CIP: HaAr founds Nemelex in Dungeon:1

[rogochin]

So I'm playing a Halfling Artificier.

I'm a casual player (max. record is clearing Vaults with a MoBe of Trog) who has the will to try Nemelex but has the slightest idea how Piety/Decks works with him.



I know it's too early, YASD is around the corner, but I'm really excited. Can you give me some *basic* aproach and tips?

  Code:

 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0 character file.

G the Charlatan (Halfling Artificer)             Turns: 1890, Time: 00:10:30

HP  24/24        AC  3     Str  8      XL: 3   Next: 52%
MP   3/3         EV 15     Int 13      God: Nemelex Xobeh [......]
Gold 72          SH  0     Dex 16      Spells:  0 memorised,  2 levels left

Res.Fire  : + . .   See Invis. : .    u - plain deck of cards
Res.Cold  : x . .   Warding    : . .  e - +0 leather armour
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .    (no shield)
Res.Acid. : . . .   Res.Corr.  : .    (no helmet)
Res.Poison: .       Clarity    : .    (no cloak)
Res.Elec. : .       Spirit.Shd : .    (no gloves)
Sust.Abil.: . .     Stasis     : .    (no boots)
Res.Mut.  : .       Ctrl.Telep.: .    s - triangular garnet amulet {tried}
Res.Rott. : .       Levitation : .    k - ring of fire
Saprovore : . . .   Ctrl.Flight: .    g - granite ring {tried}

@: not resistant to hostile enchantments, fairly stealthy
A: mutation resistance 1, slow metabolism 1
a: Renounce Religion


You are on level 1 of the Dungeon.
You worship Nemelex Xobeh.
Nemelex Xobeh is noncommittal.
You are not hungry.

You have visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and seen 1 of its levels.

You have collected 52 gold pieces.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 a - a +0,+0 staff
 h - a +0,+0 dagger
Missiles
 w - 46 stones (quivered)
Armour
 e - a +0 leather armour (worn)
Magical devices
 b - a wand of flame (15)
 c - a wand of enslavement (15)
 d - a wand of random effects (15)
Comestibles
 f - a bread ration
Scrolls
 l - a scroll labeled STYESY THYM
 m - a scroll labeled SOTTID IXEIHUGUL
 o - a scroll labeled SCHELO NAICSOGA
 q - a scroll labeled JESYSI FUSKE
 r - a scroll labeled FIPPIU FROXT
 t - a scroll labeled PSOIHUOSOL
Jewellery
 g - a granite ring (left hand) {tried}
 k - a ring of fire (right hand)
 s - a triangular garnet amulet (around neck) {tried}
Potions
 n - an orange potion
 p - 2 viscous green potions
Miscellaneous
 u - a plain deck of cards (in hand)


   Skills:
 + Level 1,0 Fighting
 + Level 1,0 Short Blades
 - Level 1,0 Staves
 - Level 4,0 Dodging
 + Level 2,0 Stealth
 * Level 1,4 Stabbing
 - Level 2,0 Traps & Doors
 - Level 4,0 Evocations


You have 2 spell levels left.
You don't know any spells.

Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (1/27)           

Altars:
Nemelex Xobeh


                    Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You are small and have problems with some larger weapons.
You are somewhat resistant to further mutation.
You have a slow metabolism.


Message History

Your Dodging skill increases to level 4!
You see here an orcish club.
HP restored.
Done exploring.
Done exploring.
Move the cursor to view the level map, or type ? for a list of commands.
Returning to the game...
Unknown command.
Move the cursor to view the level map, or type ? for a list of commands.
Returning to the game...
Some of the chunks of flesh in your inventory have completely rotted away.
There is a sparkling altar of Nemelex Xobeh here.
You kneel at the altar of Nemelex Xobeh.
Nemelex Xobeh welcomes you!
This raw flesh tastes terrible.
You continue eating.
You finish eating.
Use which ability? (? or * to list)
Okay, then.
u - a plain deck of cards (in hand)

#.##.#      #.#  #.#
#.##.#      #.#  #.#
#.##.#      #.#  #.#
#.##.#      #.#  #.#
#.##.#      #.#  #.#  ###
#.##.#      #.#  #.####..
#.##.#      #.#  #.......
#.##.########.#########..
#.##.................%...
#.##......###.#########..
#.##....@.# #.#       #..
#.###########.####    #..
#.#      #.......#    ###
#.#      #.......########
#.#      #.....>.........
#.#      #.......########
#.###    #.......#
#...#    #.......#
#...#    #########
#...#
#...#


There are no monsters in sight!

