A bit more prep, and some play in Sokoban with Nurses, then I realized that my usual home base -- where the only free altar, on level 12, was -- was also where Fort Luddos was (this was when I got Detect Treasure). Who knew? I cleared Luddos and cast polymorph a lot on the stacks the guards left, making way more shirts than I needed.
I had a few false starts here as I kept entering Rodney's tower only to realize I was forgetting an essential spell -- but the net result was that I was only the middle of my spell cycle (a lot of my spells were running on the same timing, which was nice) in the endgame.
It was now time to finish things -- I ported down to Vlads', took out the Wizard's Tower, FoDing Rodney, did the ritual and cleared out Moloch's Chamber (had to Charm Monsters once when I was surrounded by annoying nasties and didn't want my steed to die), then went all the way back up, finding the hard way that there was one demon lord I hadn't encountered on the way down: Asmodeus. Fortunately, while he's annoying (cold resistance, so no point blank CoCs), his attacks are wimpy, so after a long slow walk to the stairs, I fireballed him, chased him up a few stairs, and finished him off.
After a fairly quick walk out of Gehenna, I did what prep I needed (I was feeling paranoid, and packed most of my library, though I never needed it), then went up through the top staircase, forgetting only one thing: a pile of daggers for Death (oops).
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A bit more prep, and some play in Sokoban with Nurses, then I realized that
my usual home base -- where the only free altar, on level 12, was -- was also
where Fort Luddos was (this was when I got Detect Treasure). Who knew? I
cleared Luddos and cast polymorph a lot on the stacks the guards left, making
way more shirts than I needed.
I had a few false starts here as I kept entering Rodney's tower only to
realize I was forgetting an essential spell -- but the net result was that
I was only the middle of my spell cycle (a lot of my spells were running
on the same timing, which was nice) in the endgame.
It was now time to finish things -- I ported down to Vlads', took out the
Wizard's Tower, FoDing Rodney, did the ritual and cleared out Moloch's
Chamber (had to Charm Monsters once when I was surrounded by annoying nasties
and didn't want my steed to die), then went all the way back up, finding
the hard way that there was one demon lord I hadn't encountered on the way
down: Asmodeus. Fortunately, while he's annoying (cold resistance, so no
point blank CoCs), his attacks are wimpy, so after a long slow walk to the
stairs, I fireballed him, chased him up a few stairs, and finished him off.
After a fairly quick walk out of Gehenna, I did what prep I needed (I was
feeling paranoid, and packed most of my library, though I never needed it),
then went up through the top staircase, forgetting only one thing: a pile
of daggers for Death (oops).