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[Rex_Nex]

Eh. Got another SpAs doing well, got 'er farther then anyone yet. But I got reckless (Read: Idiot) and charged a bunch of Orc Priests and a Orc Sorcerer. Noticed I was fighting a losing battle a little too late, read a teleport scroll, and just clicked on the sorc praying to the Shining One I would teleport quickly.

I never did.

@: about to teleport, hasted, very quick, incredibly resistant to hostile enchantments, extraordinarily stealthy

Needless to say, I cursed so much that I almost believed I was the avatar of Ashenzari.

-Edit-

Actually, the spriggan I just talked about failed a Summon Greater Demon of Mahkleb in the Bailey. Thank god for scrolls of blinking. I feel bad for all those goblins left alone with that balrog. Poor guys. Poor crispy, crispy gobbos.

[monkeydancer]

In my current game there's no temple at all. Anyone else had that?

[Max White]

You you sure you didn't miss it? They can sometimes hide it well. I missed it in the past before I knew about the room with the stairs going down and the glass walls.

[PCpaste]

I tried a Felid Wizard for the lols.

I actually did quite well, untuil I got cornered by two uniques and the ghost of the wizard on the top of the scoreboard...

There were so many small mamals and demons...

They were killing a CAT. One of them even shouted "I will have my revenge!", at a CAT, that was in the corner, cowering!

[Rex_Nex]

Do you guys usually play crawl online or the downloaded version? I usually play the downloaded trunk, but if the online tiles have scoreboards...

[Frumple]

Downloaded, almost always. My connection's not the most stable of things, some days. I did do CAO for a bit in last year's tourney. Was alright, I guess, though it took me a while to figure out how to do extended rest (shift-5 on the numpad wasn't registering in putty, for whatever ungodly reason.). Still, prefer local. No lag, among other stuff. Is fun to watch other people die, though, every once in a while.

Local tends to be a lot safer, too. You can delete the bones files

[Robsoie]

I played only with the Web Tiles (+ a portable Iron browser) during the tournament, it was great (of course a bit laggy sometime due to the connections) even if the interface is much inferior to the Tiles downloadable version.
But it's very fun if you can't stand ASCII and want to give online a try.

Out of tournaments, i play exclusively tile downloadable version, no lag anywhere, the interface is much better, the tiles very pleasant to the eyes and i care so few of scores when it's not tourney time, that it's difficult to get back to telnet-like interfaces.

[breadbocks]

I cursed so much that I almost believed I was the avatar of Ashenzari.

This is my new favorite expression.

[G-Flex]

Do you guys usually play crawl online or the downloaded version? I usually play the downloaded trunk, but if the online tiles have scoreboards...

I used to play locally, but I started playing online so I could play erocrawl (square line-of-sight/ranges, octopode and lava orc testing), and even though I'm just playing 0.8 now, I still play online. You get high score boards, other players' ghosts, your game is recorded in full and any part of anyone's game can be played back (Want to watch me kill Cerebov while berserking and standing in a fire storm while getting tormented? Now you can!), you can get messages from other players (somehow), and a lot of it's integrated into the IRC channel/bots.

[Niveras]

I tried playing online, but I am pretty dependent on tiles (not just for encounter recognition, but the interface has a lot more bells and whistles AFAIK). Although there's now an online tiles version, I found it very slow, and it lacks all the various accruements of the offline tiles version.

[G-Flex]

Speaking of online play, I just managed my first ascent on CAO (not sure if I had a legitimate one while playing offline), and it was a 15-runer. Holy cow!

[Krath]

After getting repeatedly owned as various forms of magic users, I make a Demonspawn Berserker.

First level of the dungeon.

Ring of Wizardry.

I blame Xom for this.

[monkeydancer]

You you sure you didn't miss it? They can sometimes hide it well. I missed it in the past before I knew about the room with the stairs going down and the glass walls.

Yeah, levels 4-7 are all fully explored, large open levels. I guess it's possible that I missed a staircase up or down somewhere but I doubt it, I'll check later when I get back to that computer.

[Frumple]

Iirc, no-temple is possible but rare, but I could be wrong there. You'll know if it happened if you find all the normal temple altars somewhere between levels two and nine. You're guaranteed all the standard altars (though I forget exactly which those are, heh.) somewhere in that level range.

[PCpaste]

So, I want to record something of this game to convince people who refuse to play it because of its graphics that it's worth playing.

What could I show off?