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Chapter 20: Unreal Caves
Taking the shortcut down into the caverns of chaos!
Back to the Earth Temple for more violence and experience!
GOOD ENOUGH
Down I go!
Vaaault!
Let's see what of!
I LOVE IT
There are 8 core dungeon floors remaining.
I have 8 scrolls of magic mapping.
There's no reason for me to not know what all of them look like in advance!
I actually don't have many castings of either ice spell left, so I'm using other elements for the weaker dragons.
I love finding just the right angle to bounce a missile.
LEVEL 33
I'm definitely going with Immune to Pain - +1 PV even against things that ignore PV!
SUCK ICE, GRAVADIRXIS
God I love these vaults.
Next level at 7,990,662 experience.
Spell restoration!
We're almost to the end! Another cavernous floor.
Exactly where I like my Chaos Warlords!
Made it past the bullshit!
I see a SHOP.
Figurines of wondrous power!
You can use them to summon companions. I'm too fast for companions to be practical, though - they just slow me down.
You may notice there are two staircases on this floor!
ROOM FULL OF GHOST KINGS
BARELY SLOWING ME DOWN
CORRUPTION ALERT
You look somewhat apish
Strength +3.
Learning -1.
Willpower -1.
Charisma -2.
Appearance -3.
Slowly increases in intensity over time.
Not bad enough that I'm gonna cure corruption for it.
The Unreal Caves
Offshoot of the deep world
Threat Level: 4/5
Titans show up pretty reliably in here! They are very hard to kill, and can break my PV even at a distance.
CORRUPTION ALERT
Living mana battery
Every time I touch a wand, it is drained of all charges.
This is a strong contender for the game's worst corruption. I'm gonna drop a scroll to cure it!
THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ONLY ONE OF YOU, DICK
Crisis, or opportunity?
LET'S FIND OUT
Disappointment, mostly!
Gotta be careful on this floor... there's someone here I don't want to accidentally shoot.
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Sharad-Waador, the ancient karmic wyrm
Threat Level: 0/10?
Special: Unique, assigns quest
Corpse: +10 To, +10 Ma
It's important to drop valuable, destructible items here. ON the staircase. Before talking to Sharad-Waador, ideally.
"You look as if you are busy now.
You may want to finish the more important business first.
Or do you really want to do something extremely difficult right now?"
[Y]
"This stairway here leads to the lair of an old enemy of mine.
Alone he wouldn't be a danger, but his children are too many...
I have heard about your reputation and you might be the right person to do it.
Enter the lair an try to slay my mortal enemy.
Recognizing him won't be difficult.
If you succeed, I will honor you greatly and reward you.
If you fail...
...well... hopefully you by then have softened up his defenses so that I can finish him.
Now go!
*IMMEDIATELY!*"
From here on, until I complete this quest, Sharad-Waador will become hostile if I move one space off of this staircase.
The Blue Dragon Caves
Home of a truly ancient evil
Threat Level: 5/5
While there ARE other creatures in here, the most common things by far are blue dragons.
Blue dragons have no weaknesses, and breathe lightning. I'm immune to lightning, but it can destroy items - nothing I can do to prevent it.
That item to the north of me isn't an item at all - it's an animated armor! Tough to kill, but not very fast.
An altar! Bonanza.
Oh, come on!
First floor had baby dragons. Now I'm up against adults!
Level up!
Learned more about Light! Mana up!
Next level at 8,789,728 experience.
So many dead dragons!
So much experience!
And now we're up to ancient dragons!
Almost done with floor 3!
The experience gains possible here are insane.
I'm running out of cool talents to buy, so I'll get Pious.
Next level at 9,668,700 experience.
Sealing this room off!
I want some time to recover my PP.
EH it was worth a shot.
FINAL FLOOR GO
Oh, christ.
BOSS DETECTED LET'S GO
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Srraxxarrakex, the ancient blue wyrm
Threat Level: 10/10
Special: Unique, regenerates, heals, breathes lightning, confuses, immune to lightning
Corpse: Lightning immunity, Dx +6, Ma +5, To +5, Pe +1
MELEE RANGE BATTLE GO GO GO
Weapon of choice: FIREBALL.
I'm so glad I'm immune to lightning. I haven't even lost anything I care about!
A number of dragons are dying in the crossfire, but attacking Srraxxarrakex is like attacking a steel wall covered in electrified barbed wire.
A quick prayer to the Gods to restore my power points! Now I can keep up the fight.
I've got him down to Severely Injured! KEEP SHOOTING FIRE EVERYWHERE
Holy Jesus that is one hell of a number.
OVER ONE MILLION EXPERIENCE.
Level 37!
LEVEL 38.
Now, to ABSCOND THE FUCK OUT
Several precision teleports later...
"Very well done.
You indeed are powerful.
Ye shall be rewarded!"
Sharad-Waador, the ancient karmic wyrm, drops a huge heap of items in front of you.
The pile really is massive! I'm going to just pick it all up, identify, then dump what I don't want.
This would be more exciting if I was a melee character with different proficiencies - Needle, when paired with the artifact dagger Sting, becomes one of the most powerful weapons in the game.
Next: The end of the Unreal Caves!
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