Board 8 > Kingdom of Loathing Topic 4.

(+) Yeah! (+)

The last topic took a crit from the purge monster and died.

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Darn that purge monster. Not that it really matters though, only four people on the list of members are actually active.

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SomeC - sheer explosives since meeting that crazy hobo.
BlAcK TuRtLe grabbed the Guru victory, slow but steady.

Yeah, but this is a good place to talk about progress, maybe get someone else into the game.

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The loss of our "log" is a shame, yeah.

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SomeC - sheer explosives since meeting that crazy hobo.
BlAcK TuRtLe grabbed the Guru victory, slow but steady.

Meatfarming until i have 24 million meat in my closet, then I'm gonna hit the expressway to level 30 and basement dive for a telescope piece.

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I liked referring to Drak's speed running. At some point I'm going to start doing softcore runs instead of just hardcore ones with Yazzy.

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-Dwight

I keep meaning to get back into it

hope my account doesn't purge

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Are there any cases of an account purging ever?

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SomeC - sheer explosives since meeting that crazy hobo.
BlAcK TuRtLe grabbed the Guru victory, slow but steady.

Accounts would be deleted if not active for like 2-4 months, i think, but that was changed a year ago or so.

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Looks that way. I haven't done anything with Smug Nuts for like 7 months, but that one is still active.

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SomeC - sheer explosives since meeting that crazy hobo.
BlAcK TuRtLe grabbed the Guru victory, slow but steady.

So that's what happened to my AMP.

Things are going well this run. Reached level 9 comfortably by the end of day 2.

List of improvements that I've made (or am planning to make) this run:
- Extra +10 ML from hipposkin poncho. Haven't been able to wear this yet, but I'll hit 45 muscle early tomorrow.
- Consistently running Empathy of the Newt for my volleyball/sombrero. Paperclip cape (5-7 MP regen) helps a ton.
- Not doing the Dungeons of Doom. Just going to pull large boxes until I get what I need.
- Not doing Fernswarthy's book quest.
- Efficient flyering: Once I have the MacGuffin bosses set up, I'm going to train to level 12 and start the war. I'll pick up the flyers as a frat boy. Then I'll go back and flyer the MacGuffin bosses + pyramid monsters + Ed. That way, I don't use any extra turns.


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You put your RESOLVE HAT back on, which conveniently is the same hat as your NORMAL HAT.
{Drakeryn}

If you played through the Crimbco HQ, who did you fight? Uncle Hobo or Mr. Mination?

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Mr. Mination on my main, Uncle Crimbo on my alt. Apparently, for a short while after rollover, you could fight them both if you used a portable photocopier, but then they fixed it.


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another place and time, without a great divide, and we could be flying deadly high

I fought Mr. Mination, because the spirit of Crimbo had to be preserved. And CRIMBCO didn't disappear anyway, so I can still get those books.

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SomeC - sheer explosives since meeting that crazy hobo.
BlAcK TuRtLe grabbed the Guru victory, slow but steady.

942-turn ascension, woo~

The funny part is that I forgot to re-equip my real weapon going into the NS fight, so I ended up fighting her with the huge mirror shard. Managed to beat her anyway by spamming Moxious Maneuver and then random combat items when I ran out of MP.


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Impressive!

59 more Nickels on about 160 adventures. 391 more to be able to get the Monkey.
Also got my 111th Lucre today. 89 more for the Manual. 189 more for the Dog since I'm getting the Manual first.

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Retaliation. Tit for tit.
-Dwight

Also need 54 more Spanish Flies to get enough Around the Worlds to get the Trophy.

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Retaliation. Tit for tit.
-Dwight

Crimbco is probably gonna disappear tonight. Get everything you need from there today.

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Today is the Festival of Jarlsberg!

Also, you can still spend your Crimbco scrips, if you have some.

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Currently doing SC softcore to learn Pulverize so I can get rid of some of the junk in my inventory. It's going significantly slower than my last ascension, since I haven't been able to run +20 ML consistently and Haunted Ballroom >> Haunted Gallery as a training spot. End of day 3 and I'm one muscle away from L11. My typical end-of-day-3 goal is getting the MacGuffin diary.


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Today is really the Festival of Jarlsberg! Guess they forgot, like they usually do.

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I need to stop playing the MMG.

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I played that briefly a long time ago. Lost more meat than I should have and learned my lesson.

I'm up to 878 Hobo Nickels.

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Retaliation. Tit for tit.
-Dwight

hobo monkey get 'aww yeah'


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Awesome!

I'm up to 938 Nickels. 62 more!

Also, Drak, I've got Zombo's Shoulder Blade and the Wand of Oscus already so I'm giving them to you. Amazingly we got all three item drops from Zombo!

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Retaliation. Tit for tit.
-Dwight

I noticed that you got Zombo's Skullcap in our last run so I'm taking that.

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Retaliation. Tit for tit.
-Dwight

Sure, and thanks.

As a side note, it took me forever to get through the marketplace since I haven't ascended with my binder. I got 65 more nickels in the time it took me to get through to the monkey.


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You put your RESOLVE HAT back on, which conveniently is the same hat as your NORMAL HAT.
{Drakeryn}

Yeah, I'm sure I'll have the same problem. I've gotten everything I could with the binder but there are still 5 or 6 that I need to ascend to get.

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Retaliation. Tit for tit.
-Dwight

I'm at 1032 nickels, in the adventures since I reached 1000 I've had one shot at the marketplace and didn't get the monkey. Tomorrow I should hopefully get it.

