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[Robsoie]

Just got a very surprising best run since the beginning of the tournament with a basic human fighter despite he found no real great items (found an artifact dagger, but it has lots of accuracy malus and a damage malus so i stayed with a simple axe i managed to improve a bit with a scroll or two), he stood up for the challenge for a while.

He served Okawaru as he found his altar early in the dungeon but died before recieving his best gifts unfortunately.

Died from a battle with Harold due to overconfidence as i knew my character could kill him at that point of the game, but what won the match for Harold was the fireball he evoked on me as soon as he saw me, it damaged 1/4 of my health.
Harold ended with a pixel of life bar when he managed to take my fighter out, if only the fireball had not dealt damage, the next round would have been Harold death.
Unfortunately too much confidence lead into a morgue full of text files lol.
Next time, evoke wand as much as i can, even for those guys i know my character can kill.

I missed the Orc Mine entry strangely, i don't know how as i guess it was where i saw 2 Orc Warriors and several regular orcs (was happy to see my fighter managing to kill each of the orc warriors in a corridor, thanks to Okawaru Might ability) but did not found the stairs to it.

Managed to kill several uniques i could not find or kill in previous games, that helped to improve my score a bit in the tourney.
(ah sweet revenge on Grok and Menkaure responsible of 2 of my previous character death )

I'm not yet at a rune catching level though, my goal on this tourney is to manage to catch at least 1 rune.

[baruk]

 Just checking in to record 2 of the stupidest deaths imaginable (at least to me):
 Last night the RNG randomed up a Spriggan Transmuter, was going well till I tried to melee a confused Sigmund when he stumbled out of LOS.. he came out of it and hit me, knocking me to 1/3 hps. I ran away in order to exaporate another confuse potion on him, when a giant bat got between us - I killed it only for Sigmund to take the last of my hps with a magic dart (to paraphrase Nietzsche "when one clears the LOS to Sigmund, one also clears Sigmund's LOS to you..).
 Also: Centaur Arcane Marksman - a stupid death in a rat hive. I nearly cleared it, and found the last orange rat - on a whim I used a wand of random effects on it (when I had a perfectly good wand of negative energy), which of course hasted it, and my hasted centaur could not outrun the hasted rat - I called on Makhleb's major destruction, which barely scratched the beast, and was then finished off.

[quinnr]

I shall play for 6 hours straight, starting in one hour. Weee.

[Robsoie]

Nice stats, which monsters are killing the most players in this tournament :
http://crawl.akrasiac.org/tourney10/killers.html

Sigmund is not far

[Frumple]

Turning in for the night. Managed to kill off a solid 10 critters. If I can manage between that and yesterday's for the rest of th'month, I'll be able to off... somewhere between 123 and 310 critters. Something like that, anyway.

Daily Death-gest:

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Day 2:
Demonspawn Wanderer: Killer Bee Zombie. Had nothing but poison spells and a puny shortsword...

Sprig ArcMark: Kobold. Was doing something silly and venomwhip got me.

Orc Transmuter: Kobold. Dun remember why, heh. Getting killed by a -3 dam shortsword is kinda' embarrassing, though...

Minotaur Chaos Knight of Makkie: Ogre. Was the third one I ran into, and the first I couldn't kill Honestly, I shouldn't have been tangling with them, but eh.

Draconian Wanderer: Orc Wizard. Fellow had weird starting setup; 4 levels in summoning and a crossbow, but the only spell he knew was Magic Dart. Plus no books. Did surprisingly well (for me, anyway), though.

Mountain Dwarf Stalker: Really, random? Killed by a gecko, anyway. Basically turned off everything that made a stalker a stalker and melee'd for a bit. Died not long after trading up from the dagger.

Halfling Wanderer: Orc Wizard. Started with precisely three items; a +3,+2 shortsword, a bread ration, and a robe. Two of those were cursed by the time I died.

Naga Yred-Priest: Gnoll. Actually, there was about 8 critters on the screen when the poor thing died, so even without the gnoll reaching over something else, it was pretty much over. Could have survived if I lucked out with a potion (there was an invis pot) but the other unknown was slowing Guess might have made it by downing healing pots, but...

Troll Earth Elementalist: Yiuf. Was doing surprisingly decent, I guess. Only needed one more hit to off Yiuf, but Yiuf got in the hit first Stoneskin was fairly helpful, and Earth's about the only spell-related thing trolls don't utterly suck at...

