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Ah ok, I see. Dagnabbit. I thought I did it and just read that piece from my morgue after I saw the scoring, which I thought showed when you leave branches too. I'm not sure why I backed out of the shoals then. Choke city.

I only went into the ice cave portal, I didn't exit shoals back to lair. I guess I didn't realize that would kill the bonus, I had thought it was just going back the "up" stairs out of the branch wasn't allowed.

I'm not sure if I misunderstood the tier 1 point, but I thought I qualified for it. I only went into portals, was that not allowed? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16-a0-1377-g5fe55b6 (webtiles) character file. 1564003 guppyfry the Acrobat (level 27, 235/235 HPs) Began as a Merfolk Assassin on Oc...

I'd like to join again, thanks

Super helpful thanks! I got the rune. However, all of my arrows are now on the floor of vault 5 with a million sphinxs, tentacled monsters, liches, etc. I think I'm still screwed. I did used to stair dance the bottom of the vaults, which this character would have been able to do with ease awhile ago...

This character seemed incredible, but I'm having trouble at Vaults 5 and Depths 5. I keep on getting stomped when all the heavy hitters show up at once and I have pretty weak defenses. I made what I thought was one of my best (luckiest?) escapes ever after quitting for a day after taking the below s...

So I went with haste and Cerebov went with fire storm which did 42 damage. RIP. I was using the morningstar for rf++, but it certainly seems silly now. I'm not used to antimagic and I think I consistently underestimated how awesome it is. I also did have a stone giant brother with me that was killed...

It's all over isn't it? Every time I play a berserker my last turn looks like this, but usually it's something way before Cerebov. Do I have any options for survival here? He's almost dead too. http://s9.postimg.org/qav64udmj/DCSS_cerebov_v_zerker.jpg guppyfry the Skullcrusher (Gargoyle Berserker) T...

Congrats Xen and gg everybody! Thanks again for organizing, very fun.

Stuff I want that is not serious enough to go in GDD: - To be able to quiver royal jellys and have them hit to blind (like dazzling spray) and killer klowns to come equipped with one. - A monster magnet evokable that apports metal items, can disarm monsters with metal weapons and draw monsters weari...

I wasn't expecting the orb of fire to get two fireballs off before my next turn. I forgot how fast they are. I had no way to deal with it anyway though. I could have at least gotten my divine protection up and had a few more turns to figure something out. Disappointing because I was so damn close, b...

Well I take it that the rest of the advice was at least passable then. I wonder if it was a freak death or a very early death when I decided to avoid -tele gear. There's nothing that could kill in less than a turn besides hasted or naturally fast enemies right? Or maybe I'm just not thinking properl...

My thoughts: I find -Tele gets me killed, so I avoid those items generally. Electric is probably a much better brand than cold on short blades, although the dagger does get the extra stabbing bonus. I use my un-ID wands and scrolls usually instantly to figure out what they are. I find rings of fire ...

You're bringing back repressed memories of my crappy runs last tournament. Here's my demonspawn hanging out with a titan from then in Vaults 5. I was freaking out and talking with my brother at the time and was probably dead no matter what but still, this is what crawl panic looks like: Welcome back...

Komodo dragons hit a lot harder then I remembered. I was really starting to like the character (often a death sentence) and then the lair entry vault had a komodo and I just didn't take it seriously. It really didn't occur to me that it would do 30 damage per bite.

Well I set my own speed record, but still too slow to take the turns lead: http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue/guppyfry/morgue-guppyfry-20140613-132729.txt This guy had double the HP of the vine stalker but still felt twice as squishy. I even thought about going for a shield with en eveningstar o...

Congrats! Great character and story. This kind of run is what makes you really appreciate crawl: part of the reason I've made it this far is that Chei is plain forcing me to be more cautious This is the essence of Crawl to me. I didn't get a win until I played a human wanderer and felt woefully unde...

To make the changes make more sense they could swap kobold and halfling strength (7 and 5 currently) and fighting apts (+1 and -1). Then halflings would need to be weakened somewhere else, maybe -10%MP? And then the kobolds would need something to help them out, maybe rot resistance? Poison resistan...

Moose: Spectral weapon makes a double of your wielded weapon that attacks when you do, so you get to hit monsters twice as often. It's based on your weapon skill as well as your spell power so it is great for melee characters. It's useless for people who don't do their main damage with their melee w...

Finally finished! Vine stalkers are awesome! Spectral weapon is also now one of my favorite spells.

http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue/ ... 174237.txt

When does the scoreboard update?

I'm worried my game isn't counting. I realized I had an existing character in trunk on CSZO, so I started on CBRO and splatted the first VSSk to a gnoll pack (they had nets) at XL3 and am now logged on as my redo, but in IRC I got this: [13:21] <guppyfry> !csdc wk1 @div2 [13:21] <Sequell> No games c...

I'd like to play, thanks for organizing.

guppyfry on cszo

I'd consider being a mentor for beginners looking for a regular win (and I'd like to be a trainee for extended, I can't seem to get a 15-runer)

I'm not sure where I should be investing my spell slots or skill xp with this character. After a few close calls in the vaults and deep dungeon I came back up for the lair runes, which went very smoothly using a combo of undead summons, haste and bolt of draining. I'm debating now what the next spel...

It took me at least 3 times reading that clan name to get that it's YIUF. Now I like it.

I see that my profile has different cap letters, I log in to cszo with no caps, but that is my profile you linked to with the cap G and F. So yeah, I'm not sure if any of it means anything.

