YASD: DsGl (monstrous) ^ Oka

 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.33-a0-855-g853641c8f9 (webtiles) character file.

petercordia6 the Slicer (Demonspawn Gladiator)     Turns: 19138, Time: 01:12:39

Health: 113/113    AC: 12    Str: 16    XL:     14   Next: 15%
Magic:  20/20      EV: 22    Int:  9    God:    Okawaru [******]
Gold:   1309       SH:  0    Dex: 18    Spells: 16/19 levels left

rFire   . . .        a - +4 quick blade (drain)
rCold   + . .        (no offhand)
rNeg    . . .        Q - +1 troll leather armour {Snorg}
rPois   .            (no helmet)
rElec   .            b - +2 cloak {rC+}
rCorr   .            k - +0 pair of gloves
SInv    +            q - +1 pair of boots
Will    +....        X - amulet of regeneration
Stlth   ++++         j - ring of see invisible
HPRegen 1.98/turn    V - +5 ring of evasion
MPRegen 0.17/turn

%: no passive effects
@: no status effects
A: antennae 2, (demonic guardian 1), spiny 2, augmentation 1, weakness stinger
2, demonic touch 1
a: Renounce Religion, Heroism, Finesse, Duel
You have 16 spell levels left.

You know the following spells:

 Your Spells              Type           Power      Damage    Failure   Level
p - Passwall              Erth           10%        N/A       26%         3

This character just found a +1 crystal plate armour of cold resistance. Now I’m torn.
I’m pretty sure I’m going to commit to my plan of passwall stabbing, but not sure if that’s really best.

I doubt passwall stabbing is optimal, especially with that nice armour. But it is a hell of a lot of fun.

Passwall stabbing with antenna should work pretty well. Combine that with maybe petrify and an Oka long blade swap depending on the situation and you’d be solid for most of a 3 rune. It would also give you enough alchemy that you could cheaply pick up mephitic cloud for more stab potential too. With what you already have in throw/stealth you should be getting pretty good success with atropa darts too, so there’s plenty of ways to supplement the stabbing game if you pass wall into a sticky situation or have to clear a metal level or something.

It’s gonna be pretty hard to get the strength to make the crystal plate actually good unless you already have a lot of +Str gear.

he’s got spiny and demonic touch. gaining a lot of AC is amazing, even if it crashes my EV.
The problems are stealth and spell success, but the character could have decided not to care about those.

Spiney and the monstrous Ds muts are good enough that I forgot my quickblade in Snake and I only noticed when I found a scroll of enchant weapon in V:2.

TBF, I did wonder why the enemies were so tough, and I used consumables at a unsustainable rate those few floors.

And he died, because I wasn’t quite careful enough on V:5.

I’d cleared out the top right quadrant, at significant cost, and decided that must mean I could safely get off the level and back again. The game did not agree.

https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/petercordia6/morgue-petercordia6-20250215-164949.txt

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