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[FakerFangirl]

EDIT2: The random teleports were given along with Blurry Vision by an Orb of Fire, I could have lived if I had drank one of my 12 potions of mutation on my person

Ahh! I've died to blurry vision too. I will try the mutation potion next time.

[Not good with names]

I'm no more likely to win this VpFe than any of my other games I've run, but At the very least I'm enjoying the fact that my hydra killing move this game is going to be animate skeleton/inner flame.  It's pretty satisfying, I won't deny.

[TheDarkStar]

Here is a lesson I learned, illustrated with MSPaint.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Probably the best advice that's helped me get past Lair I've been given is to spam your wands at any Hydras if you use chopping weapons. Like, a few puffs from a wand of flame as they approach is usually enough for me to smack down the rest of their HP before they get too many heads.

Yeah, I usually just go for a nice flaming weapon of any kind (or failing that, any decently enchanted flail/morningstar/other unedged weapon), but in this run I was going unarmed and had just gotten Blade Hands up for Lair. I ran into a hydra, cast blade hands, pressed tab a few times, and was torn to pieces.

[Tegga21]

For hydras with a choppy class.

Wands > Nets > swap to alternate branded cross-class melee weapon that has dropped (preferably no poison) if all else fails a fast non choppy weapon with brand.

Also, 6-7 headed hydras have more HD than 4-5; and 8 = just run away and fight it another time.

[FakerFangirl]

Livestreaming Formicid Wizard! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKkfhUD4Pkg

Edit:  (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[Not good with names]

Yawn.  Was playing a troll monk just to get Pious III banner and what do you know, pulled out a win.  Zin is a solid god.  Not terribly exciting except at a certain point I thought I was going to run out of food in Vaults, I guess all the speechifying makes you work up an appetite.

So, yeah, third win and Pious III banner Whoop Whoop

[AlStar]

Man, wish I could pull out a win. Up to 6 runes collected (over all my characters), but the closest I've come to actually winning is only Zot:1 - and that game took me 11 hours.

I think I might just play nothing but MiFi's of Okawaru till I manage to force a win.

[FakerFangirl]

Here comes the bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cWAy4UBIuQ

[FakerFangirl]

◠(°v°)◠･ﾟ✧ Bird versus DUNGEON ✧︵(･v･)︵

[Not good with names]

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/PeteStorm/PeteStorm.txt

My current GrAE attempt, where at the very least I've got the high score running at the moment. 

Going to see if I can pull this one out for a win in about an hour or so, feel free to give any notes/advice for it.  Basically mostly melee'ing with Freezing cloud at the moment, not entirely sure if I'm going to splurge on something like firestorm or not.  Was thinking of going extended, although that'll depend on consumables after I grab a third rune and clear zot.

Also, man, I've had the frail mutation since D:3.  Early ring of wizardry and meph cloud did wonders on this run.

[AlStar]

I was partially joking about the MiFi of Oka thing, but I'm playing my first one and it's going really well - just picked up my third rune after 2.5k turns down in the Abyss, which (aside from the scare of running into a profane servitor in my first 27 turns) was a breeze - there's a reason why this combination is suggested to new players.

Edit: Win! First since version 12.1

[Not good with names]

And I'm just not going to do slime anymore.  Too much stair hugging.  Also I had already cleared Zot and I should've just won it already.

[TheDarkStar]

Slime isn't too bad if you have a few certain things and absolutely impossible if not. You HAVE to have rCorr or you'll die, but you also need a weapon with good damage to kill slimes before they can corrode you down (which happens even with rCorr, but much more slowly). Also, you don't need to clear all of Slime, since there's no floor loot until the vault at the end. Speaking of which, you have to have a way to kill TRJ at the end. I usually go for a few scrolls of immolation and rF++/+++, but magic might work if your character already has a few good spells. I also once watched someone read a scroll of vulnerability and then use a wand of polymorph to turn TRJ into a golden dragon and then kill it, but idk if that still works in the current version.

tl;dr: have rCorr, don't clear floors, have a foolproof way to kill TRJ.

[FakerFangirl]

As soon as I'm like, "Yeah!! I've cleared the toughest part of the game!" I fall down three levels and get banished. Item generator decided not to give me teleport or blink scrolls or abyss exit. I shoulda just potioned and killed stuff. Also, shields are crazy-important for midgame.

[Graven]

Damn it I just can't get a Jiyva win - things always fall apart in Depths. Now I lost a stoneform Naga to a teleport trap into a bunch of Very Ugly Things into a Juggernaut out of the blue. I had no rF, and just a pip of rC, so I was kind of limited in my choices.

So sad