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Just finished Vault:1-4. Much harder than I remember it being when I got this far in the past, all thanks to ironbrand convokers. My character can tank stone giants and dragons reasonably well, but if I get surrounded by them it's another issue entirely, given that I don't have any way to teleport (besides Bend Space, which has definitely saved me once this run). The worst thing is when ironbrand convokers chain-summon more ironbrand convokers. Ugh. Still, I eventually figured out the correct tactic: always retreat towards the up stairs, and when in doubt, stairscum. Besides that, though, my character is coming along pretty well.

Think the plan for the rest of the game is Snake:5 -> Depths -> Blades/Elf/Crypt? (not sure about how these are) -> Vault:5 -> Zot. It's been a long time since I've gotten this far, though, and any advice is welcome.

Welp, found the Dragon King armor on a FoAK. Cleared Lair relatively easily (Banish is super useful) and on track to disto-brand a great mace. All in all, it's going pretty well.

Welp, I just made it through Lair on my CeAM. It was going pretty well at first, but it started turning an absolute slog: burned lots of piety and hunger on killing nasty stuff like hydras and catoblepas, of which there was many. There were also a ton of black mambas on the bottom floor, which I had a hard time kiting, especially without rPois, and I also ended up dwindling my supply of 100~ arrows down to about ~20. That was when I decided I had enough and set up an oklob farm on the bottom floor. And it worked like a charm: the farm cleared out pretty much the entirety of Lair:8 by its own. It was really tedious though, and I think my play is deteriorating. I need a break before I take on Orc.

The upshot? I found a +8, +9 artifact quarterstaff, and a -1, -1 lajatang next to the Slime entrance. I then proceeded to find a brand weapon scroll, and then used up my other enchant weapon scrolls to bring it up to a +0, +2 lajatang of slicing, which I think will be a perfectly acceptable secondary weapon in the future. After all of that, Orc should feel like a piece of cake. Hopefully I'll find some rPois soon, and maybe a longbow and some arrows.

^ Yup! Really excited, just got out for spring break so I'll have the better part of the next week. Think I'll play a Centaur ranged character first (CeHu or CeAM) to ease myself back in to the game.

Delta, have you edited your rcfile yet? Not seeing the team on the clans page...

Not sure if this matters, but you have my username down on the OP as "un67" when it's really "Un67".

I'm still in the game, apparently. Second chance is enabled?

I think this game has really begun to click with me. I just became the Wendish Emperor as the character Lubartas Palemoniatis, after unifying Lithuania and reforming the Romuva religion with my previous characters. Aside from some dicey successions (originally in Gavelkind, and now in Elective) things have been pretty smooth rolling. Interestingly enough, I saw Bulgaria form the Carpathian Empire in this game, which is something I've never seen before.