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[breadbocks]

This looks to be pretty epic. I'm so following this.

Add a Mummy Necromancer to the list.

Also, what does this "trunk" thing you keep referring to mean?

[BishopX]

The trunk is the current build. Crawl is in active development, the developer approved versions of the game are referred to collectively as the trunk. Versions that other people make which are not approved are referred to as branches.

[Mr.Person]

Trunk basically means the active development version of the game.

Wrong again, Dr. Feelgood. Trunk was recently changed so that Ijyb appearing in Sprint is no longer allowed to appear with "high-level" wands, which I think means healing, teleportation, and haste. The very next commit was making draining and electricity high level wands, so Ijyb is no longer capable of spawning with draining wands in Sprint. This is what happens when you sign up for the Crawl development RSS feed.

[Dr.Feelgood]

Wrong again, Dr. Feelgood. Trunk was recently changed so that Ijyb appearing in Sprint is no longer allowed to appear with "high-level" wands, which I think means healing, teleportation, and haste. The very next commit was making draining and electricity high level wands, so Ijyb is no longer capable of spawning with draining wands in Sprint. This is what happens when you sign up for the Crawl development RSS feed.

Wrong again? I never said fountains provided nutrition or that mummy curses decay potions. If you're referring to something else, then I do not know.

[G-Flex]

The trunk is the current build. Crawl is in active development, the developer approved versions of the game are referred to collectively as the trunk. Versions that other people make which are not approved are referred to as branches.

No.

"Trunk" in this case refers to the currently in-development, unstable, constantly-updated version of the game, as opposed to the most recent stable release.

[Dr.Feelgood]

This looks to be pretty epic. I'm so following this.

Add a Mummy Necromancer to the list.

Also, what does this "trunk" thing you keep referring to mean?

https://crawl.develz.org/trunk/

[Dr.Feelgood]

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I don't plan on entering the Orcish Mines yet, so I went to clear the rest of the level. I ran into a few wights and lured them into a corridor. Wights are undead warriors with a draining attack.

All undead are immune to negative energy, poison, rotting, and torment. They're also very resistant to cold attacks. Of course, they're vulnerable to holy and silver items. And to Dispel Undead, which we can't use.



Normally, draining attacks would be very dangerous this early in the game, but these guys rarely drain you. I keep killing wights, but more of them keep appearing.



For wight #5 I decided to show off two spells from my rod: Summon Imp and Summon Demon. The purple, squid-faced demon is a neqoxec. They can drain your INT, summon imps, and mutate you. I'm glad it wasn't hostile towards me or I'd be in trouble!



After getting rid of all those pesky wights I find a spell book nearby. Trog worshippers can burn spell books to gain piety. Burning a book turns it into a cloud of flames, so it can be used as a one-use Conjure Flame spell. I'll be saving this book for future use.



I finally decided to go back and kill the imps. I played with the rod some more and summoned a hostile smoke demon. They can cast Sticky Flame (similar to poison, but with fire and scroll burning!), Steam Ball (hot steam, obscures LOS), and Smiting. Needless to say, I didn't want it around.

I threw a dispersal dart at the smoke demon and ran. I ran around in a circle and went to where I killed those wights. I used berserk to quickly kill the smoke demon and both imps who followed me.



A giant frog (fast, plain monster) decided to mess with me while I was exhausted. I blasted it with the rest of my lightning wand charges and finished it off with poison.



A bunch of orcs appeared while I was finishing up the level. They never put up much of a fight.



A dead orc wizard had a dagger of venom. The venom brand poisons a monster half of the time and the poison effect stacks, so you can kill susceptible enemies very fast.

I also identified a ring, dexterity (+6), which is okay for now. And I removed my curses. I guess I'm done with D:7.



When I head downstairs the 1st monster I see is Erolcha. Why is part of the level mapped? I fell through a shaft trap on the last level. There were no monsters in that area. Anyway, back to Erolcha:

An especially cunning ogre-mage.

