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[Robsoie]

NOOOO!
Damn you stupid Ogres.

Was in a flagged portal, there was an Orc Knight near me , and far several kobolds.

To avoid taking a risk with my very promising troll, i summoned 2 brother in arms that were 2 berserked Ogres, and went berserk myself.
I attacked the Orc Knight and saw the 2 Ogres circling around the Orc Knight ignoring it completely and then ran out of the screen to attack those totally harmless Kobolds .

And in +/- 4 hits of the Orc Knight very strong axe the +/-90 health of my very promising Troll were history while i was able despite my super artifact mace to only damage it a bit thanks to random numbers.

I knew this kind of damned bad luck was going to strike at the exact moment i found that awesome artifact mace.
And indeed it happened.

[Frumple]

I figured if I kept levelling Necromancy, Pain would deal more damage, since it was my primary method of attack.

It does, up to a point; hit ! while on the casting screen to see it; once the ##... stuff is all #, its power has capped and it won't get any stronger. Pain caps off pretty quickly; you already had it maxed, probably for a while.

EDIT: Also, looking at your chardump, you had potential access to mephetic cloud. Shoulda' got that (probably instead of animate dead, which isn't too hot anymore), it renders a good 70-80% of non-poison resistant critters impotent. Coulda' took that yak+croc combo easy.

[Von Krieger]

*stares* How the heck did I miss out on THAT?!

Oh! Pain only has five levels. I thought they all had eight.

Good stuff to know for next time.

I think I'm doing quite well for someone whose experience with the game is essentially three or four days.

[tinymouse]

i summoned 2 brother in arms that were 2 berserked Ogres, and went berserk myself.
I attacked the Orc Knight and saw the 2 Ogres circling around the Orc Knight ignoring it completely and then ran out of the screen to attack those totally harmless Kobolds .

Use the shou't' command to tell your allies which target to attack.

[zchris13]

It's also useful for attracting lots and lots of enemies.

[Blyxx]

i summoned 2 brother in arms that were 2 berserked Ogres, and went berserk myself.
I attacked the Orc Knight and saw the 2 Ogres circling around the Orc Knight ignoring it completely and then ran out of the screen to attack those totally harmless Kobolds .

Use the shou't' command to tell your allies which target to attack.

Berserked allies ignore all your 't' commands, unfortunately.

[Frumple]

Heh. Despite roaming around the vaults and crap, I'm still using magic dart, primarily to draw things away from a pack or into a corridor. Much, much safer than shouting. Darts (or stones, which squelch less and are probably more plentiful) work pretty well for non-casters. Good to have a stash of stones early on anyway, if you don't have a better method of dealing with jellies. Time consuming, but you can pillar dance the buggers tossing rocks and them and eventually kill'em.

EDIT: Dr. Feelgood, what are you doing? Your constant reapplication of extension boggles my poor mind. Also, full 15. Go man, go! Also, your D:14 is a freaking nightmare. No cover!

I didn't realize god-summons could be abjured. That's... really helpful.

[Robsoie]

Yes, Crawl had already everything coded to kill my too lucky so far character .
I begin to believe the main enemies are not the monsters, but the random numbers that decide of every hit/evasion/damage/etc ... checks

[Robsoie]

I could have done a lot with items/potions/scrolls if i knew in advance the 2 berserked Ogres would not target the immediately near Orc Knight and would instead have gone wandering to the opposite side of the screen to hunt harmless kobolds for reason beyond my understanding.
Or if i knew that the level 10 Troll i was controlling being troll handed and berserked with his very damaging artifact would not be able to do more than 1/4 health of damage for some reasons to the Orc Knight.
Or if i knew the Orc Knight would do massive damage at each hit, and never miss a single blow.

As you see there's a lot of " if " that i had no reason to suspect to occur just in this fight as there was "only" 1 strong monster against 3 very strong and berzerked guys (the kobolds i the opposite side of the screen at the level i was were entirely harmless).

[Dr.Feelgood]

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Demos/morgue-Demos-20100808-153505.txt

I should have won yesterday, but I wanted to get the Xom banner. It's not worth it.  Trying to mollify all the gods is the most boring thing I've ever done in this game. I waste a lot of time (and turns) waiting in the abyss, but I really want the game to end. You'd think that pissing off over a dozen gods would put you at serious risk of dying, but most of the gods didn't bother to do anything, even during the Orb run.

Oh well, at least I managed to get a 15-rune win within a week. 

[Robsoie]

congratulations on your 15 runes win !

[Vactor]

ugh, finally lost my DD wanderer

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Vactor/morgue-Vactor-20100808-172257.txt

The fact that after visiting 54 levels i still didn't have any shoes is a perfect explanation of what playing this game was like.  I think i'll play some okawaru chars to feel a little better in the gear dept.

[tinymouse]

Congrats Captain Demos!

Sadly I still haven't earned a win. Another promising GhFE bit the dust, this time to Nikola:

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/tinymouse/morgue-tinymouse-20100808-171254.txt

I knew as soon as I spotted him that it was a serious problem. Tried to sneak away but he spotted me. No potions of resistance or rElec means he does frightening amounts of damage. No blink scroll for instant escape. He resisted my mephitic cloud. Not sure what else I could do in this case.

[Taxus]

Just claimed the third rune in the name of the Immigrants. I am loving Spriggan Enchanter! Now deciding whether to get my last three experience levels, or just run for the Orb. Seems like it will take a lot of work and danger for those last few experience levels.

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/FreeHugs/FreeHugs.txt

[quinnr]

Ogre Berserker =/= Troll Berserker

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