Soft as not hard

Playing with pulls is like not playing. Everything but leveling is shorter. I use the sombrero familiar much more than in HC.

Anyway, I cleared the crypt and made the trapper happy. I'll probably use a semi-rare in the valley. I also collected the immateria.

Final stats:
Level: 10
Muscle: 58
Mysticlaity: 87
Moxie: 53
Days played this run: 2

Is this going to be a slowish SC 4-day run? I guess so.

Sauce, sauce everywhere

I finished the updated Nemesis, got the friendly cheese blob, the cutest of the Nemesis familiars. The fight with the last form of the Nemesis was not easy.

Time to ascend. I am sick of mysticality classes. Just kidding, let's do another Sauceror run, but this time in softcore. I need to try it, my next run is going to be Bad Moon and I want Deep saucery for my aftercore adventures. Thinking about it...I should have picked Tempuramancy first, but it is too late now.

I wonder how useful are these pulls going to be (I was too laze to prepare anything and I usually pulverize common equipment, so it is going to be funny).

So, I pulled my little box of fireworks and spooky putty sheet - damn, I should have squished it before. Mitre or snake? I guess mitre, but a MP-regenerating item would be a nice thing too. More Mr. Store equipment would be nice.

Let's look at some guides and keep pulling...

Dope wheels - lucky, I had them.

I am thinking and reading the wiki...what if I pulled pressurized potion of proficiency? 8 stats for 15 adventures is not that bad. But 15k meat is 15k meat and this is just a practice, not a speed run. I pulled a papaya instead; and a chef. And that's enough +stat giving items.

Dictionary? OK, I am lame enough for that.

And eye of newt ;-). I kind of do not have a good attribute booster and +25 moxie should allow me to equip C.A.R.N.I.V.O.R.E. soon.

Uhm, and I pulled Gravyskin Belt of the Sauceblob - am I too pully?

Final stats:
Class: Sauceror
Level: 7
Muscle: 26
Mysticality: 40
Moxie: 27
Days played this run: 1

With a little help from Boris

So, I finished the pyramid, collected 2 star charts (that took long) and fought the war. Nothing out of ordinary.

Cavern:
Handsomeness potions took a long time - I used yellow ray, but the monster played hide and seek.

Tower:
giant fried egg - 1 adventure
malevolent crop circle - 7 adventures
Giant Desktop Globe - 1 adventure
Ice Cube - 1 adventure
Tyrannosaurus Tex - 1 adventure
Enraged Cow - 1 adventure

The NS:
I lost the first time on the last spell and won the second time.

Stats:
Muscle: 128 (92)
Mysticality: 209 (151)
Moxie: 135 (94)

Equipment:
sugar chapeau
tuxedo shirt
Staff of the Soupbone
wonderwall shield
sugar shorts
bejeweled pledge pin
solid baconstone necklace
Iron Beta of Industry

Familiar: Slimeling

Run length: 6 days / 1167 adventures - a tiny improvement, thanks to Inigo's? I have 89 adventures left - 6 days does not seem to be a problem anymore.

Would I be able to do Nemesis quest today? No. Tomorrow...

Not so strong

So, I was looking for the MacGuffin, but did not find it. RNG was not very kind to me. Wave of sauce is too strong and kills almost anything with a single cast.

I found the pyramid, leveled up and started the island war, then did the concert advertising quest.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 78
Mysticality: 126
Moxie: 79
Days played this run: 5

I still need 2 star charts and some lines and stars, find the McGuffin, win the war and defeat the sorceress. My telescope predicts, I'll need a goblin juice, so I might need a yellow ray early. Guitar is troubling me. I cannot rely on Zim Merman and might need the other tomorrow's yellow ray.

Since it is Feast of Boris tomorrow, I think ascending should not be a problem. Whether I manage to find and beat Nemesis is another question.

Spoiled by noodles

So, I rayed a fruit golem for a cherry for my chefstaff and a key lime. The 2nd ray was knob goblin master chef for knob lo mein. Good rays I say.

I dealt with the pirates, collected insults and opened F'c'le. Sounds easy ;-).

I did most of the L9 quest and zapped the last needed scroll when no better zaps were needed.

I leveled up fast and started L10 quest. A lucky moment occured - I got S.O.C.K. exactly on time and collected inhaler on the next adventure.

I bought Wave of sauce. I managed to use Stream of sauce with Entangling noodles, slimeling and a love song as a backup. I guess, perming a spell soon would be handy.

Then I dealt with the castle and got quantum egg. A short stay in the hole, but then I decided to use the myst day to the max. Hermit had 3 clovers and I burned them in the bathroom reaching level 11.

2 black picnic baskets were exceptionally good this time - I got 2x black pepper and 3x black & tan. Last action of the day was getting the diary for MacGuffin quest.

Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 62
Mysticality: 105
Moxie: 60
Days played this run: 4

I have no drum and no guitar. There is still a chance to get them.

Wand and milk

Fights were not easy, but somehow I managed. I have the digital key + 5 extra red pixel potions (lucky!) and I have found the hidden temple.

Crypt is clear and trapper is happy (asbestos ore). I did my vacations and got the hippy outfit and KGE.

Crafting without chefs is tricky, 5 casts of Inigo's is not really enough for all the tasks. At least one servant would be handy - I suppose if one is on a dietary path, the song is enough, but in normal HC 8 casts per day is needed.

Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 38
Mysticality: 55
Moxie: 40
Days played this run: 3

I should have saved adventures for tomorrow, but I wanted to use the second yellow ray.

Margarita? Indeed

Playing as a sauceror under a mysticality was probably not the smartest choice, but I also wanted to test the new skill fully.

