Third slime tube

I really like ascending better. Things in aftercore are a bit boring. I have finished the third slime tube and sold slimy nodules in trade channel. Fight with mother slime is a bit easier now when I am level 26.

I spend my 30 turns of fishy in the octopus garden and marinara trench with NC boosted. I make and sell pressurized potions if I get the ingredients.

Crimbo is progressing as expected, I fight my 50+5 penguins and collect the crimbux. Something is probably going to happen tomorrow or the day after that.

Second slime tube

With the full set of Slime hates it! gear, I have killed my second mother slime today.

She was a bit stronger than the last one and I lost the first one. I re-sold the 2 slimy nodules I got from mother slime. I am still unsure, whether I should try a slimeling run - it is a pretty expensive to buy all the needed buffs and prerequisites. On the other hand, doing 2 such runs would probably pay for themselves.

Adventuring on the sea floor is monotonous - 10 adventures looking for deep sauce with aerated helmet and then 20 adventures harvesting sea fruits in the octopus garden.

Crimbo plot is continuing, now I am fighting 50 penguins per day. I am still saving crimbux and that is probably not a smart thing.

Monotonous farming

The last couple of days was monotonous. I bought 2 more caustic slime nodule to complete my gear, opened another slime tube and adventured there for about 80 turns per day. I also spent 30 adventures underwater, farming deep sauce and sear fruits and vegetables in the octopus's garden.

Crimbo Toy factory brings 50 scaling monsters per day and fighting them with moxie maximized gives a lot of substat points. I may even reach level 30 if they last long enough.

Other than that I am doing daily bounties and gamble for crimbux in the casino.

Crimbotown!

Crimbotown has appear in the mountains. I got 3000 crimbux from the Don for helping him with the donations. It almost made it to the leaderboard, I was only few thousands below the last player there. A single better guess...

Anyway, the Don requested that I help him with sabotages in the the factory and I got more crimbux for doing so. The critters in the factory scale and using potions to buff myself and in turn them up brings a lot of stats.

There is also a crimbo carter, where I can buy stuff for crimbux, a crimbo bakery and crimbo casino.

After I dealt with the elves, I decided it is time to fight mother slime for the first time. People on the forums advised me to use hobopolis spells and potato.

I used every stat-boosting sauceror potions + wads + trivial buffs + some minor cheap buffs and got my stats to:

Muscle: 3026 (244)
Mysticality: 2737 (362)
Moxie: 2773 (207)
HP: 3394 / 3394
MP: 2095 / 6517

Equipment:
sugar chapeau
letterman's jacket
Staff of the Well-Tempered Cauldron
beach ball marble
sugar shorts
hopping socks
depleted Grimacite grappling hook
stainless steel suspenders

Potato base weight: 11
Sympathy: +5
Empathy: +5
sugar shield: +10
green snowcone: +5 (<4000 meat)
disintegrating spiky collar: +5 (<2000 meat)
half-orchid: +3 (<1000 meat)
green candy heart: +3 (<1000 meat)
love song of icy revenge: +8 (<3x1000 meat)
This gives a total weight of 60 lbs - maximum effective weight for potato. It did cost me 11000 meat.

The fight was trivial. Mother slime first hit me for about 1300 HP and then the potato blocked it. I needed a total of 5 rounds to finish her.
1: stench hobo spell - ~450
2: stench hobo spell - ~450+450 / adaptation
3: spooky hobo spell - ~600 critical / adaptation
4: sleaze hobo spell - ~450
5: sleaze hobo spell - ~450+450 / the end

I got slime-soaked brain, single slimy alveolus (I did not bother boosting item drops) and hardened slime pants.

What I am going to do with these boosted attributes? Fight 3 leftover puttied crimbo elves, they give almost 700 substats.

I managed to sell one Crimbo carol for 1.9M and buy another one for 1.1M. I hope I will not regret it. All the things are tradable so no permanent harm done.

Underware was a bit boring, but I managed to get some sea vegetables from octopus garden.

Slime block

No surprise underwater, I had to buy some pressureglobes, because I did not get any from my puttied diver. I collected some deep sauce, got some food buckets, bought a straw hat, but no luck in the garden so far.

The I entered the slime tube again, this time I stayed there a little longer and cleaned up everything except mother slime. I used my (bought) nodule gear (scythe, medallion, breaches and bandolier) and oil of expertise and temporary greatness or serum of sarcasm.

The total number of adventures it took to clean the tube was 561 and that (according to wiki) would make mother slime a 5390 ML monster. Too powerful for me. So I leveled up in the bedroom and reached level 19 and 337 mysticality. That is still not enough, according to wiki, I should be able to reach +1200% moxie with moderate expenses (I meant less than 50k meat). To match mother slime's level with mentioned buffs, I'll need about 420 mysticality. That is about 50000 more substats...

Damn, I keep forgetting about the shimmering portal.

Crimbo 2009: Surprisingly, I guessed correct yesterday. They must be making the game easier at the end to please the participants. Today is probably the last day of Crimbonade, tomorrow is supposed to be the start of the next phase.

Getting stronger

The 30 free adventures with Fishy effect are fun. I get a lot of stats on the sea floor and fancy loot occasionally. I had 3 hyperinflated seal lungs, but I have only one left now. I would have to obtain more on my future seal clubber ascensions. Right now, I am working on getting more pressure globes and collect deep sauce. I am using putty there.

I bought two more nodules and made corroded breaches and malevolent medallion. The slime tube is more fun this way and I might be able to get some bonus drops. I am actually considering buying even more nodules, but I would need to slime some more items first.

Crimbo 2009: I got lucky again. Today, I bet on market, coolers and free candy.

The skate park

Puttied unholy divers only provided a couple of rusty rivets. Bad divers! Tomorrow is their last chance and then I will switch to Mer-kin diver and try to get some pressureglobes.

I bought some sand dollars and then the skate park map. With non-combat buffs, I chased out roller skates and now I can get 30 adventures of Fishy per day. Stat gains are good underwater, but they were not effective with the increase adventure cost. Now, I can smash 800ML mer-kins each day.

No news in slime tube, I still cannot wear the proper stuff, my muscle is at 190 (and moxie at 140, but that is not the priority right now).

Crimbo 2009: I actually managed to guess correctly yesterday. Today's weather shall be easy, location as well unless the newspaper is tricking us.

Getting monotonous

So, I fought puttied unholy divers and got another porthole, some rivets, but no helmet. So I bought one and created my aerated diving helmet. I kept the second porthole, because I'll need one more rusty helmet for sliming.

Then I adventures on the seafloor, but I guess I'll go to the skate part tomorrow and try to activate the Fishy buff. Spending 2 adventures instead of one is costly.

I slimed my fifth rusty item - the greaves. I still cannot wear the right equipment, because of low muscle and moxie. Because it is the 2nd muscle day today, I spent a lot of adventures in the gallery and ended with 182 muscle. I hope to get the needed 200 tomorrow.

Crimbo 2009: My yesterday's guess was wrong - the mall was ok, but other choices were wrong.

Preparing for Slimetube

I adventured a bit in the slimetube to get some chamoix for the future. I also asked people to tickle the uvula, because I need to create the slime-covered items from the rusty items.

I bought the rusty compass, created the rusty greaves. I already had rusty chain necklace and rusty grave robbing shovel. In the slimetube, I made slime-covered shovel, necklace (2x) and compass. Buying 2 slimy nodules and smiting scythe and bandolier. I'll eventually need to buy 2 more nodules to be able to get another one on my own.

I had to level up my muscle to 150 and mysticality to 200 be able to equip the scythe and bandolier. I need serum of sarcasm to adventure safely in the tube at my current level (that is 15). At least the stat gains in the tube are good with my current level.

I also advanced my underwater explorations. I found grandpa and grandma note and one yarn. Although I bought a grouper fangirl, puttying seems to be the only feasible way to get items underwater with my current equipment. Yesterday, I puttied neptune flytrap and today I fought unholy diver, hoping for a rusty helmet parts. I suppose, this will take a few days, because I need one for diving and one for sliming. I am considering buying some sand dollars and open the skate park.

I did the first 9 floors of the Fernwarthy basement, but then I decided to stop not to waste the stat giving levels while my level is low.

Crimbo 2009: I finally guessed right yesterday. Today is going to be harder, but I guess I will still take the newspaper advice and send hobos to mall. Weather is harder, because only Radar is giving advice.

So many places

Too many things to do in aftercore. Most of them cost money. I spent a lot of money today. I bought 2 slimy nodules and made the bandolier. I am going to make a scythe when I get the slime covered spade.

I also adventures in the sea and found the little brother and met grandpa once.

Crimbo 2009: My hobos got 2/3 of the max. donation amount. Free candy was the right answer yesterday. I have chosen market, wine coolers and caroling. It has been suggested that Weather Stone is always right, Satellite Imagery is always wrong and Radar is right, but one day ahead.

Almost there

Finishing the L12 quest was trivial. Then I had to return to the L11. I ate the high-level war rations, but I missed my semi-rare due to the irritating hidden city.

I had the quests finished and had 50 adventures left when the lair opened. If I had the pixels, things would be great. But I don't.

The lair:
Gate of Humility - fine
Gate of Mystery - 200 meat
Gate that is Not a Gate - had to experiment, but being on Teetotaler path has this one advantage that I do not need to fear the alcohol potion.

Pixels... 23 adventures (one adventure wasted - I forgot to remove teleportitis).
25 adventures left - all I need is luck ;-).

Hedge maze... 7 adventures
20 adventures left

The tower
Tyrannosaurus Tex - damn! I used my only butterfly in the farm - 5 adventures
endangered inflatable white tiger - 1 adventure
giant fried egg - 4 adventures (+2 clovers)
concert pianist - 1 adventure
Big Meat Golem - 1 adventure
Enraged Cow - 1 adventure

The shadow
I lost the first time despite using +100% potion. With no red pixel potions, this fight is tricky.

The familiars - as usual using pet buffing spray and sugar shield.

OK, I am in the chamber, having 4 adventures left. My low health is a risk, but with a bit of luck...

Try #1 - I almost made it. The first form went down after one critical spell hit and I managed to land 2 spells on the second form. If I had the kickback cookbook, this could have been a victory.
Try #2 - bad. The first form blocked a lot and I beat it with 20 HP left.
Try #3 - similar to try #2. I hope the block rate gets down I I get finally lucky. But I guess I'd rather buy the kickback cookbook. Or...I'll try a shield.
Try #4 - block rate was down and I made it (using shield). My first Teetotaler run. Hooray!

Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Sauceror
Level: 13
Muscle: 130 (96)
Mysticality: 199 (151 without equipment)
Moxie: 155 (96)
Max HP: 182 (Low HP is killing me, I'll have to do something about that soon)

Equipment:
sugar chapeau
tuxedo shirt
Staff of the Soupbone
wicker shield
sugar shorts
Iron Beta of Industry
tap shoes
bejeweled pledge pin

Familiar:
Kruger, the Misshapen Animal Skeleton with sugar shield

Run length: 11 days, 1332 adventures. I actually made it to top 100 for HCT Sauceror ascensions. And if you are interested, I am #1 for HCT Sauceror under Blender sign - because no one plays that combination. If you wonder why I picked that, it is due to the gnome skills I'll use in aftercore.

So, now I can drink and finally collect a bounty and play with my new toy - the little box of fireworks - in aftercore. Too bad I do not have enough meat for a Bag o' Tricks.

Uh, I overdrunk. I am not used to not having liver of steel. Damned bounty. Oh, well, tomorrow then.

Crimbo 2009: I got 12941 meat yesterday. I thought both actions will be failures and people would end in the mall. That did not happen, but the meat is still good.

Hippy pile

Most of the day, I adventures on the battlefield (that is after I started the island war). Reaching over 25 bonus spell damage was impossible (well, uneconomical), but it did not matter. The cold sauce spells did enough damage to the hippies to deal with them fast enough. I had +10ML on almost all the time as usual in my myst runs.

I managed to reach the farm and since I'll spend more time in aftercore this time, I'll invest the 9 adventures (and my single chaos butterfly - risky!) to clear the dooks.

Food was troubling today, I used my reagent ingredients (2 knob sausages) and I oly have a single spices and single lime left (though no pie tin). On the other hand I have 3 tasty tarts and I should be able to get some food from the war rations.

The L11 quest remains almost as it was - now I am looking for stone rose. It takes long.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 85
Mysticality: 140
Moxie: 86
Days played this run: 10

The plan:
- finish L12 quest - 36 adventures
- pixels - 30 adventures
- hidden city - 40 adventures
- pyramid - 60 adventures
- tower - 30 adventures

Ascending tomorrow seems unrealistic. I need over 200 adventures and I'll manage to get about 150 with teetotaler restrictions. But if I am extremely lucky...

Crimbo 2009: I did not do that bad yesterday. My hobos brought 17737 meat about 2/3 of tha maximum. Today, the newspaper offers 2 possible places to be: the market (where flea circus is performing) or right side of the tracks (where people can take a tour through Spookyraven manor). The weather predictions indicate chilly weather.

Short myst day

Myst day. A bit of leveling and mostly questing. 2/5 of the L11 quest are done. I'll still need to find the hidden city and then find and clear the pyramid.

I reached level 12 and collected one part of the uniform.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 73
Mysticality: 126
Moxie: 76
Days played this run: 9

If I am very lucky I'll be able to break the prism in 2 days. 3 are more realistic, the teetotaler path is tricky and I am once again out of ingredients.

Crimbo 2009: Mall was correct, but my other choices sucked.

Pre-myst day

So, I adventured in the valley to get lowercase ns and assemble another 31337 scroll (got 2 clovers and 2 trinkets and bought 2 more clovers). Food was easy today - 2x fettucini, 2x lo mein, 1x fortune cookie. I have one more cheese for tomorrow and enough spices and also 2 limes, so no problem there.

3 locked doors in the daily dungeon convinced me another trip is worth those 5 adventures. I got second Boris's key. Not ideal, I'll have to zap it tomorrow.

Then I leveled up, did the airship and collected a bounty in the castle and saved the remaining (40) adventures for tomorrow.

With Wave of sauce, spellcasting is fun and I have more than enough MP. A sugar fruit fairy would be a nice familiar to have at this point. I expect problems on the battlefield, where I would not be able to wear the epic hat. I hope the effect from twinkly wads counts towards the 25 bonus spell damage limit. (Because I only have +20 bonus spell damage +75% from chefstaff.)

Final stats:
Level: 10
Muscle: 62
Mysticlaity: 92
Moxie: 60
Days played this run: 8

Tomorrow is mysticality day. I still have to get some insults, to open F'c'le and then adventure there. Then it is probably hole in the sky or bathroom and L11 quest.

Crimbo 2009: Well, my hobos got 7919 meat yesterday. At least I guessed correctly that the Mall was a trap. But why market square and caroling was correct is above me. For today I am going to pick...Mall, Wine Coolers and Candy. I guess frat boys will make an appearance in the mall - and what else give them than free candy ;-).

An ordinary day

So, I got my spooky mushrooms and found the hidden temple (in 20 adventures :-(), reached level 9, got my hippy outfit, ate omelette, fettucini and spooky lo mein.

I spent some time in the bathroom, but stat gains were bad and so I abandoned the hope to get to level 10 in time to get an inhaler from my semi-rare adventure. Instead I adventures in the valley. I finished the quest and also got the 31337 scroll, but I'll have to return there, because I have no lowercase ns (lots of pr0n legs though).

Then I got the wand and some DoD potions and adventured in the Barrr (5 insults collected).

I used one clover in the hippy camp and got a needed cherry (for my staff of soupbone) and also 2 limes and one papaya. What a nice surprise. Together with the spices I have and 3 saved goat cheeses, this looks to be enough ingredients for my meals for 2 or 3 days. I have not yet decided whether I'll be on the hippy or the frat boy side. The pies will be nice, but the 3x +1000MP per day in aftercore looks useful as well.

Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 53
Mysticality: 83
Moxie: 55
Days played this run: 7

I need more meat for the skills, the quests and a cookbook. The saucespheres, wave of sauce, saucegeyser and impetuous sauciness cost 48000 and I only have 12000 available for skills right now. Tomorrow, I should probably save adventures for the mysticality day after tomorrow.

Crimbo 2009 stuff: My yesterdays guess was pretty bad, my hobos only brought 6159 meat, the correct choices seemed to be Market Square, Wine Coolers and Signs. Today, I have chosen Tracks, Wine Coolers and Signs. I do not think people would respond to the threats.

Catching up

With stomach of steel, situation was a bit better toady. I completed a bounty on goats and collected more than enough milk (being a Sauceror) and some spare cheese for reagent food. I had to use another clover in the kitchen though, because I had to level up first.

The bonerdagon fell and trapper is satisfied. I made myself a yak anorak, but I cannot wear it due to its muscle requirement. But right now, I am just 5 substats away.

Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 41
Mysticality: 64
Moxie: 43
Days played this run: 6

Tomorrow, I must obtain 2 spooky mushrooms, so I'll visit the spooky forest and maybe find the temple. Then I should finally build a boat, obtain a swashbuckling uniform, reach level 9, get a hippy outfit and do the LOL quest. Maybe a bit more.

Crimbo 2009 is continuing. My guess yesterday was lucky and my hobos collected 19417 meat. The weather is supposed to get cold again. Today I have chosen The Right Side of the Tracks, Hot Chocolate and Informative Signs.

Like those old day

Being on a teetotaler path is really slowing me down. If I at least had a spleen familiar, but I don't.

I managed to do the remaining trips and I tried to get the hippy outfit from the road to the white citadel, but no progress there and encountering the sign in Whitey's grove took over 10 adventures (got several bird ribs but no lion oil on the way). I guess I'll wait for level 9 and get the outfit from the noncombats at the hippy camp.

I eliminated the goblin king and got the glass balls (for the staff of soupbone, of course), I opened the 2nd floor of the manor, got the ballroom key and set the +5% noncombats song.

Secrets of Dungeons of Doom are revealed, but I do not have enough meat for the wand.

I had to get another grab bag, fortunately the hermit had 3 clovers, but I should secure another food source, I'll probably go for goat cheese while bounty hunting.

Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 32
Mysticality: 50
Moxie: 34
Days played this run: 5

I should try to finish the bonerdagon quest tomorrow, but without fruits, I am limited to one spared philter of phorce potion and that is not enough with 32 muscle.

Crimbo 2009 is continuing. I did pretty bad tomorrow. Like most people, I believed, the newspaper was referring to today's situation, but in fact it was yesterdays. So my hobos got mere 3000 meat in donations.

So, the people were in the mall yesterday (it was a cold day), and they liked free candy while the hobos would prefer hot chocolate. Today the weather is supposed to improve. I guess I bet on market, cooler and caroling (again).

Bad luck

December 1st is today and the advent calendar appeared. I got candy knuckles today and used it until it broke down. Pretty scary - I was relying on its +25 damage and suddenly nothing - fortunately the sleazy gravy fairy decided to do the job for me.

First I collected my epic hat and then I adventured at the gate. Terrible luck there. No hellion cubes, no demon skin, but 4 wussiness potions, 3 Ws, 30 imp ale and 24 hot wings. Thanks a lot. I had to use another clover at the kitchens. Although I obtained the steel lasagna, I could not eat it today. The steel margarita has its advantages.

That's it. I managed to do one more shore trip, pick up one clover (it took 7 adventures in the sewer) and get Boris's key.

Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 28
Mysticality: 41
Moxie: 28
Days played this run: 4

Tomorrow shall be better.

Crimbo 2009 has started. We are supposed to organize hobos to collect donations.

Kind of weak

I leveled up on the battlefield. I know that speeders do not recommend this, but I guess getting steel organ and eating reagent pasta ASAP is important. Just like getting to level 9 and its rewards. Leveling took 31 adventures, that is not too bad. But what now? Should I try the friars right now?

I used one clover to get a grab bag and luckily got 2 mushrooms and 1 spices from it. That means reagent pasta today (I have chef and enough reagents from yesterday).

Now, the question remains how to fight the demons. My spells are weak, I do not have any fruits for potions. My stainless steel skullcap is not usable yet, I only have 20 muscle points.

But since I took the effort to level up, I should also do the quest. Otherwise, the adventures would be wasted. Sugar shorts, hair spray and tomato power would bring me close to winning the fights but not close enough. Lemon from the fun house? Another route would be to buy saucestorm, but I do not have the meat and getting it from beefy bodyguards would take too much time. Considering the options, I do not think I'll get the steel stomach today.

So I fought the beefy bodyguards and bought Gazpacho's Glacial Grimoire and Saucestorm (of course I forgot to get Expert Panhandling before the bodyguards).

Then I went into the fun house and got remaining clownosity items and fought Beelzebozo. (I also got 2 lemons.)

2 shore trips are done and I also found the dusty book.

Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 23
Mysticlaity: 34
Moxie: 23
Days played this run: 3

The gate is priority #1 tomorrow. I might try to go for the epic hat before to make the fights easier.

Early chefstaff is good

I have gathered the components for a chefstaff to make use of my Spirit of Rigatoni as soon as possible. Unlike in my previous Pastamancer run, I just let Rodoric build the Staff of the Short Order Cook.

Jiggling the chefstaff actually kills monsters at this level. I managed to kill Baron von Ratsworth with it in one turn. Well, not just with it, my sleazy fairy hit him and the Throbbing rage gland finally made a difference.

Then I found Fernwarthy's grave and collected a diembodied brain. Hence I built the EW and went after a box and finally built myself a chef-in-a-box.

I have also built the bitchin' meatcar and found the screwdriver.

Final stats:
Level: 5
Muscle: 13
Mysticality: 21
Moxie: 13
Days played this run: 2

Being teetotaler and not having access to inside of degrassi knoll is slowing me down. I did not reach my first semi-rare yet. Tomorrow I might try to level up on the cola battlefield and obtain stomach of steel. Or I may collect meat from beefy bodyguards and leave the stomach for the day after that.

In the lair

No big surprises. I finished the island quest, the LOL quest and collected needed stars and lines.

I needed almost 800 substats to get to level 8 and so I used 2 clovers and then hit the Louvre on first adventure in the gallery.

The lair...
Gate of Morose Morbidity and Moping
Gate of Intrigue
Gate that is Not a Gate

Extreme luck!

Thin black candle is no problem, I got handsomeness potion during my long teleportitis and the correct DoD potion is the only one I know.

Now, I have to farm for pixels. I kind of never get them in the early days of my runs. 20 adventures gone.

Topiary golems - 8 adventures.

The tower:
the darkness - 8 adventures
malevolent crop circle - 1 adventure
Big Meat Golem - 1 adventure
fancy bath slug - 1 adventure
possessed pipe-organ - 1 adventure
Enraged Cow - 1 adventure

Not that bad. If I had the inkwell, it would be perfect.

3x lost to lower the block rate (although the first try without using any skill almost looked like I could win).

Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Turtle Tamer
Level: 13
Muscle: 219 (151 without equipment)
Mysticality: 145 (100)
Moxie: 162 (101)
Max HP: 374

Equipment:
nasty rat mask
tuxedo shirt
Chelonian Morningstar
painted shield
sugar shorts
bejeweled pledge pin
Nickel Gamma of Frugality
pirate fledges

Familiar:
Kruger, the Misshapen Animal Skeleton with sugar shield

Run length: 7 days, 1342 adventures. With 2 feasts of Boris and 2 muscle days, it is not that spectacular, but still my fastest run day-wise.

With 2 adventures and 6 drunkenness left, I still need to:
- tame some more turtles
- finish mayor Zapruder quest and get mushroom fermenting solution
- finish bounty
I managed to do it all with the help of the spooky putty sheet.

This time, I permed Wisdom of Elder Tortoises. The level 14 or level 15 skills would probably be better choices, but I want to ascend today and extra MP will make my day 1 with non-myst classes easier.

A Sauceror is me, a female teetotaler Sauceror - there seem to be advantages in aftercore ;-).

Witout muscle sign, things are tough - I did not beat Baron von Ratsworth.

Final stats:
Class: Sauceror
Level: 4
Muscle: 8
Mysticality: 16
Moxie: 8
Days played this run: 1

And now yuletide

I did not roast a single marshmallow, they do not seem to be that good. Maybe I'll regret it in aftercore, but the price is not that high.

I have finished the level 11 quest, got quantum egg and started the war. I have also collected a bounty. The junkyard subquest took unusually long. Arena subquest is almost done.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 132
Mysticality: 85
Moxie: 89
Days played this run: 6

I would really like to ascend tomorrow. With a bit of luck, it is possible. I still need to collect pixels, stars and lines and finish the level 9 quest (I have the scrolls, but I need the adding machine).

The Plan:
- collecting stars - 30 adventures
- collecting pixels - 30 adventures
- finishing L9 quest - 10 adventures
- nuns - 20 adventures
- filthworms - 20 adventures
- battlefield - 85 adventures
- tower - 25 adventures

= total of 220 adventures. Tough, but hopefully doable.

Second feast

Second feast of Boris in this run was today. The adventures from the extra fullness from the 2 feasts should save me a day.

I have collected a bounty in the castle, but I did not get furry fur nor awful poetry journal, so I will have to return there. The LOL quest is still unfinished. From the Holy MacGuffin quest, 3/5 are done - I still need to find the fertilizer, hidden temple, hidden city and then do the pyramid.

I finally go the wand and a second key. The same as yesterday and I had to zap it. I also have the hippy outfit.

I tamed a lot of turtles today, mainly hedgeturtles and some painted turtles. Also one syncopated turtle when I was after the hippy outfit.

Levelig up in the gallery was frustrating - very slow.

Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 121 (4 left to level 12)
Mysticality: 74
Moxie: 78
Days played this run: 5

I guess, I will be able to ascend in 2 more days. Tomorrow is unrealistic considering the progress today. That will be 7 days + 1 extra for the feasts - my usual 8 days. I guess I'll need Mr. Store familiars or olfaction to get to ordinary 7 days. Or maybe Ode to Booze and SHC would do the trick.

Whatever

Second muscle day. Haunted gallery was troubling. The non-combats were pretty rare.

I have finished te bonerdagon and the trapper quests. I have opened the castle in the sky and picked one inhaler. I'll have to adventure in the valley a bit more to get one scroll (or get a wand and zap it) and then use the adding machine.

Final stats:
Level: 10
Muscle: 95
Mysticality: 60
Moxie: 57
Days played this run: 4

It could have been better...

Teleporting a lot

A muscle day. A bad one. I got teleportitis 3 times. Once before I got the book and second time the oracle did not appear.

Goblin king is down and I made 3 shore trips, unlocked spookyraven and collected most of the cheese.

Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 66
Mysticality: 41
Moxie: 38
Days played this run: 3

A short day

I wanted to save adventures for tomorrow, but I just could not. Progress was slow, but at least I have chef and bartender, liver of steel, a mushroom field, items for 4 clownosity and access to the library.

Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 43
Mysticality: 33
Moxie: 31
Days played this run: 2

2 muscle days are ahead, I should reach level 9 tomorrow and then I'll be on the right track for a 7-days run. Maybe.

A long day

So, I farmed bird rib, make the stew and got staff of fats. Then I waited a bit more for a 2nd inhaler. Then I finished the nuns and spend the remaining adventures on battlefield (no damn hero). I guess I will not wait for a second inhaler in my future runs unless I get the first one sooner.

My semi-rares currently include: lunchbox - distilled wine - lunchbox - ascii art - inhaler - lunchbox - inhaler

Then I had to finish the L11 quest.

The NS lair:
Gate of Spirit - OK.
Gate of Flame - clovering.
Gate of the Ogre - troubling - I could have gambled, but since I am in no hurry, I went the safe way.

Tower:
Fickle Finger of F8 - 1 adventure
Bowling Cricket - 5 adventures
malevolent crop circle - 6 adventures
fancy bath slug - 1 adventure
Tyrannosaurus Tex - 1 adventure
Enraged Cow - 1 adventure

Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Pastamancer
Level: 13
Muscle: 134 (100 without equipment)
Mysticality: 202 (154)
Moxie: 151 (99)
Max HP: 177

Equipment:
sugar chapeau
tuxedo shirt
Staff of the Soupbone
kickback cookbook
sugar shorts
bejeweled pledge pin
tap shoes
Nickel Gamma of Frugality

Familiar:
Kruger, the Misshapen Animal Skeleton with sugar shield

Run length: 8 days, 1387 adventures. Hm, not as good as it could have been.

I tried to make use of the Spirit of Rigatoni I permed previous Pastamancer run, but the only thing it did was save me the meat for the skill. The Staff of blood and pudding was hard to make because of the twinkly nugget and hence a 80-power item requirement. I have a really bad luck pulverizing those, setting various powders or elemental nuggets. I guess, I could have pulverized my stainless steel cap right in the beginning and pray. Next time, I'll probably try for one of the even simpler chefstaves.

I permed Cannelloni Cocoon.

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A Turtle Tamer is me.

On feast of Boris, the first day was longer. On of the special monsters have beaten me up, but I got 5 others. I'll be selling 3 low-level items in the mall.

I managed to get to level 6 and I had enough adventures to do the friar quest, but I was not strong enough, especially after my sugar shorts broke down.

Final stats:
Class: Turtle Tamer
Level: 6
Muscle: 32
Mysticality: 26
Moxie: 25
Days played this run: 1

The day before

I did the junkyard, the orchard and half of the nuns quest and then waited for a second inhaler. While waiting, I discovered the pyramid, got one glass of goat milk and got the wand.

Since there is no chance to ascend today and tomorrow is the feast of Boris, I decided to save adventures as well as the got milk effect.

I managed to zap dehydrated caviar into black pepper.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 88
Mysticality: 139 (9 left to level 13)
Moxie: 86
Days played this run: 7

Ascending tomorrow should be no problem. I only need to:
- finish the digital key (25 adventures)
- find and finish the hidden city (45 adventures)
- finish palindome (15 adventures)
- do the pyramid (60 adventures)
- finish nuns (10 adventures)
- finish war (50 adventures)
- do the NS lair (30 adventures)
That is a hefty 235 adventures, but I have 93 saved from today and with feast of Boris +15 fullness limit, I should have at least a 100 adventures left after freeing the king.

Like never before

With 100 saved adventures, the myst day was productive. I managed to reach level 10, do the level 10 quest and collect all stars and lines, then reach level 11 and kill lord Spookyraven, discover oasis and do the pirates and meet Mr.Alarm. Level 12 seemed near and I reached it right in time, started the war and said Guy made of bees for the 5th time and hence did the arena sub-quest and picked a buff for tomorrow.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 81
Mysticality: 130
Moxie: 78
Days played this run: 6

Well, it would be nice to rescue the king tomorrow, but the chances are slim. I still need 24 pixels, DoD potions and wand, find and clear the hidden city, find and clear the pyramid and then do the frat boy-hippy war. I actually wanted a 8-day run and ascend on feast of Boris. That means 2 days and that looks like a realistic plan.

In a hurry

Finishing the L9 quest and saving adventures for a myst day. Nothing particularly interesting.

Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 55
Mysticality: 75
Moxie: 54
Days played this run: 5

Back on the road

I have finished the bonerdagon quest, discovered DoD, but I have no wand, because I do not have the meat. The trapper quest would provide it, but I lack cold resistance. I should consider getting the exotic parrot soon.

I reached level 9 and got my hippy outfit from the non-combats.

The goat milk problem is back - I only got one despite spending extra adventures chasing goats.

I finally built the chefstaff of blood and pudding, but I expect to build and use the soupbone tomorrow.

Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 51
Mysticality: 70
Moxie: 51
Days played this run: 4

3rd day slowdown

I did the stuff I skipped the first 2 days and hence the progress was slower. I also collected a bounty on clowns and that has slowed me down.

I have built a meatcar, my LEW, and I did the quests (except bonerdagon), opened 2nd floor and got Boris's key.

Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 36
Mysticality: 46 (7 more to level 8)
Moxie: 39
Days played this run: 3

I still do not have the chefstaff - I am missing a twinkly nugget. I wonder where people obtain an item to smash into the nugget. I am thinking smashing the stainless steel cap is the only way to get it very soon (50% chance though). I can also smash my LEW or demon jacket, but the chances are low. I suppose I might get a suitable item during the cyrpt quest, but the chefstaff does not look so shiny now as it looked in the early days and soupbone is not that far away.

I must speed up, only 5 days left to feast of Boris.

No Hell ramen

Steel margarita was the priority #1 and hence I adventured on the cola battlefield. Since all stat gains equally probable there and today was a moxie day and due to a RNG unwillingness to give me myst stats, my moxie actually surpassed my mysticality at one point. Not ideal, but I do not complain.

Upon reaching level 6, I started doing the friar quest with sugar chapeau and sugar shorts. Fights were tough, but Ravioli shurikens did the job. When the broke, I continued just with the chapeau and things were even tougher. I got beaten up a couple of times and collected 7 worthless trinkets (and traded 2 of them for clovers). The hellions were pretty nasty, I encountered like 6 of them (one beat me up), but I got no cubes despite using the fairy all the time. The situation was really bad and I had to use the starting clover to get a knob goblin grab-bag to be able to cook a proper food. (Got 1 mushroom and 1 sausage of it, but Hell ramen would be better on the moxie day.)

In the end, I did it - I got the steel margarita with ~20 adventures remaining. The next priority was food source in the form of the mushroom field (damn hellion cubes). I adventures in the treasury and auto-sold all I could to make the 5000 for the field + 200 for hermit permits + 660 for mushroom sprouts. I also got 2 parts of the elite uniform - hopefully, I'll get the remaining one in the harem.

That's it - still no chefstaff - I need 1000 for hammer and then something with power 90 to pulverize (with luck) into twinkly nuggets and bloody mary. I'll probably try to make demon jacket and pulverize that if nothing better appears before I get bloody mary.

Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 31
Mysticality: 36
Moxie: 32
Days played this run: 2

With the Knob Goblin elite shirt, the stainless steel skullcap, sugar shorts, coffin lid and infernal insoles, I actually became relatively good melee fighter. Unexpected.

I must start working on the quests, built a meatcar, the in-boxen, slay boss bat, goblin king and work on the bonerdagon once the quest becomes available. Actually making it to the level 8 tomorrow and use the blessing on the goats will be great...

Up and down

20 adventures in the ballroom, a new sugar shield and the fight was extremely easy. The Naughty Sorceress only took away 1/3 of my HP and I spent 2/3 of my MP. Block rate was minimal - unlike yesterday.

Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Turtle Tamer
Level: 13
Muscle: 209 (152 without equipment)
Mysticality: 144 (100)
Moxie: 178 (105)

Equipment:
nasty rat mask
tuxedo shirt
black sword
painted shield
sugar shorts
pirate fledges
tap shoes
Nickel Gamma of Frugality

Familiar:
Kruger, the Misshapen Animal Skeleton with sugar shield

Total length: 9 days; 1351 adventures; I am ashamed, but I should have been able to ascend yesterday. Those 20 extra turns and one sugar shield could were manageable.

This was my first run with Vent Rage Gland and I did not find the right place to use it. The MP cost seems high in the beginning and the damage low in the end. Maybe if I fought the baron...

Anyway, let's do a bounty hunt, then tame some turtles, and finally explore the slime tube for the first time.

While taming sleeping wereturtles, I got lucky and heard the demon name, it is: Gambaal Gazka. He should be helping me with the nun quest from now on.

I am perming Armorcraftiness.

Back to being a Pastamancer, my favorite class. Then, I realized I did not get the reward from mayor Zapruder. 50000 meat lost.

I managed to reaching level 4 in time - I had to eat one boring spaghetti and drink one bottle of cooking sherry, but then the gourd potion and one stat item saved me. I found the Fernwarthy grave and adventures on the battlefield until level 5, then I did a quick trip to the knob goblin kitchen and harem, but the area was a bit tough and I retreated back to the spooky forest, looking for the temple (but found nothing). At least I collected one bottle of used blood and I'll be building Staff of Blood and Pudding tomorrow.

Final stats:
Class: Pastamancer
Level: 5
Muscle: 15
Mysticality: 21
Moxie: 18
Days played this run: 1

Goals for tomorrow are friars and steel margarita, the cheffstaf, mushroom field and a cookbook.

Meat sink

Finishing the war took all my initial adventures and all adventures from food.

The gates were troubling, because I needed adder bladder. Nearly 20 adventures lost. I had to gamble with the DoD potions, but luckily I avoided the drunkenness giving one.

The tower:
best-selling novelist - 1 adv
Big Meat Golem - 1 adv
Bowling Cricket - 3 advs
Electron Submarine - 1 adv
the darkness - 1 adv
collapsed mineshaft golem - 1 adv

Lost 3 times to the sorceress and then prepared for the final fight. Well, both my sugar shield and my sugar shorts broke after defeating the first form. So, I had to run away. I only have a single sugar sheet left.

I tried again and lost to the second form (wasting my 2 red pixel potions). Now I am without any HP restorers. I guess, I will not beat her today. And I did not. I tried once more, tt was close, but in the end, she beat me. If she blocked less of my tries, the end could have been different. Tomorrow then.

Final stats:
Level: 13
Muscle: 151
Mysticality: 100
Moxie: 98
Days played this run: 8

Preparing for war

Today, I did the holy MacGuffin quest. My luck was average, sometimes thing came slowly, sometimes fast.

Then I started the hippy war and did the arena quest flyering monsters in the hole in the sky, 8-bit realm and pyramid. The fights were hard, but I was losing a lot of HP and meat. Wereseal blood and clocks were frequently needed. I guess, I'll have to perm a healing skill soon.

I also started to adventure in the junkyard and collected one tool.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 133
Mysticlaity: 87
Moxie: 82
Days played this run: 7

I guess, I'll be able to ascend tomorrow without big problems:
9 adv - junkyard
17 adv - battlefield
16 adv - orchard
16 adv - battlefield
25 adv - nuns
50 adv - battlefield & end of war
And then the tower...

Good enough

After finishing the level 10 quest and getting the quantum egg, I leveled up and started the holy MacGuffing quest.

I found the black market, did the shore trip and opened manor cellar. Wines came quickly with the friar blessing. I dealt with Lord Spookyraven (and used a potion, but it was no necessary - he fumbled). Then I spent 10 adventures getting a goat milk. Not sure it that was worth it.

After that I found the hidden temple and the city and then I finished collecting insults and adventuring in the bar.

I also managed to collect a bounty in the airship.

Since I only had a single goat milk, I stopped adventuring and saved all the adventures gained from food for tomorrow (with the Got milk effect active).

I zapped dehydrated caviar into a black pepper. I bet it will not be needed this run.

Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 110 (15 left to level 12)
Mysticality: 73
Moxie: 67
Days played this run: 6

I guess ascending in 2 days is a realistic plan. I would be great if I did it in 1, but I do not believe that will happen. I have 95 saved adventures, but I still need the digital and star keys, and do most of the L11 quest.

Just another day

I made the final vacation and built a boat. Working on the pirate outfit, I got 2 eyepatches and pants, but no parrot. Zapping? To get the wand, I needed money.

So I went after the bonerdagon and then in the dungeon of doom. I got the wand soon, but there are other candidates for the zaps. Like the Hippy outfit...

Getting Hippy outfit was actually super fast - just 2 adventures in the Hippy camp with Smooth movements and I got the 2 pieces from 2 noncombat adventures. Still, I rather zapped the Jarlsberg earring from yesterday (-> Boris key) and continued adventuring in the cove.

Then I did the LOL quest, spending my semi-rare and started collecting insults.

Reaching level 10, I planted the bean and adventures in the airship and in the castle, using twinkly wads, hair sprays and ben-gal balms. I managed to collect a bounty there.

2nd trip to daily dungeon and I got the Sneaky Pete key.

Final stats:
Level: 10
Muscle: 91
Mysticality: 61
Moxie: 57
Days played this run: 5

I still need a couple of adventures to turn the wheel 2 times, find the hidden temple and then it is leveling up and doing macguffin.

I wonder whether I manage to finish in 3 days.

Louvre visit

I have opened the gallery yesterday, but I only managed to adventure there today. And the stats were not bad. I have collected yesterday's bounty there and then I moved on. It was pretty costly - I had to use wereseal blood to survive there.

Other accomplished tasks include discovery of the Dungeons of Doom, slaying of the goblin king, mining and goat cheese collecting (only a single glass of goat milk :-() and doing 4 shore vacations.

Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 76
Mysticality: 48
Moxie: 45
Days played this run: 4

My biggest problem is meat, I do not have enough for the cloak and hence the wand. Blood of wereseal is pretty costly and I had to fund the vacations, my painted shield and hermit permits. Hopefully, the situation improves tomorrow.

This run, the Smooth movements skill scores some good points. I use it relatively often.

Slow muscle day

At least I got the steel margarita and opened the gallery.

Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 48
Mysticality: 35
Moxie: 32
Days played this run: 3

Not as good as expected

Well, I thought, I'll be able to get liver of steel this day, but I did not. The fights were too tough for me.

At least I got meat from beefy bodyguards and found the dusty book. I had terrible luck in the kitchens. 1 mushroom after 20+ adventures.

Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 38 (2 left to level 7)
Mysticality: 27
Moxie: 27

It will be tough tomorrow to catch up.

It was close

Finishing the orchard did not take long. Back to the battlefield reaching the nuns. But what now? The pyramid, waiting for another inhaler. And then the digital key, because more waiting is needed.

I got into a tower with very few adventures left.

The tower:
Fickle Finger of F8 - 2 adventures (used scrap of paper)
giant fried egg (am I really cursed?) - 2 adventures (used scrap of paper and clover)
Electron Submarine - 1 adventure
Big Meat Golem - 1 adventure
best-selling novelist - 1 adventure
collapsed mineshaft golem - 1 adventure

3 adventures and 3 drunkenness left, there is still hope. I had a little trouble with the shadow, because I did not have any red pixel potions and the poultices were not strong enough. The NS fell after 3 tries (I let her beat me to lower the block rate). The last try was a bit lucky - my sugar shield broke down after the 2nd form was down.

Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Pastamancer
Level: 13
Muscle: 149 (102)
Mysticality: 210 (151 without equipment)
Moxie: 149 (102)

Equipment:
sugar chapeau
star shirt
Staff of the Soupbone
Gazpacho's Glacial Grimoire
sugar shorts
Nickel Gamma of Frugality
bejeweled pledge pin
pirate fledges

Familiar:
Kruger, the Misshapen Animal Skeleton

Total length: 9 days; 1613 adventures; exploring the Shivering timbers first 2 days

I permed Spritit of Rigatoni, not a skill people would recommend, but I just like casting spells...

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A turtle tamer is me.

Final stats:
Class: Turtle Tamer
Level: 5
Muscle: 21
Mysticality: 13
Moxie: 12
Days played this run: 1

Cursed

Finding a pyramind never took so long and I still did not find it when I reached level 12. So I went to the island and started the war, did the arena quest, the junkyeard and started fighting on the battlefield. I reached the orchard, but did not have enough time to finish it.

Yeah and I missed my semi-rare. No 2nd inhaler for me.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 90
Mysticality: 136
Moxie: 91
Days played this run: 8

Pirate troubles

The Holy MacGuffing quest. I found the black market and did the cellar (except Lord Spookyraven). Then I went to the island and the pirates were troublesome. I spent ages on the F'c'le. Lots of cleaners, barrrnacles, but no mop.

I have given up the hope to ascend tomorrow and went bounty hunting (and demon name hunting into the spooky forest). No demon name though.

Not much else happened. I forgot to go to the daily dungeon and I do not have a wand. This could be a problem. But since ascending tomorrow is unrealistic, it does not matter much yet.

Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 78
Mysticality: 118
Moxie: 79
Days played this run: 7

Leveling up

A mysticality day. I gathered the pirate outfit and got the dictionary, then I needed to open the second floor of the manor and level up and wait for a semi-rare bad ascii art. I got it and collected some more scrolls before the adding machine came. I decided to do the 31337 scroll first to trade my 3 trinkets for clovers. The quest can wait.

Then more leveling up and level 10 quest + raver giant bounty.

More leveling up until the end of the day.

I managed to instruct the quartet, learn fearful fettucini, say guy made of bees 4 times and get the antique mirror.

Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 67
Mysticality: 105
Moxie: 69
Days played this run: 6

I am still behind in quests, I'll need to do the barrr to open the F'c'le tomorrow, but I wanted to use the myst day.

Suffering

Today was terrible. Lots of adventures spent looking for the white citadel, not found it, but got the outfit.

Goat cheese came quickly, but I wanted the bounty and spent 41 adventures there. Farming for cherry took ages as well, and I got 2 limes. Not that I need them.

When I finally built the Staff of the Soupbone, I realized I cannot use it yet due to its high mysticality requirement.

Then I got the epic hat an things started to look better.

By the end of the day, I did the daily dungeon and got an earring and decided to try the > sign as well. Finally some luck, 2nd adventure book, 3rd adventure teleportitis, 4th adventure oracle. 4 adventures fishing in the sewers - 3 trinkets.

Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 53
Mysticality: 68
Moxie: 55
Days played this run: 5

I only managed to save 7 adventures for tomorrow. Hopefully the stats from bonerdagon chest and the leaflet take me closer to the 75 require mysticality and I would be able to equip the chefstaff. A semi-rare is close and it might come just in time for the bad ascii art.

The goals are clear, do the level 9 quest, open library and bathroom and level up as fast as possible.

Underworld trunk opens?

Hm, the mysterious underworld trunk would not open. No matter, it is a solid piece of wood and it can now be crafted into 3 different weapons. The weapons are only usable in aftercore and each gives 10 substats to particular attribute and has other fancy features. I have not yet decided, which one I should choose.

The function of the underworld acorn remains unknown. Some speculate, it will be possible to plant it on next Arrrbor day and adventure in the shivering timbers again, chopping down the underworld tree again, get another trunk and craft a different weapon. It would surely be nice. Maybe it will happen, maybe not. And maybe it happens on Halloween instead on the Arrrbor day. That would make sense, since it would be possible to obtain the outfit and the ax again on Halloween. Finishing the whole quest is not hard even on a single day. We'll see.

Back to ascension stuff. Today was slow, at least I did the goblin king quest, got the glass balls, finished wizard of ego (nice timing here, I'll get 100 substats on myst day), made 4 shore trips and got all shore tower items, built chef, bartender and maid, cooked insanely enchanted bean burrito for the epic hat quest, got diamonds and chrome ore for the trapper. I also adventured in the cyrpt, but I did not kill any sub-bosses yet. Of course, I got the steel margarita.

Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 43
Mysticality: 54
Moxie: 45
Days played this run: 4

Things are slowing down. I still do not have the LEW. I must obtain it and the epic hat tomorrow (need tomato for boring spaghetti). And then the chefstaff - I still need herbs (from road to white citadel), rib of the Bonerdagon (easy), bottle of whiskey (from a goat) and cherry (a problem - fruit golem or lemon party slot?). I also should do the goats bounty. Considering the tasks, it will be pretty hard if I wanted to save adventures for a myst day and make use of a milk of magnesium on 2 days.

End of arborween

The shivering timbers are gone now and the trick or treating icon in town is inaccessible. Back to ascending.

I had a lot to do today. I managed to get Harold's bell and farm the beefy bodyguards, but a mushroom plot with the made money and do the friars quest. Unfortunately, there were not enough adventures left to meet the pencil-necked demon, so I did not bother collecting the toys and build a meat car and EW instead. I am still working on the LEW. Not that it is overly useful, but the epic hat regenerates MP and that is useful.

Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 35
Mysticality: 45 (8 left to level 8)
Moxie: 39
Days played this run: 3

Priorities for tomorrow include getting the steel margarita, the epic hat, kill goblin king and bonerdagon, reach level 8 and get lump of diamond and some herbs to make myself a chefstaff.

Shivering Timbers closing

The Shivering Timbers are supposed to close today. I spent most of my day there, collection spooky bark to build a second set of the bark outfit (first in this ascension, of course). I guess it might be useful.

I managed to get the required 21 pieces in time, eating the chocolate beetles and drinking the cider, occasionally recharging MP with the wolfman nardz. I was also using the sugar chapeaus while they lasted.

Although I reached level 6, I did not complete much quests and I am very low on meat. I am not expecting this run to be fast.

Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 27
Mysticality: 37 (3 more needed for level 7)
Moxie: 33
Days played this run: 2

Tomorrow, the priority is doing the friar quest, getting liver of steel and making lots of meat to buy mushroom field and Spirit of Rigatoni. I'd love to get the new chefstaff.

Up again

A bit of farming and then straight into a next life as Pastamancer. I permed Smooth movements this time.

As Pastamancer I decided to use 2 sugar chapeaus and 1 sugar shirt. Casting spells was fun with the MP regeneration. I adventures in the Shivering timbers blasting trees and I got 7 spooky bark and made the bracelet. I wonder whether I'll be able to get the other 14 tomorrow and have the whole outfit the entire ascension.

Final stats:
Class: Pastamancer
Level: 5
Muscle: 15
Mysticality: 23
Moxie: 20
Days played this run: 1

With a little luck

Battlefield until I reach the junkyard. The the junkyard. Then the battlefield until arena. My original plan was to skip the arena, but since the L11 quest is unfinished due to the Halloween content, I'll just put flyers on all the remaining L11 monsters.

The hidden city - done in 24 adventures.
Oasis for worm-riding manual, pyramid, back to island - the concert needs a bit more flyers. 2 adventures in the shivering timbers did it. A couple more adventures on the battlefield.

It would be nice if I met the Monty Basingstoke-Pratt, IV boss this time. So I am going to cleesh a few enemies. That will probably cost me an ascension today, but I am not so much in a hurry anymore. I cleeshed like 15 enemies, but no hero. OK, maybe some other time... The Man with superhuman sarcasm to be on the safe side.

The lair:

Gate of Spirit - OK
Gate of Zest - I had to fish for clover (5 adventures!)
Gate of That Which is Hidden - I had to gamble a little - fortunately I did not pick the drunkenness potion.

Hedge maze - lots of stolen pieces.

Tower:
best-selling novelist - 1 adventure
concert pianist - 1 adventure
Vicious Easel - 1 adventure
Bowling Cricket - 3 adventures
Bronze Chef - 3 adventures
Enraged Cow - 1 adventure

...not bad, I have obtained those missing items in 1 adventure each.

Shadow, Naughty sorceress - piece of cake with the brimstone boxers. But the stats I received after the fight were enormous: 574 Beefiness, 516 Magicalness, 1114 Roguishness. Did they increase her level?

I did it, but it was close. I only had few spleen hits left today.

I guess there is no point listing my equipment and exact stats. It is enough to state that I had the brimstone boxers and that is enough to outmoxie her. I mainly focused on equipment that increases level or damage like grungy bandana and goth-kit T-shirt.

So, this is my so far fastest ascension: 8 days, 1400 adventures. If I did not explore the shivering timbers, I would be faster by almost a day.

The question remains whether to ascend today or not. I guess not, because I want one of the high-level skills: Smooth movement or Superhuman Cocktailcrafting.

War won't wait but trees will

Back to questing. There will be time for farming the shivering timbers later.

Couple of adventures on the Poop deck and Belowdecks opened the way to the Palindrome and the level 12 quest.

Starting the war. Not wearing the brimstone boxers made the fights much harder. I'll take the hippy side again, because I would like to encounter a particular frat hero.

The organic orchard - 14 adventures.
The farm - the usual 25 adventures.
Bandits - 10 adventures with inhaler, 46k collected.

Back to level 11 quest.
Dr.Awkward down, hidden city found, looking for worm riding manual pages.

Semi-rare -> inhaler.

Bandits - another 10 adventures with inhaler, 93k collected. +3 adventures for the remaining meat.

The battlefield -> clearing my way to the junkyard. Sonofa beach is a no-go.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 100
Mysticality: 100
Moxie: 143 (5 left to level 13)
Days played this run: 7

I still must:
- find pyramid - 10 adventures
- lord Spookyraven - 1 adventure (hope so)
- the hidden city - 25 adventures
- clear the pyramid - 50 adventures
- on battlefield - 40 adventures
- the junkyard - 12 adventures
- flyering in the shivering timbers - 50 adventures
- tower - 30 adventures

That is 317 adventures. So it looks like it will take 2 more days. I wanted to get Smooth movements or SHC this run anyway, so some leveling up time is needed anyway.

The Shivering Timbers

New content! Hooray. Or not. It will surely prolong my current HC run. No matter.

Most of the content has been at least partially spaded, so here is a short summary of what needs to be done to get the (presumably great) new items.

1. Adventure in the The Shivering Timbers killing spooky trees and collect 21 pieces of spooky bark. (You also get other drops.) The drop rate for bark seems to be 9%, and I got about 2/3 the amount of all the other items as I got tree barks. If you are not in HC, unlike me, it might be a better idea to just buy them in the market.
2. Use 5, 7 and 9 pieces of the bark to make the Vestments of the Treeslayer outfit.
3. Trick or Treat in the outfit to get the Ax of L'rose.
4. Equip the Ax of L'rose and kill 20 more spooky trees with the axe.
5. Kill the big bad boss tree and collect the Underworld trunk and Underworld acorn

...and then wait what happens on 31st.

Other useful drops from trees include:
* spooky sap - potion
* petrified wood - combat item
* mummy costume - exchange it for chocolate-covered scarab beetle by trick or treating
* wolfman mask - exchange it for Wolfman Nardz by trick or treating
* pumpkinhead mask - exchange it for mulled cider by trick or treating

When trick or treating, do not forget to equip another hat to get the reward each time.

Fighting the trees effectively

It seems like the trees scale to your stats to a certain cap. If you can buff your moxie to more than 200, they will only hit you on critical hits. Similarly, if you can buff your muscle/moxie to more than 200, you'll hit always.

If you are unable to buff your stats high enough, try using the general scaling-monster strategy:
* do NOT wear equipment that increases muscle or moxie
* having the beaten up effect actually helps (but it is impractical to have it on for dozens of adventures) (goofball withdrawal?)
* wear equipment with highest possible power that directly adds to damage/defense -> wear equipment with damage reduction/absorption and +weapon damage/elemental damage
* use spells, deleveling or always-hit skills or combat items if you have trouble hitting targets
* if you must, use an attack familiar like the MAS, but en elemental fairy would be better, because you need the +item drop in this particular case

On the other hand, the standard scaling-monster mechanic might not be actually used. If you find out more, please leave a comment.

Back to ascension stuff

The speed of this run is ruined, so I may as well collect a lucre today. So I did and I spent the few remaining adventures treat or treating with the hats. At least, there is now enough time to collect the second inhaler.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 86
Mysticality: 86
Moxie: 127
Days played this run: 6

Well, the war and NS would be a piece of cake when I get to them. But that will not be tomorrow.

What now?

16 more adventures in the 8-bit realm for the digital key.

Finishing the F'c'le. Weird, just like on my BM run, I cannot equip the pirate fledges yet due to mysticality requirement.

In the ballroom reaching level 10.

The Penultimate airship. Got magilaser blastercannon in first combat - great!

Cloud castle - it took quite long to rotate the wheel.

Hole in the sky (I'll be a hippy and skip the arena this time) - got exactly the needed amount of charts, stars and lines.

Back to the ballroom. Few dance cards. Level 11 reached, to my surprise.

Black forest. Map. Basket->pepper. Nice. Black kettle drum, hm. Some fruitless encounters. Broken wings. Nothing, nothing, nothing... Where is the black snake? I am out of adventures.

Pulverizing time. Giant needles, giant discarded torn-up glove, wolf mask, black knight equipment, extra magilaser blastercannons. 8 wads. 1 hot wad that I saved for later.

Black snake - sunken eyes. Black market. Vacation.

Haunted ballroom 2x. Forgot to read the diary. 2 more tries, no We'll All Be Flat. Out of adventures.

Cooked gnocchetti di Nietzsche and zapped them into spaghetti with Skullheads. Not ideal, but better than nothing.

Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 73
Mysticality: 68
Moxie: 107
Days played this run: 5

Tomorrow, I must not forget to pick up an inhaler on 6th adventure. Well, if I am lucky I might be able to ascend in 2 days. That is also the time needed to grow the flaming mushroom.

Giving goats

As I thought I got the final chrome ore on the first adventure.

The dairy goats were giving up their goods too easily. I got the 6 pieces of cheese (and 3 glasses of milk) in 12 adventures. With the blessing active, I continued adventuring there for 6 more adventures and got 2 pieces of cheese and 1 glass of milk. That just could be enough food ingredients for the rest of the run.

A short visit to the icy peak and haunted bathroom (hoping for the towel, but no luck). Daily dungeon -> Boris's key.

Enormous > sign. Dungeons of doom are found.

Vacation. Barrels - terrible luck, 2 misses, 2 explosions, 1 clover, 1 bloody mary. No even a single suitable cocktail and I need it badly to mix my ACs.

Semi-rare - lunchbox, finally, now I can eat with milk of magnesium.

Haunted ballroom. First no noncombats for ages and then 5x Curtains in a row.

My fifth vacation - got 3 magical ice cubes. Great, although I already have 2 and no matching drinks. I'll have to get the hippy outfit asap.

Pirate cove - got the outfit from non-combats.

Barney's Barrrr - collected 6 insults, gained access to F'c'le.

F'c'le - got shampoo and mop, reached level 9.

Valley beyond the orc chasm - collected bounty.

Hippy camp - got clothes from non-combats. Bought fruits, mixed drinks. 40 adventures left.

Worthless trinket -> clover -> brain -> meat maid.

Dungeons of Doom - got wand and ring of aggravate monster, but not enough potions. Risky.

Pixel farming - 9 white + 5 pastable.

What to zap? Dehydrated caviar. Got ancient spice. Why I am not surprised.

Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 59
Mysticality: 54
Moxie: 76 (9 left to level 10)
Days played this run: 4

There is 40 adventures to next semi-rare. That does not seem to be enough time to reach level 10 and open the castle to get an inhaler. I am unsure what to pick.

I'll finish pixel farming and maybe I'll do a bit more DoD adventuring to get more potion and find out what they do.

It takes so long...

Today was not good. First I spent ages in the Fernswarthy's tower looking for the book, meeting only one brain sweeper and getting nothing from it.

Fished the sewer for clover to get a brain and visited the tavern for lenses. And another trinket for a another brain for the chef.

Then I opened the library. It took ages and I now have lots of billiard balls and hand chalks. The library was quick and the bedroom extremely slow. I had to run away multiple times and I got lots of old purses before the ballroom key. Well, decided to gamble in the ballroom and got the quartet adventure on 2nd try.

And now the cyrpt, with +5 non-combats. I hope I would be quick, but it took ages. I encountered the stat giving non-combats multiple times (the muscle and mysticality ones, of course). I got even got the grateful undead shirt, 2 watches, and lots of useless stuff.

The Bonerdagon. I want its vertebra, but I only have 104 buffed moxie and I need 108. Is it worth a potion? I think I'd rather try to get the goblin king cape first. Or should I try to learn the tango of terror and delevel it?

Harem. Knob goblin guard uniform complete. No lab key though ;-). Few more adventures... I got the harem outfit, but no perfume.

Barrels. One clover -> clovering the harem. Killing the king (I had to use hair spray without the brimstone boxers.) I got the cape.

Now the bonerdagon (with annoying pitchfork wielded by my sombrero). Bem! And I can safely adventure in the ballroom now. 100 substats to level 8 - it is probably worth it to try to get there and obtain the miner outfit and save today's blessing for the goats.

Oh-oh. Went to the ballroom with +15 ML and got beaten up by zombie waltzers. Fortunately, I got pick-pocketed the dance card. One quick vacation and I am back, reaching level 8. Thanks, Rotting Matilda.

Tr4pz0r wants chrome ore - finally. I was not so lucky on my previous runs.

Got the mining gear (2 trousers). Stone of extreme power, 2 pieces of linoleum ore and 2 pieces of chrome ore and 1 asbestos ore. I am out of adventures. Damn, being one ore away from a chrome weapon sucks. At least, most of the +food drops blessing will be usable tomorrow.

Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 46
Mysticality: 40
Moxie: 53
Days played this run: 3

I must visit the dungeons tomorrow, bot the daily one and the DoD. I should also consider getting the hippy outfit. Although I had no big problems making the 3 daily AC drinks (I do not have SHC) and needed no potion, but who knows what awaits me on the battlefield, when I am not able to use the boxers...

Demon hunting

I picked up a knob goblin lunch box right in the beginning. Extra adventures are important today.

A couple of adventures in the kitchen got me knob sausage and dry noodles. Good, today is a muscle day. Now I need to reach level 6 in time.

Boss bat's lair using Harold's bell got me some 9500 meat. Enough to buy a mushroom field and some early skills.

Looking for a key in the misspelled cemetary, but it took a while. I only managed to spent 2 adventures in the cola battlefield and I was level 6. Eating spaghetti with skullheads.

Dark elbow of the woods - reached 30 moxie. Good bye sugar shorts, hello brimstone boxers. The fun starts now and never ends. Well, it'll end on the battlefield, but that is far away.

Cleared the 3 locations, but missing a wussiness potion. I tried to get it for 2 more adventures, but then moved on. There is over 30 adventures ahead. Got the potion - multiple actually.

Terrible luck at the sewer grate continues - worthless knick-knack -> I finally built a meat car, went on my first vacation and got an anti-cheese, strange. Shall I assemble a cottage? I guess so.

3 adventures left. Let's try obtaining the beer lens. No luck. 19 drunkenness.
2 adventures. Tried for dirty hobo gloves and finally got them.

Planted mushrooms to get the flaming one in 6 days. Today would be a good day to start a 10-day black mushroom cycle, but I hopefully would not be around to pick them anyway.

Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 31
Mysticality: 26
Moxie: 36 (4 left to level 7)
Days played this run: 2

Getting liver of steel on day 2 is a big achievement for me. I wonder if I am able to improve my best ascension time. I guess so, playing a moxie class with the boxers should negate the lack of stat days.

As usual, I have many tasks to do. Dispatch the goblin king, collect pixels, open Spookyraven manor, get the epic hat and build the chef, bartender and maid. And the daily dungeon. The sugar shirts make me level up too fast to get it all done on time.

Good bye, kitty

I started by backfarming pixels for ~20 adventures and completed the digital key.

The hedge maze with Hella Smooth and hair spray - 7 adventures.

The tower:
malevolent crop circle - 11 adventures (farming + 1x kitty)
giant fried egg (am I cursed?) - 2 adventures (bad kitty!)
Big Meat Golem - 4 adventures (really bad kitty!)
Pretty Fly - 5 adventures (farming + 1x kitty)
Ice Cube - 3 adventures (hyperactive kitty)
Enraged Cow - 2 adventures (can't it just leave me alone?)

The shadow (time for a prayer):
I bought Anbidexterous funkslinging to be on the safe(r) side. Dressing up, I realized I did the hedge maze with continuum transfunctioner equipped. Not optimal, but still better than doing it with makeshift SCUBA gear.

With equipment and effects...379 buffed HP. Am I overly pessimistic?
1: cat blocked both attempts.
2: the same.
3: 3 filthy poultices and 1 scented massage oil did it.

The familiars (let's pray again):
1: barrrnacle - let's meatpaste the goat and go to the arena.
2: angry goat - good - 5 adventures in the arena did the trick.

Naughty sorceress:
1st try: I did not beat the 2nd form in time.
2nd try: I lost. Without the LEW, I do not have enough moxie to avoid being hit.

Leveling a bit: no damned dance cards
3rd: try - won with 18 HP left

Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Disco bandit
Level: 13
Muscle: 101 (95 without equipment)
Mysticality: 105 (95)
Moxie: 207 (157)

Equipment:
Disco 'Fro Pick
bronze breastplate
happiness
wonderwall shield
leather chaps
tap shoes
Orange Star of Sacrifice
Sneaky Pete's breath spray

Familiar:
Meeew, the Black Cat

Total lenght: 14 days; 1915 adventures; Bad Moon with Black Cat

A bit of farming, finishing bounty, getting towel, blowing up chef and bartender and I am gone, perming Mad Looting Skillz.

"By completing a 100% Black Cat Bad Moon run, you have permanently unlocked the Bad Moon sign for your character."

Wow, it is over!

In my next life, I am going to be...well...a Disco Bandit! Cool.

Uhm, I knew I would forget something - this time I forgot to use the bought Throbbing rage gland to get the skill. Not so cool.

Opening the haunted pantry: 11 adventures
In the spooky forest finding larva: 5 adventures (also got one heart)
Still in the forest: lots of adventures, got some hearts, found the temple and got beaten up by a vampire

I would really need to swap the vampire hearts now.

Guild test #1 - done
Barrels: 1 mimic, 3 drinks, 1 spleen item

Sugar shorts+glittery mascara -> enough MP to summon dry noodles. Time for boring spaghetti. Got lousy 4 adventures, I'll better make another bunch.

6 turn in the sewer - 1 worthless trinket. Bad luck indeed.

Another boring spaghetti.

Built EW.

Turned off the faucet (without going after the baron).

Got bottles of used blood.

Outskirts - 3 adventures -> level 4.

Outskirts - 3 adventures -> encryption key, ring of half-assed regeneration.

Sleazy back alley looking for dirty hobo gloves, nothing of interest.

Pasted barskin tent and rested, summoned magical ice cube -> blended frozen swill.

Bugbear pens to learn which fairy to use this run - flaming fairy it is.

Fun house with fairy - got boxes and clownosity.

Sleazy back alley - 2x spider web, mad train wine, bum cheek.

Guano junction - 3 adventures, 3 sonars.

Sleazy back alley - looking for dirty hobo gloves for the epic hat quest. 5 spider webs, no gloves. Gourd.

Little paper umbrella -> Roll in the hay -> 11 adventures.

Sleazy back alley - more webs, Harrolds bell, no glove.

Lemon meringue pie - 3 advenures (2 spent cooking). Damn. I will not be able to reach the semi-rare today by 2 adventures.

Fun house - the door came on last adventure. Reached level 5. Damn again. I have 12 drunkenness and no adventures left and no suitable booze to drink.

Shagadelic Disco Banjo is mine.

Final stats:
Class: Disco Bandit
Level: 5
Muscle: 13
Mysticality: 14
Moxie: 20
Days played this run: 1

I must pick up the semi-rare on the 2nd adventure tomorrow. And get to level 6 asap and try for the liver of steel. Ambitious plan, but with the brimstone boxers... it might just happen. I should also get meat from the beefy bodyguards via Harrold's bell, buy a mushroom field and start breeding mushrooms.

Reached the lair

20 adventures on the beach got me the missing 4 barrels. I guess it is a gain after all. No demon name though.

I did not want to do the junkyard with the cat, but then I realized I'll probably need the mutagen to defeat the man and changed my mind. The cat was a problem - it caused me getting beaten instead of getting the pliers by blocking my attempts to obtain them multiple times.

I skipped the flyers. I'll rather level up my familiars in the cake-shaped arena (or if everything goes right, I'll just get the lead necklace and use the buffs).

I ran into Brutus on the battlefield and nearly died, but in the end I managed to use my last 2 frozen feathers and got the laurels - it will be handy against the shadow.

The fights became harder and I had to cleesh a naughty sorority nurse and run away from a war sergeant.

Frat boys are all gone, time to get the mutagen - 20 adventures...

Time to bring down the man. With Vug Beeloo help. OK, now I am a decorated war hero, but I need 6 more moxie point to reach level 13. Since I also need the star gear, my way is clear.

Kitty batting star charts is irritating. Anyway, I am done with stars and I still need over 1000 substats. I am still missing lots of pixels, but reaching level 13 is more important now as I want to use today's zap on the DoD keys. To the manor. Dance cards were scarce, but I made it with 3 adventures and 4 fullness left.

The gates: Gate of Morose Morbidity and Moping & Gate of Machismo & Gate of the Ogre - OK.

Keys: zapped the DoD key, but missing the digital one. 13 adventures getting the loaded dice - probably should not have bothered.

Final stats:
Level: 13
Muscle: 93
Mysticality: 93
Moxie: 149
Days played this run: 13

I should be able to ascend tomorrow - if nothing terrible happens. The shadow might pose a problem, but I have enough adventures left. Hopefully.

Hippies marching

I had 10 adventures of Hella Smooth from yesterday, so I spent them in the hole in the sky. Too bad today's bounty is not on astronomers.

Then back to the island. I got the outfit in the hippy camp and after 2 adventures in the frat house, the war started. Nice.

The Organic Orchard. Getting the hatchling scent gland took like 20 adventures with knob goblin eyedrops and mining helm. This is very bad, one would expect better from the Envy and Mad looting skillz. Then I drunk the !potion and got hella smooth buff and used the scent gland. Got the second one in 4 adventures. Good kitty. And the final one in 1 adventure. Very good kitty. Queen fell. I think I was lucky in the end, if the cat batted away the glands... Peach pie time.

Spent remaining hella smooth turns in the sky.

The farm - no surprises.

Themthar hills - not good without leprechaun, but 2 inhalers, 2 nasal sprays, the disco banjo and the Braaaains effect helped. 5 adventures getting Brains + 48 adventures collecting. Ugh.

On the battlefield - 8 adventures to get to the beach. The I called it quits and went bounty-hunting. I dislike the Sonofa beach (of course), but I guess I'll have to try it. Depends on whether the cat bats away the barrels or not.

Bounty collected, drunk white lighnting and spending blindness adventures on the desert - finally got the anticheese.

To adventures on the beach got me 1 barrel and 3 limes and some other useless junk.

I finally got black pepper today. And I might have missed a semi-rare. Though there are still 2 tries as all the numbers fell into the valid range.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 85
Mysticality: 86
Moxie: 137 (11 left to level 13)
Days played this run: 12

There is a chance to ascend tomorrow, but there are too many variables. I would not count one that - the day after tomorrow seems more likely.

Note to self: I MUST TRY THE SEMI-RARE on the 1st adventure tomorrow.

In the cellar

I decided to go to the cellar again and collect the bounty - now I have enough dusty wine bottles to last until the end of the run.

I finished the holy MacGuffin Quest and reached level 12 at the end of the day.

Zapped another dehydrated caviar into another ancient spice. The wand has not been of any significant help this run.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 76
Mysticality: 79
Moxie: 125
Days played this run: 11

Tomorrow, I should start the war, do the orchard before eating, do the bandits and the farm subquests. I am not sure whether to try the sonofa beach - I have 3 reodorants and I need limes to make a sabre-tooth lime. I tried to get anticheese from the desert, but no luck. I am still missing all the other tower familiars - the potato and the barrrnacle. I have not stars and only few pixels. All considered I'll be lucky to ascend in 2 days.

In the desert

The first thing I did was to open the haunted bedroom and clear the cellar. Lord Spookyraven fell on second try.

Then I went to the desert and tried to collect as many thing on the way as possible. I got one fishy fish (and made a casserole), happiness and some minor other things while searching for the pyramid.

After that I decided to do today's bounty - the goats. I still need lots of lucres for olfaction and the goat cheese is good for a goat and pizza.

I also opened the Palindrome and got most of the items.

Today's zap was wasted again - dehydrated caviar turned into ancient spice. No black pepper. Zapping sucks this run.

Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 68
Mysticality: 68
Moxie: 111 (14 needed for level 12)
Days played this run: 10

Advancement was slow today. At least I did some quest parts and collected scented massage oil. I should finish the quest tomorrow and probably level up to level 12 and try to do the orchard. Although I doubt I'll be able to do that all.

Chasing giants

Today's bounty is on raver giants. Finally a good bounty. Though I have to open the castle first.

The penultimate airship was slow, but at least I got most of the needed items, including metallic A. And a magilaser blastercannon - while it does not have a moxie boost, its high power and total +20 damage is better than the long fights with LEW.

The castle is actually a bit tough for me, I had to use hair sprays and tap shoes. Hell food has caused my offstats lagging and I cannot equip pirate fledges yet!

I finally got a lime from a jumbo olive - it was about time.

I spent the rest of the day in the haunted ballroom and had a terrible time with the kitty. It batted out all the dance cards and most flutes of flat champagne - the items I needed most. It left alone all the now useless dehydrated caviar and such.

I am still missing lots of pixels, but I wanted to level up and get the to the peach pies ASAP and to the demon summoning room.

The black forest was extra fast. One black knight, map, panther -> wings, snake -> eyes. Done. One shore trip and I am out of adventures. More tomorrow.

Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 61
Mysticality: 61
Moxie: 104
Days played this run: 9

Chasing goats

Bounty from yesterday + goat cheese. Both finished in approximately same time. Got 7(!) sabre teeth - the cat ignored them and focused on cheese.

The semi-rare was a bit lucky - I went for the knob goblin elite uniform, pick-pocketed the pants and the cat batted away the helm - fortunately I already had one.

Finished the LOL quest.

Zapped one cherry back to a jumbo olive - third day in row no lime. Lemon party slot - 2 jumbo olives, 1 cherry, 1 lemon, 1 big rock instead of lime - I am cursed.

Collecting insults, cleaning the board... but got no barrrnacle - that is bad.

Final stats:
Level: 10
Muscle: 53
Mysticality: 55
Moxie: 89
Days played this run: 8

Tomorrow, I should do the level 10 quest and open the hole in the sky, finally collect pixels, get a lime, a potato sprout and decide what to do about the barrnacle.

WTF?

Adventured with 119 moxie in the haunted ballroom and got beaten up. Twice. No +ML on. What is happening? Was the combat mechanic changed? Waiting for the Beaten up effect to wear off at the lemon party slot - rolled 3 limes twice, but got 2 big rocks instead. This sucks so much. And if that was not enough, I missed my semi-rare. Then I zapped another jumbo olive - into another cherry. Why must all the bad things happen on a moxie day?

Disgusted, I went into the mine, where my bad luck continued. I got 3 mattocks and 2 helmets. At least I had a bit better luck with the ore.

Back to the haunted ballroom. After struggle, I reached level 9. You know what? I also screwed up the strange leaflet magic word.

In the valley, Meeew was hyperactive, batting 334 scrolls away like crazy. Eventually, I was able to make the 31137 scroll and get the stat script.

I spent the few remaining adventures in haunted ballroom.

Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 45
Mysticality: 47
Moxie: 80 (5 left to level 10)
Days played this run: 7

I have a dance car running - I must be in the haunted ballroom on the 2nd adventure tomorrow. Beside that, I should finish the trapper and the LOL quest and get the semi-rare. Preferably before level 10. I should also collect pixels and maybe finally build the chef.

Almost there

I almost collected the bounty today in the dungeons of doom. I'll need to spend a little more time in there tomorrow.

My little darling, the black cat, weights now full 20 pounds.

I killed the bonerdagon and the goblin king, opened the gallery and the ballroom and collected the pirate outfit.

Zapped a jumbo olive, but got a cherry. I'll try again tomorrow.

Tr4pz0r wants asbestos ore. Out of my 7 runs, he only requested chrome ore once - he must be doing this on purpose.

Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 38
Mysticality: 39
Moxie: 58 (10 needed to level 9)
Days played this run: 6

Tomorrows priority is getting to level 9 and doing the quest to get bonuses on muscle day. I'll probably visit the ballroom and neglect the tr4pz0r quest.

Sidequests

My play was kind of chaotic today. I did one daily dungeon trip and got the breath spray, did the 3 missing shore trips and built a boat. I also got my epic hat.

I also went bounty-hunting hippies and collected their outfit.

Regarding quest, not much was done. The cyrpt is untouched except my short trip to get smart skull and bones. I am still missing a harem veil. I opened the haunted library, but not luck there so far.

I ate one lime pie (from the lemon party slot), one lihc eye pie, sausage pizza, knob pasty, fortune cookie and hot wing. Drinks were a bit easier due to the access to the hippy store.

I bought Envy and I am still low on meat.

Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 27
Mysticality: 30
Moxie: 44
Days played this run: 5

I am slipping behind due to the problematic access to good food. Tomorrow and the day after are moxie days. My goal would be to use the chest of the bonerdagon, the stat script and the leaflet during those days. If I somehow managed to get to level 10 in 2 days, I'll be happy.

Food, food, food!!!

Food is a problem. I spent lots of adventures in the kitchen and cooked 3 sausage pizzas. And then I ate 2 brimstone sandwiches. Eeeek.

Drinks are another story, although I was unable to match one of the garnishes.

I did 2 trips on the beach and got 2 tower items. Other than that, I was working on the friar quest and managed to get it done and also got the steel margarita. I also got the manual of dexterity right on time to get the max bonus on a moxie day.

Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 20
Mysticality: 25
Moxie: 38 (2 left to level 7)
Days played this run: 4

Thanks to a good advice I got on the forums, I managed to get the bugbear outfit and I should be able to eat at pies from now on.

Starving

It is so easy to get used to Pastamastery. And now I am back to square one and need to find other ways to get meat. I decided not to eat more evil food today, but what I was able to obtain was not much better - 2 fortune cookies, hot wing, ancient ketchup and frozen dinner, mushroom pizza, and kabob.

Drinks were a little better, but I had to farm a while in the treasury to get the 5000 meat.

I managed to get the legendary epic weapon, build a meat car, slain the boss bat, open the manor and the tower. Nothing spectacular, there are still many unfinished tasks. I am not sure if I should get the steel margarita tomorrow, but probably yes.

Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 15
Mysticality: 21
Moxie: 32
Days played this run: 3

Being a moxie class after a while surely makes things more easy, but I feel I am slipping behind in the number of completed tasks.

Clueless

Ate more brimstone sandwiches today. Got beaten up several times, also when trying to finish the boss bat quest and it was the kitty fault - it took 5 turns to use a combat item.

The biggest problem was meat. I was not able to get 5000 meat for Advanced Cocktailcrafting. That will be the #1 priority tomorrow.

I managed to open Cobb's knob, build the epic weapon, and get clown pants and red nose.

Final stats:
Level: 5
Muscle: 5
Mysticality: 12
Moxie: 25 (4 left to level 6)
Days played this run: 2

The first thing tomorrow is eating a fortune cookie, I am at 162 adventures now and missing the semi-rare would cost me a lot in BM.

Turtle sprint

Nothing else to do but fight on the battlefield. I was using blood of wereseal, because healing is expensive for me and I do not want to waste spleen capacity. I met the C.A.R.N.I.V.O.R.E. Operative and got the button, but it is not the most useful thing from the HC run perspective.

Being a bit paranoid, I made and used both serum of sarcasm and philter of phorce. The Big Wisniewski fell in 6 combat rounds. War is over.

Into the tower.

Farming handsomeness potion - 17 adventures
Skeleton key & Dice - 22 tries
Farming accordion in spooky forest - 1 adventure
Hedge maze - 6 adventures

Bronze Chef - 6 adventures
Fancy Bath Slug - 10 adventures
Giant Desktop Globe - 1 adventure
Flaming Samurai - 6 adventures
Giant Fried Egg - 2 adventures (lucky zap; 2nd today)
Giant Bee - 5 adventures

The rest was easy, I let the sorceress beat me 3 times and then used 3 gauze gartners and that was it. The sugar shield broke down after defeating the first form.

Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Turtle tamer
Level: 13
Muscle: 217 (154 without equipment)
Mysticality: 149 (104)
Moxie: 174 (107)

Equipment:
nasty rat mask
tuxedo shirt
black sword
painted shield
sugar shorts
Bonerdagon necklace
pirate fledges
Nickel Gamma of Frugality

Familiar:
Kruger, the Misshapen Animal Skeleton

Total lenght: 10 days; 1551 adventures; clover-less run

The rest of the day consisted of finishing the knoll quest and collecting the reward, finishing the bounty hunt and a bit of farming.

The permed skill will be Amphibian Sympathy. I considered Armorcraftiness, but finally the Sympathy won, because it is always on.

My next life will be troubled... I am ascending as Disco Bandit with the Bad Moon sign and a black cat familiar awaits.

31 turn in the noob cave and I have my kitty. Then doing the mosquito quest and eating sandwiches, joining the guild and eating more sandwiches, making more meat and eating even more sandwiches. I managed to do the tavern quest as well and get my beer lens. In the back sleazy alley a got the BM buff and collected 4 pixels (and had to sell one later). I bought the Pride skill.

Final stats:
Class: Disco Bandit
Level: 4
Muscle: 2
Mysticality: 8
Moxie: 14
Days played this damned run: 1

Well, the stats are pretty uneven, I am not sure if I should eat more evil food tomorrow. The goal would be to get to level 5 and get Advanced Cocktailcrafting and hence more turns. I still have 2 tavern swills left.

Optimizing a bit

I tried to play as optimally as I could, but I suppose I am still far away from fast. Anyway, I managed to finish level 10 and 11 quests and the island war should end in 50 adventures. I took the frat-boy side this time.

I tried to obtain black pepper from dehydrated caviar, but no luck.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 145 (3 needed to level 13)
Mysticality: 96
Moxie: 97
Days played this run: 9

I'll reach level 13 on the battlefield, no problem with that. But I am afraid how many turns the gates and tower items would take me. Without clovers, without a single adventure spent south of the border, without an accordion and with lots of tower items missing, all would depend on luck tomorrow.

The other thing is whether I'll be able to defeat the sorceress. Currently, I have 203 muscle and 156 moxie with equipment. The war medal would add a bit of muscle and I am considering making a nasty rat mask. I can take my fresh misshapen animal skeleton and give it a sugar shield to be my spiky companion in the fight. I believe, if I am able to make it to the sorceress, I will be able to win as well.

Muscle leap

With brother Corsican's blessing from yesterday, I headed to the haunted gallery with leprechaun and sombrero. The relative muscle gains in Louvre were great at my level on a muscle day.

Too bad, today's bounty is on astronomers. Since there were 3 locked doors in the daily dungeon, I went there and got the breath spray and zapped it.

When the blessing run out, I headed to the penultimate air ship and eventually to the castle in the sky to do the level 10 quest. Level 11 came sooner than the quest end though.

Then I did various parts of the level 11 quest that seem to be most effective at the moment. The cellar was not too hard with this optimizer. The desert was troublesome, because the non-combats did not want to come, but at least I got the General Sage's Lonely Diamonds Club Jacket. On the other had, I had to fight 6 blurs to get a drum machine.

In the end I managed to open the summoning chamber, find the hidden city, find the pyramid and meet Mr. Alarm (but I do not have stunt nuts...).

Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 116 (9 missing to level 12)
Mysticality: 80
Moxie: 78
Days played this run: 8

With one more muscle day and 90 saved adventures, I should be able to reach level 13 in time, maybe even tomorrow. But if I'll be able to do the quests and defeat the sorceress the day after remains a question.

What needs to be done:
* castle in the sky to finish level 10 quest (can use flyers?) ~25 adventures
* farm start equipment ~30 adventures (can use flyers?)
* hidden city ~30 adventures
* pyramid ~50 adventures (can use flyers?)
* battlefield+side quests ~220 adventures
* lair ~50 adventures (no clovering)
* leveling up to level 12
* backfarming... ? adventures
= at lest 405 adventures

I expect to have about 470 adventures in the following 2 days, that is not much maneuvering space.

Preparing for muscle days

Today, I finally(!) collected the lunchbox. Tomorrow is the first muscle stat day and I have 3 days left to finish this run.

Today, I concentrated on finishing what was left undone. The LOL quest is done, the digital key and 4 red pixel potions sit in my inventory, the quartet is increasing non-combats, Poop deck is accessible and enchanted been was planted.

I learned the Shieldbutt skill.

I zapped Boris's ring into a key, but I skipped the daily dungeon today, because there was only 1 locked door.

I have tamed 2 turtles and now I have a Syncopated turtle and a hedgeturtle I'll probably turn into a shield.

Final stats:
Level: 10
Muscle: 87 (17 left to level 11)
Mysticality: 66
Moxie: 64
Days played this run: 7

I believe I am well prepared for tomorrow, I have one milk of magnesium, 2 spaghetti with skullheads, knob pasty, 2 pink ponies, 3 coconut shells and spare sugar sheets.

After finishing the level 10 quest, I would have to level up as fast as possible, 60 more muscle points are needed for level 13.

Slowing down, oh no

42 adventures getting the wand. Dungeons of doom were discovered quickly, but the shop did not want to appear.

Then the pirate cove and valley beyond the Orc chasm. No big luck there, I build the 31337 scroll, but not the quest one.

I took the time and finally finished a very old bounty.

Since I only have 2 milks of magnesium, I decided to be more economical, prepared food for tomorrow and stopped adventuring after eating.

Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 78
Mysticality: 59
Moxie: 55
Days played this run: 6

Things start to look grim, my goal is to ascend in 4 days, but I doubt I'll make it.