Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Tengu Summoner

I had an awesome summoner going on Crawl this morning, If you don't know what Crawl is, that's cool--just check out these screenshots.

If your character dies in Crawl, it's done forever. It was a shame to loose this guy to a player ghost who hit for 50% of my . I found the book of Summonngs which rlly helped out, but I was only a level or two away from lrning to summon demons.


Here I am still relying on Imps and scorpions...the combination actually hold up pretty well because of the low cost to cast both spells and the scorpions' ddly poison stacking. Summon Small Mammals is always a grt summon spell for beefing the size of your army with wk mtshields. For 1 MP you can get 2 quokkas, and if the enemy is bashing the small mammals, they aren't destroying your Ugly Things.

Even 6 Yaks aren't much of a problem, although the battle lasted for several minutes.

After getting the book of Summons, I could conjure these Ugly Things and Very Ugly Things which were grt mtshields and damage dlers. A few could even take out a Dth Yak.
These narrow passages are hell for a summoner;idllyyou want to lure monsters into the open.

Ice Bsts are nice companions, although they aren't as strong as Ugly Things. I've found that a diverse set of summons can often be very effective at dling damage and working around monsters' strengths and wknesses by providing a wide array of attacks and eral confusion for the AI.

I would spend the next half hour killing these Dth Yaks and nrly avoiding dth several times. Eventually a player Ghost on the next dungeon floor took me down. It was an epic journey, and it ended too soon. Shortly before I died I #chardumped my data into a file which I will preserve below. You can see all of my character's attributes.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.1-30-g593e17d character file.

Robot2600 the Convoker (Tengu Summoner) Turns: 21015, Time: 02:42:31

54/54 AC 15 Str 8 XL: 11 Next: 71%
MP 29/29 EV 11 Int 19 God: Makhleb [*****.]
Gold 323 SH 0 Dex 15 Spells: 8 memorised, 4 levels left

Res.Fire : . . . See Invis. : + I - +5,+3 quarterstaff (chaos)
Res.Cold : . . . Warding : . . B - +3 lther armour of Folaeh {MR Acc+4 SInv
Life Prot.: . . . Conserve : . (no shield)
Res.Acid. : . . . Res.Corr. : . z - +0 cap
Res.Poison: . Clarity : . J - +2 cloak
Res.Elec. : . Spirit.Shd : . d - +2 pair of dwarf gloves
Sust.Abil.: . . Stasis : . (boots unavailable)
Res.Mut. : . Ctrl.Telep.: . (no amulet)
Res.Rott. : . Levitation : . (no ring)
Saprovore : . . . Ctrl.Flight: + q - +3 ring of protection

@: very resistant to hostile enchantments, fairly stlthy
A: able to fly, bk, talons 3
a: Fly, Minor Destruction, Lesser Servant of Makhleb, Major Destruction, Grter
Servant of Makhleb, Renounce Religion


You are on level 11 of the Dungeon.
You worship Makhleb.
Makhleb is exalted by your worship.
You are not hungry.

You have visited 2 branches of the dungeon, and seen 12 of its levels.

You have collected 690 gold pieces.
You have spent 387 gold pieces at shops.

Inventory:

Hand wpons
D - the -2,+3 sabre "Faut" {flame, SInv}
(You found it on level 9 of the Dungeon)

It emits flame when wielded, causing extra injury to most foes and up to
double damage against particularly susceptible opponents. Big, fiery blades
are also staple armaments of hydra-hunters.

It enhances your eyesight.
I - a +5,+3 quarterstaff of chaos (wpon)
Armour
d - a +2 pair of dwarven gloves (worn)
z - a +0 cap (worn)
B - the +3 lther armour of Folaeh (worn) {MR Acc+4 SInv}
(You bought it in a shop on level 4 of the Dungeon)

