Here's a separate post for my run so not to confuse anyone.... In this post we continue Nue's Run...
When we last left off....
Nue had conqured the Visitude of Hell and took care of Gyeron (Meiling) and got the horn that allowed her to open the gates to the 4 hells.
But there was a big question.... where to go now? We could travel through hell, but at our level that would be a huge risk. There's the abyss, but I'm unsure of it, there's the Shaols, but there's Reisen....so where to?
The Vault, as we didn't explore one area: The Crypts.... I'll explain more about that later...
Back at floor 24, Nue decided to explore all the unexplored areas of that floor, mainly killing orcs, giants and other things. Pretty much a basic trip for her thanks to her draining hands.
In fact all that killing allowed Nue to level up to 21! Intellegence up!
Now here's something that isn't common in the dungeon, a giant ameboa. These things mainly appear in the slime put. But they're not that threatening to be honest. If you happen to be hungry though put on some poison resistance cause they can make you feel really sick if you eat them without the proper protection....
Course behind the Ameoba was a who load of other critters, so Nue had to continue to hack her way through... now she unarm combat skills are at 14!
However, Flan wanted to have some fun.... and so she called out a bunch of demons to play with Nue.... Normally by now she would take them on....
But 3 smoke demons and a tormenter don't make a good combo... they slaught Nue's health qucikly...Nue was force to take out the little annoying demon to the right and run down stairs....
Floor 25
Nue was greeted by a bunch of orcs ready to take her on! And thanks to Nue's weakened health, she was in a bit of a nasty perdicerment. She had to resort to using her blade hands along with Sticky flames to wither down the more powerful orcs.
During the fight, Flan decided to enchant the orc's weapon and it glew with strange colors. In case you do not know, the weapon is now a "weapon of Chaos". Chaos type weapons do random effects. Ranging from freezing, buring, slowing down, healing, haste, confusion....pretty much anything!
This weapon can be a blessing or a curse. But I rather not take it, we already have enough prolems with Flan, let's not make it worse for the player.....
Overall though she managed to take out the whole orc squad but bearly.... so after this she regenerated and rested for a while....
Nue decided to check out the dexterity ring down south, she tries it on and....
It was pretty promising, I though it was better so I kept it. ( I didn't know we had a +5 Dex ring at the time....)
Nue later found a potion of healing wounds! SO it worth grabbing, but she also ran into FOEs as well....
A good rule to always remember about FOE's are is that they change colors when they touch one another. And depending on the color, they can do random efffects. Reds can burn you, White can freeze you, Blue can shock you, Purple can make you sick, Green can poison you, and brown ones can corrode your equipment. Since the majority of them were brown I decided to play keepaway with them and sticky flamed them till they all fell.....
Flan decided to telport us near an iron troll. Iron trolls are rather vicious creatures as they are extremly resistant to most elements and can deal a load of hurt, but at the same time are really slow....
But that didn't stop Nue from draining the crap out of it! needless to say, Nue plowed through it like it was nothing...
Course one thing that is always bound to startle you is that when your in the middle of fighting with some orcs, you suddenly get a visit by a boring beetle. Certainly it can be unexpected, but regardlss easy kills non the less...
Flan decided to do some changes to Nue....surprisingly not so bad!
Her health is back to normal, she got stronger, and lost her urges to yell. But became stupid in the process....
Nue then later came across a shop which she thought would have something good, so Nue decided to dig in a see what she could get....
Pretty much wands we already had, but they could serve us. So we could consider possibily coming back here....
Tons of casting later, Nue's enchantment went up...sooner or later we might want to learn haste....
Now here we have a shpinx. These creatures can be pretty nasty with thier smiting and attacks, and the annoying habit to heal. But they are still killable thankfully.
And then Flan decided to be a jerk and drain Nue.... looks like it'll be a while longer before she levels up....
Before too long, Nue cleared Floor 25 and the rest of Floor 24....she went back up to the lair and hive to sort out her goods and put on her equipment and then went down to the vaults where she went to.....