Ok, in game my name is all lowercase "guppyfry" and I play on CSZO if that matters So I should put "# TEAMCAPTAIN Lyfon" at the top of the rc file for .13 tonight? I vote for names that have a nod to Crazy Yiuf's Corner or The Tavern since we're getting together here. I'm not a p...

I've never been in a clan, but I have a win in each of the tournaments going back to .9 or so. I'd sign up for one if there were others still interested.

I've gotten a couple characters with 15 runes killed, so I'd advise to not take the zot vault lightly even if you're character seems invincible. Tornado takes a huge investment in air, I'm not sure it's worth it for you since you're so close to the end already. Switch staffs depending on if you're u...

So the lack of responses made me figure there was no right or wrong answer and I went ahead and pain branded the lajatang. It's pretty sweet. I haven't had any great books come along so I've been mainly dumping xp into using the staff. I'm hoping to find Iron Shot soon, as stone arrow is not that im...

I've gotten to the gift level with Kiku and am not sure what I want to do. I already have a whip of pain, so should I be happy with that and get the necronomicon? I haven't found any of the top tier base weapons, except a lajatang, which I thought might be worth pain branding. I also have a staff of...

I usually use firefox and CSZO, but now I can't get past the splash page loading screen.

I tries switching from firefox to chrome, from CSZO to CAO and from .11 to .12, but all get stuck at the loading screen.

I'm running windows 7 and played in the last tournament with no problems.

How about a vulnerability virus? The plague dynamic is the only really interesting idea to me and I think it makes sense as a cross with hexes since it's a debuff and gives both schools an incentive to make a higher xp investment. Level 8 hex/poison - "infection" Smite targeted Target has ...

If you edit the dump_order option in your init.txt or rcfile to include vaults in the list, your dump will include the list of vaults you've seen, but only after you've either won or lost. Here's my dump_order as an example: Lair:8: hangedman_lair_in_review, guppyfry_lair_end_dragon, basic_altar, d...

Is there a way to find out what vaults you see in game or in the log file?

I vote yes to more zot vaults.

Well I don't think actual crabs make sense, but I do think it would make sense for the fire crab to come in other flavors. At least Ice crab, right? Poison crab? And doesn't everyone like streamed crab?
I have no idea why fire crabs are called crabs as it is, but I think they are a cool monster

My vote would be that rats get left alone, since they are involved in summoning by players and monsters. Porcupines should be made "giant" and get AC/HP/damage all increased to fit better with their depth. I can't find a reference to their ability and I've never noticed it, but a weak pain...

Seconded.

And from http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3468734 - "CAO apparently resurfacing at some point in October; status of annual tournament unknown at present"

The niche is glass cannon with the stabbing/slowness twist. This overlaps with spriggan a lot though, except that you have more stealth, more offense (innate confuse+miasma) and even worse defense (slow+no even) It overlaps more specifically with a naga of fedhas, which is how I tested it in wizmode...

Sorry for second post, my tablet is making me crazy with losing the cursor. I was going to add abilities: Confusing touch at lvl 1 Breathe giant spore at high XL Skills: Even fighting and unarmed, minus 1 for melee weapons, -2 for ranged -5 armor and dodging , +4 stealth and stab, + for necro, tmut,...

I actually think this fungi player could be an interesting idea and could be done almost entirely with the existing mutation set: Starting mutations: Night stalker 3 Pseudopods 3 (or just deformed body) Slowness 3 Blurry vision (I would not include this, but am in deference to the OP) Fast metabolis...

Is there a reasoning for the extended branches not getting entry vaults? It seems like the early branches have a lot of them and personally I enjoy them far more then turning a corner in the dungeon and seeing a branch stair dropped randomly. Would extended branch entries need Depth and Chance heade...

A lot, maybe 10 or so. I put the "+" sign if there were a lot of vaults fitting the category across multiple files.

This is a very rough census of vaults. I did it mainly out of curiosity, though initially I wanted to get an idea of areas where I might try and contribute. I thought I'd post it in case anyone else shared that curiosity. Please don't attack me about these numbers, I didn't care about getting true c...

I saw this on the wiki ( https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:planning:planning ) and thought this thread could come back now for .12: 0.12 planned features DISCLAIMER: I'm not a dev, I'm just writing down stuff I heard people talk about doing because I'm annoyed by this page being so out ...

I vote yes on OP suggestion. Nausea and sickness from eating are annoying. Outright restrictions of eating bad meat makes mores sense to keep the game running. There could be more early veggie food vaults placed if there was a concern about non-carnivore nutrition caused by this.

I like this idea because I like shields and it also always bothers me that shadow and iron dragons don't have hides. Besides those two though I don't think anything else needs a shield drop. Except for the serpent of hell, because it deserves a trophy for not running from it and that could be a grea...

I forgot cblink existed and that it works on -ctele levels. I realized this happened to me before: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4164&p=53550#p53550 I really don't have much familiarity with spells above level 6, I prefer melee and so have only had a few characters get...

If you have teleportitis probably the simplest way to deal with it in zot is to simply ninja the orb instead of trying to fight your way through. This character could have done so easily, the only thing you are missing that would be good to have is controlled blink (which sounds much better for you...

This is all great advice, thanks! This is the second time I had an amazing character die in zot 5 and I will never go back in there without a pre-game planning session again. I totally forgot about stasis. I spam swiftness with almost all of my characters so think of stasis as trash. This character ...

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