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 HP. I found the book of Summonngs which really helped out, but I was only a level or two away from learning 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' deadly poison stacking. Summon Small Mammals is always a great summon spell for beefing the size of your army with weak meatshields. 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 great meatshields and damage dealers. A few could even take out a Death Yak.
These narrow passages are hell for a summoner; ideally you want to lure monsters into the open.
Ice Beasts 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 dealing damage and working around monsters' strengths and weaknesses by providing a wide array of attacks and general confusion for the AI.
I would spend the next half hour killing these Death Yaks and nearly avoiding death 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
HP 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 leather 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 stealthy
A: able to fly, beak, talons 3
a: Fly, Minor Destruction, Lesser Servant of Makhleb, Major Destruction, Greater
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 weapons
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 (weapon)
Armour
d - a +2 pair of dwarven gloves (worn)
z - a +0 cap (worn)
B - the +3 leather 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 increases 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 lead 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 fear
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 heal 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/Translocation 3
Summon Elemental Summoning 4
*Shadow Creatures Summoning 5
Summon Demon Summoning 5
*Summon Ugly Thing Summoning 6
Skills:
- Level 2.1 Dodging
- Level 2.0 Stealth
- 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 Beast Ice/Summ ######.... 3% 4 Strawberry
f - Summon Ugly Thing Summ #######... 1% 6 Honeycomb
g - Recall Tloc/Summ N/A 1% 3 None
h - Shadow Creatures 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 beak for a mouth.
You have claws for feet.
Message History
You swap places.
You swap places.
Really walk into a travel-excluded area?
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 disappears in a puff of smoke!
You start resting.
HP restored.
Char dumped successfully.
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There are no monsters in sight!
Vanquished Creatures
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 creatures vanquished.
Vanquished Creatures (collateral kills)
9 death 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 beasts (D:9)
3 sky beasts
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 sergeant (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 creatures vanquished.
Vanquished Creatures (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 beasts
An ogre (D:11)
A sky beast (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 creatures vanquished.
Grand Total: 912 creatures 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 | Reached XP level 1. HP: 10/10 MP: 3/3
52 | D:1 | Reached skill level 5 in Summonings
494 | D:1 | Reached XP level 2. HP: 15/15 MP: 5/5
503 | D:1 | Learned a level 2 spell: Call Imp
1449 | D:2 | Reached skill level 6 in Summonings
1825 | D:2 | Reached XP level 3. HP: 19/19 MP: 1/6
2385 | D:2 | Reached skill level 7 in Summonings
2724 | D:3 | Found a burning altar of Makhleb.
2728 | D:3 | Became a worshipper of Makhleb the Destroyer
3059 | D:3 | Reached XP level 4. HP: 24/24 MP: 2/8
3811 | D:4 | Found a shattered altar of Ashenzari.
3826 | D:4 | Reached 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 leather armour for 147 gold pieces
4150 | D:4 | Identified the cursed +3 leather 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 | Reached XP level 5. HP: 28/28 MP: 6/10
4527 | D:5 | HP: 1/28 [centaur/arrow of flame (16)]
4916 | D:5 | Learned a level 3 spell: Call Canine Familiar
5188 | D:5 | Reached skill level 9 in Summonings
5203 | D:5 | Acquired Makhleb's first power
5242 | D:5 | Reached XP level 6. HP: 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 | Reached 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 | Reached XP level 7. HP: 36/36 MP: 0/17
6327 | D:6 | Learned 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 | Reached skill level 5 in Spellcasting
7039 | D:6 | Reached XP level 8. HP: 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 | Learned a level 4 spell: Summon Ice Beast
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 | Reached XP level 9. HP: 45/45 MP: 16/24
11129 | D:8 | Found a bloodstained altar of Trog.
11750 | D:9 | Reached 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 | Reached 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 | Reached XP level 10. HP: 48/50 MP: 1/26
14368 | D:10 | Reached skill level 11 in Summonings
14701 | D:10 | Acquired Makhleb's fourth power
15045 | D:10 | Reached skill level 12 in Summonings
15587 | D:10 | Learned a level 6 spell: Summon Ugly Thing
15591 | D:10 | Learned 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 heal wounds for 45 gold pieces
16452 | D:11 | Bought a potion of heal wounds for 45 gold pieces
16452 | D:11 | Bought a potion of heal wounds for 45 gold pieces
16452 | D:11 | Bought a potion of heal wounds for 45 gold pieces
16452 | D:11 | Bought a potion of curing for 30 gold pieces
16659 | D:11 | Reached skill level 10 in Spellcasting
16707 | D:11 | Learned a level 5 spell: Shadow Creatures
17181 | D:11 | Reached XP level 11. HP: 54/54 MP: 3/29
17355 | D:11 | Acquired Makhleb's fifth power
18419 | D:11 | Reached skill level 13 in Summonings
19594 | D:11 | Reached skill level 14 in Summonings
20037 | D:11 | Reached skill level 15 in Summonings
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