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About the same where I was at, really. They'd come in a couple times a semester to check for fire hazards (kinda' important, 'cause the way the sprinklers were set up if one went off most of them would, dumping enough [stagnant] water into the rooms to basically ruin goddamn everything. Or at least that's the line they fed us. No one was stupid enough to risk thousands upon thousands of water damage fines landing on their head, amazingly.) and, like, infestations and illegal crap but that was about it beyond AC filter changes.  'Bout the largest "imposition" I remember was related to alcohol if you were rooming with someone underage or fire hazard related stuff.

But yeah, leaving the place a mess carried a fine if you just dipped after the semester was over and left stained everything and ruined furniture and such.

Why would maintenance handle this?

S'who got called in for stuff like that in the dorm I was in. Couple microwaves got replaced (not due to something like that, but still) and a fridge. Covered cleaning and crap, too.

As an aside, why was the freezer's plug loose to begin with?  The scenarios of freezer jiggling intrigue me. Normally those things don't get moved much, I'd think.

There is... something that sounds kinda' like a seagull making noises outside my window. At two AM. And judging by the sound, on the ground.

Like with the kazoo beast, I'm not going to actually check to see what the fuck it is. Freakish expanding doomspawn can stay safely undisturbed. Though this one honestly sounds more along the lines of a facehugger or something. Less inflating and leveling your house, more clawing into your chest and devouring your innards.

Either way. It can stay out there and I'll leave it alone.

Not so much required as still useful. It's more' like learning quantum physics by mastering artillery triangulation. Could still learn quantum physics by just studying quantum physics. But you can learn it by dropping shells on people, too. Or a combination of the two.

So you could get to grandmaster soil growth just learning soil growth, but you could also get there via learning how to demolish the countryside. And being able to the do latter also means that when the Jubjub bird comes calling you can set it on fire and not get eaten. So the magi pick up some muderskill because, well, why not? You still reach point B but something's less likely to be able to eat you on the path there.

1. You kill a dreaming horror by hitting it until it dies. You've just got to (mostly) hit your way through its massive regenerating psi pool before you get to the squishy health bar.

Dreamscape is an arcane monstrosity I'm only half aware of how functions. From what I understand you swap control to the clone thingies and attack the horror. Every clone thingy you lose is like 10% of your health when the dreamscape ends, and killing the thing that dreamscaped you while inside said dreamscape ends it. Something like that. There's better information on T4's forum.

2: Everyone loves regens and wilds, really. Manasurge is pretty useful on certain AB builds since they can be a mana hungry little monstrosity, especially before they get a larger pool to work with, and is of course very useful until you get the mana regen talent going. Teleport's nice until you can get an item based escape of some sort (psychoport torque, tele amulet, whatever). It's one of the better escape inscriptions.

3. Whatever. I usually go heavy since it's got solid egos and such for an AB, but light armor or cloth would be fine, too. Massive's probably a bad idea until way late game at the soonest, because as you note it causes some pretty hefty resource issues.

Incidentally, most things are affected by fatigue, not just a few. Only things that aren't are equilibrium and vim, iirc. Maybe hate. Mana just gets hit twice as hard as most other things.

That quest is the entire reason you keep basically any demon telepathy items you happen to find laying around. Also, keep the fight away from the jeweler as much as possible. there's a bit of a bottleneck up top (though AI changes may have made that more unreliable... I haven't had the scroll drop in a while) you can use for that.

Amusingly, though, the first time I did that quest the jeweler soloed the boss. I think it was because of the poisoned water or something, but it was pretty incredible anyway. Or at least it was incredible once I found out there was an invisible doomboss that spawned

And there's a guaranteed source of a voratun amulet! _{S'just that if you're actually able to get it the end fight should be a breeze >_>}

Taste is fixable. Trust the Frumple on that one. Particularly combining a few different staples at one time (cooking a couple of days worth of food in one go) with limited seasoning (and while seasoning by weight tends toward pretty expensive, by meal it tends towards very much not so. Couple bucks worth of pepper or a bottle of soy sauce will last you a good couple months (60+ meals, or 3-5 cent per meal) and only be like two-three bucks or something) can work a whole array of wonders, as can either of those alone. It takes a very small amount of other things (again, notably more by weight but generally very little per meal) to do impressive (or at least sufficient) things to a pretty wide variety of staple foods.

I've got basically a rotation where I rotate between a couple of sorts of noodles (mac and cheese, ramen, occasional varying sorts of pasta), rice, and potatoes as my meal base, and then whatever other stuff I've got on hand (usually cheese, occasionally meat, a few different sorts of sauces and seasonings). It is a little samey at times, but there's enough variation and enough unique tastes among the combinations to keep me sane with only the occasional more luxurious food indulgence. Most expensive non-luxury (not meat, not cheese, no seasoning) I eat is something like 12 cent to the unit of measurement (usually either ounce or gram), and most is less. The luxury (/perishable) stuff runs up to about 30 cent per unit, but gets spread out over a couple weeks (or a couple months) of meals which, again, makes a by day influence of maybe twenty, thirty cent/meal at the high end. And I don't exactly optimize, t'be honest. Someone actually working at it, and with a more varied diet, could do a bit better. Minimalist cooking like that really isn't difficult at all, you just have to muck around a bit to find out what suits your tastes.

And dude, if ramen's running you at like 75 cent a pack, we could probably set something up so I could buy it in bulk and ship it to you for an overall reduced price That's like. 600-700% increase over what I'm getting it at. Get enough of it together and the shipping cost should be mitigated.

... alternately just find whatever that's in your area that's cheaper. Rice is cheaper than ramen (particularly the very large bags) where I'm at for some ungodly reason, iirc, as an example.