So, I farmed bird rib, make the stew and got staff of fats. Then I waited a bit more for a 2nd inhaler. Then I finished the nuns and spend the remaining adventures on battlefield (no damn hero). I guess I will not wait for a second inhaler in my future runs unless I get the first one sooner.
My semi-rares currently include: lunchbox - distilled wine - lunchbox - ascii art - inhaler - lunchbox - inhaler
Then I had to finish the L11 quest.
The NS lair:
Gate of Spirit - OK.
Gate of Flame - clovering.
Gate of the Ogre - troubling - I could have gambled, but since I am in no hurry, I went the safe way.
Tower:
Fickle Finger of F8 - 1 adventure
Bowling Cricket - 5 adventures
malevolent crop circle - 6 adventures
fancy bath slug - 1 adventure
Tyrannosaurus Tex - 1 adventure
Enraged Cow - 1 adventure
Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Pastamancer
Level: 13
Muscle: 134 (100 without equipment)
Mysticality: 202 (154)
Moxie: 151 (99)
Max HP: 177
Equipment:
sugar chapeau
tuxedo shirt
Staff of the Soupbone
kickback cookbook
sugar shorts
bejeweled pledge pin
tap shoes
Nickel Gamma of Frugality
Familiar:
Kruger, the Misshapen Animal Skeleton with sugar shield
Run length: 8 days, 1387 adventures. Hm, not as good as it could have been.
I tried to make use of the Spirit of Rigatoni I permed previous Pastamancer run, but the only thing it did was save me the meat for the skill. The Staff of blood and pudding was hard to make because of the twinkly nugget and hence a 80-power item requirement. I have a really bad luck pulverizing those, setting various powders or elemental nuggets. I guess, I could have pulverized my stainless steel cap right in the beginning and pray. Next time, I'll probably try for one of the even simpler chefstaves.
I permed Cannelloni Cocoon.
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A Turtle Tamer is me.
On feast of Boris, the first day was longer. On of the special monsters have beaten me up, but I got 5 others. I'll be selling 3 low-level items in the mall.
I managed to get to level 6 and I had enough adventures to do the friar quest, but I was not strong enough, especially after my sugar shorts broke down.
Final stats:
Class: Turtle Tamer
Level: 6
Muscle: 32
Mysticality: 26
Moxie: 25
Days played this run: 1
A long day
The day before
I did the junkyard, the orchard and half of the nuns quest and then waited for a second inhaler. While waiting, I discovered the pyramid, got one glass of goat milk and got the wand.
Since there is no chance to ascend today and tomorrow is the feast of Boris, I decided to save adventures as well as the got milk effect.
I managed to zap dehydrated caviar into black pepper.
Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 88
Mysticality: 139 (9 left to level 13)
Moxie: 86
Days played this run: 7
Ascending tomorrow should be no problem. I only need to:
- finish the digital key (25 adventures)
- find and finish the hidden city (45 adventures)
- finish palindome (15 adventures)
- do the pyramid (60 adventures)
- finish nuns (10 adventures)
- finish war (50 adventures)
- do the NS lair (30 adventures)
That is a hefty 235 adventures, but I have 93 saved from today and with feast of Boris +15 fullness limit, I should have at least a 100 adventures left after freeing the king.
Like never before
With 100 saved adventures, the myst day was productive. I managed to reach level 10, do the level 10 quest and collect all stars and lines, then reach level 11 and kill lord Spookyraven, discover oasis and do the pirates and meet Mr.Alarm. Level 12 seemed near and I reached it right in time, started the war and said Guy made of bees for the 5th time and hence did the arena sub-quest and picked a buff for tomorrow.
Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 81
Mysticality: 130
Moxie: 78
Days played this run: 6
Well, it would be nice to rescue the king tomorrow, but the chances are slim. I still need 24 pixels, DoD potions and wand, find and clear the hidden city, find and clear the pyramid and then do the frat boy-hippy war. I actually wanted a 8-day run and ascend on feast of Boris. That means 2 days and that looks like a realistic plan.
In a hurry
Finishing the L9 quest and saving adventures for a myst day. Nothing particularly interesting.
Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 55
Mysticality: 75
Moxie: 54
Days played this run: 5
Back on the road
I have finished the bonerdagon quest, discovered DoD, but I have no wand, because I do not have the meat. The trapper quest would provide it, but I lack cold resistance. I should consider getting the exotic parrot soon.
I reached level 9 and got my hippy outfit from the non-combats.
The goat milk problem is back - I only got one despite spending extra adventures chasing goats.
I finally built the chefstaff of blood and pudding, but I expect to build and use the soupbone tomorrow.
Final stats:
Level: 9
Muscle: 51
Mysticality: 70
Moxie: 51
Days played this run: 4
3rd day slowdown
I did the stuff I skipped the first 2 days and hence the progress was slower. I also collected a bounty on clowns and that has slowed me down.
