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[Mindmaker]

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

Friedrich would had been the german version.

[Shriek]

I couldn't help but double take at "I killed and ate the minotaur". I just not used to crawl yet is all.

Pfft. If that makes you feel uncomfort, think about Prince Ribbit! In regular fantasy stories, a princess will kiss him and undo his curse. In crawl, a troll/ogre/whatever will come by, rip him to pieces, and eat his corpse. Without cooking.

Crawl is hardcore.

(Also: Dr.Feelgood, attacking a portal mimic with ranged attack will NOT make them teleport away, because unlike item mimics, they CAN move!)

[Dr.Feelgood]

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Time to finish exploring the dungeon!



Remember this place? We're here to get payback.



We have full life protection (rN+++), so the dragon's breath has no effect on us. It goes down quickly.



Then, I teleported into this room on the bottom left. These monsters don't stand a chance.



This unrandart is known as the "Captain's Cutlass" (+6, +7 sabre of speed with +3 slaying). It's one of the best short blades in the game.



The outside of the rooms is filled with teleport traps.




I teleported into a room, slaughtered the monsters and took their loot. Repeat for every room. Troll leather armor is like regular leather armor, except it grants passive regen+ to all non-trolls. The rod is a rod of striking, which is practically useless at this point. It deals a pitiful amount of damage. None of the books I've found are useful.



This is the last room. There's nothing of value in here.



I finished exploring the level where we found our 1st Abyss portal.



I found an randart halberd on D:24, but I'm not going to bother taking it.



While finishing up D:25 I ran into Wiglaf.

A fat dwarf wearing a stupid-looking hat.

Wiglaf is the opposite of Frances. He's much more dangerous than his description suggests. Wiglaf is a priest of Okawaru, so he can use Haste and Might.



He can shrug off curare's slow effect by invoking Haste, so I finished the fight quickly. I waited around the corner, shot him with a curare needle, then I went berserk.



We gained our final level-up on D:26!



We have reached the last level of the dungeon. This place has a lot of monsters, but they haven't changed.



Harpies are fast-moving monsters that move like bats and like to destroy your food.



Here's a gate to the last branch, the Realm of Zot!



I don't plan on entering this place yet.



I found a moth of wrath nearby. These monsters cause other monsters (and you) to go berserk. Naturally, this is very bad. They're normally found in the Realm of Zot.



This place looks interesting.



A rakshasa is a demonic illusionist who likes to make clones of itself, then turn invisible. The clones only have 1HP and no attacks.



I take it back. This place looks interesting, but there's nothing special here. We're done here, so let's go finish off those annoying elves!

[Dr.Feelgood]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The high level elves tend to carry some of the treasure from their vault on them.



The grey disc is a Disc of Storms. Evoking it successfully causes random (and potentially dangerous) lightning spells to shoot off in random directions. I never use it. I'll ID the dagger later.



The elf in green is a master archer. They, along with blademasters and generic elves, are the only spell-less elves in this place. Master archers are very dangerous, if you're a squishy caster. They don't stop shooting their arrows, even if you're clubbing them in the face.

Oh yeah, you can't control teleports on this level, unless you empty out that fountain. I don't see a point to this. If you're capable of getting this far inside, then you don't need to escape. And if you ended up in this vault by accident, then standing around and drinking from this fountain will get you killed.



My summons are making this place easy.



This room is half empty. Though, I did find another unrandart (ring of robustness; +8 AC).



This is the main treasure room. I sent some summons inside to deal with the remaining elves.



Elves aren't so bad... when they're dead. Look at all the treasure they gave me!



I'm feeling good after getting all that loot, so I went to the Hall of Blades for some easy experience (everything in here gives between 800 and 1400 XP). This branch has only one level and is filled with animated weapons. Having Airstrike, or preferably Mystic Blast, makes clearing this branch easy.

BTW, I learned Airstrike (air spell that can hit anywhere on-screen), Phase Shift (+5 EV buff), and Abjuration (dispels summoned monsters) from the spell books I found in the Elven Halls. I'll show you all the artifacts I found soon.



