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Nue: "Arrgh! i've spent long time underground before, the denizens of hell are so much more fun than these weaklings. yet......i'm still weak....."
Guardian: "Weak you are, but im sure you know that you'll restore your true powers when you find the Beer of Zun!"
Nue: "
that voice again.....although it sounds different.....i was interested because everyone else seemed to have embarked to find it. But i didn't know that once i entered the dungeon, that i become reduced to such a weakling! if i had known.... and now i seem to have lingering pains. im not sure what is real or my imagination. i seem to remember being severely injured at some point, it felt so real, like dying, but somehow, it turns out to be my imagination. and as i snap out of this imagination a new voice come into my head. sometimes the voice jsut changes....do you know anything about this?"
Guardian: "Nope. i have no idea what you're talking about. you're jsut being delusional."
"
Nue: "i can hide my true form, but hiding true reality.......that never happened to me before....."
Guardian: "enough talk!, lets move on to find that Beer of Zun before someone beat you to it! besides we shouldn't make Flandre bored"
Nue: "Ah yes lets. i kind of like Flandre's sense of humour though, i'd to met her in person one day."
Guardian: "trust me, you dont want to"
Nue: "..."
Guardian: "first things first, show me what you've got. ayaya......so much useless junk~"
Nue: "eh? first i pick them up, now i have to drop them?"
Guardian: "hmm, why'd you leave that wand flandre gave you? oh dear, you just dropped a wand of healing! you shouldn't leave valuable things on the ground like that"
Nue: "i have a feeling its going to be long day"
items dropped:
Buckler (its useless)
Lamp (not good in fire magic nor evo)
all bad potions (at the entrance of elven halls)
The book of Morphology i found in this level will come in handy. the shatter spell will be useful in the future.
After visiting the shop, i decided to buy that glaive. its a glaive of reaching, which means we can extend our attack range by 1 tile.
Nue: "its not as good as my trident (where did it go anyway?) but this is okay. i seem to have forgotten how to thrust again.... <does some practise thrusting and swinging>"
Guardian: "its never too late to start.......remembering how to use one. lets stash our loot back at the shrine"
Back at the shrine, i decided to move some stuff to our lowest stash at the lair.
including that unsightly 42 potions of confusion.
Nue: "ugh! this heavy lifting is supposed to done by men!" <Nue's knees are trembling with every step she can't seem to go up the stairs>
Guardian: "well... <snickers> if its a man's job you say......drink this!"
<Nue suddenly became MANLY. Cho-Nue ftw?!>
<Flandre went 8| >
Nue: "noooo! this has to be the worst form i've ever been in! this feels......weird"
Nue made it up the stairs but halfway, the potion worn off and by the time she made it to the Lair, she collapsed in a heap, exhausted.
Guardian: "theres no time to be lazying around! sort out this mess!"
Nue: "i thought we're supposed to be find that Beer....."
Guardian: "i just can't stand messiness"
Note the trick of seperating large numbers of similiar items.
i seperated the potions and honeycombs into managable chunks.
to seperate them, press"f" to throw.
then "i" to access inventory.
then, the letter corresponding to the item you want to seperate. you can thorw the items at a wall. that way you seperate large numbers of items.
i cant seem to think of a more elegant way of doing this. if someone knows, do tell us.
Note the new equipment setting*
Note the arrow swap with poison arrows. as poison arrows used in sticks to snakes is more powerful*
After that, i did a memory search on Nue to find all Staffs.
a few hundred turns later, i Id'd some nice staves. Keeping the staff of energy and channeling.
Turn quota:2000
Guardian: "Okay, lets try to get that tab in the yukanako pits. with this new equipment, theres no need to hold back! blast your spells all the way!"
Nue: "in there? ugh.....i seem to remember something horrible happening there, but that can't be right. are you sure its a good idea?"
Guardian: "yes, yes. but we should go prepared! it seems you'll mostly just fight close combat, and you have a weak fire spell. your potions wont work on them though, so we wont bring any. any suggestions from you?"
