I love it when...


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Post Tuesday, 16th January 2018, 23:44

Re: I love it when...

...I decide to request a shop from Gozag on my MuMo before going for my first rune, and manage to buy this:

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C - +14 fire dragon scales of Caimn {rF++ rC- rCorr}


This is a hexer-stabber-ice mage hybrid of sorts BTW, who also found this early on:

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a - +9 dagger {protect, *Rage Str+3 Dex+3}
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Post Saturday, 20th January 2018, 13:32

Re: I love it when...

"Your Serpent of Hell grins greedily, jangling a coin purse."

[...]

"Here: your Serpent of Hell (friendly)"
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Post Sunday, 21st January 2018, 14:27

Re: I love it when...

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8386 | Lair:1   | Noticed a six-headed hydra
  8422 | Lair:1   | a 14-headed hydra changed into something unseen


Barely survived and had to leave the level. Time of revenge:
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14858 | Lair:6   | Found the +9 scales of the Dragon King {rPois rF+ rC+ MR+}

 i - a ring of see invisible (right hand) {sInv, !d}
   (You found it on level 1 of the Lair of Beasts)

You kill the ghost moth!
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Post Friday, 2nd February 2018, 12:24

Re: I love it when...

Okay, I rarely know when it's "safe" enough to use a wand of polymorph. But sometimes, in desperation things work out. (Oh yes, I also have no clue how to win with a felid yet... But I am trying!)

Little Kitty (Felid Wanderer level 7-ish, 6-8 points each in Dodging and Unarmed combat, 22 EV but low on consumables) spots Pikel and retinue on D:6. Little Kitty leads Pikel over a shaft, but the slaves remain. Gradually scratches through them over time. Eventually kitty has to go down to the next level (running away from Duvessa, as it happens). Kitty is having a rather good time of D:7, but spends most of the remaining consumables to pull through a couple other more dangerous beasties. Finally finds Pikel again, now blocking off the corridor which leads to the part with most of the stairwells.

Takes a shot at Pikel and slam, whip of electrocution. One life gone. Runs around a while looking for other things to do but ends up back there again. Just slightly more Unarmed combat. "Oh well?" Tries again and gets shocked in no time. Doh. Retreat. Now Pikel starts using a wand, which happens to be acid! Kitty at 5 HP. Reads tele scroll. Desperate measures. Zaps Pikel with wand of polymorph! (All of 1 Evocations.) Expects to get something horrible... Actually Pikel turns into a golden eye and immediately blinks away behind a big corner.

Speedy little kitty teleports, rests, has good luck with a couple more encounters, and comes back to find Pikel still has not yet returned. Picks up all of Pikel's gear which is now lying on the floor, as an eye apparently cannot carry it. Both the handy acid wand and that nasty whip. Not that a cat can use the whip, but neither can Pikel now. "Not this time you won't." :lol:

... Kitty also happens to have been blessed with Clarity and extra MR by a potion of mutation earlier. Which makes clawing one golden eye relatively easy, it turns out.
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Post Friday, 2nd February 2018, 12:32

Re: I love it when...

Other good polymorph targets: Maurice, Sonja, Nessos.

Note that picking up the whip was not necessary, as polymorphing a monster is permanent.
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Post Friday, 2nd February 2018, 12:48

Re: I love it when...

Sprucery wrote:Other good polymorph targets: Maurice, Sonja, Nessos.

Note that picking up the whip was not necessary, as polymorphing a monster is permanent.

Thanks. (But it was still somehow gratifying. :lol: )

Permanent strikes me as somehow OP, but anyway...
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Post Friday, 2nd February 2018, 12:59

Re: I love it when...

stoneychips wrote:Permanent strikes me as somehow OP, but anyway...

Well, it is a gamble... If you worship Xom you'll see the other side of the coin ("You see here Gastronok the shard shrike").
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Post Friday, 2nd February 2018, 13:40

Re: I love it when...

I've read that once it was very easy to poly Grinder into a hellion, but I never could replicate that.
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Post Friday, 2nd February 2018, 13:57

Re: I love it when...

Grinder has HD 6 and hellion has HD 7 so it is quite possible, yes (monster polymorph tends to slightly increase HD, IIRC).
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FeEE{HOIEMiAE}GrGlHuWrGnWrNaAKBaFi{MiDeMfDe}{DrAKTrAMGhEnGnWz}
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Post Saturday, 3rd February 2018, 11:38

Re: I love it when...

