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[G-Flex]

Speed enhancement effects (aside from those that just enhance movement speed, like swiftness and boots of running) don't stack. You probably get the best bonus available to you from any effect you have on, but I'm not sure. If you have Haste and Finesse on at the same time, you'll definitely move faster as if you just had Finesse, but you won't hit any faster.

[debvon]

Ahh that makes sense, thanks. Good to know. At least nothing will be outrunning me any time soon. And it feels good to get my revenge on these damned hydras who always lair-block my fighters.

[Frumple]

Also, as a general rule for future crawl spoilage, this. Not the wiki, or the wiki as your second source. At the very least, check both against each other, and be aware that the bot's a lot more likely to be accurate if the two are disagreeing.

This is especially true if you're running dev builds.

Alternately, code dive

[debvon]

Oh wow, that site is really awesome. Kind of what I've always needed. Thanks!!

[Kay12]

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WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT, GAME!?

I would've loved to see that with my Vampire Necromancer who could've probably dispelled the figurative crap out of that skeleton. Too bad I got an imp horde instead (=two imps who decided to gangbang me in a tunnel with their Orc Priest friend).

[ggeezz]

Does anyone now if the August tournament will be played with 0.9?

[G-Flex]

According to people on IRC, it will be.


In other news, I was really pissed off yesterday.

I was playing a spriggan enchanter of nemelex, and things were going fine. I was swimming in decks, and used a few Helix cards from legendary decks of wonder to give myself a few good mutations.

First problem: I was just drawing every card from a deck of wonder so I wouldn't miss any. Turned out something like four of them were Focus cards (these take one point from your weakest stat and give it to the strongest), leaving me with something like 3 or 4 natural Strength.

Second problem: On the next deck, I decided to play it smart. I used Draw Three (you take three out, pick which one you want, and discard the other two) to avoid bad cards, then used Draw Three again... except at that point, apparently there was only one card left in the deck.

It was Shuffle. It switched my dex and str scores. So I was left with like 3 natural dexterity and a whole bunch of completely useless strength. On a stealth character.

I then tried to scum for more wonder decks, but after getting two without more Shuffle cards, I decided to stop caring and wound up dying.

Moral of the story: Be careful with your damn decks!

[Kay12]

Was playing Kobold stalker just the other day. Went quite well, but then something (I think it was a two-headed ogre) molested him. Evaporate failed one time too many in a row.

Screw it, I'm going to try Kobold berserker. Hey, this is going nice! Take this! And this! And... wait a minute, is that my ghost from earlier today?

*BANG*

Oh man, mephitic cloud. A few lucky hits I got halved the ghost's HP, I might even make it...

*BANG*

Another one... and HP's whittling of rapidly...

*BANG*

Ain't going too well... what? No longer confused? Fear my berserk!

*BANG*

At this point I started regretting stacking that many confusion potions... (EDIT: I just learned that evaporate gets turned to mephitic cloud upon the character's ghostification)

*BANG*

And at this point I died.

[tomas1297]

 FUCKIN' CRAWL! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!

 Lost my best character yet. Got to late lair, got a bit scared of all the elephants. Let's check the wiki for information on the branches I found. Apparently Shoals don't have hiding places and have enemies that have advantages in water. I'd rather not... Slime Pits are the uber-hard branch. Even I know that. Don't need wiki for that. Sooo...Swamp is the poison branch I keep hearing about? Heard that it's easy as hell if you have poison resistance. But I don't. Meh. Let's just do Orc. What the hell? The level is one small room? and this one too? And this one? And this one? Oh, finally, this level is actually normal-sized. Orc warrior *sticky flame* Meh, easy. Wizard and cleric *fireball OHKO* meh, easy. What is this? Uber-wizard? It shouldn't be too tou-OH GOD DEMONS EVERYWHERE! OUT OF TELEPORT! FUUUUUUUUUUUU-! QUICK, POTION OF SPEED! RUN, RUN, RU-
 FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-!

[Kay12]

I guess I'll resume my Vampiric Wizardry, it's easy and effective.

By the way, does leaving (voluntarily, by transgression or by forgetting) a non-good god always result in penance?

[G-Flex]

What is this? Uber-wizard? It shouldn't be too tou-OH GOD DEMONS EVERYWHERE! OUT OF TELEPORT! FUUUUUUUUUUUU-! QUICK, POTION OF SPEED! RUN, RUN, RU-
 FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-!

Don't do branch endings unless you're prepared for them, or at least be extremely careful about it.

By the way, does leaving (voluntarily, by transgression or by forgetting) a non-good god always result in penance?

Transgression usually doesn't result in excommunication. At any rate, most gods have retribution on abandonment, yes. I think all of them do except good gods, which also do if you switch to an evil god. Zin might have wrath regardless of that, in which case you can just switch from Zin to TSO (or whatever) and then to someone else, maybe. Check the learndb for details.

[Kay12]

Seems a bit funny that a god'll get really pissed off at mere ineptness. Consider the wrath of Sif Muna if you don't study magic at all! Couldn't that all be used to bother some bersekers?

[debvon]

Screw it, I'm going to try Kobold berserker. Hey, this is going nice! Take this! And this! And... wait a minute, is that my ghost from earlier today?

I really, really hate ghosts with mephitic cloud. They just spray that crap everywhere and then tickle your beating heart until it stills (or whatever ghosts do). I always get unlucky and run into a small creature while running away from them, and get stuck in a corridor trying to cut them down and escape. But each swipe brings the ghost closer.. and closer.. and then I eat a cloud.

FUCKIN' CRAWL! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!

Yeah I always seem to get unlucky with the Orcish Mines as well, with a straight drop down to the bottom level and some tough orcs just waiting down there by the stairs. It can help to use magic mapping scroll in those situations, and either controlled teleport or get lucky with a teleport, or dig your way to one of the other sides for experience. Though.. this may end badly, if you can't get back out without having to walk through the bottom.

[Leafsnail]

Seems a bit funny that a god'll get really pissed off at mere ineptness. Consider the wrath of Sif Muna if you don't study magic at all! Couldn't that all be used to bother some bersekers?

I have a feeling that Gods are only allowed to directly punish (ie, without one of their worshippers asking them to) those who have agreed to follow them... or something.  The only exception to this seems to be Beogh who can smite you for smashing his statues.

[G-Flex]

Seems a bit funny that a god'll get really pissed off at mere ineptness. Consider the wrath of Sif Muna if you don't study magic at all! Couldn't that all be used to bother some bersekers?

Er, gods don't punish for ineptitude, they punish for bad conduct.