nethack - found vibrating square
Okay, trying to apply what I have learned.
Currently the Adventurer is a Lawful Dwarven Valkyrie. XL25.
Found the Wizard Of Yendor (WoY) on their level, by using the technique of: every time arrive to a new lower dungeon level, blinding the Adventurer that has telepathy with a blindfold. Then using look ';' and 'M' to cycle through all the sentient creatures on the level.
This time, did my best not to awaken the WoY, but to keep traversing down, to find the vibrating square.
Now that I have found it, now doing the next thing I have learned: make direct paths from downstair to upstair on each level, all the way back to LVL1, to give best chance to survive trying to ascend.
Once all the direct paths are created, will go to Vlad's tower, and get the candelabra and candles.
Last, will engage the WoY to try to get the Book Of The Dead, get down to the vibrating square, and successfully do the Invocation Ritual.
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To get this far, this game session, things I applied from past experience are, and learned during this game session are:
Playing in explore mode "-X" so I can see the Adventurer's stats at any time with the #attributes command.
Played cyclically in that, each time a new dungeon level entered, 1st thing is to blindfold the adventurer, and use telepathy to see what sentient baddies are on the level, before exploring it.
Do not rush
Do not try to "rush" the game. If Adventurer is satiated, try not to be tempted to eat anything, even if would give an immediate advantage. Black dragons, for instance. Also, to only let the Adventurer go to dungeon LVL that is less than or equal to the Adventurer's experience level (XL), until they successfully complete the quest, and have the Orb of Fate and Bell Of Opening in their inventory.
My Lawful Dwarven Valkyrie is at 160k game moves.
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Once a bag of holding is obtained, slowly start to accumulate gold. Transfer accumulated gold to a chest, keep it locked, and then when you have a quantity equal to (400gold * XL), then can carry by Adventurer. Step on altar that has a priest, a temple, #chat at them, offer that gold, and obtain protection.
If no altars are the Adventurer's god (Tyr for a Lawful Valkyrie), then try to obtain a ring of conflict. Wait until baddies are near the priest of an altar desired to be converted to Tyr, then also get near, and put on the ring. Ideally the baddies will dispatch the priest, so now the Adventurer can #offer/sacrifice on the altar and convert it to Tyr.
Do not ever try to #offer/sacrifice any altars in Gehennom. Your usual god will become angry, and now is a crisis for the Adventurer to fix.
Keep regularly traversing the entire explored maze, and regularly #offer/sacrifice on the Tyr altar. When #attributes show you can safely pray, #pray on the altar, too.
Even when there was no priest at the converted Tyr altar, while doing #pray on the altar, even with no priest to give gold to, Tyr boomed out that they were pleased with my Adventurer's progress, and rewarded them with more protection! So, keep up the cycle of #offer/sacrifice/pray during the entire gameplay.
Before getting the BOTD from the WoY, start doing practice runs from him through the direct runs cut through all the dungeon levels, and adjust as needed, so will hopefully survive traveling from the vibrating square LVL all the way back to LVL1 and an Ascension attempt.