I generally hang out at #touhoucon on irc.ppirc.net, but I know there's a more appropriate location called #maidenhack where these kind of things are discussed.
As far as I'm concerned you can come to either place and I'll be there. (preferably #touhoucon)
Anyways, Wakasagihime's run is done! So now it's fill you in on Wakasagihime's story thus far...
Floor One: The Adventure begins
Besides what was present on the first floor at the entrace Wakasagihime ventured through the first floor. It turned out that what Wakasagihime would find on that floor was strangely....uneventful. Very few things were on the ground there.
She picks of a few scrolls on the floor as wonders what she's going to find down here.
"This place seems very quiet to me..."
Just then however, some came crawling around the corner of the corridor.
It was a rat...
"I suppose I can try testing my magic on this."
As soon as Wakasagihime touches the rat, the freezes solid as it becomes frozen in ice before falling over.
"This might come in handy actually."
So with that the mermaid decided to venture around a bit. Before long she confronted something else different...
a short little stubby creature in brown skin that dressed in rugged clothes...
A goblin!
"Don't I remember seeing these things running around that red mansion that's just outside of my home? They awfully familiar!"
Needless to say the goblin was not willing to talk and came after Wakasagihime with his dagger. However the mermaid found some darts next to her, picked them up and started throwing them at the goblin.
She soon as the goblin came up next to Wakasagihime she touches the creature and freezes him to death.
"I'll take that!"
The mermaid snatches the dagger from the now dead goblin's hand.
"This might acutually become useful! I'll keep it for now."
With that, she takes the dagger and started chopping up the goblin into edible chunks...
"I get the feeling this dungeon is going to be pretty big... so I might need something to eat on the way..."
As she continued the first floor she confronted a taller lankier goblin.
This of course was the hobgoblin. The taller and slightly meaner cousin of the goblin. They're generally not threatening, but if you are under prepared (which Wakasagi wasn't) they can be troublesome.
Needless to say this was easy pickings for the mermaid.
Besides that she ran into a few other strange things in the first floor...
Giant newts...
Packs of Jackles....
But really... nothing too threatening.... this floor has very little to offer.
The mermaid would however find stairs that went further down...
"I guess I should go deeper within... it may be the only way I'm going to find the beer of ZUN"
And so she descends down to the second floor...
Floor 2: It's only going to get worse...
As Wakasagihime enters the second floor she noticed how things were beginning to slowly become different as she continued her adventure.
She goes and collects her belonging and finds a set of javelins. (which she might have gotten back on floor 1)
"I think I'll need these."
Before too long she came across something different.
A Remillia yukkuri! These little yukkuri are fast and frail. So at best they're annoying. Thankfully this one was asleep with onr quick stab...
"UUuuu...u"
It died... and became Wakasagihime's next meal.
Then Wakasagihime confronted a sleeping Gnoll.
Gnolls are dangerous since they usually come in groups and are usually armed with polearms and in some occasion have throwing nets. Obviously we're going to avoid them for now and fight them later...
Wakasagihime later came across a strange alter covered in skulls...
It was the Alter of Orin (Kiku)
Choosing to worship her would mean being able to summon corpses and develop necromatic immunities and possible protection from torment and so forth... but personally this is probably not Wakasagihime's forte so she ignored the alter and moved onward...
She soon came up to fight against a giant mite
These things are not tough but they can be annoying mainly due to the fact they can poison you with thier bites. By this point Wakasagihime has learned throw Frost which allows her to throw ice magic farther away hitting her enemies from the distance.
Wakasagihime later found a strange room that consisted of gear and inside of it were a batch of kobolds.
Generally kobold are not threatening on thier own, but on occasion they can have equipment and throwing weapons like darts and sometime blowguns with poison needles.
Keep in mind you can't eat them because they're poisonous.
One of the kobold had a poisonous dagger which she managed to poison but she successfully killed it before she could get too damaged.
(Hint: in this version, poison will show how much HP you will loose over a period of time. Keep in mind though, that if your bar is yellow all the way through that's an indicator you'll loose all your HP (give or take that you'll regenerate HP as you go. So you might get some green. But if the situation gets ugly ALWAYS use a potion of curing to remove the poison)
So with this the mermaid walked out with a poison dagger and some gloves that she is now equipped with!
Eventually she found a special spear and decided to equip it.. it was a spear of piercing!
Basiclly this spear doesn't do much different from normal spears, but it can deliver extra damage to enemies which Wakasagihime needs.
Explantion about Spear based weapons: Spear and other kinds of poll arms are notable because they have the abilitiy to reach farther than normal weapons. Most spears are capable of attacking enemies from 2 tiles away allowing you some space between you an your enemy. To top it off, mermaids like Wakasagihime here are VERY GOOD at using spears, which means having her train in this feild will allow her to eventually attack faster more efficiently with proper training. So she can be leveled up in her spear skills much quicker compared to most units.
