Mysticality day - meat is want I need.
[90-92] Tavern rats and turning off the facet, I do not feel like spending up to 18 adventures hunting the baron.
[93-96] Degrassi knoll trying to get a screwdriver and make the meatcar, but no luck. Got toolbox (3 springs), knoll mushroom and Gnollish slotted spoon.
[97-100] Cola battlefield reaching level 5.
[101-112] Cola battlefield some more - got mainly moxie.
[113] Resting - ugh.
Hella Smooth.
[114-129] Harem - hoping for a non-combat, but getting beaten up a lot. Got 2 perfumes and finally a harem veil.
[130-138] Guano Junction looking for 3 sonar biscuits.
[139] Entryway - Onna Stick +3000 meat, -20 moxie for 10 adventures.
[140-150] Barrels - 2 mimics, 3 explosions, bloody mary, some stats to sell.
[151-152] Boss bat's lair - the beefy bodyguards are too tough.
[153-159] Barrels - 1 mimic, 1 explosion, I am desperate - I need meat for Pastamastery before I run out of adventures.
Eating ghuol egg to get 1 adventure for cooking. 5001 meat after auto-selling everything I can spare. -> buying Pastamastery.
[160] Cooking spicy noodles.
[161] Resting - no other way to get HP.
[162-168] Tower ruins, no brain.
[169] Cooking spicy noodles.
[170-174] The "Fun" House - got some base drinks, 1 box.
[175] Cooking spicy noodles.
[176-180] Cola battlefield. It is a stat day after all.
[181] Knob goblin lunchbox.
[182-185] Battlefield again.
[186-207] The Boss Bat's Lair using Harold's Bell. Bought Lasagna Bandages and Entangling Noodles on the way. Finally killed the Boss Bat.
[208] Crafting whiskey and soda.
Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 21
Mysticality: 31
Moxie: 21
Days played this run: 2
I still need to neutralize the goblin king, find the hidden temple, built a meat car and go on vacation. And the steel margarita...I need a MP source to be able to get it soon.
Troubles on the mysty day
Arrrbor day and contest start
I finished my trip to the see and planted 100 saplings and the underworld acorn, time to start working on the . I am going to ascend today into Bad Moon as Pastamancer and take part in a contest. There are 10 great prizes and around 50 participants.
The permed skill is Musk of the Moose. Ascending now...
[0-5] I adventured in the Haunted pantry and luckily found the manor on 5th adventure. I also got quasi-ethereal macaroni fragments and magicalness-in-a-can - and sold them. I really want the spice ghost this run and 300 meat is just what I need for the Lord of the Flies-sized fries.
Now I am level 2, but my moxie is at 0.
[6-16] The spooky forest. Got beaten up a lot, collected spices. I actually met 3 trifids and lost to each of them. That sucks, because the bounty is on. Then I finally got the larva. 500 meat is nice and terrarium would be great, but I guess I'll gambe a bit more and get another Lord of the Flies-sized fries. Wooden stakes and bar skin are a nice bonus.
Level 3. Moxie is back to 0.
[17-20] Still in the spooky forest looking for meat and receiving it. Another 2 packages of Lord of the Flies-sized fries for me and Pride.
[21-25] The Outskirts of Cobb's Knob - stats are coming much faster now with Pride. Got chef's hat, Knob Goblin scimitar and the encryption key. What now?
[26-27] The Haunted Kitchen are tough for me, I lost to paper towelgeist.
[28] Guild challenge. 1000 meat for epic weapon.
[29-30] Sewers, 1 worthless trinket. Hermit -> pertified noodles. Hammer for 500 meat.
[31] Haunted kitchen - scintillating powder. Nice, but what now? With muscle of 3 and moxie of 2, there are not many places I can go.
[32-36] The haiku dungeon. Fights are easy and I actually got what I came for - gravy and mushrooms. Now I need more 1000 meat for terrarium and oven. And I only have 400. Auto-selling enchanted barbell and one of the concentrated magicalness pills got me another 250. Where to get the rest?
Buying terrarium and putting mosquito larva in. Poor 1 pound fellow.
