Yeesh
Magister
Yeesh's Super Elite Crawl Tips:
Be careful.
Keep Potions of Confusion in your stash; use them to ID that Amulet of Clarity.
Carry a Scroll of Magic Mapping just in case you need to find a labyrinth.
Acquirement scrolls are delightful, but don't buy them unless you're rich.
DO NOT drop your prized Cloak of Preservation in the Abyss. I can't emphasize this enough.
Hoard everything. Just in case.
Use the big spells, once you can cast them. It's tempting to economize and zap with that 4MP spell you used in the mid game, but you'll just end up having to cast it two or three times, when you could have just zapped an orb or fire storm and used the turns you saved to channel.
Tornado + Blink = Yeah, you've pretty much just won.
(If a girl casually mentions that her husband is NYPD, that means ABORT!)
Fuck Crawl.
Currently killing off:
Nipsy a/k/a Nips a/k/a The Nipster
(Click her name to experience her genesis, or just go to the last page to read the latest. Or do whatever you want, this is America, god damn it. Unless you're somewhere else.)
The Roll of Honor:
12 dead Lechs, with a thirteenth still alive!
8 dead Hraaks
8 dead Saigos
5 dead Brugs
Molly is dead
Melinda is dead
Marianne is dead
Marlena is dead
Nicole is dead
Nina is dead
Nancy is dead
I suck at Crawl. And I want to either beat it or die 100 times. So let's do that.
This thread isn't really worth paying attention to. It's inspired by, and I'll surely be guided by, 7hm's excellent LP of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. That's a wonderful thread because everybody's playing together and sharing and winning, except me because I suck. I'm going to be asking for advice over there, so as not to be replicating Crawl threads, but I do want to keep track of what I'm doing without cluttering up that one. Does that make sense? I hope it makes sense.
So I've decided to throw down the gauntlet to this fucking game and beat it or get sick of it. So I'm either going to ascend or die tryin'. And for now I'm thinking, why not nagas? Because they suck like me.
Fucking Nagas. They're slow. Slow means you're fucked. What's great, what's truly fucking amazing is that the Crawl devs actually made a god who wants you to be slow: Cheibriados, who sounds like a perfect fit for nagas, except... Well it's funny that I should mention the word FIT, since a naga's' inability to wear boots means he misses out on one of the biggest perks of the god, which is massive stat bonuses when filling all slots. Not having anything in the boots slot means a naga misses +5 to all stats, which is a pretty huge kick in the teeth, which by the way is something else naga can't do because they lack feet. So fuck it. Naga don't need your stinking charity god.
Feel free to give me advice, though again I direct any non-Yeesh-specific Crawl discussion over to 7hm's excellent LP of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. We don't need two threads, I'm just trying to keep my little project from cluttering up another man's LP.
EDIT: The first images are crappy, but they get a lot better in short order.
Lech I in all his snakey glory. He's a transmuter, which means he uses potions to confuse things that aren't immune to poison. Except he won't be able to do that until character level 3 at the earliest, and his starting weapon is a bare-handed bitch slap. But maybe, just maybe, he'll be the one to go all the way!
Naga barding! Surely a good omen.
Lvl 2...
Lvl 3 already? Clearly Lech I is a scaly killing machine. I picked Str. Not sure how I'm going to do the stats, but not being able to carry stuff pisses me off. Finally memorize evaporate, but at "Good" it won't be much "good". I also realize I haven't been distilling corpses. Gotta get into the zone here, snakey. Note that useless altar to the Shining One. That god's only for people who are actually getting somewhere in the game.
Wow, ogre on level 1. Super fair. Tried to back away, forgot I don't ever do that. Hmm.
Ouch!
Ha ha.
Nice work, image host. Let me add that being able to eat kobolds just feels right.
Lvl 5. Christ. I've never leveled so fast.
Ogre on two. This seems to be the ogre challege. Also, doing well on filling the armor slots with nonmagical crap.
Level 6 already? God bless evaporate. Going Dex as I realize I'll be shooting. Also, don't know what I'm doing. And experience level 6 on dungeon level 2? That's weird. Little fucking goblin wielding a dagger of pain. How I'd have killed to find that on lvl 2 with my DDNe. Ah well.
Jackals: Oops. Got to remember not to advance towards anything ever.
Grinder: Fuck. Welcome to dlvl 3, bitch. It's good to be stealthy.
Hmm. Transmuters don't have too many tricks to use against ghosts.
This is not going well.
But I get lucky and my strategy of meleeing and hoping for the best pays off.
Fucking gnolls.
Ok, so I'm thinking that's game over right there. But maybe some confusion clouds can set this to right...
So you're at quite a disadvantage as a naga when it comes to chasing confused monsters around. So I'm thinking ranged weapons will matter. Sadly, this majestically shitty race gets a -1 aptitude for every single ranged weapon catagory. That's fair, right? Other races get to be good at some and bad at some, but let's make the slow guys just suck at all of them.
Aw, fuck. You again. Poison immune = sucks to be you, transmuter face. It occurs to me that I should memorize sticks to snakes. The wiki describes Grinder as not very threatening, but with 40 hp, paralyze, pain, and immunity to my transmuting powers, I'm not so sure.
Oh, whip of pain. Yeah of course. But if I can just hit him one more time...
Or not. And we're off to a great start.
Note that Lech I had 5 hp when he took that hit, so obviously it was for more than 1 damage. But let's not split hairs. Dead is dead. I should have quaffed some potions or something, but whatever. Lech should have just missed less and sucked less. Let's not go blaming me for his mistakes.
