HCNP TT was quite a pleasant run. With the Brimstone Bunker, I had no real trouble surviving unless I was in way over my head. The medicinal herbs helped too, though given that I could only use at most 3 of them (the rest of my spleen being given over to turngen), they weren’t a big factor. Cutting a day off my fastest time was really nice.
I picked up lucre on 7/8 days. The first day was the only one where I skipped it. My total is at 159 filthy lucre. That leaves me with 41 lucre to go. Depending on how my next couple of runs go, I might be in my final BM run when I get to 200! That would be rather frustrating, but hey, at least I’ll jump right from a BM run to an HCNP run with Olfaction.
I never once tamed a turtle on this run. Since I couldn’t wear any sort of shirt and I already had one of the best shields in the game, I didn’t really see the point.
My day 1 was rather bad. I adjusted too late to the much smaller mana pool of a non–Myst class.
I should have used my Pixie throughout the Friars and Azazel to get more Hellion cubes.
The Bedroom is a good source of stats. Using it for Meat like I did was a waste, especially in light of how long it took.
Spent way too long doing the war sidequests. A scroll would have made all the difference.
Nothing more to add to what I’ve previously written. (I should stop promising “post-mortems”. These are just a few scattered comments.) I’m dissatisfied with my performance in some areas and happy with the overall outcome. It’s possible that I could have cut another day off my run had I not wasted a gong on day 1 and yadayadayada, but it’s not a big deal. One thing I need to watch out for is the DD. I seem to always find myself getting the second DD item just in the nick of time. I’d better plan it more thoroughly in future.
I’m perming Amphibian Sympathy from this run.
My next run will be a BM Accordion Thief for The Ode to Booze. ATs are supposed to be the fastest classes to ascend with, but I think that assumes you have a bunch of skills permed. I’m still hoping this will be an uneventful run. It’ll be my first Moxie BM run apart from my kittycore, and that went pretty smoothly.
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