I'm using the exp I get here to train summoning. You'll want a summoning skill of around 8 to make Abjuration useful. Eventually, I'll get rid of those rods.



Airstrike is too loud and it takes too many hits to destroy the weapons, so I used my sling. Dancing weapons are fast, highly resistant to elemental damage, immune to enchantments, and hit hard. Some of them might have a draining or distortion brand, so be careful. Anyway, we're done with this place. We'll try to get our 4th rune next time!

[Dakk]

The hall of blades feels so pointless, you never find interesting stuff there, just a bunch of common weapons with random brands on them. I have never seen a executioner's axe, double/triple sword or katana flying weapon.

[Virex]

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

Friedrich would had been the german version.

Depends on the area you're talking about. I wouldn't be surprised if one'd find that Fredrick is common in West-german Bundesländer, near the Dutch and Belgian border.

[Dr.Feelgood]

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

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Another shop. :|



I didn't buy anything.



A glowing shapeshifter changes more often. Kill them ASAP. Moving on...



The crusade cards act as abjuration or enslavement. And sometimes the enslavement effect is permanent. 



They all ended up killing each other. And they weren't carrying anything useful. Oh well.



After sacrificing a bunch of junk I received a legendary deck of wonders. Now, dik-dik can breath fire! I also drew another experience card. Anyway, let's get the silver rune!



24 vs 1 doesn't seem like fair odds. Those poor guards. Vault guards are similar to orc knights. Vault:8 also has lots of dragons, giants, and shapeshifters. You'll want rN++ for shadow dragons (preferably RN+++) and rElec for titans.

There are 4 treasure vaults on this level and one of them has a rune. Depending on the layout you can wipe out the guards and control teleport around, until you find the rune. I'm not going to do that, because that wouldn't be fun!  The plan is simple: KILL EVERYTHING!



PRO TIP: Stair-dancing is useful for dealing with large amounts of enemies. Wait until they're next to you, then head upstairs to only fight several at a time.



They managed to hit me quite a few times in a row.



I blinked away and killed the last two with my sling.



After taking care of the guards I went downstairs and summoned a bunch of red wasps and a katana of electricity. Red wasps are a swarm of death. They can poison and paralyze anything lacking rPois. 



Golden dragons are endgame monsters normally found in Zot! They can breath bolts of fire, cold, and poisonous clouds. Their hides can be enchanted into golden dragon armor, which is one of the best heavy armors in the game.



Vault #1 doesn't have anything interesting.



Vault #2 has 4 small piles of loot in total.



We already found the rune!



Shadow Creature is awesome in places like this.



I found a book with Haste in it. Other than that, the loot here kinda sucks. Next stop: the Realm of Zot!

The next update will be posted on a new page.

[Dakk]

Oh nice, pity you won't do the hells, but I guess you want to actualy excape with the orb

Good luck, fine berserking mage kobold sir.

[breadbocks]

Huh. Hurry up and track down a sewer, so you can show just how batshit fun it is to wield a dagger or the like of elec, and watch as you collaterally kill everything around you.

[Ahra]

i think we need to get to the next page first.

[Angel Of Death]

Sewers are filled with lewt!

[BishopX]

The sewer is probably my favorite portal in the game. I always find it fun, and it tends to be very tactically oriented, unlike the bailey or god forbid the spiders lair(I hate that place with a passion).

[Angel Of Death]

The sewers usually have highly enchanted weapons. And you can find them as early as level 3.

[Dakk]

The sewers are boring, the only tactic you ever need there is to not get swarmed and not fight in shallow waters, and it has some pretty lame uniques also. The only somewhat good about thing about it is that it guards some decent loot which can be pretty useful in the early game, and the ocasional randart. It is actualy better then the bailey and the spider's nest though, not even rpoison will help you there.

My favorite hidden place is the labyrinth. It provide some pretty sweet loot and is actualy easy to complete unless you're an underleveled melee only character with hunger issues.

[Dr.Feelgood]

Oh nice, pity you won't do the hells, but I guess you want to actualy excape with the orb

Good luck, fine berserking mage kobold sir.

Who said that I'm not gonna to do the hells?!  It's up to you guys to decide whether I do the post-endgame content or not.