Sunday, 23rd March 2014, 12:41 by Lasty
I also went for challenge 2. I entered Depths 1 at XL13 wearing steam dragon armor and a +0 randart hat with rF+, though I had already lost all my throwing items to a jelly and attrition, and the only decks I had were escape and defense. Thus, almost immediately 5 boggarts nearly kicked my ass by summoning a ton of crazy ranged threats from far enough away that I couldn't just mow the boggarts down with claws. I barely escaped, and came back to wipe them and a stone giant out one at a time. A lot more luring things to stairs later, and I had Depths:1 clear. I went downstairs and found a portal to the abyss quickly. I though about getting more xp before entering, but I saw a scary-looking yaktaur pack in a very open area and opted not to.
I entered the abyss at xl 14, and made my way to Abyss:3 surprisingly quickly. Before long I found the rune vault, but it was a particularly nasty one filled with ettins dual-wielding distortion. I was eyeballing it when an invis lorocyproca came up behind me. Fighting it was scary, and WalkerBoh convinced me to try to rush the rune while streaming summons behind and using deck of defense to buff. I had no mana at this point so I had to draw blind, and my first summon card gave me abjuration aura. I didn't notice immediately, so I summoned a few more things and they poofed after 1-3 turns. Super. Deck of defense gave me flight and lichform, but that wasn't nearly good enough to deal with the trailing lorocyproca so I eventually died.