Re: Minetown altar conversion?
- From: "Doug Freyburger" <dfreybur@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Sep 2005 12:55:30 -0700
Bard wrote:
>
> She's now at level 12 with an AC of -12, still weilding a +1 longsword.
> MC via Dwarvish Mithril, but no MR. Lost her dagger somewhere in her
> descent and so she hasn't trained dagger throwing at all which I'd
> meant to do.
You went through the mines and you don't have over a dozen
daggers? Why did you decline to pick them all up? Daggers
are a tenth as common as rocks in the mines. Folks of
monsters line up to give you their daggers, and the experience
points that come from the process of graciously accepting
the daggers over the monsters' dead bodies.
> Her big problem is, from level one all the way down to the Rogue level
> (17?) there's been one altar (in minetown) and it's cross-aligned. I
> have a stack of u!oWater, but I haven't found a single blessed one so
> far. I have plenty of scrolls and potions, some identified, some not,
> but I've been hanging onto my u?oID to bless them.
>
> So now, she's back in minetown and using the altar to check some of her
> newly found items (no b!oW, drat). She's eyeing it a bit more greedily
> than a laweful valkyrie ought to and wondering just how tough that
> priest of Loki is, really.
Once you know how to do it, priests are a piece of
cake. Well, not literally - after you kill a cake
monster you eat its corpse but lawfulls don't do
that part with priests.
> Meanwhile, I'm looking for recommendations. Do I attempt to convert the
> altar and face the impending beatdown of the temple priest so I have an
> altar for praying?
No, you have the order wrong on that sequence of
events. Do some prep, kill the priest, convert
the altar. Then re-earn your lost telpathy.
> Do I level a bit, maybe get my dagger throwing to a
> decent level? Do I complete my quest. Do I kill the vampire on the
> Rogue level and descend further to see if I find a convertable altar
> below?
You can do that.
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
Killing a shrine priest is laborious but simple. Dig out
a wall. Get several hundred rocks and put them where the
wall used to be. Every arrow and dart from every trap
in the entire mines, too. Use #name to group them in
bunches of around 30 each so you can pick them up without
going past Burdened. Pick up your first bunch and
start throwing. Pick up the next bunch and continue
throwing. Keep throwing until the priest is dead. If
you prepared properly by hauling every rock from every
level of the mines, the priest will be dead long before
you run out of rocks. If you did not prepare properly,
the priest will be in perfect health the next round.
The priest will never move more than one square from the
altar and you will be two squares from the altar. The
diety will never zap more than one square from the altar
and you will be two squares from the altar.
After the priest is dead, your telepathy will be gone.
I don't know if it will hurt your luck. If you have
avoided killing peacefulls like a good lawfull, your
alignment will be much higher than you need before
starting. So it is time to convert the altar to the
greater glory of Tyr and get on with your business.
Telepathy is one of the gifts that can happen during
altar camping.
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