucky timing; I thought I was dead for sure there!)

[thelaptop]

EDIT2:  Oh yeah, and one other thing I wanted to mention:  There seemed to be an uncanny running theme of people acting as human shields in this game.  (Or former human shields?  Demonic shields?)  ;)  I was saved from taking damage quite a few times by enemies that got caught in the crossfire, often enough for me to joke about it during the recording, most notably at one point in Phobos Anomaly when I was down to 3% health and a Nightmare Demon took a plasma ball for me.  (Lucky timing; I thought I was dead for sure there!)

I guess I should think of how to nerf that huh?