717: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.28-a0-1123 \\ Volcano! Abyss! Bat Minotaur! Chaos trident tactics!
0Playing the free, open source roguelike game Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup on the CAO server over SSH (see https://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/howto to get started), Trunk/git build 0.28-a0-1123-g397d204, as a Minotaur Fighter:
0:00 - in the volcano
30:20 - run 2
54:11 - run 3
1:32:38 - banished to the Abyss!
1:41:28 - run 4
1:51:05 - run 5
2:10:16 - Trident of Sequestration (chaos) artifact
3:30:48 - depth 9: better Dungeon maps!
3:49:35 - stone giant = oo
4:02:38 - bat minotaur!
4:27:18 - Dungeon:11 - orc, orcs, orcs
5:21:29 - wrap!
I teased showing the Pacific Northwest server I found, then got obsessed with impaling monsters and had totally forgotten to show the other server by the end. = o Maybe I'll remember next time (hint: it's crawl.dcss.io, but it's specifically a "testing and development" server).
I'd thought I was all about the axe--being able to hit everyone around you at once!--but I got totally addicted to "v" long-range stabbing tactics after finding that artifact trident! (This last run has been throwing an absurd amount of magic weapons and artifacts at me. : oo) I scorn any monster that can't even hit me from two squares away! I guess I'm a pole-arm minotaur now!
I think I also wanted to get back to about where I'd been before, level-wise, because I felt bad about dying in the volcano. I really didn't realize I'd been playing so long, though--time just flies on me in roguelikes. : oo
Giants are so mean = oooo
It occurs to me now that it was very silly to discard the shield, given how weak my armor is; I think next time I'd better switch to the freezing sling (one handed) from the bow (two handed), and go back through completed floors to find a shield to use. I should try to compare bow and sling damage, I suppose; and do I really use missiles that much? It feels like the bow did come in handy a bit.
Persistent levels and completely random (or non-existent) shops definitely make DCSS a lot more random in term of outcomes than Angband--you can go through and just be stuck with scraps! Well...it keeps you on your toes! = oo SO many of the encounters in this episode felt like (or actually were!) life or death situations! And I still gotta work up the power/nerve to tackle that stone giant in Dungeon:9. = o
Death 1 was me being totally cavalier about the new-to-me monsters surrounding me in that tight volcano encounter, and not checking how much damage they could inflict!
Death 2 was me not counting on a nearly solo orc priest being able to a) keep me Confused for so long and b) have his god Beogh smite me so hard and repeatedly! Sheesh! Gotta get that orc religion I guess (although I found a Beogh shrine later and he was just totally racist against my minotaur so pfff).
Death 3 was me totally daring a scimitar of distortion to "banish" me on unequip--and finding out what banishment means! = ooo I guess I won't do that again...at least not with a character who isn't much more powerful. And does the Abyss just keep teleporting in big monsters against you, or what?
Death 4 was me getting straight ganked by Ijyb with a wand of acid on Dungeon:3! When you only have 33 max HP, turns out that's real bad news!
At this point I'm pretty sick of the beginning Dungeon levels--why did they inflict their absolute worst dungeon design on new players? Just ugly and boring and hard to read and navigate. Sheesh! Really happy D&D or Angband-style square, separated rooms finally start (at least in this last run) at depth 9! But that's a pretty long burrow slog to start each run!!
The amulet of the acrobat has been saving my buns so much! When I run away, they can't hit me! Whewwww!
Psyche Polymorphing me (by spell) into a bat was a hoot! I'd run into Joseph with a wand of polymorph at the start of Dungeon:9, but he didn't use it on me--just fired his sling!
At the start of this recording, the whole finding-the-volcano saga had me kind of on edge about continuing DCSS--but 3 hours of impaling with an artifact trident changed all that! = oo
12/11/21
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