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[Burnt Pies]

Presumably because Katanas are fast and very damaging? Having played a very small amount of Crawl, I've noticed none of the long blades at the top of the dungeon have such a low attack delay or high damage.

Also, Katanas are badass.

[breadbocks]

True, but it seems it gets made into a different weapon. Maybe it's just renamed. :shrug:

Also, Feelgood, do you have any advise for dealing with a ghost of one of your selves that got brutally murdered by Terence, and love casting mephetic cloud?

[Dr.Feelgood]

That is one kickass weapon. But why is holy-ifying a katana better than holy-ifying any other long blade?

Katana are bonderline overpowered. They're only balanced by rarity, like Pearl dragon armour.

A plain katana deals more damage than every other one-handed, blessed long blade (except a holy eudemon blade and double sword). And a katana swings much faster than all of them.

True, but it seems it gets made into a different weapon. Maybe it's just renamed. :shrug:

Also, Feelgood, do you have any advise for dealing with a ghost of one of your selves that got brutally murdered by Terence, and love casting mephetic cloud?

Blessing a katana increases its base damage by 1 and decreases its accuracy by 1.

If you can't defeat your ghost, then you should probably flee the level. You can return to kill it later if you want, and if you happen die on another level your ghost is gone for good.

[Dr.Feelgood]

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bye, TSO! Thanks for the upgraded katana! 



Nemelex gives you decks and the ability to manipulate them in your favor in exchange for sacrificing random crap laying on the floor. Nemelex will gladly take anything, except the Orb, runes, and gold.



Nemelex is by far the most overpowered god in Crawl.

Deck of Escape: Has tomb cards, pain free self-banishment, instant controlled teleport and blink. Invincibility is fun!
Deck of Destruction: It sucks.
Deck of Dungeons: Create portals to treasure filled places, like labyrinths and troves.
Deck of SummoningWinning: More powerful than any god summons. Legendary summoning decks are powerful enough to win the game for you. It got nerfed in 0.8, but it's still incredibly powerful.
Deck of Wonders: Get great mutation sets and multiple level-ups.

Here's a guide to Nemelex (v0.7):

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Nemelex_guide

Add the following to your options file (init.txt in your settings folder) to prevent you from getting decks of destruction:

# Nemelex
: if you.god() == "Nemelex Xobeh" then
autoinscribe = weapon|missile:!D
: end

In 0.8, you can just deselect any deck you want on the screen above.



After clearing out D:1 and most of D:2, we got our 1st deck. It's plain. Decks come in 3 tiers of power: Plain (useless), Ornate (good), and Legendary (most powerful). A "symbol of [whatever]" means that you're likely to get that deck next.



We get our 2nd plain deck by sacrificing all the junk left by the orcs in the mines. And we gained Nemelex's 1st ability: Draw One. It allows us to draw a card without having to wield a deck.



We receive another plain deck. It's probably Escape, since I've only been sacrificing armor, so far.



Remember this area? I avoided it, because of the elves. This time we're much more powerful.



We can finally cast our spells, but they only last a few turns. The elves still went down like chumps.



I did promise that I would show you guys this place.

Elven Halls

A wide stair down to the murky depths of the halls of the deep elves, skilled warriors with blades and bows, and fearsome sorcerers and magicians.

Before we enter this place let's get prepared.



Oh, we gained Nemelex's 2nd ability: Peek at Two. It's only useful for identifying decks.



I stashed away a lot of junk in case we decided to worship Nemelex. I instantly gained two more piety levels (and 2 new abilities!).



Triple Draw: Draw 3 cards and pick 1. The other 2 are lost and the deck is reshuffled. Useful for decks of wonder.

Mark Four: Self-explanatory. I never use it.



I tested the plain decks. All of them are decks of escape. Nemelex finally gave us something useful (an ornate deck).



Yes, I'm a spider in a tomb. I'm wasting cards to get new decks. Anyway, we gained Nemelex's final ability: Stack Five. Draw 5 cards, toss out the rest, and rearrange your new deck however you want.




After wasting more plain decks we have 3 ornate decks (all of them are escape decks).



I think we're ready for the Elven Halls.

[breadbocks]

Yay for Nemlex!

Is the difference between plain ornate and legendary just in the effect's strength of a card drawn, or are the cards you draw from different pools?

[Angel Of Death]

Yay for Nemlex!

Is the difference between plain ornate and legendary just in the effect's strength of a card drawn, or are the cards you draw from different pools?

Strength, mainly. I think you get better cards as well with legendary.

The Elven Halls are NOT to be taken lightly. There are demonologists and other nasty things on the first level.

[breadbocks]

So both? Neat. Remind me to try him out if I ever survive long enough to reach the point where I can join him. >_> <_<

Also, how do you do that religion screen thingie?
EDIT: Damn. The devs of .7 were asses. I could probably grab a few rocks but....

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Level 3 VpAr, in d:2, and they made a gag of a a range of melee demons surrounded by lava. It goes up to second rank Beasts. Those asses weren't even kind enough to give me a few dozen darts so I could victory dance my way to over 9000 levels in my skills.

EDIT2: Turns out, after waiting for them to move for ages, it was an alter to Malk. Still, I'm having fun trying to pick off that lemure.

[Virroken]

Tune out for a couple days. Feelgood drops Trog, TSO, and then gets Nemelex.

TIME TO READ EVERYTHING.

[Dr.Feelgood]

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

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Elven Halls is a 7 level deep branch filled with elves. There's no rune in this place, but there's plenty of treasure at the bottom. The most notable dangers of this branch is item destruction and the nasty treasure vault on the last level. Well, let's get going.



