The Tavern Snacks will be munching their way through the tournament, and this is the thread where we can record our antics.
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I’m looking forward to these changes. I remember the old days when you had to worry about carrying food and ammunition; having four whole tabs of inventory is a great improvement!
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When inventory had weight as well as item limit? Yeah, if you were a spriggan caster you;d have to raise STR at least once to be able to carry an enhancer staff. And curses. And all the different conditions of chunks. We are spoiled now!
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I do miss the old KoBe experience, being able to berserk for every fight!
lol! For a brief period of time, I actually held the FE high score. That should disappear as soon as someone finishes a decent game
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One of my big weaknesses is forgetting to use god powers that could save my life, and so it was with those CoCAs. Might try a couple more.
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Well, got one over the hump. Pretty boring: MiAr^Jivya, but managed in under 2:00, which is rare for me.
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congrats strat on the first Snacks win!
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ugh I just lost my DjIE to the exact same thing, went through my inventory in a tough situation (good!), forgot my god powers (bad!), and died
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I have also bagged a win: HuSh, a nemelex combo for the team and also a fading altar god win. It was an incredibly lucky start: within the first few dungeon levels I have found everything needed to win the game:
1 x wildshape amulet, 2 x ring of protection, 1 x storm talisman
Storm form came online in Lair, from then the game was a breeze, altough an alderking almost managed to kill me because I did not know how its tormenting works.
I grabbed the abyssal rune for a trove, just for the fun of it.
In Zot teleport traps put me next to the orb chamber. So I hasted and heavenly stormed in, grabbed the orb, entered an other teleport trap that put me back to the stairs, and left the tesserachts and whatever protected the orb behind. It was one of the very rare ninja orb grabbing for me, with a character that most likely would have been easily cleared Zot 5 by O-tab. It certainly did not have problem with the pan lords on the orb run.
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Nice wins strat and sanka! I wouldn’t call a Jiyva win boring, myself.
Still not won a Sh and I have tried a lot (I have won a tali-using character but was’t a Sh).
I’m playing very badly, including messing up a faded altar Yred start, and haven’t yet reached Lair never mind got a rune. I don’t have a ‘go-to combo’ as such that I can retreat to so just have to push through it. Maybe a Gnoll.
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My new guide to win a shapshifter:
Step 1.: Find a wildhape amulet, a bunch of protection rings and a storm talisman in the first 4 levels.
Step 2: profit
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Hey, Sanka - ALL my wins are lucky - sounds like you played well to win what sounds like a really tough combo! Congrats on the win! Tavern Snacks at 12th right now.
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I found a wildshape amulet in my last game, but all the talismans were hidden under rocks or something and I never got to use it 
but glad to see someone else made the most of one!
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Again got to Zot with a Nemelex Choice AtAE, and again lost it. Z:3 had three stairs that were open and swarmed with orbs, Tiamat, and draconians. Fun times!
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A fact sums up my tourney thus far. I’ve picked up all the ‘reach XL9’ banners, including the ‘five separate species and backgrounds’ one. Haven’t managed to get any of them past XL11.
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Sounds like lots of banners, anyway!
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Now have an XL12 MfDe of Hep parked in Lair. The Delver start worked out really well on this one, let’s see if I can keep her going.
I’ve had some decent runs so far, although I did burn one (an XL16 DsMo) to get the Rage 1 banner. No builds yet that have been able to overcome my own skill (or lack thereof!), I did finally get a shapeshifter and a wildshape amulet in the same run, so that was fun (although I never got anything better than protean → rimehorn).
My most fun death so far was an XL10 MDFw who was trapped by yaks. I had to burn random scrolls, found a scroll of immolation, something killed a yak, which then promptly blew up and blew me up. Much more exciting than when I die from poison!
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In the middle of a 11-rune game - I will try for the other two Hell runes, but may bail out before Tomb and new Slime (i got the slimy rune free on my Jiyva game already) anyone with experience in new Slime?
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