OK, let's see what from the yesterday's plan can I accomplish today:
Clearing the rest of buried pyramid: 30 adventures.
Farming in the hole in sky: 36 adventures.
Farming for goat milk while having +item drop effect I used in the sky: 2 adventures (and got one!)
I decided not to do the sonofa beach quest. This will prolong my fighting on the battlefield by ~25 turns, but it is likely that adventuring on the beach would take more. The beach is a great place for people with skills and pompadour puppy, but sucks for newbies like me.
On the battlefield reaching the junkyard: 16 adventures
I am now level 13.
Retrieving the tools: 10 adventures
I started using the NS familiars to level them to 5 pounds. I only have the irradiated pet snacks and I will be able to get a buff from the arena, but I have no other items - no lead necklace, no bar skin, no whistle from the dungeons of doom and no elite goblin uniform.
Collecting semi-rare item: 1 adventure (distilled fortified wine, since I already ate what I could and I need adventures badly)
On the battlefield reaching the arena: 18 adventures (delayed by a clod hopper) (got Elmley shades, sweet!)
Looking for the guy made of bees in the bathroom to invite him to the concert: 23 adventures
Clearing the battlefield: 17 adventures
Killing The Man: 1 adventure (with philter of phorce and serum of sarcasm to be on the safe side, 8 thrust smacks got rid of him)
2 of my NS familiars have now 5 pound and 3 on have 4. My biggest problem now is the digital key, and I also have not identified the ! potions. If I get teleported or drunk, I'll be in trouble.
I have 2 adventures and 11 drunkenness left.
Looking at the gates, I am sure I will not make it today. 2 items I do not have and the 3rd needs teleportitis.
I spend 2 adventures in the sewer exchanging clovers for trinkets and then buying ancient seal figurines to use the potioned adventures in a partially useful way. No items dropped from the heat seals.
Into the black forest for Black No.2: 3 adventures (lucky!)
Heading south for a jabanero chewing-gum (used clover after 7 adventures): 8 adventures
Now I'll need another clover for the skeleton.
Spent 6 turns in the barrel and 4 fishing in the sewer: 10 adventures (teleportitis is gone now)
Found just one worthless item and traded it for clover.
19 adventures left and I need 27 white pixels - there is no real chance to collect them with my skills so I headed bounty hunting. Collected the bounty (mechamechs are easy to find with +20 ML).
I got no floaty sand today despite running into multiple clod hoppers. Mall price is 7000 meat. Lobsters cost 23000/35000. Crystallized memory is at 430000.
Final stats:
Level: 13
Muscle: 154 (19 more needed for level 14)
Mysticality: 109
Moxie: 120
Days played this run: 12
If I only had the pixels... Never mind, I will climb the tower tomorrow. That is if I do not run into the giant egg, like the last time.
Picked and planted new mushrooms - I am planting 12 knoll spores and 4 knob spores per day and selling them for about 8000 meat (760 cost the spores). It seems the most profitable strategy.
Time race - lost
Paying the debts
Today, I had to finish lots of older quests. The holy MacGuffin quest is almost complete, I am in the pyramid and I got the token.
The bandits in the hills are delat with and I have been adventuring on the battlefield, clearing the path to the Sonofa Beach. But I cannot continue, because I have the +5% noncombat modifier running in the haunted ballroom. That needs to be turned off before I adventure on the beach. But because it is so beneficial, I need to prepare the guy made of bees and clear the pyramid first. I am not sure, whether it is worth it to invest into building a monster bait. Since I only have few pixels and no digital key, the answer is probably no.
Floaty sand costs 8000 meat and lobsters 30000/40000 meat. Crystallized memory has fallen to 320000.
Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 140 (8 left to level 13)
Mysticality: 99
Moxie: 112
Days played this run: 11
Reaching level 13 tomorrow will be easy, but there is only a very slim chance of defeating the sorceress. Considering the fact that I have no stars yet and only few pixels. Let's see:
* ~30 adventures - finishing the holy MacGuffin quest.
* ~40 adventures - saying guy made of bees.
* ~30 adventures - farming stars and lines.
* ~50 adventures - on the sonofa beach.
* ~30 adventures - in the junkyard.
* ~25 adventures - on the battlefield.
* ~30 adventures - in the lair.
* ~40 adventures - farming pixels for the digital key.
That is a total of 275 adventures. I could probably save adventures by skipping the sonofa beach, but I have to do the arena due to familiar weight buff. That means I'll be some 100 adventures short. Only extreme luck could help me here. And even in that case I may not defeat the sorceress.
Quests lagging
At the start of the day, I have summoned one more seal,but only got a second sizzling seal fat.
Then I picked my black mushrooms and created the spooky fairy. Obtaining the small glove took ages - 40 adventures or so. Felonia fell and I got the rewards. Not sure if it was worth it.
