Weirdsound's Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Lets Play

[Muhahaha]

Alright. So I got a cool microphone, and want to try my hand at doing LPs. My computer, although top of the line for its time, is 6 years old now and can't run too many triple-a graphical goodness games. It is even iffy with minecraft most of the time.

The videos will be put up on http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWeirdsound. Weirdsound being my handle on most other sites. Ideally I'd like to broadcast live to twitch.tv first, but I seem to get an echo when I stream to that site, so that is on hold for now. There are already a few month old videos up. You can watch em if you want, but they ain't that great. I aim to be better than that. Hopefully the first video will go up tomorrow or Thursday.

I'll likely upgrade to Trunk or at least clear my saves for the LPs just so that my audience will be familiar with any ghosts they encounter.

As for now, I'm taking requests for builds to play. Feel free to suggest anything.

[TehDruid]

It's always entertaining to see people doing LPs and videos of their runs in general with commentary, so, keep doing that.

Proposing CeHu.

[Muhahaha]

The CeHu has been recorded. It will be live at the following URL when uploading is complete. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6wSL-E6VxM

Enjoy and keep the suggestions and advice coming.

Edit: Link removed. The audio is broken.

Edit: Oops. My bad. I had youtube and windows media open at once, so I was hearing my voice twice. Doh. The video works. Enjoy

[mumra]

FR: Voice chat in webtiles.

It seems there are a few people doing LPs these days, maybe some of these should be linked to from the main Crawl site? Screenshots could be renamed Media and include them there. The videos can be pretty good introductions for new players what with the commentary and everything.

[Muhahaha]

They have voice chat in webtiles now? Nice.

Do they have mouse support yet? That was the dealbreaker for me when I tried after it first came out. I don't feel comfortable playing without my mouse.

Anyway. I got a Demonspawn Vennomage into the mid-game. I wasnt recording at the time I started him though... Would you guys like to see a character in progress as opposed to one from the start?

[mumra]

FR means "feature request", sorry I was inferring it'd be entertaining to hear people's commentary all the time in webtiles...

[Davion Fuxa]

Interesting Commentary, enjoyed your videos.

I guess if I was to give a suggestion I would say go for: Sludge Elf Ice Elementalist

[Muhahaha]

Right. I had some HW and Hardware problems slowing me down. I have a bit of time to record, so lets get that IE out of the way for Davion Fuxa! Lets start recording!

[Muhahaha]

New Vid is up (May need a few minutes for Youtube to process): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCGhZwBCWgc&feature=youtu.be

Keep the suggestions and advice coming guys! I'm having a blast doing these when I can!

[byrel]

I'm having a blast watch too! How about a SpBe? I always enjoy playing them!

[Muhahaha]

I'm having a blast watch too! How about a SpBe? I always enjoy playing them!

I'll put that on my list, but next I got a special treat for you all. You get to see a character likely die in Snake! I started the character below for fun and to practice controlling my voice between actual recording sessions, and he got fairly far. I'm going to try and get down to Snake 5 and Ninja the rune by corrupting the floor, but I doubt I'll make it with my only poison resistance on a weapon that isn't very good. If nobody has any strong objections, my videos will cut in on on this character mid adventure until he dies, and then I will upgrade to the newest version of Trunk and get back to your suggestions. Please keep em coming. If I have a list to fall back on I may be willing to do more videos in quick succession.

Here is the character. Feel free to give suggestions, laugh at how badly I messed up his skills, and groan at his mutations. Homework is a pain in the ass, so I can't say exactly when I'll do the video.

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 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12-a0-1669-g7464318 (tiles) character file.

Tailwind the Blinker (Centaur Abyssal Knight)      Turns: 61703, Time: 05:59:10

HP 111/155 (157) AC 20     Str 20      XL: 18   Next: 14%
MP  30/30        EV  6     Int 21      God: Lugonu [******]
Gold 2805        SH  0     Dex 10      Spells:  7 memorised,  8 levels left

Res.Fire  : . . .   See Invis. : .   a - +6,-1 halberd of Debt {chop, +Blink +Inv r
Res.Cold  : + . .   Warding    : .   c - +0 mottled dragon armour
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   (no shield)
Res.Poison: +       Res.Corr.  : .   R - +2 wizard hat {Int+3}
Res.Elec. : +       Clarity    : .   O - +0 cloak of Chuvuice {Str+2}
Sust.Abil.: . .     Spirit.Shd : .   Y - -1 pair of elf gauntlets
Res.Mut.  : .       Stasis     : +   f - +3 centaur barding
Res.Rott. : .       Ctrl.Telep.: .   t - amulet of stasis
Saprovore : . . .   Flight     : .   F - +1 ring of intelligence
                                     x - +3 ring of strength

@: very quick, somewhat resistant to hostile enchantments, fairly stealthy
A: hooves 3, camouflage 1, berserk 1, blurry vision 1, deformed body, herbivore
1, speed 2, fast metabolism 1, tough skin 3, AC +4, Dex -1
a: Depart the Abyss, Bend Space, Banish, Corrupt, Enter the Abyss, Renounce
Religion, Evoke Blink, Evoke Invisibility


You are on level 1 of the Snake Pit.
You worship Lugonu.
Lugonu is exalted by your worship.
You are not hungry.

You have visited 7 branches of the dungeon, and seen 36 of its levels.
You have visited the Abyss 5 times.
You have also visited: Ossuary.

You have collected 3228 gold pieces.
You have spent 443 gold pieces at shops.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 a - the +6,-1 halberd of Debt (weapon) {chop, +Blink +Inv rElec rPois rC+}
   (You found it on level 14 of the Dungeon)   
   
   It inflicts extra damage upon your enemies.
   
   It protects you from cold.
   It insulates you from electricity.
   It protects you from poison.
   It lets you turn invisible.
   It lets you blink.
 w - the +5,+4 quarterstaff of Boepaig {speed, +Inv rF- MR Dex+1 Stlth+}
   (You found it on level 4 of the Lair of Beasts)   
   
   Attacks with this weapon take half as long, but cause slightly less damage.
   
   It affects your dexterity (+1).
   It makes you vulnerable to fire.
   It increases your resistance to enchantments.
   It lets you turn invisible.
   It makes you more stealthy.
 B - a +3,+6 longbow of flame
Missiles
 d - a large rock
 u - 72 arrows
 H - 14 arrows of dispersal
Armour
 c - a +0 mottled dragon armour (worn)
 f - a +3 centaur barding (worn)
 O - the cursed +0 cloak of Chuvuice (worn) {Str+2}
   (You found it on level 2 of the Lair of Beasts)   
   
   It affects your strength (+2).
   It has a curse placed upon it.
 R - a +2 wizard hat of intelligence (worn)
 Y - a -1 pair of elven gauntlets (worn)
Magical devices
 g - a wand of invisibility {empty}
 l - a wand of teleportation (2)
 o - a wand of magic darts (11)
 s - a wand of lightning {zapped: 6}
 K - a wand of hasting (2)
 M - a wand of teleportation
Comestibles
 p - a meat ration
 D - 2 pears
 L - 4 bread rations
 N - 4 chunks of naga flesh
 P - a sausage
 Q - 2 royal jellies
 V - a chunk of adder flesh
 X - an apple
 Z - a choko
Scrolls
 b - a scroll of teleportation
 i - a scroll of remove curse
 j - a scroll of recharging
 n - a scroll of enchant weapon I
 z - a scroll of enchant weapon II
 S - a scroll of fog
 T - 5 scrolls of identify
 U - a scroll of amnesia
Jewellery
 q - an uncursed ring of wizardry
 r - an uncursed ring of protection from magic
 t - an amulet of stasis (around neck)
 x - a +3 ring of strength (left hand)
 A - an uncursed ring of protection from fire
 C - a cursed amulet of conservation
 F - a +1 ring of intelligence (right hand)
 G - an uncursed ring of magical power
 I - a +2 ring of evasion
Potions
 h - a potion of curing
 k - 4 potions of restore abilities
 m - a potion of flight
 v - 5 potions of brilliance
 E - a potion of magic
 J - 2 potions of speed
 W - 4 potions of might
Books
 e - a book of Callings   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   Summon Small Mammals               Summoning                    1
   Call Imp                           Summoning                    2
   Call Canine Familiar               Summoning                    3
   Summon Scorpions                   Summoning/Poison             4
   Summon Ice Beast                   Ice/Summoning                4
 y - the Papyrus of Protection and Calling
   (You found it on level 2 of the Orcish Mines)   
   
   Spells                             Type                      Level
   *Summon Butterflies                Summoning                    1
   Summon Small Mammals               Summoning                    1
   Call Imp                           Summoning                    2
   Control Teleport                   Charms/Translocation         4
   Excruciating Wounds                Charms/Necromancy            5
   Ring of Flames                     Charms/Fire                  7


