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The last point is spoiled by the title, but read on to find out why I ended up with [[Ru]].

The last point is spoiled by the title, but read on to find out why I ended up with [[Ru]].

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'''The morgue can be found [https://crawl.kelbi.org/crawl/morgue/Patrick2011b/morgue-Patrick2011b-20231207-204555.txt here].'''

==Previous Attempts==

==Previous Attempts==

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I start by going back to the room with the basilisk and cyclops. I try to stab the basilisk, but stealth fails. Fortunately, a large rock from the cyclops gets rudirected, letting me cast OTR with the cyclops close to death. I miss the basilisk twice in melee before I can get both it and the cyclops in a fireball, killing the latter. A shadow also enters the room, but a second fireball destroys it with the help of steam from the fountains in the room. I finish off the basilisk, but before I can rest, a [[skeletal warrior]] comes through the door in the south. There's no way I can fight that, so it's time for the Lair.

I start by going back to the room with the basilisk and cyclops. I try to stab the basilisk, but stealth fails. Fortunately, a large rock from the cyclops gets rudirected, letting me cast OTR with the cyclops close to death. I miss the basilisk twice in melee before I can get both it and the cyclops in a fireball, killing the latter. A shadow also enters the room, but a second fireball destroys it with the help of steam from the fountains in the room. I finish off the basilisk, but before I can rest, a [[skeletal warrior]] comes through the door in the south. There's no way I can fight that, so it's time for the Lair.

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==The rest of the game==

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After posting the pre-Lair portion of the diary, I realized the following:

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*There was little interest in this type of project.

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*Gameplay is much slower when writing for a diary.

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Due to the above, I decided to discontinue the diary and play the character normally from now on.

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That said, I thought I should give a summary of how the rest of the game went. I figured the midgame would be a struggle with only OTR, Fireball, Ru, and a weak melee draining attack to get me through. I continued training Fire Magic and Conjurations to get Starburst online, improve my Fireball, and eventually cast those spells in heavier armor. Along the way, I found [[Iron Shot]], so I started training [[Earth Magic]] to have a way of dealing with fire resistant/immune monsters. [[Urug]] was in Lair:1, and [[Snorg]] was in Lair:5, so the branch was relatively light on uniques. I also saw a couple hydras but had no way to kill them, so I left them alone.

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After the Lair, I did some dungeon cleanup, killing Gastronok and Maggie. Ru offered me a sacrifice, and I chose [[Armour]], meaning I could no longer train that skill. That was enough to max out piety. I also bought an [[amulet of regeneration]]. D:12 had an [[ice cave]], which I skipped. It also had a shop that sold the [[Storm Queen's shield]], which I bought. After D:12 was [[Orcish Mines|Orc]], which wasn't that tough. I managed to get a +3 slay hat to help a bit in melee, a [[demon trident]] to give to the trove once I enchanted it enough, and a couple scrolls of identify, which let me identify a [[scroll of acquirement]]. The acquirement was +1 gloves of strength, which was at least better than no ego, though +3 Str would only help with casting in armor for this build.

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D:13 had a huge vault, which gave me several scares, but I was able to go down and complete D:14. D:15 had too much, so I went back to the Lair to try the S-branches. I got good rolls for those branches, as [[Spider]] of full of poison-vulnerable enemies, and my scarf of [[repulsion]] would make [[Shoals]] easier. I went to Spider first, but it was harder than expected, and I got confused in Spider:2 by a [[tarantella]] and got blown up by an [[orb spider]].

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==Final Thoughts==

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Poison is fine in the early game, but this game convinced me that [[Venom Mage]] is a weak background, as poison falls off in effectiveness by mid-dungeon, but the skill training required to get the better poison spells online leaves a Venom Mage well behind the curve in terms of getting mid-late game viable spells online. It might be better for a Venom Mage to switch to a weapon relatively early to have a way to deal with poison-resistant and high HP enemies. Of course, a Venom Mage won't be as good with a weapon as a warrior background.

User:Patrick2011b/FoVM^Ru - Revision history

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