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Win 10, mouse/keyboard active, don't recall if the tame attempt succeeded but I think it did? The errors were doing the stacking thing where they collate diagonally and kept going until I closed them out fast enoug to hit escape, which... iirc brought me back to the main menu (but could have been the game over screen -- hard to remember exactly at this point, heh.). Sound was turned off in the game settings. I'll check for a crash folder this afternoon... don't really have time to kick the laptop on this morning. Where's it supposed to be, anyway?

I'm definitely getting the feel a heavy spirit animal friend start basically boils down to "die and restart until the first thing you encounter is an elephant, then easily murder the first level and see how things go from there." Probably you die to the first rat you meet, but maybe you meet the phant and the phant promptly eats the face of everything else on the level. The feast or famine is pretty intense. Everything kills you and you probably can't even run away, so if you find anything hostile, you either die or lose a blink potion (and probably still die). But if you find something friendly you're off to the races.

... incidentally, ran into a bug I didn't think to screenshot 'cause the game was throwing unending runtime errors at me, but my most amazing start to date ran into 4(!) elephants on the first floor, more or less sequentially and without encountering a single hostile in the process. Unfortunately, on trying to tame elephant #4, the game freaked out and exploded in runtime errors. Can't find an error log or anything around, so... all I got is the hearsay, heh.

I wouldn't be sure "too easy" is something i would say about Zorbus, at least that latest version i'm playing.
I don't remember playing any other roguelike in which clearing the very 1st floor is already challenge

I mean... appropos to the topic thread, one roguelike I've played that could and did cheerfully murder you on the first floor (especially if you didn't go with one of the stronger starting classes/builds, ala summon heavy caster), was Incursion, an older D&D inspired RL

It got a lot easier as you figured out some things (nighthunters are busted strong mounts, tossing summons into rooms you haven't entered yet saves lots of lives, wands can be ridiculous, etc.), but even for me, someone who had won the existent game with every race, class, and god, still had to pay pretty close attention to floor one with certain race/class combos, heh.

They say ToME 4 has that level of difficulty on insane/madness, too, for what it's worth. Just not the sort of challenge I'm even remotely interested in, personally, heh.

e: Though yeah, fired up zorbus again to look at it, first run rapidly died a dog's death as apparently more or less the entire first floor promptly aggro'd to me, heh. Second run, however, immediately -- as in literally the first mobile thing I encountered -- met and recruited a giff. Me and spelljammer buddy promptly steamrolled the entire first floor, drove my enemies before me, and heard no lamentations because everything hostile was dead.

Also I got three skelefriends part way through, which was nice? Remarkably wild swing in results, in any case, heh.

e: Though floor two, well, floor two I got real lazy and died.

Now, run three. Run three has started with the classic double phant gambit, plus an elf archer, so I got 80 hp of meat shield flesh crushers and a ranged death machine that apparently has all the search, so. Progression so far had been *squish* -> spelljammer interrupt -> dumbo demolition derby. It's been pretty silly

I'm sure the next one will be the last one, too. Gotta' start your final fantasy somewhere

... more seriously, hopefully it actually will be and we can finally see the modding scene legitimately settle down and expect to not have anything major break again going forward. That sounds better to me than anything the main devs would produce :V

Case in point, a decent cell/smart phone is one of the best bang for buck investments a low income person can make these days

... iphone's probably questionably "decent" but it's hard to blame low information/time folks going for a high visibility option, heh.

... powdered egg sounds like something I should look into, especially if you can easily bake with it. Eggs are kind of annoying to cook with in egg form, and what egging I do tends to be scrambled or cooked into something*, so...

*Super easy eggy rice: Cook rice normally, but in the last two minutes or so just crack open a couple eggs and mix them in to the cooking rice and let the rice finish cooking. Quick, simple, easy, pretty tasty.

Also Sega is having a big sale celebrating their 30th so a bunch of their stuff is discounted. Good time to grab any of the TW stuff you might've missed.

Wait... don't you mean their 60th? Sega's been around since the 60s.