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Oh... yeah. Especially if you're an alchie that's been diligent about that extracting, heh. As an alch, I'm almost always able to immediately activate the farportal when I hit the fortress, due simply to the pile of useless gems I t.mog on arrival (well, on attunement, anyway). Even with non-alchs, I usually keep all my gems until they can be converted into fortress energy, and then mog 'em all at once, instead of selling them off earlier. Gotta' get that money rollin' in, and it's not like anyone uses very many gems to begin with. Even alchies don't need too many, really.

I think the general rebuttal (determine its appropriateness or not yourself) is that if you've hit 13, well... you've probably got track by now, or a similar equivalent. T4 moves a lot faster than most roguelikes, but if you're serious about survival you're still going to be doing the "move nowhere without having cast detect monsters" thing, especially in more dangerous areas. Mitigation and avoidance are still very much things you can do, once you're aware of the means of doing so and can start planning around it. Hell, even a sun infusion or illumination source (staff, talent) would have had a good chance of preventing that... mind sear only has a range of 7, lighting the place up from further than that isn't too terribly difficult by that point, and once you see it you can inspect and decide if it's worth the risk.

Though that does sound like you might have gone deeper than you should have. Weakest thing I can think of that might be doing that kind and sort of damage would be a dream horror and if you ran into one of those at 13, well... you were taking risks, and it bit you. Unless you mean the critter was level 13, in which case it does sound like something odd was going on.

Eh, debug mode woulda' gotcha' out! And for cases like that, debug mode and a bug report is the proper reaction, heh.

Anyone know if Valdis Story - Abyssal City is any good? It went on sale, and the gameplay looks pretty slick, but I'm not sure if it's worth getting since there aren't any reviews for it yet.

Actually grabbed it after checking the screenies and seeing the reviews. With two hours sunk into it so far, I have to say: What I've seen so far is pretty darn good. Controls are smooth enough, combat is challenging enough and fairly visceral, everything is quite pretty (though pallet swaps come hard and fast, ha. Being fair, behavior and attacks and whatnot change with them, so not as bad as it could be), overall everything so far as been quite satisfying. If you like beat 'em ups and metroidvanias, I'd probably recommend, at least at this point. Especially at <4 bucks USD.

Extra +1, it's also running very smoothly on my laptop, so far, despite being quite graphically active and such. Definite kudos to whoever programmed this thing, insofar as optimization goes.

Prince of Rosh is a pretty metal name, IMO. Maybe a bit too DotA-y, but why hold that against someone?

Strap a jet engine and a flamethrower to it, laden the remaining surface with spikes, and it'd be pretty extreme. Kinda' useless as a hard drive, but...

As of now, I no longer have a phone =[

... at least in the interim, have you considered online phone software stuff? I think there's a few out there that do phone calls in the states (at least) for nothin'. Looks like google's even in on that...