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"You're giving me full command? Hehehe... Perfect. I won't let you down, Astrosa."

Follow the pre-laid plan. Stealth-approach a village not overly far from the city walls, start with settibf a few buildings on fire through mind-controlled villagers, to lure bravest ones into the open so that Astrosa may finish them in one move. Capture several women or children. Make the rest run in utter panic to the city. Wait for their move while slowly burning the village to the ground.

((I'm alive! Mostly. Status updates and work on sheets would be continued today/tomorrow.

If we encounter great resistance, we may abandon the plan and easily escape.
And if fear doesn't work, we still have more villages...))

Quote from: Sarrak on June 19, 2016, 08:24:52 pm

Having harmless endgame fun as a ridiculously powerful MuFi: escorted Ereshkigal all the way to Tomb:3, shouted "wait here!" and left her alone. On the way, archdemoness constantly insulted me and recasted silence every few turns to, presumably, prevent my rantings about surrounding architecture, past victories and plans about future unlife.

HAH! So I wasn't crazy when I remembered 'didn't a few unique pan lords get to me (and die trying) when I was running up with the Orb'? o_O
...You had her as an ally? 

You're right about unique lords trying to kill you on the Orb run. I think it happens if you take their rune, yet leave them alive.

Ally? Sadly, but no, she was trying to kill me all the time. And failing miserably (title Invulnerable is surprisingly close to the truth for this character). You're also wrong to assume I've done it while already on the Orb run. Bone rune was the last one and I wanted to have some good laugh - so I lured Ereshkigal out of her secluded rotting netherworld and let her follow me on a sightseeing toor through Depths, Dungeon, Vaults and Crypt to the Tomb.

I'm thinking of continuing this from a pre-victory save. Pretty sure its possible to make Ereskigal follow me through all Pandemonium. The only problem would be inability to autoattack so not to hurt her.

EDIT: Yeah, walking through Pan with archdemoness was quite fun, especially when I learned to leave her to wander for some time, letting me clear lord of the place and all minions.

Having harmless endgame fun as a ridiculously powerful MuFi: escorted Ereshkigal all the way to Tomb:3, shouted "wait here!" and left her alone. On the way, archdemoness constantly insulted me and recasted silence every few turns to, presumably, prevent my rantings about surrounding architecture, past victories and plans about future unlife.

This game's too easy now.

Medium parts of the game are very easy. Hard times will begin anew with Tomb/Hell/(Zig), with swarms of damnation, smite and torment. Necromutation should protect you from the latter, though.

I got two runes with my first character, and as I'm writing this, three. I'm going for all the runes, then the Orb. That's right, ALL SIXTEEN, SIX-AND-TEEN, 1-6, OF THE RUNES Game devs say its impossible. I do the impossible.

Actually, fifteen runes then the Orb are not that hard to accomplish with a right character. But the reverse (three runes - Orb - remaining twelve runes) is hellish experience. Don't try it with Ashenzari.

Perfect Beogh start - finally achieved.

Great news! I'm supporting embarking onto Evil coast.

Quote from: Covenant on June 09, 2016, 06:35:20 pm

How the hell did you survive eight berserking juggernauts with a melee character? Hell, with any character? Those things are probably my most-feared monster.

I was seriously asking about this, in case you missed it. Any and all tips on juggernauts would be greatly appreciated. I can't even fathom how someone could survive a Zig floor with eight of the bastards.

Sorry, missed your question.

I looked at the log afterwards - it was ten berserking jugs. Firstly, I did not care much about them, as I was swimming in orc summons and jugs can't do much by themselves (~50 AC, Gozag, Spirit shield, Haste). Then, moths of wraith appeared. I quickly found out that two berserking jugs pounding at me hurt. Teleported, found more jugs with more moths, teleported again... I needed five teleports to clear out all remaining orcs and moths before taking on last five monstrosities at my leisure.

Just to compare, three jugs without berserking did nearly not as much damage to me as a single iron giant with his throwing session. Iron giants are much more dangerous.