Demigod Venom Mage: [tangent]Dlvl 10 I FREAKING FINALLY get access to ranged damage that's not fire (Scroll-cursed bow of flame, natch) or poison, via magic dart. The venom-dagger carrying imp that's been chasing me all over this bloody level GETS TO DIE NOW. Actually, about two steps after picking up the minor magic (summ) book, the imp throws said dagger at me. It misses.[/tangent]

In any case, dies to spiny frog poison in the Lair shortly thereafter. ... I'm doing a demonspawn wizard next.

Demonspawn Wizard: Giant ant... or its poison, whatever. That was pretty harsh. Got a rot potion trying to survive the bloody thing, so I was rotting, poisoned, manaless for most of the fight, vainly slinging darts at the thing trying to survive... poor bugger.

DsWz MkII: Phantom... somehow. Apparently I got triple-shot or... something. Meh. Th'day is done, in any case.

I'm still generally just randoming, with the exception of the DsWzs. I tend to do better when I've got access to consistent ranged damage, for whatever reason. Mostly because my melee critters seem to be only partially capable of hitting the broad side of a barn, I think. Probably going to spend some time spec'ing tomorrow. Outside of a few silly deaths, I can't really see what I'm doing wrong most of the time, which is annoying.

Also noticed b12 ghosts have managed to kill off three people so far, which is nice. Hopefully we can see that number rise

In other news, Akhier's down to 90 combo high scores, heh. I'm content with my nine, but the chances of anyone in th'miner's still having a combo hs by the end of this thing are probably pretty slim

[Zironic]

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Fetish/morgue-Fetish-20100802-052924.txt

A rage that I have never experience before. My own ignorance is my downfall. Went around. I would have a rune.

[quinnr]

Out of the blue, I went with Sludge Transmuter. Doing pretty good..._{so far.}

All team members are up on the site now

[Frumple]

Peeping on Blyxx at the moment. That's a vicious little midget! Go vaguely gendered person, go!

EDIT: Woah. So that's what an actual stash looks like.

[quinnr]

I F***ING HATE PIKEL SO MUCH.
HATE HATE HATE.
HATE!

He was so close to dying of poison when his slaves surround and rape me. Damnit.

[Mr.Person]

How can you tell if your ghosts have been killing people?

[Frumple]

Yeah... last few times I've encountered him, I've led the slaves off into some corner and murdered them, then killed pikel. Mediocre meat shields aren't worth the risk of being jumped by the buggers while you're wailing on their master.

Though I've apparently not killed him in the tourney yet, which is odd, as I've killed probably a half-dozen slaves...

As to the ghosts: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/tourney10/gkills.html

[tinymouse]

I hate the abyss.

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/tinymouse/morgue-tinymouse-20100802-060034.txt

[Blyxx]

Peeping on Blyxx at the moment. That's a vicious little midget! Go vaguely gendered person, go!

EDIT: Woah. So that's what an actual stash looks like.

Haha, my lair stash tends to be pretty extravagant and organized.   

This guy is indeed a vicious midget, what concerns me is the possibility of running out of these sweet steel sling bullets before I reach the end.  I was hoping to try for all-rune, but right now I don't feel that confident about taking on the hellish areas.  Debating on whether to raid elf for more gear or start plowing towards Zot...On the bright side, I just managed to get into a treasure trove (at the cost of a Tome of Destruction) and got "The Sabre of Xom's Righteous Anger".  It's +1/+9, speed brand, str+3.  Best melee weapon I've seen all game, so maybe I'll be tougher now.

Just to throw this out there, you guys all know how to "talk" with people you're spectating?  I believe you press the underscore (_) key (which is shift + [-] for me) to page somebody in-game.  They can answer with the "make notes" key, which is colon ( : ), which is shift + [;] on my keyboard.

[quinnr]

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[LASD]

I hate the abyss.

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/tinymouse/morgue-tinymouse-20100802-060034.txt

Ancient lich. Holy shit, never seen anything that bad in the Abyss.


Akhier, dude. That's really cool what you're doing, let's hope you get to keep lots of those.


All teams in general are doing pretty good. All four Bay12 teams are in the top 16, and Champions are going up fast. Seems like we'll get a good race going with Sigmund and the Sea Monsters and the other Goon teams.


Oh yeah, Miners is one guy short. If you, the reader, want to take part in the Tournament, you can join the Miners, a team for those that have reached the Lair.

P.S. I didn't get too much playing done yesterday, but I intend to fix it today and tomorrow by going far with this promising fellow. I even killed Erolcha, who was for a long time my most hated unique.