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Friday, 10th January 2020, 00:14
GoKl^Yredelemnul, caryer of the black torch, bcrawl
I recently finished this game for a Cosplay conduct. https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/pete ... 233741.txt
(The rules where: GoKl^Yredelemnul, Maces & nets, rocks, needles only, no shield, only level 1 & 2 spells, get 7 runes, enslave soul 9 uniques.)
Mostly I noticed Yredelemnul is really strong
Drain Life makes you almost invincible as long as enough living enemies are on the screen, and summoning all my allies provided a very reliable panic button.
Keeping my allies alive was a pain though, and involved me often going back up stairs to recall my allies to a cleared level. I did this every time I got a valuable ally, which was often. I also often fought at half hp to try to keep my allies alive. It is sloppy, but with Drain life available it was ok.
It's also a pain to try to isolate the Enslaved Soul to take with you.
bcrawl changed Pan so that the exit locations are revealed, but you can't enter a Pan level after reaching XL 27. So I did Pan before getting my 3rd rune, when I was XL 26. It was short, fun, and challenging in a very different way from my usual Pan experience. Rush for the exit, rush for the rune, get out
Yredelemnul was very useful, because there wasn't much fighting and therefore not much time for my allies to die. Getting no piety in Pan was no problem. (actually I got some piety from a holy pan floor.)
Mnoleg got mostly killed by my undead allies whilst out-of-LOS, and I killed Gloorx Vloq after confusing it with a needle.
I got to use a blowgun without training throwing because blowguns use fighting skill in bcrawl. It was very powerful, but I'm not sure how I feel about it.
(The rules where: GoKl^Yredelemnul, Maces & nets, rocks, needles only, no shield, only level 1 & 2 spells, get 7 runes, enslave soul 9 uniques.)
Mostly I noticed Yredelemnul is really strong
Drain Life makes you almost invincible as long as enough living enemies are on the screen, and summoning all my allies provided a very reliable panic button.
Keeping my allies alive was a pain though, and involved me often going back up stairs to recall my allies to a cleared level. I did this every time I got a valuable ally, which was often. I also often fought at half hp to try to keep my allies alive. It is sloppy, but with Drain life available it was ok.
It's also a pain to try to isolate the Enslaved Soul to take with you.
bcrawl changed Pan so that the exit locations are revealed, but you can't enter a Pan level after reaching XL 27. So I did Pan before getting my 3rd rune, when I was XL 26. It was short, fun, and challenging in a very different way from my usual Pan experience. Rush for the exit, rush for the rune, get out
Yredelemnul was very useful, because there wasn't much fighting and therefore not much time for my allies to die. Getting no piety in Pan was no problem. (actually I got some piety from a holy pan floor.)Mnoleg got mostly killed by my undead allies whilst out-of-LOS, and I killed Gloorx Vloq after confusing it with a needle.
I got to use a blowgun without training throwing because blowguns use fighting skill in bcrawl. It was very powerful, but I'm not sure how I feel about it.