[37-41] Barrel full of barrels. Got 2x vodka and cranberry, martini, bloody mary, suntan lotion of moxiousness (autosold for 150).
Drinking the vodkas and martini took me to level 4. The problem is that my muscle and moxie are at 4 as well.
[42] Sleazy back alley - poisoned on first adventure ;-).
[43-45] Barrels - killed by a mimic, got and autosold 2 stat items.
[46] Bought a oven and made baby gravy fairy.
[47-52] Sleazy back alley. Got Harold's bell, dented harmonica and finally the Chronologically Pummeled buff.
Got Hella Smooth from the pixie. Autosold everything I could and bought Ravioli Shurikens.
[53-62] The Misspelled Cemetary. Bad luck got Grave Mistake first and a shovel on the 9th adventure. I also got the Braaains buff, now I do not know what to do with it. Then the 10 adventures with +mox ended.
[63-64] Smiting Pasta of Peril.
[65-66] Killed one rat and beaten up by another one.
[67-72] Barrel full of barrels. Got some drinks and one pill.
[73-74] Beaten up by smart skeleton and finding Fernwarthy grave; got 500 meat reward. Although I need 3 more myst points to get the second part of the quest, I was actually there for the temporal rift.
[75-78] Collected Dyspepsi outfit.
Bought cocktailcrafting kit.
[79] Made extra-spicy bloody mary.
[80] 2nd guild challenge.
[81-84] Cola battlefield. Muscle/moxie on 9.
Drink one Imp Ale -> moxie down to 8. Muscle -> 10.
[85-89] Degrassi Knoll. Got Gnollish slotted spoon, Knoll mushroom, Knoll teeth and Gnollish toolbox (empty meat tank and spring).
Made and used a barskin tent and that is all for today.
Final stats:
Class: Pastamancer
Level: 4
Muscle: 10
Mysticality: 17
Moxie: 8
Days played this run: 1
All considered, I was extra lucky today. I got beaten up a lot, but it was worth it :-).
Lazy tower day
The nuns quest was one of the fastest - with 2 inhalers, preternatural greed, nasal spray, love song and 30lb leprechaun, it took 16 adventures.
Rest of the war was easy and I used tomato power on the boss fight. The I had to collect pixels and level up a bit.
DoD potion came quickly, chewing gum needed clover and I already had Black Nr.2 due to my telescope.
The tower was ugly - I had to farm pygmy blowgun and powdered organs.
The NS fight was not too hard, but I had to lose 3 times to lower the block rate.
Stats when fighting NS:
Muscle: 153
Mysticlaity: 99
Moxie: 103
This run took 7 days and 1271 adventures. More than the previous one, I should probably start using a sombrero.
Now I'll be waiting in aftercore until arrrbor day.
A little bit of good luck and a lot of bad luck
While yesterday, there was a tiny chance for this to be my first 6-day run, that chance is now gone. Terrible luck - 40 adventures looking for a hidden temple, another forty in the white grove...
Anyway, no locked doors in the dungeon today, I skipped it again.
Right now, I am in the pyramid and I yet have to rotate the wheel and deal with Ed. Still no pixels, stars or !potions.
Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 118
Mysticality: 78
Moxie: 78
Days played this run: 5
Damn it.
Stupid mistakes
Forgetting to use a meat maid sucks. So does picking wrong Louvre tour.
I collected insult responses in the pirate bar and opened F'c'le. Then I did the valley quest and leveled up, adventured in the airship to open the castle for a semi-rare.
I skipped the castle and leveled up instead to get my hands on better booze. That plan partially succeeded.
I have a wand and I used it to get a black pepper from caviar. I skipped the daily dungeon today - there were no locked doors.
I also got the frozen seal spine and abyssal ember. With LTS, the damage is massive.
Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 106
Mysticality: 65
Moxie: 64
Days played this run: 4
I guess this is the highest level I reached on day 4 so far, but I am behind on quests. No pixels, no temple, no castle, no ! potions.
Good luck, with a bit of bad luck
I cleared the crypt and adventured in the gallery. I also did my 5 shore trips (after finally building a meat car). Then I got my LEW and continued with level 8 quest. Luckily, the goats gave me 5 milks this run.
