This took a bunch of tries to get right, but I finally succeeded! :D I eventually just had a lucky game in which I got 3 consecutive invulnerabilities leading up to the Cyberdemon which helped me breeze through several levels. Of course, the scout is an obvious choice for any speedrun and I used a Blademaster build so I wouldn't have to do much thinking. I just charged the stairs and anything that got in my way got a Chainsaw up the butt. :P
I used the Shotgun for the first few levels, (rapidly tapping F and R) ;) and after Chained Court, I pretty much used the Chainsaw for the whole thing, except for one point when my berserk ran out and I had to corner shoot an Arachnotron with my Shotgun. Having to stop to aim in the middle of a speedrun feels like it takes an eternity, so I'm thankful I only had to do that once.
Since I was invulnerable on Hell level 1, it would have been easy to get the Longinus Spear, but I decided to skip it, because I figured it wouldn't have been enough of an improvement on my bulk-modded Chainsaw to make it worth it to use up all of that precious invulnerability running to the end of the Cathedral and back.
I stumbled into the Mortuary by accident, but took advantage of it by going for the nuclear BFG, which I planned to use to nuke the Mastermind, and then I happened to find an invulnerability sphere and decided to go for the full win. It could have ruined the speedrun, but I was making good time, so I figured I could risk it. (especially considering all those medkits I had accumulated while invulnerable!) It was fun for a time to take advantage of the Blademaster trait to rapidly clear JC's minions, but once he started teleporting around, I figured I should stop fooling around and finish him off. :P
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.5) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 8 Hell Knight Major Scout,
nuked the Mastermind on level 9 of Hell.
He survived 12434 turns and scored 329990 points.
He played for 13 minutes.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 276 out of 1050 hellspawn. (26%)
Who gave him the ticket to hell, anyway?
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 5
Levels completed : 0
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Cyberdemon's Head
UAC Star (silver cluster)
Major Icarus Cross
Compet-n Gold Cross
UAC Gold Badge
UAC Platinum Badge
UAC Diamond Badge
Speedrunner Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 43/50 Experience 27114/8
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +9
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Scout
Hellrunner (Level 2)
Brute (Level 3)
Berserker (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Blademaster (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->Ber->HR->HR->Bru->MBm->DM->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] red armor [4/4] (63%)
[b] [ Weapon ] chainsaw (5d6) (B)
[c] [ Boots ] nothing
[d] [ Prepared ] shotgun (8d3) [0/1]
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] pistol (2d4) [6/6]
[b] napalm launcher (7d7) [1/1]
[c] green armor [1/1] (100%)
[d] green armor [1/1] (100%)
[e] red armor [4/4] (100%)
[f] 10mm ammo (x36)
[g] shotgun shell (x18)
[h] small med-pack
[i] small med-pack
[j] small med-pack
[k] small med-pack
[l] small med-pack
[m] small med-pack
[n] small med-pack
[o] large med-pack
[p] large med-pack
[q] technical mod pack
[r] steel boots [1/1] (100%)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 0% torso 60% feet 60%
Melee - internal 0% torso 60% feet 60%
Shrapnel - internal 0% torso 60% feet 60%
Acid - internal 25% torso 85% feet 85%
Fire - internal 25% torso 95% feet 85%
Plasma - internal 0% torso 60% feet 60%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
31 former humans
34 former sergeants
18 former captains
30 imps
16 demons
76 lost souls
17 cacodemons
5 hell knights
7 barons of hell
3 arachnotrons
10 former commandos
3 pain elementals
5 revenants
8 mancubi
9 arch-viles
1 bruiser brother
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
1 John Carmack
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
He left level 3 as soon as possible.
On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
He cowardly fled the Arena.
On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
He left level 6 as soon as possible.
On level 7 he witnessed the Wall.
Not knowing what to do, he left.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
He left the Armory without drawing too much attention.
He left level 15 as soon as possible.
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
He left level 18 as soon as possible.
He left level 20 as soon as possible.
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
He managed to escape from the Mortuary!
Then at last he found Dis!
He overloaded a nuclear BFG 9000 on level 24!
He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
Then finally in hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
dodge! The missile hits John Carmack. You need to taste blood!
John Carmack reloads his rocket launcher. You dodge! You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You dodge! The missile hits John Carmack. You need to taste blood!
You dodge! You need to taste blood!
You dodge! You need to taste blood!
You hit John Carmack. You're going berserk! You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn! You need to taste blood!
You hit John Carmack. You need to taste blood!
You hit the revenant. The revenant dies. Next! You're going berserk!
You hit the revenant. The revenant dies. Next!
You hit the revenant. The revenant dies. Next! You're going berserk!
You miss the revenant. You need to taste blood!
You hit John Carmack. John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John
Carmack! Press <Enter>... Next!
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
136 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
119 of those were killed.
1 of those was killed by something unknown.
1 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 5 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
10 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
4 killed the bitch and survived.
5 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
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