Oh, boy.
Let's start by saying this is the second game in a row in which i nearly die in the Chained Court. By "nearly die" i mean "get reduced to 2-4% health and get hit by a hell knight fireball on exactly the same turn as grabbing the last berserk pack. This is close. Too close.
Lesson learned: Even if you have a cool melee weapon, it doesn't mean you can chop a pack of demons with no consequences. They WILL bite your leg off, draining you to 80% and zero med-packs just before Hell's Armory.
Oh, boy. What a battle that was.
I took a few hits, reducing me to 34% with one arachnotron left. After careful consideration, i cracked the room where he was and fired blindly from cover until i heard him die. Then, after thinking for maybe ten minutes straight, i pulled the lever, releasing the shambler.
Lesson learned: Shooting rockets off-sight in hope of hitting him does not work. You need to take him on face to face.
Normally, i wouldn't be worried. But this time, i was running short of bullets and rockets, and coldn't afford getting hit, all while worrying about him regenerating all the time. I was hit by him once -- reducing me to 8% health and killing my last hope. After thinking a bit more, i decided to go out with a bang. I loaded my plasma rifle, stepped out, and the moment i saw him coming, squeezed the trigger as hard as i could.
He steps closer.
And closer.
And closer.
And then, when he is standing point-blank, ready to swing, he dies... With me, having exactly one cell left in my magazine.
missile hits the shambler. The shambler dies. The lab cache opens.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
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Simon Armor : blue armor [2/2] (88%)
Health: 8% Exp: 6/73% Weapon: plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [1/40]
cautious Hell's Armory
Uh, now what?
Here i was, with guns, ammo and armor, but no health. After looting for everything i could, i left, knowing it is going to end very soon, that a single tactical mistake and a single wrong keypress is going to end it all.
And so it was.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.2) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Simon, level 6 Hell Baron Captain, burned by an imp
on level 11 of the Phobos base.
He survived 76849 turns and scored 42024 points.
He played for 1 hour, 39 minutes and 31 seconds.
He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.
He killed 326 out of 332 hellspawn. (98%)
He held his right to remain violent.
He was an Angel of Light Travel!
He saved himself 3 times.
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 8
Levels visited : 3
Levels completed : 3
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
Hell Champion Medal
Hell Armorer Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/50 Experience 15641/6
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +0 ToDmg Ranged +2 ToDmg Melee +2
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Finesse (Level 2)
Son of a bitch (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 1)
Triggerhappy (Level 1)
SoB->SoB->Fin->Fin->WK->TH->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] blue armor [2/2] (95%)
[b] [ Weapon ] Grammaton Cleric Beretta (2d6) [18/18]
[c] [ Boots ] modified steel boots [1/1] (100%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] tactical rocket launcher (5d5) [5/5]
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] modified plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [0/40] (S1)
[b] double chainsaw (8d6)
[c] 10mm ammo (x40)
[d] rocket (x10)
[e] rocket (x3)
[f] phase device
[g] bulk mod pack
[h] Arena Master's Staff
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
76 former humans
38 former sergeants
16 former captains
75 imps
41 demons
44 lost souls
13 cacodemons
1 baron of hell
16 hell knights
2 arachnotrons
1 former commando
1 pain elemental
1 shambler
1 Arena Master
-- 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 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 4 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
On level 9 he assembled a double chainsaw!
On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 10 he assembled a assault rifle!
On level 10 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
On level 10 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
He destroyed the evil withing and reaped the rewards!
Entering level 11 he was almost dead...
On level 11 he finally was killed by a imp.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You open the door.
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : out of vision
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : out of vision
You hear the scream of a freed soul!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : out of vision
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : out of vision
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : out of vision
You close the door.
You reload the Grammaton Cleric Beretta with 10mm ammo.
You open the door.
The imp fires! You are hit! You die!... Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
Before him 33 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
11 of those were killed.
1 of those was killed by something unknown.
And 3 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
Is he immortal? 18 souls claim to have killed him...
2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
10 killed the bastard and survived.
6 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
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Man, that's almost embarrassing.
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