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[Dr.Feelgood]

Welcome back to Let's Play Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup!

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A gauzy fan, known as an "air elemental fan" when identified, summons air elementals when successfully evoked. You need high air magic (around 15 iirc) and evocations skills to use it properly.



Any non-legendary deck of dungeons has a chance of creating an orange crystal statue. These statues don't try to kill you the normal way. Instead, they'll mind rape you to death (confusion, INT drain, forgetting spells, etc.). Orange crystal statues can be instantly destroyed with a wand of disintegration, which is one of the reasons why I always carry one around.




We received a deck of wonder! I'm not going to bother triple drawing from it.



I drew an experience card and gained a level!



I returned to the Vaults and found this vault filled with loot and monsters.



We're halfway through this place. 



We found an amulet of warding. It grants minor protection against melee attacks from weak summons, and it provides rN+.



I've found so many shops in this playthrough that I'm starting to think they're mimics. 



Shop #20? doesn't have anything I want in it.



I decided to stack my legendary deck of escape. I got rid of 3 cards after stacking it. Decks of escape, wonder, and changes are the only ones that I tend to stack.




We found the entrances to both the Crypt and the Hall of Blades on this level. The Crypt is full of undead monsters and the Hall of Blades has nothing but dancing weapons.



Sublimation is a nice spell which converts wielded chunk (or HP) into MP. It's useful if you worship Kiku or have a lot of HP.

[Dr.Feelgood]

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Here we are in the Crypt. This branch is 5 levels deep and has some treasure, but no rune. It does have an entrance to a (very hard) place that contains a rune. The only monsters here are undead, necromancers, and (rare) hell knights. This is a good place to convert to TSO, because you'll gain a lot of piety from clearing this place.



I found an (unidentified) amulet here.



This area has a lot of shadows and soul eaters. Soul eaters have a painful draining touch and are notable for being summoned by necro miscast effects.



This is getting ridiculous! I already killed dozens of these monsters.



We gained a level from killing so many of these guys.



The shadows and soul eaters stopped spawning after I found this lantern.



I encountered a couple of guardian mummies on the 2nd level. This probably means that the entrance to the Tomb is nearby. A guardian mummy is like a regular mummy, but stronger and has a different death curse.



A sphinx came out to play. I quickly switched to my amulet of stasis and summoned a few bears.




While I was preparing some tasty sphinx chunks to eat Boris suddenly appeared.

An ancient lich. The air around his shrouded form crackles with evil energy.

Boris is tougher than a normal lich, but not as powerful as a standard ancient lich. Boris used to be an adventurer like us, until he turned himself into a lich in the dungeon. He had a unique artifact dagger called "morg", but he apparently lost it.



What makes Boris unique is that he can come back to bother you. There seems to be no limit to how many times you can kill him per game. Anyway, I took his robe, even though it's basically the same as mine.



The Tomb is a branch filled with all sorts of mummies and traps. There's a lot of treasure at the bottom level, along with a rune.



I identified an amulet of inaccuracy. It reduces the accuracy of spells, melee, and ranged weapons. Now, all the amulets in the game have been ID'd.



I found a stack of 16 +4 silver bullets.



I found a scroll of torment nearby. I think that was the last unidentified scroll in the game.



Free loot! And none of them are mimics!



You can only carry 52 items in your inventory. I had to sacrifice a few things.

[Dr.Feelgood]

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I found a scroll of acquirement. I wanted a rod, but I received a staff of cold instead. 



We ran into Xtahua.

An ancient and mighty dragon.

Xtahua is much stronger than a regular dragon and breathes really hot flames, which deals up to 114 damage! I recommend having rF++ if you plan on fighting her.



150k turns is what happens when you screw around too much. Playing late at night, while watching videos is a Bad Idea. I'm surprised that I haven't died yet.



We entered a (rather large) field of silence. You can't shout, use abilities, scrolls, or cast spells while silenced.



We finally found a book with tornado in it, though it's gonna be awhile before we can cast it.



This enormous field of silence is being generated by this silent spectre. It's a weak ghost added to 0.8 to screw with spell casters.



It's a really weak ghost.



A death ooze is a high level undead ooze normally found in the Slime Pits. Their attacks cause rotting.



We ran into a curse skull nearby. They're stationary monsters that like to torment you and summon undead creatures.



Silver bullets seem to be more powerful than Dispel Undead.



