This is my first time back in Roguelikes since the late 90’s with Ragnarok. I’ve been back for a few months now.

I’m playing Gnollhack and have died to dumb things a bunch, but feel I have a good run going - I’m looking for pointers. Currently on DL19 on 100% (standard) difficulty. AC -25, still rocking the OG cloak of magic resistance. I don’t have any other forms of magic protection.

Elf-Wizard on DL19:

19 INT thanks to headband

18/76 STR thanks to nose ring

20 speed

I accidentally ate an elf, so I have aggravated monsters.

infinite food and town portal wands.

Some 16,000 gold

Solved Sokoban

No wand of wishes

I have Polymorph control and Polymorph wand

I don’t have teleportation control.

I have 3 bags of holding (wizardry, gluttony, and holding).

Tons of useful high level Arcane spells like Meteor shower etc...

The problem is, I’ve never killed Medusa. I know she’s coming up and I’m scared. I have blind telepathy, so do I just use a mummy wrapping when I get on that level? I also have boots of water walking and the spell for levitation and water walking.

Is there a place like Mine Town further down? I keep coming back to mine town. My TP wand lets me go to the top of Sokoban as well to recharge wands etc..

I’ve gotten to this point a few times before. Gnollhack lets you continue when you die, but I haven’t been taking advantage of it, so I’m a bit lost. I know I’ll lose this run, but I want to be sure I make a bit of progress.

I have SO MANY enchant armor scrolls, for instance. Assuming a personal piece of armor is under its max threshhold, should I automatically just enchant it?

Tons of questions, but now I’m rambling - any help would be appreciated.