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  • [slashem] Difficulty to get the magic lamp from the Sunless Sea

    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 2 17:58:06 2023
    Not that I would have needed that magic lamp - my Monk is well
    equipped - but that sort of difficulty on the Sunless Sea
    level was new for me and the process to get that magic lamp
    quite wasteful.

    I have an amulet of flying and potions of object detection to
    locate the magic lamp, a wand of teleportation to relocate it
    onto a safe place, and light to see where it lands.

    There was a horde of "deeper one" monsters around the island
    on the water, on the island two giants. Object detection did
    thus show a lot of items but the magic lamp. Getting near the
    island the giants threw boulders at me. And after having them
    all killed and another potion of object detection spent there
    was still no lamp. So it must be covered by kelp fronds. Went
    to some dedicated kelp fronds to teleport them to safe places,
    but to no avail. So I suspected it was on the dry one-square
    spot where one of the giant's boulders landed. Read a scroll
    of earth to fill the surrounding squares with dry land to dig
    there. - And indeed, that was it.

    Janis

    PS: Bets are open whether that chaotic Monk will die due to a
    summoning storm on the Plane of Air or already before that by
    overconfidence or inattentiveness.

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Sun Feb 5 03:57:47 2023
    On 02.02.2023 17:58, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

    PS: Bets are open whether that chaotic Monk will die due to a
    summoning storm on the Plane of Air or already before that by
    overconfidence or inattentiveness.

    Again there were (even quite some) hostile titans and angelic
    beings at the Planes of Air and Fire. As usual I entered the
    levels with a wielded foo'trice corpse in my hand, and instead
    of quickly striving towards the portal I instead tried to reach
    the nearby summoners to stone them. I guess I was also a bit
    lucky - it could have evolved differently -, but I managed to
    survive these levels. On the Astral Plane there were no major
    angelic beings (only ordinary hostile angels), so summoning was
    not an issue. Nonetheless I continued the stoning approach and
    had to wish for another foo'trice corpse, and since I had to
    visit all three altars - this time I decided to not use my helm
    of opposite alignment - a third wish for a stoning corpse had
    to be issued. A problem could have also been the Vorpal Blade
    that one player character at Astral had in her inventory, but
    with stoning (or [rarely] teleporting them away) it worked out
    well.

    Janis

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