Purple Worms.A Triffid.And the Curse of No Auto Save
Adventure Log#2
Whew! What a roller coaster tonight on DM.
From my save point,i entered the room full of Screamers and chopped them to pieces (I actually feel quite sorry for Screamers),then proceeded onwards through the dungeon.
Discovered a message written into the dungeon wall,something about a prisoner.I then noticed a lone Mummy standing on a pressure plate on the other side of a pit.
The stairwell down to level 5 was guarded by a closed portculis,so i assumed that the mummy had to be removed from the pressure plate.
Threw a screamer slice at the mummies head,and sure enough i heard the noise of the portculis opening in the background.
Discovered it was a trap,and was greeted by an army of Purple worms slithering down the corridoor after me!!
Ran back to the screamer room to heal and rest-Only to discover that the room was packed full of Screamers again!!! So..Im surrounded by angry Screamers fighting me...and outside the room is an army of Purple worms.
A real good battle ensued,and eventually i took out those damn worms,and headed to the stairwell to level 5.
Upon entering Level 5,i was immediately confronted (Literally at the bottom of the stairs) by what looked like a Triffid.Green ugly thing,with tentacles-and BAM!! It took out 3 members of my party with 2 ranged poison attacks.
It then dawned on me that i hadnt saved my game since the end of friday nights session. Gutted.
After years of playing games on modern games consoles,i had forgotten that there was no auto save in Dungeon Master.
So..I had to playthrough the whole Purple Worm battle yet again.
LEVEL 5.
The Triffid's are a pain in the neck.I dont ever recall them hitting as hard as this back on my ol Atari ST back in the day.Decided to defeat them with Tiggy's magic rather than in close range battles because they kept poisoning me.
Entered the 'Treasure Stores' area,and managed to complete all of the different rooms.The area with many pits caused me the most frustration,mainly due to those mini Dragon like monsters that kept appearing and attacking me whilst i was trying to solve the actual puzzle.
Went back up to Level 4 to pick up my 2 Treasure chests that iv filled with food,and noticed that the Screamers in that room had all returned again.
Now,i dont recall this happening when i played DM back in 88.Im assuming that this version i am playing on is bugged or something.
Dragged the 2 chests back down to level 5,and left them at the top of the stairwell down to level 6 (Im hoping to keep these chests all the way through the game)
LEVEL 6.
After what happened next..i am pretty certain that i am playing on some kind of a modified version of DM.I passed through the riddle room,and was immediately confronted by a Beholder....Which killed ALL of my party with a single Fireball attack!!!
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
I remember the Beholders from when i last played this game,and they could never kill with 1 attack (Or is my memory playing tricks on me?)
Luckily i had saved my game before my party died.
So...As it stands right now,my game is saved and im in the Riddle room at the beginning of Level 6.
Hoping to play some more tomorrow afternoon.
Romero and Carmack NEED to re-group.Modern gaming needs to be saved from the greedy bastards who are ruining it all.