Hardcore Happenings

2005-11-08

Day 9: Currrsed!

A lack of luck held me from ascending today. No clovers at the hermit, no good special at the brewery (boxed wine) and more importantly...no guitarrr from the pirates.

I adventured there for more than 40 turns and no guitarrr. And without the ability to evade the choice-adventures anymore...blast. I decided I was not going to make it and just focused on levelling up a bit. Three MagiMechTechs later, I finally had the Metallic A and went into the Castle.

There I actually had the slightest bit of luck of the day with reasonable wheel turning and adventuring. Which meant that with only a handful of adventures left, and after a lot of hall-donating, I reached level 11.

Of course, I wouldn't have enough adventures to level my familiars, but I still had 3 fullness left. In what was a bad decision, probably, I ate the bean burrito. What 3-fullness food gives the most adventures I wonder? I didn't have spices available, so tofu chow mein was out of the question.

Anyway, I decided to use my trinket to get banjo strings and then go to the casino to get a big rock and make it as far up the tower as possible, just using consecutive tries to throw eleven for the skeleton key. Which is the preferred speed-way, I suppose, but I dislike it. Then, bad luck and judgement struck again. I re-assembled my clover and went to the casino. I didn't have a casino pass however, so went to the market and bought that one...then I forgot to go back to the casino.

Colour my surprise when I threw 11 in one go after using the skeleton key. Then colour my immense sense of upset. Now I had only a handful of adventures left and no way to pass the mariachi's!

I tried taking my riftlet to the Pirates and got an extra adventure, but still no guitarrr. BLAST!

For tomorrow, I hope it's a clover day. Also, I can save my stomach (and liver) for after defeating the Sorceress, so I can eat herb brownies (and white Canadians).

Keypunch (#30036)
Level 11
Reindeer Threatener
Turns Played (this run): 1,313
Days Played (this run): 9