A promising young 3.4.3 caveman has just stumbled onto a trapdoor
A promising young 3.4.3 caveman has just stumbled onto a trapdoor
hidden under a statue on Medusa level with an uncharacteristically
meagre inventory and is now stuck in between that level (Isle version)
and the Castle with one maze level to make it somewhat less boring. No levitation, water walking, striking, pick-axe, teleport, scroll of
earth, source of music (the latter doesn't really matter as there is
A promising young 3.4.3 caveman has just stumbled onto a trapdoor
hidden under a statue on Medusa level with an uncharacteristically
meagre inventory and is now stuck in between that level (Isle version)
and the Castle with one maze level to make it somewhat less boring.
A promising young 3.4.3 caveman has just stumbled onto a trapdoor
hidden under a statue on Medusa level with an uncharacteristically
meagre inventory and is now stuck in between that level (Isle version)
and the Castle with one maze level to make it somewhat less boring. No levitation, water walking, striking, pick-axe, teleport, scroll of
earth, source of music (the latter doesn't really matter as there is
no suitable boulder on Castle level either), identify and most other potentially interesting things.
The caveman has a wand of digging though. I vaguely remember that a
hole on an upper level can be used to get past the Castle if all
trapdoors there happen to be blocked. Tried that, didn't work after
50+ attempts. That's probably the main question here - should I keep
trying (and what are the chances of falling through to the Valley?) or
is it not possible at all?
Finding something useful in the Valley is my main hope at the moment.
Failing that, and keeping in mind I am not really prepared to go any
further anyway (no fire and magic resistance), do you have any other suggestions?
I mean, I can probably wander the maze level for a while
feeding on spawned monsters (fortunately they are typically rather
fat here) and hope for a scroll of teleport or a wand of striking or
a pick-axe (the latter two for a chance of levitation boots in the
statue) to pop up before I get absolutely bored. But... maybe I am
missing some other solution? I have virtually no useful items/spells I
can think of. I have a couple of scrolls of unknown BUC status that
can potentially be taming or genocide, but that too doesn't sound
terribly promising...
One thing you didn't mention is a wand of cold.None of those in the game so far, and not much fodder - initially - to
Do you have one (or preferably two or three) of those?
Polypiling might also give you something useful if you have a wand of
poly.
I don't quite understand that. Why do you need a boulder if you'dMy bad thinking. As I normally use striking to enter the Castle it
have a music instrument and can open the drawbridge with it?
Another question I have is why didn't you bring the scrolls of earthBasically I didn't intend to go pass Medusa, just happened to fall
with you?
I gave up on that, surely did over 100 attempts, so if it is possibleThe caveman has a wand of digging though. I vaguely remember that aHmm.. - that's at least something I'd also have tried.
hole on an upper level can be used to get past the Castle if all
trapdoors there happen to be blocked. Tried that, didn't work after
50+ attempts. That's probably the main question here - should I keep
trying (and what are the chances of falling through to the Valley?) or
is it not possible at all?
That's difficult to answer; you have mentioned a lot of *standard*Basically nothing, but I agree, I probably should have explicitly listed anything remotely non-trivial in my inventory.
items that you *don't* have. It would thus be at least useful to
know all the items you *do* have to make appropriate suggestions.
I'd thoroughly search the maze for traps, specifically level-teleport,Thanks, that's actually a good suggestion, I should have walked through
but also polymorph might open options. (Mind specifically the locations
where traps are typically set up in mazes.)
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