Whew, close one. I didn't find that Balanced Dagger until I'd practically finished exploration, but I was able to rack up several higher level kills by poison fighting bandits (I have
no idea how I managed enough food to do this

) and decided to take down Evolvia when I hit level 7 and landed on Dracul. Being heavily cursed I could not leverage my resistances and had trouble surviving a hit, but thanks to the Pendent of Health I managed to get into survival range. After blasting Evolvia off the face of the earth I landed in Earthmother's religion, and had enough resources left to comfortably defeat Gobb. I decided to clear the map when I was finished, as there were only a couple level 9 monsters left and I had ample resources.
As always Goatperson is a nail-biter, but once you get over the initial luck-dependent phase it's not too bad.