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    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 7 10:42:24 2022
    Usually I let graves alone. My current Healer was curious
    and opened a grave to find ("guarded" by a ghoul mage) the
    Serpent's Tongue; a powerful Slashem artifact! - Quite nice
    for a Healer, and meanwhile he is at Skilled proficiency.
    Compared with that artifact the Staff of Aesculapius seems
    not that appealing - well, damage-wise it still is (or would
    be), but being a two-handed weapon and since it doesn't (in
    Slashem) protect against level drains (which would be useful
    especially in Slashem) I prefer (despite its blast) that
    light weight dagger artifact instead.

    Janis

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Thu Aug 11 14:11:18 2022
    On 07.08.2022 10:42, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    Usually I let graves alone. My current Healer was curious
    and opened a grave to find ("guarded" by a ghoul mage) the
    Serpent's Tongue; a powerful Slashem artifact! - Quite nice
    for a Healer, and meanwhile he is at Skilled proficiency.
    Compared with that artifact the Staff of Aesculapius seems
    not that appealing - well, damage-wise it still is (or would
    be), but being a two-handed weapon and since it doesn't (in
    Slashem) protect against level drains (which would be useful
    especially in Slashem) I prefer (despite its blast) that
    light weight dagger artifact instead.

    It turned out that Serpents Tongue was not too effective in my
    Healer's hand, despite its +6 enchantment and my Skilled dagger
    proficiency; too many monsters deeper down are tough and poison
    resistant. My enchanted options (+6 Staff of Aesculapius, +5
    Vorpal Blade, and +5 Frostbrand) were kept in my bag as backup.

    At some point during the home-run (@dlvl:39) I noticed that my
    hand wasn't wielding anything any more. Doh! I think I wouldn't
    need that artifact dagger but decided to return to Gehennom to
    get it; it served me most of the time in that game and that
    item should not get lost. I found it at Asmodeus' level where
    some of those bullwhip carrying monsters obviously disarmed
    me without me noticing. On the planes I switched between that
    dagger and a chickatrice corpse, and the Healer even managed
    to reach rank #1 (~8M) on the [point-based] highscore list.

    Janis

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Fri Aug 12 00:33:43 2022
    On 11.08.2022 14:11, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    On 07.08.2022 10:42, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    [ Neutral Healer found Chaotic Serpent's Tongue in a grave ]

    It turned out that Serpents Tongue was not too effective in my
    Healer's hand, despite its +6 enchantment and my Skilled dagger
    proficiency; too many monsters deeper down are tough and poison
    resistant. [...]

    My next game was a Chaotic Rogue. On the Kobold Level (@dlvl:12)
    one of the kobolds carried the Serpent's Tongue. Funny. This time
    my role and that artifact are co-aligned. Not quite sure, though,
    what I shall do with it, since I've already got the guaranteed
    and marvelous Bat from Hell as sacrifice gift from my god. Too
    bad my Rogue isn't capable of two-weaponing; would be a killer
    with those two artifacts.

    Janis

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