[Taqwus]

Regarding luck, during an wackily long single-player game as R'lyeh, I got my first and only Void Gate summoner to 60+ summoning skill without guards; just the use of Returning and Ritual of Return to keep him safe, and Gift of Health to erase afflictions (once lost an eye to a Greater Otherness, once or twice feebleminded by a partly-successful summons). Luck +3, Poger's 'Luck' mod as the only mod in use.