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[Sirus]

Let us continue the adventure of Hopson! He becomes an Ingoteer and grows slightly stronger and more skilled.



Ah, a glorious bounty! A whole room full of magnificent lutefisk! Lutefisk, in real life, is basically fish paste and popular in Norway. In-game, it's the worst healing item possible. Why do I like it? We'll find out later.



Hopson finds this laying randomly on the floor. 2 toxic and 1 necromantic resistance is nothing to sneeze at, even if we lose our tiny amount of radiance resistance. Hopson puts it on.



Remember those bolts that Hopson learned how to make? Found some near the mummy ring. Deals a respectable amount of damage while drawing struck enemies closer to us.



Found our first mushrooms in a chest. These Odious Puffballs become throwing weapons that confuse their targets. Could be useful.



PRAISE ARMOK...er, I mean KRONG! These anvils will turn any one piece of equipment into an artifact, imbuing it with all sorts of extra powers...unless Krong is displeased with you.
Since the anvil can only be used once, and we're still using newbie equipment, I pass it up for now.



Couple new fungi here. The purplish one is Lobstermane, and it helps us take more physical damage for a while. The other is Azure Mob-Bonnet, which increases our magic power.
The odd bronze thing partially hidden behind the table is an Uber Chest (tm), and requires a lever somewhere on this floor to be pulled. They usually contain valuable artifacts, and so it is worth hunting for the proper lever.



Ah mah gawd. Food, booze, a second Uber Chest (tm), an icicle wand, a couple of normal chests, a bookcase, a lever, and that Eyeball Shrine we needed for the quest. Shame that we don't yet have the proper item, but that's half the quest over.
There's also a fountain here. We can drink from it, but the effect is totally random. Could be a buff, could be poison, could refil our health or mana. Risky business.



Found this in the bookcase. It's basically a double-bladed clockwork chainsaw-axe. Shame that we didn't take tinkering



Pull the lever...and the Uber Chest (tm) opens up!



A quick check shows that, aside from the decreased speed and magic power, it is superior to Hopson's current shield, and even throws in increased health regeneration to boot! He quickly equips it.



Another Inconsequentia shrine. This one wants us to wipe out Dredmor's 79th Platoon, the Enormous Vessels, and kill their leader. Hapson, of course, agrees.



While hunting for the 79th Platoon, Hopson finds another Anvil of Krong. This time however, Hopson has some metal bars. Time to put that smithing skill to good use and craft some artifact-worthy equipment!



First, some Bronze Greaves to replace the flip-flops that he's currently wearing.



Second, a Rough Iron Axe to replace the Stone-Age-tech weapon.

Now...what should he offer to Krong?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bronze Greaves
Rough Iron Axe
Cap With a Cog on It
Iron Breastplate
Adventuring Gloves
Mummy Ring
One of our current artifacts (crossbow, shield)
or
some other item that we're not currently using?

[Seriyu]

I will go with my old standby of kronging the hell out of a single ring.

So krong the mummy ring.

[Darkmere]

Is that cherry pie-looking thing and the orange slice in the food pic from a mod or part of the new Xpack I haven't seen yet?

Also, I second the ring. Krong *always* hates me, so I try for a multi-curse challenge. How low (in every stat) can you go?

[Sirus]

Is that cherry pie-looking thing and the orange slice in the food pic from a mod or part of the new Xpack I haven't seen yet?

Not entirely sure. I basically added all of the DLCs and mods at the same time - until YHTNTEP and Steam Workshop support was released, my game was pure vanilla :/

[ivanthe8th]

If we can easily come back to this floor after leaving it, I'd say to leave the anvils for now. Let's wait for some better items.

Edit: Change the smithing skill in my suggested character to alchemy please

[Sirus]

Welcome back! The voices in Hopson's head (the majority of them, anyway) tell him to place his mummified ring on the anvil as an offering to Krong. He steps up, whispers a few reverential words, and lays it down.



Success! Krong is pleased with the gift and blesses the ring with voltaic resistance! Hopson slips the ring back onto his finger with a word of thanks.



