I love it when...

[Deimos]

I love it when I don't think about adding a spell to deal with fire immunes, then find myself up against a horde of Hell Knights with nothing but OoD.

Spoiler: show

[rebthor]

I love it when I have a flaming troll fighting along side me.

Your flaming troll grumbles, "First they cut Mountain Dwarves, soon there'll only be three species!"

Your flaming troll asks, "Does this hat make me look fabulous?"

[varsovie]

13320 | D:11 | Noticed Harold
13340 | D:11 | Lost mutation: Space occasionally distorts in your vicinity. [Harold/wand of polymorph other]
13341 | D:11 | Killed Harold

Thanks Rorold.

[snowstorm]

Here's a bunch of nice things that happened to me:


but my IRL urge to shout skyrocketed

a very good welcome-to-the-dungeon gift

Spoiler: show

and something that was just ... poetry

[SchwaWarrior]

I've never dabbled into Earth Magic before, but today I scored my first kill ever with Lee's Rapid Deconstruction, against a horde of Blink Frogs.

I feel so manly.

[Dingbat]

A vengeful Okawaru sends a frost giant to strike me down while I'm touring Ashenzari's zoo on D:7 because I IDed a scroll of immolation right after casting Sticks to Snakes on the previous floor.

[jejorda2]

I learned passage of golubria for the first time today. I first used it to approach a Cyclops to stab it, but there were three hydras and a host of other things that came into view, so I had to approach differently.

Later on the same level, I found Mara asleep and wrecklessly teleported aside him. Down in one stab, and that nightmare is averted. It feels good, but all it takes is one misstep to splat playing like this.

[Zicher]

I love it when I manage to get two Trog gifts by D:7.

SpBe? When I tried playing one I had a D:8 gift.

D:7? Meh ... I once found and slaughtered a gnoll/jackal castle and started to receive Trog's gifts on D:3.
SpBe is fun .

[Tiber]

On D:2, my MuCK is given a +8, +6 quick blade by Xom, and finds a book of Maledictions (sure blade) and a buckler.

Edit: and then your extremely successful mummy with great item drops will go from full health to dead in one bout of confusion.

[SchwaWarrior]

Here's my latest game as DsAK (Demonspawn Abyssal Knight), from start to finish.

Welcome, Mitzi the Demonspawn Abyssal Knight.
The bosom of this dungeon contains the most powerful artefact, the Orb of Zot.
Lugonu says: Take this gate or call upon me to unleash you onto the world, my servant!
Press ? for a list of commands and other information.
You are suddenly pulled into a different region of the Abyss!
The scroll is a mimic!
The ravenous scroll mimic hits you!
Ouch! That really hurt!
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
The ravenous scroll mimic hits you!
Ouch! That really hurt!
You die...

0 | Abyss | Mitzi, the Demonspawn Abyssal Knight, began the quest for the Orb.
0 | Abyss | Reached XP level 1. HP: 16/16 MP: 1/1
2 | Abyss | Mangled by a ravenous scroll mimic

The game was two turns long.

I mean just, this is legendary.

[BlackSheep]

Die in two turns on D:1 instead of the Abyss and then we'll talk.

[SchwaWarrior]

Die in two turns on D:1 instead of the Abyss and then we'll talk.

I think my record in D:1 is ten turns. The game began with a Ring of Regeneration RIGHT next to me, followed by a Kobold with a dagger. I proceeded to fight it and it killed me in one hit. Draining Brand! Gotta love being "drained of all life". I stopped playing that night on account of Crawl clearly and bluntly telling me "this is not a good time to be playing Crawl and here let me give you a sign".

[bricks]

I think I had a literally unwinnable start. Entrance vault was two tiles, a dungeon exit and either stairs or a hatch, can't remember. Took the stairs and landed in the middle of a Xom altar vault, full of monsters. Might have been possible for a TrBe or something equally hardy, certainly not with whatever I was playing. Though I do wonder if choosing to worship Xom would have saved me.

[BlackSheep]

Those enclosed entrance vaults had secret doors before they were all removed.

[Xoai]

... I come upon an orc pack, complete with ogre and 2 mages, and they are wielding...

Things that are here:
an orcish dagger of distortion; an orcish dagger of draining; an orcish robe

How am I still alive?