I had to trade 3 of the mushrooms and make mushroom wine. Lots of potential meat is lost.
Another 15 adventures looking for a goat milk. I should not have done that. I ate some stir fries, goblin pasties and apricots.
After that I managed to get the war started, cleaned the orchard and the farm to gain access to easily obtainable food. Though my chef exploded after cooking the wet stunt nut stew. And yes, this means I have dealt with Dr. Awkward.
I made enough meat to buy Double-fisted skull smashing and wielding the Hammer of smiting in the offhand helps with my muscle and damage dealt to monsters.
Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 130 (18 left to level 13)
Mysticality: 91
Moxie: 104
Days played this run: 10
The progress was poor, mainly due to the Felonia quest, where I wasted 40 adventures. Now I really have lots of spooky mushrooms.
Tomorrow, I should finish the holy MacGuffin quest, collect enough stars and another inhaler for the bandits quest. I want to start on the battlefield right after that.
Since I do not have the elite knob goblin uniform, I'll probably spend 10 turns in the arena and train my leprechaun and get a lead necklace. Thinking about that, I should be doing that on the first day, until I have a permed familiar buffing skill or even two.
Meat hunt
A moxie day on a festival of Jarlsberg is a great combination. With the cool club - the Frozen seal spine - that regenerates HP and MP, I should be able to adventure almost anywhere. My biggest problem is meat - I do not have enough to buy Tongue of the Walrus, Eye of the Stout and Lunging Thrust-Smack. I must make money quickly.
The day did not start good, an ancient seal beat me, because I left too much +ML equipment on. Damn.
Because I was out of milk of magnesium I went after the goats and I got milk from the very first one. Nice.
Adventuring in the Penultimate fantasy airship and then in the Castle in the sky (with hair spray and ben-gal balm), I discovered my new arch enemy - the Procrastination giant. After reaching level 11, I continued in the castle with leprechaun to make money for Tongue of the Walrus, the black market and to collect discarded pacifiers for bounty hunter.
Time to eat - clovering into the hippy camp in disguise fortunately provided 2 limes. So it's two lime pies and two rat appendix stir-fries and a fortune cookie today. I'll be collecting Mick's IcyVapoHotness Inhaler for the island war quest.
I also managed to find the black market and open the summoning chamber in the cellar. Dusty bottle of Port is the right one for me this ascension.
When the time came, I forged my frigid-ass club and called the infernal seals. With the club, I do not need to use potions anymore. I hoped to get the Abyssal ember, but got the sizzling seal fat. Better than nothing, will try again tomorrow.
Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 116 (9 missing to level 12)
Mysticality: 79
Moxie: 94
Days played this run: 9
Floaty sand is at 8500 meat, lobsters at 25000/41000.
The progress today was not great, but since this was a moxie day, I focused on moxie and I actually got more moxie than muscle points. Adventuring was much easier with the frozen seal spine's regeneration abilities, especially on festival of Jarlsberg. Healing was 7 MP and thrust-smack just 1 MP. No problems with HP anymore.
Tomorrow, I will pick my black mushrooms and make myself a spooky gravy fairy familiar. I must finish the major Zapruder quest and get the mushroom fermenting solution asap. I should hurry and finish the holy MacGuffin quest before reaching level 12.
Crys-rock finally falls (5th try)
After a few adventures hunting spooky fairies my first encounter with crys-rock occurred. Without equipment that boosts my muscle and moxie, I did not hit him at all. Another defeat. Looks like I really need the 2-handed club or grenades. Maybe Eye of the stoat would have helped, but I did not have the meat. Or a spell. I like throwing spells. Why didn't I permed a spell? A handy cannelloni cannon perhaps? I should do a few runs with Pastamancer, my favorite class anyway.
When the time to eat got near I spent 14 adventures at the lemon party slot and only got one lime. I guess I was lucky 3 days ago. I zapped a spare cherry and got a jumbo olive. Hmmm. Then I decided to give up my remaining spices and herbs and cooked 2 rat appendix stir fries. Using my last milk of magnesium, I ate what I could and finished with two goblin pasties from yesterday, getting myself beaten up :-). Never mind that.
How I beat Crys-rock
Time to try crys-rock while being beaten up. That should make my gear relatively more effective, because the scaling monster will be weaker. I was wearing similar equipment as previously (safari hat, pitchfork, flaming talons, snowboarder pants, eXtreme mittens, infernal insoles and acid-squirting flower). After using deleveling items from the F'c'le and from the Haunted bathroom (2 handfuls of sawdust and gob of wet hair), a single thrust-smack brought it down. That was too easy. And yes, the sleazy fairy helped a bit too.
Then I was adventuring in the haunted bathroom (said guy made of bees twice), haunted gallery (louvreing and collecting hoofs) and F'c'le (cleaned it).
In the end of the day I collected distilled fortified wine, because I am still low on booze. And then I finished the currently available Nemesis quest and got the Epic hat.
