The worst is fucking executioners. Would be nice if the random bad things stopped after you kill the boss of whichever branch you are doing, so you could go back and explore.
My lunchbreak Minotaur Paladin is retardedly easy.
Though finding a ton of scrolls of identify, a +2 splint mail, and another amulet of the gourmand right off the bat helped. The only trouble I had was with Sigmund. had to chain chug healing potions to get through that.
So I did something amazingly stupid last night playing through a DE Mage. He was doing outstanding, firing ice bolts no problem and almost hunger free, 3-4 levels of fighting, had haste and could cast it, successfully escaped from the abyss after a unwielding a distortion weapon, amulet of gourmand, swamp dragon armor, see invis... all before Dungeon 15. No real stashes explored yet but this guy is going great. Best .6 toon I've had yet. My retarded self managed to die to a pack of green rats, in the middle of changing armor.
Now back in .5 when I'm looking at a situation like this (before the death), food isnt an issue, virtually nothing except maybe boris or high level undead if I dont have dispell undead yet is a threat to me, etc. what I do is take things nice and slow, clear out hive cache, bottom of lair, quick jaunt to elf area for a magic buckler and good robe if I get lucky, then I head to Vault 7 with my amulet of gourmand and/or ring of sustanence to get my spell schools all up to 15+, 27 for spell casting. Grind up traps so I dont wander into zot traps, armor a bit, fighting, etc. A nice strong caster toon capable of more than a 3 rune run of zot.
However, I tried to do a bit of grinding as a mummy on DL1 on a toon and got myself killed by some insanely out of depth mobs. One of the new ugly things. I looked it up a bit and it seems that they did put in some anti scumming code but I cant really seem to figure out if its just something to stop people from afk scumming snake 2 and early levels as a mummy/vamp or if its a hardcore scumm-and-die code. Anyone have any experience with that yet?
Other than that I've been having a hair pullingly good time with the game. I havent managed to try any of the new gods yet, but the slime god and the time god both seem cool. Slime god to pump up mutations, then drop him and go to another god. I've tried a few times to get a naga with the time god for the slouch, but I just cant play naga worth a damn.
Oh, and can casters still use bucklers? I had no problem at all in .5 using a buckler, but slapped one on for 2 seconds in .6 and my spell casting rates took a serious hit. Took it off again. Normally a buckler is a great source of resistance but that hit is pretty hard. Does it get any better quickly enough to warrent using a buckler?
Deaus on
We, are all heroes! You and boo and I... hamsters and rangers everywhere, rejoice!
I've been using a buckler on my mage character. Actually, a medium sized shield with +5 int on it. Maybe that int helps offset the penalty.
The Abyss is pretty nice for grinding exp on my paladin. Now that he has fighting/shields/long blades all maxed, it's a struggle not to hit the 20k exp cap before I can take some time to level up something.
That was cute. 1 shot by a new named unique by some arc lightning spell. 60 hp to dead in a single cast.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.6.0 character file.
56302 Deaus the Eclecticist (level 14, -6/60 HPs)
Began as a Deep Elf Conjurer on May 25, 2010.
Was the Champion of Sif Muna.
Killed from afar by Nikola (9 damage)
... with a chain lightning
... on Level 4 of the Swamp.
The game lasted 02:52:56 (45646 turns).
Deaus the Eclecticist (Deep Elf Conjurer) Turns: 45646, Time: 02:52:57
HP -6/60 AC 11 Str 5 Exp: 14/78626 (2), need: 24973
MP 4/33 EV 14 Int 29 God: Sif Muna [******]
Gold 1264 SH 0 Dex 14 (15) Spells: 9 memorised, 22 levels left
Res.Fire : . . . See Invis. : . j - +1,+0 dagger (distort) {!w}
Res.Cold : + . . Warding : . s - +2 leather armour
Life Prot.: . . . Conserve : + (no shield)
Res.Poison: + Res.Corr. : . (no helmet)
Res.Elec. : . Clarity : . a - +2 cloak {MR}
Spirit.Shd: . Z - +0 pair of gloves
Sust.Abil.: . Rnd.Telep. : . r - +1 pair of boots
Res.Mut. : . Ctrl.Telep.: . y - amulet of conservation
Res.Rott. : . Levitation : . J - ring of poison resistance
Saprovore : . . . Ctrl.Flight: . p - +3 ring of intelligence
You were on level 4 of the Swamp.
You worshipped Sif Muna.
Sif Muna was exalted by your worship.
You were hungry.
You visited 4 branches of the dungeon, and saw 24 of its levels.
You collected 1251 gold pieces.
You spent 7 gold pieces at shops.
Inventory:
Hand weapons
j - a +1,+0 dagger of distortion (weapon) {!w}
Armour
a - a +2 cloak of magic resistance (worn)
r - a +1 pair of boots (worn)
s - a +2 leather armour (worn)
Z - a +0 pair of gloves (worn)
Magical devices
g - a wand of teleportation (5)
E - a wand of healing (1)
Comestibles
b - 2 rotting chunks of swamp worm flesh
c - 4 chunks of spiny frog flesh
f - 2 chunks of electric eel flesh
u - 4 bread rations
D - 2 meat rations
Scrolls
o - 3 scrolls of blinking
Jewellery
d - a +4 ring of strength
e - a +2 ring of evasion
h - an uncursed ring of ice
p - a +3 ring of intelligence (left hand)
t - an uncursed ring of protection from cold
y - an amulet of conservation (around neck)
H - an uncursed ring of life protection
J - a ring of poison resistance (right hand)
L - an uncursed amulet of warding
Potions
w - a potion of healing
N - a potion of speed
Does anyone know how gained mutations interact with demonspawn mutations?
