You are correct, some monsters ARE tougher on the way back up. It is random... for example you could meet a normal strength centaur on the way out at floor 10, or he could be surprisingly strong! Oh, and occasionally you will run into a deep floor monster on the way back out too (dragons, griffins, etc). This was done for the many people who found it TOO EASY to get the amulet and get back out alive
I had such a dumb death earlier today. I was on the 25th floor, and low on health. There wasn't anyone around, so I figured it was alright to take a potion, hoping it would heal me, or boost me in rank, as there weren't many potions I had not ID'd yet. But oops, I forgot I didn't come across a demolition one either, and poof I died. I felt so stupid lol. I'm on another good run, I've found by far my best items on this run. +2+2 flaming warhammer, +2+2 freezing long sword, ring of kings, regeneration, searching, +2 damage, spartan armor. If I goof this, I don 't think I'll ever win with a regular character lol. Wish me luck
Whew, that's quite a nice assortment of equipment there! Hopefully you can pull it off this time... Good luck!
I lost my freezing sword, I was fighting in a hallway, don't think it ever dropped when I killed the monster, ah well. I do have some questions though, What does it mean when you step on a floor and it says "hmm something smells good" or "you sense powerful magic" How does stealth work exactly? Sometimes I'm able to walk around monsters when they are sleeping, even if I'm not wearing stealth armor or a ring. And finally, the potion that 'tastes dull' is that the thirst quenching one? Is that like eating food, or does it not do anything? Thanks for any help.
It is possible to lose things in a hallway if the monster has several items to drop (because there are only 2 or 3 squares available to drop upon death instead of as many as 8 or 9 if you're in the middle of a good sized room. "Something smells good" is an indicator of food on that level somewhere. To see this you usually have to already be hungry (or close to it), and there would have to be something edible on that floor. "You sense powerful magic" is the indicator of a super weapon like the ones you have been enjoying on your recent run though. Any of those, or a staff with extra charges, or a higher powered ring can trigger the message The only things that provide stealth are the Ring of Stealth and Shozoku armor. Sometimes you can get lucky and not wake a monster when you pass by it without one of these items on... but it's just that, luck The dull tasting potion is thirst quenching... no useful properties, but at least it does not hurt you
woooo, retrieved the amulet! Didn't get enough gold to get on the leaderboard though, I'm still happy. 19964 steps, 291 kills, 9682 gold. Did the whole thing with only 16 strength, had a bunch of help with items, mainly a rust proof spartan armor with an armor rating of 0, and a +5 +4 flaming war hammer. Also had a staff of paralysis and a +2 +2 freezing long sword that I lost a long the way. Was using throwing that at harder foes, hoping to slow them down, then just smashed em with the war hammer.
Had another nice run right after that one. 13510 gold, killed by a Dragon on the 30th or so floor. I wanted to save one of my paralysis charges, should have just used it, ah well.
I always choke up around level 20. I was playing as Neo and had shozuka armour and spartan armour, along with a +3 +4 freezing sword. I ended up drinking a potion hoping that it wasn't a haste self, and the first potion I drank was haste self. So I pretty much just restarted. I always end up being cornered by a mixture of nasties .... trolls, griffins, polymorphing things into dragons =\.... I shall conquer this dungeon one day though.
What does it show as the character who slayed you ?--- just a picture of you? This is a serious question actually!
Yep, thats exactly what it said. This can also be done if you throw a demolition potion and it hits right next to where you are standing.
That figures I've learned my lesson.........if a monster is sleeping and I can avoid it, leave it the frak alone That's how that frakking jabberwock got me...........thought I could level up some more by getting the drop on a sleeping monster *goes back to start another run*
I finally got my amulet the first time! I used Neo and got it within 14,856 steps, 157 kills, 10k gold and was a Guild Master. Now just have to learn how to go deep with a normal character, practicing with Thor and Athena to go deep before I try with normal.
Great job!!!!! I've gotten the amulet a couple of times but been killed within a couple of floors.......have yet to survive long enough to reach the surface
*swearing* Had a halfway decent run going this morning......had just killed a troll on level 15, but it turned out to have been standing on my corpse from the previous run Which, of course, woke up and killed me right afterwards
Does anyone know when V1.6 is going to come out. Isn't the dev busy or something so maybe another month? Just double checking. I'm hyped up for V1.6.
Haven't heard anything, and haven't really seen CD around much I know he's busy with "real life" and all that stuff, but I'd really love to see what he's got cookin for the next update. Also, I was really hyped for the 2.0 update that they've been talking about, with shops and npc's and more RPG like elements. But last I heard, that has turned into a "maybe" at this point. CD, if I paypal you some money weekly, can we get some full time RT love? Actually, I'd just be really interested to hear whatever you've been up to lately, weren't you working on something with Scotopia? Hmmmmmmmm?? Any new games brewing, hmmmmmm?
I thought 1.6 was gonna be the last update, that would have the shop and some "secret stuff" that he's keeping secret for the release. I thought he was working on a arena like rogue or something like that after this, and a sports type game. Or at least thinking about it.
