Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[3]

Anyone know what a disk of storms does?

[Frumple]

Knowledge bot says:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wield and Evoke to shoot zaps, lightning bolts, and ball lightning in random directions. Missile deflection is recommended. And don't stand within 3 spaces of a wall. Cannot be used if insulated. The chance of working, number of effects caused, and spell power all correlate to your evocations skill. Also makes rain.

Crawlwiki says:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It appears in the game as a grey disc.

This extremely powerful item can unleash a destructive storm of electricity. It is especially effective in the hands of one skilled in air elemental magic, but cannot be used by one who is not a conductor.

[3]

Hm. I searched on the wiki but didn't find anything. Anyway, it's probably useless at the moment since I have 0 evocations.

[Frumple]

Okay, what the hell. My lil' offline MDFi trundles his way through to D:5 (the first of about six to make it this far), handily fending off the orcs and giant frogs that consist of the worst of my foes.

THEN! Shop! Black bear. Ice beast, which escapes. Another shop! Ogre. Blork the bloody Orc. Ice Beast comes back! Third shop! Gold Dragon Armor (That I can't really use until I hit armor 18, but still!)! CENTAUR WITH DISPERSAL ARROWS! Ijyb! Another Ice Beast, with a scorpian friend! The fourth shop! The third Ice Beast! GNOLLS!!

What the christ, RNG? What is this madness!? It's like you saved up all the "Let's screw with the player" for the last five levels and then dumped it on me!

...

I killed them all, though. Kinda' ridiculous for a 7th level fighter.

[zchris13]

Could you berserk at all?

[Frumple]

Not in the least. I didn't even use a healing potion, just beat on them with my piddly little +2,+4 hammer. I was seriously surprised to have my little dwarf dude live to get to see the 'done exploring' message!

EDIT: Next level, I kill off Edmund, netting a +7, +2 Flail of Protection. I can't figure out if the RNG loves this guy or hates him. Maybe pulling a Xom and doing both.

And now a crossbow! Aiee! Breaking for a while after that. This puny little 8th level fighter has better defensive stats than my tourney's 25th level wizard.

[3]

Got my first rune. I think I seriously overestimated the difficulty of Swamp:5. I found Wayne on Swamp:3, and he was more of a threat than anything on the bottom level. That said, I did manage to burn through most of my wands (that's what I get for neglecting short blades). Guardian spirit + Makhleb is lulzy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.7.0 character file.

3 the Spry (Spriggan Assassin)                                                         Turns: 63368, Time: 05:11:04

HP  94/94        AC  9     Str  9      Exp: 17/222065 (263), need: 20384
MP  31/31        EV 34     Int 17      God: Makhleb [******]
Gold 2365        SH  0     Dex 21      Spells:  1 memorised, 25 levels left

Res.Fire  : + . .   See Invis. : +   w - +3 lajatang (speed)
Res.Cold  : . . .   Warding    : .   A - +2 orc robe
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   (shield restricted)
Res.Poison: +       Res.Corr.  : .   c - +2 wizard hat {Int+3}
Res.Elec. : .       Clarity    : .   u - +2 cloak {darkness}
Spirit.Shd: +       Stasis     : .   (gloves unavailable)
Sust.Abil.: . .     Rnd.Telep. : .   (boots unavailable)
Res.Mut.  : .       Ctrl.Telep.: .   r - amulet of guardian spirit
Res.Rott. : .       Levitation : .   m - ring of protection from fire
Saprovore : . . .   Ctrl.Flight: .   n - ring of poison resistance

@: very quick, very resistant to hostile enchantments, extraordinarily stealthy
A: unfitting armour, see invisible, herbivore 3, speed 3, slow metabolism 3
a: Minor Destruction, Lesser Servant of Makhleb, Major Destruction, Greater Servant of Makhleb, Renounce Religion,
Evoke Invisibility


You are on level 1 of the Hive.
You worship Makhleb.
Makhleb is exalted by your worship.
You are full.

You have visited 9 branches of the dungeon, and seen 41 of its levels.