Ann Hal wrote:Yeah, I guess just I disagree with that.

A game can be hard, but skill should matter. Any aspect of the game that cannot be solved with skill--such as unavoidable deaths or portals that cannot be reached--is, in my opinion, flawed and should be fixed.

It is good to hear that the dev team does try to eliminate such situations.

The maps are procedurally generated with quite a random component, so I'm not sure the game is ever going to be "smart enough" to encourage both some challenges and "no" nigh-impossible situations. Just imagine what it would have to do. It would have to take into account your species, background, current equipment, and the movement rates and equipment of all the roving mobs on each level after they're generated.

And how recursive or progressive do you want such a rule to be? "Any aspect of the game"?? If there are 25 remove curse scrolls in the 3-rune game but 40 cursed items generate, is that a design flaw or does it mean you really shouldn't have randomly tested quite so many different items -- particularly if you did so after you knew you didn't have any more of those scrolls? If you don't train Fighting or ranged abilities for the whole first 15 dungeon levels, has the game made things "impossible" by still placing a komodo dragon or an 8-headed hydra somewhere on Lair:1-2? Is the idea that if you make all of 4 or 12 different choices right along the way within oh 4 turns of sighting each choice, there should be a way to solve the situation... Or how hard is "too hard"? It only takes so many of those before one lands in a "nigh impossible" situation not by map layout alone, but as a result of many different things and player choices all interacting for several levels.

It's one thing to say static parts normally shouldn't be "too difficult," but even with those I think many of us can imagine situations where it's a lot more interesting to occasionally break through to the ones that actually are (at least seemingly) awfully tricky that particular iteration of the game. Putting in a lot of fixes to make sure that "none are impossible" in spite of all the things players can do early on to make that even more likely as a matter of course -- or less likely as a matter of strategy, might not be a winnable effort. Things are either going to get at least very strange or silly easy if you chased after that too hard, I suspect.
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Post Sunday, 4th February 2018, 00:10

Re: I love it when...

I love it when an enemy's chaos weapon hastes you and makes you invisible.

I also love it when I find a +6 ring of slaying long before I even reach the Temple.

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Post Monday, 5th February 2018, 01:39

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How often do you see this:
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 B - the brooch of Shielding (around neck) {Reflect SH+8}
 C - the ring of Phasing (left hand) {EV+8}
 R - the ring of Robustness (right hand) {AC+8}
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Post Monday, 5th February 2018, 06:47

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Sprucery wrote:
stoneychips wrote:Permanent strikes me as somehow OP, but anyway...

Well, it is a gamble... If you worship Xom you'll see the other side of the coin ("You see here Gastronok the shard shrike").

Did you have to mention the devil?

A few games later (still messing with felids), random drawing deck of destruction poly'd Gastronok on L:2 and got this. Killed me once right away, a couple XL later still put up a merry chase and took almost a whole ornate deck of summons to whittle it away! :twisted:
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Post Wednesday, 7th February 2018, 14:08

Re: I love it when...

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 Nikola the Mad Inventor comes into view. He is wielding a rapier of
 electrocution.
 A naga mage comes into view.
 Nikola casts a spell.
 You hear a mighty clap of thunder!
 The lightning arc hits the naga mage. The lightning arc hits Nikola.
 The lightning arc hits the naga mage.
 The naga mage dies!

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Post Sunday, 11th February 2018, 00:21

Re: I love it when...

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Fire Dragon Scales

Nice, but makes me wonder what the hell is coming for me...

EDIT: Died on d:2 from tons of poison because no healing potions...

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Post Tuesday, 20th February 2018, 10:35

Re: I love it when...

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_W - a scroll of identify
 As you read the scroll of identify, it crumbles to dust.
_Q - 3 potions of experience

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Place: Lair:5

That's it I am going to die oO
3 runes : MiMo^Ru, HOFi^Beogh, TrMo^Yredelemnul, GrFi^Ru, FoFi^Gozag, MiGl^Okawaru
4 runes : DDFi^Makhleb
5 runes : GrEE^Vehumet
15 runes : MiFi^Ru, NaWz^Sif Muna, GrWz^Sif Muna
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Post Tuesday, 6th March 2018, 17:51

Re: I love it when...

