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Going into The Tomb with Teleportitis will land you in a swarm of Mummies of all kinds.

When you can cast Fire Storm reliably, you ascend to a higher plane.
Saved Elven Halls:5 for that baby and it paid for itself with Vehumet.

When I see a Deck of Wonders, I see Experience and when I draw the Helix card, mutations. Everything else is just filler. It's like a potion of mutations: I need to use it and gimmie gimmie gimmie.

Sort of, drew a card from a deck and it was a deck of wonders, so I did the logical thing and drew as fast as I could and must have gotten shuffle as a result.
Curiosity, if only I was resistant against it.

Octopode/Conjurer of Nemelex, I was fanning out a Deck of Wonders, picking cards until I ran out and got Shuffle. 'Shuffle? What kind of crap is this' I thought to myself, and went on my merry way only to find out later that I now have more Strength than Intelligence and am now very quick and dexter...

Swaggering through Zot, head filled with riches and glory, summoning atrocities beyond all imagining Ball Noggles knew naught the cost to insanity it brought. Starving for food, he journeyed back up to his stash, to grab a few meat rations his system could barely handle. Deciding to take on Cocytus,...

Summon Horrible Things takes away a point or three of INT with every casting. Adds up over time.

I'm so rElec, I absorb it. Or I should, it's crazy how much rElec it throws at me, even with me being so genetically unstable. Kinda puttering around now, got locked out of Tomb:2 after a Quartet of Greater Mummies (Those Pharaohs in Vases) played a mean game of bash the Freaky Archmage with Smite a...

"Within the 'X' command, you can use '[' and ']' to switch levels -- to descend into a branch, put the cursor on its entry stair before using ']'." http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Tips_and_tricks This should let you peek down staircases to see which were the most dangerous. Di...

After a few failed attempts at an Octopode, I decided to goof off with a Deep Elf/Ice Elementalist, but one thing turned into another and he became a walking blizzard. After wasting some spell slots and wasting the Elven Halls:5, I was able to get Ice Storm all the way down to 16% before I could fin...

One set of stairs leads to Francis, the second leads to a powerful Fire spewing ghost, and the third leads to a pack of ogres and you save it for later.

Remember which was which by the time you get back?

Fattened myself up before I got the orb, because I could. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.2 character file. 2106945 Scud the Archmage (level 27, 123/129 HPs) Began as a Spriggan Venom Mage on June 11, 2012. Was the Champion of Vehumet. Escaped with the Orb ... and 5 runes on June 17, 2012! The ...

Guess I'll just wrap it up then, thanks for the heads up!

I swear, if I was an Octopus, I'd be so happy right now. I'd be Godlike with all the crap they give me. Scud the Archmage (Spriggan Venom Mage) Turns: 138200, Time: 11:04:00 HP 129/129 AC 10 Str 13 XL: 27 MP 46/50 EV 42 Int 30 God: Vehumet [******] Gold 6118 SH 17 Dex 26 Spells: 20 memorised, 1 leve...

A Whip of Flaming Death just lying around? If I were a random monster that has a few thousand turns to live before some punk adventurer splatters me over the dungeon, I'd use it if I saw it. Another highlight and one of my best moments: The lich launches a ball of destructive magic. Your +3 buckler ...

The first one, is it only there you can find it?
And got a Wizzy Portal into the desolate wasteland with the Ancient Lich. Got his sword, but it has no resistances on it.

Sorry, it's a force of habit that I drink them whenever possible no matter how good of a set up I got. After chugging two more, this is what I ended up with: Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations You are tiny and cannot use many weapons and most armour. You have supernaturally acute eyesight. ...

Took me so long to realize that I needed more Spellcasting that it's just plain bad form. Spent time building that, dodging and trying to make more potions of mutation but the game wouldn't cough up the corpses. An update, I think I can drop off one of the resistant-based weapons in the stash, the w...

While the dragon king armor is incredibly powerful, you'd basically have to give up ever casting a spell much over level 2, so it's sadly not that good of a choice for you unless you suddenly worship trog. Oh, and you'll never have the strength for it either :) The level up spam on pikel is sweet b...

Two more highlights: You kill Pikel! Vehumet accepts your kill. With Pikel's spell broken, the former slaves thank you for their freedom. Your Fighting skill increases to level 2! Your Dodging skill gained 2 levels and is now at level 7! You have gained Traps & Doors skill! Your Conjurations ski...

After a few bad runs of stupidity with DE/FE and DE/IE, joking around with DS/CK and Draconian/TM, went back to the classic favorite combo of mine, which leaves nasty ghosts in Pan and allows me enough speed to make a mistake or three before realizing it. Since I got squat for good equips (non-spiff...

When the game gives you a Priest Convention in the Orcish Mines, just run.

Olmsburg the Destroyer (DEFE) Turns: 8082, Time: 00:28:53 HP 50/50 AC 7 Str 7 XL: 10 Next: 27% MP 28/28 EV 18 Int 21 God: Vehumet [......] Gold 247 SH 0 Dex 16 Spells: 5 memorised, 7 levels left Res.Fire : . . . See Invis. : . L - elf sabre (speed) Res.Cold : . . . Warding : . . a - +0 elf robe Life...