We encounter Frederick while trying to grab our bullets.

A svelte fighter-mage who wears a gold-rimmed monocle and seeks a suitable and worthy opponent. You likely do not fit the bill.

Frederick used to be a classy unique known as Adolf. Now, the former fuhrer has been turned into a spiky-haired punk with no monocle. His favorite tactic is turning invisible and hitting you with either mystic blast, bolt of cold, or iron shot.



My favorite tactic is crippling uniques with curare, then flinging my overpowered bullets into their skulls! 

[Dr.Feelgood]

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We reached the final level of the Crypt.



This level is mostly the same as the previous ones, except for this vault. It's called "Eye to Eye with the Devil".

Skeletal warriors patrol the area. A flying skull is there to wake the monsters up. And a curse toe and bone dragon guard the entrance. A curse toe is just like a curse skull, except it can move (albeit very slowly) and summon wandering mushrooms as well as undead.



A bone dragon is huge undead abomination, pieced together from the broken bones of many dragons. It's resistant to all elemental damage, has a ton of health, high AC, and it hits really hard. They also make very nice pets if you remember to haste them.



Eventually everything outside the vault dies..err re-dies.



This vault has a bunch of alarm traps near the entrance. Alarm traps are magical, so the alarms will go off even if you hover over them (I forgot that detail...). The moment the liches wake up the translucent stone walls will disappear and the liches will be released.

You can stand outside the vault and use Lee's Rapid Deconstruction on metal walls until both liches are destroyed or gravely injured (hurr). Screw that! Dik-Dik is a real kobold! He'll take on both liches at once and WIN!!



An ancient lich is incredibly dangerous. Fortunately, I'm basically invincible thanks to Nemelex.  The regular lich spams Orb of Destruction. OOD conjures a fast moving pick ball of destruction, which is treated like a monster. It explodes on contact dealing up to 152 damage. And the ancient lich keeps summoning demons and the undead.



One down, one more to go!



Now to claim my prize.



I think this is my 7th unrandart. To explain, there are three types of artifacts: randarts (random artifacts), unrandarts (special, pre-defined artifacts), and fixedarts (weapons with one-of-a-kind properties).



And this is my 2nd rod of demonology. 



Boots of running! It obviously makes us run faster and it works with Swiftness.



The robe of archmagi was improved (and nerfed) in 0.8. It no longer has that terrible exp penalty, but it doesn't provide the wizardry effect anymore. It boosts the power of all spell schools.



That legendary deck on the ground is a deck of changes. It temporarily turned us into a dragon.



The gift Nemelex gave us was a deck of wonders. And I promptly used it to gain a level! Only one more level left.



Before leaving I stacked a deck of escape. I <3 tomb cards. 



Sadly, I still couldn't find a shuffle card. Oh well.

[Angel Of Death]

Hang on, Frederick was originally Hitler?

NEIN, MEIN FUHRER! NEEEIIIIN!

Why did they take him out?

[Ochita]

Adolf isn't automatically hitler. Adolf is a German name, so others may be called it.

Just think for a second before you associate something with Hitler.

[Angel Of Death]

Frederick used to be a classy unique known as Adolf. Now, the former fuhrer has been turned into a spiky-haired punk with no monocle. His favorite tactic is turning invisible and hitting you with either mystic blast, bolt of cold, or iron shot.

These are the quotes that made me think he was similar to Hitler. Well, really only the bolded parts.

[Ahra]

fuhrer = leader

[Dr.Feelgood]

Hang on, Frederick was originally Hitler?

NEIN, MEIN FUHRER! NEEEIIIIN!

Why did they take him out?

They probably changed his name because people kept thinking he was Hitler. Players on IRC and other sites referred to him as a Nazi. I don't know why they changed his tile though. It doesn't match his description.

[Angel Of Death]

They should have at least changed it to something that sounds slightly more German than Fredrick...

Maybe Hans?

[Ochita]

Hans is actually quite german

[Angel Of Death]

Hans is actually quite german

I know.

[Ochita]

And Frederick is English. Or at least, an English version of the German name.

[Robsoie]

There were many Prussian kings that were named Frederick, so the name perfectly fit for a "german themed" character.

[Angel Of Death]

But Hans sounds better, in my opinion.

Actually, no. I don't get the image of a fearful mage when I hear Hans. I get an image of some drunk old guy in suspenders.