Nue: "how about my new ability to make things go boom? i think its Flandre's doing"
Guardian: "that'll come in handy but its risky...."
Nue: "why are we going in so light weight anyway?"
Guardian: "i've sorted out what we need, you dont want to bring the kitchen sink too do you?"
Guardian: "ah, the yukanakos! ATTACK!"
Using staff of energy, Nue used Ice form.
the yukanakos brought Nue to half life and then a black mamba came and molested her behind.
we were forced to use 1 healing wand charge AND a heal potion to prevent death.
Nue: " ooow.....that was pathethic! i can't believe Im so weak. can't we use any weapons? fighting bare handed against weapons dont seem fair"
Guardian: "we have a whip, which you're experienced at, but i doubt it'll hurt them. lets try our new glaive!"
Nue: "i wonder how powerful is this flame shot? hmm? it seems pretty effective after all, stupid snake didnt even scratch me"
Guardian: "true but, all your mana got spent just to kill one snake. i think we have a strategy coming on...."
Note: weaken enemys with flame shot before engaging in combat. use staff of channeling to get mana. better to spend 10-15 turns channeling rather thatn rest for 50-80 turns.
Nue: "Hmm? whats with all that smoke over there? i see a new ring there on the ground"
Guardian: "i dont know. lets check it out, it could be- OH FUUUUUUU-"
Nue: "Ah? wha? its some kind of strange sta-"
Guardian: "ShutupandShootwiththeDisintegrator!"
After the dust settles...
Nue: <cough cough> "that was relatively easy, we should use this device more.....hey....are you alright?"
Guardian: <Guardian pants heavily in relief>
Nue: "geez, calm down..."
Note the huge exp boost from the Orange Statue* (Btw Totaku, i think it should be Koishi statue, or something, since it messes with our minds)
we spend our exp abit on polearms.
Nue: "This maze is getting annoying"
Guardian: "i have an idea, since we have the staff of energy, just blast your way through the walls!"
Nue: "i like this idea"
as we take it easy on this level, Flandre gets a bit bored and pushes us. what a bitch.
We come across a black mamba that almost killed us. Ice form doesn't seem strong enough to fight well against a mamba (or it could just be Flan draining our hp to half earlier)
As a last resort, (you can see our very low hp), we use Disintegrator and BOOM. a shower of blood and guts.
Nue: "wahahaha! i really like this device now."
Guardian: "dont overuse it, save it for emergencies like just now"
Guardian: FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
We meet a unique orc spellcaster Nergalle. Apparently she's ugly.
in this situation, this is where the Glaive of reaching shines.
we kill Nergalle easily from a distance as well as the two snakes.
Guardian: "even though you are swinging that glaive like a feather duster-"
Nue: "hey...."
Guardian: "-this glaive seems unusually powerful."
Uh oh. the irony. Flaaaaaaannnn~
Anyway, STAGE CLEAR.
our loot in level3 is:
a ring of invisible. good for Upper Eintei and other tough enemies. take note of it.
robe of fire resist. officially wearing it. but you could cahnge back to leather Negative resist if you want.
and before we proceed to next level, Flandre gave us a new weapon!
YOU HAVE TEETH OMG!
Ice Form or Spider form is now awesmoe.
Level 4!
Nue: "Hell yeah, good form dont you think?"
Guardian: "Tank yukanako! It means business!"
Guardian: "also Flandre! THATS KILL STEAL"
Nue: "OH SHI-"
Guardian: "this looks bad. lets bail."
Nue: "agreed!"
We use 1 heal wand charge and 1 blink scroll to escape up. after resting, we came down using different stairs.
Nue: "HA! i knew weapons were much more powerful! now, we're even in terms of firepower!"
Note, NO WONDER ITS POWAFU! its +3+5, thats a full $300 +8 enchanted glaive bought. well worth the money!