I disintegrated a wall and tried to kill a sleeping deep elf summoner. These summoners are annoying. They like to summon weak demons and various rodents. He managed to teleport away before I could finish him off. 



Deep elf mages are not too dangerous, unless they spawn with a nasty spell set (like Erolcha or any random wizard).



You probably noticed that my piety is lower than before. That's because I removed my amulet of faith. I'm now wearing an amulet of conservation, so that I don't have to drop my scrolls and potions.



These are spells from a spell book I picked up. This is a standard wizard book. All of the spells are useful for low level wizards, but not for us. Sadly, even Mephitic Cloud (overpowered early-game confusion spell) isn't useful to us at this point.



These guys can have some annoying spells, like Sticky Flame (basically napalm), but they aren't much of a threat. In fact, non of these elves are a match for us. Either I stab them to death in their sleep or cut them down in one hit. 



I finally found that cowardly summoner! They both died without injuring me.



I found a new ring, but I couldn't ID it.



A jewelry shop! I don't think I've explained how jewelry works yet. Rings and amulets are very useful magic items. You can only wear two rings at a time (one for each hand). No, I don't know why you can't wear 10 rings, other than for balance issues. And you can only wear one amulet at a time. Some jewelry have passive effects, while others require activation (the 'a' command).



There are some useful stuff that I could buy, but I'll wait until I have more money.



HELL YEAH!! Ahem... I found a ring of teleport control! 




These elves don't put up much of a fight. I kinda feel bad for slaughtering them, but then I remember that they're elves. 



Eh. I don't feel like fighting a bunch of elementals right now.



I heard that a staff of air makes a (potentially) powerful melee weapon. I might try it out if I get Tornado.



I fell through a shaft. Hopefully, there isn't any uniques waiting for me!



That wasn't so bad.



I got a new deck for killing more helpless elves. 



Josephine!

An ugly elderly figure, dressed in Druidic clothes.

Josephine is a weakling necromancer who travels with a group of undead monsters.



You shouldn't have any trouble killing Josephine or her pets.

[Dr.Feelgood]

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Normally, I'd be trying to get back to where I was originally (before falling down the shaft) asap, but this place is easy. I decided to stop by a potion shop.



I brought almost everything, except the invisibility potions.



These are called enhancer staves. A staff of conjuration enhances the power of conjurations, a staff of air enhances the power of air spells, etc.

There are five kinds of staves:

* Energy (we've seen it already)
* Wizardry (reduces spell failure chances)
* Power (grants extra MP)
* Channeling (Evoke to convert food into MP)
* Enhancer (along with the effect already mentioned, they often grant thematic melee powers and resistances)



I got banished for trying to get more piety. Oh well, it's not like this place is dangerous to us...



We finally get a legendary deck (of dungeons)! I'll use it when we return to the dungeon.



Any demon with "Fiend" in its name is a greater demon and all fiends can cast torment! Pit Fiends aren't as dangerous as regular fiends, but you shouldn't take them lightly. Pit Fiends focus on high melee damage, but they're slow. They can cast hellfire and symbol of torment. Both are brutal, irresistible high damage  spells.

Torment reduces your HP by half and Hellfire comes in two flavors: Hellfire burst, which is like smiting x3. And regular hellfire, which deals more than twice the damage of hellfire burst, but requires a clear path.



I ran from the Pit Fiend, but I encountered a lich nearby.  Liches are powerful endgame (undead) spell casters who can cast a random assortment of dangerous spells, such as paralyze, summon greater demon, crystal spear, banishment, and orb of destruction.



After running and teleporting I found the exit! Time to create a portal in the Lair!



This is why you shouldn't draw cards near your stash. Alistair's Intoxication is a good spell to use with a water card.



The friendly monster next to me is a crystal golem. They're like all golems: slow, but tough. Anyway, I created a portal to labyrinth!

A gateway to an intricate maze designed by subtle and malicious minds, its exit guarded by a fearsome monster. Many a helpless adventurer has lost his way in the twisted, shifting passages, and starved to death.

A labyrinth is a maze, which can be entered through a portal randomly generated in the Dungeon (or by a high power Trowel card). If you hear the the ticking of a distant clock or a distant snort, your level has a labyrinth portal.

You must navigate ever-shifting passages to the center of the maze. At the center is the only exit with a pile of loot, which is guarded by a Minotaur. The main dangerous of this place is starvation, so bring some permafood with you.



Rock walls mean that you are far from the exit. Stone walls mean that you are closer. And metal walls mean that the exit is nearby. I just stick to one side and follow it, until I find something. It usually takes me a few minutes to find the exit.



I found these items nearby.



I found the exit. Minotaurs hit hard, but we can easily handle them.



I killed and ate the minotaur. The loot is kinda mediocre. Let's get out of here.



I received a legendary deck of summoning for sacrificing some of the loot.

[Dr.Feelgood]

Yay for Nemlex!

Is the difference between plain ornate and legendary just in the effect's strength of a card drawn, or are the cards you draw from different pools?

The only differences between them is card power, iirc.

[Mr.Person]

Shuffle only appears in ornate+ decks of Wonders. So there.

[breadbocks]

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

Also, I've learned from experience that minotaurs make batshit OP berserkers.

[Burnt Pies]

Photobucket's screwed up your images.

[G-Flex]

Yeah, a basic photobucket account is not the best thing to use if you're posting a large amount of images on a highly-trafficked site.