Erolcha is a potentially lethal unique. Why? She might have Banishment (sends you to the Abyss, which is a very scary place at my level), Lehudib's Crystal Spear (most powerful single-target attack spell), or Paralyze. I say "might" because her spell set is random. Be very careful around her.



She turned invisible after I woke her up, which means she doesn't have crystal spear or banishment. She could still have paralyze, so I decided to retreat upstairs.



While waiting for Erolcha's invisibility to wear off I came up with a brilliant plan for defeating her: Hit her until she dies!

I went downstairs, used Trog's Hand, and called her over to me. When she turned the corner I used berserk and stabbed her repeatedly with my venom dagger. She died before being able to do anything.



You notice that ax sticking out of the ground north from dik-dik? That's a mechanical trap. These traps can come darts, bolts, needles, etc. They're hidden on the ground and cause damage when to step on them. This is one of the reasons why you shouldn't travel around while injured.

You can disarm mechanical traps (Ctrl + direction of trap), but if you fail you'll get damaged. You can easily bypass them by flying or levitating over them. Other types of traps include:

Magic traps:
- Zot trap - Nastiest trap in the game. They're basically high level miscast effects, such as banishment, summoning hostile greater demons, mutations, etc. Rare in the dungeon, but common in the Realm of Zot.
- Teleport trap - Teleports you to a random location on the level. It can be bypassed with teleport control on a level that allows it, or an item that blocks teleportation.
- Alarm trap - Makes a loud noise for attracting monsters to you.

Magic traps can't be bypassed with levitation or flight.

Shaft trap - Drops you down 1-3 levels.



I killed the beetle and found a copper ring nearby. Heading further south, I encounter another unique, Eustachio.

An apprentice summoner with a flowing moustache. He has funny ideas about honour.

Eustachio, despite his magnificent mustache, is a wuss. He died in a few turns from needles.  I continued searching the level, but I didn't find anything interesting, except for a vault shaped like numbers in the next screen shot.



Looks like I spoke too soon. Seriously? How many uniques am I going to fight here? Joseph is a moderately dangerous unique. He carries a quarterstaff and a sling, which are often branded.

Joseph's bio:

Looks like a mercenary.

It's gonna take more than flaming bullets and a big stick to stop us!



I took Joseph's weapons as trophies to add to my collection. 



We're done with D:8. Look at all that exp. I guess I'm gonna have to do some off-screen training. See you next time!

[Korbac]

You're pretty damn good at this.

[breadbocks]

Been poking around on the wiki. Jiyva is the best god. The best.

EDIT: In fact, I like her so much, I want the mummy necro I requested to be replace with a felid monk who prays to Jiyva.

[IHateOutside]

Posting to watch, I might pick up some tips.

[Moron]

Add Mountain Dwarf Conjurer to the list - THEY CAN USE MAGMA.

(at least if conjurers still start with the same spell books in trunk as 0.7)

[Mr.Person]

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but I would recommend replacing that Halfing Chaos Knight with a Demonspawn Chaos Knight, doubly so if you were planning on taking Xom.

Add in a Draconian Crusader to the bottom of the list.

[Dr.Feelgood]

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I wished monsters would stop greeting me near staircases. Anyway, that orc was way too close to that wand, so I killed him first. That wand turned out to be a wand of fireball, which I promptly used to fry the iguana.



This looks interesting: A room made of white stone walls and surrounded by water. When I got closer I saw goblins with axes and an imp come out. This must be a portal to a Bailey.

This portal leads to a forbidden dungeon of the mad axeman. You know this because of the black pennant bearing axes in saltire. It seems as if you had better enter the portal before the standard is lowered to the ground.

In Crawl, a portal is a gateway to a special level. Most of them have a timer, so they'll disappear after awhile. A Bailey is a small, medieval-themed portal vault. The portal usually appears between D:7-16 or in the Orcish Mines.

