Nethack: the best game ever invented by man. Why get distracted by fancy graphics when you could just be an @?

This was the the easiest ascension I've had. It wasn't without its annoyances -- I drank an unidentified potion early on and it turned out to be blessed invis, so I was invisible the rest of the game. No shops for a while until I could find an uncursed mummy wrapping. I also lost my pet early.

However I found a magic lamp and got a wish for SDSM, and from there it was pretty easy. I found a spellbook of poly, and polypiled to get a ton of spells including finger of death. Sacrificing got me nothing all game, annoyingly, and a prayer got me crowned with another finger of death. I found a couple of mediocre artifact weapons (grimtooth, then sunsword and demonbane later, both wielded by archons) which was good because I wanted to bag a couple of challenges: no genocide, no polyself, no wishing for artifacts. I'll work on some harder ones next. This is the first game I've gotten the amulet without genociding L; they are very annoying.

I cleared out Fort Ludios, but didn't bother to get the gold. I bashed on the sinks for some sex and levels, then headed down. Fireball and finger of death saw me to the amulet; I needed wands of teleport on astral to keep some of the nasties away. The temple was the last I went to, natch.

Killed Rodney 6 times (finger of death all 6), pestilence and famine twice each, danced around death rather than fight him.

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T the Mage                St:18 Dx:21 Co:16 In:20 Wi:20 Ch:10  Chaotic
  Astral Plane $:0  HP:270(270) Pw:147(672) AC:-37 Exp:30 T:48842

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t, ascended.

Goodbye t the Demigod...
You went to your reward with 3791314 points,
Grimtooth (worth 300 zorkmids and 750 points)
The Bell of Opening (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
The Candelabrum of Invocation (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
Demonbane (worth 2500 zorkmids and 6250 points)
The Eye of the Aethiopica (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
Sunsword (worth 1500 zorkmids and 3750 points)
10 emeralds (worth 25000 zorkmids),
9 chrysoberyl stones (worth 6300 zorkmids),
6 aquamarine stones (worth 9000 zorkmids),
6 amethyst stones (worth 3600 zorkmids),
3 rubies (worth 10500 zorkmids),
2 diamonds (worth 8000 zorkmids),
1 jacinth stone (worth 3250 zorkmids),
1 black opal (worth 2500 zorkmids),
1 turquoise stone (worth 2000 zorkmids),
1 citrine stone (worth 1500 zorkmids),
1 amber stone (worth 1000 zorkmids),
1 topaz stone (worth 900 zorkmids),
1 jet stone (worth 850 zorkmids),
1 obsidian stone (worth 200 zorkmids),
1 amulet of life saving (worth 150 zorkmids),
and 10221 pieces of gold, after 48842 moves.
You were level 30 with a maximum of 270 hit points when you ascended.