Today was the El Dia de Los Muertos Borrachos day, one of the best holidays. With some save dtrns, I farmed a lot of corpse drinks. And then I ascended, perming Pastamastery.
A Turtle Tamer is me.
With the Tome of Sugar Shummoning, the progress was better than on my last run, but I had two problems. First, reaching 10 mysticality and then reaching level 4 soon enough. In the end I managed to solve them both, using sugar sheets (1 shield, 1 shirt, 1 pants).
I managed to kill Baron von Ratsworth using the Toss skill 2 times after buying Empathy (the sugar shield broke down before).
Final stats:
Class: Turtle Tamer
Level: 4
Muscle: 15 (5 left to level 5)
Mysticality: 11
Muscle: 11
Days played this run: 1
I must focus on eating better tomorrow - that means reaching level 6. Drinks are taken care of with the tavern swill and one spare lesser corpse drink.
Ascending again
End of farming getting near
After a couple of days of heavy farming, I finally got enough meat to purchase the Tome of Sugar Shummoning, it should be of great help during the first days of my future runs. It did cost almost 7 000 000 meat, the prices are really high due to a series of high quality items of the month.
I had to do some very bad deals on the way to get the meat and I had to sell all the floaty stuff. If the next item of the month is as good as the previous ones, I expect the floaty stuff to drop even more. If it is not as good, the floaty stuff may rise again as people like me would like to regain what they had to sell. I'll probably buy as much as possible and hope the second variant comes true.
Tomorrow is the El Dia de Los Muertos Borrachos KoL holiday and also my black mushrooms will be ready - an ideal day to ascend.
Chaos
Farming gets boring pretty fast. I even forgot to do the bounty today. Oh, well. Transcendent Olfaction is one more day away.
Need more meat...
Back to farming
I had to finish a fairy quest and it took damn long.
Then I invested some meat and finished building my El Vibrato megadrone. The missing part of the Misshapen animal skeleton is still too expensive and I am in no rush.
Other than that, I spent most of the time in the cloud castle farming.
Pastamancer strikes back
Heh, I finished the Island quest and got the Order of Silver Wossname medal. It did take just one more day and I collected quite a lot of stuff on the battlefield, also the wreath of laurels from a frat boy boss or the Elmley shades.
Into the lair:
No problems at the gates (used clover to get a bubble-gum).
Finished digital key in 2 adventures.
Topiary golems are piece of cake for a Pastamancer with fettucini and noodles.
Tower:
1. giant fried egg - got that bastard with a pepper I zapped yesterday :-).
2. Pretty Fly - tons of spider webs in my inventory (due to the neverending search for Harold).
3. Bronze Chef - I am quite picky and I always have lots of leftovers.
4. Giant Desktop Globe - plenty of letters this run.
5. Flaming Samurai - ouch, 9 turns of farming with makeshift scuba gear on ;-).
6. collapsed mineshaft golem - ouch, ouch, one vacation and I can help him get better again.
Minor problems, but manageable.
The doors, the shadow (2nd try using 2 poultices and 1 massage oil), the pets (lead necklace, magic whistle, irradiated pet snacks, knob goblin pet-buffing spray).
The sorceress:
I decided to do a little experiment the first time. Since I am already level 14 due to the longer battlefield and because I collected a couple of muscle boosting items and I have the stainless steel shillelagh, I tried to take her down by hand. The spell block rate would be too high anyway.
It did not work. With 211 muscle and 145 mox, I was hitting her for about 40 damage per round and so did she (I also stupidly left the detuned radio on 10).
With a different gear, the fight was easy. 1x noodles and 2x fearful fettucini on the first form and 3x on the second form and she was down. The rock lobster helped as well. From the 350 MP I used about 100. 86 out of 203 HP left.
