This OP mostly stolen and slightly rewritten from here, for referenceSo, this thread is for a Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup relay, where we keep passing the same file around until our collective incompetence wins the Orb of Zot. If you don't know what Crawl is, you can screw around
here to get the basic idea. You don't have to be super good to join in, half the fun is dying in a myriad of unlikely and rather stupid ways. DCSS 0.14.1 is one of the most accessible to date, so don't be too intimidated even if you're acomplete newbie to roguelikes. So, without further ado, here are the rules for the relay:
1. Get a clean version of Crawl 0.14.1. Quite a bit changed from 0.13.x, so you might want to find that changelog. You?ll want the tiles version with mouse support, unless you really know your way around console, in which case you?d already know how to make that work.
This should suffice.
2. To play, you'll have to sign up in this topic. You'll be put at the end of the list.
3. You hear Xom?s avuncular chuckle.
4. When your turn comes, you?ll be handed the file through Dropbox or something similar. You'll stick that in the saves file and start up the game. You'll then have roughly 50000 auts (or 5000 turns) to play. To check how many auts you've used, look to the HUD by turns, and that's the number we'll use (i.e. you get 5000.0 turns). As you play your turn, you are to keep track of a journal of important events that happen. You can take screenshots or keep a very accurate pictureless journal as you play. Screenshots are better.
5. Failure to keep up screenshots or some sort of comprehensive log will count as a death on your part, and we'll take the last save.
6. Once your 5000 turns are up (we allow some slight deviation, you can stop at say 5045 or something), save, copy to the files to a zip folder and upload it to a file sharing site.
7. If you take way too many turns (6000+), I will rip your still beating heart out of your body, but take the save files and journal/log anyway. If you reach 7000, you're off the list for the rest of the game?and also the other thing.
8. If you take more than 3 days (72 hours) taking your turn, I'll skip you and give the save file to the next person in line.
9. You may sign up again when your turn is over.
10. Losing is fun. If you die, just log that and I'll tack it onto the number of times we've lost and continue from the last save file. Don't worry, the game is meant to be hard. If you're inexperienced, take this chance to play a high level character and learn more about the game.
11. However, it's not fun if you save the file and give it to the next person with, like, 3 HP and surrounded by tough enemies. We'll consider that your death and revert back to the previous save file, and I will frown disapprovingly at you.
12. At the end of your post, state if you?re up for another round. Makes everyone?s life easier and gives you the initiative in the line. Everyone wins!
13. Feel free to suggest adding in anything I missed on this list of rules.
Current Player: Totaku
Waiting List:
Serela
NekoNekoRex
Pirate
RaitakiTurns on current save: 121,922
Deaths:
1. Raitaki: To an Ice Beast on turn 6485.
2. Validon: To a Giant Slug on turn 14493.
3. Serela: To an Iguana on turn 12893.
4. NekoNekoRex: To Roxanne on turn 34928.
5. Serela: To a Kobold Demonlogist summoned demon on turn 35,762.
6. Pirate: To a Centaur Warrior on turn 37,385.
7. Raikaria: To a Tengu on turn 38373.
8. Raitaki: To a Black Mamba on turn 45199.
9. NekoNekoRex: To a Naga Sharpshooter on turn 45,779.
10. Serela: To a black mamba on turn 45033.
11. Totaku: To a Naga Sharpshooter on turn 50,932.
12. Raitaki: To an Anaconda on turn something.
13. Pirate: To Mysterious Hellfire on turn ~58600.
14. Totaku: To an Elven Master Archer on turn 59180.
15. Ramus: To an Elven Annihilator on turn 58756
16. Pirate: To two fireballs on turn 96133
17. Serela: To a Tengu Reaver's Battlesphere on turn 98275
18. NNR: To something.
19. Raitaki: To something.