She also confronted an adder which are pretty fast snakes that can also bite and poison you, but ice magic work effectively on them.
(Hint: Any creature that's cold blooded can be slowed down using ice magic (most paticular freeze) on them resulting in them becoming easier to fight against.)
And eventually she decided to take a short against the gnolls... to her surprise there were actually two groups close together consisting of 7-8 gnolls in total... so the only thing she could do was lore them out in slow numbers and pick them off gradually.
Eventually she got to fighting the gnoll with the halberd but she got stuck in a nasty situation once...
When fleeing... you NEVER want to get stuck between a pack of enemies because it'll spell your own doom if you're not careful. Thankfully bats fly randomly.. so the remilia yukkuri moved out of the way allowing for Wakasagihime to move to a better position to get the advantage on the gnoll.
And thus the gnoll was killed allowing for Wakasagihime to take his Halberd with her.
"This is starting to get more intense I see and I'm only two floors in... no wonder why the spirit told me the rules of Gensokyo do not apply here... everyone after each others' blood! It's a terrifying war zone in here...just for a bottle of beer."
Wakasagihime begin to ponder about the dangers of this dungeon as she explored and found another set of stairs going down...
"I can only fear what I'll run into next..."
She proceeds down the stairs...
Floor 3:Urameshiya!
This floor looked like a series of rooms.... with multiple paths that lead to more rooms...
As the mermaid explored she came across a gap on the floor.
"I'm glad I didn't step in it, I have no idea what it might do."
(Telepotation traps: Simple traps that when you step in them will randomly teleport you somewhere in the dungeon floor, while they may be resourceful they can also be potentially dangerous on unexplored maps such as this one. These can be nulled out if you have stasis.)
Eventually Wakasagihime found a strange room.... it was a cave full of bats... but not of the usual sorts. They were bats that were strange in thier own ways.
There were bats that were fat, bats that were small, bats the could shift through time and space, bats made of ice, bats made of leather, bats that were well past thier expiration date! It has everything!
There was only one thing to do... cue the
BATMAN SONG!
BAP! BONK! WACK! SPLORK!
The bats would fall one by one as Wakasagihime swatted them down...eventually she managed to take out all the bats, but there was nothing notable about this place...so she pressed onward...
It wouldn't be long until she encountered someone she didn't expect...
(Pay no heed to the "Sigmund" above her name for she's not Seigmund)
"Urameshiya!"
When Wakasagihime turned to see who said it she spotted a girl dressed in light blue carrying an umbrella.
"Did I surprise you? Possibly even scare you?" said the girl in light dress questioned.
"I know if I was really surprised by that honestly, but you surely stand out in the dungeon that's for sure. Do I remember you seeing you come by my lake at one point?"
Wakasagihime asked the girl.
"Perhaps, but I'm not usually fond of surprising fish, they're way too easy to surprise. But you on the other hand..."
The girl takes her umbrella and waves it around breifly as the tounge that comes out of it begins to take the form of a sharp curve blade....
"...seem to be much harder to scare compare to normal fish...."
Wakasagihime begin to step back as the girl begin to slowly approach her...
"I am Kogasa Tatara, the Karasara who is the master of surprise! If I can't scare you easily... then I shall scare you....
TO DEATH!
Kogasa is pretty dangerous to fight early on, mainly because she has a wide range of deadly spells that can incapacitate an adventurer very quickly... She can turn invisible, she can throw flames, magic darts and can confuse you! These combination are known to kill many early adventuers before they get started.
"I don't have for this, I need to get out of her and look for another direction!"
Wakasagihime fled and escaped from Kogasa and returned back upstairs and went down another flight of stairs to another place on the 3rd floor.
Kogasa mainly found lots of potions and scrolls here and the only notable thing she found was a worker ant.
Worker ants are fast and slightly tougher, plus they can poison you, but thankfully they're edible.
Thankfully Wakasagihime did not confront Kogasa again and learend Letty's Armor (Ozucobu's Armor) and Condensation Sheild.
They spells allow Wakasagihime to create a protecting film of armor and sheild out of ice... it's great to add protection from damage, but it's vunerable to fire and it will melt away in due time (much fast if hit by flames.)
She desends down to the next floor...
Floor 4: The Cat, The Rainbow Spenders, and the Kobold Slave Driver
Wakasagihime attempted to try to go down but found her surrounded and attempted to move to another place to see if she can make some progress.
She was able to make some head way when she confronted something different...
It was a cat...
Natasha: Natasha is a feild type unique that appears early in the game. She fasts and quick and can case various spells like magic darts, slow and summon imps. What make her troublesome is if she summons imps because she can surrounder heself with meat shields very quickly while she continues to pelts you with magic.
Wakasagihime readies her ice magic and fights the cat be freezing it...
"RAAOOOOWWW!!!"
The cat dies before her... but then Wakasagihime hers a raspy voice....
"I...refuse....to... die....yet......"