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As you read the scroll of identify, it crumbles to dust.
_C - a scroll of acquirement


Bought as an unidentified scroll for 25 gold :D
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Post Tuesday, 6th March 2018, 23:23

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Post Wednesday, 7th March 2018, 06:29

Re: I love it when...

tasonir wrote:Image
Damnit max MP, you had one job.
Yes, playing anything but DD is full of disappointments :)
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Post Thursday, 8th March 2018, 07:24

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  2376 | D:4      | You fall through a shaft for 2 floors!
  2417 | D:6      | Noticed an ogre
  2424 | D:6      | Killed an ogre
  2424 | D:6      | Reached XP level 6. HP: 9/53 MP: 5/5
...
  2802 | D:4      | Reached XP level 7. HP: 61/61 MP: 6/6
  2818 | D:4      | Found a sand-covered staircase.
  2833 | Ossuary  | Entered an ossuary


Nice, I didn't expect to return back and enter the ossuary with no scrolls of magic mapping at all.
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Post Thursday, 8th March 2018, 10:57

Re: I love it when...

.. acquirement gives you what you want. I found 4 scrolls of acquirement so far.
First scroll gave me a +1 arbalest of velocity on D:8 (I had hand crossbow at min delay and hoped to get an arbalest)
Second one gave me gauntlets of war on Lair:2. I am a pure hunter, all my damage comes from arbalest :) (unlimited ammo option and nightmare difficulty are activated).
Then I found 2 scrolls as a stack on Depths:4. Third one gave me alchemist hat: my only empty slot was hat and I didn't really need anything except hat at this time.
Now I am looking at last scroll of acquirement and don't know what to wish. Damnation arbalest maybe? :) I have sniper already.

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Health: 237/237    AC: 41    Str: 36    XL:     24   Next: 38%
Magic:  30/30      EV: 25    Int: 14    God:    Makhleb [******]
Gold:   4430       SH:  0    Dex: 15    Spells: 26/33 levels left

rFire    + + .     SeeInvis .   a - +9 arbalest (velocity)
rCold    + + .     Gourm    .   (shield currently unavailable)
rNeg     + + .     Faith    .   X - +12 shadow dragon scales of Nemelex Xobeh's Regard {rN+ Str+3 Stlth++++}
rPois    +         Spirit   .   C - -2 hat of the Alchemist {rElec rPois rF+ rC+ rN+ MR+ rMut rCorr}
rElec    +         Reflect  .   z - +1 cloak of Starlight {rElec rC+ EV+4 Stlth--}
rCorr    +         Harm     .   P - +3 pair of gauntlets of War {Slay+5}
rMut     +                      T - +2 pair of boots {Fly}
MR       ++++.                  t - amulet "Orun Unn" {RegenMP rElec Str+4 Int+6}
Stlth    ++++......             m - ring of protection from magic
HPRegen  0.49/turn              Y - ring of Naita {rF+ MR+ Str+4, =R}
MPRegen  0.47/turn

@: no status effects
A: retaliatory headbutt, horns 2
}: 2/15 runes: serpentine, barnacled
a: Minor Destruction, Lesser Servant of Makhleb, Major Destruction, Greater
Servant of Makhleb, Renounce Religion, Evoke Flight


You are on level 4 of the Depths.
You worship Makhleb.
Makhleb is exalted by your worship.
You are not hungry.

You have visited 9 branches of the dungeon, and seen 43 of its levels.
You have also visited: Labyrinth, Ossuary and Wizlab.

You have collected 6897 gold pieces.
You have spent 2467 gold pieces at shops.

Inventory:

Hand Weapons
 a - a +9 arbalest of velocity (weapon)
 b - the +9 heavy crossbow "Sniper" {velocity, Acc+∞ SInv}
   (You found it on level 2 of the Depths)   
   
   Any bolt fired from it inflicts extra damage.
   
