First time having it (is it new to 0.8 ? ) while cleaning the dungeon, in D:25 the dungeon floor spawned a very large forest infested by many Spriggans
My Deep Elf started killing Spriggans very quickly thanks to the ever excellent Frozen clouds with a few Demons meat shield that sometime were doing really great at killing things themselves.
Somewhere in the forest, i found a mini vault and inside of it a Trog altar and 4 Spriggan berserkers inside, poor things, they froze all to death in their closed vaults in 2 turns.
Then once i cleaned the floor, i went to the end of the forest and saw a Spriggan fortress.
It had numerous spriggan and some spellcasters (that were not in the forest), meaning i had to get more demons and more frozen clouds, retreating to get back some magic point then attacking again.
At some point, the fortress defense was destroyed, i could then enter their castle.
There i noticed many "
Spriggan defenders", that i never saw before and never looked up the wiki/bot to see their stats.
As despite some problems due to their numbers, my tactic (demon meat shield + frozen cloud) worked extremely well, but i forgot something that revealed to be fatal : Dungeon Crawl is a program that can decide to cripple you at the worst of the time.
There were 5 Spriggan defenders (maybe more as i was just entering the fort) that were rushing to me (Spriggan are fast, so basically they were running 2 tiles by turn) , behind my meat shield i cast Frozen Cloud, by the time the Spriggan defenders arrive against the demons, there's already 2 of those defenders that are dead.
So it's 3 spriggan defenders that are always inside the frozen cloud and are blocked there by my demons. They're nearly dead, so hey nothing could happen, next turn they should be dead, right ?
Wrong.
Next turn happen, my demons all decide to disappear (i didn't expected them to vanish there), and the 3 Spriggan Defenders move to me, they're out of the frozen clouds.
They're nearly dead, while i'm at 83 health, let's cast again Frozen Cloud, i'm at max Cold resistance, it's not like it will hurt much, so they're going to die next turn, right ?
Wrong.
Next turn happen, my character is nearly dead the 3 Spriggan Defenders always have a pixel or two of health and they're hacking at my character.
Panic time, as i just lost more than 60 health in 1 turn, no potion would save my character at that point as if they heal too few, and running away would not work (Spriggan are much faster + monster energy that would allow them to move and hit etc...).
If i wait a turn, hoping that damned dodge+EV would work this time and hope that they lose their last pixel of health, nothing guarantee me that they will not hit (and so kill) my character before the spell does its job.
And there i make the usual mistake that have killed many of my characters : i forget to check my spells list (i wish the interface could display all my spells instead of only a few as i always forget to press Z to get all my spells) and so i completely forget that i had Controlled Blink learned recently after getting enough Translocation ... and enough MP to cast it several time so i could have gotten far away , rest and then come back with more demons.
Damn another case of YASD.
Author
Topic: Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. Or: THAT DAMN SIGMUND. (Read 1683777 times)