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Game Diary 20121228

[this and the previous post were intended to go up last night, but connection difficulties interfered]

20121228
Finally died in Angband. Game version was 3.2.0, been playing that particular character since January 2010 and several updated versions have been released since then with the goal of making the game harder.

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Roguelike Roulette [Slot 1x]

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.

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Roguelike Roulette [Slot 1v]

Level 32: "You are unsure about this place"

Marash steps off the stairs into a large, dark chamber. At the fringe of her light, a manticore sleeps.

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.

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Roguelike Roulette [Slot 1t]

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.

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Roguelike Roulette [Slot 1s]

Level 27: "This place seems reasonably safe"

Marash trundles idly around, until she spots Khim, son of Mim and starts backing away. She was intending to leave and let him be, except that one of his firebolts destroyed one of her teleport level scrolls.

Back around a corner, protection from evil, bless, protection from heat and cold.

... he isn't taking much damage. Drain life again barely dents him. Marash definitely needs a heftier attack.

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Roguelike Roulette [Slot 1r]

Level 26: "This place seems reasonably safe"

Quiet, empty. The only evil around is Angamaitë of Umbar. He might be the only danger around here, but Marash is wary. Kitting herself out for crossbow has weighed her down. She trudges east.

A vortex, crackling with energy. They close range, she fires. Those bolts are magical alright, magically worse than ordinary bolts. But they are still better than the arrows she had been firing, so she isn't panicking yet. Get rid of the vortex, then get rid of the bolts. Onwards.

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