It affects your accuracy (+4).
It incrses your resistance to enchantments.
It enhances your eyesight.
J - a +2 cloak (worn)
Magical devices
l - a glowing bronze wand {zapped: 7} {tried by monster}
r - a wand of digging (8)
s - a wand of enslavement (5)
y - a wand of random effects (20)
G - a wand of digging
L - an ivory wand
M - a ld wand
Comestibles
E - a beef jerky
Scrolls
a - a scroll labeled CINGEO WEVESH {tried on cursed -1 robe}
e - 4 scrolls of detect curse
g - 5 scrolls of fr
h - a scroll of identify
i - a scroll of amnesia
m - a scroll of random uselessness
n - a scroll of fog
u - 2 scrolls of magic mapping
v - a scroll labeled NIER OWNELEQODGH
H - 2 scrolls of teleportation
K - 4 scrolls of remove curse
Jewellery
q - a +3 ring of protection (left hand)
Potions
f - a potion of might
j - a potion of invisibility
o - 3 potions of curing
t - a potion of agility
w - a potion of water
C - 3 potions of hl wounds
Books
k - the Disquisition on Excruciating Cold
(You found it on level 9 of the Dungeon)

Spells Type Level
Throw Frost Conjuration/Ice 2
Bolt of Cold Conjuration/Ice 6
Metabolic Englaciation Hexes/Ice 6
F - a book of Summonings

Spells Type Level
Abjuration Summoning 3
*Recall Summoning/Transloion 3
Summon Elemental Summoning 4
*Shadow Crtures Summoning 5
Summon Demon Summoning 5
*Summon Ugly Thing Summoning 6


Skills:
- Level 2.1 Dodging
- Level 2.0 Stlth
- Level 11.1 Spellcasting
+ Level 15.5 Summonings
- Level 6.0 Poison Magic


You have 4 spell levels left.
You know the following spells:

Your Spells Type Power Failure Level Hunger
a - Summon Small Mammals Summ ##### 0% 1 None
b - Call Imp Summ #######... 1% 2 None
c - Call Canine Familiar Summ #######... 1% 3 None
d - Summon Scorpions Pois/Summ #######... 1% 4 Strawberry
e - Summon Ice Bst Ice/Summ ######.... 3% 4 Strawberry
f - Summon Ugly Thing Summ #######... 1% 6 Honeycomb
g - Recall Tloc/Summ N/A 1% 3 None
h - Shadow Crtures Summ N/A 1% 5 Honeycomb


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (11/27) Temple (1/1) D:4 Orc (0/4) D:7
Lair: D:8-13

Altars:
Ashenzari
Fedhas
Makhleb
Okawaru
Trog
Xom

Shops:
D:4: [ D:11: !


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You can fly.
You have a bk for a mouth.
You have claws for feet.


Message History

You swap places.
You swap places.
Rlly walk into a travel-excluded ar?
Okay, then.
You swap places.
There is an open door here.
You start resting.
You are engulfed in freezing vapours.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
Your white ugly thing is engulfed in freezing vapours.
Your white ugly thing is engulfed in freezing vapours.
Your white ugly thing is engulfed in freezing vapours.
You start resting.
Magic restored.
You start resting.
You start resting.
Your white ugly thing disapprs in a puff of smoke!
You start resting.
restored.
Char dumped successfully.

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There are no monsters in sight!

Vanquished Crtures
A human (D:11)
A spriggan (D:7)
A yak (D:11)
A giant frog (D:6)
A killer bee (D:10)
A big kobold skeleton (D:10)
A big kobold zombie (D:10)
A crimson imp (D:10)
2 hounds
6 scorpions
A jelly (D:10)
An orc wizard (D:9)
6 adders
An iguana zombie (D:5)
2 white imps (D:7)
A worm (D:6)
A bat skeleton (D:5)
2 giant geckos
3 oozes
5 orcs
A ball python (D:4)
6 bats
A grey rat (D:10)
10 hobgoblins
3 jackals
2 quokkas
3 giant cockroaches
3 goblins
A hobgoblin skeleton (D:7)
6 kobolds
13 rats
16 ballistomycetes
10 toadstools
114 crtures vanquished.