I have built a meatcar, my LEW, and I did the quests (except bonerdagon), opened 2nd floor and got Boris's key.
Final stats:
Level: 7
Muscle: 36
Mysticality: 46 (7 more to level 8)
Moxie: 39
Days played this run: 3
I still do not have the chefstaff - I am missing a twinkly nugget. I wonder where people obtain an item to smash into the nugget. I am thinking smashing the stainless steel cap is the only way to get it very soon (50% chance though). I can also smash my LEW or demon jacket, but the chances are low. I suppose I might get a suitable item during the cyrpt quest, but the chefstaff does not look so shiny now as it looked in the early days and soupbone is not that far away.
I must speed up, only 5 days left to feast of Boris.
No Hell ramen
Steel margarita was the priority #1 and hence I adventured on the cola battlefield. Since all stat gains equally probable there and today was a moxie day and due to a RNG unwillingness to give me myst stats, my moxie actually surpassed my mysticality at one point. Not ideal, but I do not complain.
Upon reaching level 6, I started doing the friar quest with sugar chapeau and sugar shorts. Fights were tough, but Ravioli shurikens did the job. When the broke, I continued just with the chapeau and things were even tougher. I got beaten up a couple of times and collected 7 worthless trinkets (and traded 2 of them for clovers). The hellions were pretty nasty, I encountered like 6 of them (one beat me up), but I got no cubes despite using the fairy all the time. The situation was really bad and I had to use the starting clover to get a knob goblin grab-bag to be able to cook a proper food. (Got 1 mushroom and 1 sausage of it, but Hell ramen would be better on the moxie day.)
In the end, I did it - I got the steel margarita with ~20 adventures remaining. The next priority was food source in the form of the mushroom field (damn hellion cubes). I adventures in the treasury and auto-sold all I could to make the 5000 for the field + 200 for hermit permits + 660 for mushroom sprouts. I also got 2 parts of the elite uniform - hopefully, I'll get the remaining one in the harem.
That's it - still no chefstaff - I need 1000 for hammer and then something with power 90 to pulverize (with luck) into twinkly nuggets and bloody mary. I'll probably try to make demon jacket and pulverize that if nothing better appears before I get bloody mary.
Final stats:
Level: 6
Muscle: 31
Mysticality: 36
Moxie: 32
Days played this run: 2
With the Knob Goblin elite shirt, the stainless steel skullcap, sugar shorts, coffin lid and infernal insoles, I actually became relatively good melee fighter. Unexpected.
I must start working on the quests, built a meatcar, the in-boxen, slay boss bat, goblin king and work on the bonerdagon once the quest becomes available. Actually making it to the level 8 tomorrow and use the blessing on the goats will be great...
Up and down
20 adventures in the ballroom, a new sugar shield and the fight was extremely easy. The Naughty Sorceress only took away 1/3 of my HP and I spent 2/3 of my MP. Block rate was minimal - unlike yesterday.
Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Turtle Tamer
Level: 13
Muscle: 209 (152 without equipment)
Mysticality: 144 (100)
Moxie: 178 (105)
Equipment:
nasty rat mask
tuxedo shirt
black sword
painted shield
sugar shorts
pirate fledges
tap shoes
Nickel Gamma of Frugality
Familiar:
Kruger, the Misshapen Animal Skeleton with sugar shield
Total length: 9 days; 1351 adventures; I am ashamed, but I should have been able to ascend yesterday. Those 20 extra turns and one sugar shield could were manageable.
This was my first run with Vent Rage Gland and I did not find the right place to use it. The MP cost seems high in the beginning and the damage low in the end. Maybe if I fought the baron...
Anyway, let's do a bounty hunt, then tame some turtles, and finally explore the slime tube for the first time.
While taming sleeping wereturtles, I got lucky and heard the demon name, it is: Gambaal Gazka. He should be helping me with the nun quest from now on.
I am perming Armorcraftiness.
Back to being a Pastamancer, my favorite class. Then, I realized I did not get the reward from mayor Zapruder. 50000 meat lost.
I managed to reaching level 4 in time - I had to eat one boring spaghetti and drink one bottle of cooking sherry, but then the gourd potion and one stat item saved me. I found the Fernwarthy grave and adventures on the battlefield until level 5, then I did a quick trip to the knob goblin kitchen and harem, but the area was a bit tough and I retreated back to the spooky forest, looking for the temple (but found nothing). At least I collected one bottle of used blood and I'll be building Staff of Blood and Pudding tomorrow.
Final stats:
Class: Pastamancer
Level: 5
Muscle: 15
Mysticality: 21
Moxie: 18
Days played this run: 1
Goals for tomorrow are friars and steel margarita, the cheffstaf, mushroom field and a cookbook.