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[Robsoie]

I begin to really dislike the "timed" function of most of the portals, i have found some of them only too late in several games while i had a character that was at a good level enough to take them.

[Robsoie]

Yes! got the Shoal rune.
Many thanks to poison cloud, ignite poison and call imps for making it possible to get this rune.

But in the rune room, one of the dangerous merfolks in there was throwing javelins that were going through my imps and undead wall directly at me, i didn't thought it was possible as the "regular" merfolks couldn't do it (my troops were blocking their shots)
And whatever were those javelins, they hurt a very lot, i was hit 2 times and my last blinking scroll saved my character at only 2 health remaining.

[Frumple]

Innit there those set-art, or something along those lines, javs that turn into lightning or whatever when thrown? Those would beam and hit like a truck. Sounds like you ran into a merfolk totin' them.

[freeformschooler]

Innit there those set-art, or something along those lines, javs that turn into lightning or whatever when thrown? Those would beam and hit like a truck. Sounds like you ran into a merfolk totin' them.

IIRC javs of Frost do the same thing, at least when I've thrown them. Not so sure about the other elements.

[Seriyu]

Pretty sure any elemental javelin will "ignite" and do extra damage, with a 100% chance of breaking if it hits.

Also sorry for leaving that orc priest in stasis, but got terraria and uhhh yeah.

I intend to finish at least him before the end of the tournament so.

[Robsoie]

Was lucky to survive them then, as i don't go much in Shoal end floor, i had no idea those javelins could do that.

But anyways, my nice run arrived at an end in D:20 unfortunately.

Previously i ran away from this floor due to Boris destroying my Imps too easily and the location not really helping my poison cloud + ignite poison offensive tactics.

Getting back to D:20 with newly learned Demonic Army thanks to a Sif Muna recent book, i built an impressive legion of demons and imps that this time could certainly get rid of Boris as they would then be able to hold him inside of the burning clouds without all of them dying too quickly.

So i began to look for Boris without finding anything.

At some point i saw a hydra coming out of a corner just near me, instead of trying to Mystical Blast it, i retreated behind my legions to avoid some stupid death (Deep Elves are very very fragile to balance the power of the spellcasting skills, as at level 19 my Deep Elf had only 73 health).

From a corner of the screen (though it was a location i already explored), i noticed a beam coming and killing one of my demons in 1 shot and lightly hurting me.

I was seeing nothing i moved away from the direction of the beam, but whatever was firing got the opportunity from the "random energy" thing that allow a monster to move and shoot in the same turn

You swap places.
You hear some strange, mumbled words.
The bolt of cold hits your rock troll zombie.
Your rock troll zombie resists.
The bolt of cold hits you!
Ouch! That really hurt!
You die...

And to be sure the ray was killing my character, the damage were even more than my max health (the 1st shot lightly wounded me already).

Killed from afar by Boris (85 damage)

But i never actually saw Boris during the 2 turns it took to have him killing my character, so i imagine he turned invisible from beyond my line of sight, giving me no chance to actually anticipate his extremely damaging cold beam.

[Robsoie]

Congratulations to ggeezz for his win !
Lots more points for the team, Bay12gamers is at the 20th position.
Amazing job guys.

[ggeezz]

Thanks.  Just doing my part to put us ahead of LosingIsFun

[drkpaladin]

I'm suddenly having trouble playing on the server, although I can still log in and watch other people's games, just lost another troll character.  Hopefully all these trolls with one level of spellcasting/evaporate will own some people as ghosts


Edit: Apparantly one of my ghosts killed a sixteenth level character, because I have another ghost kill and 11 more points.  I wonder which character it was?

My hill orc priest had 177 HP, lots of resists and 50 SV when he died,but he fell down from d20 to d25, so it would be weird if he got a kill for a 16th level character that deep in the dungeon.  I had plenty of level 12 melee characters that might have assisted in killing a level 16 character who was surrounded by other monsters.

[Dr.Feelgood]

I was getting ready to ditch Trog, when I was suddenly booted out of my game. Now, I have the same problem as drkpaladin.

[Robsoie]

There's a problem currently with the Webtiles server :
https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1727

Hopefully will get fixed soon.

[baruk]

I think you should really use some electric resistance/insulation from that weapon or never try to fight Nikola, as it will reduce the damage of his spells a lot, but you need to have good skills with it to be able to hit Nikola reliably and does enough damage (as he has 190 health !)
Now freezing clouds can be a great help, Nikola does not have cold resistance listed.

 Nikola is down - I found him sleeping in a corridor, so I was able to get fully prepared before the fight with haste, deflect missiles and a potion of resistance. I hit him with curare, then filled the corridor with freezing cloud - he only chain lightninged me twice (for about 20 damage a time), spending the rest of his moves closing in to melee before promptly dieing at my feet - I was surprised he didn't try blinking out of the cloud.
 The latest problem is a Titan that I found in a vault on D:17 - it's first airstrike did me 51 damage since I was flying at the time (max HP is currently 125), but I managed to get away with haste. Freezing cloud might do the trick again I suppose

[Robsoie]

Good job, on the only character i had to meet with Nikola, i learned the Insulation spell just for it, it saved my character a lot by lowering the damage of his electrocution (then Nikola died by a few poison clouds + several call imp to keep him inside the poison while i went out of his view)

lesson of the day :
Never ever think you're going to kill a monster that is down to its last health points while you're full.
A good and promising (found some nice items) Sludge Elf berzerker was fighting an Ogre, didn't went Berzerk because i thought i was very well equipped to destroy it.
And the battle was indeed one sided until the Ogre was nearly dead.

At that point i could have gone berzerk, but why ? there was no chance the Ogre would avoid my accurate elf blows now (he had good dexterity and good enough axe skill, and a nice shield).
... but the Ogre did, and never missed any of his further hits, killing my promising elf that just decided to miss every of his attacks.

Lesson : use Berzerk on -every- Ogres even when you're 100% sure you're going to kill them without a problem.

[nenjin]

Any of the large monsters...Trolls, Ogres, Cyclopses, Giants....I treat as two shot threats. Because it will always happen. They can with for 20 rounds or not score that monster hit....and then suddenly your whole life bar is read in one turn.

[Robsoie]

Currently playing a demigod earth elementalist, and due to how dull it is with all those -1 at every skills, it shows that "victory dancing" really needs a rework in term of skill training.
Took an insane time not playing but just repeatedly casting spells then rest then re-cast then rest, just to spent the XP in the needed skills after you kill an unique or a ghost.