Wednesday, 15th October 2014, 19:18 by MainiacJoe
I had two runes in my first game to ever get even one rune. I had strong evocables and four rods I could get 3+ shots each out of: ignition, lighting, inaccuracy, and clouds. I had amulets of corrosion, clarity and mutation resistance, but fairly poor MR, so I thought I'd get the slimy rune as my third. I got to 6 fairly quickly, mapped it, and was gradually inching my way towards the center when a ghost appeared. In retrospect, I should have lured him to the stairs and attacked him far from the center, since his capabilities were not a threat to me; but I blasted him with my rods at range instead. As I did this, I did not notice the awakened Royal Jelly approaching me until he was too close for the soften-him-as-he-approaches tactics I'd anticipated. I tried anyway, with too little range to attrite him I think, and found myself surrounded on the stairs my spawns. I went up, but I discovered that acid blobs hit very hard in groups and they killed me after I'd had just one action on 5 (which wasn't a blink scroll as it should have been, since the upstairs to 4 was closeby).
I love how this game is always dangerous! Compared to Nethack which I've beaten a few times, one never reaches a state of boring invincibility, and that's a good thing.
Won (52). Remaining (15): 5 species: Ba, Fe, Mu, Na, Op; 5 Backgrounds: AM, Wr, Su, AE, Ar; 5 gods: Jiyv, newNem, WJC, newSif, newFedh
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- damiac