Will you still get all your demonspawn mutations if you mutate yourself with potions/chunks. If you use a potion of cure mutationb will it erase your demonspawn stuff?
So I did something amazingly stupid last night playing through a DE Mage. He was doing outstanding, firing ice bolts no problem and almost hunger free, 3-4 levels of fighting, had haste and could cast it, successfully escaped from the abyss after a unwielding a distortion weapon, amulet of gourmand, swamp dragon armor, see invis... all before Dungeon 15. No real stashes explored yet but this guy is going great. Best .6 toon I've had yet. My retarded self managed to die to a pack of green rats, in the middle of changing armor.
Now back in .5 when I'm looking at a situation like this (before the death), food isnt an issue, virtually nothing except maybe boris or high level undead if I dont have dispell undead yet is a threat to me, etc. what I do is take things nice and slow, clear out hive cache, bottom of lair, quick jaunt to elf area for a magic buckler and good robe if I get lucky, then I head to Vault 7 with my amulet of gourmand and/or ring of sustanence to get my spell schools all up to 15+, 27 for spell casting. Grind up traps so I dont wander into zot traps, armor a bit, fighting, etc. A nice strong caster toon capable of more than a 3 rune run of zot.
However, I tried to do a bit of grinding as a mummy on DL1 on a toon and got myself killed by some insanely out of depth mobs. One of the new ugly things. I looked it up a bit and it seems that they did put in some anti scumming code but I cant really seem to figure out if its just something to stop people from afk scumming snake 2 and early levels as a mummy/vamp or if its a hardcore scumm-and-die code. Anyone have any experience with that yet?
Other than that I've been having a hair pullingly good time with the game. I havent managed to try any of the new gods yet, but the slime god and the time god both seem cool. Slime god to pump up mutations, then drop him and go to another god. I've tried a few times to get a naga with the time god for the slouch, but I just cant play naga worth a damn.
Oh, and can casters still use bucklers? I had no problem at all in .5 using a buckler, but slapped one on for 2 seconds in .6 and my spell casting rates took a serious hit. Took it off again. Normally a buckler is a great source of resistance but that hit is pretty hard. Does it get any better quickly enough to warrent using a buckler?
Every 3k turns, something nasty spawns on the floor your on.
You get a random one for every chunk of mutagenic (purple text) meat you consume. Potions of mutation give you 1-3 random mutations. There is, (was?) a spell that gave you random mutations. Never seen it or used it though. the new slime god does stuff with mutations. You can constantly miscast spells, or make yourself invisible or hasted or mighted or whatever a bunch, and you'll start glowing. When the glow is yellow instead of grey, you'll start mutating, but these are almost always mutations you would never want.
You get a random one for every chunk of mutagenic (purple text) meat you consume. Potions of mutation give you 1-3 random mutations. There is, (was?) a spell that gave you random mutations. Never seen it or used it though. the new slime god does stuff with mutations. You can constantly miscast spells, or make yourself invisible or hasted or mighted or whatever a bunch, and you'll start glowing. When the glow is yellow instead of grey, you'll start mutating, but these are almost always mutations you would never want.
Yeah I try through miscasting but the mutation always fade when I rest.
You get a random one for every chunk of mutagenic (purple text) meat you consume. Potions of mutation give you 1-3 random mutations. There is, (was?) a spell that gave you random mutations. Never seen it or used it though. the new slime god does stuff with mutations. You can constantly miscast spells, or make yourself invisible or hasted or mighted or whatever a bunch, and you'll start glowing. When the glow is yellow instead of grey, you'll start mutating, but these are almost always mutations you would never want.
Yeah I try through miscasting but the mutation always fade when I rest.
You DON'T want mutations from magical contamination. They are always bad, with the ONE exception of carnivorism, which is considered bad but really it isn't.
Or maybe not always, because the game doesn't roll like that. 90% maybe.
Bah, had a good deep elf wizard going, owning everything with conjure flame+mephitic cloud+magic dart, with blink and slow thrown in for good measure. But I never found any more damn spellbooks. I eventually caught an unlucky smite from an orc priest.
Grrrr, I had a good game of Ragnarok going.
I had cleared out the woods, and in doing so found a Red Bag (essentially a bag of holding). I had found the artifact in Slaeter's Sea, which turned out to be the Amulet of Might, so I between those two I had no encumbrance and a massive inventory space available.
I had abused the weird fume to grow 3 extra eyes and 7 extra fingers, so I hit often, and had tons of extra ring space.
In fact, the only downside to my game so far, was that I was vertiginous from fumes (a permanent condition which causes you to randomly become confused for a few turns. If I remember it correctly, it can only be cured by either getting lucky from a Mist trap, or drinking a blessed potion of curing. Unfortunately, every time the fume applies that effect to you you get an invisible stack of the condition. I don't know how many I had, but it was probably upwards of 20 or 30. At this point in the game I can't get enough potions of curing to clear it. On the plus side it means if I want to use confused scroll reading for certain effects I don't have to depend on getting drunk or eating bats.)
That and I hadn't found a ring of regeneration yet, which are massively useful in the beginning and middle of the game. Things were going swell.
So I park myself over the down stairs to dungeon, do a backup save of my game (this game actually has an option to do permanent saves, but you can't do it more frequently than every 200 turns.) I read a blessed scroll of wonder, and on my first try it transforms me into a Swordmaster.