There are two possible layouts for the portal entrance: Either the portal is in a room protected by a moat and goblins (usually), or the portal is out in the open with surrounded by four weapons (all the same type as will be found in the Bailey).

The loot here ranges from junk to "Sweet Jesus! I hit the jackpot!", depending on the layout.



This place looks slightly different from the dungeon. Anyway, that "warping space" message means we can't control teleports here. Some places disable teleport control. And those places tend to be very hard, but this Bailey appeared early on, so it's probably easy.

I picked up the black potions and found a portal leading back to the dungeon.



Look at all those monsters in that castle! The castle is protected by a moat and a couple of kobolds with axes of returning. The returning brand makes the weapon return to its owner's hand when thrown. Sometimes, depending on throwing skill, it fails to return.



I assume that the potions I found here are potions of levitation. Before I cross the moat I'm going to get rid of a few monsters.



Burn, you bastards. Burn!



I decided to finish off the rest with poison.



That was fun! I levitated across the moat and looted their corpses. They didn't have anything useful on them.



On the far left is an orc warrior. They're much more dangerous than a regular orc, especially when first encountered. They usually have good armor and a decent weapon. I like to use enchantment wands, like enslavement or slow, on them.



This is an orc knight. It's the toughest monster here. They're a lot more dangerous than orc warriors. They're tougher, stronger, and have war cries. A war cry will awaken and strengthen nearby orcs! Debilitating them is a good idea.

Well, that's it for this Bailey. The only thing here are axes, so I returned to the dungeon.



I love burning things!  Sadly, ice beasts don't turn into puddles when killed.



A jelly! Oh, and some orcs. Jellies (the red monster) can corrode your weapons and armor, lowering its enchantment level (down to -5). They can also eat items on the ground, except artifacts and rocks.

Every time they eat something jellies recover some HP. After eating enough they might split to create a new jelly! If you hear a distant slurping noise, an item has just been eaten. If you hear a squelching noise, then a new jelly has been created.

I collected all the rocks I could find to deal with them, but it was too close to me. I ended up just stabbing it and getting my dagger corroded.



I can now beat ogres to death without having to go berserk.



None of these monsters are putting up much of a fight for dik-dik.



I found the entrance to the Lair, but I decided to clear the rest of D:9 before entering. I ended up getting ambushed by a bunch of mooks. Even getting attacked from all sides is not enough for them to stop us. One of the orcs had an uncursed falchion, so I can now train long blades.

These stairs lead down to the Lair of Beasts, for a change of Climate.

The lair is a branch filled with "natural creatures", such as sheep, lizards, rodents, etc. It's 8 levels deep and can be found between D:8-13. It's one of the easier branches in the game. The lair doesn't have a rune, but it contain 3 staircases to side-branches, which have them.

The lair also makes a good stash location. Why? Cause you don't want monsters taking your stuff (or jellies destroying it), and only animals spawn in the lair. There is a very small chance that monsters from the might spawn in L:1, so some people put their stuff on L:2. I just use L:1, because it's more convenient. Nothing seriously bad happened to any of my stashes before.

Crawl doesn't have containers for loot, so you just drop stuff on the ground. Fortunately, Crawl remembers the location of every item you're ever seen. When you want to search for something in your stashes, you can do this with the Find command 'Ctrl-F'. The parser even accepts regular expressions, although you will mostly just need strings like 'mutation', 'heal wounds', etc. You will be presented with a list of all places where objects matching the search are (or have been) located; you can then travel there or examine the pile.

The Find command will also search in shop inventories. Furthermore, you can search skills like 'long blades' (this will find all weapons training the long blades skill) or general terms like 'shop', 'altar', 'portal', 'artefact', 'dart trap', etc.

Now that I reached the lair, you guys have choice. What do you want me to do next?

- Clear the Lair.
- Clear the Orcish Mines.
- Continue exploring the dungeon.

[Mr.Person]

Clear the Lair, although you could probably clear the Mines if you remember to summon some help from Trog when you meet tough guys.

[sonerohi]

Clear the lair.