CIP (Now YASD) - The Angry Plant

[MacLellan]

https://crawl.dcss.io/crawl/morgue/MacLellan/MacLellan.txt

I’m having way too much fun with this. Decided to try VS as I was being burnt out on humans. Had some great runs (farther than ever before, posted about a couple) but just needed something different.

Got a few VS killed pretty quick and then… this one.

Wow. Picked up the +6 Shillelagh “Devastator” on D:2 and just never looked back. That thing enabled me to O-Tab through Lair with almost no difficulty. The little difficulty I’ve had I’ve used Trog (because of course a vine-covered corpse that learned to walk is just gonna be angry at the world, and specifically the magic that brought it to life - plus goes great with bashing things to smithereens) to just plow through. Plus the various resistances on the armors and man, that helmet too.

[MacLellan]

Oh and I found a gem. I’m not sure I knew those even existed before I just happened to teleport next to one.

[MacLellan]

And I found a trove of treasure on D:15!

[Patrick2011b]

Gems are essentially a light form of speedrunning because they shatter if you spend too long in a branch, and unlike the Zot clock, normal play will usually take long enough to shatter gems. My own playstyle is more turn efficient than average, but even then, I generally only get 1 or 2 gems, and they’re usually in Lair and the S branches.

[MacLellan]

YASD because of hubris. Got mobbed in Swamp after clearing Spider, waited too long to use a consumable. Sigh.