Vanquished Creatures
  2 oozes (D:1)
  6 bats (D:1)
  4 giant cockroaches (D:1)
  6 hobgoblins (D:1)
  3 giant newts (D:1)
  5 goblins (D:1)
  6 rats (D:1)
  4 fungi (D:1)
36 creatures vanquished.

Notes
Turn   | Place    | Note
--------------------------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1      | G, the Halfling Artificer, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1      | Reached XP level 1. HP: 14/14 MP: 1/1
   394 | D:1      | Reached XP level 2. HP: 14/19 MP: 2/2
   525 | D:1      | Reached skill level 4 in Evocations
   539 | D:1      | Reached skill level 1 in Staves
   931 | D:1      | Found a sparkling altar of Nemelex Xobeh.
  1021 | D:1      | Reached skill level 1 in Fighting
  1021 | D:1      | Reached skill level 1 in Short Blades
  1125 | D:1      | Reached XP level 3. HP: 22/24 MP: 3/3
  1670 | D:1      | Reached skill level 1 in Stabbing
  1885 | D:1      | Became a worshipper of Nemelex Xobeh



I would report progress. Thank you.

[crate]

Find items you don't want, press p. When bad dudes show up press aa and choose a destruction or summoning deck. When you get escape decks press ae.

[rchandra]

Less tersely: sacrifice everything. Don't worry too much (or at all) about weighting for different decks. Use your decks a lot, especially the plain ones (you need to gain piety, and nemelex wants you to use the decks). Use better destruction/summoning decks when an enemy might be difficult. For decks other than destruction and summoning, you might want to use your other abilities to have more control over what happens (triple draw, stack 5, etc.).

[rogochin]

Find items you don't want, press p.

Any class of items?

When bad dudes show up press aa and choose a destruction or summoning deck. When you get escape decks press ae.

´aa´? Are decks evoked that way? When I type ´a´ it is the abilities screen what pops.

When i'm supposed to know the deck type I have in my hands? (the deck which was dropped in the temple) Don't you recommend me to use a id-scroll before using it?

[rogochin]

Just leaving the temple I found a heavy-armored goblin that almost kills me :___(
I´ve sacrificed his equipment to get my first god-gifted deck, sooner than expected (by the log seems a deck of summonings).



I have 2 decks now.

[rogochin]

First steps in Dungeon:2



God-gifted deck wasnt the expected, is a ´Deck of escape´, seems useful for desperate situations but Banshee and Tomb cards are very dangerous at this point to use as a piety buffer.

What did you mean by `aa`? Im using decks with e(V)oke.

I have tried the found-in-temple deck aswell. It drawn a `Battlelust` card but the deck remains unidentified (?)

[rchandra]

'aa' means your first ability from Nemelex, "Draw One" which lets you use a deck without equipping it.
You don't need to scroll-ID your decks, you'll know the type after one use, sometimes two. Your deck with Battlelust is not IDed as there are a few different types of deck that contain bettlelust. When you draw more cards from it crawl will ID the deck.

[rogochin]

Dungeon: 2
Critical encounter with Terence. He zapped me wand of frost. Fortunately, first zap was a miss allowing me to remove ring of fire. I counter him with wand of flame. He hits twice leaving me with 8hp, then I look at my inventory. A potion was <tried by monster> (I remember how the gobo on Dungeon:1 that was very close to kill me healed himself). That potion saved my life.



Now Terence is dead but Sigmund is somewhere in Dungeon:3, surrounded by orcs priests...

[rogochin]

Damn! Killed on D:10 by a centaur.

Thank you for the tips, fun god.