Shoulder
hurts. I think it's a bit of an RSI from using the mouse so much. It's
been hurting a bit all day and then I came home and played Diablo for a
three hours. So now it's just a slow burning sensation. Probably not
good. So why am I typing this now?
Anyway, I did the Normal level Infernal Pit. Basically it was "go in,
draw some monsters away, fight them, go in deeper and repeat". There
were a couple of spots where my Amazon helper could shoot at the hordes
of Treasure Maggots, Treasure Succubi, Treasure Worms, and Devil
Spiders that were across the river. That helped a lot.
My duo is getting pretty good. I remember taking on the Infernal Pit a
couple of weeks ago and getting stomped. Today I was even once
sorrounded by Treasure Maggots, dozens of them. Luckily my Amazon was
off to the side and firing unmolested so I just held out until she
killed them all.
I picked up a couple of items. A bow for the Amazon. Does a little more
damage but fires fire arrows and does extra fire damage compared to
extra lightning damage. The Amazon is a cold Amazon so now she can do
fire and cold attacks.
Also got Ghost Armor for the Amazon which seemed to make her invisible
to the Treasure Maggots at least. The Treasure Succubi seemed to shoot
her just fine, though I'm not sure. The Amazon now looks a bit
translucent. It'd be nice if monsters didn't target her so she can fire
unmolested. But then again she has more hit points than me and much
better armor so drawing fire away from me is also nice.
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For myself I
found this cool War Mallet. Two handed that does 70-100 damage. Added a
Shael rune to increase it's attack speed to Very Fast. My damage went
up from 400-700 to 900-1700 with Vengeance on. It's cool doing that
much damage, though when I use it I break up Milabrega's Set. The big
effect is that my Lightning and Poison resistances go down. Defense and
Hit Points also go down but only a little. I get more Magic Points.
I also found Van Gogh's Ear, which is a 1-space charm that gives you
Prevent Monster Heal, which is useful. And I found a Death-something
2-space charm that granst Rest In Peace, which is nice against undead
and goblins that resurrect. I think RIP also prevents Corpse Explosion,
which can be annoying. Unfortunately this means that I only have like
12 space open in my inventory. Makes it tough to pick up items on the
fly and tough to sell items from the Cube.
Oh, I did die once and then geared up with my extra items and fought
things. I had the Horadic Staff and dropped it and then I couldn't pick
it up. It's a bug we've run into before. I'll have to get the pieces
again before Friday because I think I'm the only one that had a Horadic
Staff ready.
Then again, all this success is in Normal level, though the extra-tough
bonus levels of Normal. I still have the Cow Level and the Gauntlet to
do. Gauntlet is probably just going to be very tedious and I'll die a
lot (speaking of which, looking at the number of Town Scrolls I have
left, I must have died about 60 times doing Kagero's Dungeon). Fulton
and Woo said the first time through the Gauntlet is really tough.
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