Memorable Highlights * Realizing the key to playing Octopode, for me, was acting like a complete pussy at all times. Anytime the odds are not overwhelmingly in your favor, act like you have one hit point (because you almost do). It gets a little looser once you've got a reasonable grip on the game, but I always felt a bit like I was gambling in situations that I would have simply shrugged at with other characters. * Find a whip of pain somewhere on the first few floors, and deciding to worship Kiku as a result, despite planning to worship Fedhas to be able to lean on rain with Octopode's amphibiousness for escape and control. * Spending an unprecedented number of turns resting. Octopode lends itself really well to paranoia, and paranoia lended itself really well to trying to keep full health at all times. * Finally finding a book with Blink it in at the bottom of Elf. I had almost no teleportation scrolls and no blink scrolls in the endgame by virtue of needing to escape from fights as soon as anything went wrong and having no other means of escape. Finding Blink was a great relief. * Finding the sabre of the Briny Deep {pain, rPois MR SInv Stlth+} in the Tomb. This replaced my trusty whip of pain and let me replace my SInv and MR rings. A great find. * Finding no fewer than 9 acquirement scrolls. Getting no more than 0 decent artifact rings from all of them. Bleh. * Amassing roughly 40 potions of mutation and chugging none of them. * Falling in love with Necromutation. I typically think it's way too heavy and is frankly overrated for most characters, but it made a huge difference for this character. Food became quite scarce at one point due to all the resting. * Haunt is awesome. I've never really had the opportunity to use it before. It's great for offense, for escape, etc. It's expensive, both in terms of skills, mana, and food (if you're not in lichform), but quite worth it. It uses smite targeting, so you can cast it on some pesky thing behind a bunch of other stuff to distract or kill it, and two casts tends to surround any mob with formidable critters. Its best quality (which goes well with the smite targeting) is the fact that it's really really quiet. The first cast of this often won't wake up the mob you've targeted, if it's still asleep. * Finally being able to play something other than Octopode. I am free! A great weight has been lifted!
* Realizing the key to playing Octopode, for me, was acting like a complete pussy at all times. Anytime the odds are not overwhelmingly in your favor, act like you have one hit point (because you almost do). It gets a little looser once you've got a reasonable grip on the game, but I always felt a bit like I was gambling in situations that I would have simply shrugged at with other characters.
* Find a whip of pain somewhere on the first few floors, and deciding to worship Kiku as a result, despite planning to worship Fedhas to be able to lean on rain with Octopode's amphibiousness for escape and control.
* Spending an unprecedented number of turns resting. Octopode lends itself really well to paranoia, and paranoia lended itself really well to trying to keep full health at all times.
* Finally finding a book with Blink it in at the bottom of Elf. I had almost no teleportation scrolls and no blink scrolls in the endgame by virtue of needing to escape from fights as soon as anything went wrong and having no other means of escape. Finding Blink was a great relief.
* Finding the sabre of the Briny Deep {pain, rPois MR SInv Stlth+} in the Tomb. This replaced my trusty whip of pain and let me replace my SInv and MR rings. A great find.
* Finding no fewer than 9 acquirement scrolls. Getting no more than 0 decent artifact rings from all of them. Bleh.
* Amassing roughly 40 potions of mutation and chugging none of them.
* Falling in love with Necromutation. I typically think it's way too heavy and is frankly overrated for most characters, but it made a huge difference for this character. Food became quite scarce at one point due to all the resting.
* Haunt is awesome. I've never really had the opportunity to use it before. It's great for offense, for escape, etc. It's expensive, both in terms of skills, mana, and food (if you're not in lichform), but quite worth it. It uses smite targeting, so you can cast it on some pesky thing behind a bunch of other stuff to distract or kill it, and two casts tends to surround any mob with formidable critters. Its best quality (which goes well with the smite targeting) is the fact that it's really really quiet. The first cast of this often won't wake up the mob you've targeted, if it's still asleep.
* Finally being able to play something other than Octopode. I am free! A great weight has been lifted!
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