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.
Shivering Timbers closing
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.
Another missed semi-rare
Can you believe it? This time I got the teeny-tiny magic scroll.
I did the trapper quest and then finished the bonerdagon. Then I leveled in the gallery, did the 5 shore trips and adventured in the hippy camp hoping for the outfit to finish drinks (have bunch of coconut shells and no suitable drinks). I managed to get 2 filthy knitted dread sacks, but since I still do not have the wand, I had to drink ordinary drinks.
A daily dungeon trip got me Boris's ring.
Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 71
Mysticality: 54
Moxie: 50
Days played this run: 5
The wand is now #1 on my list for tomorrow. And also finally finishing the bounty, the first one this run.
Missed semi-rare
I blame it on the lags. It is so hard to keep multiple things in mind when one fight can take minutes. Next time then.
I have finished the friar quest as the first thing and then went to the hunted library. Opening the second floor and the Polo Tombstone adventure there.
Next was the cyrpt. After encountering the non-combat, I went to Whitey's Grove to collect bounty and level up - and the damned semi-rare came. Let's see if I can make some use of the bag of lard.
Reaching level 8, I went to the mine immediately. After finding the ore, I built a chrome helmet turtle, but I could not wear it due to moxie requirement.
I returned to the cyrpt, but I did not manage to kill all the sub-bosses and run out of adventures. If I did not miss the semi-rare adventure and got a lunchbox, the chances to dispatch Bonerdagon today and using the chest on a myst day would be much better.
Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 55 (13 more needed for level 9)
Mysticality: 42
Moxie: 36
Days played this run: 4
I should get a wand, finally enter the daily dungeon, and build a boat tomorrow. Reaching level 9 and doing the leaflet should be possible. I have food prepared for tomorrow and one fruity drink.
I am about 1 day faster than my Seal Clubber run and I need to gain another day to ascend on the next generic summer holiday. With Pastamastery permed now, this should be possible, but this is a clover-less run and that is going to cost me adventures in the lair.
Bad good luck
Good luck is sometimes a pretty bad thing. Yesterday I found a clover in the barrels, and today, I found another one. This happens on my Bad Moon lead-in. Badly timed good luck.
The start of the day was slow: collecting pixels, harem outfit and perfume, trying to open haunted library (but failed), preparing food and drinks.
Then my semi-rare came and I picked up the Knob goblin elite uniform. It is actually a pretty decent outfit at this point. And it gave me access to the Laboratory, where I bought 3 nasal sprays and went after the beefy bodyguards (using Harold's bell). 12000 meat for me. Just want I needed for the mushroom field and the TT crafting skill.
The Goblin king was next in the row. Knowing that I must not screw up, because farming another perfume would be costly, I used a potion. I went after the cape, because I'll be smiting my own turtle helmets.
Then I worked on the friar quest, but it took damn long. I am buried under a pile of Imp ale and Hot wings, 3 hellion cubes, 2 infernal insoles, some wussiness potions and the like. I'll still need to spend at least 25 adventures in the gate to get the margarita. Tomorrow then.
Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 42
Mysticality: 30
Moxie: 28
Days played this run: 3
Not the best day, but at least the older quests are finished and I have hellion cubes to make better meals. I'll get the margarita tomorrow then.
I am missing a healing spell and some way to influence combat frequency. Disco Bandit should take care of that.
Commence taming
Progress was good today. I have collected the lunchbox, got the Harold's bell, found the hidden temple and reached level 6 on the battlefield and thus was able to each Spaghetti with Skullheads. The only setback was the long stay in the misspelled cemetary, where grave robbers did not want to give up their shovel.
3 shugar shirts helped me level up faster and the sugar shards were a nice bonus to my MP. MP recharging was the biggest issue today - I need a MP recharging item, preferably the bubblewrap bottlecap turtleban.
I have built the meat car and then the meat maid.
Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 32 (8 left to level 7)
Mysticality: 23
Moxie: 21
Days played this run: 2
The goal for tomorrow is to reach 30 mysticality to be able to equip the stainless steel solitaire for a nice bonus to rollover adventures. Getting the steel margarita on day 3 would be a serious improvement for me, but I have my doubts I'll manage to do it.
I also must obtain enough money from the beefy bodyguards to buy a mushroom field and armor-craftiness. I must not forget to collect enough pixels and I shall start thinking about the daily dungeon. And the quests.
Did I mention this is my Bad Moon lead-in? No clover adventures, legendary epic stuff or free meals and drinks for me.