Fantastic. This easily one of the two or three best transformations you can get, and arguably the best. Despite being technically a human, they have slightly less maximum strength than a human. That's the only downside. They are 4 times faster than a human (making them 4 times faster than about 70% of the enemies in the game, and twice as fast as another 20% ish.) They come with about 30 ranks of practice in all projectiles, the blademaster ability, giving them bonus damage and effects when using sais, katanas, and runeblades, and the largely useless but fun origami skill.
So I cheer, step down into the dungeon and immediately step on a monster trap. The walls fall down to reveal about 20 slinns. Large crablike dudes who spew corrosive acid. However, being absurdly fast, and absurdly strong thanks to my amulet, I mow them down, gaining 5 levels in the process since they were much higher level than me. Things are going swimmingly!
I explore a bit, clear a couple zones, find some things, then bring up my world map.
OOPS! I forgot to set the expanded memory settings in the DOS shortcut so it couldn't bring up the map. No biggie right, I'll just hop out of the game and fix it. the game itself said I should do that.
Nope. when it freaked out while trying to load the map, it also obliterated my entire inventory. Not only removing all my equipment, scrolls, wands, and potions, but my red bag and amulet of might, which are only spawned once per game and cannot be recovered.
So I reload my game and try to get a decent transformation again, and can't get anything more useful than a Ramapith, which is barely better than a human at all.
Simliar bugs exist with right clicking while dragging items when moving around in the dungeon. Happened to me with some ludicrously expensive item, actually.
Turns out its a duping bug. Every item I picked up spawned an extra of the bugged item. Save, quit, and tons o money. Yay health potions.
So in crawl, what are you supposed to do about a pack of killer bees in an open-style level? Can't run away from them, they're too fast. Can't burn them down, only have single target attacks. Don't think mephitic cloud works on them due to poison immunity.
1832 Maridia the Conjurer (level 8, 0/40 HPs)
Began as a High Elf Wizard on May 29, 2010.
Was a Follower of Vehumet.
Slain by a killer bee (5 damage)
... on Level 7 of the Dungeon.
The game lasted 00:56:37 (10421 turns).
Your Spells Type Power Success Level
a - Magic Dart Conj ##### Excellent 1
b - Blink Tloc N/A Great 2
c - Mephitic Cloud Pois/Air/Conj ####...... Great 3
d - Conjure Flame Fire/Conj ######... Excellent 3
e - Slow Ench ####...... Very Good 3
f - Throw Flame Fire/Conj ######. Excellent 2
So in crawl, what are you supposed to do about a pack of killer bees in an open-style level? Can't run away from them, they're too fast. Can't burn them down, only have single target attacks. Don't think mephitic cloud works on them due to poison immunity.
1832 Maridia the Conjurer (level 8, 0/40 HPs)
Began as a High Elf Wizard on May 29, 2010.
Was a Follower of Vehumet.
Slain by a killer bee (5 damage)
... on Level 7 of the Dungeon.
The game lasted 00:56:37 (10421 turns).
Your Spells Type Power Success Level
a - Magic Dart Conj ##### Excellent 1
b - Blink Tloc N/A Great 2
c - Mephitic Cloud Pois/Air/Conj ####...... Great 3
d - Conjure Flame Fire/Conj ######... Excellent 3
e - Slow Ench ####...... Very Good 3
f - Throw Flame Fire/Conj ######. Excellent 2
Those bee ambushes at the level you were at is pretty much a death sentence. Teleport scroll, staircase with only one bee on you, or blink away. A wand could have saved you too. Otherwise, um yeah.
Wand of digging to create a corridor, or summon a bunch of mammals to serve as meat shields/distraction. Those depend on finding the appropriate items, though.
Yeah, I was just going to say; Killer Bees are actually vulnerable to poison. Mephitic Cloud would basically light them up and you could pick them off at your leisure. Plus they'd sting each other a lot and that would help you out.
My favorite way to clear the Hive is walk into the middle of the honeycomb, shout a few times, then drop a Poisonous Cloud on myself (with Poison Resistance, natch) since it spreads out so much.
Mousing over a creature (and clicking on it?) will tell you it's resistances and vulnerabilities.
Its got that cyclic dive down and hop out thing going on, ala Izuna or Baroque, but is pretty simple and none too difficult once you get further in.
But it's in browser so gains massive points over those games!
Quite a fun little distraction.
I just beat that game. You can kind of fuck yourself over if you beeline too far without escaping, because you won't have enough artifacts to survive very well.
Anyway, you know what's funny? Getting an insta-kill on the final boss. And I had like five big healing potions stockpiled in case he was difficult.
Its got that cyclic dive down and hop out thing going on, ala Izuna or Baroque, but is pretty simple and none too difficult once you get further in.
But it's in browser so gains massive points over those games!
Quite a fun little distraction.
I just beat that game. You can kind of fuck yourself over if you beeline too far without escaping, because you won't have enough artifacts to survive very well.
Anyway, you know what's funny? Getting an insta-kill on the final boss. And I had like five big healing potions stockpiled in case he was difficult.
Ahhh this game. It's like a standalone version of that cave of trials in Lufia 2. They found my one weakness!
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.6.0 character file.
2058802 Savant the Mummy of Death (level 27, 190/190 (192) HPs)
Began as a Mummy Necromancer on May 28, 2010.
Was the Champion of Kikubaaqudgha.
Escaped with the Orb
... and 5 runes (of 5 types) on May 30, 2010!
The game lasted 09:41:05 (149096 turns).
Savant the Mummy of Death (Mummy Necromancer) Turns: 149096, Time: 09:41:05
HP 190/190 (192) AC 13 Str 11 Exp: 27/1792567 (3)
MP 44/44 EV 24 Int 23 God: Kikubaaqudgha [******]
Gold 7707 SH 21 Dex 12 Spells: 18 memorised, 3 levels left
Res.Fire : + + . See Invis. : + Q - +3,+2 dagger of the Exiled Deaths {pain, M
Res.Cold : + . . Warding : . n - +3 salamander hide armour {+Rage rF++}
Life Prot.: + + + Conserve : . Z - +2 buckler {AC+3}
Res.Poison: + Res.Corr. : . V - -3 visored helmet {SInv}
Res.Elec. : . Clarity : . R - +1 dwarf cloak {rF+}
Spirit.Shd: . D - +0 pair of gloves of Tuaka {EV+6 Acc+4}
Sust.Abil.: . Rnd.Telep. : . o - +2 pair of boots "Sodaan" {+Rage}
Res.Mut. : + Ctrl.Telep.: + I - amulet "Ofesetapp" {rMut Dam+3}
Res.Rott. : + Levitation : . s - ring of teleport control
Saprovore : . . . Ctrl.Flight: . A - ring of regeneration
@: extraordinarily resistant to hostile enchantments, very stealthy
A: in touch with death, poison resistance, cold resistance 1, torment resistance, life protection 3
a: Self-Restoration, Receive Corpses, Renounce Religion, Evoke Berserk Rage
You escaped.
You worshipped Kikubaaqudgha.
Kikubaaqudgha was exalted by your worship.
You were not hungry.
You visited 15 branches of the dungeon, and saw 88 of its levels.
You visited the Abyss 1 time.
You visited 1 bazaar.
You visited 2 portal chambers: ice cave, wizlab.
You collected 12010 gold pieces.
You spent 4323 gold pieces at shops.
Inventory:
Hand weapons
e - a +1,+4 dwarven hand axe of distortion (quivered) {!w}
q - the +6,+5 quick blade "Heaq" {elec, rPois}
(You took it off a deep elf demonologist on level 7 of the Elven Halls)
Occasionally, upon striking a foe, it will discharge some electrical energy
and cause terrible harm.
It protects you from poison.
x - a +6,+4 elven short sword of speed
Q - the +3,+2 dagger of the Exiled Deaths (weapon) {pain, MR}
(You found it on level 6 of the Lair of Beasts)
In the hands of one skilled in necromantic magic, it inflicts extra damage
on living creatures.
It increases your resistance to enchantments.
Armour
c - a +2 dwarven crested helmet of intelligence
i - a +8 robe of resistance
j - a +2 robe
n - the +3 salamander hide armour (worn) {+Rage rF++}
(You acquired it on level 6 of the Pits of Slime)
It greatly protects you from fire.
It lets you go berserk.
o - the +2 pair of boots "Sodaan" (worn) {+Rage}
(You found it on level 5 of the Snake Pit)
It lets you go berserk.
B - a +2 cloak of magic resistance
D - the +0 pair of gloves of Tuaka (worn) {EV+6 Acc+4}
(You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)
It affects your evasion (+6).
It affects your accuracy (+4).
J - a +0 cloak of preservation
R - a +1 dwarven cloak of fire resistance (worn)
V - a -3 visored helmet of see invisible (worn)
Z - a +2 buckler of protection (worn)
Magical devices
a - a wand of random effects (18)
b - a wand of draining (7)
f - a wand of draining (14)
m - a wand of fireball (6)
p - a wand of cold (4)
t - a wand of fire (7)
v - a wand of invisibility (3)
F - a wand of teleportation (3)
G - a wand of slowing (0)
M - a wand of hasting (9)
O - a wand of disintegration (4)
U - a wand of lightning (6)
Scrolls
k - a scroll of recharging
r - a scroll of detect curse
w - a scroll of remove curse
Jewellery
d - an uncursed amulet of conservation
h - an uncursed ring of protection from fire
s - a ring of teleport control (right hand)
A - a ring of regeneration (left hand)
C - an uncursed ring of protection from fire
I - the amulet "Ofesetapp" (around neck) {rMut Dam+3}
(You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)
[amulet of resist mutation]
It affects your damage-dealing abilities (+3).
L - the brooch of Shielding {Ward AC+4 EV+4}
(You found it on level 3 of the Tomb of the Ancients)
[amulet of warding]
It affects your AC (+4).
It affects your evasion (+4).
Back in the good old days, every adventurer had one of these handy devices.
That, and a pony.
N - the ring "Sicuiles" {Wiz rC+ EV+2 Str-1 Int+4}
(You found it on level 4 of the Snake Pit)
[ring of wizardry]
It affects your evasion (+2).
It affects your strength (-1).
It affects your intelligence (+4).
It protects you from cold.
P - the amulet "Cucig" {Stasis Hunger+ AC+2 Dam+3}
(You found it on level 8 of the Vaults)
[amulet of stasis]
It affects your AC (+2).
It affects your damage-dealing abilities (+3).
It greatly speeds your metabolism.
S - an uncursed amulet of resist corrosion
Magical staves
E - a +2 rod of warding (11/11)
(You found it on level 5 of the Crypt)
W - a +1 rod of summoning (10/10)
(You found it on level 4 of the Lair of Beasts)
Orbs of Power
g - the Orb of Zot
Miscellaneous
l - a serpentine rune of Zot
u - a golden rune of Zot
y - the horn of Geryon
z - a slimy rune of Zot
K - a decaying rune of Zot
X - a silver rune of Zot
You had 3 experience left.
Skills:
+ Level 13 Fighting
- Level 10 Short Blades
+ Level 3 Armour
+ Level 15 Dodging
+ Level 11 Stealth
+ Level 9 Stabbing
+ Level 13 Shields
+ Level 8 Traps & Doors
+ Level 17 Spellcasting
+ Level 9 Enchantments
+ Level 13 Summonings
* Level 27 Necromancy
+ Level 1 Translocations
+ Level 9 Air Magic
+ Level 1 Invocations
+ Level 5 Evocations
You had 3 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:
Your Spells Type Power Success Level
a - Pain Necr ##### Perfect 1
b - Dispel Undead Necr ######### Perfect 4
c - Vampiric Draining Necr #########. Perfect 3
d - Animate Dead Necr N/A Perfect 4
e - Corpse Rot Necr N/A Perfect 2
f - Agony Necr #########. Perfect 5
g - Sublimation of Blood Necr #########. Perfect 2
h - Twisted Resurrection Necr #########. Perfect 5
i - Apportation Tloc ####...... Excellent 1
k - Blink Tloc N/A Excellent 2
l - Levitation Air/Ench #######... Excellent 2
m - Summon Butterflies Summ #######... Perfect 1
n - Insulation Air/Ench #######... Excellent 4
r - Deflect Missiles Air/Ench #######... Very Good 6
t - Haunt Summ/Necr #########. Excellent 6
v - Repel Missiles Air/Ench #######... Excellent 2
w - Abjuration Summ #######... Excellent 3
L - Selective Amnesia Ench N/A Excellent 4
FYI: haunt is an extremely strong spell. Smite targeting to summon a bunch of nasties is incredibly useful, even if the target is resistant to the damage of the ghosts and things. Also, I found that pain dagger pretty early on, which let my slice apart living enemies pretty easily. I wanted to find an unbranded quick blade to slap pain on that, but the artifact dagger had to suffice. Kiku air mailing corpses was a nice touch too, especially when he gives you hydra corpses. Never underestimate the power of a 20 headed hydra zombie.
Mummies were sort of an interesting change in pace too. Without potions I had a lot less escape options, but I could hide and rest back to full health whenever needed without the threat of hunger. I had a few decently close calls where blink scrolls and such saved me.
I probably could have gotten more runes, but I felt much less comfortable fighting nasty demons rather than nasty undead and living monsters.
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I love this game.
You're lucky something worse didn't happen.
In one game I found Zig portals on something like D8 and D20.
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
If you ever get a spellcaster up to high levels, Orb of Destruction has the same effect as a wand of disintegration for most mobs. Giblets everywhere!
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
Though finding a ton of scrolls of identify, a +2 splint mail, and another amulet of the gourmand right off the bat helped. The only trouble I had was with Sigmund. had to chain chug healing potions to get through that.
And then I learned mephitic cloud
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Now back in .5 when I'm looking at a situation like this (before the death), food isnt an issue, virtually nothing except maybe boris or high level undead if I dont have dispell undead yet is a threat to me, etc. what I do is take things nice and slow, clear out hive cache, bottom of lair, quick jaunt to elf area for a magic buckler and good robe if I get lucky, then I head to Vault 7 with my amulet of gourmand and/or ring of sustanence to get my spell schools all up to 15+, 27 for spell casting. Grind up traps so I dont wander into zot traps, armor a bit, fighting, etc. A nice strong caster toon capable of more than a 3 rune run of zot.
However, I tried to do a bit of grinding as a mummy on DL1 on a toon and got myself killed by some insanely out of depth mobs. One of the new ugly things. I looked it up a bit and it seems that they did put in some anti scumming code but I cant really seem to figure out if its just something to stop people from afk scumming snake 2 and early levels as a mummy/vamp or if its a hardcore scumm-and-die code. Anyone have any experience with that yet?
Other than that I've been having a hair pullingly good time with the game. I havent managed to try any of the new gods yet, but the slime god and the time god both seem cool. Slime god to pump up mutations, then drop him and go to another god. I've tried a few times to get a naga with the time god for the slouch, but I just cant play naga worth a damn.
Oh, and can casters still use bucklers? I had no problem at all in .5 using a buckler, but slapped one on for 2 seconds in .6 and my spell casting rates took a serious hit. Took it off again. Normally a buckler is a great source of resistance but that hit is pretty hard. Does it get any better quickly enough to warrent using a buckler?
The Abyss is pretty nice for grinding exp on my paladin. Now that he has fighting/shields/long blades all maxed, it's a struggle not to hit the 20k exp cap before I can take some time to level up something.
56302 Deaus the Eclecticist (level 14, -6/60 HPs)
Began as a Deep Elf Conjurer on May 25, 2010.
Was the Champion of Sif Muna.
Killed from afar by Nikola (9 damage)
... with a chain lightning
... on Level 4 of the Swamp.
The game lasted 02:52:56 (45646 turns).
Deaus the Eclecticist (Deep Elf Conjurer) Turns: 45646, Time: 02:52:57
HP -6/60 AC 11 Str 5 Exp: 14/78626 (2), need: 24973
MP 4/33 EV 14 Int 29 God: Sif Muna [******]
Gold 1264 SH 0 Dex 14 (15) Spells: 9 memorised, 22 levels left
Res.Fire : . . . See Invis. : . j - +1,+0 dagger (distort) {!w}
Res.Cold : + . . Warding : . s - +2 leather armour
Life Prot.: . . . Conserve : + (no shield)
Res.Poison: + Res.Corr. : . (no helmet)
Res.Elec. : . Clarity : . a - +2 cloak {MR}
Spirit.Shd: . Z - +0 pair of gloves
Sust.Abil.: . Rnd.Telep. : . r - +1 pair of boots
Res.Mut. : . Ctrl.Telep.: . y - amulet of conservation
Res.Rott. : . Levitation : . J - ring of poison resistance
Saprovore : . . . Ctrl.Flight: . p - +3 ring of intelligence
@: very resistant to hostile enchantments, stealthy
A: cold resistance 1, mutation resistance 1, -10% hp, -10% mp
a: Channel Energy, Forget Spell, Renounce Religion
You were on level 4 of the Swamp.
You worshipped Sif Muna.
Sif Muna was exalted by your worship.
You were hungry.
You visited 4 branches of the dungeon, and saw 24 of its levels.
You collected 1251 gold pieces.
You spent 7 gold pieces at shops.
Inventory:
Hand weapons
j - a +1,+0 dagger of distortion (weapon) {!w}
Armour
a - a +2 cloak of magic resistance (worn)
r - a +1 pair of boots (worn)
s - a +2 leather armour (worn)
Z - a +0 pair of gloves (worn)
Magical devices
g - a wand of teleportation (5)
E - a wand of healing (1)
Comestibles
b - 2 rotting chunks of swamp worm flesh
c - 4 chunks of spiny frog flesh
f - 2 chunks of electric eel flesh
u - 4 bread rations
D - 2 meat rations
Scrolls
o - 3 scrolls of blinking
Jewellery
d - a +4 ring of strength
e - a +2 ring of evasion
h - an uncursed ring of ice
p - a +3 ring of intelligence (left hand)
t - an uncursed ring of protection from cold
y - an amulet of conservation (around neck)
H - an uncursed ring of life protection
J - a ring of poison resistance (right hand)
L - an uncursed amulet of warding
Potions
w - a potion of healing
N - a potion of speed
You had 2 experience left.
Skills:
+ Level 3 Fighting
- Level 3 Short Blades
+ Level 2 Armour
- Level 6 Dodging
- Level 5 Stealth
+ Level 2 Stabbing
+ Level 5 Traps & Doors
+ Level 16 Spellcasting
- Level 14 Conjurations
+ Level 6 Enchantments
- Level 5 Necromancy
- Level 13 Ice Magic
- Level 2 Air Magic
- Level 1 Poison Magic
+ Level 1 Invocations
+ Level 1 Evocations
You had 22 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:
Your Spells Type Power Success Level
a - Magic Dart Conj ##### Perfect 1
b - Throw Frost Ice/Conj ####### Perfect 2
c - Mephitic Cloud Pois/Air/Conj #######... Excellent 3
d - Animate Skeleton Necr N/A Excellent 1
e - Dispel Undead Necr #######.. Excellent 4
f - Corona Ench #######... Excellent 1
g - Bolt of Cold Ice/Conj ########.. Excellent 6
h - Swiftness Air/Ench ######.... Excellent 2
i - Stone Arrow Erth/Conj ####### Excellent 3
My Assassin runs do way way better than the average Assassin if they're lucky enough to find an evokable Invisibility item early on.
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
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Will you still get all your demonspawn mutations if you mutate yourself with potions/chunks. If you use a potion of cure mutationb will it erase your demonspawn stuff?
Every 3k turns, something nasty spawns on the floor your on.
Yeah I try through miscasting but the mutation always fade when I rest.
You DON'T want mutations from magical contamination. They are always bad, with the ONE exception of carnivorism, which is considered bad but really it isn't.
Or maybe not always, because the game doesn't roll like that. 90% maybe.
C:\Crawl\crawl_tiles-0.6.0-0\morgue
If you are playing on your PC. No idea how if you are playing online.
I had cleared out the woods, and in doing so found a Red Bag (essentially a bag of holding). I had found the artifact in Slaeter's Sea, which turned out to be the Amulet of Might, so I between those two I had no encumbrance and a massive inventory space available.
I had abused the weird fume to grow 3 extra eyes and 7 extra fingers, so I hit often, and had tons of extra ring space.
In fact, the only downside to my game so far, was that I was vertiginous from fumes (a permanent condition which causes you to randomly become confused for a few turns. If I remember it correctly, it can only be cured by either getting lucky from a Mist trap, or drinking a blessed potion of curing. Unfortunately, every time the fume applies that effect to you you get an invisible stack of the condition. I don't know how many I had, but it was probably upwards of 20 or 30. At this point in the game I can't get enough potions of curing to clear it. On the plus side it means if I want to use confused scroll reading for certain effects I don't have to depend on getting drunk or eating bats.)
That and I hadn't found a ring of regeneration yet, which are massively useful in the beginning and middle of the game. Things were going swell.
So I park myself over the down stairs to dungeon, do a backup save of my game (this game actually has an option to do permanent saves, but you can't do it more frequently than every 200 turns.) I read a blessed scroll of wonder, and on my first try it transforms me into a Swordmaster.
Fantastic. This easily one of the two or three best transformations you can get, and arguably the best. Despite being technically a human, they have slightly less maximum strength than a human. That's the only downside. They are 4 times faster than a human (making them 4 times faster than about 70% of the enemies in the game, and twice as fast as another 20% ish.) They come with about 30 ranks of practice in all projectiles, the blademaster ability, giving them bonus damage and effects when using sais, katanas, and runeblades, and the largely useless but fun origami skill.
So I cheer, step down into the dungeon and immediately step on a monster trap. The walls fall down to reveal about 20 slinns. Large crablike dudes who spew corrosive acid. However, being absurdly fast, and absurdly strong thanks to my amulet, I mow them down, gaining 5 levels in the process since they were much higher level than me. Things are going swimmingly!
I explore a bit, clear a couple zones, find some things, then bring up my world map.
OOPS! I forgot to set the expanded memory settings in the DOS shortcut so it couldn't bring up the map. No biggie right, I'll just hop out of the game and fix it. the game itself said I should do that.
Nope. when it freaked out while trying to load the map, it also obliterated my entire inventory. Not only removing all my equipment, scrolls, wands, and potions, but my red bag and amulet of might, which are only spawned once per game and cannot be recovered.
So I reload my game and try to get a decent transformation again, and can't get anything more useful than a Ramapith, which is barely better than a human at all.
http://bored.com/game/play/150854/The_Enchanted_Cave.html/
Its got that cyclic dive down and hop out thing going on, ala Izuna or Baroque, but is pretty simple and none too difficult once you get further in.
Turns out its a duping bug. Every item I picked up spawned an extra of the bugged item. Save, quit, and tons o money. Yay health potions.
1832 Maridia the Conjurer (level 8, 0/40 HPs) Began as a High Elf Wizard on May 29, 2010. Was a Follower of Vehumet. Slain by a killer bee (5 damage) ... on Level 7 of the Dungeon. The game lasted 00:56:37 (10421 turns). Your Spells Type Power Success Level a - Magic Dart Conj ##### Excellent 1 b - Blink Tloc N/A Great 2 c - Mephitic Cloud Pois/Air/Conj ####...... Great 3 d - Conjure Flame Fire/Conj ######... Excellent 3 e - Slow Ench ####...... Very Good 3 f - Throw Flame Fire/Conj ######. Excellent 2Those bee ambushes at the level you were at is pretty much a death sentence. Teleport scroll, staircase with only one bee on you, or blink away. A wand could have saved you too. Otherwise, um yeah.
Yeah, I was just going to say; Killer Bees are actually vulnerable to poison. Mephitic Cloud would basically light them up and you could pick them off at your leisure. Plus they'd sting each other a lot and that would help you out.
My favorite way to clear the Hive is walk into the middle of the honeycomb, shout a few times, then drop a Poisonous Cloud on myself (with Poison Resistance, natch) since it spreads out so much.
Mousing over a creature (and clicking on it?) will tell you it's resistances and vulnerabilities.
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
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Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
But it's in browser so gains massive points over those games!
Quite a fun little distraction.
I just beat that game. You can kind of fuck yourself over if you beeline too far without escaping, because you won't have enough artifacts to survive very well.
Anyway, you know what's funny? Getting an insta-kill on the final boss. And I had like five big healing potions stockpiled in case he was difficult.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.6.0 character file. 2058802 Savant the Mummy of Death (level 27, 190/190 (192) HPs) Began as a Mummy Necromancer on May 28, 2010. Was the Champion of Kikubaaqudgha. Escaped with the Orb ... and 5 runes (of 5 types) on May 30, 2010! The game lasted 09:41:05 (149096 turns). Savant the Mummy of Death (Mummy Necromancer) Turns: 149096, Time: 09:41:05 HP 190/190 (192) AC 13 Str 11 Exp: 27/1792567 (3) MP 44/44 EV 24 Int 23 God: Kikubaaqudgha [******] Gold 7707 SH 21 Dex 12 Spells: 18 memorised, 3 levels left Res.Fire : + + . See Invis. : + Q - +3,+2 dagger of the Exiled Deaths {pain, M Res.Cold : + . . Warding : . n - +3 salamander hide armour {+Rage rF++} Life Prot.: + + + Conserve : . Z - +2 buckler {AC+3} Res.Poison: + Res.Corr. : . V - -3 visored helmet {SInv} Res.Elec. : . Clarity : . R - +1 dwarf cloak {rF+} Spirit.Shd: . D - +0 pair of gloves of Tuaka {EV+6 Acc+4} Sust.Abil.: . Rnd.Telep. : . o - +2 pair of boots "Sodaan" {+Rage} Res.Mut. : + Ctrl.Telep.: + I - amulet "Ofesetapp" {rMut Dam+3} Res.Rott. : + Levitation : . s - ring of teleport control Saprovore : . . . Ctrl.Flight: . A - ring of regeneration @: extraordinarily resistant to hostile enchantments, very stealthy A: in touch with death, poison resistance, cold resistance 1, torment resistance, life protection 3 a: Self-Restoration, Receive Corpses, Renounce Religion, Evoke Berserk Rage You escaped. You worshipped Kikubaaqudgha. Kikubaaqudgha was exalted by your worship. You were not hungry. You visited 15 branches of the dungeon, and saw 88 of its levels. You visited the Abyss 1 time. You visited 1 bazaar. You visited 2 portal chambers: ice cave, wizlab. You collected 12010 gold pieces. You spent 4323 gold pieces at shops. Inventory: Hand weapons e - a +1,+4 dwarven hand axe of distortion (quivered) {!w} q - the +6,+5 quick blade "Heaq" {elec, rPois} (You took it off a deep elf demonologist on level 7 of the Elven Halls) Occasionally, upon striking a foe, it will discharge some electrical energy and cause terrible harm. It protects you from poison. x - a +6,+4 elven short sword of speed Q - the +3,+2 dagger of the Exiled Deaths (weapon) {pain, MR} (You found it on level 6 of the Lair of Beasts) In the hands of one skilled in necromantic magic, it inflicts extra damage on living creatures. It increases your resistance to enchantments. Armour c - a +2 dwarven crested helmet of intelligence i - a +8 robe of resistance j - a +2 robe n - the +3 salamander hide armour (worn) {+Rage rF++} (You acquired it on level 6 of the Pits of Slime) It greatly protects you from fire. It lets you go berserk. o - the +2 pair of boots "Sodaan" (worn) {+Rage} (You found it on level 5 of the Snake Pit) It lets you go berserk. B - a +2 cloak of magic resistance D - the +0 pair of gloves of Tuaka (worn) {EV+6 Acc+4} (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults) It affects your evasion (+6). It affects your accuracy (+4). J - a +0 cloak of preservation R - a +1 dwarven cloak of fire resistance (worn) V - a -3 visored helmet of see invisible (worn) Z - a +2 buckler of protection (worn) Magical devices a - a wand of random effects (18) b - a wand of draining (7) f - a wand of draining (14) m - a wand of fireball (6) p - a wand of cold (4) t - a wand of fire (7) v - a wand of invisibility (3) F - a wand of teleportation (3) G - a wand of slowing (0) M - a wand of hasting (9) O - a wand of disintegration (4) U - a wand of lightning (6) Scrolls k - a scroll of recharging r - a scroll of detect curse w - a scroll of remove curse Jewellery d - an uncursed amulet of conservation h - an uncursed ring of protection from fire s - a ring of teleport control (right hand) A - a ring of regeneration (left hand) C - an uncursed ring of protection from fire I - the amulet "Ofesetapp" (around neck) {rMut Dam+3} (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults) [amulet of resist mutation] It affects your damage-dealing abilities (+3). L - the brooch of Shielding {Ward AC+4 EV+4} (You found it on level 3 of the Tomb of the Ancients) [amulet of warding] It affects your AC (+4). It affects your evasion (+4). Back in the good old days, every adventurer had one of these handy devices. That, and a pony. N - the ring "Sicuiles" {Wiz rC+ EV+2 Str-1 Int+4} (You found it on level 4 of the Snake Pit) [ring of wizardry] It affects your evasion (+2). It affects your strength (-1). It affects your intelligence (+4). It protects you from cold. P - the amulet "Cucig" {Stasis Hunger+ AC+2 Dam+3} (You found it on level 8 of the Vaults) [amulet of stasis] It affects your AC (+2). It affects your damage-dealing abilities (+3). It greatly speeds your metabolism. S - an uncursed amulet of resist corrosion Magical staves E - a +2 rod of warding (11/11) (You found it on level 5 of the Crypt) W - a +1 rod of summoning (10/10) (You found it on level 4 of the Lair of Beasts) Orbs of Power g - the Orb of Zot Miscellaneous l - a serpentine rune of Zot u - a golden rune of Zot y - the horn of Geryon z - a slimy rune of Zot K - a decaying rune of Zot X - a silver rune of Zot You had 3 experience left. Skills: + Level 13 Fighting - Level 10 Short Blades + Level 3 Armour + Level 15 Dodging + Level 11 Stealth + Level 9 Stabbing + Level 13 Shields + Level 8 Traps & Doors + Level 17 Spellcasting + Level 9 Enchantments + Level 13 Summonings * Level 27 Necromancy + Level 1 Translocations + Level 9 Air Magic + Level 1 Invocations + Level 5 Evocations You had 3 spell levels left. You knew the following spells: Your Spells Type Power Success Level a - Pain Necr ##### Perfect 1 b - Dispel Undead Necr ######### Perfect 4 c - Vampiric Draining Necr #########. Perfect 3 d - Animate Dead Necr N/A Perfect 4 e - Corpse Rot Necr N/A Perfect 2 f - Agony Necr #########. Perfect 5 g - Sublimation of Blood Necr #########. Perfect 2 h - Twisted Resurrection Necr #########. Perfect 5 i - Apportation Tloc ####...... Excellent 1 k - Blink Tloc N/A Excellent 2 l - Levitation Air/Ench #######... Excellent 2 m - Summon Butterflies Summ #######... Perfect 1 n - Insulation Air/Ench #######... Excellent 4 r - Deflect Missiles Air/Ench #######... Very Good 6 t - Haunt Summ/Necr #########. Excellent 6 v - Repel Missiles Air/Ench #######... Excellent 2 w - Abjuration Summ #######... Excellent 3 L - Selective Amnesia Ench N/A Excellent 4FYI: haunt is an extremely strong spell. Smite targeting to summon a bunch of nasties is incredibly useful, even if the target is resistant to the damage of the ghosts and things. Also, I found that pain dagger pretty early on, which let my slice apart living enemies pretty easily. I wanted to find an unbranded quick blade to slap pain on that, but the artifact dagger had to suffice. Kiku air mailing corpses was a nice touch too, especially when he gives you hydra corpses. Never underestimate the power of a 20 headed hydra zombie.
Mummies were sort of an interesting change in pace too. Without potions I had a lot less escape options, but I could hide and rest back to full health whenever needed without the threat of hunger. I had a few decently close calls where blink scrolls and such saved me.
I probably could have gotten more runes, but I felt much less comfortable fighting nasty demons rather than nasty undead and living monsters.