In my opinion, source diving and using spoilers aren't cheating, if only because the games are so thoroughly randomized. You can know everything about your inventory, but one misstep and you're toast. Any ascension is as much a matter of luck as it is of skill.

> Juiblex, the faceless evil, on dungeon level level 2.

LOL! Wands of polymorph can result in interesting monsters showing up in early-level bones files. Nothing like waltzing down to level 3 and getting digested by a purple worm named Spud...