Well, this is interesting... This started as me kind of fooling around, seeing if I could play AoCn with a Vampyre build, so naturally, I dual-angeled it with AoB so I could start with a chainsaw and I found that I was doing surprisingly well, simply by doing a stair dive and avoiding most of the enemies. Then, I wondered if it could be a viable strategy for taking on the Mortuary/Limbo and I started making a more concerted effort at it. About twenty games later, I had this exceptionally lucky game and I successfully got my 15th Diamond, earning me Chaos Brigadier General rank! WOO! :D
Level 4, the one leading into Abyssal Plains was a pain elemental cave, which was pretty much the only level I cleared and got a good collection of experience, and there were two invulnerability spheres that I took into the Plains with me. As soon as I entered the level, I homing phased to the centre of the map, right into the thick of the pain elementals and agony elemental, cut up as many as I could while still invulnerable, and collected the two hatred skulls and blood skulls left behind. These were a big help during Limbo.
One thing I have to ask: How the heck many Arch-Viles are there in Limbo at N!?!? :o I was thinking there were around 8, so when I started the level and there were 5 or 6 of them nearby, I thought, "Great! I can clear away a majority of them right off the bat and the rest will be easy!" As it happened, I kept encountering more and more of them over the course of the level, and every time I thought I got the last one, another one turned up, right up until the end when the last enemy I killed was an Arch-Vile. AAahh! :o
Anyway, the hatred and blood skulls were useful for clearing away bodies and keeping me going and my strategy in the end turned out to be to hide in the lower right corner in the nook where the staircase is. All the enemies can only approach via the two narrow corridors surrounded by lava and I quickly discovered that I was completely safe there to rest until something wandered around the corner and I knocked it down with my Longinus Spear and gained health from it. Eventually, after hitting all the switches, I was able to lure practically every enemy on the map down there, leading them on to the staircase if I wanted to destroy their corpses. This strategy was quite useful for gaining health back after each skirmish and accounts for the high number of kills of larger enemies like Nightmare Arachnotrons. I intended to use the Hellwave pack at some point to clear some more corpses, but it never turned out to be necessary. I had also hoped to exploit the plasma shotgun reloading bug to get some extra cheap kills, but I never got the opportunity.
Sadly, the nuclear BFG was destroyed, so I couldn't get a full win, but I settled for using the Lava Element to get the Mastermind's Brain. :)
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DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 14 Apostle Chaos Lt. Colonel Marine,
defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
He survived 125582 turns and scored 528578 points.
He played for 1 hour and 34 minutes.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 1096 out of 1446 hellspawn. (75%)
He was an Angel of Berserk!
He was also an Angel of Confidence!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 8
Levels visited : 6
Levels completed : 2
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Mastermind's Brain
UAC Star (silver cluster)
Aurora Medallion
Grim Reaper's Badge
Reaper Diamond Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 140/90 Experience 84906/14
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +6 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +9
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Ironman (Level 3)
Finesse (Level 2)
Tough as nails (Level 2)
Brute (Level 3)
Berserker (Level 1)
Badass (Level 2)
Vampyre (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->Ber->Bad->TaN->MVm->Bad->TaN->Bru->Iro->Iro->Iro->Fin->Fin->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Angelic Armor [5/11] (29%)
[b] [ Weapon ] Longinus Spear (8d8)
[c] [ Boots ] Nyarlaptotep's Boots [6/6] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] combat knife (2d5)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] plasma shotgun (7d3) [0/30]
[b] green armor [1/1] (100%)
[c] red armor [4/4] (100%)
[d] nanofiber red armor [2]
[e] Berserker Armor [0]
[f] chainsaw (4d6)
[g] chainsaw (4d6) (T)
[h] power cell (x30)
[i] small med-pack
[j] small med-pack
[k] small med-pack
[l] large med-pack
[m] large med-pack
[n] large med-pack
[o] large med-pack
[p] phase device
[q] phase device
[r] phase device
[s] envirosuit pack
[t] Hellwave Pack
[u] plasteel boots [2/2] (99%) (A)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Bullet - internal 60% torso 85% feet 60%
Melee - internal 60% torso 85% feet 60%
Shrapnel - internal 60% torso 85% feet 60%
Acid - internal 60% torso 60% feet 90%
Fire - internal 60% torso 60% feet 90%
Plasma - internal 60% torso 60% feet 60%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
18 former humans
45 former sergeants
12 former captains
28 imps
46 demons
264 lost souls
39 cacodemons
24 hell knights
79 barons of hell
81 arachnotrons
6 former commandos
39 pain elementals
140 revenants
71 mancubi
27 arch-viles
5 nightmare imps
52 nightmare cacodemons
11 nightmare demons
104 nightmare arachnotrons
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
1 Angel of Death
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
On level 1 he entered Deimos Lab.
He left the Deimos Lab without drawing too much attention.
On level 4 he romped upon the Abyssal Plains.
He barely escaped the trap set for him.
On level 6 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 8 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 9 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 9 he found the Longinus Spear!
He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 10 he found the Hellwave Pack!
He left level 11 as soon as possible.
On level 12 he found the Jackhammer!
On level 12 he was foolish enough to enter Limbo!
On level 12 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
On level 12 he found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear Limbo from evil!
On level 14 he arrived at Mt. Erebus.
On level 14 he found the Nyarlaptotep's Boots!
He managed to raise Mt. Erebus completely!
On level 15 he found the Berserker Armor!
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 16 he finally defeated the Mastermind.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
taste blood!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
taste blood!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
You see : a Spider Mastermind (heavily wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
You need to taste blood!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You're going
berserk! You need to taste blood!
You need to taste blood!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
taste blood!
You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations!
You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
1111 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
842 of those were killed.
4 of those were killed by something unknown.
149 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 33 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
83 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
4 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
55 killed the bitch and survived.
24 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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