Morgue: https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/LunarSeed/morgue-LunarSeed-20260209-132159.txt
Died on my second Orb run. Yes, second, because my first Orb run concluded by my sudden realization that I didn’t pick up the Orb itself… I just assumed that, given that the Orb run had started, Apportation picked it up automatically…
What even is the point of starting the run without actually picking up the Orb??
Frustrated. At least the run was fun, tesseracts are really cool.
Nooooo!
I don’t think I’ve used apport on the orb but maybe you can grab it out from an enemy before using a teletrap, or pull it to you without revealing an alarm trap tile.
I used it on on a cleared level, mostly was just curious what would happen. It resisted one or two casts and then suddenly the run started. I thought “oh, okay, it means I got the Orb!” and so I started going to the surface.
Only when the game warned me that if I leave to the surface I’ll lose I realized that I don’t have the Orb on me, so I went back to Zot (with all the demons and panlords on my way, of course) and started doing the run properly. Unfortunately my frustration made me splat to a panlord with a tormentor + ice fiend + damnation-hurling demon.
I was literally one keypress away from a win (‘g’ after Apportation).
That’s rough. Back when apportation didn’t start the Orb run I remember yoinking it all the way to the upstairs so as to shorten the Orb run somewhat.