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[inaluct]

Woo! Go LASD! What's next on the list of hideously bad-sounding characters that turn out awesome?

Also, DJ, you can really only run as soon as you see them, unless you have an escape item. What I recommend is leaving levels with large amounts of orcs on them alone. There's probably a staircase to the orcish mines or something. What races do you play as?

[chaoticag]

Actually, you can run around in circles (to heal of course).
As for melee, I would suggest that divine support is your best bet. Try trollish bezerkers or monks, as they starve fast but eat every damn thing that moves. They also get tons of health and heal like hell.

[Kagus]

Try trollish bezerkers or monks, as they starve fast but eat every damn thing that moves.

Only after they've stopped it from moving.  But yeah, everything that's not innately poisonous (damn kobolds) is food, and they can still eat their vegetables (which other corpse-eaters have a hard time doing).

Trog seems almost perfectly tuned to trolls...  Just something primal about it.  Another good Trogger would be the ogre, since they don't starve quite as quickly (which means more sacrifices to almighty Trog) and can actually make use of Trog's gifts of weaponry.


I'm going to have to try some strange combinations, just to see what happens...

[Dragooble]

finnaly! a successful character! dragooble the cutter a kenku gladiator.
i have a magic resistance orc =ish leather armor a hammer a dagger of holy wrath and a whip of speed. i have also been finding plenty of healing potions for some reason. more than i usually get anyway.

[inaluct]

Post the char dump when you die, that sounds interesting.

[Dragooble]

oh btw what does the +#, +# mean on items?

[Huey]

The numbers are generally going to indicate bonus to hit, and bonus damage in that order.

I love Crawl! I haven't played this game in years, and someone kept developing it and now there is an online version   Just have to figure out the buttons now, as I skipped the tutorial.

Spriggan assassins/poison mages/stalkers were my favorite for a long time, they are very quick. And does anyone know if I can play the online version with tiles??

[Dragooble]

well he died... here he is.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.4.3 (crawl-ref) character file.

376 Dragooble the Cutter (level 5, -12/31 HPs)
             Began as a Kenku Gladiator on Jan 9, 2009.
             Mangled by an ogre
             ... wielding a giant club (27 damage)
             ... on Level 4 of the Dungeon.
             The game lasted 00:29:35 (3064 turns).

Dragooble the Cutter (Kenku Gladiator)           Turns: 3064, Time: 00:29:35

HP -12/31        AC  5     Str 16      Exp: 5/198 (0), need: 152
MP   4/4         EV 10     Int 10      God: No God
Gold 238         SH  5     Dex 14      Spells:  0 memorised,  4 levels left

Res.Fire  : . . .   See Invis. : .   k - +0,+1 orc hammer
Res.Cold  : . . .   Warding    : .   i - +2 orc leather armour (R-magic)
Life Prot.: . . .   Conserve   : .   c - +0 shield
Res.Poison: .       Res.Corr.  : .   (helmet restricted)
Res.Elec. : .       Clarity    : .   (no cloak)
                                     (no gloves)
Sust.Abil.: .       Rnd.Telep. : .   (boots unavailable)
Res.Mut.  : .       Ctrl.Telep.: .   (no amulet)
Res.Slow  : .       Levitation : .   r - ring of levitation
Saprovore : . . .   Ctrl.Flight: .   p - +1 ring of dexterity

@: somewhat resistant to magic, fairly stealthy
A: cannot wear helmets, able to fly, talons
a: Fly, Evoke Levitation


You were on level 4 of the Dungeon.
You were not hungry.

You visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and saw 4 of its levels.

Inventory:

Hand weapons
 a - a +0,+0 short sword
 k - a +0,+1 orcish hammer (weapon)
 l - a +1,+2 dagger of holy wrath
 v - a -1,+1 orcish whip of speed
 B - a +2,+0 glaive
 D - a +0,+0 sling
Missiles
 d - 2 +0 throwing nets
 f - 62 +0 stones
 g - 73 +0 bolts
 h - 35 +0 arrows
 j - 29 +0 darts
 u - 17 +2 sling bullets
Armour
 b - a +0 leather armour
 c - a +0 shield (worn)
 i - a +2 orcish leather armour of magic resistance (worn)
 q - a +0 splint mail
Comestibles
 s - 2 apples
 t - 3 bread rations
Scrolls
 m - 5 scrolls of detect curse
 w - 3 scrolls of remove curse
 x - a scroll of teleportation
 z - a scroll of paper
Jewellery
 p - a +1 ring of dexterity (left hand)
 r - a ring of levitation (right hand)
 y - an uncursed ring of sustenance
Potions
 e - 2 potions of healing
 o - 4 potions of heal wounds
 A - 2 potions of degeneration
 C - 2 potions of cure mutation
 E - a potion of poison


 You had 0 experience left.

