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Woke up from dream where migrAtory toucans were deatroying, like, everything. There's was only like three of the bastards, but they tore through pretty much every bit of soft wood around my last sleeping place.

How in hell can midget toucans be scary? E: These things bodies weren't much bigger than a... crow. Wait a tic, what in fuck is re-skinned dumbo crows doing in my bloody dreams? I haven't watched that movie in like over a decade.

Well... okay. They may have had incredibly stubby bodies, but the blighters beaks were almost the length of my damn arm -- and they were somehow chewing through the freaking doors (and walls, etc.).

Worst part of it, they were apparently endangered so we couldn't just shoot the bastards. Animal control was apparently taking it's sweet damn time -- and yes, those points were mentioned in dream. In the meantime, we were moving outside in like three man teams to keep the beaky midgets from taking out bits of flesh.

E: Okay, they looked sorta' like a more cartoony version of this one. Just... Aztec-y. Or Egyptian hieroglyphy. Wish to hell I had access to something capable of uploading images right now... blasted iPad piece of junk

... there's something hilarious about the phrase atheist bacchanal. Something about it just doesn't quite fit

I guess it fits here better than happy thread...

Anyway, today I have breaded (sorta' -- I threw in some of the crumbly bits at the bottom of a chicken nugget bag) my standard mashed potato thickened ramen (with some cheese added~). It's pretty decent.

Substituted bullion for the normal flavor packet (which will eventually be put in some rice, probably -- ramen packet stirred into just-cooked rice tastes way better than it has any right to.), to knock the salt content down a little.

Also accompanied by the standard chicken nuggets -- half flavored with soy sauce (three-four drops each), the other half with cane syrup (though I'd prefer maple, of course.). BBQ sauce f'dippin'.

Weren't we waiting to max out borot or somethin'?

Anyway, general suggestion is a kind of "more of the same, as needed." EN for folks getting short on it, weapons on those that are hitting a lot but not quite hard enough, etc.

I love me some artillery, so maybe an EN and weapon pip for anyone with a weapon say range seven or over? Providing said weapon actually uses energy, anyway.

Rush and/or movement infusions is your best of best friends, most of the time.

Some classes have some ranged disable options that can help out, too, or ways to lure the buggers around corners and suchlike.

Basically, if you're contemplating just walking toward them while taking fire, you might want to take a moment to reconsider your situation and how you should be reacting to it

I wish I understood how to play Yeeks right. I always die within the first few levels when I'm playing as them but tend to do much better as other races/classes.

Playing yeeks is mostly just a matter of playing something incredibly squishy. If you're aiming for an easier start, you pick a class particularly able to compensate for that (I.e. Archmage, alchemist, berserker, etc., so forth, so on.), either with massive firepower or some way to damage soak decently. The first two dungeons for yeeks take a bit of luck, though, sometimes. You usually want to start with the ritches and just carefully kite around killing stuff until you gain your first couple of levels and hopefully pick up some better kit. Then you either roll the dice on trying to take the queen, or you hop over to the lair to get another level or two off of non-boss mobs. Of course, that's assuming something like having two ritch pits generate in the tunnels doesn't happen.

If you get through those two dungeons, you probably want to abuse the rod of recall (or possibly a teleport rune or something) and skip project Z (protip: Z can and probably will wreck your shit). After that, you're on the main map and things become muuuuch easier, especially as you'll shortly be rolling in character levels. HP is still an issue after that, but you have a lot more tricks to deal with it (and that sexy 15% global speed boost).

Basically, yeeks just have an absolute bitch of a starting area. If you can get past that, you're golden. For a while, at least.

Here's the git short log. List of changes already made to the code (and easy-ish perusal of said code). Big things I've noticed is the fungus and torment trees, mindstars (sorta' like one-handed staves, but for mindpower), and a pretty major weapon ego rewrite. There's other stuff too, though.

As for the when, m'not sure. DG got hit pretty hard by a real life issue not long after b38 got released, and it's slowed things up a bit. He also might be waiting for the fellow working on weapon ego changes to do a bit more work, I'unno. Could be something else, too, I've been a little distant from things since my computer capable of playing t4 died.