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___ (Made In China) the Demonspawn Chaos Knight___ the Felid Wanderer
Kog Haltpast the Deep Dwarf Monk
Jill the Naga Wizard (Worshiping Nemelex)
Here is our new character, Made In China the Demonspawn Chaos Knight. Made In China because followers of Xom are known as toys, and what's seemingly always made in China? (note that I'm Chinese, so for me it's some self-depreciating humor if anything). Anyways, Demonspawn Chaos Knight of Xom is the most random combination possible in a very random game. Why? Demonspawn randomly develop by a system of mutations, while Xom is a totally unpredictable god who will give you a ton of gifts one moment and kill you another. He's also amused by doing stupid things like drinking poison. Yeah, basically he's the in-game version of the player. Also, I chose the mace as my starting weapon. Why? Because the mace will allow us to use a demon whip effectively if and when I acquire one. Hopeless dreaming, I know. Also, our equipment starts out enchanted, which is handy, but not so enough that we will survive easily.
A bit of exploration and I find a ring. We didn't even see one with Argem Bargem, so this is something new. Rings and amulets form up the category of jewelry, and they tend to have useful effects. They can also have very negative ones, but hey, we're playing with Xom, let's be reckless.
Putting it on reveals nothing. A scroll of identify will show us what it is later.
This is our first enemy, a goblin.
It's easily dispatched. I also take the darts behind it.
Some jackals. These guys are quick and come in packs, they tend to turn spellcasters into snacks. (Yay, more rhyming. I'm such a poet, right?)
We take them out easily. I also gain Dodging skill in the process, I think I'll turn it off in favor of heavy armor.
Speaking of heavy armor, I find an orcish ring mail. I won't take it for now, however, the +2 enchantment on our leather armor will mean that we should keep it until we find something better.
Note that we can actually drink potions! Also, a hobgoblin.
We take it out along with a goblin friend and find a pair of gauntlets. Handy. (pun not intentional)
Here we interrupt the meal of an eccentric goblin and his pet rats, or at least from the monster's point of view. From ours, it's food and exp.
We gain level 2! No demonspawn mutations yet, though.
While resting, Xom creates a few altars to himself. I'm cool with that, he could have dumped a demon horde on me.
Then what I presume to be a flavor message.
Now he's getting bored, which is bad, since that causes bad things. The crackling thing is just flavor, though. Maybe if I quaff my potion, it might be poison or mutation and make him happier. Yep, only in a Xom run do you hear that.
It's just magic. Let's just continue and hope that no demon hordes are sent.
The game says yet again that he's getting bored. I think I get it by now, thank you very much. Then after I killed a few monsters, he told me that I'm a boring thing. I didn't get a screenshot, though, it was lost in the wave of combat messages.
He temporarily takes off one INT before deciding that he's mollified. That's good.
Then for most of the rest of the level, surprisingly nothing really interesting happens, not even any Xom actions. Until I come up to this. THIS is a worker ant, and it's tough, fast, and poisons. Not to mention that they shouldn't spawn until much later. This is something known as an out-of-depth monster, and it's bad. Running away might work, but it's still faster then me. So let's take the most crazy option and actually try to take it head-on, since we do worship Xom after all.
Surprisingly, I actually kill it and gain a level. For the stat choice, I go with STR, because I want to go with heavy armor.
I also get my first demonspawn mutation. The wave of death means that I get boosted regeneration when I'm around corpses, although they rot faster. Very handy, actually, although it would be better if I was with Kiku, since he offers corpse delivery.
Just showing off the mutation.
Xom decides to weaken me. Also, notice the "Hungry" and "Sick". If you eat contaminated food to try to appease hunger, there is a chance that it will make you sick, which weakens you and prevents healing. Annoying, to say the least. This is one of many things Argem Bargem didn't need to deal with.
After killing and eating somethings, I'm now a special plaything. Let's hope he actually does something good for once.
It wouldn't be Xom if he did that, however. Instead he summons three demons. This isn't as bad as it may look. The two most threatening ones are actually blocked by the bat and the least threatening one, so maybe I'll luck out with a scroll.
Fortunately, one is teleportation. Unfortunately, the soul eater, the toughest demon to my right, displaced the weaker demon and is right next to me now. I hope it fires in time...
Fortunately, it does. Crisis averted. I'm just going to go to the next level, these demons will disappear soon enough...
And so here I am on the downwards staircase. But of course, in my fine tradition, D2 and it's horrors is for my next update.
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