Back Again

[John Gregory]

Hello All,

A tried DM a few years ago documenting my experiences on this forum perhaps to other inmates' hilarity.

IIRC, I played all the way through failing at the final battle/trapping but remained enthusiastic overall at the adventure.

For reasons I am now unsure of, I stumbled back on the subdirectory where the DM distro exists finding it called to me enough to give the game another try. I found myself hooked immediately upon entering the maze room containing the avatar portraits.

With giving it as close to no thought as possible, I chose the dinosaur Hissa this time as my avatar and off I went. As I remember things, this game is dramatically different from my last. My avatar is rugged so enormously less vulnerable to hits but keeping the game lit is a challenge. So while the stage remains the same, the play is drastically different.

For example, I'm currently on the 3rd level as I count because I call the picture frame level as 1. I was overwhelmed in the previous game by the blue apes behind one door. This time I easily waltzed through them. I don't recall any light issues last time but this one was a major issue until my avatar gained a sufficient level to reliably create torchlight. That took camping out at a safe place to grind up to the point of being up leveled.

This time through I've lost the element of shock due to ignorance of what's coming. I forgot a good deal but do remember the broad strokes of everything so far. So here I am back and looking forward to new experiences during an older setting.

[jayrshaw]

Hi John Gregory,

It's good to see you giving the game another spin. I can definitely see how a solo playthrough with Hissa would have a less bumpy start than one with Tiggy! Looking forward to hearing how things progress moving forward.


--Jay

[Ameena]

Hissssa is one of the more physically-strong starting characters so yeah if your last run was a solo Tiggy (the squishiest of characters!), anyone will seem less difficult. It sounds like you're still going solo, rather than taking a full party, though? So you'll still find it more difficult than you otherwise might since you have less firepower and inventory space and such. At least with Hissssa you can cast a Lo-level light spell if you let his mana regen after casting "Lo". I tend to go with a two-player party and he is always the first half of that party...though I reincarnate him and call him Ameena so he kind of becomes a she .
The first level is the Hall of Champions and yes, most of us count that as Level One (a few call it Level Zero). The "blue apes" are generally known as "blue trolls" or sometimes "trolins". Hopefully you manage to finish the game this time, and then maybe you can move on to CSB and have fun being lost and clueless and dying all over the place like the rest of us once did .