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Crawl Relay Part 2: Dungeon Boogaloo
Psieye:
I meant the random polymorph result that makes humans, but ok you have a point - they can spawn in groups too.
Totaku:
Yeah what Barasia said is correct, more or less what I'm doing right now is modding 0.7.1 right now.
The fan idea seems pretty fitting. Something I had considered for wind fan.
The hat are also interesting, but they're not on high priority at the moment. I however take a look at it to see how this all plays out with time.
Undead work is pretty much done now. I've gotten all the specteral, zombie and skelton variation of certain yukkuri specimen down. So you should now have something like this. :P
Hope you won't mind having skeleton yukkuri haunt you in the dungeons. XD
Also the Remiya is done too so now your giant bats will look a bit cuter at least in yukkuri standards. :P
So now what remains is replacing the spriggans with fairies, Daiyousei with the Enchantress, and then work on changing the alters and Citrivolti's yukkuri.
This should complete all the basic things I want to get ready for 0.7.1. Then I can turn focus on the fan and the hats.
And also yes, Renko and Meribel would work better as player humans along with Reimu, Marisa and a few others...
As an enemy human they come in too huge of a number at time, thus the idea wouldn't work at all.
Psieye:
Ok so starting at 221k turns. Potion of Gain Dex failed to pass our mutation resistance, oh well. Now then, stocking up on various buff potions we'd never use otherwise...
I'm keeping this +6 troll armour, the EV+4 robe is put down. I forget fulsome distillation (Ha ha, old chap! what corpses?) and sublimation of blood (Ha ha, old chap! crystal ball). Evaporate I keep as it's nice to have emergency smoke screens, but I drop every other ammo potion as these are demons we be fighting. Right so that leaves me with 15 spell levels, of which 8 go into whatever transformation I need at the time. Looks like I'll need to bring some spare spellbooks around to abuse Cast & Forget extension, at least while I power train spellcasting as best as I can in there. Specifically, I want Phase Shift and Borgnjor's Revivification, so I'll be forgetting Flight after extending it.
Gah... alright hang on. Need to set init.txt properly:
force_more_message = You have a feeling this form
force_more_message = Your transformation is almost over
force_more_message = You are starting to lose your buoyancy
force_more_message = duration:
force_more_message = Your deflect missiles spell is about to expire
force_more_message = You start to feel a little slower
stop = Your transformation is almost (// in travel stoppers.txt)
RIGHT, had to re-memorise flight and forget it again because that wasn't set before. Good thing this came up now rather than in Pan itself.
Ok I'm ready:
A "Slurping" sound on D:24? Oh well we have nothing to care about. Into Pandemonium!
Rin Satsuki trio (cacodemons). Hmm 3 is rather plenty, gonna put on Resist Mutation.
A sling. That is Flandre's latest manifestation of generosity.
Huh? I don't have blink in memory? I didn't bring the blink ring either. Hmm... I'll finish this level then consider going back to Hell a bit. Or I could just risk it all I guess... Anyway, a sure sign I've reached the pan lord:
Out of place architecture. Now then, this pan lord has no resist other than poison:
Lich-fu'd to death. That lord made the mistake of leaving his troops behind. Stealth has uses~
Do dee do... training translocations while waiting to heal. Oh there was a balrug who dropped a demon whip of reaching.
Oh hello Shinki the Pit Lord:
She contested me with martial arts. Sucks to be her that Nue is a Grand Master now. Ok, new Pan level!
Elly is not scary when she can't hit me or do reliable damage:
Oh great, it's THIS type of level:
Eyes of draining encased in Stone Walls. How lucky we have hellfire smiting. I tell you, one time the starting point of the pan level was beign surrounded by 8 of those eyes. It really wasn't nice.
Ok so hellfire spam from Shinki x2 got me to half health. I need to regen fast to spam hellfire anyway so I need to cancel lich form soon.
Book of Flames... rejected. More HORRIBLE THINGS that Totaku has cooked up:
Actually I just found a way to the pan lord without having to get exposed to the eyes.
Yes, I think I will troll them with a Hellfire from afar and try to heal up the damage in time. No wait, plan B: haunt spam.
GAHHHH THOSE GLASS WALLS WERE SECRET DOORS:
Ok not all of htem, but one was.
What? Did I punch you so hard you turned around and noticed my wraith you pan lord?