Yesterday, I did not have enough MP, but today I managed to cook my 2 Hell Ramens and 2 fruity girl drinks with Inigo's Incantation of Inspiration active. The downside is I had to built AT EW in addition to the Sauceror one. I planned to skip the sauce pan, but the hat and the new Nemesis content is too tempting to skip. Anyway, the cost to cast Inigo's proves manageable and I'll try to make some jewelery later too.

At least, I am skipping tower ruins for now.

I made a chefstaff and then I zapped a harem girl and a shaky clown. Boss bat and goblin king are down.

The friar quest was tough. I had to level up on the battlefield and farm one tomato and make a tomato power potion. When the potion wear off, fights were even tougher and I relied on the slimeling, love songs and entangling noodles. Fortunately, the gate items came relatively quickly.

3 of the 5 shore trips are done. I have the library key.

Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 26
Mysticality: 38
Moxie: 27
Days played this run: 2

Defeating Somerset Lopez, the Demon Mariachi

I finished the Nemesis quest as Accordion Thief today. Fighting in the barracks was tricky - the always hit attack is nasty. I hope there is a trick to avoid it. Entangling noodles was handy. The last fight was pretty tough - I had to use a lot of love songs of vague ambiguity.

And then...back to ascending. I am perming Inigo's Incantation of Inspiration to try it out in a myst run. 100 MP is a lot, but I trust my slimeling with my life.

In my next life, I am goiing to be a Sauceror. I feel the need for Impetuous Sauciness. While its ascension value is low, my packrat instincts are preventing me to use reagent potion in aftercore without it.

I found the manor, an encryption key, ate 3 boring spaghetti and drank some average cocktails - I did not finish the tavern quest yet, because of bad luck. I found the faucet with only 3 fields left so I went after the Baron. Then I needed 3 ice-cold ice-cold Sir Schlitzs for a chefstaff, but no luck. When I had enough drinks, I stopped playing.

Final stats:
Class: Sauceror
Level: 4
Muscle: 11
Mysticality: 17
Moxie: 12
Days played this run: 1 (some adventures saved for tomorrow)

Lazy finish

I lazily finished the NS quest - the fight was easy with moxie class and sugar shorts.

The I wanted to explore the new Nemesis content, but I only managed to get the map. The noncombat on the Pook deck did not come soon enough.

Total run length: 7 days / 1191 adventures. If I kept on playing yesterday, I would have had a good chance to free the king. I only needed 6 more adventures than I had banked and I did not play as good as I could.

Too lazy to finish

I finished the holy MacGuffin and did part of the war, but there was not much time to play and so I banked the remaining turns for tomorrow.

Days played this run: 6

What did I do?

I did not have time for blogging - RL, you know. And now I do not remember what I did on this day.

Dyas played this run: 5

No time for Nemesis

Another part of the Nemesis quest was introduced today. Sadly, I do not have time to do it right now. It'll have to wait a few days.

I collected the insults, opened and cleaned up F'c'le.

Then the valley - I was not there in time for the semi-rare and it took relatively long, but it is done.

Leveling up for L10 and the airship - I collected bounty while I was there. I got the S.O.C.K. and stopped adventuring to spare a zap for tomorrow.

Final stats:
Level: 10
Muscle: 58
Mysticality: 62
Moxie: 89
Days played this run: 4

Boring tasks

Fighting in the ballroom was taxing. I used some love songs and then I had to go elsewhere. In the fun house hunting for Beezelbozo. It took a lot of time and it was probably not worth it.

I cleared the cyrpt and collected missing white pixels.

I got the wand and none ! potions.

Then I did the vacations and was ready for the island.

When I reached Level 8, I did not have a yellow ray ready and I had to collect mining outfit the old way. Zap failed.

I finished L8 quest and got chrome crossbow and collected bounty on goat. Now I have lots of milk and cheese.

Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 44
Mysticality: 48 (myst day)
Moxie: 59
Days played this run: 3

Workoholic

No time for vacation.

I zapped a harem girl and then used red ray and a love song on goblin king.

Boss bat fell shortly after that.

Lacking smart skull I wasted a lot of adventures in the cemerary. When I finally got it, I built chef-in-a-box.

Running out of adventures, I spent some time on the cola battlefield to get to the friars soon enough. I did the quest and got steel margarita. Hellions were giving and I got total of 6 cubes (and ate 2 of them already). I am not going to buy a mushroom field this run.

After that I went into the manor and unlocked library, and also the ballroom. Adventuring there was too difficult and I had to use love songs. I'll have to return there and meet the quartet (and get ).

Near the end of the day, I did 2 vacations. I was really close to 30 mysticality, so I used my brick and fought 5 bats (lost the last fight due to criticals) and also almost all my love songs to get to the magical mark to be able to equip stainless steel solitaire for +2 adventures tonight.

I reached level 7 drinking nightcap.

Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 29
Mysticality: 30
Moxie: 40
Days played this run: 2

Tomorrow, I should zap a shaky clown, get lots of booze and clownosity items. Then The level 7 quest and level 8 if possible. I must not forget the bartender.

Pick up that accordion

I finished turning the wheel and dealt with Ed. Then I have to level up.

The war was exceptionally fast. I did the Beach in 8 adventures and GmoB in 1 and turned +NC song int another 1. I also did the Orchard (11 adventures) with help of slimeling and a love song.

On the battlefield, I met Zim Merman and Slow-talking Elliot. Good luck, it seems.

The problem was, I needed over 3500 substats to L13 when the war ended. I have 4 spare clovers and used 3.

The maze was fast as well - the golem only stole the piece one time.

