After accidentally entering the Wall with no rockets, I knew YAAM was out but might as well grab Explorer. I didn't want the ammochain or melee routes, so I tried Entrenchment - with a detour for WK. The assault rifle is of course great, saving ammo. The assault cannon I made mostly to check it off the list, but it's really nice when you can afford to fire it - and made that unthinking Eagle Eye pick not useless. It also of course carries a lot of spare bullets in only one slot.
On Phobos Hell 5 I found the blaster. At first I decided to replace my (AP) plasma rifle with it, but decided that since I avoided ammochain I shouldn't take the blaster. but I forgot to recover the rifle, and picked up more bullets instead. Hell 6 had a V/M surprise in a wide-open area. I fought a little more than I should have, trying to get to some armour shards (but they were destroyed) and had to use my homing phase (saved for Mortuary) to escape. There was a water-flood lever, so I decided to finish them off, but had an incident with some barrels that left me quite injured.
My pride intact, but not my body, I chose to enter Mortuary - guaranteed supercharge! and hopefully the BFG would let me get to the exit. It did not, 4 viles were on the way. I might have made it if I had run from the start, or gone left - that side looks more clear. Or rocketjumped repeatedly :).
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.4) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Rahul, level 10 Arch-Vile Colonel Technician,
splayed by a hell knight on level 22 of the Phobos base.
He survived 115084 turns and scored 108975 points.
He played for 2 hours, 23 minutes and 20 seconds.
He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.
He killed 566 out of 693 hellspawn. (81%)
He was an Angel of Light Travel!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 10
Levels visited : 9
Levels completed : 4
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Hell Armorer Badge
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
Hell Champion Medal
Technician Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/50 Experience 47445/10
ToHit Ranged +2 ToHit Melee +2 ToDmg Ranged +2 ToDmg Melee +2
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Tough as nails (Level 2)
Son of a bitch (Level 2)
Eagle Eye (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Badass (Level 1)
Triggerhappy (Level 1)
Entrenchment (Level 1)
SoB->EE->SoB->WK->TaN->WK->TaN->Bad->TH->MSh->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] nothing
[b] [ Weapon ] rocket launcher (6d6) [0/1]
[c] [ Boots ] modified enviromental steel boots [1/1] (98%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] modified assault rifle (2d6)x2 [40/40] (P1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] modified assault cannon (1d8)x10 [260/260] (B1)
[b] modified BFG 9000 (11d8) [9/169] (B2P1)
[c] 10mm ammo (x96)
[d] rocket (x6)
[e] 10mm ammo chain (x250)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 0% torso 0% feet 90%
Fire - internal 0% torso 0% feet 90%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
96 former humans
73 former sergeants
19 former captains
115 imps
38 demons
76 lost souls
36 cacodemons
18 barons of hell
16 hell knights
18 arachnotrons
10 former commandos
8 pain elementals
10 arch-viles
8 mancubi
21 revenants
2 bruiser brothers
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 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
On level 7 he witnessed the Wall.
Not knowing what to do, he left.
On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 10 he assembled a assault rifle!
On level 10 he assembled a enviromental boots!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he assembled a assault cannon!
On level 12 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 15 he encountered the Phobos Hellgate.
On level 16 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
He fled the Unholy Cathedral seeing no chance to win.
On level 17 he found the City of Skulls.
He fled the City in terror!
On level 20 he entered the Vaults.
He came, he saw, but he left.
On level 22 he assembled a tactical armor!
On level 22 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
Entering level 22 he was almost dead...
On level 22 he finally splayed by a hell knight.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
The missile hits the arch-vile. The baron of hell fires! You are hit!
The baron of hell fires!
You dodge!
You reload the rocket launcher with rocket. The hell knight fires! You are
hit! You are engulfed in flames!
Fire -- Choose target...
You see : an arch-vile (almost dead) [m]ore | blood
The missile hits the arch-vile. You hear the scream of a freed soul! The
baron of hell fires! You are hit! Your tactical armor is completely
destroyed! You are hit! You are hit!
You start running!
You dodge! You dodge! You dodge! You dodge! Boom!
The hell knight fires! You dodge!
Boom! You dodge! Boom! Boom! Boom! You dodge! Boom!
The hell knight fires! You dodge! Boom!
The hell knight fires! You are hit! You die!... Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
1152 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
967 of those were killed.
6 of those were killed by something unknown.
105 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 43 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
31 souls destroyed the Cyberdemon...
4 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
24 killed the bastard and survived.
3 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
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