The catch to Natasha is that like any cat, she has nine lives... She's wasted 7 of them as of right now... so she's been brought back to life somewhere in this dungeon floor. In order to completely kill her she need to be killed to more times....
There was also Blork the Orc.... but he's not that threatening.... he was killed easily.
Wakasagihime continued to explored the dungeon till she found a door. She attempts to open it only to find it open it's mouth and bite down on her hand!
It was a Door Mimic!!
Mimics come in different varairities, but thankfully this is the weakest version of the mimics. So what Wakasagihime did was freeze the door until she broke apart.
Once again she finds Natasha and freezes the cat one more
"MROOOW!!!"
The cats dies once more....
"I refuse....to die....."
Wakasagihime realize the cat must still be alive...
She continues to explore hoping to find the more things, but she only finds more trouble.
First she finds the Alter of Mamizou (Nexluem) The Trickster god who is the master of the cards. Having her would mean you'll be using cards for most of your battles...
She also confront a batch of orcs, an orc preist and a phantom.
Orcs are pretty garden varairty enemeis, usually come armed and armored.
Orc preists on the other hand are troublesome because they tend to use the power of Byakuren's Divine Power (Brough) to smite thier enemies from the distance.
Phantoms on the other hand are harder to fight since they are undead...and because Ice Elementalist users don't perform well again the undead we have to perform a differentv method to fight them. Basiclly Ice Armor and Ice Sheild + use spear of piercing and melee them.
Before she could really prepare for it though she got surrounded really fast.
By Natasha, orcs, goblin, gnolls and an adder.
"This is getting too dangrerous! I need to get out of here!!"
She attempted to flee while taking out take the adder and Natasha!
Natsha finally falls and the vengful spirit of the cat now vanishes leaving behind a dry corpse and some potions which Wakasaghime picks up and runs as she continues to escape from the horde of enmies before her.
She find an escape hatch and kills off a few orcs before fleeing upstairs and find a set of stairs to return down...
Eventually she find the pack and kills them off and the find a human bounded in chains....
It appears to be a human slave, and he seems to be under a spell as he attempts to come after Wakasagihime and attempts to kill her. She had no choice but to kill the slave and eat his corpse. But before too long she find the slave driver..
"Who here killed on of my valuable wares? Was it you?"
Before the mermaid could answer the Kobold pulled out his whip...
"You don't look like a normal human, I bet I could fetch a valuable price if I can tame you.... my fellow salve capture this wench so I can put her up for sale!"
Pikel: A kobold slave driver who mainly captures humans and sells them off as slaves. He usually has an elemental whip that can do some form of damage. And almost always has a pack of slave near him at all times. If he's seperated from his slaves it becomes easier to fight him, but he still by no means a push over.
Wakasagihime attempted to freeze Pikel and keep her distance from him until he got closer. Eventually she started to use freeze as she was next to him. His slaves were coming closer as she continued to fight him but before the slaves could arrive. Wakasagihime was able to deliver the final blow to Pikel.
"To think... I was killed by this stupid wench.... All I wanted was ....to make money off from you...."
With his dying breath the kobold falls to the ground and the slave suddenly wake up from thier deep trance...
"What happened.... have we finally been freed?!"
"Yes, I do not think he will be controling you anymore." The mermaid nodded.
The freed slaves bow before her as they thank her for releasing them from thier cursed lives and then flee out of the dungeon....
Wakasagihime assess what has been going on in the dungeon as she thinks to herself.
"There's so much I could accomplish if I just had legs.... and I'm begining to see this now. But yet this dungeon has so many terrible things going on in it. I wonder what in store for me here I get the feeling I have no seen the worst of it yet..."
For Wakasagihime, her has only begun and she has only taken her first few steps into the Dungeon of ZUN. Many more terrible things await her down the road... it'll only be a matter of time before she begins to see what they are... for now... she take a moment to rest and eat a pear while she gets ready for her next move...
Time take: One hour
Turns taken: 5500
My advice:
I want to remind you that Kogasa is STILL ALIVE up in floor 3 of the dungeon. So tread up there only if you think you can fight her otherwise don't pay much attention to her for now.
Wakasagihime is hungry so try to get deeper into the dungeon and get some food. She's pretty limited on food ATM so she's only get so far with it. Try to get corpses instead.
Keep in mind I have: A dagger of poison, a spear of pericing, and a halberd. Make use of them.
As for spells: Freeze, Throw frost, Letty's Armor, and Condensation Sheild. Make use of those and make sure you have food because the later spells can consume her appetite.
That's is for here! If you want to see the fortage from the run you can go here
http://www.livestream.com/totaku/video?clipId=pla_e227eddd-cd89-4f37-9cad-972615ae27f0&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumbAnd the file for Wakasagihime is in the attachment below.
Download it and put it in the save folder so you can continue your Wakasagihime's journey into
THE DUNGEON OF ZUN!
Good luck! You will need it Raitika!
Also forgot, I'm still playing so sign me up again
