The Tavern

Code:: Message History Welcome, Yank the Felid Artificer. Will you prevail where others failed? Will you get the Orb of Zot? Press ? for a list of commands and other information. Found a staircase leading out of the dungeon. Unknown command. Unknown command. Evoke which item? (* to show all) (? for menu, Esc to quit) Okay, then. Unknown command. You now have 11 gold pieces. a - a metallic amethyst potion e - a scroll labeled ULLASHR OQEIL Found a scale mail. g - a tubular jade ring Put on which piece of jewellery? (? for menu, Esc to quit) g - a ring of protection from fire (left paw) Adjust (i)tems, (s)pells, or (a)bilities? Adjust which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit) g - a ring of protection from fire (left paw) Adjust to which letter? (? for menu, Esc to quit) L - a ring of protection from fire (left paw) You see here a scale mail. g - a scroll labeled PUEFEZXUIPH A kobold comes into view. Found a crystal plate armour.

Code:: You are on level 5 of the Dungeon. [...] Casting: Animate Skeleton Confirm with . or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells. You attempt to give life to the dead... Before your eyes, flesh is ripped from the corpse! The dead are walking! i - 4 chunks of flesh Magic restored. Found a stone staircase leading up. An orc comes into view. It is wielding a flail. Found a crystal plate armour.

You've got to be kidding me.

On the same theme...

Code:: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17-a0-1475-g9f81d98 (webtiles) character file. mopl the Martial Artist (Deep Elf Transmuter) Turns: 14756, Time: 00:46:45 You are on level 3 of the Orcish Mines. Inventory: Armour f - a crystal plate armour x - a crystal plate armour

Code:: D:6 Grinder, Prince Ribbit, Sigmund

I don't love it when I find skullcrusher a +3 giant club (speed, Str +7) while playing a kobald assassin right after I played many games of Ogre Abyssal Knight... Crawl's RNG is either an asshole or has a sense of humor.

Either?

ajon wrote:I don't love it when I find skullcrusher a +3 giant club (speed, Str +7) while playing a kobald assassin right after I played many games of Ogre Abyssal Knight... Crawl's RNG is either an asshole or has a sense of humor.

Both.

Uniques party... This game wants me dead

Code:: Notes Turn | Place | Note -------------------------------------------------------------- 0 | D:1 | mopl the Octopode Berserker began the quest for the Orb. 796 | D:2 | Noticed Sigmund 1112 | D:2 | Noticed Natasha 3370 | D:5 | Noticed Pikel 4016 | D:2 | Noticed Natasha 4280 | D:2 | Noticed Natasha 4563 | D:5 | Noticed Blork the orc 4854 | D:6 | Noticed Dowan 5063 | D:6 | Noticed Duvessa 5089 | D:6 | Killed Duvessa

Code:: _Pay Purol's fee of 168 gold? _Purol joins your ranks! Here: Purol the naga, wielding a hand axe of flaming (friendly, durably summoned) _The floor. .... Purol looks more experienced. _Purol is enraged by your magic-hating god! You hit the salamander mystic. You slice Purol like a ripe choko!!! You kill Purol!

this actually looks pretty cool, but why would a naga turn into a salamander?

He should have pressed B.

Sar wrote:this actually looks pretty cool, but why would a naga turn into a salamander?

He was standing next to the salamander and I was using an axe.

That makes a bit more sense!

Code:: You fall through a shaft! The shaft crumbles and collapses. _A warg, a hell hound, 4 polar bears and 7 black bears come into view. Found 6 royal jellies and 25 stones. You are a level 12 Felid Summoner. You are 20% of the way to level 13. You'll get an extra life in 0.80 levels' worth of XP. Play time: 03:10:22 (17695 turns)

Code:: You climb downwards. Jorgrun Earthshaker comes into view. He is wielding a quarterstaff of crushing. There is a stone staircase leading up here. Unknown command. Drink which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit) Okay, then. Unknown command. Search for what [Enter for "shield", or ? for help]? flight Can't find anything matching that. Jorgrun shouts! Jorgrun mumbles some strange words. The dungeon rumbles around Jorgrun! You shudder from the earth-shattering force. Ouch! That really hurt! You die... Dynast the Convoker (level 15, -24/54 HPs) Began as a Felid Summoner on July 14, 2015. Was the Champion of Sif Muna. Killed by Shatter ... invoked by Jorgrun (78 damage) ... on level 3 of the Spider Nest on July 18, 2015. The game lasted 05:04:10 (28558 turns).

