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Chapter 2: Caverns of Chaos I

In some psychotic stroke of RNG, I get ALL THE WAY from the Infinite Dungeon to the Caverns of Chaos without a single wilderness encounter!

LET'S DIVE

Awesome start! Now sickness isn't a death sentence.

While I do use weapons for especially weak enemies, I'm relying on magic much more than I did as the priest.

Many spells have different names for divine and magical casters. Baptism of Fire is now Burning Hands.

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Claw bug
Threat level: 3/10
Special: Ignores PV, six attacks
Corpse: +1 Dx, -2 Wi

CAT ALERT

Slow monster! Close and lock the door!

ALTAAAR

It's Neutral, though, and I'm Lawful. I'd better convert it!

...Or that! Instead of converting the altar, I converted myself.

From here on, I play Neutral.

And here's the downside of being Neutral: I can't sacrifice neutral monsters.

So, this tension room isn't a treasure trove of piety.

I now have all but one of the bolt spells at my disposal!

Let's move on for now.

Staircase in a dark room can make navigation annoying!

Fortunately, I can cast Light.

KNOCK

Yet another top tier spell at my disposal. No door is an obstacle to me anymore.

Two up staircases?!

Near the top of the CoC, there is always a brief path split. One of the two sides is shorter, but has a monster vault in it.

I'll probably take it on the way back up later!

Arena floor!

Stock up on lizards!

Dick around with arena fights!

FFFFFFUUUUUUUU

I am now left with a choice: Kill the cat and forsake the ring, or teleport out and forsake the arena.

I just added a new boss late in the game.

I can't just start killing cats now, either - each further kill makes it stronger!

Level 10 attained in the arena!

And IMMEDIATELY after the arena, it's the Big Room! That's rare.

Not quite as much luck with finding the exit ASAP this time. I'm beset my monsters constantly!

Bingo!

ONWARDS

...And now that I'm neutral, I get a lawful altar.

Someone upstairs thinks this shit is hilarious.

Kickassenly useful item! I can scale mountains on the world map now.

This is ALMOST required to beat the game.

Strange item!

YES

GIRDLE OF CARRYING GET

I love these things. I can carry about 500s more equipment without being burdened now.

Oops! Just walked right into it. Fortunately, the trap was only an alarm trap.

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Jackalwere
Threat Level: 3/10
Special: Summon jackals
Corpse: Sickness

I managed to sneak up on this one, though, so I manage to kill it before it can summon any reinforcements.

It's an herbal floor!

Time to snag as many herbs as I can.

Time to talk about herb generation a bit.

At random points in time, herb bushes grow and die. This is determined according to the rules of Conway's Game of Life.

What kind of herbs a bush produces is determined by what row it's on on the screen - it cycles between the 7-ish different herb types.

CRYSTAL SHIELD

WHY IS ALL MY EQUIPMENT KICKASS ON THIS RUN

And so my stunningly good earlygame brings me to Dwarftown! Scarcely a week has passed in game time, and I'm packing 19 spells.

Next: Surpassing Axebeard!

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