You see those stairs next to my corpse on the map below? That was the entrance to the freakin' Chained Court! AAARRRGH! Sooo freakin' close! :( The extra "S's" in the thread title stand for "Stupid Stupid Stupid!" :P Could've been a really sweet berserker diamond too otherwise.
(Oh well)
Anyway, I had a phenomenally lucky build-up to Hell's Arena. Picture this: On level 2, there were three vaults, two full of demons and the other full of cacodemons and four berserk packs! I brought myself up to character level 4 just from those vaults and got my marine pimped out with some nice gear. I entered the arena still berserk and carrying three blue armours and 4 large med-packs. My strategy in the arena: Each time I killed a cacodemon, I would stand over its corpse so that the next cacodemon that shot at me would destroy the body, so it couldn't regenerate. Taking advantage of the extra armour from zerking, I cleared the arena of demons and cacodemons this way. Things got tense when facing the barons because my berserk ran out and didn't come back, but I had juuuuust enough med-packs and armour to survive it. Even with the crazy armanents I went in with, I came out with 44% health, all my med-packs gone, and one suit of blue armour left at 4%.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.2) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 5 Hell Baron 1st Lieutenant, smitten by a cacodemon
on level 6 of the Phobos base.
He survived 15872 turns and scored 63248 points.
He played for 19 minutes and 27 seconds.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 135 out of 264 hellspawn. (51%)
He was an Angel of Berserk!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 8
Levels visited : 1
Levels completed : 1
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Hell Champion Medal
Arena Diamond Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/50 Experience 9162/5
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +4 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +6
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Tough as nails (Level 2)
Brute (Level 2)
Berserker (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->Ber->TaN->TaN->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] blue armor [2/2] (78%)
[b] [ Weapon ] combat knife (2d5)
[c] [ Boots ] nothing
[d] [ Prepared ] combat knife (2d5)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] blue armor [1/2] (4%)
[b] blue armor [1/2] (37%)
[c] blue armor [1/2] (24%)
[d] large med-pack
[e] phase device
[f] phase device
[g] steel boots [1/1] (100%)
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
41 former humans
12 former sergeants
3 former captains
15 imps
32 demons
6 lost souls
22 cacodemons
2 barons of hell
2 hell knights
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
He left the Arena as a champion!
On level 6 he finally was killed by a cacodemon.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
missile hits the cacodemon.
The cacodemon fires! You are hit!
The cacodemon fires! You dodge! The missile hits the cacodemon.
You wear/wield : a blue armor [2/2] (100%)
You use a phase device. You feel yanked in an non-existing direction!
You dodge! The missile hits the cacodemon. The cacodemon fires! You are
You see : stairs leading to The Chained Court
There are stairs leading downward here.
The cacodemon fires! You dodge! The missile hits the cacodemon. The
cacodemon fires! You dodge! Boom!
The cacodemon fires! You dodge! Boom! The cacodemon fires! You dodge! Boom!
The cacodemon fires! You dodge! Boom!
Boom!
The cacodemon fires! You dodge! Boom! The cacodemon fires! You dodge! The
missile hits the cacodemon. The cacodemon fires! You dodge! Boom!
You die!... Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
Before him 236 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
212 of those were killed.
15 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 5 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
Is he immortal? 4 souls claim to have killed him...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
1 killed the bastard and survived.
2 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
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