You have collected 3348 gold pieces.
You have spent 1033 gold pieces at shops.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 b - a +0 blowgun
 w - a +3,+3 lajatang of speed (weapon)
 L - the +3,+5 dagger of Midnight (quivered) {stab, AC+2 Stlth++}
   (You found it on level 17 of the Dungeon)   
   It inflicts extra damage upon your enemies.
   It affects your AC (+2).
   It makes you much more stealthy.
Missiles
 e - 96 poisoned +0 needles
 f - 5 curare-tipped +0 needles
 s - 7 needles of slowing
Armour
 c - a +2 wizard hat of intelligence (worn)
 u - a +2 cloak of darkness (worn)
 A - a +2 orcish robe (worn)
Magical devices
 g - a wand of disintegration (5)
 x - a wand of polymorph other {zapped: 1}
 C - a wand of enslavement {zapped: 4}
 I - a wand of slowing
Comestibles
 z - 4 bread rations
Scrolls
 a - 3 scrolls of detect curse
 j - 6 scrolls of teleportation
 o - 3 scrolls of remove curse
 y - a scroll of fog
 B - 2 scrolls of magic mapping
 E - a scroll of fear
 H - 3 scrolls of blinking
Jewellery
 m - a ring of protection from fire (right hand)
 n - a ring of poison resistance (left hand)
 r - an amulet of guardian spirit (around neck)
 K - a +4 ring of strength
Potions
 h - 3 potions of healing
 p - 2 potions of magic
 q - 3 potions of heal wounds
 v - a potion of speed
 G - 3 potions of resistance
Miscellaneous
 D - a decaying rune of Zot


 You have 263 experience left.

   Skills:
 + Level 9 Fighting
 + Level 6 Short Blades
 + Level 14 Staves
 + Level 6 Throwing
 + Level 17 Dodging
 + Level 14 Stealth
 + Level 14 Stabbing
 - Level 1 Shields
 - Level 2 Traps & Doors
 + Level 5 Spellcasting
 + Level 8 Summonings
 + Level 7 Invocations
 + Level 5 Evocations


You have 25 spell levels left.
You know the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power          Success   Level
a - Summon Butterflies    Summ           #####.....     Excellent   1

I'm probably going to attempt to delay the matter of getting past Mara, Boris and Roka on D:20 for as long as possible.

[Medicine Man]

I am playing as a flame wizard or whatever it's called,and I come across Sigmund,I had a mace of protection,ring of regeneration and an amulet of rage so I though "hey why don't I engage Sigmund in toe to toe combat?what could possibly go wrong?" and guess what?nothing went wrong at all.

[3]

Sigmund's main strength is that he can throw things like confusion and invisibility at you when it's too early in the game for you to have found a counter. If you've gotten lucky in terms of gear, or have picked a strong species/background combination, then sure, he's not bad.

[Medicine Man]

Edmund is MUCH deadlier,he can have insane amounts of enchantments and he can appear a few levels after Sigmund

[3]

Now I wish I was a Necromancer.

b - the +7, +6 sabre "Newt's Nightmare" {pain, MR EV+4}

[ChairmanPoo]

It's good even without necro to exploit the pain brand.

[3]

Dunno if it'll be better than a +4 speed lajatang without the Necromancy boost. I think I have a book with Fulsome Distillation and perhaps a few other things in it... if I somehow get confident enough later on to make an attempt at Slime, I might just have to do that.

Also, cleared Shoals.

[Astral]

Easiest/furthest I've ever gotten was the orcish mines (cleared) and D7 or so after Sokoban with a Troll Berserker, lucky enough to kill another troll and get the skin (massive regen bonuses). First time I cleared the mines, though, I met a statue that caused me to lose my Intelligence stats (and Troll/Berserker doesn't start with much to begin with) and I didn't notice it, too busy wailing away at the statue... until I get a message along the lines of "you became so stupid you forgot to keep breathing and died."

I fell in love with that game ever since.

[Mr.Person]

Sokoban? That's a Nethack feature, dude.