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[Dr.Feelgood]

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We're back! I summoned another stone giant to help me clear out the east side of the outer vault.



Now the west side. There's a door leading to the rune (right side of the screen shot), but there's a room full of enemies on both sides of the rune. And a lot of enemies blocking the path to the rune. If I could cast apportation I'd bust in through the front door and inch my way close enough to steal it. I don't have spells, so I took a different approach.

I opened a path on the left side of the rune vault and let my summons whittle the enemy forces down. My berserkers would probably die to quickly if I barged in through the front door.



That was easy. Trog gave me a gift, while my trolls were doing all the work. If I lose too much piety from using BiA, I'll just clear another dungeon level and return.



This is an uncomfortable situation, so I hesitantly teleported out of there. The rune is right within my grasp, so I don't need to rush. 



I ended up outside of the vault, but I got swarmed by a bunch of black mambas. They managed to do quite a bit of damage before dying.



I finally decided to go through the front door, since there aren't many naga left. I summoned a berserk iron troll and let it finish off the remaining naga. Now, to grab the rune!



There it is.



Runes are magic symbols that act like keys to the Realm of Zot. Entrances to the Realm of Zot are at the bottom of the dungeon (D:27). You need at least 3 runes to enter Zot, though there are 15 unique runes.

Runes:
* Dungeon - Snake (serpentine), Slime (slimy), Swamp (decaying), Shoals (barnacled), Vaults (silver), Tomb (golden).
* Abyss - abyssal.
* Hells - Gehenna (obsidian), Cocytus (icy), Dis (iron), Tartarus (bone).
* Pandemonium, by guardian - Cerebov (fiery), Mnoleg (glowing), Lom Lobon (magical), Gloorx Vloq (dark), or randomly (demonic).



We got the rune! A greater naga appeared, so I ran away. I still managed to grab an artifact ring while running.



A teleport landed me in this area. I burned a spell book to celebrate our achievement (and roast a guardian serpent)!



I put the rune away and identified the ring. It's not that good, but I'll keep it.

[Dr.Feelgood]

Sorry for the multiple posts. Today's update was larger than I expected. Here are the links to the other 2 parts, so you don't have to scroll down the previous page:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=77795.msg2105323#msg2105323
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=77795.msg2105332#msg2105332

[breadbocks]

Now for the Swamp and Slime Pits. Come on. Does the idea of being able to dash for Zot if Dik-Dik gets boring not appeal?

[zchris13]

What no don't do slime. Slime will kill you!  I mean, unless you feel like converting to jivya, but I mean, then Trog will kill you!

[Mr.Person]

Ironically, he could probably survive Trog's wrath if he had an amulet of rage.

[Dakk]

The last level of slime is guaranteed death to melee characters, don't do it. The best way to clear slime is to be a jerkface conjurer and burst down the royal jelly with massive AoE damage to destroy the slimes it'll summon right after you hit it. I never cleared the last level of slime.

[G-Flex]

The Royal Jelly never regenerates, at least, so if you have a way to get the hell out of there, you can wear him down over the course of a few visits.

Digging a corridor and fighting him in there also works, I think.

[Mr.Person]

The Royal Jelly never regenerates, at least, so if you have a way to get the hell out of there, you can wear him down over the course of a few visits.

Digging a corridor and fighting him in there also works, I think.

If you like getting raped by the slime walls, that works great.

[G-Flex]

Given the choice between slime wall damage and damage from multiple high-level jellies at once, I'll take the slime walls.

[Dakk]

Problem is, slime walls do quite a bit of damage, quite a bit.

[breadbocks]

He has two or three wands of digging. I'm not very well acquainted with the Slime Pits, other than that if you finish off the Royal Jelly, Jiyva is killed. Anybody mind explaining why you guys fear it so much?

[Korbac]

I assume because it's really tough.

Also, Dik-dik is not an entirely melee based character, probably having more than competent skill in slings by now.

[G-Flex]

Problem is, slime walls do quite a bit of damage, quite a bit.

Not really. I mean, sure, it's a lot if you stand there in them, but so is damage from high-level slimes, and if you're down there without rAcid+ you probably deserve to die.

Also, Dik-dik is not an entirely melee based character, probably having more than competent skill in slings by now.

Good luck killing TRJ with slings.

[BishopX]

I vote we skip the slimes. Lets do the swamp and then head for the vaults.

[Dr.Feelgood]

Next update will be posted tomorrow. Most of you guys told me to skip the Slime Pits, so after the Swamp I'll continue going through the dungeon.

Ironically, he could probably survive Trog's wrath if he had an amulet of rage.

I have an amulet of rage, but I forgot to show it. The amulet wouldn't help much against Trog's wrath. He sends in several hostile berserkers (same monster set as BiA) to surround you. I don't think my squishy kobold would survive more than 2 turns in that situation. I've survived Trog's wrath a few times before. It usually involved using semi-controlled blinks or a tomb card.