Angband V4
Was going to skip this one the first time around, but changed my mind.

After much delay, I finally bought myself my promised post-semester reward in the form of first-person puzzle game Portal 2, during the holiday sales on Steam. Also bought a copy of that and the first Portal as gifts for Ami.

On recommendation from various sources I purchased a copy of Guild Wars 2, a recently released MMORPG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_role-playing_...). One of my partners had been playing and speaking enthusiastically of it for a few weeks, and I came across a rather glowing review from a source I tend to trust (local game review television show, with roots in a magazine I subscribed to when younger).

Have been playing some other games of recent also. First of all, been playing through Doom 64 again courtesy of the Doom 64 Ex port - I don't think my N64 is working any more. Started out as an attempt to find all the secrets I've missed on previous playthroughs (not many) and ended up making a rule for myself that I could only make at most one attempt on a map each day, which has been fun. Mostly a string of easy victories, with occasional interludes of particular maps that take me as much as half a week to beat.

Level 36: "You are unsure about this place"

First, detecting evil. A mature green dragon sleeps just out of sight in the very room where Marash has descended. To the south, a dark elven druid. North, at least ten stone trolls and further north a mummified human.

Level 34: "This place seems reasonably safe"

Nothing, indeed, worrying in the immediate area. Marash decides to hang around for a while.

A young multi-hued dragon donates some treasure, not very interesting without a shop around. A bit further south, a squad of novice rangers foolishly throw themselves at Marash.

With them was an ogre mage which, despite her not having enough energy to put up her defensive prayers, goes down easily enough. Not quickly enough to prevent it from creating traps.

Level 33: "You have an excellent feeling"

Another dark chamber, a horrible radiation eye sleeping nearby. Detect Evil reveals a couple of ghosts, a couple of minor zombies and skeletons, and three young dragons each of different kind. No great peril to go with great treasure, perhaps?

Level 32: "You are unsure about this place"

A dark chamber of unknown size. Just to the south of her, a sleeping manticore, a creature she has yet to measure herself against. Nervously, Marash detects evil. There is none about, except the manticore itself which has now awoken.

She protects herself from evil, then blesses herself as it approaches.

Level 31: "You are unsure about this place"

Hope it's not anything like the last one. Looks like a few dragons around, of a more handleable sort than the last. Looks like another moated room to the west too, but nothing evil in there so her senses can't get a grip. The unknown is a worry.

Level 29: "You feel a little lucky"

Calmer? Not so busy be this area. Only a hill giant and a human druid for evil in the area.

The giant is downed easily, even with a giant spider at her back. The druid however, insists on fighting Marash among the columns of a large hall, summoning animals to eir aid.

She does her best to force a path to the druid direct, focusing on the major threat here.

Druid beaten down, focus shifted to the next-greatest threat - the giant tick that smokes and burns with heat in its attack.