   Skills:
 * Level 14.7 Fighting
 - Level 10.0 Polearms
 - Level 8.0 Staves
 - Level 14.5 Bows
 - Level 1.3 Armour
 - Level 0.8 Dodging
 - Level 1.0 Stealth
 - Level 1.0 Stabbing
 - Level 12.1 Traps
 + Level 0.4 Unarmed Combat
 - Level 6.0 Spellcasting
 * Level 1.1 Charms
 - Level 18.0 Translocations
 - Level 11.0 Invocations
 - Level 0.2 Evocations


You have 8 spell levels left.
You know the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Apportation           Tloc           #######...   0%          1    None
b - Corpse Rot            Necr           N/A          17%         2    None
c - Shroud of Golubria    Chrm/Tloc      ######....   1%          2    None
d - Teleport Other        Tloc           #######..    1%          3    ##.....
e - Phase Shift           Tloc           #######...   1%          5    #####..
f - Controlled Blink      Tloc           N/A          8%          7    #######
g - Summon Butterflies    Summ           ##.......    12%         1    None


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (17/27)            Temple (1/1) D:4             Orc (4/4) D:10
    Elf (1/3) Orc:4          Lair (8/8) D:12          Swamp (0/5) Lair:4
  Snake (1/5) Lair:3        Slime (0/6) Lair:6       Vaults (4/5) D:15
  Crypt (0/5) Vaults:2   
 Blade: Vaults:3-4 

Altars:
Ashenzari
Cheibriados
Elyvilon
Fedhas
Kikubaaqudgha
Makhleb
Nemelex Xobeh
Okawaru
Sif Muna
Trog
Vehumet
Xom
Yredelemnul
Zin
the Shining One
Beogh
Jiyva

Shops:
D:4: [/=  Orc:4: *[[

Annotations
Elf:1 Fannar
Lair:2 exclusion: 2 oklob plants
Snake:1 exclusion: Roxanne, Roxanne
Abyss:1 Louise


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You have hooves in place of feet.
Armour fits poorly on your strangely shaped body.
You digest meat inefficiently.
You cover ground very quickly.
You have a fast metabolism.
You have extremely tough skin (AC +3).
You are partially covered in iridescent scales (AC +4).
Your skin changes colour to match your surroundings (Stlth).
You tend to lose your temper in combat.
Your vision is a little blurry.
You are clumsy (Dex -1).


Message History

You continue butchering the corpse.
You feel sick.
You feel better.
You finish chopping the adder corpse into pieces.
V - a chunk of adder flesh
You see here a halberd.
Found a dart.
Found a stone staircase leading down.
Found a fine sabre.
2 nagas come into view.
The naga shouts!
A naga and a naga warrior come into view.
A naga comes into view. It is wielding a battleaxe.
A naga comes into view. It is wielding a scimitar.
The naga shouts! The naga warrior shouts!
The naga moves out of view.
Level annotation: exclusion: Roxanne, Roxanne
Welcome back, Tailwind the Centaur Abyssal Knight.
Lugonu says: Spread carnage and corruption!
Press ? for a list of commands and other information.

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You can see a naga.


[Davion Fuxa]

Go for it - something I noticed is that you getting a full run is difficult because you have to splat a lot of characters through the early game. Starting after the Early Game should relieve that problem a bit.

[Muhahaha]

Yeah. I'm best with a few builds, and I will splat alot early if I go outside of my comfort zone.

[tasonir]

Are you using automatic skill training? If so, don't. You have a lot of skills at .8, 1.3, etc. Just turn them off until you're ready to train them. Also since you seem to be going with polearms, try to avoid training things like staves/unarmed at all. I'd probably jump that exp into bows instead - best way to play a Ce is just to max bows (or at least 20+) and kill anything remotely threatening with arrows. Having a backup melee option is great for saving arrows, but aside from conserving arrows, it isn't that important. You don't really need min delay on a polearm if you're just using it to kill hobgoblins when you're level 10 already.

Other play styles are great too but they aren't as simple and easy as just using arrows. I emphasize bows for people trying to get a win, rather than people who are more interested in experimenting with builds just to mess around with things.

[Muhahaha]

Actualy my main melee weapon is that artifact staff. I like invoking invisible. I started training Polearms, but found the staff before I could find a good Polearm, and since I figured it was still early in the game, and Polearms and Staves crosstrain, there would be no harm in swapping weapons at that point. When I made the descision I also was pondering going conjurer and perhaps getting a magic staff of use to me down the line. I'm useing the Polearm because it is the only poison resistance I have.

