Finishing the orchard did not take long. Back to the battlefield reaching the nuns. But what now? The pyramid, waiting for another inhaler. And then the digital key, because more waiting is needed.
I got into a tower with very few adventures left.
The tower:
Fickle Finger of F8 - 2 adventures (used scrap of paper)
giant fried egg (am I really cursed?) - 2 adventures (used scrap of paper and clover)
Electron Submarine - 1 adventure
Big Meat Golem - 1 adventure
best-selling novelist - 1 adventure
collapsed mineshaft golem - 1 adventure
3 adventures and 3 drunkenness left, there is still hope. I had a little trouble with the shadow, because I did not have any red pixel potions and the poultices were not strong enough. The NS fell after 3 tries (I let her beat me to lower the block rate). The last try was a bit lucky - my sugar shield broke down after the 2nd form was down.
Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Pastamancer
Level: 13
Muscle: 149 (102)
Mysticality: 210 (151 without equipment)
Moxie: 149 (102)
Equipment:
sugar chapeau
star shirt
Staff of the Soupbone
Gazpacho's Glacial Grimoire
sugar shorts
Nickel Gamma of Frugality
bejeweled pledge pin
pirate fledges
Familiar:
Kruger, the Misshapen Animal Skeleton
Total length: 9 days; 1613 adventures; exploring the Shivering timbers first 2 days
I permed Spritit of Rigatoni, not a skill people would recommend, but I just like casting spells...
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A turtle tamer is me.
Final stats:
Class: Turtle Tamer
Level: 5
Muscle: 21
Mysticality: 13
Moxie: 12
Days played this run: 1
It was close
Cursed
Finding a pyramind never took so long and I still did not find it when I reached level 12. So I went to the island and started the war, did the arena quest, the junkyeard and started fighting on the battlefield. I reached the orchard, but did not have enough time to finish it.
Yeah and I missed my semi-rare. No 2nd inhaler for me.
Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 90
Mysticality: 136
Moxie: 91
Days played this run: 8
Pirate troubles
The Holy MacGuffing quest. I found the black market and did the cellar (except Lord Spookyraven). Then I went to the island and the pirates were troublesome. I spent ages on the F'c'le. Lots of cleaners, barrrnacles, but no mop.
I have given up the hope to ascend tomorrow and went bounty hunting (and demon name hunting into the spooky forest). No demon name though.
Not much else happened. I forgot to go to the daily dungeon and I do not have a wand. This could be a problem. But since ascending tomorrow is unrealistic, it does not matter much yet.
Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 78
Mysticality: 118
Moxie: 79
Days played this run: 7
Leveling up
A mysticality day. I gathered the pirate outfit and got the dictionary, then I needed to open the second floor of the manor and level up and wait for a semi-rare bad ascii art. I got it and collected some more scrolls before the adding machine came. I decided to do the 31337 scroll first to trade my 3 trinkets for clovers. The quest can wait.
Then more leveling up and level 10 quest + raver giant bounty.
More leveling up until the end of the day.
I managed to instruct the quartet, learn fearful fettucini, say guy made of bees 4 times and get the antique mirror.
Final stats:
Level: 11
Muscle: 67
Mysticality: 105
Moxie: 69
Days played this run: 6
I am still behind in quests, I'll need to do the barrr to open the F'c'le tomorrow, but I wanted to use the myst day.
Suffering
Today was terrible. Lots of adventures spent looking for the white citadel, not found it, but got the outfit.
Goat cheese came quickly, but I wanted the bounty and spent 41 adventures there. Farming for cherry took ages as well, and I got 2 limes. Not that I need them.
When I finally built the Staff of the Soupbone, I realized I cannot use it yet due to its high mysticality requirement.
Then I got the epic hat an things started to look better.
By the end of the day, I did the daily dungeon and got an earring and decided to try the > sign as well. Finally some luck, 2nd adventure book, 3rd adventure teleportitis, 4th adventure oracle. 4 adventures fishing in the sewers - 3 trinkets.
Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 53
Mysticality: 68
Moxie: 55
Days played this run: 5
I only managed to save 7 adventures for tomorrow. Hopefully the stats from bonerdagon chest and the leaflet take me closer to the 75 require mysticality and I would be able to equip the chefstaff. A semi-rare is close and it might come just in time for the bad ascii art.
The goals are clear, do the level 9 quest, open library and bathroom and level up as fast as possible.
Underworld trunk opens?
Hm, the mysterious underworld trunk would not open. No matter, it is a solid piece of wood and it can now be crafted into 3 different weapons. The weapons are only usable in aftercore and each gives 10 substats to particular attribute and has other fancy features. I have not yet decided, which one I should choose.
The function of the underworld acorn remains unknown. Some speculate, it will be possible to plant it on next Arrrbor day and adventure in the shivering timbers again, chopping down the underworld tree again, get another trunk and craft a different weapon. It would surely be nice. Maybe it will happen, maybe not. And maybe it happens on Halloween instead on the Arrrbor day. That would make sense, since it would be possible to obtain the outfit and the ax again on Halloween. Finishing the whole quest is not hard even on a single day. We'll see.
Back to ascension stuff. Today was slow, at least I did the goblin king quest, got the glass balls, finished wizard of ego (nice timing here, I'll get 100 substats on myst day), made 4 shore trips and got all shore tower items, built chef, bartender and maid, cooked insanely enchanted bean burrito for the epic hat quest, got diamonds and chrome ore for the trapper. I also adventured in the cyrpt, but I did not kill any sub-bosses yet. Of course, I got the steel margarita.
Final stats:
Level: 8
Muscle: 43
Mysticality: 54
Moxie: 45
Days played this run: 4
Things are slowing down. I still do not have the LEW. I must obtain it and the epic hat tomorrow (need tomato for boring spaghetti). And then the chefstaff - I still need herbs (from road to white citadel), rib of the Bonerdagon (easy), bottle of whiskey (from a goat) and cherry (a problem - fruit golem or lemon party slot?). I also should do the goats bounty. Considering the tasks, it will be pretty hard if I wanted to save adventures for a myst day and make use of a milk of magnesium on 2 days.
End of arborween
The shivering timbers are gone now and the trick or treating icon in town is inaccessible. Back to ascending.
I had a lot to do today. I managed to get Harold's bell and farm the beefy bodyguards, but a mushroom plot with the made money and do the friars quest. Unfortunately, there were not enough adventures left to meet the pencil-necked demon, so I did not bother collecting the toys and build a meat car and EW instead. I am still working on the LEW. Not that it is overly useful, but the epic hat regenerates MP and that is useful.
Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 35
Mysticality: 45 (8 left to level 8)
Moxie: 39
Days played this run: 3
Priorities for tomorrow include getting the steel margarita, the epic hat, kill goblin king and bonerdagon, reach level 8 and get lump of diamond and some herbs to make myself a chefstaff.
Shivering Timbers closing
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.
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