Another contest

So, the NS is here
Muscle: 141 (93)
Mysticality: 275 (151)
Moxie: 121 (99)

1st form: CRITICAL fettucini for 765 - funny
2nd form: noodles and 2x fettucini, bu not a lot HP left

So hooray - I defeated the NS on the first try. This really SUCKS - winning using the first adventure of the day.

Total length: 6 days :-(, 1180 adventures. I blame it or my bad luck. This could and should have been my first 5-day HC run, but it is at least possible to do it without olfaction or a lot of expensive familiars (I have hebo and llama).

And then I permed Powers of observation and ascended into another contest.

Seal Clubber under Bad Moon for the first time.

Progress was slow, I opened manor, got encryption key, got gravy (and 3 spooky mushrooms :-(). I cleared the tavern cellar and found the grave at the end of the day.

Final stats:
Muscle: 17
Mysticality: 6
Moxie: 7
Days: 1

Not spectacular

I finished the war, skipping the nuns and dooks. The hippy chief was not a big problem - 3 boom boxes, 3 gas balloons, noodles and fearful fettuccini.

The I had to collect ruby W, that went relatively well. And after gettin ~1000 substats, I reached level 13.

Then trouble with chewing gum and DoD potion - it was the last one and I have to get lots of boxes. Getting 3 drunkenness from the wrong potion goes without saying.

Tower:
the Fickle Finger of F8 - 1 adventure
El Diablo - 20 adventures
an Electron Submarine - 1 adventure
a Flaming Samurai - 6 adventures
a malevolent crop circle - 1 adventure
a giant bee - 1 adventure

familiars needed:
sabre-toothed lime - good
potato - bad, another ~20 adventures gone

The NS was standard. Beaten up 3 times (not really trying to win), won on the 4th time without much problems. My Animated Macaroni Duck did its part.

Muscle: 117 (97) (~230HP)
Mysticality: 177 (150)
Moxie: 106 (95)

Equipment:
big bad voodoo mask
white hat hacker T-shirt
Staff of the Soupbone
kickback cookbook
flowing hippy skirt
Nickel Gamma of Frugality
rusty chain necklace
bejeweled pledge pin

Familiar:
Tofflesby, the 10 pound Animated Macaroni Duck

Run length: 12 days, 1560 adventures

I am not proud of this run and I see no chance to win anything, but getting the extra karma when breaking the prism was sweet.

Trivial

30 adventures to end the war and reach level 13.

Trivial questing...and then the tower:
Tyrannosaurus Tex - 1
Beer Batter - 1
malevolent crop circle - 1
possessed pipe-organ - 3 (pick-pocketed it!)
concert pianist - 2 (lucky 2nd zap)
Enraged Cow - 1

The rest was trivial, using fire-poi, sugar shorts, and sombrero.

Run summary: HCO Disco Bandit, 16 days, 1070 adventures

Now a bit of aftercore and preparation for the contest.

Painful end

I tried spells few more times and failed. And then I took the didgeridooka and finally won. Painful, terrible. Almost 3 days of moxie leveling! I would have to try this again some time and try different strategy. Like attack items.

Stats when fighting NS:
Muscle: 121 (109)
Mysticality: 179 (163)
Moxie: 209 (158)

Equipment:
worn tophat
bronze breastplate
didgeridooka
leather chaps
Nickel Gamma of Frugality
tap shoes
pirate fledges

Run length: 14 days / 1808 adventures (very bad)

Boring end and boring beginning

So, I finished what was needed. Then I realized I have pulverized all my star hats and weapons and I had to return to the castle and into the hole. Sucks.

NS fight was not hard. 1 critical first form, 2 normal hits second form. With a little bit more +spell damage, I would 1 hit kill the second form as well.

Run length: 5 days / 888 turns (my first SOFTcore).

Now, Mayor Zapruder, sea skill, bounty and Bad Moon as Sauceror. Wow, 3 Sauceror ascensions in a row, that cannot end well.

I spent virtually all time in spooky fores and now I am waiting for the torso-giving adventure.

Final stats:
Class: Sauceror
Level: 4
Muscle: 7
Mysticlaity: 16
Moxie: 6
Days played this run: 1

Tomorrow's priority is getting normal food.

