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Kiku: Pain Brand or Necronomicon?
I have a DDNe, XL14 on the bottom floor of the Lair but he's doing it hard. Death Yaks are often fighting him to a standstill, running away just as he's about to polish them off, and happily resisting the Pain spells which are his normal response in that situation. And it's not just them... plenty of monsters are behaving the same way.
He's played it pretty much as a pure Necromancer with melee backup (Axes 10, with a +2/+4 Battle Axe of Flaming) thus far but appears to be running out of grunt. Doesn't know any other spell schools, but his Necro is at 17.
And food. Agony is becoming a standby (Death Yaks, and the Dungeon is starting to fill up with Ugly Things), and even with Slow Metabolism he picked up somewhere he's running out of edible stuff. Sublimation of Blood helps with the MP but the hunger is a serious issue.
So far, no source of Poison Resistance anywhere. In fact the only decent armour he has was a Steam Dragon Armour he made himself.
The question is, what to do next? Finish off the bottom of the Lair? Have a go at the Swamp? Maybe even try the Hive for food, even with the lack of RP?
And more generally, get the Necronomicon or the Pain brand from Kiku? The Necronomicon is tempting thematically, but the spells are all high-food and require other schools. Not a game breaker in itself but it's a consideration. The pain brand seems not quite as cool, though having an amulet of Berserk Rage does turn it into a powerful panic button... but then, the flaming axe he has now is OK too. And maybe he should save the brand for a better axe. Think he'll go with the book though.
The endless second-guessing!