Everyone voted for the Hive, so that's where we'll go next.
That's a lot of bees. This should be fun.
I summoned a berserk stone giant and I went berserk against the bees. Stone giants are the 2nd strongest giants in the game (
much stronger than hill giants) and the 2nd most powerful ally you can summon with Brother in Arms.
I eventually became exhausted and my stone giant killed the remaining bees for me.
Trog rewarded me pretty quickly with a gift.
Though the gift sucks. The orc slaying brand does 75% more damage against orcs. There are very few dangerous orcs in Crawl, so this is pretty useless.
The 1st level was very small, so I went downstairs to Hive:2. All the stone staircases leading up are next to each other. Let's see where they lead us.
Fruit, gold, and a harmless larva. That's it.
Not much of an improvement from the other area. I'm probably missing a big portion of the map, but I don't feel like searching yet.
I ran into this group of bees and decided to retreat to the staircase. I enslaved one of the bees as a minor distraction.
This was my main strategy for this place. Fight one at a time and retreat to a staircase (to flee or go berserk) if too many were attacking me at once.
I cleared the northwest corner of the map and got another gift from Trog.
Nice name. This is the 1st item I got with cold resistance, so far.
There's not much else to say about this place. It has a lot of food and bees.
While clearing out the northeast corner I received some steel darts from Trog.
The hell? I didn't know things could get stuck in the wax.
I have to cross this river to reach the south side of the level.
Lots of harmless critters are getting in my way.
THE WEAK DON'T DESERVE TO LIVE!!! Trog agrees and gives me a double sword!
It's a double sword of protection.
I'm carrying so much food that it's starting to weigh me down. "Burdened" is what happens when you exceed your maximum weight limit. It takes you longer to move, longer to go upstairs, your hunger rate is increased, and it gives you a huge stealth penalty. Being "overloaded" is even worse, as you can't move up stairs and all the penalties are increased.
In the southwest corner I ran into a couple of oklob plants. These plants splash acid on you, which corrodes your gear and does a lot of damage to you, if you don't have corrosion resistance. The easiest ways of dealing with them is either with summons or invisibility. Go invisible
outside their LOS, or they'll still try to splash you with acid, despite not being able to see you.
I summoned another stone giant who proceeded to thrash those annoying plants. Though, he suffered quite a few burns.
Those oklobs were guarding this nice artifact buckler. Too bad I can't use it with my katana.
Wow. Trog is making things way to easy for me! I'll be using this sling for the rest of the game, unless Trog gives me something better.
That's a lot of food. I'm not going to bother moving it. I'll continue to explore the dungeon.