By the end of the day, I zapped a hippy and tried to reach level 9 in time for a semi-rare, but failed. I needed 3 Louvre tours in 20 adventures, but I only got 1.
I smashed 2 ancient seals today and I'll try to get frozen seal spine tomorrow. I had to use 2 potions (well, to be on the safe side). I hope that effort will not be in vain.
Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 65
Mysticality: 47 (myst day)
Moxie: 44
Days played this run: 3
The day would be perfect if I reached level 9 and smashed ascii art on semi-rare, but it is still good enough. I have chef, bartender, meat maid, and Jarlsberg's key. I'll have to get wand soon and start zapping dehydrated caviar.
M-242
So, I still do not have bartender nor chef nor meat maid. Tomorrow.
I got steel margarita today and decided not to but a mushroom field, because I collected 5 total hellion cubes.
Beach is not yet open, but Spookyraven is partially open. I even managed to kill few high-level monsters using love songs.
Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 40
Mysticality: 27
Moxie: 29
Days played this run: 2
I had enough max MP to cast Ode to Booze and slimeling got me enough actual MP.
Thief in the tower
Finishing the war was easy and I did not need a reagent potion to defeat the boss this time - I tried love songs instead.
But then I had to find the MacGuffin.
The lair:
Meleegra pills and ! potion took a lot of time...
Maze was swift.
The tower:
Giant Desktop Globe - 1 adventure
Flaming Samurai - 5 adventures
Big Meat Golem - 1 adventure
giant fried egg - 2 adventures (lucky zap)
Fickle Finger of F8 - 1 adventure
collapsed mineshaft golem - 1 adventure
The NS fight was trivial with over 240 moxie.
This run took 7 days and 1231 adventures. I hoped for a better result with the boulder and love songs libram at my disposal. They only saved me about 100 adventures.
In the remaining ~60 adventures I managed to collect a bounty (with putty after overdrinking), obtain guy made of bees pollen, find the El Vibrato trapezoid and quite successfully adventured beyond the shimmering portal - I got 2 104 cards and then used them to get the 2 missing into parts of the El Vibrato outfit.
In my next life, I am going to be a Seal Clubber. It has been too long since my first seal clubber run and I'd like to give it a try again. I permed the Ode to Booze.
As a seal clubber things were a bit harder than with the accordion thief. I managed to reach level 5 and zap a harem girl. I had enough max MP to cast ode to booze at the end of the day, but I did not collect an accordion. Stupid songs.
Final stats:
Class: Seal Clubber
Level: 5
Muscle: 22
Mysticality: 17
Moxie: 17
Days played this run: 1
I wonder if I am able to get liver of steel tomorrow.
Beach, beach, beach
I usually skip the beach, but since I had 2 reodorants this run, I tried it out - 80 adventures! I should not have done that. At least I got my last demon name: Rip'funk'z'k.
MacGuffin is unfinished, need last part of worm riding manual and then clear the pyramid.
Island war is in progress, I am close to nunnery.
Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 83
Mysticality: 84
Moxie: 141
Days played this run: 6
Well, I would not be able to ascend even if I did not waste those 80 adventures on the beach. But still, it looks like my first proper 7-day run.
Love songs
I finally used some love songs. In combat. I still hesitate to use them to buff myself, but I probably should.
Anyway, the progress was adequate today. While the MacGuffin quest is incomplete (I only have the easiest 2 parts), the island war has started and I bought Ode to Booze.
I am overloaded with stuff. I even got the grungy bandana.
Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 72
Mysticality: 72
Moxie: 129
Days played this run: 5
If I by a miracle managed to ascend tomorrow, it will be a significant progress. But I doubt it. I still need stars, pixels, DoD potions, find the hidden temple, oasis, pyramid, and finish the war. A 7-day run is more likely and that's an improvement for me as well.
To eat or not to eat
The moxie day. Good. I had to do a lot today.
I started in the ballroom until level 8. The the trapper quest (chrome ore, good). Mining was troubling, but goat gave up the cheese quickly (milk not so much).
More leveling up, getting the swashbuckling outfit, collected 3 insults and then into the valley. I spent a long time there bounty hunting and getting 31337 scroll for stat script.
