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[Myroc]

As you all know (yet few refuses to realize), I am insane. So I decided to start a Let's Play of Elona.

For those of you who don't know, Elona is a japanese roguelike (thankfully it's mostly translated into english), and a pretty humorous one at that. It has most/all of the features of normal roguelikes (randomly generated dungeons, ginormous amounts of YASDs, the usual stuff, the most notable thing however is that it lacks permadeath), and various other features which i will not currently go into detail with.

Anywho, let us begin!

First of all, let us create the main character.

Spoiler: Character Creation (click to show/hide)

We must choose a race:


And a class:


A gender:


We must roll for attributes (tell me which attributes should be high):


And choose three feats:



Select an Alias (this is always randomized, so we can't really choose one of these, we have to pick what is given to us by the randomizer.):


Appearance. Note that instead of using the game's crappy appearance editor, we can instead use this site to create a much better look for our heroes and companions.


Last of all, we need a name.

Spoiler: Personal Advice (click to show/hide)

I had intended on having other people "claim" pets (companions), so having a high charisma score would be nice, that way we can include more people in this LP. Picking Juere as a race, Pianist as a class, or taking the "Sexy" feat (or a combination of the three) would gives us a good charisma score. This isn't mandatory, though, as we can increase our charisma as the game goes on anyway.

I don't mind much as to what race/class we play, as long as it isn't snails/mutants or tourists (and farmers/pianists to a lesser extent). A good race to pick is Yerles, as their racial feat gives us extra skill points per level, which is very good. I don't mind being a spellcaster either, but if that's the case i would very much like a race with an above-average constitution score.

Edit: Also, please, please, PLEASE do not make me choose fairy. They cannot equips stuff that weighs more than 1.0s* and while we do want to aim for a low weight for our gear, there are a lot of weapons and armor above 1.0s that's useful.

_{*The standard weight unit in Elona}

Good feats to take include Lucky (Extra luck, which means better random events, less bad events), Tough (Extra constitution, therefore extra HP and weight allowance), Sexy (Extra Charisma, more pets and lesser prices), Dimensional Move (Good from running away from Rogue Bosses (will explain later) and dangerous enemies and situations).

Now then, suggest what my character will be!

[chaoticag]

Yerles are nice, since they start with the firearm skill, but I wouldn't mind a Juere Pianist. It just means that firearms takes a few quests to get to.

[Myroc]

Yerles are nice, since they start with the firearm skill, but I wouldn't mind a Juere Pianist. It just means that firearms takes a few quests to get to.

Incidentally, one of my best characters was a Juere Pianist, they're actually pretty good since they start with weight lifting and negotiation.

...though i still died a lot. <_<

[Eidalac]

Lich, Claymore, Female, High Con & Cha, Sexy & Lucky & Vampiric.

[Myroc]

Lich, Claymore, Female, High Con & Cha, Sexy & Lucky & Vampiric.

Hm, i've never tried Lich OR Claymore before. I might go with this, IF i can switch out Vampiric for Tough or Lady Killer.* (I can always pick Vampiric at a later level.)

Edit: *Or maybe Arm Wrestler, because, you know, we're going melee if we do this. >_>

[Judas Maccabeus]

I don't know much of anything about this game at the moment, so don't be surprised if I make absolutely stupid choices going for things that sound nice.  Anyway, my ideas:

Race:  Dwarf (because, come on, dwarf)
Class:  Warmage, for this line:  "the Warmage is believer that stabbing things that are on fire is better than just stabbing them or setting them on fire."  Pianist would be nice too, though, just because piano music is good. 
Gender:  Female
Attributes:  Whatever's good for the class you pick, I suppose
Feats:  Stone Defence, Fire Breath, Natural Leader
Appearance:  Here's what I ended up with playing around with that site you linked to:


As for name and alias, no idea at all.


Obviously, just my ideas and thus can be ignored if they're not good ones, or if everyone else decides otherwise. 

[Myroc]

Warmage is a pretty decent class, though my preferred choice would be a Warrior or Wizard instead of the Warmage. I have no problems playing one, though.

As for feats, the ONLY one i MAY keep would be Stone Defense, i've never found Natural Leader to be any good, and fire breath burns up loot.

I'm going to wait another half an hour, if no one suggests anything by then, i'm going to flip a coin to decide between Lich Claymore or Dwarf Warmage.

[Boksi]

Yeah, use that stuff but pick all three luck feats instead.