Vanquished Crtures (collateral kills)
9 dth yaks
Pikel (D:6)
6 hill giants
Grinder (D:6)
34 yaks
Eustachio (D:4)
A hungry ghost (D:10)
A war dog (D:10)
Menkaure (D:6)
2 ice bsts (D:9)
3 sky bsts
A swamp drake (D:7)
A yellow wasp (D:10)
5 ogres
4 orc warriors
4 slaves (D:6)
5 centaurs
The ghost of AnalyticBranch the Shooter, an average HEHu (D:4)
Sigmund (D:6)
Duvessa (D:7)
5 giant frogs
A gnoll sergnt (D:10)
A yellow wasp zombie (D:8)
2 humans (D:11)
A basilisk skeleton (D:10)
8 killer bees
A killer bee zombie (D:5)
3 jellies
A big kobold zombie (D:10)
A goliath beetle (D:7)
Dowan (D:7)
A big fish (D:6)
2 crimson imps
Crazy Yiuf (D:5)
6 orc priests
A shadow (D:7)
5 hounds
6 worker ants
4 iguanas
2 gnoll shamans (D:10)
8 orc wizards
46 scorpions
A deep elf soldier (D:9)
4 sheep (D:11)
2 mummies
A goliath beetle zombie (D:10)
17 gnolls (D:10)
A green rat (D:4)
A giant centipede (D:11)
2 iguana skeletons
6 adders
An adder skeleton (D:7)
An adder zombie (D:6)
2 worms
An ufetubus (D:4)
A giant eyeball (D:11)
2 giant geckos
2 oozes (D:2)
32 orcs
4 giant cockroaches
13 goblins
11 hobgoblins
18 jackals
17 kobolds
A ball python (D:4)
9 bats
7 giant newts
A giant spore (D:10)
A quokka (D:4)
7 rats
A rat zombie (D:7)
13 ballistomycetes
A fungus (D:9)
2 toadstools
373 crtures vanquished.

Vanquished Crtures (others)
6 very ugly things (D:11)
A wizard (D:4)
A wolf spider (D:11)
11 ugly things
A war dog (D:10)
An orc warrior (D:11)
A human (D:11)
4 ice bsts
An ogre (D:11)
A sky bst (D:11)
2 yak zombies (D:11)
3 giant frog zombies
A yellow wasp zombie (D:10)
A warg (D:10)
3 hounds
37 crimson imps
129 scorpions
An orc priest (D:11)
8 iron imps
An elf zombie (D:7)
20 shadow imps
A sheep zombie (D:11)
20 white imps
32 grey rats
A gnoll zombie (D:10)
4 orcs
22 bats
A giant cockroach (D:11)
A hobgoblin (D:11)
6 jackals
39 quokkas
A giant gecko zombie (D:9)
A giant newt zombie (D:2)
8 giant spores
2 jackal skeletons
2 jackal zombies
An orc skeleton (D:11)
An orc zombie (D:10)
30 rats
2 ballistomycetes
16 toadstools
425 crtures vanquished.