Be careful.
Keep Potions of Confusion in your stash; use them to ID that Amulet of Clarity.
Carry a Scroll of Magic Mapping just in case you need to find a labyrinth.
Acquirement scrolls are delightful, but don't buy them unless you're rich.
DO NOT drop your prized Cloak of Preservation in the Abyss. I can't emphasize this enough.
Hoard everything. Just in case.
Use the big spells, once you can cast them. It's tempting to economize and zap with that 4MP spell you used in the mid game, but you'll just end up having to cast it two or three times, when you could have just zapped an orb or fire storm and used the turns you saved to channel.
Tornado + Blink = Yeah, you've pretty much just won.
(If a girl casually mentions that her husband is NYPD, that means ABORT!)
Fuck Crawl.
Currently killing off:
Nipsy a/k/a Nips a/k/a The Nipster
(Click her name to experience her genesis, or just go to the last page to read the latest. Or do whatever you want, this is America, god damn it. Unless you're somewhere else.)
The Roll of Honor:
12 dead Lechs, with a thirteenth still alive!
8 dead Hraaks
8 dead Saigos
5 dead Brugs
Molly is dead
Melinda is dead
Marianne is dead
Marlena is dead
Nicole is dead
Nina is dead
Nancy is dead
I suck at Crawl. And I want to either beat it or die 100 times. So let's do that.
This thread isn't really worth paying attention to. It's inspired by, and I'll surely be guided by, 7hm's excellent LP of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. That's a wonderful thread because everybody's playing together and sharing and winning, except me because I suck. I'm going to be asking for advice over there, so as not to be replicating Crawl threads, but I do want to keep track of what I'm doing without cluttering up that one. Does that make sense? I hope it makes sense.
So I've decided to throw down the gauntlet to this fucking game and beat it or get sick of it. So I'm either going to ascend or die tryin'. And for now I'm thinking, why not nagas? Because they suck like me.
Fucking Nagas. They're slow. Slow means you're fucked. What's great, what's truly fucking amazing is that the Crawl devs actually made a god who wants you to be slow: Cheibriados, who sounds like a perfect fit for nagas, except... Well it's funny that I should mention the word FIT, since a naga's' inability to wear boots means he misses out on one of the biggest perks of the god, which is massive stat bonuses when filling all slots. Not having anything in the boots slot means a naga misses +5 to all stats, which is a pretty huge kick in the teeth, which by the way is something else naga can't do because they lack feet. So fuck it. Naga don't need your stinking charity god.
Feel free to give me advice, though again I direct any non-Yeesh-specific Crawl discussion over to 7hm's excellent LP of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. We don't need two threads, I'm just trying to keep my little project from cluttering up another man's LP.
EDIT: The first images are crappy, but they get a lot better in short order.
Lech I in all his snakey glory. He's a transmuter, which means he uses potions to confuse things that aren't immune to poison. Except he won't be able to do that until character level 3 at the earliest, and his starting weapon is a bare-handed bitch slap. But maybe, just maybe, he'll be the one to go all the way!
Naga barding! Surely a good omen.
Lvl 2...
Lvl 3 already? Clearly Lech I is a scaly killing machine. I picked Str. Not sure how I'm going to do the stats, but not being able to carry stuff pisses me off. Finally memorize evaporate, but at "Good" it won't be much "good". I also realize I haven't been distilling corpses. Gotta get into the zone here, snakey. Note that useless altar to the Shining One. That god's only for people who are actually getting somewhere in the game.
Wow, ogre on level 1. Super fair. Tried to back away, forgot I don't ever do that. Hmm.
Ouch!
Ha ha.
Nice work, image host. Let me add that being able to eat kobolds just feels right.
Lvl 5. Christ. I've never leveled so fast.
Ogre on two. This seems to be the ogre challege. Also, doing well on filling the armor slots with nonmagical crap.
Level 6 already? God bless evaporate. Going Dex as I realize I'll be shooting. Also, don't know what I'm doing. And experience level 6 on dungeon level 2? That's weird. Little fucking goblin wielding a dagger of pain. How I'd have killed to find that on lvl 2 with my DDNe. Ah well.
Jackals: Oops. Got to remember not to advance towards anything ever.
Grinder: Fuck. Welcome to dlvl 3, bitch. It's good to be stealthy.
Hmm. Transmuters don't have too many tricks to use against ghosts.
This is not going well.
But I get lucky and my strategy of meleeing and hoping for the best pays off.
Fucking gnolls.
Ok, so I'm thinking that's game over right there. But maybe some confusion clouds can set this to right...
So you're at quite a disadvantage as a naga when it comes to chasing confused monsters around. So I'm thinking ranged weapons will matter. Sadly, this majestically shitty race gets a -1 aptitude for every single ranged weapon catagory. That's fair, right? Other races get to be good at some and bad at some, but let's make the slow guys just suck at all of them.
Aw, fuck. You again. Poison immune = sucks to be you, transmuter face. It occurs to me that I should memorize sticks to snakes. The wiki describes Grinder as not very threatening, but with 40 hp, paralyze, pain, and immunity to my transmuting powers, I'm not so sure.
Oh, whip of pain. Yeah of course. But if I can just hit him one more time...
Or not. And we're off to a great start.
Code:
537 Lech I the Ruffian (level 6, 0/48 HPs)
Began as a Naga Transmuter on Feb 28, 2011.
Slain by Grinder
... wielding a +0,+0 whip of pain
(1 damage)
... on Level 3 of the Dungeon.
The game lasted 00:30:33 (3319 turns).