Hooray, just beat this last night.
Started on the shortcut to world 9. Ran into the giant yeti and killed him with ease, nabbing myself the spike boots. Through a series of bad and good luck, I managed to nab a cape and spectacles too, but was down to 1 health as I entered the last area. Mummy right at the entrance of the level, which I rode on til he gave me his scepter. Blew through the level and found a shopkeeper. Thought, Why not, and killed him with the scepter. Got climbing gloves and a few other nice items. I start to get paranoid about being killed by a shopkeeper since I still have only 1 health and I had yet to see any maidens or alters to Kali. Still I make it to Olmec without running into any shopkeepers, or falling victim to a cruel level design.
From then on it was just a bit of sceptering and breaking the floor til Olmec went down. Then I realized, I was on the wrong side of the hole and I had no rope left. Thank god for random shopkeeper "donating" climbing gloves to me earlier. I climb to the top, jump and cape to the other wall and bound up and to the door.
So what've we learned here? Murder is always profitable and should be encouraged.
Total plays 108
Deaths 107
Wins 1