The tower:
1. giant fried egg - ouch. Zapping once, twice, for the 3rd time - got black pepper and it still did not explode! - 2 adventures
2. concert pianist - 1 adventure
3. best-selling novelist - 1 adventure
4. Ice Cube - 1 adventure
5. darkness - problem, I have no inkwell despite spending so much time in the library. Ray, my trusty He-Boulder will get it for me now. - 5 adventures
6. Enraged Cow - 1 adventure

I am just lucky, the wand made it.

I kind of feared the shadow and so I used philter of phorce to be on the safe side. I did not even need my single red pixel potion - I guess I was lucky (and prepared with 500HP).

NS fight was quick. Noodles and Fearful Fettucini on 1st form and Noodles and 2x Fearful Fettucini on 2nd form.

Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Pastamancer
Level: 13
Muscle: 132 (98)
Mysticality: 274 (151 without equipment)
Moxie: 115 (94)
Max HP: 282

Equipment:
sugar chapeau
tuxedo shirt
Staff of the Soupbone
wonderwall shield
sugar shorts
Brimstone Brooch
Nickel Gamma of Frugality
bejeweled pledge pin

Familiar:
Stalky, the Slimeling with sugar shield

Run length: 6 days, 1178 adventures. Wow, my first 6-dayer and I had some spare adventures left. The Brimstone Brooch made run very easy. I guess I was faster mainly because I did not rush to level up and did quests first.

Now, I'll try finish the bounty and do Mayor Zapruder's quest.

What to perm, that is the question. I was really tempted to perm Candyblast to finally have some fun with the Crimbo skills, but then I decided to take Entangling Noodles to finally have more options in combat. You now, what if I actually encountered an ultra-rare monster? Noodles will be handy in that case.

I planned a Sauceror run, but since the Inigo's Incantation of Inspiration is so cool, I'll be an Accordion Thief next.

I adventured in the alley and got a gourd potion. Tavern was very long, barrels did not give me anything mixable.

I zapped a brain sweeper, but I do not have any smart skulls or boxes yet. I am undecided whether to get the epic hat this time.

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

Pyramid block

I collected stars and lines, then found hidden temple and missing white pixels and leveled up.

L11 quest was messy - bad luck in Palindome and in the Desert. I ended up in the pyramid, collecting the token.

Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 84
Mysticality: 118
Moxie: 79
Days played this run: 5

Winning tomorrow is extremely unlikely.

Clicking and clicking

Brimstone Brooch & slimeling make the run boring. I can defeat anything I encounter and make some MP.

I reached level 9 and collected a bounty in the valley, but I did not finish the quest. The least useful 33xxx scroll did not come. Then I spent time in the bathroom and started the level 10 quest. Unfortunately, I reached the castle 2 adventures after a semi-rare. After that, I adventured in the castle and opened the hole in the sky.

Final stats:
Level: 10
Muscle: 63
Mysticality: 90
Moxie: 57
Days played this run: 4

Dooming dungeons of doom

Fighting with Brimstone Brooch is certainly fun. Canelloni Cannon kill almost anything with one hit. I was even able to kill some nightstands just before reaching level 7.

I built myself a chef, did L7 and L8 quests, opened F'c'le, got wand and zapped Boris's ring.

I have all the components for Staff of the Soupbone, but I do not have enough mysticality yet.

Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 49
Mysticality: 61
Moxie: 46
Days played this run: 3

Slow advancement

I am only level 6, but things are not too bad overall. I made a bartender in a box, got steel margarita and hippy outfit.

Casting Ravioli Shurikens with Brimstone Brooch is fun. Too bad, there is a cap.

Finals stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 31
Mysticality: 37
Moxie: 27
Days played this run: 2

Tower falls

[1378-1380] The Hatching Chamber - got 1st gland.

[1381-1384] The Feeding Chamber - got 2nd gland.

[1385-1386] The Royal Guard Chamber - got last gland. With 2 adventures here yesterday, it took 11 adventures to get the 3 glands. With 134% item drop, it is an slightly better than expected.

[1387] The Filthworm Queen's Chamber.

Bought Spirit of Ravioli.
Cooked and ate Sneaky Pete's key lime pie.

[1388-1446] The Battlefield (Frat Uniform) - encountered Glass of Orange Juice and got the orange peel hat. Nice, but currently useless.

I was using fairy and got 80 quarters from the windchimes and beads. There is also a lot of stuff to pulverize after breaking the prism (traveling trader is here today and this makes me want to break the prism today even more).

2300 substats left to level 13. And I need to kill the Big Wisniewski. That is not going to be easy. Delivering withstanding massive amount of damage. I'll need ~9 casts of fearful fettucini or ~7 casts of Weapon of the Pastalord if I bought it. Things would be easier with the Man. I can try buying some superamplified boom boxes to bring him down to a better manageable level. Or play is save with the pirate juice. I have 18 adventures until semi-rare and I still need to level up.

[1447-1454] The Haunted Conservatory - looking for potato but got none.

[1455-1464] The Haunted Wine Cellar - getting great wines and almost completing bounty.

[1465] Collected irradiated pet snacks. Considering the trouble with the potato and that I do not have an agry goat, I guess, +10 fam weight boost will save more.

[1466-1467] The Haunted Wine Cellar - bounty completed.

[1468-1480] The Haunted Ballroom - turning +5NC back on. Got 2x worn tophat and 2x dancecard.

[1481-1513] The Haunted Bathroom - leveling up. 58 substats to level 13.

[1514] The Haunted Ballroom - Matilda.

[1515] Hippy Camp - Big Wisniewski down, reached level 13. I used 7 superamplified boom boxes and then noodles and fearful fettucini. Less would probably suffice. Thinking about it, I forgot to use Hella Smooth.

Hmmmm... I have 3 adventures, 7 fullness and 5 drunkenness left. Things are looking grim.

Gates: I need adder bladder, tamarind-flavored chewing gum and potion of mental acuity. Fortunately, I have the first 2. I have 6 of the 9 ! potions, none of them identified and none of the 2x.

I say - take the risk. Bingo! 2nd potion I tried was the right one (1st one gave me teleportitis, but that is no problem). The hope lives. I am behind the gates.

Perpexing door - skeleton key cost me a lot of MP. I decided to be greedy and not to buy Cocoon.

[1516-1520] The Sorceress' Courtyard - 5 adventures is not too bad.

The tower, ouch.
[1520] Tower floor 1 - possessed pipe-organ - this is really bad, used green smoke bomb. Powdered organs are tricky - 1/3 chance to encounter the right monster, 30% item drop and then <50% to get them. No zapping :-(. Untinkering meat engine, building 4-d camera.

[1520] The Middle Chamber - good luck. Got the servant, the jar and the organs. Too bad, I wasted a 4-d camera, but the chances were low.

[1521] Tower floor 1 - possessed pipe-organ again.

[1522] Tower floor 2 - giant fried egg - I am ready for you (yesterday's lucky zap).

[1523] Tower floor 3 - Bronze Chef - damn, using my last green smoke bomb.

[1523-1530] The Haunted Kitchen - bad luck, delayed by a bad moon adventure and a pastamancer adventure as well.

[1531] Tower floor 3 - Bronze Chef again.

[1532] Tower floor 4 - darkness.

[1533] Tower floor 5 - endangered inflatable white tiger

[1534] Tower floor 6 - giant bee.

Shadow - 1 scented massage oil + 2 gauze garters.

1st familiar: potato - need barrrnacle.

Brother Corsican's Blessing

[1536-1545] The Cake-Shaped Arena - hoped for lead necklace, but got sucky decal.

2nd familiar: giant mosquito - need sabre-toothed lime. Good. If I could have saved 10 adventures by using irradiated pet snacks before, but the risk was too high.

And now for the final task. Eating my final meal - Sneaky Pete's key lime pie. 20 adventures remaining. Fullness and drunkenness at maximum.

Using dance card to collect moxie after 3 loses to NS.

Going in to try her defenses and lower the block rate. And guess what...I won. Unbelievably good luck. In all my previous runs, the block rate was simply too high to succeed and I had better equipment. Not this time. I even ran out of MP at the end of the combat, because I did not bother to go in with full MP. In total:
1st form: 1x noodles, 2x fearful fettucini doing ~230 damage per hit
2nd form: 1x noodles, 2x fearful fettucini, 1x canelloni cannon, 1x super-amplified boombox (+ some blocked spells)
She was hitting for 40-50 HP, and I was left with <50 HP at the end of the combat.

Stats when fighting:
Muscle: 110 (94) ~240 HP
Mysticality: 175 (149)
Moxie: 117 (101)

Equipment when fighting NS:
reinforced beaded headband
bronze breastplate
Staff of the Black Kettle
kickback cookbook
bullet-proof corduroys
bejeweled pledge pin
Nickel Gamma of Frugality
pirate fledges

Familiar: 10 pound barrnacle with sucky decal

Total length: 11 days, 1546 adventures. I am happy with this result.

Now, let's play traveling trader and with BRICKO.

Bad moon aftercore is not that cool, so I ascended once more to make use of the BM reward in another Pastamancer run. I permed Leash of Linguini.

The new run went OK, I managed to make 2 gourd potions and collect a bounty in the Haunted pantry. Then I cleaned the tavern and built the basic chefstaff - 2-3 MP regeneration and +20% spell strength is nice.

I had enough max. MP to drink with Ode to Booze and adventure gains were good. I even managed to collect a oxy-dropped semi-rare.

Hermit had 3 clovers today and so I got them.

Finally, I found Fernwarthy's grave (that took a long time) and then exchanged clover for a brain and made a meat maid.

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

Tomorrow, I should build EW and in-boxes. Getting steel margarita would be good as well. The Brimstone Brooch should be fun. Though, I might need Springy Fussily to compensate the moxie penalty.

On the beach

2nd mysticlaity day of this run.

Auto-selling dictionary, buying Leash.

[1134-1139] The Haunted Wine Cellar - 4 great wines (and also 2 spices and 2 wine-soaked bone chips). Now, I also have 11 out of 20 corks for bounty hunter. I should return here and collect the rest later today.

Hella smooth ran out.

[1140] The Poop Deck - saying the password.

[1141-1150] Belowdecks - got snakehead charrrms and another spices. 10 adventures is more then average.

[1151-1163] The Palindome - got hard-boiled ostrich egg, photograph of God, ketchup hound, stunt nuts, 2 leather chaps, jumbo olive, 3 olives and spices. That's 4 spices today with just 1 yesterday and the day before. Time to abandon the swashbuckling pants. The last item is elusive and I am out of MP/HP now.

[1164] The Arid, Extra-Dry Desert - found the oasis.

[1165-1169] The Hidden Temple - recharging MP, spelled Bananas.

[1170-1176] The Palindome - another hound, and another stunt nuts and then finally hard rock candy. And then twice Sun at Noon, Tan Us and Elf Farm Raffle ticket - damn. Finally Drawn onward.

[1177-1178] Cobb's Knob Laboratory - Mr. Alarm on 2nd adventure. Why?

[1179-1187] Whitey's Grove - lion oil curse continues. 5 bird ribs for 1 lion oil. I wished they were zappable.

[1188] Cobb's Knob Laboratory - got Mega Gem.

[1189] The Palindome - Dr. Awkward is down.

[1190] The Hidden Temple - hidden city unlocked.

[1191-1210] The Hidden City - finished the quest and bottle of alcohol, pygmy pygment, jungle drum, pygmy blowgun and fat stacks of cash from briefcase. I'd say this is a pretty good hidden city turncount and drops.

Pasting Staff of Ed.

[1211-1249] The Oasis & The Arid, Extra-Dry Desert - drum machine was a biggest delay, it took like 15 adventures to get. Another problem was me not finding a bronzed locust. And Mafia auto-ultrahydrated me when I did not wish it and hence wasted an adventure and a chance to get anticheese.

[1250-1252] The Upper Chamber - finding the wheel.

I am out of the rollover and saved-from-yesterday adventures now. Dinner time. 1x spooky lo mein, 3x olive lo mein, 1x brown sugar cane. Finally a decent diet - 65 adventures + a MP boost from the noodle dishes for my Pastamancer.

Using deodorant.

[1253-1275] The Middle Chamber - turning the wheel.

Buffed a bit for the fight. Maybe I should have saved the ant agonist for the shadow. The fight went well.

[1276-1282] Dealing with Ed.

1250 stats left to level 12. Luckily, mysticality day is today. Although there are minor tasks to do, I guess I'll level up as fast as possible, because the battlefield won't take me to whole way to level 13.

[1283-1287] The Haunted Bathroom - thumb war on 1st, 3rd adventure, mirror gazing on 4th, 5th. 175 substats left. I guess I get those in the cellar.

[1288-1291] Cellar - no great wine, 3 corks. 80 substats left.

[1292] Harem - getting 3 vials of scented massage oil. Better be on the safe side with the shadow. It can also be useful during the final war boss fight.

[1293-1295] Cellar - 2 great wines, no corks. Reached level 12.

[1296-1311] The Orcish Frat House - in frat boy ensemble disguise. Got the uniform (and 2/3 of hippy uniform from a spy).

Using deodorant. I guess there is not many places left, where it is useful.

[1312-1315] The Hippy Camp - got the last part of war hippy fatibues, then war has started.

Since I have both uniforms, I can decide which side to support. I planned to be a frat boy recruit, do the beach (with the help of 3 reodorants) and skip the nuns, because I have no leprechaun and I would not be able to get 2 inhalers in time. I'll probably stick to this plan although taking the hippy side has numerous advantages as well, mainly the +5 familiar weight boost and frat boy vulnerability to spooky (though I did not pick up fearful fettucini yet).

Well, let's play it risky as a frat boy. The beach will decide my fate in this contest.

Drinking some wine, some Supernova Champagnes and remaining thermos full of Knob coffee.

[1316-1319] The Haunted Bathroom - defeated guy made of bees & placed rock band flyers.

[1320-1331] Junkyard - got wrench bracelet and gremlin juice on last adventure. Used a lot of restorers.

Now, I need to: turn off -5% NC ballroom song. I can also gamble in the tavern and look for beer lens. I have box and a spring. Another option is building monster bait. OK, bad joke, but I'll try the tavern. The first beer lens often come after 1-2 adventures.

[1332-1334] The Typical Tavern - 2 drunkenness and beer lens on 3rd adventure. That is ~ 9 adventures lost. I hope the 4-d camera used on the beach would compensate this.

Using my last deodorant.

[1335] The Haunted Ballroom - got the song adventure on first try - switched to +5 item drop.

[1336-1346] The Haunted Library - hoping for ancient evil scroll, an elemental cookbook and fearful fettucini. Got inkwells, pens, Sinful Desires and fearful fettucini. No tattered scrap of paper. Maybe later.

Using reodorants.

[1347-1359] Sonofa Beach + 1 4-d camera fight - good luck I say. I also got 3 limes, so food is not going to be problem tomorrow.

Using guy made off bee pollen.

[1360-1366] The Dungeons of Doom - burning remaining +combat runs. Got some ! potions.

[1367-1375] The Battlefield (Frat Uniform) - fights are relatively easy at this point.

Hella smooth, Peeled Eyeballs. (+130 item drop)

[1376-1377] The Hatching Chamber - no drops.

Zapped ancient spice and got black pepper this time.

Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 86
Mysticality: 133
Moxie: 89
Days played this run: 10

I might be able to finish tomorrow if I do not run into a black pepper problem or something similarly problematic. I am still missing lots of ! potions, potato, goat and some tower and gate items. The NS fight won't be easy, although with a cookbook and fearful fettucini and a bit of luck, I should be able to win.

Kingdom ride

[1040-1041] The Hole in the Sky - 2 lines. I am out of MP and HP again. The hole is a bit too hard for me now.

[1042-1046] The Haunted Bathroom - got a towel and that You Look Flushed bad moon adventure right when I did not need it. What now?

[1047-1060] The Hole in the Sky - fights are pretty tough here with -20 penalty to attrs, but that +100% to item drop is too precious. It did cost me 3 phonics down, but I got 13 lines, 18 stars and 2 star charts. I made all the needed star accessories and was left with 4 lines - I guess that's OK.

Now, I really need to level up fast to get to a good source of booze. 1900 substats to go. There are few things left undone tough - I could use few turns in the library to get my Fearful fettucini.

Another thing to consider is the fact that tomorrow is a mysticality day and saving as much adventures would be good.

[1061-1083] The Haunted Bathroom - said guy made of bees 4 times.

[1084-1086] The Haunted Bedroom - got antique hand mirror, chintzy noodle ring and half of a memo.

[1087-1098] The Haunted Bathroom - reached level 11.

[1099-1102] The Black Forest - got map, broken wings, sunken eyes, adder bladder and black pension check.

Semirare - knob goblin lunchbox. I decided to gamble and skip nuns this run. I'd rather level up my familiars in the cake arena.

[1103-1109] I stupidly forgot to buy forged documents and had to do 2 vacations to get the diary.

[1110-1112] The Haunted Ballroom - opening cellar.

Booze drop blessing.

[1113-1114] Cellar - got the needed wines.

Oil of Parrrlay.

[1115] Fighting Lord Spookyraven. Pastamancer really rocks against Spookyraven.

Hm, I really wanted some wine to drink today.

[1113-1132] Cellar - until enough wines. Got that damned Cupshotten.

Zapped dehydrated caviar, but got ancient spice :-(.

Saving adventures for tomorrow.

[1133] Mixing and drinking vodka and cranberry.

Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 70
Mysticality: 107
Moxie: 74
Days played this run: 9

Pastamancer in the sky

[888-900] The F'c'le - got barrrnacle. Still no rigging shampoo.

[901-935] The Valley of Rof L'm Fao - finishing the quest took very long and despite the bad ascii art. I only got one extra 30669, but a lot of sandwiches.

Cooked spooky lo mein and Sneaky Pete lime pie (zapped a cherry).

[934-966] The F'c'le - getting rigging shampoo was really painful. 3 barrrnacles in total, even some pieces of clingfilm.

[967-968] Mixing 2 old-fashioneds.

[969-970] The Beanbat Chamber - getting enchanted bean.

Hella Smooth

[971-1004] The Penultimate Fantasy Airship - got metallic A, torpedo, bronze breastplate, S.O.C.K. and lots of other stuff.

[1005-1010] The Castle in the Sky - got D, G, and giant needle.

[1011-1014] Mixing eggnog, 2x monkey wrench, and strawberry daiquiri. I hope to drink wine from the cellar tomorrow.

[1015-1028] The Castle in the Sky - got chaos butterfly, plot hole and all quest items for quantum egg.

[1029-1039] The Hole in the Sky - 7 lines, 8 stars, 2 star charts.

Final stats:
Level: 10
Muscle: 65
Mysticality: 92
Moxie: 68
Days played this run: 8

Some of the quests took quite long. I only got only single spices today. More is needed!

Chefstaffing

[731-739] The Goatlet - got the remaining cheese and 2 bottles of whiskey.

Finished trapper quest with help of a double-barreled sling.

[740] Cobb's Knob Kitchens - finally collecting my KGE outfit.

[741-743] The Goatlet - hoped for another cheese for an angry goat while blessing is on, but no luck.

[744-746] The Defiled Cranny - got the first noncombat.

[747-750] The Defiled Alcove - got the first noncombat.

[751-755] The Defiled Niche - got shimmering tendrils and the first noncombat.

[756-763] Barrrney's Barrr - got mere 3 insults. Insulting was unexpectedly successful and repeating.

[764-776] Whitey's Grove - hoping for catgut, but got loads of white snake skin and bird ribs instead. Also white lightning.

Out of initial adventures - drinking white lightning.

[777-779] Mixing 2 old-fashioneds and 1 sangria.

[780-781] Whitey's Grove - got catgut, but sadly no lion oil.

Cooking menudo. There goes the only spices I got from the spice ghost today. Still need cup of hippy herbal tea.

[782] The Batrat and Ratbat Burrow - got bat guano and bat wing.

Now I need 7000 meat for Spirit of Rigatoni, 1500 for big stirring stick and 300 for magical mystery juice. That 1000 meat more than I have. Auto-selling shimmering tendrils and yeti furs. Damn - I auto-sold my concentrated magicalness pill back then when meat was scarce.

Drinking remaining white lightnings.

[783-790] Barrels - got the pill and also jug-o-magicalness while I was at it. Costly trip.

And now I have my shiny Staff of the Teapot Tempest. The Staff of the Black Kettle is close, but I do not have 75 mysticality yet, so trying to get it now would be counter-productive.

[791-796] Barrrney's Barrr - one more insult, map, some mixed drinks and rums.

[797] Mixing eggnog.

[798-801] Barrrney's Barrr - 6 insults should be enough.

I am low on MP and the crab seems to tough now. Furthermore, I'll have problems in the frat house.

[802-806] The Defiled Cranny - some more non-combats.

[807] The Defiled Niche - another non-combat -> level 9.

Doing the strange leaflet side-quest - stats gained. Using house, cooking omelette.

[808] Booty crab.

[809-811] The Haunted Bathroom - burning some excess MP (who would expect that) in a higher-level zone.

[812-821] The Orcish Frat House - 3x deodorant, some (mostly useless) drinks and frat outfit.

[822-826] Barrr, Dentures, Beer Pong.

Hella smooth.

[827-832] The F'c'le - mizzenmast mop.

Runned out of MP and HP.

[833-839] The Valley of Rof L'm Fao - recharging MP - no interesting drops.

Zapped Boris's ring into Sneaky Pete's key. Cooking & eating 2 lime pies (and I am out of limes now).

[840-844] The Valley of Rof L'm Fao - frustrating. Total 2x 33398 scroll, 2x pr0n legs, 2x fedora. No useful drops.

[845-851] The Defiled Niche - 2x tendrils for nice money boost, some myst substats. Lihc down.

[852] The Defiled Alcove - conjoined zombies ate my brain, but fell.

[853-858] The Defiled Cranny - ghoul down.

[859-864] The F'c'le - got some substats - myst at 75. Going for a chefstaff update.

[865] Mining - got asbestos ore.

The mighty Staff of the Black Kettle is mine. I am invincible. Sort of.

[866-876] The Spooky Forest - found hidden temple, 3 spooky mushrooms (hoped for spices) and Torso Awaregness. I'll get a shirt from bad ascii art and possibly from penultimate airship.

[877-881] The F'c'le - got ball polish. Ravioli Shurikens are actually powerful enuough to kill the pirates with the new chefstaff and noodles.

[882] Bonerdagon down.

[883-887] The F'c'le - nothing of interest.

Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 56
Mysticality: 78
Moxie: 58
Days played this run: 7

Problem with food is back, but not that much urgent. I am out of limes again and I need more spices per day. Maybe I'll be able to zap a cherry tomorrow.

Quest rush

[583] The Haunted Ballroom - beaten up by first hit (critical, I suppose).

[584-586] 8-Bit Realm - 1 blue, 1 white, 6 green.

[587] The Haunted Ballroom - combat frequency decreased.

[588-594] Itznotyerzitz Mine - got the mining gear (relatively fast, I guess).

[595-596] The Defiled Alcove - got another loose teeth - I should have gambled more with the skeleton keys yesterday.

[596-614] The Dark Neck of the Woods - another 19 adventures until I got the dodecagram. Am I cursed.

[615] The Dark Heart of the Woods - got box of birthday candles. Maybe I am not cursed.

[616-624] The Dark Elbow of the Woods - eldritch butterknife. Partially cursed. Or more, if I count in the adventures spent here yesterday.

[625-632] The Obligatory Pirate's Cove - got pants and parrot. I already had the eyepatch from Degrassi Knoll.

[633] The Haunted Bathroom - adventuring here at this point would be feasible, although MP exhausting. There are more pressing issues. Food and drinks.

[634-635] The Haiku Dungeon - got second bugbear beanie - zapping time.

Bought odor extractor. Hella Smooth (for the +item).
Going after cherries and limes. Pastamastery is nice, but with 2 spices and few mushrooms, I also need alternative food source. Besides, I need cherry for a chefstaff and a better drink now and then is handy as well.

[636-676] Cobb's Knob Menagerie, Level 1 - 9 cherries, 5 limes. With over +80% item drop, I expected better results.

[677-708] The Deep Fat Friars' Gate - getting the 3 items + mixing drinks (have no bartender and I am not getting one, one brain nightmare was enough).

[709-721] Itznotyerzitz Mine (in Disguise) - mining linoleum ore.

[722] The Goatlet - opening goatlet.

[723] The Deep Fat Friars' Gate - got steel margarita.

[724] Cocktailcrafting.

[725-730] The Goatlet - 2x cheese and 1 bottle of whiskey.

Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 43
Mysticality: 61
Moxie: 45
Days played this run: 6

Well, things are slow, but I hope things will change soon. I should kill bonerdagon and finish the trapper quest tomorrow. Then the level 9 quest.

Badly needed tools

[435-441] The Haunted Library - tattered scrap of paper + second floor open.

[442-460] Tower ruins - finally my first disembodied brain. I spent roughly 50 turns getting it. Definitely not worth it. Now I need my hippy outfit.

[461] Whitey's Grove - found the road to white citadel.

[462-466] The Road to White Citadel - got herbs and my second filthy knitted dread sack, that is annoying. Need more meat to be able to get the wand.

[467] Whitey's Grove - got those 5000 meat and -20% to attrs.

[468-481] The Enormous Greater-Than Sign - getting book and teleportitis.

[482-486] Teleporting without success. Used my single tattered scrap of paper on last adventure, but oracle did not come anyway.

[487-488] The Enormous Greater-Than Sign - runned out of adventures.

Cooking Knoll lo mein, buying Gluttony.

[489-498] The Enormous Greater-Than Sign - finally got teleportitis and oracle next turn - 4 turns of teleportitis remaining.

[499-502] Barrels - 3 drinks, 1 stat item.

[507-508] The Dungeons of Doom - getting the wand and obtaining filthy corduroys.

Is steel margarita worth a try? I guess so.

[509-518] The Dark Elbow of the Woods - no luck.

[519-528] The Dark Heart of the Woods - no luck here either.

[529-530] The Dark Neck of the Woods - nothing of importance.

Is it actually required to talk to the friars?
Cooking and eating ravioli della hippy. I need some MP.

[531-533] The Dark Neck of the Woods - 2 stupid hellions & W-imp - wussiness potion. I am out of MP.

[534-539] The Haunted Bedroom - got spectacles, English to A. F. U. E. Dictionary, 2 wallets & moxie substats.

[540-541] The Dark Neck of the Woods - ruby W.

[542] The Outskirts of Cobb's Knob - false semi-rare number.

[543-546] The Dark Neck of the Woods - nothing of interest. Since I do not have any of the items, getting steel margarita today is not realistic anymore.

[547-552] The Haunted Bedroom - I had to run away 4 times.

[553] Barrels - strawberry wine.

[554] The Outskirts of Cobb's Knob - lunchbox.

[555-556] The Haunted Bedroom - got ballroom key.

Hella Smooth & simple buffs.
Buying Cannelloni Cannon.

[557-558] The Haunted Ballroom - tap shoes, then beaten up.

[559-561] 8-Bit Realm - 3 red and 6 white.

Looking at the daily dungeon, I see 4 locked doors, but I have no key.

[562-566] The Defiled Nook - 1 skeleton key.

[567-569] Daily dungeon - the key just had to break in the first door.

[570] The Defiled Nook - got 1 skeleton key and lost it on the next door.

[571-572] The Defiled Nook - giant skeleton defeated. Now I have lots of bones, but no teeth. I hope I get some in the alcove.

[574-577] The Defiled Alcove - got the teeth and also coffin lid and the watch. Hm, should I gamble?

I did and guess what - the key broke in the next door as well. This sucks so much. I force the last one and pray the teeth come before the noncombat.

[578-579] Daily dungeon - Boris's key (& beaten up by the sturdy door).

[580-581] 8-Bit Realm - 4 green, 1 white, 1 black. Now I have all I need for the digital key, but I would be left with just 1 red pixel potion. That does not sound so good.

[582] The Defiled Alcove - got the teeth and reached level 8. Trapper wants linoleum :-(.

8 adventures left, I am low on both HP and MP. Since I cannot achieve anything significant right now, I guess I'll wait for tomorrow. Priorities are the ballroom song and (finally!) the steel margarita. I should start thinking about a chefstaff.

Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 36
Mysticality: 53
Moxie: 38 (moxie day today)
Days played this run: 5

Damned

Let's start.

[310] Beaten up by goblin king - I just had to try to get meat. No big deal, because I have one more perfume.

[311-313] Tower ruins - no disembodied brain, but at least the quest is finished.

[314-316] South of the border - some chewing gum and 4000 meat + beaten up.

[317-318] 8-Bit Realm - 4 blue, 1 white.

[319-321] Sewers - spices & trinket -> planks.

[322-325] Barrels - margarita, monkey wrench, salty dog, tequila sunrise - good.

[326] The Spooky Forest - beaten up is gone now.

[327-343] 8-Bit Realm - 8 red, 10 blue, 4 green, 14 white, 13 black.

[344-349] Vacation - barbed-wire fence, 3 (useless) little paper umbrellas and the plans.

[350-351] Remaining guild challenges. Buying kickback cookbook.

[352-353] The Orcish Frat House - got I Just Wanna Fly.

Hella Smooth, hair spray, etc.

[354] Pirate's Cove - Remembarrr the Main (the buff was kind of unnecessary.

[355] The Knob Goblin King (while I am buffed).

[356-362] The Hippy Camp - filthy knitted dread sack, 2 greasy dreadlocks, 2 Spanish flies.

[363] Semi-rare - 3 bottles of distilled fortified wine.

[364-376] The Hippy Camp - some more flies and dreadlocks. Caught Socialismydia :-(.

[377-383] Daily dungeon - key broke in first door. Got Boris's ring, damn.

[385-386] Cooking 2 bowls of evil spicy noodles. Socialismydia did wear off.

[387-408] The Hippy Camp - more flies and bounty finished. Sadly no pants.

[409] The Defiled Nook - got smart skull.

[410-412] Tower ruins.

[413] Cooking another evil spicy noodles.

[414-419] Tower ruins. No brain (no sweeper).

[420-421] Cooking evil delicious spicy noodles (found herbs in the hippy camp).

[422-430] Tower ruins. No brain (1 sweeper).

[431-432] The Orcish Frat House - swapped the flies.

[433-435] Tower ruins. No brain (no sweeper).

That's all for today - no chef-in-a-box (or any other in-a-box), no hippy outfit, no steel margarita, low stats...

Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 30
Mysticality: 44
Moxie: 29
Days played this run: 4

Things left undone

Buying Envy for 800 meat.

[209-215] Degrassi Knoll, found screwdriver and the missing meat car parts.

[216-220] Sewers (bad luck really). -> Sweet rims. -> Meat car.

[221-223] Vacation.

[224-235] The "Fun" House, got bugbear beanie, 3x clown skin, long skinny balloon, 2x box, 2x lemon, big red clown nose and some other stuff.

[236] The Dark Elbow of the Woods - lost a fight with L imp.

[237-239] Crafting clown clownskin belt and clown wig.

[240-242] Cobb's Knob Harem, got Knob Goblin harem pants.

[243-246] The Haunted Billiards Room, got 8-ball and Spookyraven library key. Good luck I guess.

[247-248] The "Fun" House, got high-octane olive oil.

[249] Smiting Greek Pasta of Peril.

[250] Cooking spicy noodles.

[251-256] Barrels, 3 drinks, 1 explosion, 1 super-seltzer.

[257] Beanbat chamber for enchanted bean.

[258-260] Vacation - stick of dynamite.

[261-263] Sewers. trinket -> jabanero pepper.

[264] The Haunted Pantry -> tomato.

[265-268] Cooking insanely spicy enchanted bean burito and boring spaghetti. I wish I had the chef.

[269-271] Nemesis Cave - no drops :-(.

[272] Cooking spicy noodles.

[273-274] Degrassi Knoll - got 2000 and -20 myst and mana.

[275-276] South of the Border hoping for more meat.

[277-278] Crafting lemon meringue pie.

[279-284] Nemesis Cave - evil noodles, 4 paper strips.

[285] Crafting margarita.

[286-288] Barrel full of barrels for schnapps.

[289-300] Nemesis Cave - 3 evil noodles, 4 paper strips -> Colander of Em-er'il.

Eating Lord of the Flies-sized fries.

[301-305] Cobb's Knob Kitchens, nothing of value.

Eating another Lord of the Flies-sized fries.

[306-308] Vacation -> tropical orchid.

[309] Beaten up in The Haunted Library :-(. It was close.

Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 24
Mysticality: 36
Moxie: 23
Days played this run: 3

Bad day. I need a cookbook badly.