Final stats:
Level: 10
Muscle: 100 (4 left to level 11)
Mysticality: 69
Moxie: 76
Days played this run: 8
The mushroom field is a nice little money machine. Knob an Knoll mushrooms sell for about 500 meat. Too bad all the money ends in Hagnk's. The initial investment of 5000 would pay itself off in one day. My black mushrooms and the spooky gravy fairy will be ready in 2 days.
Tomorrow is the second moxie day and I shall focus on obtaining enough booze by either gaining access to the manor wine cellar or by finishing the spooky fairy quest.
Floaty sand cost around 7000 meat, lobsters are around 40000/57000.
Infernal seal clubbing
When there were no more adventures left, I decided to do some seal-clubbing again. I had to club 2 armored seals to get my seal iron. Well, at least I got something for all the meat, tomato and reagent - I suppose, it will be handy against the sorceress.
Two more ancient seals provided the powdered sealbones. And to seal the day I clubbed one navy seal. Unlike yesterday, fortune smiled on me and I got both the frost-rimmed seal hide and the frozen seal spine. This should make my clubbing much easier. The fight was actually quite tough as the seal was hitting me for 50 points each round. With these cold goodies, I shall freeze some frat boys' asses on the battlefield with ease.
With one imbued candle left, I will use a charred seal figurine tomorrow.
Enter the Crys-Rock
A new rock monster appeared today. A big one. I have encountered it right in the beginning of the day and it did beat me. I was only able to hit it once. Nevermind.
Spoiler: I have managed to beat crys-rock the day after. Today I just found a couple of ways how not to do it.
I went for the barrels beaten up with 1 hp and it was horrible. Two explosions and 2 mimics in the booze square -> no booze for me. I spent there a total of 12 turns and collected few bottles and encountered couple more explosions. I am never going to adventure at the barrels with 1hp anymore.
I was looking for the white citadel for a couple of adventures, but no progress and once I reached level 9 I did the leaflet quest and found the trophy on the fireplace - another letdown.
I got the zapping wand and tried to zap the parrot into pants, but got an eyepatch. What else. In the cove, I got the swashbuckling pants and bought the dictionary. Adventuring in the chasm with a hair spray and a +mox weapon, using the dictionary was not hard. Eventually, I encountered another crys-rock and better ran away. The scrolls eventually came and the quest was over.
After that I went to Barrrney's and was using the insult book on pirates. The non-combat adventures there were giving nice stat boosts and since I did not have any good booze, I drank at the bar. Eventually, I played the beer pong and got access to F'c'le.
After a couple more adventures at the bar, I decided to kick some butts. Some seals' and crys-rock butts. Seal clubbing time!
With 4 reagent potions I got muscle to 230 and moxie to 205 (hitpoints to 350+), bought load of candles and seal figurines (2 ancient, 1 armored) and commenced seal clubbing. The hermetic seals were easy and left 2 powdered seal bones. Then I smashed the armored seal, but the seal-iron did not drop. Damned infernal seals! 1500 meat lost in one second. Continued with 2 navy seals, and again, I got nothing, even with a fairy familiar. Such a waste!
While buffed I went after the crys-rock. And got beaten up. I managed to land a few hits (thrust-smack), but not enough. It was hitting me repeatedly for 40 HP and that was it. Not good at all. Evidently, this monster is scaling to buffed stats and I have no chance to beat it this way. Next time (if it appears tomorrow), I should probably concentrate on equipment that does not boost stats, but HP and weapon damage directly and raw power. I bought the Thrust-smack skill before my butt-kicking show today and I should definitely get a two-handed club for the crys-rock fight tomorrow.
By the end of the day, I collected a knob-goblin lunch box and farmed a viking helmet, hill of beans, but no clown skin for the Nemesis quest.
My mushroom field is full with spores and I expect to get my flaming mushroom and familiar tomorrow.
Floaty sand prices have fallen under 7000 for a while and rock lobsters have risen to 50000/70000 meat. This is due to the crys-rock drops, I presume. Prices should go up again, once it is clear if the crys-rock is a one time event (or one per day?). Sand has already begun to rise to yesterdays levels - it should, because there are now more sand-consuming craftable items.
Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 81
Mysticality: 60
Moxie: 60
Days played this run: 7
Tomorrow, I should start adventuring in the haunted gallery and also crush the crys-rock. I should probably try again to get the seal-iron and hence the 2-handed club before that fight, but it is costly and I am low on meat. I'll probably first try a non-traditional equipment and eventually call the infernal seals later.
Goats and barrels
Today is 4th day of my mushroom planting cycle and I have picked two warm mushrooms (and some extra 1st generation mushrooms I'll sell in the mall).
Barrel was a nightmare - 2 explosions + 1 mimic (who accidentally killed me) in the advanced booze square. 2 more explosions elsewhere and the normal booze was right under the advanced booze. Strange.