   It lets you see invisible.
Missiles
 d - 98 bolts of penetration
Armour
 z - the +1 cloak of Starlight (worn) {rElec rC+ EV+4 Stlth--}
   (You found it on level 3 of the Depths)   
   
   It affects your evasion (+4).
   It protects you from cold.
   It insulates you from electricity.
   It makes you much less stealthy.
 C - the -2 hat of the Alchemist (worn) {rElec rPois rF+ rC+ rN+ MR+ rMut rCorr}
   (You acquired it on level 4 of the Depths)   
   
   It protects you from fire.
   It protects you from cold.
   It insulates you from electricity.
   It protects you from poison.
   It protects you from negative energy.
   It affects your resistance to hostile enchantments.
   It protects you from acid and corrosion.
   It protects you from mutation.
 P - the +3 pair of gauntlets of War (worn) {Slay+5}
   (You acquired it on level 2 of the Lair of Beasts)   
   
   It affects your accuracy and damage with ranged weapons and melee attacks
   (+5).
 T - a +2 pair of boots of flying (worn)
 X - the +12 shadow dragon scales of Nemelex Xobeh's Regard (worn) {rN+ Str+3 Stlth++++}
   (You bought it in a shop on level 2 of the Orcish Mines)   
   
   It affects your strength (+3).
   It protects you from negative energy.
   It makes you much more stealthy.
Jewellery
 c - an uncursed ring of protection from cold
 f - an uncursed ring of protection from fire
 m - a ring of protection from magic (left hand)
 p - the ring of Xom's Entertainment {rPois Dex+2 SInv}
   (You found it on level 11 of the Dungeon)   
   
   [ring of see invisible]
   
   It affects your dexterity (+2).
   It protects you from poison.
   It lets you see invisible.
 t - the amulet "Orun Unn" (around neck) {RegenMP rElec Str+4 Int+6}
   (You found it on level 8 of the Dungeon)   
   
   [amulet of magic regeneration]
   
   It increases your magic regeneration.
   It affects your strength (+4).
   It affects your intelligence (+6).
   It insulates you from electricity.
 Y - the ring of Naita (right hand) {rF+ MR+ Str+4, =R}
   (You found it on level 6 of the Lair of Beasts)   
   
   [ring of protection from magic]
   
   It affects your strength (+4).
   It protects you from fire.
   It affects your resistance to hostile enchantments.
Wands
 h - a wand of disintegration (19)
 A - a wand of iceblast (13)
 E - a wand of scattershot (13)
 I - a wand of acid (16)
 L - a wand of clouds (8)
 R - a wand of paralysis (74)
 V - a wand of digging (48)
Scrolls
 e - a scroll of acquirement
 g - 6 scrolls of immolation
 k - 3 scrolls of fog
 l - 21 scrolls of remove curse
 o - 2 scrolls of enchant armour
 q - 10 scrolls of identify
 r - 3 scrolls of magic mapping
 s - 8 scrolls of summoning
 u - 2 scrolls of enchant weapon
 x - a scroll of silence
 y - 7 scrolls of fear
 H - a scroll of holy word
 M - 24 scrolls of teleportation
 U - 6 scrolls of blinking
Potions
 i - 4 potions of resistance
 j - 23 potions of curing
 v - 7 potions of flight
 w - 23 potions of mutation
 D - 2 potions of heal wounds
 F - 5 potions of lignification
 G - 2 potions of agility
 K - 2 potions of ambrosia
 O - 7 potions of haste
 Q - 2 potions of berserk rage
 S - 3 potions of invisibility
 W - 3 potions of might
 Z - 2 potions of cancellation
Miscellaneous
 n - a lightning rod (4/4)
 J - 2 sacks of spiders
 N - a lamp of fire
Comestibles
 B - 63 rations


   Skills:
 * Level 23.8 Fighting
 - Level 18.9 Crossbows
 * Level 20.3 Armour
 * Level 17.9 Dodging
 + Level 10.5 Stealth
 - Level 5.0 Spellcasting
 - Level 9.0 Hexes
 - Level 10.0 Translocations
 * Level 5.1 Transmutations
 * Level 5.2 Earth Magic
 - Level 11.1 Evocations


You have 26 spell levels left.
You know the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
b - Passwall              Tmut/Erth      ###.......   7%          2    ##.....
z - Portal Projectile     Hex/Tloc       ####..       2%          3    ###....
B - Blink                 Tloc           N/A          1%          2    ##.....