[Eidalac]

Hm, i've never tried Lich OR Claymore before. I might go with this, IF i can switch out Vampiric for Tough or Lady Killer.*

Swapping out Vampiric is cool, especially if you add it latter... hehehe.  Ladykiller would be best for the big-party concept, obviously.

[Myroc]

Alright, roughly half an hour came and went. Time to flip a coin!

Heads: Lich Claymore
Tails: Dwarf Warmage

Tossing...

Tails! Dwarven Warmage it is!

[Eidalac]

Curses!

Vengeance Shall be Mine!

[Myroc]

Rawrgh, TinyPic is being slow today.

Spoiler: Prologue: The Earthquake Adventurer (click to show/hide)

Dwarven Warmage. While dwarf doesn't grant much bonuses to magic, we have above average in that, so it's not a major problem. However...


The race/class combinations tears our Charisma to shreds. This was the highest charisma score i could roll for. I chose Sexy and Lady Killer to make up for this, along with Lucky.


After rerolling many times the games spews out the alias "Earthquake Adventurer", which is suitable enough for a dwarf. (Another hilarious option presented to me was "Unknown Sex". This game cracks me up at times.)


I had to change the appearance slightly, because Judas' picture had dark teal pixels here and there, and i was too tired to clear out them all. Not a biggie anyway.


Our final stats. Our portrait was the most accurate i could find.

Now for a name.

...


It's as good a name as any.

Onwards, Earthquake Adventurer. Your time has come to enter the lands of Sierre Terre!

Spoiler: Cheesy Introduction Sequence (click to show/hide)

A note: The Etherwind is an ingame mechanic. I'll explain this later.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Curses!

Vengeance Shall be Mine!

Oh no! 



 

Hehe, seems that the character's perception and learning took an even worse hit than charisma did... ah, well.  Time to see where this goes, now that we're under the sea...

[Myroc]

Spoiler: Where are we? (click to show/hide)

We are greeted by darkness, unknowing of where we are.

Wait, is that talking i hear?



Wait, i haven't drowned yet? That's a relief. We dwarves aren't exactly known for their swimming you know!



Well, i DID select the "Lucky" fea- hang on a minute, you're an elf!





She's right you know.





They give us a new home (they only used this place as a temporary place to stay after finding us), a very fitting cave, and then ask if we want a tutorial. I already know how to play, so i tell them to beat it and leave me alone.







Blessings schmessings.



They quickly depart and leave us with three pieces of furniture in our house. Furniture is used to increase the value of a house, which determines how much money we get in salary every 15/16 days. It also looks pretty. We CAN edit our house layout, but i don't want to spend time on that at the moment, and this cave fits our dwarven needs nicely for now.

If you selected the tutorial, Lomias and Larnierre would tell you to go to the nearby dungeon of Lesimas. This is important, as Lesimas is plot-central to the main quest (what little plot there is anyway).

Edit: There's a short update after this, and THEN we'll start with the actual gameplay.

Spoiler: Chapter 1 - FFFFFUUUU- (click to show/hide)

Right then, let's go and start with the actual adventuring. Trying to leave our home gives appearance to...



Norne is essentially someone who pops up when new stuff happens to inform you about things. She gives you several pieces of advice, the main one being "don't read spellbooks in your home". Sometimes reading spellbooks have nasty effects, such as losing all your mana, teleportation, but most importantly, it can spawn several powerful monsters. To quote Norne herself: "You don't want them smashing or fire-breathing on your valuable stuff in your house, do you?"

Anywho, after skipping through her advice we arrive at the world map.



Alright, let's just move to the town over there and-



...

FFFFFUUUU-

This is a Rogue Boss, a random World Map encounter that happens independent of your luck. We have two options, we can either.

A: Fight 15-20 really hard mobs. This is not recommended unless you have a Rod of Teleportation, in which case you can just use it at yourself to make a quick escape.
B: Surrender all our cargoes (include our stack of 8 Traveler's Food) and the gold price shown.

I'm choosing B because i don't want to die 5 minutes into our lets play.



After our stroke of bad luck we enter Vernis, the Mining Town.


Norne instantly states the obvious. I said go away, you!

After that, this little screen pops up:

This screen always appears when you enter Vernis for the first time. We get to choose a pet, a companion which will accompany us in our adventures.

This isn't really so much of a choice here, i'm taking the Little Girl, mainly because it's the only pet we can choose from that can wear normal equipment.

We now have a second party member! Who shall claim the Little Girl?

Edit: I just noticed that we have a ridiculously low Learning score, which isn't quite optimal for a magic-user. Remind me to increase this quickly.

[Eidalac]

Me!

I shall call her... Rose!