[rebthor]

Rupert's carrying a vampiric executioner's axe and I'm playing an axe-wielding MiBe. Me and my bros are very happy for his help.

[cerebovssquire]

That happened to me recently with a DDEE*Makhleb. Easiest win of my life (screw spells)

[gdami1]

A +16 Storm Dragon Armour (rElec, rF)
You found it on D:8

or the pearl dragon hide I found on D:3 once...

or the swamp dragon armour right next to the dungeon entrance...but I was playing felid this time...

[SchwaWarrior]

From my latest run. These are the greatest piece of lines I have ever seen in Crawl.

The tree burns like a torch!
The forest fire spreads!
Crazy Yiuf says, "Oh, this is rather nice."
Crazy Yiuf is engulfed in roaring flames!
You kill Crazy Yiuf!

REMEMBER KIDS

DON'T BE A CRAZY YIUF

[eeviac]

"This might be better!"
Gastronok evaporates and reforms as a titan!

[Fungus]

After getting cast into the Abyss at L15 or so, I miraculously survived with one minor irritation: teleportitis. Now I've gone through nearly the entire game, about to tackle Zot, and found ZERO potions of cure mutation. Luckily, I had an amulet of stasis. Very tired of not being able to use my other amulet options, I thought, "Eh, might as well," and decided to drink some of the potions of mutation I'd been distilling.

All 35 of them.

I thought, "Ah, it can't be THAT bad..." Guess which mutation never got touched? Note to self: Deteriorating body is essentially Game Over for a Deep Dwarf... a ticking time bomb at the very best.

[njvack]

Playing a Naga, I take the stairs down to D2, walk for a bit, and notice (and wake) Sigmund. Realizing I can't possibly take him in melee (an XL2 Tm), or make it back upstairs (Naga, remember?) I think "Good thing I identified tele scrolls and still have one!" Read it, and a couple turns later:

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######..(g..#
......gg@g..#
######.g....#
     #....b?#
     #......#
     .......#

You could see 4 gnolls, a goblin and a bat.


Early-game naga is hard.

[Turgon]

After getting cast into the Abyss at L15 or so, I miraculously survived with one minor irritation: teleportitis. Now I've gone through nearly the entire game, about to tackle Zot, and found ZERO potions of cure mutation.

Of course not, and here is the reason.

Luckily, I had an amulet of stasis. Very tired of not being able to use my other amulet options, I thought, "Eh, might as well," and decided to drink some of the potions of mutation I'd been distilling.

All 35 of them.

I thought, "Ah, it can't be THAT bad..." Guess which mutation never got touched?

Mhmm, can't guess .

Note to self: Deteriorating body is essentially Game Over for a Deep Dwarf... a ticking time bomb at the very best.

lol, Murphy was right!

[njvack]

Deteriorating body is essentially Game Over for a Deep Dwarf... a ticking time bomb at the very best.

Sustain Abilities is proof against Deteriorating Body.

[XuaXua]

Deteriorating body is essentially Game Over for a Deep Dwarf... a ticking time bomb at the very best.

Sustain Abilities is proof against Deteriorating Body.

But then you have to give up all the good rings.

[cerebovssquire]

As long as you're not with Ashenzari, which I assume if the character's a deep dwarf, you can give up fun instead and swap to restab when outside of dangerous combat. You won't suffer much loss.

[Fungus]

Sustain Abilities is proof against Deteriorating Body.

That would be assuming that I have actually FOUND a ring of sustain abilities... which I have not.

I have 7 potions of restore abilities and was hoping to tackle Extended + Zigs. Maybe I should have posted to "I think we learned an important lesson today" instead. Namely...

As bad as you think your current mutations are... they can get worse.

EDIT: STRIKE THAT! Back to "I love it when" as in... "I love it when I find a ring of sustain abilities 30 seconds into my game after complaining about it in the Tavern."

[Turgon]

That would be assuming that I have actually FOUND a ring of sustain abilities... which I have not.

I thought so...

EDIT: STRIKE THAT! Back to "I love it when" as in... "I love it when I find a ring of sustain abilities 30 seconds into my game after complaining about it in the Tavern."

Oh! Murphy is not always right, is he? Congrats for finding sustAb and good luck in the game!

