If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at second you don't succeed, well, maybe just call it a "pass" and move on.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6G) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Bloat Punch, level 15 Arch-Vile Major Technician,
let the Spider Mastermind pwn him on level 8 of Hell.
He survived 115501 turns and scored 264345 points.
He played for 4 hours, 16 minutes and 42 seconds.
He was a man of Ultra-Violence!
He killed 1061 out of 1070 hellspawn. (99%)
He was a real killing machine...
He was an Angel of Impatience!
He saved himself once.
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 11
Levels visited : 10
Levels completed : 9
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (gold cluster)
Grim Reaper's Badge
Chessmaster's Token
Hell Champion Medal
Hell Armorer Badge
Lava Silver Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/50 Experience 104748/15
ToHit Ranged +4 ToHit Melee +4 ToDmg Ranged +3 ToDmg Melee +3
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Technician
Finesse (Level 1)
Hellrunner (Level 3)
Son of a bitch (Level 3)
Eagle Eye (Level 2)
Juggler (Level 1)
Intuition (Level 2)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Scavenger (Level 1)
SoB->SoB->EE->EE->Fin->Jug->WK->WK->Int->MSc->Int->HR->HR->HR->SoB->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] blue armor [2/2] (54%) (A)
[b] [ Weapon ] nuclear plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [29/52] (B3S2)
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [0/0] (100%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] assault shotgun (9d3) [6/6] (P2T1)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] rocket launcher (6d6) [1/1]
[b] burst plasma rifle (1d9)x8 [80/80] (A1)
[c] BFG 9000 (10d8) [100/100]
[d] fireproof red armor [4/4] (97%) (A)
[e] phaseshift armor [2/2] (100%) (A)
[f] shotgun shell (x70)
[g] shotgun shell (x8)
[h] shotgun shell (x70)
[i] rocket (x14)
[j] rocket (x14)
[k] power cell (x70)
[l] power cell (x70)
[m] power cell (x6)
[n] power cell (x70)
[o] power cell (x70)
[p] power cell (x70)
[q] power cell (x70)
[r] lava plasteel boots [2] (A)
[s] shell box (x81)
[t] power battery (x120)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Plasma - internal 0% torso 20% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
131 former humans
87 former sergeants
57 former captains
118 imps
41 demons
259 lost souls
85 cacodemons
18 hell knights
50 barons of hell
59 arachnotrons
38 former commandos
30 pain elementals
30 revenants
20 mancubi
31 arch-viles
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
1 lava elemental
1 agony elemental
1 Cyberdemon
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 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
He defeated the Hell Arena Master!
On level 7 he witnessed the Wall.
He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
On level 9 he assembled a tactical boots!
On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he assembled a fireproof armor!
On level 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 13 he found the City of Skulls.
He wiped out the City of Skulls.
On level 14 he assembled a burst cannon!
On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
On level 15 he assembled a hyperblaster!
On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
On level 18 he entered the Vaults.
On level 18 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
On level 18 he assembled a lava boots!
He managed to scavenge a part of the Vaults treasures.
On level 20 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
On level 20 he found the Angelic Armor!
He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
On level 21 he stumbled into complex full of former humans!
On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
Then at last he found Dis!
On level 24 he finally let the Spider Mastermind pwn him.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You see : a Spider Mastermind (scratched) | floor | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider
Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the
Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits
the Spider Mastermind.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (lightly wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider
Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the
Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits
the Spider Mastermind. The missile hits the Spider Mastermind. Boom! The
missile hits the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind hits you.
You see : a Spider Mastermind (wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
Targeting canceled.
You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit! You die!... Press
<Enter>...
There is 10mm ammo (x100) lying here.
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
403 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
388 of those were killed.
3 of those were killed by something unknown.
11 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
5 killed the bitch and survived.
5 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.
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The Armory gave me a sniper mod. I thought about saving it for a plasmatic assault shotgun later but stuck it to a chaingun for safe keeping. Later on, though, disassembling some exotic (perhaps a blaster) gave me a second S mod, and I've never had two in one game before, so I knew I had to exploit that. I stuck them both on the nuclear plasma rifle and picked up Int2 so I could murder every magenta 'X' with efficiency.
I decided to ruin my 100% kill rate by entering the vaults, even though I knew I'd only be able to clear the outer two. It definitely paid off - I found the GCB, which I dismantled for an onyx mod (don't ask me how that works). The onyx went towards a pair of lava boots, always helpful in AoI.
I had lots of cells saved up by the time I hit the mortuary so I was able to clear it pretty easily with my nuclear sniper rifle, burst plasma and BFG.
A nuke pickup spawned on level 22 or so. If it hadn't been for Klear's recent post about nuking himself in AoI, I would have done the same thing. I was idly thinking about whether or not I should bring it along and try for a full win when I remembered with a start: oh yeah, that's not such a good idea.
I'm not sure exactly what happened with me and the mastermind. I went in equipping my sniper rifle, thinking that I might be able to do some damage to that big X from outside its attack range. When I got closer, the X was behind one of those boxy obstructions so I attacked it from a cornershooting position. It quickly caught up to me, though, which I somehow hadn't been expecting. When it closed to melee range I somehow decided that I'd be better off running away in my blue armor instead of just tanking its melee attacks in my phaseshift. Even worse, I got shot to death on a turn when I ran backwards from the mastermind instead of dodging to the side.
Out of curiosity, how do most players get Mastermind's Brain? I don't reach her too often so I haven't had enough opportunities to practice.