Cheapest Means of Flight/Levitation

[muktidata]

I'm finishing off a character to go into the Tomb of Horrors. My build is as follows:

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Whisper Gnome

Scout 8/Cloistered Cleric 1

Domains:
Magic
Knowledge Devotion
Travel Devotion

Feats:
Free: Foe Hunter: Undead (qualifies and enables Swift Hunter)
Tactile Trapsmith (for those traps the DM MAKES me touch)
Quick Reconnoiter (I find this feat very helpful)
Dark Stalker
Swift Hunter
Improved Skirmish
Point Blank Shot
Rapid Shot
Woodland Archer

Skills not allocated yet.

Equipment (WIP):
Ring of the Darkhidden (2,000)
Chronocharms:
Celestial Wanderer (500)
Laughing Rogue (500)
Wand of Detect Magic 50/50 (375)
Wand of Unseen Servant 50/50 (750)
Wand of Hide From Undead 50/50 (750)
Wand of Shield 50/50 (750)
Wand of Benign Transposition 50/50 (750)
Wand of Lesser Restoration 50/50 (750)
Wand of Cure Light Wounds 50/50 (750)
+2 Dex Item (4000)
+1 Nimbleness Mithral Chain Shirt (5,100)
Cloak of Elvenkind (2,500)
+1 Elvencraft Small Composite Longbow +2 Strength (2600)
+1 STR item (1,000)
+1 Con item (1,000)
Heward's Handy Haversack (2,000)
Quiver of Elhonna (1,800)
Masterwork Tools: 
Move Silently, Spot, Listen, Knowledge x6, Tumble, Search, Disable Device, Open Lock, Use Rope, Escape Artist (750)
Wand of  Mage Hand 50/50 (375)
Silent Portal Disc (350)
Restful Crystal (500)
Least Crystal of Return (300)
Serpentstongue Arrows x60 (9)
Dragon's Breath Arrows x20 (50)
Star Arrows x20 (10)
Adamantine Arrows x10 (600)
Cold Iron Arrows x20 (4)
Alchemical Silver Arrows x20 (40)
Torchbug Paste x4 (100)
Antitoxin x2 (100)
Backpack (1)
Bell Stuffed with Cotton x6 (6)
String 100ft. (-)
10ft Pole (1)
Caltrops x10 (10)
Flint and Steel x2 (2)
Masterwork Manacles (50)
Marbles x5 (1)
Needle x2 (1)
Flask of Oil x10 (1)
Piton x10 (1)
Hammer (5)
Rope Climber (15)
Sparker (2)
Stonebreaker Acid 5 (100)
Suregrip (20)
Tanglefoot Bag x3 (150)
Blessed Bandage (10)
Drow House Insignia (360)
Feather Token Fan (200)
Universal Solvent (50)
Talisman of the Disk (500)
Feather Token Tree (400)
Masterwork Potion Belt (60)
CL 1 Potion of Reduce Person x2 (100)
CL3 Potion of Invisibility x3 (450)
CL1 Protection from Evil x3 (150)
CL1 Comprehend Languages (50)
CL1 Disguise Self (50)
CL1 Expeditious Retreat x3 (150)
CL1 True Strike x2 (100)
CL1 Silent Image x2 (100)
CL1 Swift Expeditious Retreat x3 (150)
CL1 Spider Climb x3 (150)
34,725/36,000 spent

Is there a super low-level wand that can be made? I'm assuming I want to stay off the floors and ceilings and walls.

Banned:
ToB/MoI/Psi/ToM/etc
Online
Dragon Mags
Campaign Stuff other than Faerun

[Maat Mons]

Looking at this thread, you can get levitate as a 1st-level spell, spider climb as a 1st-level spell, and air walk as a 2nd-level spell. 

[muktidata]

Perfect! Kudos to you!

Any other general ToH advice out there without spoiling too much? I've never heard details about it, but someone mentioned that I might be leery of walking on walls or ceilings.

[Quillwraith]

The incarnate has one, according to the old handbook:

Airstep Sandals: Lowest level Flight ability there is, and the best one that can be obtained with a feat. The chakra bind is in a bit of limbo; if the DM says it is constant flight, go ahead and bind it. If he rules it acts like the unbound one, you have little reason to do so. The mobility it provides is damn powerful at the low levels.

[Ithamar]

100 GP to become a Dragonborn of Bahamut, presuming you're not evil and don't mind losing your racial goodies.

[muktidata]

The 1st level wands are enough. But any other general advice about ToH would be much appreciated.

[bruceleeroy]

Search everything. Take 20 if allowed. Distrust your party members. Never sleep. Don't touch anything. Be invisible.

[linklord231]

Don't be ethereal.  Roll a log down every hallway before you enter.  Try to get an expendable scouter with earthglide or similar - Summon Elemental reserve feat or Wood Wose work well.  Get True Seeing if at all possible.  Be immune to everything - poisons, negative levels, death effects, and mind affecting especially.

[Jackinthegreen]

If you want more flight abilities, take a look at http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=187851

[Amechra]

Don't follow any of the advice above me! Half the fun of the dungeon is dying in ultra-ridiculous ways!

(Disclaimer: Amechra may or may not be sustained by the tears of those who lose 3 consecutive characters in the same fucking section of dungeon. His advice is also partially contingent on remembering the 1e dungeon more than the 3e one...)

[muktidata]

ToH in t-minus two days. What's the best way to boost my saves with 5,500g?

[Jackinthegreen]

4k will get you a +2 resistance cloak or vest.  That's the quickest one I know of off the top of my head.

[Maat Mons]

If you can stomach a -1 penalty to con, a gal-ralan (Fiend Folio, p151) gives the biggest bonus for the money.  The 5,600 gp version provides a +3 resistance bonus on saving throws that increases to +5 against death effects, energy drain, and anything that effects your soul. 

[Rebel7284]

If you can stomach a -1 penalty to con, a gal-ralan (Fiend Folio, p151) gives the biggest bonus for the money.  The 5,600 gp version provides a +3 resistance bonus on saving throws that increases to +5 against death effects, energy drain, and anything that effects your soul.

That item seems really good for undead characters or characters otherwise immune to CON damage. Additionally, the item says the damage can't be healed, not that it can't be prevented, so even temporary immunity works. ^.^

[muktidata]

I made my CON an odd number, so I'm using that and a lesser crystal of lifekeeping, death ward armor, two traits that boost fort saves, and I took luck of heroes for my free regional feat. That's +11 vs Death Effects and negate one once per day.