Draining takes to long to wear off

[diviton]

Who's idea was it to last this long?

[archaeo]

It wears off via gaining XP; you can't 5 away a drain. In Trunk, potions of restore ability will remove draining by half.

[diviton]

I have 14, but apparently not the newest one, because Restore Abilities didn't do anything. =\

I'm so badly Drained, I don't even know how I can possibly recover. Help?

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 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14-a0-1379-g74b6bc2 (tiles) character file.

Lorenzo the Warrior (DrAK)                        Turns: 136072, Time: 07:38:03

HP  62/209       AC 17     Str 17      XL: 22   Next: 91%
MP  14/37        EV 15     Int 29      God: Lugonu [***...]
Gold 1586        SH  8     Dex 16      Spells:  9 memorised,  3 levels left

rFire  . . .     SeeInvis .     t - +3,+6 demon trident (distort)
rCold  + . .     Clarity  .     (armour unavailable)
rNeg   . . .     Conserve .     G - +0 elf buckler {reflect}
rPois  +         rCorr    +     R - +2 wizard hat {Int+3}
rElec  .         rRot     .     i - +0 cloak of Toihaeke {Str+2 Int+3 Dam+4}
SustAb . .       Spirit   .     u - +2 pair of gloves
rMut   .         Warding  .     y - -1 pair of boots
Saprov . . .     Stasis   .     D - amulet of resist corrosion
                                x - ring of sustenance
                                q - ring of the Okapi {rPois Dex+5 Int+1}

@: repel missiles, very slightly contaminated, very heavily drained, very
resistant to hostile enchantments, unstealthy
A: breathe frost, unfitting armour, carnivore 1, cold resistance 1, magic
resistance 1, AC +11
a: Breathe Frost, Depart the Abyss, Bend Space, Banish, Renounce Religion
}: 2/15 runes: decaying, serpentine


You are on level 3 of the Depths.
You worship Lugonu.
Lugonu is most pleased with you.
You are not hungry.

You have visited 9 branches of the dungeon, and seen 50 of its levels.
You have visited the Abyss 3 times.
You have also visited: Ice Cave.

You have collected 5895 gold pieces.
You have spent 4309 gold pieces at shops.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 t - a +3,+6 demon trident of distortion (weapon)
Armour
 i - the +0 cloak of Toihaeke (worn) {Str+2 Int+3 Dam+4}
   (You bought it in a shop on level 9 of the Dungeon)   
   
   It affects your strength (+2).
   It affects your intelligence (+3).
   It affects your damage-dealing abilities (+4).
 u - a +2 pair of gloves (worn)
 y - a -1 pair of boots (worn)
 G - a +0 elven buckler of reflection (worn)
 R - a +2 wizard hat of intelligence (worn)
Magical devices
 g - a wand of heal wounds (4)
 p - a wand of teleportation (4)
 H - a wand of digging (7)
 L - a wand of disintegration (13)
 N - a wand of invisibility (1)
Comestibles
 m - 3 meat rations
Scrolls
 e - 4 scrolls of remove curse
 f - 3 scrolls of identify
 h - a scroll of fog
 j - a scroll of teleportation
 o - 2 scrolls of blinking
 z - 3 scrolls of vulnerability
Jewellery
 b - the ring "Reav" {rC+ EV+4}
   (You took it off a vault guard on level 2 of the Vaults)   
   
   [ring of evasion]
   It affects your evasion (+4).
   It protects you from cold.
 k - the ring of Seisuyfu {MR++ Dex+3}
   (You acquired it on level 1 of the Lair of Beasts)   
   
   [ring of dexterity]
   It affects your dexterity (+3).
   It affects your resistance to hostile enchantments.
 l - an uncursed amulet of conservation
 q - the ring of the Okapi (left hand) {rPois Dex+5 Int+1}
   (You found it on level 3 of the Vaults)   
   
   [ring of poison resistance]
   It affects your intelligence (+1).
   It affects your dexterity (+5).
 v - an uncursed ring of positive energy
 x - a ring of sustenance (right hand)
 A - an uncursed amulet of rage
 B - an uncursed ring of wizardry
 C - an uncursed ring of sustain abilities
 D - an amulet of resist corrosion (around neck)
 E - an uncursed ring of protection from fire
 O - the ring "Antum" {+Inv Dex+3 Acc+5}
   (You found it on level 8 of the Lair of Beasts)   
   
   [ring of invisibility]
   It affects your dexterity (+3).
   It affects your accuracy (+5).
 P - a +5 ring of strength
 S - the ring "Orgheeck" {+Fly Str+2 Dex+2}
   (You took it off a spriggan enchanter on level 1 of the Depths)   
   
   [ring of flight]
   It affects your strength (+2).
   It affects your dexterity (+2).
 V - an uncursed ring of ice
 W - an uncursed ring of protection from fire
 X - an uncursed amulet of stasis
 Y - the ring "Pucut" {Hunger- Str+2 Dam+5}
   (You took it off a vampire mage on level 2 of the Depths)   
   
   [ring of sustenance]
   It affects your strength (+2).
   It affects your damage-dealing abilities (+5).
Potions
 a - a potion of berserk rage
 n - a potion of speed
 r - 4 potions of curing
 s - 3 potions of brilliance
 F - a potion of agility
 I - a potion of restore abilities
 J - 3 potions of might