Also somewhat related to a thread in GDD, the Minotaur has 3 nice spells from 4 magic schools in Shadow Dragon Scales.
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Post Thursday, 8th March 2018, 13:24

Re: I love it when...

tcjsavannah wrote:BTW, why is it called trunk? Must be some developer term I'm not familiar with.

I just googled myself, but I think this may be it (some more description on the page):

A source-control branching model, where developers collaborate on code in a single branch called ‘trunk’ *, resist any pressure to create other long-lived development branches by employing documented techniques. They therefore avoid merge hell, do not break the build, and live happily ever after.

* master, in Git nomenclature

Grammatically, I'd always just assumed it was related to the notion of a production still being "in the pipe" -- like "in the trunk" before one gets to something "fully grown" or creating all sorts of other variants. But then, as a non-dev, I've always found the term "fork" a strange thing to combine with "trunk" too. Are we plants or roads? I guess some urban planners do talk about "trunk roads"? But still.
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Post Friday, 9th March 2018, 08:47

Killing or even stabbing things in dragon form is still fun.

I already made a post in this topic about an OpFi in dragon form, stabbing with '!!!!!' (72-143 damage).

In a recent game, a green DrWn of Ely with already 25 UC in dragon form, I even got '!!!!!!' (144 - 287 damage):

58596 | Zot:1 | //The helpless quicksilver dragon fails to defend itself. You maul the quicksilver dragon!!!!!! You kill the quicksilver dragon!

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Post Monday, 12th March 2018, 07:50

Re: I love it when...

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 19093 | D:11     | Bought the +11 chain mail of the Trombone {Regen+ SInv} for 1201 gold pieces

End game armour? Wrong. Upgraded to
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39192 | Orc:2    | Identified the +10 plate armour "Geuc" {-Cast rF+ rCorr} (You bought it in a shop on level 2 of the Orcish Mines)

End game armour? Wrong. Upgraded to
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 48801 | Desolati | Identified the +13 crystal plate armour "Riziggi" {rN+ Dex+2} (You took it off a servant of whispers in the Desolation of Salt)

End game armour? Wrong. Upgraded to
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+11 gold dragon scales
which was enhanced immediately from +0 to +11 after first gold dragon died. I really wanted the resistances on body armour due to 2 rings with Slay+5 and fustibalus/sacred scourge.
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Post Saturday, 17th March 2018, 19:54

Re: I love it when...

Mara (fighting in storm left over from Bai Suzhen moments before -- edit: Or was it wand of clouds actually?) utterly fails to repel Elder Batox Beast (from box of beasts, 16 Evocations)...

Beastie who has such a big cute icon too. :lol:

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Post Sunday, 25th March 2018, 06:04

Re: I love it when...

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 39771 | Vaults:1 | Gained mutation: You are weak. (Str -2) [a shining eye]
 40089 | Vaults:1 | Lost mutation: You are weak. (Str -2) [potion of mutation]
 40089 | Vaults:1 | Gained mutation: Your flesh is heat resistant. (rF+) [potion of mutation]
 40089 | Vaults:1 | Gained mutation: Your muscles are strong. (Str +2) [potion of mutation]
 40089 | Vaults:1 | Gained mutation: You are robust. (+10% HP) [potion of mutation]


Thank you, shapeshifter, I wouldn't quaff one of my two potions of mutation otherwise!
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Post Wednesday, 28th March 2018, 13:06

Re: I love it when...

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the +10 chain mail of Nyarcheil (worn) {rElec Dex+2}
   (You found it on level 4 of the Dungeon)   
   
   It affects your dexterity (+2).
   It insulates you from electricity.


D:4. On a melee build. :D

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Post Friday, 30th March 2018, 23:31

Re: I love it when...

Alphaeus wrote:D:4. On a melee build. :D

Anything is a melee build after finding that
I'm with tasonir on this one.

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Post Saturday, 31st March 2018, 13:20

Re: I love it when...

Dying in the abyss after a Zot trap on Shoals:3. I end up in Abyss:4. For having autoexplored a cleared level.
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Post Monday, 9th April 2018, 03:32

Re: I love it when...

Shtopit wrote:Dying in the abyss after a Zot trap on Shoals:3. I end up in Abyss:4. For having autoexplored a cleared level.


"Cleared" ?

cough cough
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Post Monday, 9th April 2018, 03:35

Re: I love it when...