I just cleared spider and my ranged tabber is down to 11 stones. I find a jelly and get force to use 2 stones, bringing me down to 9 stones. I'm already have to use sling bullets to deal with popcorn in order to save stones.

Sandman25 wrote:
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You are on level 4 of the Spider Nest. x - a plain deck of wonders {the Helix, drawn: 2} Evoke which item? (* to show all) (? for menu, Esc to quit) You draw a card... It is the Helix. You feel less resistant to poisons. You feel stupid.

Evo 9.7
Crawl does not require spoilers to play, you are saying?

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The Helix card manipulates the player's mutations in the following way: Power level 0: If there are no mutations, gain one. Otherwise, with equal probability: Gain one random mutation. Lose one random mutation then gain one random mutation. Lose one random mutation.

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Helix_card

What does Evo 9.7 have to do with it? Plain decks always have power level 0, don't they?

This is 0.14 - "Prior to 0.16, the Wild Magic card affected you rather than enemies."

Yeah, there's a reason why the statement was made about old nemelex "Always stack decks of wonder. Always."

I open a door in the elf 3 vault and get hit by a arrow of dispersal from a Elf master archer that blinks me inside the room filled with other elves and i get sent to abyss, i escape abyss brining a bone dragon with me, teleport away, lure the bone dragon, kill it, elf master archer shows up, hit me with another arrow that puts me near a blade master, i quaff inv and try to heal, elf master archer shoots 2 arrows through the blade master and kills me.

Master archers have Portal Projectile, right? They get smite targetting.

DE master archers don't have portal projectile. Naga sharpshooters do.

Code:: h - a +4 ring of protection (You found it on level 8 of the Dungeon) v - a +5 ring of protection (right hand) (You found it in an ice cave) 9745 | Lair:1 | Found a frozen archway. 4308 | D:5 | Gained mutation: You are missing a hand. [Ru sacrifice]

Code:: _You have reached level 14! Your demonic ancestry asserts itself... Your feet stretch into talons. The +27 Lear's hauberk falls away! You hit the plant.

xentronium wrote:
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The +27 Lear's hauberk falls away!

I have a fetish for wardrobe malfunction scenarios.

Code:: You can see Frederick, Sojobo, Wiglaf, Frances, an ancient champion, a friendly very ugly thing zombie and a friendly orc zombie.

a +4 plate armour of poison resistance (worn)
and I get
an animal skin (god gift)

uh... thanks Oka.

mopl wrote:Uniques party... This game wants me dead
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Notes Turn | Place | Note -------------------------------------------------------------- 0 | D:1 | mopl the Octopode Berserker began the quest for the Orb. 796 | D:2 | Noticed Sigmund 1112 | D:2 | Noticed Natasha 3370 | D:5 | Noticed Pikel 4016 | D:2 | Noticed Natasha 4280 | D:2 | Noticed Natasha 4563 | D:5 | Noticed Blork the orc 4854 | D:6 | Noticed Dowan 5063 | D:6 | Noticed Duvessa 5089 | D:6 | Killed Duvessa

Five uniques (D&D only count as one) through D:6 isn't a lot.

Arrow of dispersal.

Code:: 4836 | D:5 | You fall through a shaft for 3 floors! 4836 | D:8 | Noticed Joseph 4836 | D:8 | Noticed Erica

More specifically, I was in a corridor with one of them on either side of me.

Cleared Dungeon, Orc, Lair and 1 rune branch, and no HW potion found...

