As mentioned in another thread, I started a DM game with only one character. I started it with PC version, so I can't give you any CSBwin recording of it. Still as some people here like stories and anecdotes, I'll write a bit about it and its progress. Yes progress, because I'm not one of these mad guys finishing the game during just the TV ads.
So first of all I decided not to take a pile of HP as a character but an old love : Wu Tse. I reincarnated her so she's not even a ninja, just an ordinary girl dragging her shoes on the floor and picking her nose. With a nice wisdom stat. A great potential, like all our beloved teenagers. Yeah, we wish they'd use it.
Level 1
Not particular difficulty. I used shurikens and falchion to kill monsters, ful spells to enlighten my path and made a few vi potions. The mummies require to be more careful as they hit harder, but killing one or two of them often suffice to make them flee. The screamer slices dropping from the first kills can be thrown in the face of the others for additional fun. Here's your buddy, vlam!
I voluntary ignored the boots and clothes and kept the supple ninja robe of better look +1.
My stats at the end of the 1st level :
Level 2
I still know this level by heart and I zoomed through it. Blue monsters are easy kills, they don't like receiving their own clubs in the face. I turned around rockpiles throwing them stuff over and over again, swang my falchion a bit too. Their poison made me prepare vi bro potions. I took the Guardian, the Vault, the Matrix and the Cavern of Monsters.
While food really isn't a problem with only one character, the room in the inventory is previous. I had to sort things, putting coins and keys for later in a chest, some food in others. I left the mirror and the compass there.
My stats at the end of the 2nd level :
Level 3
Ah ha ha ha... ha. The worm hell. I think it's dreadful even for speed runners because of their special ability to annoyingly stand in your way and call friends to corner you. The first worms made me seriously rethink my tactics because it took forever to throw shurikens and axes at them, while needing to make vi bro potions constantly. So I started to be more serious at the turnaround dance to dodge and throw the same shurikens again and again, to be faster and to avoid being poisoned.
After I found the rapier, I tried to jab worms, but it was like paper-cut until I earned another level of fighter and was able to thrust them. Suddenly everything was a lot easier. I was turning around them, thrusting them with my rapier. I was near the end, killing one of the last couple of worms after bashing the last door, when a couple of worms arrived from where I came. Nooooooo! Cornered by those two couples of worms, my rapier wasn't fast enough and I didn't have enough vi potions. My first death.
Monsters respawning behind are very dangerous. The second time I went faster and had no respawning worms. I grabbed the flask and the horn and went down the stairs. I'm not sure if the horn as any use at all, but it was in case of a stupid riddle. Note that I took the armour parts too.
My stats at the end of the 3rd level :
Level 4
Nothing worth mentioning. I have the feeling I missed something, but I didn't look at the maps or solution so we'll see. Just grabbed the items necessary for the Riddle Room and processed to the next level without taking any class level myself. As I've left the bow behind (I prefer shurikens, a feeling of RP I assume), I used the other mirror, a coin and a gem. It's funny when you don't remember the solution and find out again by yourself.
Level 5
I'm pretty sure I missed a fake wall or something of the kind, but I went through the whole "riddle me this, riddle me that" theme at fast pace. The beholders are funny creatures to fight. It's trickier to lure them under a door, but it's funny to do. Rapier's thrust is deadly to them, and their spells are not very effective. Particularly when they use the zo spell on you. Man, really? That's not how you talk to a girl!
For the second time, I found myself cornered because of monsters respawning behind me. Two squads of skeletons. Fortunately at this point my priest level was high enough to make good vi potions and I had enough flasks to prepare quite a bunch of them. I was brought to a pixel line but survived. I love to throw skeletons' shields and falchions at their own faces. I think it's becoming a theme.
My stats at the end of the 5th level :
Level 6
I used a Ra key and put down some food chests to feel lighter.
Level 7
The Ghost Love Score. Unfortunately for them, I found the vorpal sword in the previous levels, and for the first time I actually used it. In my previous games, I used to cast des ev. When I clicked on disrupt and saw the ghost "killed" in one hit, my eyes broadened. Ooooooh youuuuu! So I happily walked around the level with my weapon of mass disruption, killing gigglers with ful ir.
I knew this level more so I immediately went around clicking all the buttons to loot the treasures, and I recalled to take the elusive grey key in the middle of the room on the grey floor. It's crazy how the more twisted it is, the better I remember. So I found Delta and opened the first skeleton lock. Today I checked the stats and I'm definitely keeping Delta and throwing away the rapier.
My stats at the end of the 7th level :
This is where I am ATW. I read somewhere else that the Gem of Ages gives +1 level to everything so I'm going to come back to take it where I tossed it. Fortunately it's not far.
To be continued...
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