With his backpack rapidly filling up, Hopson heads back to Brax's shop to sell some of the less useful items.
Nearly 3000 zorkmids later, his inventory is considerably lighter. I use some of the money to buy him a pair of Fabulously Striped Pants, which increase dodge and block ability. Better than running around in his underwear.



He's looking pretty well kitted out now. Could use some more damage though. Time to resume exploration in the meantime.



Another store...sadly not really anything worth buying (that we could afford). Moving on.



Hey, a potion of healing! Unlike most items/spells, these give you roughly 20 HP in an instant, perfect for getting out of any tight spots later. Hopson grabs it.
He finds a second one in the next room



Found this bad boy in what appears to be a jail cell. Hopson swaps it for Varval, as this one deals more piercing damage plus some blasting damage.



We find some enraged diggles in another jail cell. There doesn't appear to be any way to open the door, and we don't have any teleportation moves. Lucky day, dudes.



Ah-ha! Just gotta bring this to the Eyeball Shrine.



It turned into a...
Whatever. Time for a reward!



...thanks for nothing, Inconsequentia.
So anyway, I'm in the middle of slaying some monsters...



...when that happens. We need a new ability, folks!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Axe Skill: Viking Strike
Has a chance to perform a special attack in combat. Also increases counter chance and accuracy.

Shield Skill: Duck and Cover!
Has a chance to increase defense for a while after getting hit. Also increases block chance.

Berserker Skill: Viking Temperment
Has a chance to increase attack power for a while after getting hit.

Master of Arms Skill: Suit Up
A cooldown ability. When active, your defensive abilities are increased. Also passively increases block chance and piercing resistance.

Smithing Skill: Metallurgical Practitioner
Increases burliness, promethean resistance, and smithing level.

Demonology Skill: Fervor of the Flagellant
When hitting or being hit by a demon, has a chance to provide a buff to damage resistance and damage, at the cost of a little health.

Clockwork Skill: Rocket Jump
This ability will detonate explosives at your current location, allowing you to jump to another point within sight range. However, you will also take damage from using this ability. Also passively increases tinkering skill.

[ivanthe8th]

I'm going to continue voting for smithing until we reach max level. In the short term it will allow us to make armor faster than we can find it, in the long term we can use it to boost our income by making improved items. Plus we're getting burliness, which will boost our damage output.

[Seriyu]

I will go for Duck and Cover actually. Increasing your chances to (mostly) nullify any physical attack is always nice.

[Jarod Cain]

I'm going to vote for smithing.

While installing FTL earlier today, I noticed that I actually own this game on steam. I may have to install it.
-J-

[Neonivek]

If smithing gets more interesting later... then smithing.

I'd love to make a mechanics + Smithing combo

[Sirus]

If smithing gets more interesting later... then smithing.

I'd love to make a mechanics + Smithing combo

Smithing makes you stronger and able to craft cooler stuff...that's about it. Helpful, but not entirely interesting.

You want interesting, choose just about any other skill

[Darkmere]

Smithing on its own is utilitarian. It DOES directly boost some of the abilities in Clockwork Knight, though.

[Sirus]

Smithing on its own is utilitarian. It DOES directly boost some of the abilities in Clockwork Knight, though.

Nope! That's Tinkering.
Ok, some of the smithing levels also boost tinkering, but the Tinkering skill might have been a better choice (especially considering that most of the clockwork weapons and armor are made with Tinkering instead of Smithing).

[Darkmere]

Nope! That's Tinkering.

... So it is! Fun useless fact: at some point in the YHTNTEP beta, the rocket punch and another later skill scaled off smithing level. Now they seem to scale with Burl instead. The tooltip wasn't updated, that's what threw me. I am really interested to see where this character goes, though. Lots of nice tanky potential in the skill set.

[Seriyu]

I find it lovely that despite basically picking what skills looked cool, this has basically turned out as a decent skillset. Then again that's kind've the appeal of DoD, I guess. There aren't a lot of absolutely horrible no chance skill loadouts.

Certainly ones that are an uphill fight, but.