Only 2 wands of frost and some steel darts. Look at all those ice monsters! They must be guarding the good stuff around here! I found a small amount of loot, but I know there's more. My flaming scimitar makes this place easy. Freezing wraiths are tough wraiths with a cold touch and weakness to fire. I killed a few ice beasts blocking my path and ran into freezing wraiths. I don't have any rCold items on me, so I'll just have to be careful. I suggest having ice resistance before fighting them within close range. Simulacrum are powerful, but easily destroyed ice copies of monsters. I found this portal on D:14, so it probably won't be easy. I like prefer ice caves over volcanoes, due to the better loot. I'm in a rush, so I summoned some help to crush them.Īn ice cave is an ice-themed portal vault. Once you cut off all of its heads the hydra will be instantly killed. Each strike decapitated one of the hydra's heads and prevented it from regrowing. Here's the flaming brand in action against a hydra. To restore your max HP you need to drink either a potion of healing or heal wounds while while fully healed. Rotting lowers your max HP over time, but can be easily cured with a potion of healing. Necrophages are undead creatures that eat corpses and have a rotting attack that also causes sickness. I lured the necrophage away from the hydra and killed it quickly with my holy scimitar. While turning a corner I encountered a necrophage and a hydra. I might ditch Trog during this game, but I can't survive his wrath yet. More powerful than even spells! Unfortunately, decks are random and potentially dangerous, unless you use Nemelex's (trickster god of gambling) abilities. Sonja has a short sword of distortion, but she'll never get to use it. I drank a potion of agility and gave Sonja a taste of her own medicine. And we're immune to poison, so curare doesn't have much effect on us. Fortunately, Sonja has very low MR, so wands are very useful against her. She carries a small stack of curare needles, carries a branded weapon (venom, draining, or even distortion!), and has high EV (though less than dik-dik). Trog is making things way to easy for me! I'll be using this sling for the rest of the game, unless Trog gives me something better. Those oklobs were guarding this nice artifact buckler. I summoned another stone giant who proceeded to thrash those annoying plants.
Go invisible outside their LOS, or they'll still try to splash you with acid, despite not being able to see you. The easiest ways of dealing with them is either with summons or invisibility. These plants splash acid on you, which corrodes your gear and does a lot of damage to you, if you don't have corrosion resistance. In the southwest corner I ran into a couple of oklob plants. Being "overloaded" is even worse, as you can't move up stairs and all the penalties are increased. It takes you longer to move, longer to go upstairs, your hunger rate is increased, and it gives you a huge stealth penalty. "Burdened" is what happens when you exceed your maximum weight limit. I'm carrying so much food that it's starting to weigh me down. THE WEAK DON'T DESERVE TO LIVE!!! Trog agrees and gives me a double sword! Lots of harmless critters are getting in my way. I have to cross this river to reach the south side of the level. The hell? I didn't know things could get stuck in the wax. While clearing out the northeast corner I received some steel darts from Trog. There's not much else to say about this place. This is the 1st item I got with cold resistance, so far. I cleared the northwest corner of the map and got another gift from Trog. Fight one at a time and retreat to a staircase (to flee or go berserk) if too many were attacking me at once. This was my main strategy for this place. I enslaved one of the bees as a minor distraction. I ran into this group of bees and decided to retreat to the staircase. I'm probably missing a big portion of the map, but I don't feel like searching yet. Not much of an improvement from the other area. Let's see where they lead us.įruit, gold, and a harmless larva. All the stone staircases leading up are next to each other. The 1st level was very small, so I went downstairs to Hive:2. There are very few dangerous orcs in Crawl, so this is pretty useless. The orc slaying brand does 75% more damage against orcs. Trog rewarded me pretty quickly with a gift. I eventually became exhausted and my stone giant killed the remaining bees for me. Stone giants are the 2nd strongest giants in the game ( much stronger than hill giants) and the 2nd most powerful ally you can summon with Brother in Arms. I summoned a berserk stone giant and I went berserk against the bees. Everyone voted for the Hive, so that's where we'll go next.