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Thanks, Ameena. If I plan on continuing in the game arena, I'll try for Discord. I'll also look for that CSBWin if I go on.

My desk/chair combo isn't well suited for computing work so I have my extended keyboard on my lap/knees. If I try to move it to the left to access the number pad without too ...

Thanks for the good wishes. I am hopeful of a full recovery and am already much better than I was pre-surgery so I account things a success already.

Good tip on training. I did have difficulty with the rats on my solo go. I think I posted having to play the game using my left hand across my body ...

I see now it's been a whole month since I was here. The surgery went well but was much more complex and far reaching than I anticipated leaving me in for a more difficult recovery that describes a very shallow slope.

Based on what I've read here, moving to CSB is out of the question given my PC's ...

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Sorry for my absence and lack of response. I'm considering replaying the game with, if not a team, at least a team member such as Jay's avatar. I think the combination of such a fighter is worthwhile. He'll (she'll?) need a good deal of training in the magic area just as Tiggy did in ...

Spell Vines...that's what I've been calling mollusks because my first take was a floating octopus. I can't say where I got overwhelmed because as things started to fall apart for me, I did my panic run away that has not only served me well as an escape but also has had me discover items or places I ...

I haven't a good idea how to proceed aside from trying again. After dispatching another two crabs (I don't see them as spiders) and two more knights, I ended up surrounded by crabs and mollusks with no possibility of escape.

This was my first combat death. I found it not only discouraging but ...

I got filled with ambition so decided to take on the balance of the stone golems. I did find a strategy that worked. One came from a room on the way to the stairs that connect to the skeleton passage. That one took a long time. The next two I lured into that room and stepped them but added tossing ...

Even at my current levels, I can't stand in front of most and bash away. The few I can think of are the trees, the green things with red eyes and skeletons. Even the latter will deal me some serious damage if I'm standing there doing a toe to toe.

After contending in what seemed like a forever ...

Oh, I didn't entirely follow the loss of defense discussion. Perhaps it'll make sense to me later on. Since standing in front of enemies bashing away isn't my style, I'm unsure how much it affects me.

Little to report aside from fatigue.

This level has, at least for me, greater tension than any other I can recall. I ended up spending more time on the level with the backward puzzle rooms after finding another cross key in the vending machine area, I decided to backtrack to see what was behind ...

I'll keep that in mind, Ameena. Right now agenda is fully booked with DM.

The good news is that my progress at this level improved dramatically after the poor start in the Backwards area. I now have two skull keys. I went through an area with many blue cavemen I now know are Trolins. I was able to ...

Good to read that I'm not alone in having rambled about that area finally exiting but not knowing how I did it. I haven't returned to the game today due to real world obligations that may end later on. There are several areas of this game where I ran in a panic or randomly ending up where I should ...

Thanks all. I’ll keep the spoilers covered hoping I can work things out for myself. I’m concerned about spoiling dulling the game for me. I’ll return here to uncover them if I feel I’m stuck. I’ve divested myself of a sword and an ax so I’ll rely on another ax I picked up recently. I’ve retained the ...

I have progressed down to a level where the chief antagonist is what I took for a crustacean but later I decided is a giant arachnid. I didn’t look it up in the Wiki because whatever it is makes the rats look tame. I note some are referring to my PC as a she. I’m surprised.

I also think there’s ...

Paul Stevens is correct. I looked at the Wiki. What I called a dragon was in fact, a couatl. It startled me in the room with the opening/closing floor hatches to the point I stepped poorly falling to my death. I posted my last note after I'd made it back to the worm reproduction area. After all that ...

I feel a bit more optimistic after my session today.

I grew determined to locate that compass to the point I was unwilling to proceed without it or a maximum effort at re-locating it. I managed to make it up to L3 or the worm level (not lampreys). I wasn’t able to think of a cogent method for ...

I wanted the skeleton key to open the passage so I could go up to the Rainbow Door level and open the other rainbow door. I felt it was blind luck and my fumbling about that got me to here at this level (L8) so I had no thought I could navigate back to the upstairs from here. I know I encountered ...

I think I came to the two step business on my own out of necessity. I found my PC was unable to stand in front of anything but the aggressive tree stumps for long enough to dispatch them.

I chose Tiggy as my PC not realizing at the time that I could choose up to four. So I started out with him as ...

I suffered an injury severely limiting my mobility. This will persist until the middle of next month when surgery should put me back up and running. I have a former boss who in the very old days was highly active in the Atari 8 bit community. He still does both hardware hacking and general whatever ...