Run 13, Day 3

Today we come to the last big bottleneck of a run. (After this the turns come pretty easily and the quests are plentiful.) With it comes more questions. How fast can I get Liver? How much Hell Ramen can I get? Should I do the Shore before or after the Liver? Can I get enough combats in the Friar's zones to get Roc feathers? Is eating Skittles for breakfast really a good idea?

Goals: Liver of Steel (which includes the Level 6 quest, of course). Open the Island for mixers. 2 gongs for roc feathers. Level 7-1/2 at least. Which means a significant portion of the Cyrpt quest as well.

There has been discussion in /hardcore about placement of stat days in a speed run. The general consensus seems to be that they should be placed around level 9, which means around Day 5. This is going to cause a problem for me in the contest as I will have a much-beloved houseguest through 1 November. I could probably get away with spending one or two days concentrating fiercely on KoL...but not the whole week. (To say nothing of Samhain being a religious holiday.) I'm still going to make a contest run, but I may have to admit that it won't even be the very best I can do. I'm okay with that. There's always next time.

After adventure thoughts: I think I did really well today. Every adventure, even the ones leveling, were spent advancing a quest or in a necessary zone. The only exception is the clover adventures to get disembodied brains, which will generate/save more than the turns they took. I did not quite make it to 7-1/2; more like 7-1/4. It's still an improvement for me and hopefully I can continue at this pace.

The moxie stat days this run are Sunday and Monday, which will be days 6 and 7 of this run. We'll see how that works out.

PS - Blogger's HTML parser is a right pain in the arse.

Run 12, Day 3

Today sucked for a variety of reasons. I had to get up early to go grocery shopping despite my back being in a whole world of pain. I attempted to start spending turns and immediately got beaten up by a mimic. I decided that I wasn't going to have a productive day no matter what I did so I set mafia to run a bounty hunt and then passed out on muscle relaxers.

I did manage to finish my LEW and collect a second lucre, but not much else. Oh, on reading the log I discover that I also beat the Boss Bat. Go me.

Logs after the jump. (Thanks to Aankhen for pointing out what I could omit and what to add.)