   Skills:
 + Level 2 Fighting
 + Level 4 Short Blades
 + Level 2 Maces & Flails
 + Level 2 Throwing
 + Level 3 Dodging
 + Level 2 Stealth
 + Level 2 Shields
 + Level 3 Unarmed Combat


You had 4 spell levels left.
You didn't know any spells.

Overview of the Dungeon
You didn't discover anything interesting.


                    Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

You cannot wear helmets.
You can fly.
You have talons in place of feet.


Message History

A rock wall.
<lightgrey>An ogre, wielding a giant club.<lightgrey>
The ogre is lightly wounded.
You throw a throwing net.
The throwing net misses the ogre.
The ogre hits you with a giant club!
Ouch! That really hurt!

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#........####.
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....%%......#
...(...O@...#
............#
.....>.#....#
.......##...#
....##...####
.........#
#......$.#
#.......##
#.......#


You could see an ogre.

Vanquished Creatures
  Ijyb (D:1)
  A worm (D:4)
  3 gnolls (D:2)
  2 snakes (D:2)
  5 giant cockroaches
  8 goblins
  6 hobgoblins
  2 orcs
  A quokka (D:4)
  9 giant bats
  3 giant newts (D:1)
  3 jackals (D:4)
  4 kobolds
  An orc zombie (D:2)
  20 rats
  2 small snakes
71 creatures vanquished.

Notes
Turn   | Place   | Note
--------------------------------------------------------------
     0 | D:1     | Dragooble, the Kenku Gladiator, began the quest for the Orb.
     0 | D:1     | Reached XP level 1. HP: 12/12 MP: 0/0
   157 | D:1     | Reached skill 4 in Short Blades
   170 | D:1     | Reached XP level 2. HP: 15/17 MP: 1/1
   943 | D:2     | Noticed Ijyb
  1013 | D:1     | Reached XP level 3. HP: 7/21 MP: 2/2
  1028 | D:1     | Defeated Ijyb
  1436 | D:2     | Noticed an orc zombie
  1441 | D:2     | Defeated an orc zombie
  1527 | D:2     | Reached skill 1 in Stealth
  1668 | D:2     | Reached XP level 4. HP: 25/26 MP: 3/3
  1821 | D:2     | Reached skill 1 in Maces & Flails
  2878 | D:4     | Reached XP level 5. HP: 24/31 MP: 4/4
  3064 | D:4     | Mangled by an ogre

i hate ogres...

[inaluct]

Good job. Have you gotten to the Ecumenical Temple yet?

[Dragooble]

nope. i can never find it. i think i may play a transmuter next.

[inaluct]

It's always on levels 4-7. What I usually do is go on a cursory look through all of them to see if any of them has any unusual features (metal walls, etc. The Temple appears on levels like that a lot), and them thoroughly explore them if I can't find the entrance.

[deadlycairn]

The only time I found the temple it was in the middle of a pond. I was worshipping Trog anyway, so it didn't matter. Also, how can I connect to the crawl.akrasiac place?

[LASD]

Also, how can I connect to the crawl.akrasiac place?

From the last thread:

On the topic of figuring out how to work the telnet, without this guide I would have never made it.

Very handy guide, so handy in fact that adding it to the OP wouldn't be a bad idea.

And no, there's no tiles on the telnet version as telnet is only comfortable sending out symbols, I think.

[Dragooble]

YAY! i just got the ecumenical temple!
my question is how do you sacrifice things to gods? im having trouble doing that.

[Kagus]

In general or on an altar?  If it's an altar, just drop the item in question while you're standing on the altar.  If it's some critter's corpse, first [p]ray, and then but[c]her the corpse.  Be careful about this, as you might end up accidentally sacrificing a corpse that you were planning on eating (any corpse butchered while under the effect of a prayer will be sacrificed).

Nemelex Xobeh just requires you to pray while standing on some items.  Different types of items will make him give you different card flavors (weapons will grant decks for blowing stuff up, armor will grant decks for getting out of harm's way, corpses will grant summoning decks.  There are a couple other types, but I'm not entirely sure about what they do or how to get them).