He went down in 3 punches because haunt spam got him down to half HP.
I uh... do'nt feel like going through all those eyes to see if there's any... oh wiat I have the divination rod. No loot stash, but I apport this in before all my MP got wiped:
Oh well since I'm at 0 MP I may as well see what the other items are. Reminder: Crystal Ball of Energy is a high risk device for recharging mana. Only use it if you're ~75% full in MP at our evocation rank.
A new Pan level! HAHAHA HOW WONDERFUL FLAN:
Excellent precision teleport! This place would have been a lesser nightmare to go through otherwise.
Hmm, I'm on fire. I want to use this recharge scroll. HASTE WANDDDD!!! Glow? Who caressssssssssssssss~
Friendly Fire hahaha~
I can't take it easy even at half HP, not when I'm in Transam mode:
Oh ok, Flan says I should heal so she removes me from that place and dumps me outside.
The FUN way to lose Glow~
Come on you pan lord, let's see what you can do~
Nothing? Haunt says nothing. Oh ok, he blinks. That's all he does. I will say though: he was a good tank.
Demon rune the 2nd~
Yes, even in Pandemonium, the edge of the map is the same:
You know, after I train to Lv 7 Translocatoins, I'm switching to evocation training.
Hah? The sixfirhy is now Rikako?
I see this messed up thing hasn't changed:
This is such a disorientating level... No Pan lord either. Next!
This ebony casket I found 2 levels ago will be nice for training evocations:
An ordinary executioner's axe... not good enough loot. Moving on.
Excuse me while I train my evocation skill with this disc... oh wait I picked up a magic darts wand, why am I wasting time with this?
No Pan lord again, next! An acquirement scroll... what could we possibly wish for when we have everything we want? I try armour. I get a +0 shield....... I wanted some artefact boots?
Oh, Flandre gives us another trash wand for evocations training. How thoughtful!
Gah we got so many weapon enchantment scrolls. I'm going to turn this whip of reaching into something uber. Yes I know we have our +6 glaive of reaching back in Hell. I want inventory space now and we're better at maces anyway (though we coudl really do with more dex).
Hmmmmm, 500 turns left on my turn and we've got some loot to dump off. I'm gonna go to the Abyss now. There we go:
Hmmmmmmmmmmm, shining eye + floating eye = NOT GOOD. Fly + Swift = SPEEED ESCAPE
Well, I found a book with blink in it. No time to memorise it now though. Ok, found some breathing room. Swapped out Swift for Blink.
Ok, spent a few extra hundred turns getting out of the Abyss. Totaku, you're in Hell. Inventory management and then safe crawling through Pandemonium. If you plan on being out of lich form, you don't need to take a huge lunchbox - it's surprising how much food there is lying around on the ground. Oh and that disc of storms is for fighting Okuu: create some shallow water, lure Okuu into it, and she will whiff 25% of the time. Of course, create that shallow water waaaaaaaaay far away from walls and also note it's loud. Borgnjor's is also for fighting Okuu - cast it once or twice during the fight while in dragon form so you can keep the damage going without having to break off to heal. Sure it costs some maxHP but we don't exactly need all the maxHP we cna get anymore - not when Zot is empty.
Totaku:
Ok I got the faries done now. This pretty much means I'm now down to a few of the more grittier assignments.... working on the alters and Citrituvo's yukkuri.
Hopefully this process won't take long, but I know it'll be a bit of a task especially with Shinki's alter.
But after I get these hurdles out of the way I won't have much else to work on.
Also... Wriggle Nightbug as the Ant Queen? (y/n) I've debated on this for a while now. I rather have a unique that controls or summon bugs rather than simply replacing the queen from a specific colony. But I'll let you all decide....
Anyways let's get to talking about Nue's adventure in Pandemonium....
When we last left off, Nue was in hell. After she just got through running around Pandemonium doing her Rune hunt.
She spent her time go about deciding what to dump and what to keep, cause not everything was going to be useful. Eventually she came went back up to floor 24 to once again enter Pandemonium again...
More or less the same old same old...
I forgot to mentioned I dumped Blink for swiftness again, only because I have an odd habit forgottening to cast extention at times. ^^;;;
But either way I spent alot of time practicing my spells when needed thus building spellcasting.
Course I find a book here...
