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Posted by Drake3, May 9, 2008 at 3:50 am
Thank you all for your quick replies, I had figured as much.

Just FYI, I ended up making it down to GC 7, the floor with the mystic dark frog, and had trouble with it since I lacked any form of see invisible. I did have teleport control, two angels, two baby mammoths, and two diamond golems to help me hunt him down. I ended up losing all the golems and an angel in the hunt, but I got him myself by finding and eating a floating eye then finding him, teleporting adjacent to him, and stabbing him to death. This was probably the most trouble I have ever had with him, since I don't think I have ever reached him without some sort of see invisible. It certainly makes him nasty. Oh, I was killed shortly after though, by a single critical hit to the chest from an orc officer's halberd. My armor was just the basic Arcanite Plate Mail (can't remember if it came with a plus or not...) one gets from praying to Avatus. It should have been improved, however this is what happens when my town resources get cut off.

Still, yet another interesting experience for me to remember in future attempts.
Posted by Drake3, May 9, 2008 at 12:29 am
As I have done before in the past, I made the classic mistake of trying to buy something while Saal'thul was equipped. I said "y" to the question I thought was about wether or not to buy, soon after realizing I said "y" to stealing instead.

I managed to escape the town with my life (though without my valuable mirroring wand and some enchantment scrolls) but now I am stuck with no easy repair method as well as losing access to all scrolls in the library. (Unless I can become powerful enough to take the town, you never know...)

Anyways, my main question is in the subject. Is there any known way to pacify the whole town again? Mind you, running around trying to tame or charm things that can lay me out in a turn or two is not a likely option. I don't expect there is one, but I figured I would query the most knowledgable on the subject to make sure. If there isn't, I'll just do what I was planning, keep moving deeper.
Posted by Drake3, May 6, 2008 at 1:06 am
In general, I try my best to obtain fire resistance by buying up any available ring or cloak of it in the shop. (I'll even wish for it if I must!) If I cannot manage that, then I try for searching and still search once myself for each step I take. (Paranoia can save lives! ) As a last resort of survival, I'll use up a detect material scroll for every floor I can and detect "iron" since all mines in the standard IVAN game are made of iron. (It will just show you a bunch of blank spaces, but that is because those are hidden mines. Also if you explore near them you may forget again where they are, so I suggest stepping next to them, please be careful, and using "s"earching until you flag them.) If I have nothing and I find myself stepping into the Gloomy Cave, I will search at least two times for each step (Extra paranoia! ) and only stop searching if I am sure I am traveling where either I or another, non-levitating monster, have traveled before.

Regardless, I consider myself doomed if I do not have fire resistance when I set foot in the Gloomy Cave, but I have had characters survive doing these more extreme measures. :wink: