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When, frustrated with homework, I wonder whether Trog will give me piety for my calculus textbook.

Leave them alone until you are level 20+.

J - the ring of the Original Sin {rPois Int-4 Dam-6} (You found it in an ice cave) [ring of poison resistance] It affects your intelligence (-4). It affects your damage-dealing abilities (-6). The only context I could imagine for this item being remotely desirable is on a summoner with a staff of e...

If death yaks threaten you, don't set foot in the Shoals.

So my DrIE swapped to a M&F focus after finding an envenomed whip on D1 and a 6/6 slaying ring on D2. D4 just coughed up a mace of pain. Is this a clear Kiku pick?

If you see those baileys, just flee without engaging. Same with that Orc 4 vault (which you should avoid without magic mapping anyway).

I've been Crawling since last May, but I still have no idea how to properly play a follower of Kiku. 1) What kind of character benefits from following her, aside from carnivores and vampires? 2) What is the gameplan? I can kind of see the perks of a guaranteed Pain brand or Necronomicon, but I am mo...

Let's take this in the obvious direction. Fit the First ZOT “Just the place for an Orb!” the Berserker would swear, As his horrified followers reared, Supporting each craven on top of the stair By an axe-handle tied to his beard. “Just the place for an Orb! I have uttered it twice, That alone should...

Chess? Have him learn the basics and give him some mate puzzles.

You have 5 cMuts in your inventory. I'd stash them on Zot 4 for now, just in case. Maybe go retrieve an antimagic axe for liches. Otherwise, just proceed cautiously, pull the denizens back to a narrow corridor and eliminate them there. Abuse Trog's Hand to expedite your healing between battles - you...

I'd hate to melee pan/hells with an octopode's anemic hp, minimal armor, and no maxed UC. Maybe pick up the Necronomicon instead of the brand and get Haunt working before extended?

Secret doors.

Is the Russian version of SR2 still available somewhere?

Cheibriados + tab + Bach = YARD (Yet Another Relaxing Death).

The Geneforge series is very much worth those twenty bucks. The first two games are possibly the best RPGs I've played since Planescape: Torment. The rest are weaker, though the UI improves a great deal. 5 crashes to desktop quite a bit but the others are stable.

Coming to Terms Magnanimous, I free my serfs. The best Abandon home and hearth without delay Like migratory swallows. Sadly, they Envision no return in fairer weather - Perennial pecuniary hooks Await beyond my fief for men of skill. They leave me with the birds of drabber feather, The simpletons, t...

Good luck surviving errors without blink or teleportation. If you allow some low-end religious powers, starting with Lugonu seems useful for the random blink and easy third rune (as Vault 8 will suck on any such build). Probably would also have to be a spriggan or centaur for the speed.

Try playing a wizard instead. Imps will go a long way if you are inclined to focus on summoning, but you will also have potent survival tools in blink, mephitic cloud, and conjure flame. TeSu is considerably weaker than it appears - you have crappy HP progression compounded by halved XP gain, and li...

Note that troll fighters are an exception to the rule. In light of their atrocious dodging, armor restrictions, and preference for unarmed combat, the guaranteed starting shield tends to be a stronger choice than beginning with Trog.

If you're in that situation again, check for viable axes. You'd get one to a decent delay in no time at all with crosstraining, and can switch back to M&F once you find something decent.

Turn everything off except axes right away. Your weapon delay is atrocious - enemies will be getting multiple attacks on you for each of your hits.

Don't wear unid'd randarts.

Lair before Orc is a good policy.

Should logically be:
x = original price
x*1.13 = 500
x = 500/1.13

Yes, use the demon trident, and train your polearms a bit more. With a +4 apt it's a good value even beyond min delay. Get some resists asap - if any jewelry shops carry rF, you should be wearing it. You may also want to pick up a leather armor (your log shows a +3 god gift leather armor - was it mu...

The change should be tied to character classes. Give a better hp progression or fighting aptitude to fighters (holding species constant), and likewise for mp or spellcasting apt for a wizard, with gradations for classes in between.

I'd try to banish him. You're big enough to survive the abyss if you get banished on unwielding, too.

...noodly appendages...

The demon blade is excellent for now but will prove grossly inferior when you actually level unarmed to a decent point and ponderize a cloak and hat for full Chei bonuses.

titanic slime creature, which undulated with...

Royal jelly, of course. And the bread was in fact a bread golem, rendered immune to corrosion by potent preservatives...

Unfortunately, he encountered a sandwich mimic.

Deluxe Draconian Dirigibles, which were actually...

Gastronok showed up wearing a Santa Claus hat. I asked for my present, but he told me that Russians are considered naughty by default and instructed me to wait for Ded Moroz...

"You ponder the meaning of unlife."

Where does the lines in the OP come from? Never saw any of them.

...and sing: Some people say an orc is made out of hate. A proper orc's covered with muscle and plate, Muscle and plate and blood and guts Over tiny brain and enormous nuts. You kill sixteen dwarves, but what is the word? You guzzled a potion - two hundred incurred! Saint Roka, don't you call me, 'c...

...whether snozzcumbers seem like a suitable stuffing for a holiday Hellephant trunk...

Resist the temptation to save-scum (even though the character's namesake did).

Sigmund and Crazy Yiuf, respectively...

thought the Hedgefox. He was all alone and freezing in the outer Solar System. He sang the words that came to mind:

"Когда одиночество комом подкатит под горло, под горло,"

but could not hear himself. He realized there was no air around him...

...believes to be divine instructions to reconsider his state of dress. But first, he procures a bunch of sultanas from his...

..he blinked his freshly rime-rimmed eyes. When he was stabbed, he blinked again, astonished.

(I have also mentally placed an 'r' in your username all this time. Ай эм цонфусед.)

Train summoning (and fighting, since yours is so low). Your rings should be cTele and either Robustness or rC. No reason to pass extremely cheap gains in survivability.

Enchanting shields is a waste imo. You gain more survivability by burning a few scrolls on your secondary armor, even if you will discard it several levels down the road.

I think it might have considerable potential if left in the able hands of Uwe Boll.

Berserkers breed bad habits. You will have to run away and do another branch or dive until you are strong enough to deal with a given threat on a non-Troggist melee.

Is rPois less than 100% effective in 0.10? I keep getting poisoned by assorted critters and venom-branded weapons despite a ring of poison resistance.

Draconians have to be among the best options. They certainly seem more survivable than nagas, and the apts are all better except stealth/poison.

Torment seems to be a sufficient reason to want necromutation. Am I missing something?

Way too much YASD potential. Wait till you have at least reliable BIA to cover you if things get bad.

Edit - turn off your spellcasting. I believe it pisses Trog off.

Why not swap to Kiku for guaranteed necromutation and then back to Makh?

Mime the MuMo of Makhleb. Being a mime, any words (and hence spells, vocal commands, shouting for attention) are explicitly forbidden. Up to you to decide whether invocations have a verbal component.

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