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[Tormuse]

On a whim, today, I thought I'd try an Archangel of Humanity game just to see how far I could get and I got a lot further than I expected!  I didn't win due to gross stupidity on my part, but it shows that this could possibly be a promising strategy for Everyman Angelic for the future.

On level 1, I agility-modded my starting armour and bulk-modded the first shotgun I found.  (Speed is important here)  Then, I camped the corpse of a sergeant to fill my inventory with shells so that I would never have to pick any up for the rest of the game.  This way, I could do as much radar-shooting as I wanted and didn't have to take any detours to pick up shells on my way to the stairs.  (Though, I did take advantage of a lucky vault on level 3 that had a combat shotgun!)  After that, it was just a stair-dive on every level.  No experience means there's no point in killing anything unless it happens to be in my way, so I left a lot of enemies alive.  At Chained Court, I just picked up all four berserks and the chainsaw and ran for it and managed to make them last until the anomaly and somehow, it was enough to get me past the ambush and both bruisers!  (I didn't know if I would make it, but I managed it with only using two med packs!)

I can't imagine how to defeat the Cyberdemon in this challenge without being invulnerable, so I was excited to find an invulnerability a few levels before Babel!  I really thought I might make it, but then...  I guess I got a little hasty and neglected to read what was on my screen and went down into Halls of Carnage.  (D'oh!)  :(  The invulnerability ran out part-way through and the lava caught up with me alarmingly rapidly.  Without any envirosuits, I didn't stand a chance, but I charged forward anyway and got cornered and devoured by nightmare demons.

Oh well...

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Tormuse, level 5 Apostle Chaos Lt. Colonel Scout,
 was eaten alive by a nightmare demon on level 6 of the Deimos base.
 He survived 28924 turns and scored 106138 points.
 He played for 56 minutes and 36 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 225 out of 640 hellspawn. (35%)
 He was an Archangel of Humanity!

-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 3
  Levels completed : 0

-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------

  UAC Star (bronze cluster)

-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------

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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health 0/10   Experience 10964/5
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +1  ToDmg Melee +1

-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------

  Class : Scout

    Son of a bitch   (Level 1)

  SoB->

-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------

    [a] [ Armor      ]   red armor [1/4] (7%) (A)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   tactical shotgun (8d3) [0/5]
    [c] [ Boots      ]   protective boots [2/2] (92%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   shell box (x100)

-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------

    [a] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
    [b] chaingun (1d6)x4 [40/40]
    [c] plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [40/40]
    [d] red armor [4/4] (100%)
    [e] chainsaw (5d6) (B)
    [f] shotgun shell (x50)
    [g] shotgun shell (x50)
    [h] shotgun shell (x50)
    [i] shotgun shell (x50)
    [j] shotgun shell (x50)
    [k] shotgun shell (x50)
    [l] shotgun shell (x28)
    [m] shotgun shell (x50)
    [n] shotgun shell (x50)
    [o] shotgun shell (x50)
    [p] rocket (x6)
    [q] large med-pack
    [r] large med-pack
    [s] large med-pack
    [t] large med-pack

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    Acid       - internal 0%    torso 0%    feet 25% 
    Fire       - internal 0%    torso 6%    feet 0%   

-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------

    62 former humans
    62 former sergeants
    9 former captains
    31 imps
    20 demons
    22 lost souls
    9 cacodemons
    3 hell knights
    4 arachnotrons
    3 former commandos

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 3 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
  He left level 4 as soon as possible.
  He left level 5 as soon as possible.
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  He left level 11 as soon as possible.
  On level 11 he witnessed the Wall.
  Not knowing what to do, he left.
  He left level 13 as soon as possible.
  On level 14 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 14 he finally was eaten alive by a nightmare demon.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 You reload the tactical shotgun.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a lost soul (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
 The lost soul dies. The lost soul hits you. Your red armor is damaged!
 You reload the tactical shotgun. The lost soul hits you.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a lost soul (unhurt) | lava | [ m ]ore
 You hear the scream of a freed soul! You hear the scream of a freed soul! The
 lost soul dies.
 You reload the tactical shotgun.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : locked door
 You wear/wield : a shell box (x100) You stop running.
 Fire -- Choose target...
 You see : a nightmare demon (unhurt) | floor | [ m ]ore
 The nightmare demon hits you. You die!... Press <Enter>...

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 1039 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 783 of those were killed.
 4 of those were killed by something unknown.
 140 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 32 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 80 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 4 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 54 killed the bitch and survived.
 22 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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[Juice]

Interesting :) I'm attempting Evereryman Plat/Diamond at the moment (in combo with Ao100 - I keep dying in the Cathedral) , so I somewhat understand the unforgivingness (is that even a word? :D) of AoHu. Getting this far on archangel challenge is really nice achievement - now just get lucky on some invul on lvl 15 and go get that Cybie ;)