I did the alternate challenge
gnome bloodmage
preps:magnet fireball
general strategy for early game: get tikki's edge asap, kill higher level enemies with just burndayraz+bludtupowa
went to tikki and tributed twice, just short of tikki's edge(+1 xp/kill), piety blocked by walls
got to level 2 and then get tikki's edge, found pisorf and used it to help explore, took pactmaker consensus to get another tikki's edge, bought pendant of health and used mana potion to kill lvl 4 dragon
got to level 4, converted pisorf to make space for bloody sigil, probably could have regen fought a lvl 8 wraith and won but settled for a midfight levelup kill, killed a lvl 7 dragon using a mana potion
I was level 6 at this point, took dodging boon for the gold to buy mage plate, used midfight levelup to kill physical resist boss
after exploring to heal I found binlor and desecrated, I was nearly out of exploration and wanted to go to subdungeon but it was blocked off by high level monsters
my next target was Frank the zombie, I used burndayraz and blutupowa then levelup, now out of exploration I converted blutupowa and bought pendant of mana, burndayraz and mana potions were enough to kill Frank
I converted mage plate, magic resist boss was easy to take down with quicksilver/reflex from tikki and a few bloodpools, I had plenty of piety so getting hit wasn't an issue
I was worried when I saw Frank was the random boss but I had enough resources left at the end (bloodpools, health potions, piety) that I probably could have won even against super meat man
tikki doesn't penalize you for getting hit by plants
overall my run was not lucky or unlucky, could win reliably with this setup
http://imgur.com/aIC6hlZsome ideas for future challenges:
magma mines
worship a different god for each boss kill
(or if you haven't unlocked all the gods) kill first boss with god A, second boss with god B, third boss with god A
dungeon???
desecrate every altar as soon as you can path to it
autoconvert agnostic collar
any hard/vicious dungeon
goatperson
prep +gods, patches, no locker item
(excludes people who don't have the dlc)