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...

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.

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

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.

Lazy tower day

The nuns quest was one of the fastest - with 2 inhalers, preternatural greed, nasal spray, love song and 30lb leprechaun, it took 16 adventures.

Rest of the war was easy and I used tomato power on the boss fight. The I had to collect pixels and level up a bit.

DoD potion came quickly, chewing gum needed clover and I already had Black Nr.2 due to my telescope.

The tower was ugly - I had to farm pygmy blowgun and powdered organs.

The NS fight was not too hard, but I had to lose 3 times to lower the block rate.
Stats when fighting NS:
Muscle: 153
Mysticlaity: 99
Moxie: 103

This run took 7 days and 1271 adventures. More than the previous one, I should probably start using a sombrero.

Now I'll be waiting in aftercore until arrrbor day.

Thief in the tower

Finishing the war was easy and I did not need a reagent potion to defeat the boss this time - I tried love songs instead.

But then I had to find the MacGuffin.

The lair:
Meleegra pills and ! potion took a lot of time...
Maze was swift.

The tower:
Giant Desktop Globe - 1 adventure
Flaming Samurai - 5 adventures
Big Meat Golem - 1 adventure
giant fried egg - 2 adventures (lucky zap)
Fickle Finger of F8 - 1 adventure
collapsed mineshaft golem - 1 adventure

The NS fight was trivial with over 240 moxie.

This run took 7 days and 1231 adventures. I hoped for a better result with the boulder and love songs libram at my disposal. They only saved me about 100 adventures.

In the remaining ~60 adventures I managed to collect a bounty (with putty after overdrinking), obtain guy made of bees pollen, find the El Vibrato trapezoid and quite successfully adventured beyond the shimmering portal - I got 2 104 cards and then used them to get the 2 missing into parts of the El Vibrato outfit.

In my next life, I am going to be a Seal Clubber. It has been too long since my first seal clubber run and I'd like to give it a try again. I permed the Ode to Booze.

As a seal clubber things were a bit harder than with the accordion thief. I managed to reach level 5 and zap a harem girl. I had enough max MP to cast ode to booze at the end of the day, but I did not collect an accordion. Stupid songs.

Final stats:
Class: Seal Clubber
Level: 5
Muscle: 22
Mysticality: 17
Moxie: 17
Days played this run: 1

I wonder if I am able to get liver of steel tomorrow.

Almost there

Finishing the L12 quest was trivial. Then I had to return to the L11. I ate the high-level war rations, but I missed my semi-rare due to the irritating hidden city.

I had the quests finished and had 50 adventures left when the lair opened. If I had the pixels, things would be great. But I don't.

The lair:
Gate of Humility - fine
Gate of Mystery - 200 meat
Gate that is Not a Gate - had to experiment, but being on Teetotaler path has this one advantage that I do not need to fear the alcohol potion.

Pixels... 23 adventures (one adventure wasted - I forgot to remove teleportitis).
25 adventures left - all I need is luck ;-).

Hedge maze... 7 adventures
20 adventures left

The tower
Tyrannosaurus Tex - damn! I used my only butterfly in the farm - 5 adventures
endangered inflatable white tiger - 1 adventure
giant fried egg - 4 adventures (+2 clovers)
concert pianist - 1 adventure
Big Meat Golem - 1 adventure
Enraged Cow - 1 adventure

The shadow
I lost the first time despite using +100% potion. With no red pixel potions, this fight is tricky.

The familiars - as usual using pet buffing spray and sugar shield.

OK, I am in the chamber, having 4 adventures left. My low health is a risk, but with a bit of luck...

Try #1 - I almost made it. The first form went down after one critical spell hit and I managed to land 2 spells on the second form. If I had the kickback cookbook, this could have been a victory.
Try #2 - bad. The first form blocked a lot and I beat it with 20 HP left.
Try #3 - similar to try #2. I hope the block rate gets down I I get finally lucky. But I guess I'd rather buy the kickback cookbook. Or...I'll try a shield.
Try #4 - block rate was down and I made it (using shield). My first Teetotaler run. Hooray!

Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Sauceror
Level: 13
Muscle: 130 (96)
Mysticality: 199 (151 without equipment)
Moxie: 155 (96)
Max HP: 182 (Low HP is killing me, I'll have to do something about that soon)

Equipment:
sugar chapeau
tuxedo shirt
Staff of the Soupbone
wicker shield
sugar shorts
Iron Beta of Industry
tap shoes
bejeweled pledge pin

Familiar:
Kruger, the Misshapen Animal Skeleton with sugar shield

Run length: 11 days, 1332 adventures. I actually made it to top 100 for HCT Sauceror ascensions. And if you are interested, I am #1 for HCT Sauceror under Blender sign - because no one plays that combination. If you wonder why I picked that, it is due to the gnome skills I'll use in aftercore.

So, now I can drink and finally collect a bounty and play with my new toy - the little box of fireworks - in aftercore. Too bad I do not have enough meat for a Bag o' Tricks.

Uh, I overdrunk. I am not used to not having liver of steel. Damned bounty. Oh, well, tomorrow then.

Crimbo 2009: I got 12941 meat yesterday. I thought both actions will be failures and people would end in the mall. That did not happen, but the meat is still good.

In the lair

No big surprises. I finished the island quest, the LOL quest and collected needed stars and lines.

I needed almost 800 substats to get to level 8 and so I used 2 clovers and then hit the Louvre on first adventure in the gallery.

The lair...
Gate of Morose Morbidity and Moping
Gate of Intrigue
Gate that is Not a Gate

Extreme luck!

Thin black candle is no problem, I got handsomeness potion during my long teleportitis and the correct DoD potion is the only one I know.

Now, I have to farm for pixels. I kind of never get them in the early days of my runs. 20 adventures gone.

Topiary golems - 8 adventures.

The tower:
the darkness - 8 adventures
malevolent crop circle - 1 adventure
Big Meat Golem - 1 adventure
fancy bath slug - 1 adventure
possessed pipe-organ - 1 adventure
Enraged Cow - 1 adventure

Not that bad. If I had the inkwell, it would be perfect.

3x lost to lower the block rate (although the first try without using any skill almost looked like I could win).

Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Turtle Tamer
Level: 13
Muscle: 219 (151 without equipment)
Mysticality: 145 (100)
Moxie: 162 (101)
Max HP: 374

Equipment:
nasty rat mask
tuxedo shirt
Chelonian Morningstar
painted shield
sugar shorts
bejeweled pledge pin
Nickel Gamma of Frugality
pirate fledges

Familiar:
Kruger, the Misshapen Animal Skeleton with sugar shield

Run length: 7 days, 1342 adventures. With 2 feasts of Boris and 2 muscle days, it is not that spectacular, but still my fastest run day-wise.

With 2 adventures and 6 drunkenness left, I still need to:
- tame some more turtles
- finish mayor Zapruder quest and get mushroom fermenting solution
- finish bounty
I managed to do it all with the help of the spooky putty sheet.

This time, I permed Wisdom of Elder Tortoises. The level 14 or level 15 skills would probably be better choices, but I want to ascend today and extra MP will make my day 1 with non-myst classes easier.

A Sauceror is me, a female teetotaler Sauceror - there seem to be advantages in aftercore ;-).

Witout muscle sign, things are tough - I did not beat Baron von Ratsworth.

Final stats:
Class: Sauceror
Level: 4
Muscle: 8
Mysticality: 16
Moxie: 8
Days played this run: 1

A long day

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

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.

It was close

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

With a little luck

Battlefield until I reach the junkyard. The the junkyard. Then the battlefield until arena. My original plan was to skip the arena, but since the L11 quest is unfinished due to the Halloween content, I'll just put flyers on all the remaining L11 monsters.

The hidden city - done in 24 adventures.
Oasis for worm-riding manual, pyramid, back to island - the concert needs a bit more flyers. 2 adventures in the shivering timbers did it. A couple more adventures on the battlefield.

It would be nice if I met the Monty Basingstoke-Pratt, IV boss this time. So I am going to cleesh a few enemies. That will probably cost me an ascension today, but I am not so much in a hurry anymore. I cleeshed like 15 enemies, but no hero. OK, maybe some other time... The Man with superhuman sarcasm to be on the safe side.

