Halls Hopper
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Joined: Monday, 12th May 2014, 15:51
Friday, 23rd January 2015, 20:14
The Scummy Mummy
Want to win a mummy? Is your main problem making it to Lair? Here's some advice!
Be a necromancer.
Memorize reanimate skeleton and clear the first floor. Lately in trunk jackal packs seem to be the major player slayer on the first floor, so use caution around them.
Find a nice place to camp in view of a down staircase. Make sure your skeletal minions are surrounding you. Now just sit there and wait for small belligerent humanoids to come and get killed by you. Then reanimate them.
Keep growing your pleasant skeletal army. Remember to memorize vampiric draining when you hit level 3.
Eventually an "out-of-depth" monster will appear to remind you that the developers don't want you to scum like this. But that's okay, because this is what you were waiting for. Hopefully your skeletons will weaken the monster enough that you can finish it off with pain spells. (If it is not reduced to at least half health, just run away and head down). This will result in a level or two or three. Now go to D:2 and after clearing that floor, do the same thing. At this point you should be a few levels higher than most characters and your mummy will have an easier time reaching Lair.
You could keep scumming on later floors if you don't find it too dull, but the returns on exp eventually don't hold up. And once you have a god your deity peity will suffer if you continue to do so (Gozag and Ru are exceptions, however).
So there you go! Scum with a mummy to take advantage of one of its few benefits: no food clock!
Yes, this can be done with a VpNe too, but we are talking about winning with a mummy.
Be a necromancer.
Memorize reanimate skeleton and clear the first floor. Lately in trunk jackal packs seem to be the major player slayer on the first floor, so use caution around them.
Find a nice place to camp in view of a down staircase. Make sure your skeletal minions are surrounding you. Now just sit there and wait for small belligerent humanoids to come and get killed by you. Then reanimate them.
Keep growing your pleasant skeletal army. Remember to memorize vampiric draining when you hit level 3.
Eventually an "out-of-depth" monster will appear to remind you that the developers don't want you to scum like this. But that's okay, because this is what you were waiting for. Hopefully your skeletons will weaken the monster enough that you can finish it off with pain spells. (If it is not reduced to at least half health, just run away and head down). This will result in a level or two or three. Now go to D:2 and after clearing that floor, do the same thing. At this point you should be a few levels higher than most characters and your mummy will have an easier time reaching Lair.
You could keep scumming on later floors if you don't find it too dull, but the returns on exp eventually don't hold up. And once you have a god your deity peity will suffer if you continue to do so (Gozag and Ru are exceptions, however).
So there you go! Scum with a mummy to take advantage of one of its few benefits: no food clock!
Yes, this can be done with a VpNe too, but we are talking about winning with a mummy.
Maybe one day. It's just an arrangement of atoms, it should be possible, but I don't think it'll happen anytime soon. I have no idea how durable/shatter resistant it would be in the final product, either. Carbon nanotubes seem to be just about magical, and they're kind of like diamonds (all carbon), so I'd say let's just go with that one.
Sometimes I even use nested parentheses. IMHO it's harder to understand a sentence with structure like "A and B where C or D except E and F or G" without parentheses if those A/B/C/D are very long phrases. Also it helps to differentiate "A (and B where C) or D except (E and F) or G" from "A and B where (C or D) except E and (F or G)"