9 turns at the lemon party slot got me the 2 missing limes, one cherry, orange and lemon.
I ventured into the mine and got the mining uniform without big problems. On the slope I collected 3 glasses of goat milk with the 6 pieces of goat cheese. I was too lazy to look for cold resistance and headed back to the cyrpt.
Fights were smooth, except for the defiled nook, the giant skeleton was hiding somewhere and now I really have lots of skeleton bones and smart skulls. The Bonerdagon was easy with serum of sarcasm, hair spray and Ben-gal balm and I collected its vertebra.
While under the effect of the serum, I headed into the haunted ballroom hoping to encounter the Strung-up quartet adventure and so I did on my first step there and reduced the combat frequency. 3 adventures with serum left. Too bad I did not unlock the haunted gallery, I would have tried my luck there.
Later, looking at my stats, I realized, I would only be able to make it to level 9 today if I spent the next 40 turns under the effect of superhuman sarcasm bashing tough monsters or gambling in the haunted bedroom. I am not in such a hurry and decided not to spend that many reagents and meat.
Back to the extreme slope. In like 5 adventures, I collect the 2 missing pieces of the extreme cold weather gear and finish the trapper quest. Unexpected.
Adventuring at the pirate cove got me eyepatch and two parrots. That reminded me I need the wand. At the end of the day I have discovered the secrets of the dungeons of doom.
Finally, I bought a sturdy sword hilt and a tenderizing hammer and made myself a chrome sword and a hippo whip for effective back-farming (I can adventure at +45ML).
Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 66 (2 left to level 9)
Mysticality: 48
Moxie: 46 (68 with equipment)
Days played this run: 6
Floating sand float around 11000 meat, lobsters are 22000/30000. I wonder when the supply stops.
Tomorrow, I should obtain the wand and zap the extra shoulder parrot I have. I must not forget to remove two frozen mushroom sprouts and replace them with spooky ones. Getting to level 9 should be easy and I do not expect problems finishing the quest. After meeting the hacker, the priority should be stats. I should also think about pixels.
Too much myst
Haunted library took just 1 adventure and now I can access the second floor of the manor. Though I would have to wait a bit to adventure there without a potion.
The daily dungeon provided Boris's key and a lengthy stay at the lemon slot machine got me limes (18 turns->4 limes) and some jumbo olives.
I managed to do the Friar quest and get the steel margarita with only a couple of adventures left. This was today's priority and the invested adventures shall pay themselves off in two days.
Then I decided to gamble a bit and adventured in the haunted bedroom. I got beaten up twice, but managed to get both the ballroom key and the wolf standard. I have yet to open the haunted gallery, but I am half way there (read the book).
Got one clover from the barrels, but I could not match the drinks with the accessories, so I decided to also farm the middle row. That proved a good move.
All three familiars (fairy, leprechaun, sombrero) have reached 11 pounds.
Although fighting two rock snakes and one homunculus, I got no floaty sand today (9500 at mall). Lobsters stay at 24000/30000.
Prices of the maple sap are rising, there are now 30+100 cheaper. I wonder whether the price rises to the target 120000 before next arrrbor day.
No one wants to buy my last banana smoothie. I need the sale to get my investment back.
I finally bought my Seal Clubber first skill - Superadvanced meat smiting today. I will need it for the Nemesis quest and to make chrome weapon - trapper wants asbestos ore.
Second generation mushroom spores are in place. I threw in 2 more knob mushroom spores, because I ate those mushrooms on pizza two days ago.
Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 53 (15 more needed for level 9)
Mysticality: 37 (only +7 despite being a mysticality day)
Moxie: 34
Days played this run: 5
I was surprised I actually got to level 8 some 3 adventures before the end of the day. Tomorrow's goal is obtaining goat's milk and make milk of magnesium before eating (I have one spare lime pie) and making a chrome weapon. If I somehow managed to get to level 9 and do the leaflet quest, things would look better. Who would refuse a tasty grue omelette? Though maybe the cyrpt quest should be completed first. The reward is worth it.
Lack of stat gain areas
The progress in stats was slow today. The yuletide distracted me, though I only spent 2 adventures there. Maybe I should have invested more and use the marshmallows tomorrow to adventure in hard areas.
I decided to unlock the Spookyraven Manor and adventured in the billiard rooms really long until I got the library key. Bad RNG!
I was not strong enough for the haunted library and so I have built myself a bartender in a box, visited the harem and then went to find the white citadel. I did not find it, but I got the hippy outfit and invested 600 meat + worthless trinket + 15 turns to build a boat.
Fruits from the hippy store allowed me to make lots of fruity drinks, tomato juice of powerful power and a serum of sarcasm. Goblin king did not even touch me and I collected his cape. I did not want the crown, because the Seal Clubber's Epic Hat is better anyway. And without Entangling noodles and some initiative booster, I still rely on moxie. Since I reached level 7, I spend the 4 remaining turns in the Cyrpt.
With the acquired equipment and a hair spray, I was able to survive in the haunted library, but did not encounter the bookshelf to unlock the second floor of the manor.
While in the library, my mysticality finally reached 30 and I was able to equip the stainless steel scarf for a +20 ML boost (35 total) and went into the spooky forest to find the hidden temple. But no luck.
At least I collected 2 Goblin T-shirts today and can boost my muscle or moxie as needed.
I did not encounter any rock monsters. Probably because I did not spend enough adventures in one place. Floaty sand price is 10500 and lobsters fell to 25000/30000 meat. Oh, well.
I collected a couple of spare mushrooms from my field and made some pizzas to eat.
Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 42
Mysticality: 30
Moxie: 28
Days played this run: 4
11 muscle (~1000 substats) is needed for level 8. I doubt I'll be able to reach it tomorrow. The priority would be to finish the friars quest and get the steel margarita. I should also acquire the epic hat. Hitting the daily dungeon would be a good thing too.
Cola wars are good
Things are getting better. After all the trouble yesterday, situation has improved.
In the start of the day, I picked the Knob Goblin lunchbox. That really helped because food and booze are still scarce. After that I finished the meatcar and got Fernswarthy key and his book. I managed to pick a brain during the quest and a smart skull came quickly. Turning the meatcar into a maid was a matter of 160 meat (115 returned to me for selling the spare parts).
Visit to the cola wars battlefield allowed me to gain stats quickly and I also picked up a shield. The whole uniform actually - it is handy as it regenerates 3 MP (that's 3*17 saved meat) per adventure and allows me to summon ingredients and such. It would probably be a good idea to go to the cola battlefield earlier in future runs.
Then I went to the fun house. I got plenty of boxes and since I also had multiple chef's hats from yesterday, I decided to go after another skull and brain. They came in a couple of turns and a chef in the box is now sitting in my campground, already saving me 4 adventures today. A single visit to the tavern got me beer lens. Unexpected, but I would do the chef first anyway.
Few more adventures at the Fun house got me the required items, but the sleeping door did not want to come and so I headed to the bat hole. I was switching between a fairy and a leprechaun today and the leprechaun was at level 9 when I started to adventure in the boss bat lair. I encountered like 5 bodyguards before the boss bat. Using the bell got me another 19 beefy bodyguards. I made about 8500 meat from them. It could be a bit more if I had some familiar weight boosting skills permed.
With 1 adventure left, I got back to the fun house, smashed Beelzebozo, and built the Hammer of Smiting.
Earlier today, I got the annoying pitchfork from the fairy in the bugbear pens and the mayor tasked me to breed the flaming mushroom - exactly the one I wanted. The meat made today allows me to buy the mushroom field. This is really fortunate, because today is the right day to start breeding black mushrooms.
Another fortunate event was getting 2 handfuls of floaty sands from the 2 rock snakes I encountered. This gives me the the needed 125 handfuls (with the 123 stored at Hagnk's). Mall price is 11500, lobsters dropped to 29000/35000.
At the end of the day, I had ~7500 meat. Still not enough to start buying the needed skills, since I will soon need 2500 to build a boat.
The day would be perfect if I also found I shirt to make use of the Torso awaregness skill.
Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 34
Mysticality: 23
Moxie: 22
Days played this run: 3
Slow progress
Things were really slow today, despite the muscle day. I am really missing pastamastery. Obtaining food was nearly impossible. I only managed to cook a single knob sausage pizza. In the end I forgot I do not have liver of steel and got myself drunk.
I managed to collect a bounty, the artist's tools and finish 2 quests. I tried to fight the baron, but without grenades, he beat me twice and I gave up and turned off the faucet.
The single rock snake I run into today did not leave anything behind. Mall prices are around 12000, lobsters cost 40000/45000.
Final stats:
Level: 5
Muscle: 21
Mysticality: 11
Moxie: 12
Days played: 2
I adventured with a leprechaun as a familiar to train it a bit for the beefy bodyguards. Familiar buffing skills would be really handy.
100+48 lumps of Saccharine Maple sap cheaper than my one are still in the mall.
Up I go
I have almost all the floaty sand I need (123) and getting the other 2 should not be a problem. The prices were fluctuating around 11000 meat and sometimes even lower. I bought some.
I also bought one wok lobster and one more live lobster to have something to sell later. I guess the prices should go up when the rock monsters are gone.
I grew tired of aftercore play and decided to ascend. I actually reached level 16 with stats of 165/229/186. The skill I permed was of course Advanced Saucecrafting.
Today is a muscle day and because I need the Pulverize skill to make a rock lobster, I chose the Seal Clubber class. I was not sure whether to choose a Muscle or Mysticality sign, but finally decided for Muscle, because I expect to do a lot of crafting.
While adventuring with Sleazy Gravy Fairy, I managed to get 5 chef's hats, create one gourd potion and collect half of a bounty. I found a ten leaf clover in a barrel and got the Knob goblin uberpants. With 7+4 mysticality, I can summon reagents and cocktailcrafting ingredients and so I did.
Selling 3 baconstones allowed me to buy an oven and ingredients for 2 lemon pies.
Final stats:
Class: Seal Clubber
Level: 4
Muscle: 13
Mysticality: 7
Moxie: 8
Days played this run: 1
Nemesis starts
Floaty sand prices were about 15000 meat and lobsters were at 48000/55555 meat. More farming.
The Nemesis quest got an update and it is not possible to adventure in a new location (for me at least).
Final stats: 15-156/220/177
Feasting
Today was the Feast of Boris. Too bad I had to hunt rock monsters - this would have been a gerat day to ascend as a muscle class. I kind of lost track how many floaty sand I got today, because I also bought some. Anyway, floaty sand mall price is 15500 and lobsters are at 55555/60000.
Still 43 bones to go.
Good luck wave
The investment in bounty hunting helmet and the buffs seems to work. Or more likely, it was a pure luck that I got 11 handfuls of floaty sand today. Mall price is 17500 meat. Lobsters keep fluctuating, currently they are at 55000/73000 meat.
Someone finally bought my sandcastle. Cool. Time to build another one. There are now 51+100 lumps of Saccharine Maple sap cheaper than the my one.
54 dusty animal bones are still needed, including the pelvis and a couple of higher-priced bones. I wonder whether the drop rate for some bones is lower.
Final stats: 15/147/208/167
Mystical
Today was a mysticality day and I decided to level a bit. Reaching level 15 was not hard and I can now summon 5 reagents per day and make better potions. I lost my semi-rare, because I foolishly attempted to get the same one as yesterday. Getting filthy lucre was easy and profitable on the penultimate airship.
I decided to buy the bounty-hunter helmet, asked the buff-bot for a favor, used the arena item-drop buff, knob-goblin eyedrops and pet-buffers and also the cyclops eye-drops (once) and some potions to get as much floaty sand as possible for me. And I was lucky and got a total of 10 handfuls today. If only the good fortune lasted. I am missing being a Disco Bandit with moxie moon sign. Those easily attainable +50% would be handy.
I am still missing 60 bones for my Misshapen animal skeleton. I bought one bone, but when I saw the price of the dusty animal pelvis, I decided to farm at the conservatory for one more day.
Final stats: 15/142/202/162
Lobster prices are at 58000/61500 meat and floaty sand has dropped to 15000 meat.
There are 51 lumps of Saccharine Maple sap cheaper than the my one + owner of a 100 of them has also lowered his price. So there are 151 total items.
Same as yesterday
Today was very similar to yesterday.
I got one filthy lucre and 5 handfuls of floating sand. The question remains whether the rock monsters will be appearing long enough for me to farm all the required 125 units of floaty sand. If I am able to get 5 per day, I need 16 more days. That is not good, I should look for ways to increase the daily gain. Maybe investing 15 filthy lucres and buying bounty hunting trousers would pay itself off. Other than that, my options are limited. Ascending as AT or DB and getting the necessary skills would take too long. Or not - if I chose the casual life style. Still, with only few skills, it would take days to reach high enough level for effective farming. Focusing on meat and buying a couple might be a better idea.
I now have 34 unique animal bones. I am getting tired of farming for them and I'll probably just buy the other ones.
Final stats: 14/135/183/157
Price of floaty sand has fallen to 18000 and lobsters are at 44000/55000.
Lazy farming
I spent the day farming floaty sand and animal bones and bounty hunting. I also risked a trip into the sea with serum of sarcasm and killed few fishes, but no item drops. I guess I do not have the equipment necessary to profit from the sea.
I have 40 handfuls of floaty sand and 16 animal bones.
Final stats: 14-131/178/150
Lobster prices (in the evening) have fallen to 54750/66000 meat, floaty sand is at 22000.
Finally
I finally did it, the Naughty Sorceress has fallen. But it was a pain, and it took 2 days longer than I wanted. My stats when defeating NS were:
Level: 13
Muscle: 125
Mysticality: 171
Moxie: 145 (211 with equipment)
Run length: 16 days, 2299 adventures
(faster by 2 day, but slower by 4 adventures than my previous run with AT)
With live lobsters prices at 95000 meat (and 97700 for the wok lobster) decided to take a chance and buy 2 rockfish stomachs instead (40000 per one). Fortunately, one of them provided a live lobster and the second one a sand dollar. I expect the lobster prices to drop, but to be on the safe side, I secured mine now. The rock monsters may stop appearing without warning and then I expect the prices to skyrocket. Now, I need to collect 125 handfuls of floaty sand (25500 meat in the mall).
By the end of the day, my stats were:
Level: 14
Muscle: 127
Mysticality: 174
Moxie: 148
I am not going to rush the leveling. Instead I am going to farm floaty sand (have 35 now), filthy lucres (37) and I'll try to build the Misshapen animal skeleton (16).
And again
I am ashamed. I lost to NS. Several times. The skill blocking ability really makes things complicated. Anyway, I ended the day as:
Level: 13
Muscle: 123
Mysticlaity: 168
Moxie: 134 (199 with equipment)
Days played this run: 15
The first battle (with lower moxie and beer bong) did cost me almost all bombs and healing items. In the last battle, I finally obtained Happiness and the first form was not a problem. The second one did not fall to my spells.
Floaty sand drops were bad as well even with a baby fairy. I got just one in the whole day. Mall price is at 28400. Rising, hmmm. Lobsters are 124500 and 145000. Still high, but at least falling. Cannot buy them anyway due to naughty NS! ;-)
There are now 59 lumps of saccharine maple sap cheaper than the my one. I guess people are losing nerves
Guess what...I did not make it
A nightmare. Farming the whole day. Bubbly potion and some stars came quickly. But then I spent ages while looking for a guitar. Well, at least I got a grungy flannel shirt (and another bandana). Topiary golems were easy. But then the tower. I had to go back for every item and I am still at level 5. First a hair spay - not hard but still one turn lost. Then ninja stars. Ouch, I did not spend a single turn there during the run. And then NG. Another 40 turns in the chasm (got f3d0r4 at least). And then black pepper. And another 40 or more in black forest. Still no pepper, but I got whole black armaments and spend about 20 turns trick-or-treating and finally got the pepper on my very last adventure today (and that was the whole Halloween for me). At least I won't have to spend more time in the black forest tomorrow.
Final stats:
Level: 13
Muscle: 117
Mysticality: 160
Moxie: 118
Days played this run: 14
One thing is clear. Tomorrow is the second moxie day and with my current moxie and equipment (the flannel jacket is +11 mox), I shall be able to defeat NS without much trouble. With base moxie of 126+, I expect be able to get to 200 with equipment.
Live lobster prices jumped to 189000 and wok lobsters are at 195000. Hopefully it is just due to the Halloween and it will drop again. If not, then I had missed my chance to buy one yesterday and I still cannot do it due to HC limitations. Floaty sand is at 22500.
War is tough
I hoped to accomplish more today, but the war proved troublesome. First, I spent s lot of adventures retrieving the meat, because I missed my semi-rares. The other nightmare was Sonofa beach, where I wasted over 70 adventures. Having 18 valuable trinkets, 21 limes, lemons and bottles of rum and 3 wool hats is nice, but I could have lived without it. That's with the monster bait equipped.
On the other side, the junkyard and the jam fliers were swift.
I finished the day as:
Level: 13
Muscle: 111
Mysticality: 150
Moxie: 105
Days played this run: 13
There were few turns left after defeating The Man, but I did not even pass the three gates. A Dungeons of doom potion was my doom. The only one I did not have was the one I needed. And while trying them I got drunk :-(. That's a real pity, because wanted to use today's zap on one of the keys and now I need to find something else to zap.
I hope to destroy the Naughty sorceress tomorrow. It is a moxie day hence I hope it is not unreasonable to expect to reach 120 moxie. With equipment, I should be able to reach 180. Not enough for safe adventuring, but the 23 filthy poultices I bought today should compensate. I pray. We'll see.
Live lobsters are at 47500 meat in the mall and wok lobsters are at 54500. Since making a wok lobster from a live one costs 1000 + skill, I expect wok lobsters to drop a bit more. Floaty sand keeps floating around 21800 meat.
I have a lump of Saccharine Maple sap in my store for 120000, there are 55 cheaper in the mall. It should be interesting to watch how the prices rise as the supply diminishes.
Nothing to write home about
Today was not good. A Clod Hopper has overridden my semi-rare adventure I really needed. Retrieving the sisters' meat will be troublesome. Too bad I do not know the right demon to ask for help. The farm and the orchard are clean (I only got a single flaming feather and no duct tape :-().
The level 11 quest is finished, farming for lion oil took quite long.
I have zapped an original G into a metallic A and made the WAND. I have one spare G. I have the star key and star hat, but only 2 stars left and 14 lines. Bad luck. And I also do not have any guitars. More farming.
Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 103
Mysticality: 138 (10 left to level 13)
Moxie: 98
Days played this run: 12
Reaching level 13 tomorrow should not be a problem, but beating the sorceress will be hard for me. I have no chance to have moxie high enough to avoid the damage and I still remember how hard it was to defeat her with Pastamancer the first time. And I was level 14 then and I was able to buy some good equipment. Now, in HC, I only have the stainless steel suspenders, pulled porquoise ring and the war medal, things will be tough.
Live lobster prices in mall are at 50000 (wok lobster under 60000) and floaty sand is at 21000. Not surprising.
Mysticality day
With 25% bonus on mysticality gains, the progress was not bad. I ended with the following stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 95
Mysticality: 127 (21 missing to level 13)
Moxie: 88
Days played this run: 11
I managed to do about half of the Holy MacGuffin quest. I did not want to farm for the missing lion oil on myst day and focused on getting to level 12 asap. I also still need to find the worm riding manual.
The frat boy - hippy war did not start yet, but I obtained the War Hippy Fatigues, so it should not take long now.
My original plan was to ascend on the next moxie day (which also happens to be Halloween) and get bonus in both runs, but spending a bit of time hunting the rock monsters looks more and more interesting. Prices of lobsters are falling (48000 meat) and that is good. Floaty sand is at 22200, still ridiculously high in my opinion. Too bad my charged magnet is locked at Hagnk's.
Loved by RNG
Getting all the items for F'c'le is usually a lengthy process. Not today, I got the two missing pieces and my pirate fledges in less than 5 adventures. Now, how probable is that with +0% item drop?
Then I spend a couple of turns in the Haunted Bathroom and said Guy Made of Bees twice while I was waiting for level 11. A thoughtful Clod Hopper stopped by and left 2 handfuls of floaty sand behind. Its price has dropped to 20000 per unit.
A visit in the spooky forest revealed the hidden temple.
Then I realized tomorrow is a mystical day and decided to save some turns, ate 2 lich eye pies, a fortune cookie (74,79 are the lucky numbers) and a bought 2 mole molé molé. Not having Pastamastery sucks. I am also out of my supply of cocktailcrafting accessories, I would have to ask demon for favors. Anyway, 102 turns saved. May the RNG be with me (tomorrow).
Final stats:
Level: 10
Muscle: 81
Mysticality: 100 (4 left to level 11)
Moxie: 69
Days in this run: 10
Not good, not bad
Today was a lazy day without much surprises. I met the clod hopper twice, but not a single floaty sand. Bad clod hopper!
The progress was adequate and I ended as:
Level: 10
Muscle: 77
Mysticality: 94
Moxie: 67
Days in this run: 9
I have finished the level 10 quest. I also gained access to The F'c'le and collected the rigging shampoo.
In the the cloud castle, I got the furry fur. Item drops were pretty bad, because I was using my Sombrero and no item drop modifiers.
I burned a lot of potions today, I am down to 5 spare scrumptious reagents and since I do not expect to beat NS in less than 5 days, I must be careful with them. I hope that Saucegeyser would allow me to take greater risks and save some potions. I need 10 more mysticality to get to level 11 to get the spell.
An adventurer is me
I have been playing KoL (Kingdom of Loathing) for a couple of months now and it just keeps getting better. Who would expect that hacking unreal monsters in my browser can be entertaining for so long...
Anyway, why not blog about it? It will be fun to read this blog after a couple of years and since I'll be documenting my accomplishments day by day, it may also be a good guide for KoL newbies (and yes, I still consider myself a newbie).
History
Since I have been playing for 115 days now, I'll summarize my accomplishments so far.
My initial character was a Pastamancer. I knew nothing about KoL then and it took me 67 days to ascend, the KoL wiki was a great help when I realized the game was too tough. I permed the Pastamestery skill, but since I jumped directly into hardcore, I had no chance to use it since then.
After my first ascension, I chose to play as the Disco Bandit. Playing a moxie class was much easier and I managed to beat the Naughty Sorceress in 21 days. I played with a muscle moon sign and I had to wait for my first black mushrooms to mature before ascending again. I spend that extra time hunting ducks and grabbing handfuls of sand on the desert and built and sold a sand castle. Advanced Coctailcrafting was my first hardcore permanent skill.
Since the next skill I wanted was Torso Awaregness, I was free to choose any class I wanted. I know that this skill is not something veteran KoL players would recommend to get so soon, but I just liked it. Hence I became an Accordion Thief for 18 days. I wanted to do this run as fast as possible and AT seemed a good choice. It probably was, but for some reason I did really liked more the Disco Bandit. I guess it was due to AT's lack of healing skills.
After my third ascension, I decided to improve my cooking skills and became a Sauceror. You may think that I like magic more than might. And you would be right. I just can't help myself even if I expected having trouble beating the Naughty Sorceress. We'll see.
Today
Class: Sauceror
Level: 9 - Basillusionist
Muscle: 66 (2nd muscle day was today)
Mysticality: 80
Moxie: 57
Days in this run: 8
Something is happening in the land of KoL. Rock monsters are appearing and leaving strange floating sand behind. The prices of floating sand in the mall are outrageous (27000 meat was the cheapest toady). Initially I wanted to ascend as fast as possible, but for a poor player like me, it would make sense to farm a bit of floating sand and make some meat.