first go at 3.20 (!time_travel, no_selling)

**Derakon** · January 21, 2011, 04:22

Yep, potions of experience are worth a flat 100k XP, so if you find one early you just got to skip the early game; congratulations.

**Starhawk** · January 21, 2011, 06:27

I found a Potion of Experience on DL2 a month or so back.

Then lost the character to one of the named orcs because I hadn't gone back to town, to purchase a spellbook with escape spells in it.

I hope you do better than I did.

**aaron** · January 22, 2011, 00:34

I didn't feel the need to go back to town either, until I was almost done in by an Umber Hulk with a few forest trolls and a murder of crebain (disconnected stairs? what was I thinking!).

Luckily he failed to gaze me on my last !CCW, so I got out of it with my last phase door and a recall.

I've only found FA so far, and have yet to see any ? or _ of teleport, down to DL26 (nearly every one of them 'uninteresting'), nor in town.

Feeling doomed, but maybe my gear is just a little deeper...

**buzzkill** · January 22, 2011, 03:56

Originally posted by aaron

Feeling doomed, but maybe my gear is just a little deeper...

I see it's about time to resurrect the "Official Bad Advice" thread?

**Timo Pietilä** · January 22, 2011, 09:31

Originally posted by aaron

I didn't feel the need to go back to town either, until I was almost done in by an Umber Hulk with a few forest trolls and a murder of crebain

Be very careful around crebain. In case you didn't notice their shrieks haste everybody (except you) in LoS.

Umber hulks I usually just smash into head. Even when confused you usually land enough blows to kill it or cause it to run away. Just don't try it in open room.

**PowerDiver** · January 22, 2011, 09:52

Originally posted by Timo Pietilä

Umber hulks I usually just smash into head. Even when confused you usually land enough blows to kill it or cause it to run away. Just don't try it in open room.

That is strange. I prefer the open room. If the confusion takes me in the wrong direction, perhaps I step away from the hulk and get a turn it does not hit me. OTOH, if confusion takes me the wrong way in a corridor I stay still and it always gets a shot at me.

Why do you prefer to avoid the open room? Are you remembering the old days when bouncing off a wall while confused did not cost a turn?

**Magnate** · January 22, 2011, 10:01

Originally posted by PowerDiver

That is strange. I prefer the open room. If the confusion takes me in the wrong direction, perhaps I step away from the hulk and get a turn it does not hit me. OTOH, if confusion takes me the wrong way in a corridor I stay still and it always gets a shot at me.

Why do you prefer to avoid the open room? Are you remembering the old days when bouncing off a wall while confused did not cost a turn?

Er, I think we've regressed to that btw - fizzix spotted it the other day.

EDIT: confirmed - this is ticket #1311.

**Timo Pietilä** · January 22, 2011, 11:34

Originally posted by PowerDiver

That is strange. I prefer the open room. If the confusion takes me in the wrong direction, perhaps I step away from the hulk and get a turn it does not hit me. OTOH, if confusion takes me the wrong way in a corridor I stay still and it always gets a shot at me.

Why do you prefer to avoid the open room? Are you remembering the old days when bouncing off a wall while confused did not cost a turn?

No. I did mean "in case there are other nasties around" which I did say in my mind but apparently didn't write. Getting surrounded is a bad thing.

**aaron** · January 24, 2011, 03:12

Originally posted by buzzkill

I see it's about time to resurrect the "Official Bad Advice" thread?

I'm not so sure about that thread. Ever since I read it, I keep dying in new ways...

first go at 3.20 (!time_travel, no_selling)

first go at 3.20 (!time_travel, no_selling)

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