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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.4) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Kinitawowi, level 10 Cacodemon Warrant Officer Marine,
sacrificed himself to kill the Cyberdemon on level 25 of the Phobos base.
He survived 26469 turns and scored 38865 points.
He played for 21 minutes and 27 seconds.
He didn't like it too rough.
He killed 70 out of 322 hellspawn. (21%)
Who gave him the ticket to hell, anyway?
He was an Angel of Pacifism!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 10
Levels visited : 1
Levels completed : 0
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Minor Icarus Cross
Compet-n Silver Cross
Pacifism Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/90 Experience 3350/10
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +0 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Ironman (Level 3)
Finesse (Level 2)
Tough as nails (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 1)
Badass (Level 1)
Survivalist (Level 1)
Bad->TaN->TaN->Iro->Iro->Iro->MSv->Fin->Fin->WK->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] nothing
[b] [ Weapon ] nothing
[c] [ Boots ] steel boots [1/1] (45%)
[d] [ Prepared ] nothing
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] red armor [4/4] (100%)
[b] Butcher's Cleaver (5d6)
[c] large med-pack
[d] large med-pack
[e] large med-pack
[f] phase device
[g] envirosuit pack
[h] envirosuit pack
[i] envirosuit pack
[j] power mod pack
[k] agility mod pack
[l] firestorm weapon pack
[m] fire skull
[n] steel boots [1/1] (100%)
[o] protective boots [2/2] (100%)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
None
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
11 former humans
18 former sergeants
21 imps
8 demons
9 lost souls
1 Cyberdemon
2 former commandos
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
On level 4 he found the Butcher's Cleaver!
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.
Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
He nuked level 25!
On level 25 he finally sacrificed himself to kill the Cyberdemon.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You enter a big arena. There's blood everywhere. You hear heavy mechanical
footsteps...
Are you sure you want activate the thermonuclear bomb? [Y/n] You use a
thermonuclear bomb. Warning! Explosion in 10 seconds! Warning!
Explosion in 9 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 8 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 7 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 6 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 5 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 4 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 3 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 2 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 1 seconds!
You feel relatively safe now. Congratulations! You defeated the
Cyberdemon! Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
438 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
411 of those were killed.
1 of those @was killed by something unknown.
5 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 20 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
1 souls destroyed the Cyberdemon...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
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Okay, this was RIDICULOUS. I just made a post over there somewhere bemoaning my inability to find my first victory; for a bit of thought, I decided as a lark to take on Pacifism (partly to get a few ideas on movement). Got lucky with some well-timed berserk packs, and even luckier with some invincibilities. Snuck around some of the more annoying enemies, tricked a few into blowing themselves up with barrels, got a lot of caves in the lower levels (lured a few demons into lava pits, out-ran the arachnotrons, and bypassed one with a homing phase device) and only about two wide-open levels (remember those berserks? Also dived into the Cathedral on one of those because it was the safer staircase). Evaded all the revenants and mancubi I found and got to the bottom; threw down the starting nuke and that was that.
Even snaffed a couple of speedrun medals into the bargain that I had no thought of ever getting near to.
:D
Entirely predictable that I'd find a firestorm mod on a run where it's completely pointless, of course...
So, the important thing... what did I learn from this? Well, the main thing is that trying to kill everything is only going to get me killed. Also that running is surprisingly handy for dodging arachnotron shots; that sometimes it's more useful to have the enemies kill each other than doing it myself; that if I avoid mancubi, revenants and archviles then I'll probably win comfortably; and that sometimes, it all just comes down to plain dumb luck.