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[penguinofhonor]

I died because I was just jamming left to try and kill this rock beetle, not paying attention to my HP. "Oh, it's almost dead!" has claimed yet another victim.

Time to try a centaur, since I promised ##crawl I would play one after complaining about how much I disliked them.

Also apparently the vampires don't exist anymore? I can't find them on the clans page.

[KaminaSquirtle]

The vampires definitely still exist. You must have missed them somehow.

[penguinofhonor]

Huh. Are they not on the main clans page? I hit ctrl+f for my name and "vampire" and turned up nothing. Then I searched for Bay 12 and found all the other teams.

[vogonpoet]

  The vampires seem to be 37th right now, and can be found searching for 'vam' or 'pen'.

AlStar, nice work, glad I was able to up my game far enough to convince you to up your game 

[penguinofhonor]

Hey, we have a tenth of the points of the first place team.

[vogonpoet]

Bad news: I just got surrounded on Snake 3 by Margery and Boris without any rF.
Good news: Teleport kicked in just in time.

I really feel like my use of consumables is improving a lot this tourney - that's like, the third time I saved a PC by using a teleport scroll in the past few weeks, whereas previously I had lots of deaths where I didn't drink or read anything, and a few deaths waiting for tele to kick in... so definite improvements.

New Crawl motto: consumables, not consavables

[AlStar]

So, I just found this:
the +15 plate armour of Claustrophobia {Str+4}

It's literally the most heavily enchanted thing I've ever found.

Base AC is now 43, base Str is 40.

I better not screw this up.

edit: Anyway, since I'm now at work and can't continue...

Funny thing about this current game: So, early in the dungeon I found sling bullets. A lot of them; call it 120 all told. I decided that this was a pretty obvious way for the game to tell me that slings were a good choice for the future of ranged combat for this character. So whenever I ran across an enchant weapons scroll, I'd hit this huge pile of ammo. I managed to get all the bullets up to +4, and I'm actually still using them, even now that I've just hit level 20 (although I'm down to about a dozen, since the rest have all mulched.)

So, the funny part: I still have not found a sling better than +0, and way down deep in the dungeon now, I'm rather unlikely to run across one either.

Now, don't get me wrong, hurling +4 bullets with 35-someodd strength behind them hurts things. A lot. But I can't believe I haven't found a single enchanted sling in all my travels - usually there's piles of the things, just scattered around the dungeon.

Man I wish I could play Crawl from here.

[vogonpoet]

Speaking of screwing up:

Snake 4 has lava lakes, so after scouting out the edges, I leave all my scrolls on Snake 3, and set out lava worm hunting.

Of course, I bump into Mennas, and recalling how he killed off my last MiBe, I run for the stairs. Of course, he is too fast, and follows me up. I drink my only potion of speed (should have done this first), pillar dance around him, and in desperation (upstairs far away) I head back down to Snake 4.

So now I am on Snake 4, and my scrolls and Mennas are on Snake 3. Mennas may or may not still be near the staircase I left him at. I have more speed potions in a shop in Orc, but don't know whether I can get past him.

I could summon two brothers, go beserk, head up the stairs and pray he is still there, and that we can take him down, or ??

[Xgamer4]

You know who I really hate? Eustachio. I never realized quite how annoying the "flood the room with imps" trick was until he decided to use it on me.

[Toaster]

He's a great target for confusion.

[penguinofhonor]

I just backed into a hallway and let him surround himself with harmless imps while I ignored the one imp on the other side of me. He died quickly, half because he decided he didn't want to blink more than once.

[Moron]

Mennas is one of the toughest opponents outside of Hell and Pan; I don't think I've ever taken him down with a melee character. No matter what I do - berserk, haste, finesse, might, nothing gets past his shield.

Brothers in arms could work since I think shields get less effective against multiple attacks per turn, so someone has a chance of landing a hit.

[vogonpoet]

Well sadly, killing Mennas was the highlight of that MiBe's life. I equipped my amulet of clarity, drank my agility potion, put on my tele ring just in case, summoned two BiA, went up the stairs, hit beserk, found Mennas a few steps away, and killed him with my two bros. So a level 17 MiBe *can* take down Mennas, if he can find time to get the summons in.

I then went and promptly died on Snake 5. I really hate the Salamander lava ending. Anyway, a naga mage teleported me and I ended up in the middle of a pack of mages and warriors, and my own teleport didnt kick in in time. Actually, come to think of it, why the hell didn't I blink instead? Too late now .

[Moron]

I've never seen the salamander ending of Snake... sounds nasty. In my current game I came across a Crypt ending I've never seen before: the one with dead trees and a graveyard surrounding a creepy castle type thing with deep dwarves, ghouls and a profane servitor.

Don't forget you can cancel an unwanted teleport by using one of your own before it kicks in.

[Leafsnail]

Psyche says, "Leafsnail, I like you."

Psyche says, "Don't worry. I'm here with you."

...Why did I recruit the creepiest unique.  I mean I guess her distortion brand gets shit done but this is seriously weird.

EDIT: Traded her in for Aizul.  This guy is pretty awesome.  I guess I'm wasting all my piety on servants but this is just too cool.