Grand Total: 912 crtures vanquished

Notes
Turn | Place | Note
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0 | D:1 | Robot2600, the Tengu Summoner, began the quest for the Orb.
0 | D:1 | Rched XP level 1. : 10/10 MP: 3/3
52 | D:1 | Rched skill level 5 in Summonings
494 | D:1 | Rched XP level 2. : 15/15 MP: 5/5
503 | D:1 | Lrned a level 2 spell: Call Imp
1449 | D:2 | Rched skill level 6 in Summonings
1825 | D:2 | Rched XP level 3. : 19/19 MP: 1/6
2385 | D:2 | Rched skill level 7 in Summonings
2724 | D:3 | Found a ing altar of Makhleb.
2728 | D:3 | Became a worshipper of Makhleb the Destroyer
3059 | D:3 | Rched XP level 4. : 24/24 MP: 2/8
3811 | D:4 | Found a shattered altar of Ashenzari.
3826 | D:4 | Rched skill level 8 in Summonings
4040 | D:4 | Found a staircase to the Ecumenical Temple.
4074 | D:4 | Found Venaepp's Antique Armour Emporium.
4142 | D:4 | Bought a faintly humming lther armour for 147 gold pieces
4150 | D:4 | Identified the cursed +3 lther armour of Folaeh (You bought it in a shop on level 4 of the Dungeon)
4199 | D:4 | Noticed Eustachio
4232 | D:5 | Entered Level 5 of the Dungeon
4318 | D:5 | Rched XP level 5. : 28/28 MP: 6/10
4527 | D:5 | : 1/28 [centaur/arrow of flame (16)]
4916 | D:5 | Lrned a level 3 spell: Call Canine Familiar
5188 | D:5 | Rched skill level 9 in Summonings
5203 | D:5 | Acquired Makhleb's first power
5242 | D:5 | Rched XP level 6. : 14/32 MP: 1/11
5554 | D:5 | Noticed Crazy Yiuf
5577 | D:5 | Killed Crazy Yiuf
5905 | D:6 | Noticed Sigmund
5950 | D:6 | Killed Sigmund
5950 | D:6 | Rched skill level 10 in Summonings
6046 | D:6 | Noticed Pikel
6279 | D:6 | Found a glowing drain.
6320 | D:6 | Killed Pikel
6320 | D:6 | Rched XP level 7. : 36/36 MP: 0/17
6327 | D:6 | Lrned a level 4 spell: Summon Scorpions
6349 | D:6 | Noticed Menkaure
6366 | D:6 | Killed Menkaure
6726 | D:6 | Noticed Grinder
6751 | D:6 | Killed Grinder
6751 | D:6 | Rched skill level 5 in Spellcasting
7039 | D:6 | Rched XP level 8. : 6/41 MP: 12/20
7477 | D:7 | Noticed Dowan
7478 | D:7 | Noticed Duvessa
7502 | D:7 | Killed Dowan
7517 | D:7 | Killed Duvessa
7778 | D:7 | Acquired Makhleb's second power
8281 | D:7 | Your ally Dowan died
8670 | D:7 | Found a staircase to the Orcish Mines.
9399 | D:7 | Lrned a level 4 spell: Summon Ice Bst
9856 | D:4 | Killed Eustachio
9979 | D:4 | Found a bloodstained altar of Trog.
9979 | D:4 | Noticed a terrified wizard
9986 | D:4 | Killed a terrified wizard
10096 | Temple | Entered the Ecumenical Temple
10175 | D:4 | Noticed AnalyticBranch's ghost (average HEHu)
10196 | D:4 | Killed AnalyticBranch's ghost
10514 | D:5 | Acquired Makhleb's third power
10645 | D:5 | Rched XP level 9. : 45/45 MP: 16/24
11129 | D:8 | Found a bloodstained altar of Trog.
11750 | D:9 | Rched skill level 1 in Poison Magic
12173 | D:9 | Got a shimmering sabre
12174 | D:9 | Identified the sabre "Faut" {flame, SInv} (You found it on level 9 of the Dungeon)
12590 | D:9 | Rched skill level 5 in Poison Magic
12694 | D:9 | Got a blackened book
12695 | D:9 | Identified the Disquisition on Excruciating Cold (You found it on level 9 of the Dungeon)
13586 | D:10 | Entered Level 10 of the Dungeon
14192 | D:10 | Rched XP level 10. : 48/50 MP: 1/26
14368 | D:10 | Rched skill level 11 in Summonings
14701 | D:10 | Acquired Makhleb's fourth power
15045 | D:10 | Rched skill level 12 in Summonings
15587 | D:10 | Lrned a level 6 spell: Summon Ugly Thing
15591 | D:10 | Lrned a level 3 spell: Recall
16444 | D:11 | Found Gizizaf's Distillery.
16452 | D:11 | Bought a potion of curing for 30 gold pieces
16452 | D:11 | Bought a potion of hl wounds for 45 gold pieces
16452 | D:11 | Bought a potion of hl wounds for 45 gold pieces
16452 | D:11 | Bought a potion of hl wounds for 45 gold pieces
16452 | D:11 | Bought a potion of hl wounds for 45 gold pieces
16452 | D:11 | Bought a potion of curing for 30 gold pieces
16659 | D:11 | Rched skill level 10 in Spellcasting
16707 | D:11 | Lrned a level 5 spell: Shadow Crtures
17181 | D:11 | Rched XP level 11. : 54/54 MP: 3/29
17355 | D:11 | Acquired Makhleb's fifth power
18419 | D:11 | Rched skill level 13 in Summonings
19594 | D:11 | Rched skill level 14 in Summonings
20037 | D:11 | Rched skill level 15 in Summonings