   Skills:
 - Level 20.2(12.0) Fighting
 - Level 14.0(6.8) Polearms
 - Level 13.8(6.6) Dodging
 - Level 0.2(0.0) Stealth
 - Level 6.0(0.1) Shields
 - Level 7.9(1.7) Spellcasting
   Level 1.1(0.0) Conjurations
 - Level 14.7(7.4) Charms
 - Level 2.2(0.0) Summonings
 - Level 18.0(10.2) Translocations
 - Level 1.4(0.0) Ice Magic
 * Level 15.3(7.9) Invocations
 - Level 0.4(0.0) Evocations


You have 3 spell levels left.
You know the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power        Failure   Level  Hunger
a - Summon Butterflies    Summ           #.......     12%         1    None
b - Blink                 Tloc           N/A          1%          2    ##.....
c - Repel Missiles        Chrm/Air       ###.......   3%          2    ##.....
d - Swiftness             Chrm/Air       ###.....     3%          2    ##.....
e - Summon Ice Beast      Ice/Summ       #.........   93%         4    ####...
f - Control Teleport      Chrm/Tloc      ######....   2%          4    ####...
g - Haste                 Chrm           #####...     82%         6    #######
h - Controlled Blink      Tloc           N/A          96%         7    #######
i - Phase Shift           Tloc           ######....   4%          5    #####..


Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (16/16)            Temple (1/1) D:6             Orc (4/4) D:9
    Elf (3/3) Orc:4          Lair (8/8) D:10          Swamp (5/5) Lair:3
  Snake (5/5) Lair:6        Slime (0/6) Lair:8       Vaults (4/5) D:14
  Blade (0/1) Vaults:3     Forest (0/5) Vaults:3     Depths (4/6) D:16

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

Shops:
D:4 *   D:9 %+=![   Orc:3 (   Orc:4 ??**   Elf:1 %   Snake:4 (   Snake:5 }   Vaults:3 [   Depths:1 ![[++   Depths:2 !}?

Portals:
Hell: Depths:1 Depths:2 Depths:3
Abyss: Depths:1 Depths:3 Depths:4
Pandemonium: Depths:3
Ziggurat: D:12 (3160 gp) D:13 (3760 gp)
Trove: Elf:1 (give +4,+6 demon blade)

Annotations:
Elf:3 Donald
Abyss:1 Frederick
Depths:4 Lorenzo's ghost, great DrAK


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You can breathe waves of freezing cold.
You can buffet flying creatures when you breathe cold.
Your icy white scales are hard (AC +11).
Your body does not fit into most forms of armour.
Your cold-blooded metabolism reacts poorly to cold.
Your flesh is cold resistant.
Your digestive system is specialised to digest meat.
You are resistant to hostile enchantments.

[Lasty]

If potions of restore ability aren't helping in your version, you need to go somewhere where there are monsters you can safely take on and kill them until you cure your draining. The more drained you are, the faster you recover on gaining XP (unless that was changed), so it shouldn't be too long before you get back to a more reasonable skill level.

[Wahaha]

Kill weak things with the trident, probably in Lair branches. Shouldn't be too hard. I would just play normally as if drain didn't exist.

Also don't get drained that much. A ring of positive energy is hardly necessary, but you even have one in your inventory, unless you found it after getting drained.

[Tedronai]

Upgrade the game to the latest version and then use restore abilities to reduce the draining effect.

[XuaXua]

Royal Jelly too?

[diviton]

Upgrade the game to the latest version and then use restore abilities to reduce the draining effect.

So, if I downloaded the newest version, how would I get this character on it? A n00b question, but I'm pretty clueless about this sort of thing.

I normally would avoid being so badly drained, but it was a situation where I was trying to just survive on Elf:3 and draining wasn't catching my attention as much as my HP/consumables. And I tried killing stuff, but all the easy branches are cleared out. Then I decided to try the Depths some more and was making progress. but was blindsided by my old Draconian Ghost....which started breathing draining breath on me. -_-

[diviton]

Bump for assistance

[Tedronai]

So, if I downloaded the newest version, how would I get this character on it? A n00b question, but I'm pretty clueless about this sort of thing.

Your saves are located in .stone-soup (Linux) or in a similar folder in the AppData tree on Windows. If you download the new version it will still get its preferences and saves from that location. The first time you load your save within the newer version the save will be transferred to the newer version to be compatible. In the dump this will result in a message like this:

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 37564 | Vaults:2 | Upgraded the game from 0.14-a0-1773-ge500af7 to 0.14-a0-1811-gdc2d5af

Then you can keep playing your save as if it has always been this version of crawl. I transfer my characters usually two times or more to a newer version over the course of a game.

[Klown]

Play stable releases. :p
Draining sucks...destroys your skills and makes you fight 300 stone cyclop draconian guardians of Zot.

[zogre]

It's much nicer than it used to be, imo

[XuaXua]

Does consuming royal jelly, which generally works as food + Restore Abilities potion, also restore draining?

New draining is great and much more dangerous.

[BlackSheep]

Not as yet, no.

[battaile]

Not as yet, no.

Are you sure? I could've sworn I got rid of drain with a royal jelly.

[duvessa]

Then you have a bad memory. Royal jelly does not remove draining, only the potion.

[XuaXua]

The Royal Jelly will probably remove draining effects when you kill it.

[battaile]

Then you have a bad memory.

I blame it on being old as fuck.

[BlackSheep]

I tend to test things out or source dive before making basic statements of fact like that.

[battaile]

I tend to test things out or source dive before making basic statements of fact like that.

I profusely apologize.