Hint: it's unusual to ask for food with a scroll of acquirement but you might get royal jellies for restoring your stats (if this should be necessary).

[TehDruid]

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[dassem]

When a fairly early trove wants a demon trident, yet I still don't get one even after wading through hordes of Hell knights, clearing every damn dungeon level until Zot, and even burning a big chunk of perma-food to empty Blade.

To make it even more fun, lets burn all our EW scrolls on a demon blade and sit there wondering why that doesn't work...

[Zicher]

I love it when I'm bored at work, so I start Crawl yet again, and I don't notice my boss coming around and looking over my shoulder until he says: "You really shouldn't be doing this at work."

I love it even more when, after a few weeks, the same boss uses the internal communicator to get my help regarding the Swamp ending.

[Turgon]

I love it even more when, after a few weeks, the same boss uses the internal communicator to get my help regarding the Swamp ending.

What did you tell him? That the Lernaean hydra can easily be killed with a +0 hand axe?

[Zicher]

I love it even more when, after a few weeks, the same boss uses the internal communicator to get my help regarding the Swamp ending.

What did you tell him? That the Lernaean hydra can easily be killed with a +0 hand axe?

I'd like to keep my job, thank you .
For the record, it was the undead/miasma ending, and his MiBe simply wasn't up to that yet, so my advice was clear - GTFO and return later.

[Grimm]

Where do you work?

[Mankeli]

Long time no see! Here goes:

I love it when the combined experience level of my 8 best ongoing characters is 213 . I probably should try to finish at least some of these soon.

[ZoFy]

I love it when Pan gives me a free last rune and an exit on the same floor.

Spoiler: show

...and I decide to beat Lom up regardless.

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[mumra]

By D:4 found so many scrolls and potions I couldn't carry any more. None of them identified yet.

Decided to id some scrolls first. Tried my stack of 5 ... it does nothing ... probably Remove Curse.

Tried the stack of 4 ... it asks me which item to use it on ... it's probably Identify, so I select a random single potion stack and discover: "w - a potion of mutation"

Great, now I can quaff-id without fear

[Moanerette]

...playing Webtiles I acquire a friendly and helpful spectator. Crawl has a fine online community

[Mankeli]

I love it when I get shown the middle finger in a zigfloor-roll and 3/4 of the last 4 floors of a ziggurat, including zig:27, are mummy floors . Or was it 3/5. Anyways, because I don't like to skip floors, there was some pretty heavy tormenting and healing and semi cBlinking going own. Luckily, as the mummies were soon to find out, an octopode with full power-barred ice storm, staff of Wucad Mu and Amulet of Four Winds is somewhat powerful .

[Blade]

  Code:

81971 | D:3      | Got a polished crystal plate armour {god gift}
 81991 | D:3      | Identified the +10 crystal plate armour of Shizipp {Str+3, god gift} (Xom gifted it to you on level 3 of the Dungeon)

(also this entire game so far, including the time I had a permanent pet that went efreet -> *** sentinel -> hellephant -> shadow imp (with a few more steps in there), the 3 rods of the swarm, the 3 abyssings (and fast escapes), and the 500000 turns so far.

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/giant ... edclub.txt

[Jabberwocky]

You're back!

[Blade]

Yeah, I am. I got bored of not playing Crawl again.

[Confidence Interval]

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/giantspikedclub/giantspikedclub.txt

Fetichist?

[Blade]

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/giantspikedclub/giantspikedclub.txt

Fetichist?

yeah, he has a xom fetich

(it's the lvl 15 evo title)

[absolutego]

hi blade

[Confidence Interval]

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/giantspikedclub/giantspikedclub.txt

Fetichist?

yeah, he has a xom fetich

(it's the lvl 15 evo title)

I've only ever seen it spelled fetish before. Funny.

[BlackSheep]

Yeah, I am. I got bored of not playing Crawl again.

Welcome back!

As you can see, little has changed.

[Blade]

Well, you got a new username color, so that's something. Congratulations on that.

also, to keep from derailing this thread too much:
I love it when my muck gets 3 rods of the swarm, one rod of venom, 52 ac, four wands of healing, a wand of hasting, a wand of tele, and several excellent randarts by d:10

and 600k+ turns

[BlackSheep]

also, to keep from derailing this thread too much: