OK, let's see what from the yesterday's plan can I accomplish today:
Clearing the rest of buried pyramid: 30 adventures.
Farming in the hole in sky: 36 adventures.
Farming for goat milk while having +item drop effect I used in the sky: 2 adventures (and got one!)
I decided not to do the sonofa beach quest. This will prolong my fighting on the battlefield by ~25 turns, but it is likely that adventuring on the beach would take more. The beach is a great place for people with skills and pompadour puppy, but sucks for newbies like me.
On the battlefield reaching the junkyard: 16 adventures
I am now level 13.
Retrieving the tools: 10 adventures
I started using the NS familiars to level them to 5 pounds. I only have the irradiated pet snacks and I will be able to get a buff from the arena, but I have no other items - no lead necklace, no bar skin, no whistle from the dungeons of doom and no elite goblin uniform.
Collecting semi-rare item: 1 adventure (distilled fortified wine, since I already ate what I could and I need adventures badly)
On the battlefield reaching the arena: 18 adventures (delayed by a clod hopper) (got Elmley shades, sweet!)
Looking for the guy made of bees in the bathroom to invite him to the concert: 23 adventures
Clearing the battlefield: 17 adventures
Killing The Man: 1 adventure (with philter of phorce and serum of sarcasm to be on the safe side, 8 thrust smacks got rid of him)
2 of my NS familiars have now 5 pound and 3 on have 4. My biggest problem now is the digital key, and I also have not identified the ! potions. If I get teleported or drunk, I'll be in trouble.
I have 2 adventures and 11 drunkenness left.
Looking at the gates, I am sure I will not make it today. 2 items I do not have and the 3rd needs teleportitis.
I spend 2 adventures in the sewer exchanging clovers for trinkets and then buying ancient seal figurines to use the potioned adventures in a partially useful way. No items dropped from the heat seals.
Into the black forest for Black No.2: 3 adventures (lucky!)
Heading south for a jabanero chewing-gum (used clover after 7 adventures): 8 adventures
Now I'll need another clover for the skeleton.
Spent 6 turns in the barrel and 4 fishing in the sewer: 10 adventures (teleportitis is gone now)
Found just one worthless item and traded it for clover.
19 adventures left and I need 27 white pixels - there is no real chance to collect them with my skills so I headed bounty hunting. Collected the bounty (mechamechs are easy to find with +20 ML).
I got no floaty sand today despite running into multiple clod hoppers. Mall price is 7000 meat. Lobsters cost 23000/35000. Crystallized memory is at 430000.
Final stats:
Level: 13
Muscle: 154 (19 more needed for level 14)
Mysticality: 109
Moxie: 120
Days played this run: 12
If I only had the pixels... Never mind, I will climb the tower tomorrow. That is if I do not run into the giant egg, like the last time.
Picked and planted new mushrooms - I am planting 12 knoll spores and 4 knob spores per day and selling them for about 8000 meat (760 cost the spores). It seems the most profitable strategy.
Time race - lost
Paying the debts
Today, I had to finish lots of older quests. The holy MacGuffin quest is almost complete, I am in the pyramid and I got the token.
The bandits in the hills are delat with and I have been adventuring on the battlefield, clearing the path to the Sonofa Beach. But I cannot continue, because I have the +5% noncombat modifier running in the haunted ballroom. That needs to be turned off before I adventure on the beach. But because it is so beneficial, I need to prepare the guy made of bees and clear the pyramid first. I am not sure, whether it is worth it to invest into building a monster bait. Since I only have few pixels and no digital key, the answer is probably no.
Floaty sand costs 8000 meat and lobsters 30000/40000 meat. Crystallized memory has fallen to 320000.
Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 140 (8 left to level 13)
Mysticality: 99
Moxie: 112
Days played this run: 11
Reaching level 13 tomorrow will be easy, but there is only a very slim chance of defeating the sorceress. Considering the fact that I have no stars yet and only few pixels. Let's see:
* ~30 adventures - finishing the holy MacGuffin quest.
* ~40 adventures - saying guy made of bees.
* ~30 adventures - farming stars and lines.
* ~50 adventures - on the sonofa beach.
* ~30 adventures - in the junkyard.
* ~25 adventures - on the battlefield.
* ~30 adventures - in the lair.
* ~40 adventures - farming pixels for the digital key.
That is a total of 275 adventures. I could probably save adventures by skipping the sonofa beach, but I have to do the arena due to familiar weight buff. That means I'll be some 100 adventures short. Only extreme luck could help me here. And even in that case I may not defeat the sorceress.
Quests lagging
At the start of the day, I have summoned one more seal,but only got a second sizzling seal fat.
Then I picked my black mushrooms and created the spooky fairy. Obtaining the small glove took ages - 40 adventures or so. Felonia fell and I got the rewards. Not sure if it was worth it.
I had to trade 3 of the mushrooms and make mushroom wine. Lots of potential meat is lost.
Another 15 adventures looking for a goat milk. I should not have done that. I ate some stir fries, goblin pasties and apricots.
After that I managed to get the war started, cleaned the orchard and the farm to gain access to easily obtainable food. Though my chef exploded after cooking the wet stunt nut stew. And yes, this means I have dealt with Dr. Awkward.
I made enough meat to buy Double-fisted skull smashing and wielding the Hammer of smiting in the offhand helps with my muscle and damage dealt to monsters.
Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 130 (18 left to level 13)
Mysticality: 91
Moxie: 104
Days played this run: 10
The progress was poor, mainly due to the Felonia quest, where I wasted 40 adventures. Now I really have lots of spooky mushrooms.
Tomorrow, I should finish the holy MacGuffin quest, collect enough stars and another inhaler for the bandits quest. I want to start on the battlefield right after that.
Since I do not have the elite knob goblin uniform, I'll probably spend 10 turns in the arena and train my leprechaun and get a lead necklace. Thinking about that, I should be doing that on the first day, until I have a permed familiar buffing skill or even two.
Too much myst
Haunted library took just 1 adventure and now I can access the second floor of the manor. Though I would have to wait a bit to adventure there without a potion.
The daily dungeon provided Boris's key and a lengthy stay at the lemon slot machine got me limes (18 turns->4 limes) and some jumbo olives.
I managed to do the Friar quest and get the steel margarita with only a couple of adventures left. This was today's priority and the invested adventures shall pay themselves off in two days.
Then I decided to gamble a bit and adventured in the haunted bedroom. I got beaten up twice, but managed to get both the ballroom key and the wolf standard. I have yet to open the haunted gallery, but I am half way there (read the book).
Got one clover from the barrels, but I could not match the drinks with the accessories, so I decided to also farm the middle row. That proved a good move.
All three familiars (fairy, leprechaun, sombrero) have reached 11 pounds.
Although fighting two rock snakes and one homunculus, I got no floaty sand today (9500 at mall). Lobsters stay at 24000/30000.
Prices of the maple sap are rising, there are now 30+100 cheaper. I wonder whether the price rises to the target 120000 before next arrrbor day.
No one wants to buy my last banana smoothie. I need the sale to get my investment back.
I finally bought my Seal Clubber first skill - Superadvanced meat smiting today. I will need it for the Nemesis quest and to make chrome weapon - trapper wants asbestos ore.
Second generation mushroom spores are in place. I threw in 2 more knob mushroom spores, because I ate those mushrooms on pizza two days ago.
Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 53 (15 more needed for level 9)
Mysticality: 37 (only +7 despite being a mysticality day)
Moxie: 34
Days played this run: 5
I was surprised I actually got to level 8 some 3 adventures before the end of the day. Tomorrow's goal is obtaining goat's milk and make milk of magnesium before eating (I have one spare lime pie) and making a chrome weapon. If I somehow managed to get to level 9 and do the leaflet quest, things would look better. Who would refuse a tasty grue omelette? Though maybe the cyrpt quest should be completed first. The reward is worth it.
Cola wars are good
Things are getting better. After all the trouble yesterday, situation has improved.
In the start of the day, I picked the Knob Goblin lunchbox. That really helped because food and booze are still scarce. After that I finished the meatcar and got Fernswarthy key and his book. I managed to pick a brain during the quest and a smart skull came quickly. Turning the meatcar into a maid was a matter of 160 meat (115 returned to me for selling the spare parts).
Visit to the cola wars battlefield allowed me to gain stats quickly and I also picked up a shield. The whole uniform actually - it is handy as it regenerates 3 MP (that's 3*17 saved meat) per adventure and allows me to summon ingredients and such. It would probably be a good idea to go to the cola battlefield earlier in future runs.
Then I went to the fun house. I got plenty of boxes and since I also had multiple chef's hats from yesterday, I decided to go after another skull and brain. They came in a couple of turns and a chef in the box is now sitting in my campground, already saving me 4 adventures today. A single visit to the tavern got me beer lens. Unexpected, but I would do the chef first anyway.
Few more adventures at the Fun house got me the required items, but the sleeping door did not want to come and so I headed to the bat hole. I was switching between a fairy and a leprechaun today and the leprechaun was at level 9 when I started to adventure in the boss bat lair. I encountered like 5 bodyguards before the boss bat. Using the bell got me another 19 beefy bodyguards. I made about 8500 meat from them. It could be a bit more if I had some familiar weight boosting skills permed.
With 1 adventure left, I got back to the fun house, smashed Beelzebozo, and built the Hammer of Smiting.
Earlier today, I got the annoying pitchfork from the fairy in the bugbear pens and the mayor tasked me to breed the flaming mushroom - exactly the one I wanted. The meat made today allows me to buy the mushroom field. This is really fortunate, because today is the right day to start breeding black mushrooms.
Another fortunate event was getting 2 handfuls of floaty sands from the 2 rock snakes I encountered. This gives me the the needed 125 handfuls (with the 123 stored at Hagnk's). Mall price is 11500, lobsters dropped to 29000/35000.
At the end of the day, I had ~7500 meat. Still not enough to start buying the needed skills, since I will soon need 2500 to build a boat.
The day would be perfect if I also found I shirt to make use of the Torso awaregness skill.
Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 34
Mysticality: 23
Moxie: 22
Days played this run: 3