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Spoily? I suppose.
Well that was annoying.
I had a decent drakish mindcrafter going. I made an early executive
decision to chance quarterstaves as my main weapon in the game. I
started with a decent (+2, 1d10+2) one. After ducking into the SMC and
quickly exhausting my PP, I went to the ID to level up and train my
weapon skills. I gathered up crude knives to throw around, and I relied
on them heavily; in fact, my Thrown Knives skill was usually higher than
Staves at that point. I stayed in the ID for quite a long time, up until
at least experience level 8, training my weapons skills and gathering
junk. My staff got blown somewhere; then my backup (turned out to be
cursed) got blown as well, so I got a sword on. I hadn't picked up any
shields though (they were all mediocre up to that point) so I began a
desperate hunt for a quarterstaff. And I found one (anticlimactic?). I
had a skill of about 7 by then, so I was getting good DV out of staves.
I began going through the VD just fine; then I encountered some white
worms on VD:6 while I was exploring. I tried killing them quickly, but
they wouldn't go down easily. Finally I killed the ones I could see and
began checking the level for more. The situation was much worse than I
had anticipated.
About 270 white worms later, I had to leave the level. They were still
inexperienced at that point, but I couldn't get to the downstairs, and
even if I could, I wouldn't be able to lead Yrrigs up to the healer. I
needed to do a lot more damage quickly; my current vanilla staff and
mindcraft were not going to do it. Acid spit was out of the equation, as
I could only carry so many rations at a time. I went to the PC, cleared
it all except the ants, bought Detect Traps, and allowed myself then to
change to Lawful.
I realized that, if I could get the wand of teleportation out of the
VDD, charge it up with booze, and loot Darkforge, I could probably find
a very, very nice quarterstaff in there. I reckoned if I was lucky
enough to find a quicksilver staff, I'd be able to clear those worms
more effectively, get my Healing and have that down for the drakish
Tower assault. (Damn, I realized while I was typing that sentence that I
could have used a potion of healing to get the skill. Shoot.)
My big pile of orcish knives had gotten rusted, so, seeing as I had yet
to find an altar for precrowning anyway, I decided to go down to
Dwarftown and visit Glod, si be damned. I'd try to ID my equipment and
see if I have anything suitable for dealing with the VDD and getting the
wand. I killed a troll and got my ID. I was level 13 by then, and I had
discovered I was carrying, among other things, an orcish knife of
devastation. I don't know why, at the time, I thought that would be good
for DF, but apparently I did, so I began training it.
Around this time, I was going to make myself a grilled cheese sandwich.
I put the mess in my toaster oven (my real oven doesn't work) and I turn
the thing on. I could hear the whirr of the landlady's vacuum cleaner
upstairs.
So I slay a kobold above Dwarftown with the knife, and my screen goes
blank. The lights go out. My sandwich sits ungrilled and the vac is
inaudible. My alarm clock dies. The lights in the back of the apartment
dies. In the kitchen and bedroom everything is working fine. Apparently
there's a rather odd configuration in this house.
Landlady is at my door, asking me to flip the breaker switch. I grab a
penlight, go find the box, flip the switch, get my oven going again, and
reboot the machine to find a bunch of useless files in the tmpdat folder.
This was actually a fun character going here. Now I better understand
why people bother backing up their characters.
I'm going to bed.
--
Curry Bucket's Controversial Web Presence:
The Birthplace of Teenage Angst
http://chat.carleton.ca/~jsingh3/
or http://www.currybucket.cjb.net/
Spoily? I suppose.
Well that was annoying.
I had a decent drakish mindcrafter going. I made an early executive
decision to chance quarterstaves as my main weapon in the game. I
started with a decent (+2, 1d10+2) one. After ducking into the SMC and
quickly exhausting my PP, I went to the ID to level up and train my
weapon skills. I gathered up crude knives to throw around, and I relied
on them heavily; in fact, my Thrown Knives skill was usually higher than
Staves at that point. I stayed in the ID for quite a long time, up until
at least experience level 8, training my weapons skills and gathering
junk. My staff got blown somewhere; then my backup (turned out to be
cursed) got blown as well, so I got a sword on. I hadn't picked up any
shields though (they were all mediocre up to that point) so I began a
desperate hunt for a quarterstaff. And I found one (anticlimactic?). I
had a skill of about 7 by then, so I was getting good DV out of staves.
I began going through the VD just fine; then I encountered some white
worms on VD:6 while I was exploring. I tried killing them quickly, but
they wouldn't go down easily. Finally I killed the ones I could see and
began checking the level for more. The situation was much worse than I
had anticipated.
About 270 white worms later, I had to leave the level. They were still
inexperienced at that point, but I couldn't get to the downstairs, and
even if I could, I wouldn't be able to lead Yrrigs up to the healer. I
needed to do a lot more damage quickly; my current vanilla staff and
mindcraft were not going to do it. Acid spit was out of the equation, as
I could only carry so many rations at a time. I went to the PC, cleared
it all except the ants, bought Detect Traps, and allowed myself then to
change to Lawful.
I realized that, if I could get the wand of teleportation out of the
VDD, charge it up with booze, and loot Darkforge, I could probably find
a very, very nice quarterstaff in there. I reckoned if I was lucky
enough to find a quicksilver staff, I'd be able to clear those worms
more effectively, get my Healing and have that down for the drakish
Tower assault. (Damn, I realized while I was typing that sentence that I
could have used a potion of healing to get the skill. Shoot.)
My big pile of orcish knives had gotten rusted, so, seeing as I had yet
to find an altar for precrowning anyway, I decided to go down to
Dwarftown and visit Glod, si be damned. I'd try to ID my equipment and
see if I have anything suitable for dealing with the VDD and getting the
wand. I killed a troll and got my ID. I was level 13 by then, and I had
discovered I was carrying, among other things, an orcish knife of
devastation. I don't know why, at the time, I thought that would be good
for DF, but apparently I did, so I began training it.
Around this time, I was going to make myself a grilled cheese sandwich.
I put the mess in my toaster oven (my real oven doesn't work) and I turn
the thing on. I could hear the whirr of the landlady's vacuum cleaner
upstairs.
So I slay a kobold above Dwarftown with the knife, and my screen goes
blank. The lights go out. My sandwich sits ungrilled and the vac is
inaudible. My alarm clock dies. The lights in the back of the apartment
dies. In the kitchen and bedroom everything is working fine. Apparently
there's a rather odd configuration in this house.
Landlady is at my door, asking me to flip the breaker switch. I grab a
penlight, go find the box, flip the switch, get my oven going again, and
reboot the machine to find a bunch of useless files in the tmpdat folder.
This was actually a fun character going here. Now I better understand
why people bother backing up their characters.
I'm going to bed.
--
Curry Bucket's Controversial Web Presence:
The Birthplace of Teenage Angst
http://chat.carleton.ca/~jsingh3/
or http://www.currybucket.cjb.net/
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