But yeah. I freely admit I didn't play the character's skills right. That is one of my bigger weaknesses in Crawl, I just dont have the feel for what to train and when.

[Muhahaha]

New video will be available here as soon as it finishes processing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yvuceWBYRY&feature=youtu.be

I know I'm starting a day late, but I think my self improvement project for Lent will be to put a video up every day. I need to try and control my voice a bit more, and I can only get that done with more reps. The character is still alive, so I don't need suggestions for tomorrow, but I would like to get a decent list going, so feel free to fire a few in my direction.

[Muhahaha]

Tailwind's second video is up. He either gets the rune from snake or dies trying. Here is the Link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXN9ND-933E

Here is a dump. It is spoilered in case you want to watch the video without knowing whether the character lives or dies beforehand. Until my next crawl video comes up, please do the same and put any discussion of Tailwind's Death/Future in spoilers.

Spoiler: show

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 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12-a0-1669-g7464318 (tiles) character file.

Tailwind the Blinker (Centaur Abyssal Knight)      Turns: 70604, Time: 07:28:41

HP  83/156 (158) AC 17     Str 20      XL: 18   Next: 79%
MP  14/30        EV  6     Int 21      God: Lugonu [*****.]
Gold 2262        SH  0     Dex 11      Spells:  7 memorised,  8 levels left

Res.Fire  : . . .   See Invis. : .   B - +4,+7 longbow (flame)
Res.Cold  : . . .   Warding    : .   c - +1 mottled dragon armour
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   (no shield)
Res.Poison: .       Res.Corr.  : .   R - +2 wizard hat {Int+3}
Res.Elec. : .       Clarity    : +   O - +0 cloak of Chuvuice {Str+2}
Sust.Abil.: . .     Spirit.Shd : .   Y - -1 pair of elf gauntlets
Res.Mut.  : .       Stasis     : .   f - +3 centaur barding
Res.Rott. : .       Ctrl.Telep.: .   z - amulet of clarity
Saprovore : . . .   Flight     : .   F - +1 ring of intelligence
                                     x - +3 ring of strength

@: very slightly contaminated, very quick, somewhat resistant to hostile
enchantments, unstealthy
A: hooves 3, deformed body, herbivore 1, speed 2, fast metabolism 1, tough skin
3
a: Depart the Abyss, Bend Space, Banish, Corrupt, Enter the Abyss, Renounce
Religion
}: 1/15 runes: serpentine


You are on level 4 of the Snake Pit.
You worship Lugonu.
Lugonu is exalted by your worship.
You are not hungry.

You have visited 7 branches of the dungeon, and seen 40 of its levels.
You have visited the Abyss 5 times.
You have also visited: Ossuary.

You have collected 3569 gold pieces.
You have spent 1327 gold pieces at shops.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 a - the +6,-1 halberd of Debt {chop, +Blink +Inv rElec rPois rC+}
   (You found it on level 14 of the Dungeon)   
   
   It inflicts extra damage upon your enemies.
   
   It protects you from cold.
   It insulates you from electricity.
   It protects you from poison.
   It lets you turn invisible.
   It lets you blink.
 w - the +5,+4 quarterstaff of Boepaig {speed, +Inv rF- MR Dex+1 Stlth+}
   (You found it on level 4 of the Lair of Beasts)   
   
   Attacks with this weapon take half as long, but cause slightly less damage.
   
   It affects your dexterity (+1).
   It makes you vulnerable to fire.
   It increases your resistance to enchantments.
   It lets you turn invisible.
   It makes you more stealthy.
 B - a +4,+7 longbow of flame (weapon)
Missiles
 t - a large rock
 u - 32 arrows (quivered)
 H - 14 arrows of dispersal

Also. I will be putting non-crawl videos up on my channel. I guess there is no harm in discussing my non-crawl work here, but I also have a thread on b12 about my channel and plans for lent in general. Check it out and suggest games for me to play on this forum or that one, and as always I could always use suggestions for characters to play in crawl.

Bay12 Thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=122978.0

[Muhahaha]

Blast. So I recorded a nice long session of Crawl Gameplay, but for some reason FFsplit gave me a file that wont load in windows media player. Half the vids I make seem to have this problem. It killed about 3 of the flash game LPs I tried to do with friends and family to boot.

If anybody wants to try and download the file to try and get it to work, here is a link. https://www.box.com/s/gdog99qta8ehk8jwq8yd

I'll be asking around on other places more qualified to handle this as well, but the more places I put it out, the better chance somebody can help me.