Just when I thought I was never going to find a rune on Abyss:3

It's great having rElec and rC+++ for situations like these.

(The rune was in the middle tile between all the spires - already apported it just in case! Am so not wandering around to find this vault again.)


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Post Monday, 7th May 2018, 01:30

Re: I love it when...

...I find the Book of Annihilations on D:2 as a DECj. I never actually used it until much later in the game, but still!
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5 Runes: DsGl^Oka, MiGl^Hep, GnWz^Sif.
9 Runes: DDAr^Makh.
15 Runes: HOFi^TSO->Zin, DEFE^Veh
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Post Tuesday, 21st August 2018, 10:54

Re: I love it when...

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You spit the orb of fire like a pig!!!!!
 You destroy the orb of fire!


Btw, I guess spit is meant to be split.

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Post Tuesday, 21st August 2018, 11:37

Re: I love it when...

Magipi wrote:
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You spit the orb of fire like a pig!!!!!
 You destroy the orb of fire!


Btw, I guess spit is meant to be split.

No, from http://www.m-w.com:
Definition of spit
spitted; spitting
transitive verb
: to fix on or as if on a spit : impale
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Post Tuesday, 2nd October 2018, 15:08

Re: I love it when...

Searing Ray keeps going and going! I did not realize this before.

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Post Saturday, 13th October 2018, 19:07

Re: I love it when...

Found all of these on D:1-3 this game
And didn't get killed by any of the brands either...

+0 hand axe of venom (first, fortunately on the floor)

+0 hand axe of freezing (from an orc)
+1 hand axe of electrocution (another orc)

+5 dagger (on the floor)
Short sword of distortion (a kobold)
+0 short sword of electrocution (an orc)
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Post Saturday, 13th October 2018, 19:43

Re: I love it when...

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 42823 | Shoals:4 | Identified the +6 war axe "Fyts" {vamp, *Contam Str+6}
                  | (Trog gifted it to you on level 4 of the Shoals)
 42849 | Shoals:4 | Gained mutation: You are occasionally teleported next to
                  | monsters. [mutagenic glow]


Thanks Trog! :roll:
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Post Monday, 22nd October 2018, 02:19

Re: I love it when...

The earliest Fire Storm I've ever seen (XL 14, Orc:2). Also kind of funny that I scored a Pan Lord on the same floor as the Pan Orc vault.
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9 Runes: DDAr^Makh.
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Post Wednesday, 7th November 2018, 09:44

Re: I love it when...

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118983 | Zot:5    | Lost mutation: You are very dopey. (Int -4) [potion of mutation]
118983 | Zot:5    | Lost mutation: You are dopey. (Int -2) [potion of mutation]
118983 | Zot:5    | Lost mutation: You tend to lose your temper in combat. [potion of mutation]
118983 | Zot:5    | Lost mutation: Your magical capacity is low. (-10% MP) [potion of mutation]
118983 | Zot:5    | Gained mutation: You are partially covered in rugged brown scales. (AC +1, +3% HP) [potion of mutation]
118983 | Zot:5    | Gained mutation: You are robust. (+10% HP) [potion of mutation]
118983 | Zot:5    | Gained mutation: You are very robust. (+20% HP) [potion of mutation]


Not my game. Best potion I've ever seen. Is it possible to get 3 levels of robust from a single potion?
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Post Monday, 3rd December 2018, 16:17

Re: I love it when...

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 73694 | Pan      | Entered the realm of Lom Lobon.
 73696 | Pan      | Got a magical rune of Zot
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Post Tuesday, 22nd January 2019, 23:33

Re: I love it when...

