I wasn't going to post individual threads for platinums and diamonds I already obtained back in 0.9.9.7 (I plan to make a mortem dump thread for those), but for my reobtaining of Eagerness Platinum in 0.9.9.8, I thought it was worth posting by itself, as I believe it is the first AoI conqueror run, and in UV no less (in my search to see if someone did it back in 0.9.9.7, I see
papilio came close but couldn't get The Vaults). Most special levels become a lot more dangerous in AoI, as they have little to no means of healing when you can't bring medkits in, so that alone made completing a conqueror that much more imposing. But the big stumbling block was The Vaults; you can't bring the Arena Master Staff in nor Phase Devices, so there is no way to get into the center vault (couldn't even use the Whisper Of Death exploit, as you have no way to restore your tactics for the requisite four uses without bringing medkits in). The only way to clear The Vaults in AoI is to be lucky enough to find a Nuclear Plasma Rifle or BFG and an invuln right before The Vaults, and then nuking The Vaults (can't do it with a regular nuke either, as you can't carry those in AoI). In 0.9.9.8, this is still true for The Vaults, but a new paired level for The Vaults was added in 0.9.9.8, House of Pain, which
is fully beatable without the Arena Master's Staff, which luckily spawned in this run and thus the first AoI conqueror. That wasn't the goal of this run, I was just aiming to get Lava Silver out of the way too and so played Scavenger to absolutely ensure I could get Cerberus or Lava Boots (though Scavenger is very nice for AoI as it lets you bypass the inability to stash mods in your inventory for later use, either by slapping a mod you want to save on some piece of equipment and then scavenging it later to get the mod back, or an exploit I discovered where scavenging with an empty inventory slot will have the resulting mod deposited straight to your inventory to use whenever you want). But I tend to just normally do every special level unless there is serious reason to skip it, and so went through them all along the way, while happening to get House Of Pain to complete the conqueror (though Unchained Court did kill me twice due to Barons destroying the berserks, and I also actually died in Military Base once because I tried the camping at the beginning doors strat without being able to gift drop the Elite Formers due to no medkits nor phase devices, leading to an Elite Sergeant coming up to one of the doors and SSGing me to death before I could act). Unfortunately I couldn't cap it off with a full win too, as no invuln spawned on Hell 7 (can't bring a Lava Element with you in AoI), so I had to settle for blowing away the Mastermind with the Biggest Fucking Gun. That means the first AoI full win conqueror is still on the table for someone to achieve.
Also big RIP to my F-modded Hyperblaster, had to scavenger it at the end to complete the Biggest Fucking Gun after I couldn't get another Firestorm mod. Tried recycling a ton of other mods I had through random assemblies at the end to finish my Nuclear VBFG too to get that assembly out of the way, but the game wouldn't give me just one more Power mod, oh well.
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DRL (0.9.9.8a) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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NOTIMETOWASTE,
level 16 Hell Baron 1st Lieutenant Technician,
defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
He survived 389267 turns and scored 403123 points.
He played for 4 hours, 20 minutes and 10 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 1652 out of 1652 hellspawn. (100%)
This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
He was an Angel of Impatience!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 11
Levels completed : 11
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Cyberdemon's Head Killing the Cyberdemon w/o taking damage
Mastermind's Brain Killing the Mastermind w/o taking damage
Medal of Prejudice Won with 100% kills
UAC Star (gold cluster) 100+ kills without taking damage
Aurora Medallion Found more than 3 uniques in one game
Conqueror Pin Completed all generated levels
Grim Reaper's Pin Clear the Mortuary/Limbo
Hell Armorer Pin Clear Hell's Armory/Deimos Lab
Chessmaster's Token Complete Hell's Arena on AoMs/AoI on UV
Hell Champion Medal Clear Hell's Arena
Technician Gold Badge Discover all basic assemblies
Lava Silver Badge Clear the Lava Pits/Mt. Erebus on AoI
Eagerness Bronze Badge Reach level 9 on Angel of Impatience
Eagerness Silver Badge Complete Angel of Impatience (AoI)
Eagerness Gold Badge Complete AoI on HMP
Eagerness Platinum Badge Complete AoI on UV as non-Marine
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 61/50 Experience 132456/16
ToHit Ranged +4 ToHit Melee +4 ToDmg Ranged +4 ToDmg Melee +4
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Finesse (Level 2)
Hellrunner (Level 1)
Son of a bitch (Level 4)
Eagle Eye (Level 2)
Juggler (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 3)
Scavenger (Level 1)
SoB->EE->EE->Int->Int->WK->WK->MSc->SoB->Fin->Jug->HR->Fin->WK->SoB->SoB->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] fireproof red armor [4] (AO)
[b] [ Weapon ] biggest fucking gun (20d12) [45/325] (B1)
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] nothing
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] tactical shotgun (9d3) [5/5] (P1T1)
[b] tactical rocket launcher (6d6) [5/5] (T1)
[c] plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [40/40] (S2)
[d] nuclear BFG 9000 (10d6) [40/40] (P2)
[e] shotgun shell (x70)
[f] shotgun shell (x70)
[g] shotgun shell (x70)
[h] shotgun shell (x28)
[i] shotgun shell (x70)
[j] shotgun shell (x70)
[k] rocket (x6)
[l] rocket (x14)
[m] rocket (x14)
[n] power cell (x8)
[o] cerberus protective boots [0/0] (100%) (A)
[p] shell box (x100)
[q] shell box (x62)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
bullet - internal 0% torso 20% feet 0%
melee - internal 0% torso 4294967286% feet 0%
shrapnel - internal 0% torso 20% feet 0%
acid - internal 25% torso 35% feet 25%
fire - internal 25% torso 90% feet 25%
plasma - internal 0% torso 10% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
133 former humans
83 former sergeants
47 former captains
172 imps
101 demons
729 lost souls
29 cacodemons
30 hell knights
68 barons of hell
50 arachnotrons
15 former commandos
61 pain elementals
33 revenants
28 mancubi
37 arch-viles
3 nightmare imps
6 nightmare cacodemons
16 nightmare demons
2 nightmare arch-viles
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
1 Angel of Death
1 Cyberdemon
1 Spider Mastermind
1 Arena Master
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 2 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 assembled a tactical boots!
On level 7 he sneaked into the Phobos Lab.
On level 7 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
He broke through the lab.
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
On level 9 he assembled a hyperblaster!
On level 9 he assembled a fireproof armor!
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he witnessed the Wall.
He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
On level 12 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 13 he assembled a cerberus boots!
On level 13 he assembled a tactical rocket launcher!
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
He left level 16 as soon as possible.
On level 17 he trespassed on the House of Pain.
On level 17 he found the Necroarmor!
He conquered the House!
On level 18 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
On level 19 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 19 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter Limbo!
On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear Limbo from evil!
On level 21 he assembled a lava boots!
On level 22 he arrived at Mt. Erebus.
On level 22 he assembled a tactical armor!
He managed to raise Mt. Erebus completely!
On level 23 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 23 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 23 he assembled a biggest fucking gun!
On level 23 he assembled a ballistic armor!
On level 23 he assembled a fireproof boots!
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 24 he finally defeated the Mastermind.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
There is an envirosuit pack lying here.
No time to waste. You use an envirosuit pack from the ground. You feel
protected!
There are stairs leading downward here.
You enter the damned city of Dis...
There is a lever (woah!) here.
You pull the lever...
Out of range! Out of range!
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
You quickly reload the biggest fucking gun. Your power battery is depleted.
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies.
Congratulations! You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
You feel relatively safe now.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
19 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
9 of those were killed.
1 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 1 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
8 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
2 killed the bitch and survived.
4 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.
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