Flandre takes us on a tour of the map.
we see more yukanako tanks and a magic using yukanako. (which we kill eventually)
Flandre is being nice.....well, maybe.
Nue: "i dont need these weak subordinates. you see, just a few of these yukanakos took them out."
Guardian: "at least you still can reach over them from behind and weaken the yukanakos"
Nue: "wow, a magical book. huh? i can't seem to read it"
Guardian: "then it must be a good one......definitely keeping it"
We reencounter the yukanako tank that almost kill us.
Guardian: "alright! lets flex this new ability of yours!"
<uses about 60 hp>
Nue: "alright, that was epic pwn. but it hurts like hell.lets not do it again okay?"
Note: Hellfire is unadvoidable. like Fireball. it seems to be Smite targetting which makes it awesmoe! (i haven't comfirmed this yet)
You can try to CHOKEPOINTFU some yukanakos and use your hellfire to kill up to 9 of them.
you can see that it takes 2 hellfires to kill a Tank yukanako.
Keep watch on your hp though. each hell fire costs about 30 hp!
Flandre approves of this Risky move! <gives some money>
Guardian: "hah, sorry Nue, but you bet i'll do it even harder!"
Nue: "but please be gentle...."
Guardian: "..."
We find better polearms as well as a flail of draining (OMG!) from the dead yukanakos.
as well as a ring of fire.
Now we can power up Flame shot.
we also have scroll of torment. use it when lots of enemies in Line of sight. (beware, it halfs enemy hp as well as yours!)
Strategy:
keep resist poison ring on.
Use ring of Fire, and shoot enemies with flame shot.
If enemies get close, Before engage in close combat, take off Ring of fire, and put on Ring of Evasion.
Nue survive so far because she dodged all attacks. i found out that as soon as i take off ring of evasion, she starts taking hits.
Stage is 99% clear.
Flandre seems pleased with our run so far.
Nue: "hah! im getting pretty confident now. things are going pretty smoothly."
Guardian: "But keep in mind, when the going gets easy, you actually going Downhill."
Nue: "well, yes we ARE going DOWN the levels, are we not?"
Guardian: "you're missing the point..."
The flail of draining is over powered. with Maces level10, its the best weapon so far.
BUT keep this in mind.
ANY kills by this weapon will only give HALF exp.
i recommend you weaken the enemy with this flail, then switch to another method for the finishing attack. DONT kill using this weapon if you want more exp.
order of businees?
i recommend:
1. go back and charge Wand of healing. just use ONE recharge scroll for now. Bring wand of Draining (note kills using draining halves exp). i forgot to bring the draining wand
RETURN TO TEMPLE TO GET AMULET OF RAAAAAGGGEEEE (i can't believe i forgot!)
2. bring some food. i ate my rations. you'll need some for the upcoming fight.
3. return to Stash and drop the 'staff of summons', 'Necromicon', and other stuff you think not neccesary such as 'spear of dragon slaying' and 'trident of poison'.
also drop all potions of poison. its useless in this area but may be useful in Eintei.
Note: Big Snakes, Tank Yukanakos give Strong Poison (except for wimpy small ones). Normal yukanakos give normal poison.
Dont over do it and make over 50 poison potions......even if you do, do seperate them.
Tips:
Take note of hunger costs of spells. use staff of energy accordingly.
Use Staff of channelling to get mana. it saves turns.
Use Ctrl+G to quick travel.
Repeat Last Command using ~. you can use that for Channeling, or repeated shooting at a target.
Dont hesitate to blast your way through walls using Dig. Hunger irrelevent using Staff of energy.This is great for making hallways and chokepoints.
ALWAYS keep ring of evasion on when fighting melee.
switch to ring of Fire for ranged combat.
Yukanakos are slow. Dont hesitate to play keep away, and spam fire, as well as retreat and Channel more mana. its sometimes dangerous to fight melee on groups of yukanakos.
you can try to melee one on one, but dont fight more than 3 at once.