The lair:

Gate of Spirit - OK
Gate of Zest - I had to fish for clover (5 adventures!)
Gate of That Which is Hidden - I had to gamble a little - fortunately I did not pick the drunkenness potion.

Hedge maze - lots of stolen pieces.

Tower:
best-selling novelist - 1 adventure
concert pianist - 1 adventure
Vicious Easel - 1 adventure
Bowling Cricket - 3 adventures
Bronze Chef - 3 adventures
Enraged Cow - 1 adventure

...not bad, I have obtained those missing items in 1 adventure each.

Shadow, Naughty sorceress - piece of cake with the brimstone boxers. But the stats I received after the fight were enormous: 574 Beefiness, 516 Magicalness, 1114 Roguishness. Did they increase her level?

I did it, but it was close. I only had few spleen hits left today.

I guess there is no point listing my equipment and exact stats. It is enough to state that I had the brimstone boxers and that is enough to outmoxie her. I mainly focused on equipment that increases level or damage like grungy bandana and goth-kit T-shirt.

So, this is my so far fastest ascension: 8 days, 1400 adventures. If I did not explore the shivering timbers, I would be faster by almost a day.

The question remains whether to ascend today or not. I guess not, because I want one of the high-level skills: Smooth movement or Superhuman Cocktailcrafting.

Good bye, kitty

I started by backfarming pixels for ~20 adventures and completed the digital key.

The hedge maze with Hella Smooth and hair spray - 7 adventures.

The tower:
malevolent crop circle - 11 adventures (farming + 1x kitty)
giant fried egg (am I cursed?) - 2 adventures (bad kitty!)
Big Meat Golem - 4 adventures (really bad kitty!)
Pretty Fly - 5 adventures (farming + 1x kitty)
Ice Cube - 3 adventures (hyperactive kitty)
Enraged Cow - 2 adventures (can't it just leave me alone?)

The shadow (time for a prayer):
I bought Anbidexterous funkslinging to be on the safe(r) side. Dressing up, I realized I did the hedge maze with continuum transfunctioner equipped. Not optimal, but still better than doing it with makeshift SCUBA gear.

With equipment and effects...379 buffed HP. Am I overly pessimistic?
1: cat blocked both attempts.
2: the same.
3: 3 filthy poultices and 1 scented massage oil did it.

The familiars (let's pray again):
1: barrrnacle - let's meatpaste the goat and go to the arena.
2: angry goat - good - 5 adventures in the arena did the trick.

Naughty sorceress:
1st try: I did not beat the 2nd form in time.
2nd try: I lost. Without the LEW, I do not have enough moxie to avoid being hit.

Leveling a bit: no damned dance cards
3rd: try - won with 18 HP left

Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Disco bandit
Level: 13
Muscle: 101 (95 without equipment)
Mysticality: 105 (95)
Moxie: 207 (157)

Equipment:
Disco 'Fro Pick
bronze breastplate
happiness
wonderwall shield
leather chaps
tap shoes
Orange Star of Sacrifice
Sneaky Pete's breath spray

Familiar:
Meeew, the Black Cat

Total lenght: 14 days; 1915 adventures; Bad Moon with Black Cat

A bit of farming, finishing bounty, getting towel, blowing up chef and bartender and I am gone, perming Mad Looting Skillz.

"By completing a 100% Black Cat Bad Moon run, you have permanently unlocked the Bad Moon sign for your character."

Wow, it is over!

In my next life, I am going to be...well...a Disco Bandit! Cool.

Uhm, I knew I would forget something - this time I forgot to use the bought Throbbing rage gland to get the skill. Not so cool.

Opening the haunted pantry: 11 adventures
In the spooky forest finding larva: 5 adventures (also got one heart)
Still in the forest: lots of adventures, got some hearts, found the temple and got beaten up by a vampire

I would really need to swap the vampire hearts now.

Guild test #1 - done
Barrels: 1 mimic, 3 drinks, 1 spleen item

Sugar shorts+glittery mascara -> enough MP to summon dry noodles. Time for boring spaghetti. Got lousy 4 adventures, I'll better make another bunch.

6 turn in the sewer - 1 worthless trinket. Bad luck indeed.

Another boring spaghetti.