The Crypt!
The Crypt pretty much is a place filled with nothing but the dead. So zombies, skeletons of all different types. And there is of course....maybe vampires too! Food is hard to come by and you'd be lucky if you run into a human let along have one drop a corpses in here. So bring food!
Skeleton warroirs, (on the top right) can either be easy or hard. It all depends on the weapon they carry, and generally they travel in groups. A good word of advice is to fighting them one on one in a corridor if possible. But be careful, they can be sneaky!
Then the unexpected happens... Flan decides to mess with us again! And not in a good way...
Now Nue won't gain as much from meat like she use to... and she's starting to twist and deform again....
Floor 1 of the Crypt didn't have much, so Nue went down to floor 2....
Here Nue found something new....a mummy! A mumy gaurdian to be precise. These guys hit harder than your regular mummy, but otherwise, they're still slow...
Despite the risk she knew about them, Nue decided to take them on, and of course she got cursed, but hey Flan though it was funny!
Then later, Nue ran into a room filled with nothing but zombies and drain powered ghosts.... Full Drain resist on!
Nue was able to keep up with enemy. and slice them apart easily with her blade hands. So that went fairly well...
Now down here is a ghoul, pretty much a tougher version of the necrophange. Claws you, can possible rot you, and it'll eat any corpses on the ground too.
But oddly enough they were fairly easy to fight against....
Now here in this pile of the undead there in the black robe is a necromancer. A mage who specialized in the dark arts. He's usually accomnapy by the undead and tend to have draining spells, but can also weild dagger with draining effect or pain too.
Eventually Flan became ammused with Nue's efforts and decided to give Nue something different....
A legendary deck of card!
Something about it seem like it would be useful so Nue decided to take them....
Afterward, Nue decided to take on the rest of the mummies on the floor.....
Most of the time it was mummy guardians. They mainl cursed Nue with rot, stat drops and drain (but that failed of course)
But there was one danger in the group....
The Mummy preist.
These undead are capable of smiting, summon evil sprits and casting torment upon you! So use caution when dealing with them!
And after killing the preist....
A dark sprits appeared... A Soul Eater
and yes, Flan was amused by this...
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This nasty spirit is known for coming along and draining you very quickly, It's nasty demon, but when you have full drain resistance, it's not that much of a threat...
Pretty much Nue turned her focus on the tormenter and smoke demon before taking out the soul eater (oh and those were all summoned by the mummy priest....
Eventually, Nue reached the stairs to the Tomb. A placed filled with mummies and nothing but mummies!
So unless you like being cursed to hell and back, I wouldn't bother going there unless you go summons to use to fight off the mummies....
Course what did Flan find more awesome.... to make toxic gasses pour from Nue's nose.... gee flan.... how amusing....
Nue tried to go to floor 3 but the stairs she took lead to a bunch of skelotons greeting from the front door....guess we can't go down those set of stairs....
We'll have to try another set...
Course now Nue had to take a brake after all that fighting.... so my turn ends here....
Advice for the next player....
Make sure to keep your staff of energy on, and switch to blade hands when going into combat, it'll be useful here and you won't suffer the effects of magic consumption....
Blade hands are your friends here.
Even though we are somewhat vegitarians now, considering the point of the game, it won't matter too much, we got enough honey combs to make up for it!
Try to find another set of stairs to go down that lacks in too many skeletons like the one I went down....
That's anout all the advice I can give here...
Player list is as follows:
Maullar Maullar
Psieye
Totaku
Anyone want to sign up, don't be afraid, because it can always be fun!
Anyways here's the next Crawl mod for you all to use. Pretty much I did all the changes you seen from the post above...
http://www.mediafire.com/?jzacuhzfjry2yzjIt should be alot more fun to have your hell and pandemonium lords as Touhous now....
Anyways Maullar, good luck and happy crawlling!
