Didn't use berserk, admittedly, but I did use a heal wounds potion. You missed the screenshot, but basically, I fought them off and retained about 30 HP. Having cleared out all non-Oklob portions of the floor shortly afterwards, I go down to floor 10. Note also Casualty, fleeing the scene like the hero he is. Note the ridiculously out-of-place shrine of Okawaru. It's a plant, it can't be that fireproof. Let's toss two shots down into that room and see how it goes. I can be a horrible coward Casualty, hero and saviour of worlds, destroyer and eater of his enemies! I can stand around a corner and use the miracle of area damage by means of my fireball wand to dispose of the Oklob. They are also the least dangerous of the large snakes, which in no way makes them a pushover.Ī thought occurs. They're essentially what happens when you combine a snake's movement speed and a scorpion's stats, and make the resulting creature poisonous to eat. Ice rings - and their twins, fire rings - have a habit of showing up for characters that would be hindered by them, or have no use for them. A ring of Ice weakens fire spells, powers up ice spells, makes you weak against fire, and grants cold resistance. And really, who am I to know? Maybe you do. Unless you like horrible corrosive death. To date, I have killed one Oklob Plant, at a rather high level, and I'd still rather not face them at all. The Oklob plant spits acid, dealing large amounts of damage and potentially corroding your gear. They are resilient (hint: non-named statues may be one-shotted with a wand of disintegration), and have some nasty attacks. As a rule, stationary enemies can attack you if they see you and you're standing on one of the red X squares around them. They are mercifully rare, and one of the game's few stationary enemies. Guess what? The RNG hates me, as evidenced by the loot so far and that beehive. Two shields - I'm standing on one - in a game where shields are fairly rare. You know what? I'm ignoring those bees until I have poison resistance, and going downstairs. This screenshot was taken after fleeing upstairs, resting and coming back down. I survived, at the expense of a bunch of very useful potions. What follows is a frantic Heal Wounds Potion quaff-fest while waiting for my teleport scroll to take me to a staircase. As a ditch attempt, I rely on berserk and Trog-given extensions thereof to get through this. Such is not the case, sadly, when you're this poisoned. Trog's Hand together with troll regen often works as a poor man's poison immunity, here. The big thing in the middle? A queen bee, essentially a killer bee with three times the HP and twice the damage, more or less. Might as well be inedible quokkas or something (they're all poisonous to eat). They also have a decent amount of HP/EV, hit for reasonable amounts of damage, and pack about as much poison as a scorpion. Killer bees are flying, and exceptionally fast, getting two moves for each of yours.

I'm going to have to face it eventually anyway. Well, I'll just show you by going into that passage the second larva is coming out of. Inexplicably poisonous if eaten.Īnother orc warrior that had a magical longsword. High AC, low EV, very slow (one move for every two, sometimes three of yours), hits hard, tons of HP. To your right you will see a Giant Beetle. Thankfully, this was not the case for this particular fight, but still, draining monsters are horrid. Its hits, even with a weapon, quite often drain XP.

That's the third jelly I've seen so far (one was offscreen). Couple blasts from my trusty wand of frost took care of that, at least.

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