I love it when I survive double shafting for five levels (MfNe of Kiku):
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  6856 | D:5      | Reached XP level 7. HP: 50/50 MP: 10/10
  6942 | D:5      | You fall through a shaft for 2 floors!
  6973 | D:7      | You fall through a shaft for 3 floors!
  6973 | D:10     | Entered Level 10 of the Dungeon
  7066 | D:10     | Noticed a slime creature
  7074 | D:10     | HP: 4/50 [slime creature (14)]
  7080 | D:10     | Killed a slime creature
  7080 | D:10     | Reached XP level 8. HP: 34/58 MP: 1/11
  7219 | D:10     | Noticed a slime creature
  7413 | D:9      | Reached skill level 5 in Dodging
  7572 | D:9      | Noticed a yak
  7572 | D:9      | Noticed a yak
  7572 | D:9      | Noticed a yak
  7572 | D:9      | Noticed a yak
  7578 | D:9      | Killed a yak
  7580 | D:9      | Noticed a yak
  7585 | D:9      | Killed a yak
  7585 | D:9      | Noticed a yak
  7586 | D:9      | Noticed a yak
  7588 | D:9      | Killed a yak
  7588 | D:9      | Reached XP level 9. HP: 56/64 MP: 12/12
  7613 | D:9      | Reached skill level 5 in Stealth
  7618 | D:9      | Learned a level 3 spell: Regeneration
  7954 | D:5      | Found a staircase to the Ecumenical Temple.
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Post Wednesday, 23rd January 2019, 06:31

Re: I love it when...

7613 | D:9 | Reached skill level 5 in Stealth
Well, that was wasted xp (allied zombies break stealth) and included gambling to survive. I don't see gambling as a good thing, we supposedly have a roguelike here
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Post Wednesday, 23rd January 2019, 07:19

Re: I love it when...

I strongly disagree. Stealth definitely helped me in getting from D:10 back to D:5. I didn't have any allies with me there, you know.

I could have run away from that slime creature but I saw stairs up behind it and decided to engage. I have Zephyr and thought I could handle it, but a miscast Vampiric Draining (with something like 2%) made it a bit too close... So the gambling I did (risk the slime for getting to the closest stairs) was quite ok and appropriate for a roguelike.
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Post Wednesday, 23rd January 2019, 07:44

Re: I love it when...

I meant without those shafts you wouldn't waste xp. I mean to me it is like getting berserkitis from neqotec on orc:2 and then you find amulet of clarity (in old version where it existed). Yes, you survived but the character might be stronger without that shaft(mutation) because it would not waste xp(amulet slot).
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Post Wednesday, 23rd January 2019, 08:01

Re: I love it when...

Ok, I understand your point now. However, I didn't change my skill training at all due to being shafted. I almost always train stealth in the early game when I'm wearing a robe. I know good players don't do that but I have my own method for skilling which is surely unoptimal :)
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Post Thursday, 24th January 2019, 20:39

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There is a stone staircase leading up here.
 [a] Weapon [b] Armour   [c] Jewellery [d] Book                 
 [e] Staff  [f] Evocable [g] Food      [h] Gold (you have $2302)
 Something appears at your feet!
_h - a pair of embroidered boots
 You start putting on your armour.
_You continue putting on your pair of embroidered boots. x2
_You continue putting on your pair of embroidered boots. x2
 You finish putting on your +1 pair of boots of running.
 You feel quick.


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Post Friday, 1st February 2019, 00:39

Re: I love it when...

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 37821 | D:14     | Found a flagged portal.
 37870 | D:14     | Cast into level 2 of the Abyss (a wizard)
 38000 | D:14     | Escaped the Abyss
 38003 | Bailey   | Entered a bailey

No, I'm not worshipping Lugonu (GrFE of Ely).
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Post Friday, 1st February 2019, 22:02

Re: I love it when...

  Code:
31006 | Spider:2 | Noticed Louise
31006 | Spider:2 | Cast into level 3 of the Abyss (Louise)


oh no :o

  Code:
31287 | Abyss:3  | Gained mutation: You are robust. (+10% HP) [a neqoxec]
31330 | Spider:2 | Escaped the Abyss
31349 | Spider:2 | Killed Louise


ha! thanks Loiuse! :twisted:

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Post Saturday, 16th February 2019, 05:24

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I wonder if I'll be able to land those curare hits...I didn't even know blowguns could go to +11; it was generated that high off Sonja.
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Post Thursday, 18th April 2019, 10:52

Re: I love it when...

Phantom Mirror (x2) + Haunt + holy trishula (starting behind his balrug in corridor too) + high defense = Die, Cerebov!
(although it took a while)
(actually stole the mirrors from his side vaults in the big square layout)
L27 Gnoll in gold dragon armor +2, holy trishula +9, all char attributes 22-25, base combat skills about 20, Heroism+Finesse, might, DMsl, brilliance, AC 30, EV 25 base, SH 22, rF+++ (had 4 total rF to begin with), rN++, MR+++++ and Clar.

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