More leveling up and the garbage quest. I did not complete it, but I collected 4 pieces of immateria.
I used 5 love songs while milking goats, but I have 40 spare in my inventory. I am doing something wrong.
My boulder rayed a miner and a booze giant today.
Final stats:
Level: 10
Muscle: 55
Mysticality: 57
Moxie: 87
Days played this run: 4
I have 1 key and tomorrow I'll try to zap my breath-spray. I'll try to reach level 12 tomorrow and let the boulder give me a war uniform.
Trying the new toys
I used a couple of love songs today - to adventure in haunted ballroom and to kill one of crypt sub-bosses. Not bad, but not great either. The sugar tome made a bigger difference in the early days. I hope the love songs libram will show its strength later.
Slimeling gives me MP like crazy and boulder got me KGE and hippy uniforms today.
Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 38
Mysticality: 40
Moxie: 49
Days played this run: 3
All the available council quests are done and I have the wand. Tomorrow is a moxie day and I should level up fast. Retenez L'Herbe Paté is waiting.
On the track
I made use of my new boulder and zapped a harem girl. Then I used my new libram of love songs and killed the goblin king. I have built chef and bartender and used my spare clover in the process.
By the end of the day, I made one shore trip, obtained steel margarita and used Harold's bell on boss bat. More meat for me tomorrow.
Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 25
Mysticality: 28
Moxie: 35
Days played this run: 2
The fights were easy today although I stupidly lost twice. The day after tomorrow is a moxie day, I should probably save some adventures. On the other hand, if I spent over 150 adventures tomorrow, I may zap two monsters.
I decided not to but a mushroom field this run and farm goat cheese instead.
Basement and back to ascending
I completed my first as a level 33 Sauceror. I only had to use the +200% potions at the end of the run. The MP drainage test were the most annoying, because I had to left some fullness
Back to as ascending. I am perming Slimy Synapses this time; +10MP should make day 1 mana management much easier.
This time, I am going to be an Accordion thief, my least favorite class. Why? The moxious madrigal feels like cheating to me. I only played it once and I permed torso at that time.
Despite new fancy familiars, the He-Boulder and the Slimeling, my day 1 was poor. I had trouble reaching level 4 in time, but finally I did it with the help of 1 gourd potion and some basic spleen items.
The tavern was another nightmare. I found the faucet in the last possible location. The 2 needed squares were hiding in the lower left corner. BTW, the probability to do this bad is 1/600 ~ 0.17%. It can only be better in future runs. It mad total sense to invest 1 adventure and kill the baron - my boulder did it for me. I forgot to set the +ML properly, but I would have chosen the monocle anyway.
I managed to summon 8 love songs, but used none. I hope they will be useful later.
Final stats:
Class: Accordion Thief
Level: 4
Muscle: 13
Mysticality: 16 (myst day)
Moxie: 18
Days played this run: 1
Not the best start, my skills are probably somehow rusty. I have ~10 pixels, Harold's bell, decryption key, access to manor and I found the grave. Tomorrow, I'll try the steel margarita and the servants.
Slimeling
I finished a slime tube and obtained a slimeling today. It was a bit unnerving and costly. Bitter pills and a pile of tattered scraps of paper was most like the most expensive part. I had a bit of trouble with mother slime since I buffed my moxie too high and I was doing over 500 damage with each of my hobopolis spells. I lost once and I had to lower my mysticality and try again. Fortunately I had 3 total tries.
The slimeling is nifty, I'd love to test it in a HC run, but I still wish to do a basement dive. I am close to level 150 of the basement now, so I hope I can finish it in two days. That is if I'll be able to as a L32 Sauceror missing without important skills.
More of the same
The last days were similar to each other. I did a couple of tubes, farmed the marinara trench and octopus's garden. I did not bother with the crimbux too much - the slime tube was probably giving the same amount of meat and also some stats.
Crimbo 2009 gift was of of 3 misfit presents giving a small bonus to damage and one attribute. Nice if someone started their run on that day, but not useful elsewhere.
Today, I started my first attempt to get a slimeling. If all goes well, I should have it tomorrow.