Thursday, May 13, 2004
Welcome Bar15
This has been an interesting game so far. Not a lot of toys at all. I fell through a series of trap doors to begin the game, and had a very low level character far too deep. Let me put it to you this way: when I climbed the first up staircase after the last trap door, I was in the Sokoban. Since I was there, what the Hell? I got a bag of holding. I then went through the mines and got the luckstone.
I went down the dungeon, there was a big room right two levels below Sokoban that was kind of hairy. It took forever to get Cleaver (which is now +6). No good armor at all. Nor any pre-castle wishes. I was able to genocide mindflayers prior to the castle, but master mindflayers and all kinds of liches remain.
At a certain point I needed to decide if I should do the quest first, or the castle. Well, the Barbarian quest toy is no great shakes, so it won't help clear the castle. I go to Medusa and dig down. I immediately put a towel on my head (not even a frickin' blindfold in this game!) and pop up to kill Medusa. There is a shield of reflection in the Statue, but since Cleaver is two-handed, I'm SOL.
Back down to the castle. Still wearing the towel, I can "see" three rust monsters and two liches and a demilich. I think about it for a while and decide the best way to deal with this is the old crunch-and-munch. You play the passtune to open the drawbridge, and wait until a nasty is on the square right before the drawbridge. Play the passtune again, and the gate closes, smushing the baddie for an instant-kill. The drawback is all of the treasure gets destroyed too, but heck, after three rust monsters and three liches, my armor would have sucked to high hell.
Used a pair of wishes for Grey Dragon Scale Mail and Speed Boots. Need to recharge with wand to get rings of teleport control and conflict (I have levitation).
Next step - the quest!
Update - The quest was a bitch, all of those trolls! I eventually had to go back into the main branch of the dungeon to tame a cat to eat all of the troll corpses. I got the quest toy, which is a sucky rock. I cleared the first layer of Hell and was using a pick axe to clear a maze when I got jumped by a Minotaur. I forgot how hard they hit, and it pounded me to death.
Stupid. This is the only time I've ever lost a character between the first layer of Hell and Moloch's Sanctum.
This has been an interesting game so far. Not a lot of toys at all. I fell through a series of trap doors to begin the game, and had a very low level character far too deep. Let me put it to you this way: when I climbed the first up staircase after the last trap door, I was in the Sokoban. Since I was there, what the Hell? I got a bag of holding. I then went through the mines and got the luckstone.
I went down the dungeon, there was a big room right two levels below Sokoban that was kind of hairy. It took forever to get Cleaver (which is now +6). No good armor at all. Nor any pre-castle wishes. I was able to genocide mindflayers prior to the castle, but master mindflayers and all kinds of liches remain.
At a certain point I needed to decide if I should do the quest first, or the castle. Well, the Barbarian quest toy is no great shakes, so it won't help clear the castle. I go to Medusa and dig down. I immediately put a towel on my head (not even a frickin' blindfold in this game!) and pop up to kill Medusa. There is a shield of reflection in the Statue, but since Cleaver is two-handed, I'm SOL.
Back down to the castle. Still wearing the towel, I can "see" three rust monsters and two liches and a demilich. I think about it for a while and decide the best way to deal with this is the old crunch-and-munch. You play the passtune to open the drawbridge, and wait until a nasty is on the square right before the drawbridge. Play the passtune again, and the gate closes, smushing the baddie for an instant-kill. The drawback is all of the treasure gets destroyed too, but heck, after three rust monsters and three liches, my armor would have sucked to high hell.
Used a pair of wishes for Grey Dragon Scale Mail and Speed Boots. Need to recharge with wand to get rings of teleport control and conflict (I have levitation).
Next step - the quest!
Update - The quest was a bitch, all of those trolls! I eventually had to go back into the main branch of the dungeon to tame a cat to eat all of the troll corpses. I got the quest toy, which is a sucky rock. I cleared the first layer of Hell and was using a pick axe to clear a maze when I got jumped by a Minotaur. I forgot how hard they hit, and it pounded me to death.
Stupid. This is the only time I've ever lost a character between the first layer of Hell and Moloch's Sanctum.