Might as well keep it in case I need to relearn flight in an emergency.
What's this a fine hammer in a place like this?
Nue tries it on....
Nice, Crushing AND blinking, this might be fun to try...
Needless to say that's when I ran into a Pandemonium Lord.... time to give him a fisting!
Made short work of him too. We find more books...
But we already have it and it's not nesseary....
NEXT FLOOR!
Eventually whacking demons with the hammer pays off!
This is a keeper!
Now what do we have here?
Apperently I stumbled upon a demon party room of some sort because all the demons were coming out in a congo line on after another, I kept fisting them.
When we reach the party room...
Not much, but I might as well take out the Lord and crash his party.....
NEXT FLOOR!
Mostly a stone wall area, but there's one room that looks different perhaps we should dig in?
This would be awesome IF this wasn't another demonic room... we already got two....
pass and kill everything!
NEXT FLOOR!
Oh there's something special about this floor. Let's go look around!
And I was right! There's human wizards roaming around Pandemonium...something not right about this!
Eventually we run are way through the reflective rooms until we run into our next rune and.....
Satori!
Satori is probably one of the more easier Frand Pandemonium lords you can fight. But she can be rather tricky.
Because at times she will launch an Ice storm!
Which hurts Nue if it connects!
And she also loves to blink alot.
Obviously she knows Nue's going to basiclly go for an all out assult.
So to even the playing feild Nue hastes herself.
Now she won't have time to keep blink as I keep hitting her.
So basiclly it's all about beating the mind reader to the punch. And as expected before too long....
Satori is fisted to death. Now to take care of the annoying Shou and the other demons and then....
Get the Rune and keep moving!
Nue also finds a book that she decides to read...
It was a guide to throwing... So much for training Satori's experince into spellcasting guess I'll pick up on that later....keeping anyways...
As usual, Nue continues to explore more floors, kill more demons....kill more Pandemonium lords....
And more....
And more...
But hey what's this?
An actual exit to Pandemonium!? One of the very rare occasions where you find an actual exit leading you back to the dungeon....
If you gotten some rune and at least explored the area your in. Then this would be a good opprotunity to leave while you can and take your goods back! No need to use our dagger of distortion.
So once again Nue set up her supplies she needs. And with a 1000 turns left I decide to go back down to Pandemonium once more....
As expected I was greeted with a freidnly audience....
And so nue keeps going...
And going...
This was the floor she stopped at, but before she did...
She danced with another Pandemonium Lord
This one was a pain in the butt, probably because it had mass confusion or confusing touch.... whatever the case Nue was confused for a good while yet she managed to retreat somehow...
I don't know if the Pandemonuim lord was killed or not, but after escapeing and setting up haunts and so forth I haven't seen the lord anywhere....
Anyways.... then Nue discovered this...a strange room with a protal and some eyes... welp let's hellfire them!
And then after killing the eyes and so forth....
WE find out that this is a gate to....
THE ZIGGURAT
Which now means we have now entered....
THE ZIGGURAT CHALLENGE!!!
The zigguratt is 27 floors of madness filled with enemies of every possible things you have probably encounted. Each floor is themed and gets more dangerous as you keep going deeper into the Ziggurat. But the longer your in the Ziggurat, the more wonderful prizes you'll recive!
Are you up for the Ziggurat challenge?
I am, but before that Nue needed to rest!
This is where my turn ends....
2 runes downs, 3 to go, and now the ziggurat is before us. Considering that the zigguratt appeared in Pandemonium, this mean this is the one time only we got to explore and take out the Ziggurat. I'll let you all decide if we should go. Personally I would like to see how insane this place can be....
Otherwise, Nue's doing fine in Pandemonium. Just keep hunting for the runes if you like.
But for now let's decide if we should go into the ziggurat.
Oh and turn order's the same.
Barasia
Psieye
Totaku
Psieye:
We have 17000+ gold. There is no reason not to take the Ziggurat challenge. The real question is when to stop! The one endgame character I made who got to a Ziggurat managed 8 floors on his first one, then 14 floors on his next one (yes, Pan spawns more Ziggurats as you keep exploring it). The REALLY REALLY bad floors are Pan Lord parties and Daeva spam. Those are floors where you just want to run away with every survival measure switched on - that includes haste and smoke screens (because Smite from an entire room of casters can nuke you fast).