Built EW.

Turned off the faucet (without going after the baron).

Got bottles of used blood.

Outskirts - 3 adventures -> level 4.

Outskirts - 3 adventures -> encryption key, ring of half-assed regeneration.

Sleazy back alley looking for dirty hobo gloves, nothing of interest.

Pasted barskin tent and rested, summoned magical ice cube -> blended frozen swill.

Bugbear pens to learn which fairy to use this run - flaming fairy it is.

Fun house with fairy - got boxes and clownosity.

Sleazy back alley - 2x spider web, mad train wine, bum cheek.

Guano junction - 3 adventures, 3 sonars.

Sleazy back alley - looking for dirty hobo gloves for the epic hat quest. 5 spider webs, no gloves. Gourd.

Little paper umbrella -> Roll in the hay -> 11 adventures.

Sleazy back alley - more webs, Harrolds bell, no glove.

Lemon meringue pie - 3 advenures (2 spent cooking). Damn. I will not be able to reach the semi-rare today by 2 adventures.

Fun house - the door came on last adventure. Reached level 5. Damn again. I have 12 drunkenness and no adventures left and no suitable booze to drink.

Shagadelic Disco Banjo is mine.

Final stats:
Class: Disco Bandit
Level: 5
Muscle: 13
Mysticality: 14
Moxie: 20
Days played this run: 1

I must pick up the semi-rare on the 2nd adventure tomorrow. And get to level 6 asap and try for the liver of steel. Ambitious plan, but with the brimstone boxers... it might just happen. I should also get meat from the beefy bodyguards via Harrold's bell, buy a mushroom field and start breeding mushrooms.

Turtle sprint

Nothing else to do but fight on the battlefield. I was using blood of wereseal, because healing is expensive for me and I do not want to waste spleen capacity. I met the C.A.R.N.I.V.O.R.E. Operative and got the button, but it is not the most useful thing from the HC run perspective.

Being a bit paranoid, I made and used both serum of sarcasm and philter of phorce. The Big Wisniewski fell in 6 combat rounds. War is over.

Into the tower.

Farming handsomeness potion - 17 adventures
Skeleton key & Dice - 22 tries
Farming accordion in spooky forest - 1 adventure
Hedge maze - 6 adventures

Bronze Chef - 6 adventures
Fancy Bath Slug - 10 adventures
Giant Desktop Globe - 1 adventure
Flaming Samurai - 6 adventures
Giant Fried Egg - 2 adventures (lucky zap; 2nd today)
Giant Bee - 5 adventures

The rest was easy, I let the sorceress beat me 3 times and then used 3 gauze gartners and that was it. The sugar shield broke down after defeating the first form.

Stats when fighting NS:
Class: Turtle tamer
Level: 13
Muscle: 217 (154 without equipment)
Mysticality: 149 (104)
Moxie: 174 (107)

Equipment:
nasty rat mask
tuxedo shirt
black sword
painted shield
sugar shorts
Bonerdagon necklace
pirate fledges
Nickel Gamma of Frugality

Familiar:
Kruger, the Misshapen Animal Skeleton

Total lenght: 10 days; 1551 adventures; clover-less run

The rest of the day consisted of finishing the knoll quest and collecting the reward, finishing the bounty hunt and a bit of farming.

The permed skill will be Amphibian Sympathy. I considered Armorcraftiness, but finally the Sympathy won, because it is always on.

My next life will be troubled... I am ascending as Disco Bandit with the Bad Moon sign and a black cat familiar awaits.

31 turn in the noob cave and I have my kitty. Then doing the mosquito quest and eating sandwiches, joining the guild and eating more sandwiches, making more meat and eating even more sandwiches. I managed to do the tavern quest as well and get my beer lens. In the back sleazy alley a got the BM buff and collected 4 pixels (and had to sell one later). I bought the Pride skill.

Final stats:
Class: Disco Bandit
Level: 4
Muscle: 2
Mysticality: 8
Moxie: 14
Days played this damned run: 1

Well, the stats are pretty uneven, I am not sure if I should eat more evil food tomorrow. The goal would be to get to level 5 and get Advanced Cocktailcrafting and hence more turns. I still have 2 tavern swills left.

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%.