Foolishly tried to take on the mutating Mnoleg but my summons did nothing and an Executioner entered the fray. Tried to run while hasted and flung some Poison Arrows, which kept on missing. Died one turn away from being teleported. Figures. Hubris wasted on my best run... and I could have won with t...

Enter a room in Pan that features four Balrogs? Guess whose cooking your ass tonight.

If there's a teleport trap in Zot:5, you will hit it.

Kept the -20% MP, Deformed Body (2), Spit Poison (1) and Colourless Scales, didn't want to make it too easy and that means I'm below par for the course. Taking on the Realm of Zot and found a ring, which turned out to be useless when Identified. Don't know what it does at first but I'm now savvy eno...

Never got around to throwing that amulet away. After my only win as a Sprig/VM, I went for Fighting and it saved my butt more than once in the Tomb. I'm guessing you were blindly quaffing every mutation potion in the dungeon. If you stop doing that this won't happen again. You should wear the +5 int...

Just wrapped up the tombs and that's still the best armor I can get, pre-Elven Halls. But the gods seemed fit enough to give me that -20% HP in my stint there, and went in with only -20% MP. Hasn't been good. Skill-wise, I think I'm doing alright, but could probably work on Conj. or Pois. to get the...

If you brave the first few Greater Mummies of the opening, onward to the Gauntlet where all good souls come to rest and the god forsaken hellhole that is populated by an army of Guardian Mummies and a few Greater Mummies, if you survive it all, you will get more gold and worthless equips than you ca...

Is that Mennas? Yes. Are you either: a) Demonspawn b) Vampire c) Mummy d) None of the chumps above. a) Demonspawn Can you teleport? Yes. Rod of Te- Did you leave the level after usage? No. Lol, hubris. Did you go back to fight him? Yes. Did you try to run? No. Summoned some Trolls from Trog. Way to ...

If you see lava in the Realm of Zot, run. Not just because an Orb of Fire is awake and the one beside it is sleeping, but because there's more beyond your field of vision. You can't see them, but they are there, and it is Zot.

Watch where you step in a dead-end corridor with the stairs on the second last square and quicksters as far as the eye can see. And a unique.

I killed Boris, I killed Boris, I kil- AW F***
He's going to jump me when I least expect it.

Is it a treasure room full of phat loot? Do you see any enemies? Yes, no, it's you or them. And when the bodies hit the floor, it's all mimics for the good stuff.

If you have teleportitis and you blink away from a Pan Lord and his croonies, it'll kick in and teleport you right back to them.
And you'll find anything but what you need in Pan.

Didn't think the rF- would have been too much of a bother in the Pits and took your advice on not wearing unidentified randart jewellery on my next run; a couple were bad but the majority were pretty good. I could only identify the parts of the unID randart that wouldn't cost me my life.

You know what poison arrow does to a Royal Jelly? It spawns more jellies with the help of Freezing Cloud.

Kerslake wrote:If a floor has a powerful unique near a set of stairs and you reenter it, that teleport trap will land you right next to it.

When you get sent to the Abyss by a coincidental Zot Trap to get you out of that jam, the exit you take will land you near that same unique.

Explicative explicative.

If a floor has a powerful unique near a set of stairs and you reenter it, that teleport trap will land you right next to it.

Does Shoals:5 have a large assortment of non-aquatic top-tier fiends as a map-setting thing? Like how Swamp:5 has the 27-head corner monster? There are no fiends in Shoals, barring an unfortunate Zot trap incident. Judging by what you posted in the other thread, you were probably tricked by Mara. M...

Does Shoals:5 have a large assortment of non-aquatic top-tier fiends as a map-setting thing? Like how Swamp:5 has the 27-head corner monster?

If your ghost is a Spriggan, good luck hitting hit as a Spriggan, regardless of your magic. Not if you have fireball. :twisted: But he'd be all up in my grill, tossing Mephitic Cloud in my face, knifing me while I knifed him and there was a dragon on the loose in the level. I wish the game gave me ...

If your ghost is a Spriggan, good luck hitting hit as a Spriggan, regardless of your magic.

You can't use your Scroll of Blinking if you're dead.

You may be incredibly resistant to hostile enchantments, but that doesn't extend to those squishy eyes. Found Boris in the Vaults along with Mara, so I could skip them easily, and cleared out the final floor without meeting Quicksilver and with the Alistair/Clarity combo. Took down the Crypt in sear...

As an easy Poison Arrow Gatling Gun, should I use a Whip of Ancient Evil {slash, rElec, rN+, MR, Dex -3, SInv} or my Demon Whip of Expedience {Pain, rEle, Dex+1, MR}? Still going to use my shanks if they're sleeping and my staff when I want to fling poison but for general yuk-yuk's in combat. Leanin...

If a hydra has more heads than you have AC, don't let him get close.
And no matter how powerful you are, how many times you can cast poison arrow and hax magicks, sliding a frosty shiv into someone's warm ribcage will best it every time.

Think rationally and get the hell out of there.

Kicked the bucket after getting half my HP knocked out by Cere-Fire Storm guy. Was able to escape but into a place filled with demons and a big boss one (Pan Lord?) Ran but he caught up and I was sick. Healed and blinked but I was still in his LOS and ran straight into a Balrug. Might have lived if ...

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