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... I didn't know that. That does make things ridiculously easier, dunnit?

    Adding and removing backgrounds has been sped up. In addition the game will automatically fill in 1 tile holes in the wall when placing them.

Best line in that entire thing.

klezmer

I think this has convinced me to give cat another try sometime tomorrow. I think the first and last time I played it was a few days after it first showed up on roguebasin. Was pretty interesting even then, yeah. So... into the breach! After sleep, anyway.

Franken Fran avatar on LP starter demands either SCIENCE or whichever side Irony can get to run worms the hardest. Just sayin'.

Jungles, the underground ones, at least, have lil'shrine-type things made of gold -- gold brick wall, gold backwall. Usually a torch or two, and a chest. They're not terribly common, but not terribly rare, either. S'where feral claws and anklets of th'wind come from, along with some other junk.

Agreed in general on the skald name. There's... not really any other tie in to the norse thing in crawl. At all. At least that I've noticed. The closest might be berserkers, but... not really. So it's kinda' (completely) out of left field.

But we have player cats and 2 armed octopi in crawl now, so whatever. Just wait. It'll end up with a monster list looking like something out of Furyband. Beware the gachapin¹ and the mighty unique Barney, great white purple killer of the mid game!

¹Actually looked up what a gachapin is. They're kinda' terrifying. Imagine one the size of a small giant trying to eat you.

And then get some Vile Powder and poison them for MASSIVE DAMAGE something around half of what a sunfury does, in terms of damage.

'nix blaster still hits harder too, I think. I guess they do about what a single hit of sunfury would, if the poisoned dagger doubletaps.

Of course, most things the dagger can doubletap, so can a sunfury...

They're nice before you get the actually nice stuff, though I just wish you could grab them out of mid air (i.e. they didn't have to land to be picked back up). Then you could juggle 'em.

Blood magic's alright, and it's pretty easy to get in to. Little expensive to set up, though -- you need labs in your hunting provinces and you'll probably nix taxes on the province in question, to keep pop from being killed off too fast. ~6k pop tends to be ideal for me, with a 2b + rod or 3b hunter and growth 3 dominion. Iirc, the number crunching folks say that any pop over 5k doesn't increase your chances of finding more slaves, so you want to get as close to that as you can, to minimize the gold cost.

Of course, some of the forging options for blood are just killer -- youth boots, that one that generates devils, th'life drain knife, an earth booster (!), lotta' other junk. Some killer SC chassis, eventually. Really easy to get an absolute junkload of blood slaves.

Problems being more micromanagement, especially having to remember to pool your slaves every other turn or so (or just every turn, period), and cost of running blood. I'd recommend minor blood (maybe 3-4 provinces) for forging and some summoning, but don't try to mainline it. I'd probably say empower your next 2f smith, to make it easier to call up arch demons (or whatever those things are, the blood/fire SCs) when/if you get the research for 'em.

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Re: Troll not casting FC: A lot of times the AI will ignore orders when they think something's wrong with them -- massive AoE attack in the middle of huge mob of allies, major gem-eating spell up against 10 man PD/indie province, etc, etc. S'one of the other reasons have a casting item is so nice, heh. They can't decide to not cast it