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Retaliation. Tit for tit.
-Dwight

Got it! More efficient meat farming go! And thanks for the Sonata. I only got to the market once in that time but it reminded me to put on my ring of conflict. It was on my third time today that I got the Monkey. Didn't end up guessing a single time on that trip into the market. I bought two 10 nickel items on the other two trips in. Got the triangle to summon a hobo underling and a sharpened hubcap.

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Retaliation. Tit for tit.
-Dwight

Man. Hit level 13 by the end of day 4, with 25 adventures left. But I can't finish up because I haven't eaten my star key lime pies and don't have enough pulls for other tower stuff. I think a four-day moxie class run is fairly plausible in future if I rearrange my eating schedule (need to start eating key pies on day 2) and my pulls.


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Today is St. Sneaky Pete's Day!

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It is now time to get my 2nd piece of the telescope. I should also hit level 30 at some point.

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Got to basement level 155. Not bad for a day's work. Doing it as a sauceror is much easier then as a TT.

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Got to basement level 304. Probably need to get my myst to 800 unbuffed before I'll be able to finish it.

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Nice. I got to 100 on my non-ascending account, but without Tao of the Terrapin + Torso Awaregness I wouldn't be able to get past higher levels.


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You put your RESOLVE HAT back on, which conveniently is the same hat as your NORMAL HAT.
{Drakeryn}

I don't know that I can dedicate myself to diving in the basement. =/

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Retaliation. Tit for tit.
-Dwight

Theoretical pull list for a four-day AT ascension. I say "theoretical" because I'm sacrificing turncount to reduce my pulls, so I'm not sure if I can really make it in four days.

I'm not doing this immediately. First I'm doing BM Sauceror to get Advanced Saucecrafting, and then I'm doing BM AT for Sonata of Sneakiness, and then I'll attempt a four-day run. It'll work out nicely because I'll have the Brimstone Beret too.

day 1 (goal: reach level 6; finish friars' quest)
1. el sombrero de lopez
2. bge 'ferocious fruit' shirt
3. paperclip pants (50 +15% init +2 adv)
4. brimstone boxers
5. paperclip cape (+5-7 HP/MP regen)
6. C.A.R.N.I.V.O.R.E. button (+15 ML)
7. bge pocket calendar
8. palm-frond toupee (volleyball equip)
9. dope wheels
10. facsimile dictionary
11. bartender-in-the-box
12-16. pumpkin pie x5
17-18. hippy outfit
19-20. perpendicular hula (L4) -or- prussian cathouse (L6) -or- mixing ingredients x2

day 2 (goals: reach level 10; unlock haunted ballroom)
1. ocarina of space (+2 stats/fight)
2. hipposkin poncho (+10 ML)
3. stainless steel suspenders
4. tiny maracas (sombrero equip)
5-7. ore x3
8-13. goat cheese x6
14-15. two pieces of pirate outfit (farm the third)
16. boris' key lime pie
17. jarlsberg's key lime pie
18. sneaky pete's key lime pie
19-20. prussian cathouse -or- mixing ingredients x2

day 3 (goals: reach level 11, hopefully 12; set up all three MacGuffin boss fights)
1. ice-cold beer ring (+40 cold damage)
2. drum machine
3. stunt nuts
4. wet stew
5-7. dusty bottle of wine
8. 668 scroll
9. 64067 scroll
10. frilly skirt (for cap'm caronch)
11-13. large box x3
14. milk of magnesium
14-16. digital key lime pie x3
18. can-shaped gelatinous cranberry sauce
19-20. prussian cathouse -or- mixing ingredients x2

day 4 (goal: finish)
1-3. frat warrior outfit
4. portable photocopier
5. star hat
6. star crossbow
7. star chart
8. sugar shield (+10 familiar weight)
9. wand of nagamar
10-12. star key lime pie x3
13. can-shaped gelatinous cranberry sauce
14-15. prussian cathouse -or- mixing ingredients x2
16-20. NS lair misc (large boxes, tower items)


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another place and time, without a great divide, and we could be flying deadly high

Gained 21 myst today using the little candia gym. 751 unbuffed myst.

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Traveling Trader is in the kingdom today.

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Pulverized enough to get 100 Twinkly Wads.

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Retaliation. Tit for tit.
-Dwight

Wonder if there are also going to be books for each of the other classes. It's a good thing I recently got Pulverize and stocked up on wads.


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You put your RESOLVE HAT back on, which conveniently is the same hat as your NORMAL HAT.
{Drakeryn}

Gained 14 in my myst, now up to 781 unbuffed.

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From: Gatarix | #042
Wonder if there are also going to be books for each of the other classes. It's a good thing I recently got Pulverize and stocked up on wads.

This was the last class book. The others were taken care of the past year.

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Oh, whoops. Maybe I should've bought more of them then. I just got one.


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You put your RESOLVE HAT back on, which conveniently is the same hat as your NORMAL HAT.
{Drakeryn}

Gained 12 in my myst, now up to 793 unbuffed. Also leveled up to 29.

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I'm struggling through this sauceror BM ascension. MP restoration is really expensive (even with MMJ), and I don't have any source of MP regen, so my main way of killing enemies is whacking them with my saucepan. This works about as well as you'd expect. Tomorrow I'm going to get myself a ghuol whelp, who will hopefully improve things.


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You put your RESOLVE HAT back on, which conveniently is the same hat as your NORMAL HAT.
{Drakeryn}

It's Oyster Egg Day!

Gained 13 in my myst, now up to 806 unbuffed. Time to continue basement diving.

I also added 710 balls to the ball pit.

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I'm going after level 30 before I continue basement diving.

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Gained 13 in my myst, now up to 832 unbuffed.

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