Stats when defeating NS:
Class: Pastamancer
Level: 14
Muscle: 125 (175 with equipment)
Mysticality: 177 (217)
Moxie: 125 (155)
Days played this run: 14 (2224 adventures)
Equipment:
* wreath of laurels
* white hat hacker T-shirt
* Staff of the Black Kettle
* keg shield
* Boss Bat britches
* pirate fledges
* badass belt
* Order of the Silver Wossname
Familiar:
* Rock lobster with lead necklace
Well, my previous Seal Clubber run was faster by one day and 201 adventures, but I blame this on the Order of the Silver Wossname that prolonged the fight by over 200 adventures.
Let's farm. Oh, but first, let's get today's bounty hunt done.
I was using my shiny new rock lobster this run and it was a positive experience. In the 270 fights it dropped 6 handfuls of floaty sand. That is a nice bonus. It seems like the drop rate is around 2%.
Working on the Order of Silver Wossname medal
At the beginning of the day, I decided to finish the Holy MacGuffin quest. It took just 17+7 adventures. I have reached level 13 in the process.
Then I wasted 10 adventures in the haunted ballroom, but the required non-combat did not came. Tried the hole in the sky and made the star hat and the star crossbow, but it took quite long.
Alternating between the battlefield in hippy uniform and the Sonofa beach for recharging...
Since there was no chance to finish the battlefield in time, I decided to bountyhunt near the end of the day. It took 42 adventures, but at least I have enough of dusty bottles now (it is Merlot this time).
The Sonofa beach took a total of 44 adventures (and I did not get the demon name). Not great, but it still saved over 80 adventures on the battlefield and I now have lots of valuable trinkets. Wow.
Final stats:
Level: 13
Muscle: 116
Mysticality: 164 (9 left to level 14)
Moxie: 116
Days played this run: 13
Things to do tomorrow:
Finish frat boys: 110 adventures
End the war: 1 adventure
Collect 7 white pixels: ~15 adventures
Do the sorceress quest: ~30 adventures (if no major problems occur)
I got the black pepper by zapping today. That should eliminate the biggest problem in the tower.
I suppose I will be level 14 when fighting the sorceress and the fight should not be overly hard. I am using fairy on the battlefield to make more items and hence meat.
Going for the Silver Wossname
The decision has been made, I am going to get the Order of Silver Wossname medal this run (if I do not screw up). I was working on the island side-quests today.
Clearing the farm and finding the tools on the junkyard was easy. Distributin the rock band flyers was harder, I went the Guy made of Bees way and got the pollen.
With leprechaun, 2 inhalers, winklered, pet buffing spray and money clip, I managed to get +385% meat drop. I worked on retrieving the meat for 23 adventures and made 7000 meat using meat vortices (and forgot to save one for the tower). Considering the cost of the inhalers in mall, I lost meat but saved a lot of adventures. If I had the undead macaroni, things would be even better.
This means, I can start fighting the frat boys and do so for 124 adventures.
I need to finish the pyramid quest, then switch the undead quartet song, and then go on the dreaded Sonofa beach. But that would have to wait until tomorrow.
With a single milk of magnesium, I stopped adventuring today and saved adventures from food for tomorrow.
Final stats:
Level: 12
Muscle: 102
Mysticality: 146 (2 left to level 13)
Moxie: 102
Days played this run: 12
I tried to zap ancient spices into black pepper as a precaution, but no luck. Zapping sucks this run. On the other hand, I am unnecessary rich (35k without selling the dictionary) and have lots of spare clovers.
What needs to be done:
Finish Ed: ~40 adventures
Get 10 missing pixels: ~20 adventures
Get missing stars: ~15 adventures
Do Sonofa beach (3 reodorants): ~35 adventures
Finish the frat boys: 107 adventures (did some today)
Finish the hippies: 124 adventures
The tower: ~30 adventures (assuming no major problems)
That is ~371 adventures. Even with 84 saved from today, I would be very lucky to have total of 300 have tomorrow. Looks like 2 more days will be needed.