...or whatever it's called.

I know this will be utterly unimpressive to most players, but my rash
impatience had prevented it from happening so far.

I got a pet balrog early on, festively dubbed Baby Jesus, which happily slew
everything in Minetown, so I sat there sacrificing or eating whatever came
along until I had collected quite a set of -banes (I only really needed
Maggie, being a wizard) and got some intrinsics. When my wrist started
hurting, I visited the bottom of the mines just for the hell of it (no pun
inten-- wait, that doesn't work anyway) and found a load of nice gems. Also,
an unexpected wand of wishing got me SDSM and speed boots.

Baby Jesus stopped being tame when I left him in a lower level of Sokoban
for a bit (he kept getting in the way), so after getting the amulet of
reflection (useless at this point) I had to tiptoe past him with a sob and a
goodbye.

As usual, I was still a puny "Magician" when I found my Quest Leader, so she
sent me packing. I found somebody's bones a few levels below ("Wilma") which
included a giant sack of everything, so I spent a while sorting that out and
lugging things up to the altar on the previous level. Incidentally, despite
not wearing my ring of slow digestion, I had an incredible surfeit of food
in this game. My primary BoH had about 27 food rations in it, and then I
kept finding soldiers' packed lunches and tripe rations and even a hive of
royal jelly.

Since I'm an idiot, an embarrassing accident (snapping a wand of
cancellation that I thought was a wand of nothing) blanked out a fair amount
of my stuff, including the wand of wishing. But I reached Medusa with a ring
of levitation and a blindfold. I kicked down the door and yelled "Police!"
(I love doing this) and she immediately died for some reason -- ah, perhaps
it was my reflective SDSM, I now realise.

So this was *the first time ever* I got into that claustrophobic maze under
Medusa. I even managed to kill a minotaur, another first. On arriving at the
castle, I let the soldiers sort themselves out with my ring of conflict,
then levitated across the moat and fell down a pit into that moaning,
groaning valley. I was still too puny to go back and do the Quest, but I
shouldn't really have attempted to soldier on here, because I got wedged
between an arch-lich, a vampire lord, and a "hezrou" (what) and they all
snuggled me to death.

Good game by my standards, though.

Eq.