Code:: the +11 plate armour of the Orb {rF- Dex+6}

We are probably not looking for the same Orb...

I don't love it when I run into an early unique with a wand of confusion or enslavement (which acts like confusion). Even if I have !cure IDed, I probably only have one or two, and as soon as I quaff it, the unique immediately zaps the wand again (and again and again and again). It's a slow insta-death, essentially.

I've run into this a few times in the last few days, but the worst was when I ran into Natasha with such a wand yesterday. I actually managed to kill her by randomly bumping into her with a +2 dagger a couple of times. But of course, she still had the same *$%^&$ wand when I ran into her a short while later.

Cue Don Meredith: Turn out the lights, the party's over...

FR: Enemies use 10 charges per zap.

Hmmm, according to the wiki, wands of confusion or enslavement are generated with a max of 16 charges. That would give a monster a max of 2 zaps. That might be too much of a nerf. But even 2 zaps in a row could be fatal, if the character has only found one !cure at that point. Plus, that would mean that nearly every wand we get from a monster would be empty.

I think a better way might be to reduce the frequency at which monsters use wands. Maybe have a few turns after they zap before they are willing to zap again. You know, they don't want to use up all the charges at once.

Of course, if a monster is continuing to zap the wand, it means that it isn't stabbing me while I'm confused, which would also be bad. Maybe some sort of a Xom-like reaction, where the monster is paralyzed with laughter watching me stumble around and slam my face into the walls?

Or maybe just don't generate that kind of wand too early in the game?

Its 24 charges nowadays, wiki is badwiki.

I don't love it when I go down the stairs from D:1 and find:

I don't love it when I get banished to the abyss in the orb run by miscasting a 3% disjunction

greedo wrote:I don't love it when I get banished to the abyss in the orb run by miscasting a 3% disjunction

Well, at least you escaped whatever it was that you wanted to get rid of :)

Nope, was just spamming it

I just thought miscast was effected by spell success, guess not? Either way, not like the abyss is a really bad thing at level 27, but I was pretty surprised!

Miscast severity is affected by spell success and spell level. Level 2 or 3 translocation miscasts can banish you.

learndb wrote:Spell success rates are coloured according to miscast severity.Grey means less than 0.1% chance of a severity 2+ miscast, yellow means < 0.5%, light red < 2.5%, dark red >= 2.5%.

Oh geeze, I thought going to yellow was always pretty safe, didn't realize it quite worked like that.

Similar to BugHunter (though I didn't screenshot it) I don't love opening a normal door on D4 to find two water moccasins, one of which instantly moves into the doorway. Behind me only open space. On a felid.

Code:: You climb downwards. A black mamba, 12 nagas, a guardian serpent and a mana viper come into view.

I don't love it when my MiBe, with 14.3 skill in Maces & Flails, and *no* skill in any other weapon, reads a scroll of acquirement, selects weapon, and gets a +4 quick blade. Not even branded. You've *got* to be kidding me. This things isn't even remotely appropriate to my character.

Yeah, it happens. My short-blades-only-stabber SpWz acquired a lajatang...

Sprucery wrote:Yeah, it happens. My short-blades-only-stabber SpWz acquired a lajatang...

Err... I'd probably use it for my lategame weapon then. Eventually I'll want a good melee weapon, and a branded lajatang is an excellent choice for Sp.

byrel wrote:
Sprucery wrote:Yeah, it happens. My short-blades-only-stabber SpWz acquired a lajatang...

Err... I'd probably use it for my lategame weapon then. Eventually I'll want a good melee weapon, and a branded lajatang is an excellent choice for Sp.

Sure, but I was already committed to stabbing. Screw optimal play. My lategame weapons are shadow step/stabbing/Summonings/evokables/shadow shard :)

d2 robin w/ DEIE lvl 1

Lerneaan hydra somehow got next to the stairs from out of LOS when redescending to Swamp:4. Doesn't he usually camp the rune area, and return there if he's out of sight for a while?

I don't think Lerny camps the rune. At least I have seen him all over the last level.

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