Valpurus gifts really suck unless you get them at the beginning of the game. If i had a choice i would prefer the shield to the sword that way you could build up weapon experience with a valpurium shield and wouldn;t have to lose experience when you socm you arcanite/octriron shield to valpurium. I wish Valpurus would at least give you a flaming valpurium sword so that it did some special damage. I did play one game where i got both gifts form Valpurus - I found a 2 yres of charm and charmed all the dwarves in the Cathedral. 6 dwarves at once, 6 books at once, it was easy to become a champ. I think i ended up switching to Vermis though - can't recall if this game was a win.

Do you want to try a joint game, we could play it like best ball in golf, we start out with the same character, do a level and then decide which "ball" to play, do another level etc until Elpuri's head gets delivered. We could decide on tactics before hand, regarding alignment, wepon choice, style etc.

I always play 0.50. what did you win on again.

You like Neerc Seulb eh? It's pretty easy to get super chaotic, Cruentus and infuscor can get you to champ status with mortifer. I always seem to find lots of mortifer books too. Kill kamikaze dwarves and get their books Plus you can kill Decos and his guards and eat their flesh. Should,'t be too hard to get another Neerc Seulb. Do;t forget about the polymorph altar trick but I guess that could be time consuming.



You could always try winning with another strategy too. Mine seems to work well.

Once you win once it gets easier. I'm sure you could repeat you elpuri win if you tried. What can I say, I enjoy playing IVAN. Still need to get a high priest ending.

Valpurium

Added some of my high scores. I had some more Elpuri wins on a previous installation of IVAN which got deleted because it wouldn't run anymore. All my wins are no artificial limbs, no cerumen abuse (SoCM large chest trick).

How about a level filled with enner beasts.... reproducing enner beasts. Hmm that gives me an idea I wonder what would happen if I cloned Enner a bunch of times and then got Ischaldirh to spawn.

Through experience.....

Saal thul is not unbreakable! It can be safely dipped in acid becasue it is mithril

Any arcanite/mithril/octiron/illithium/valpurium/crystal/ruby/saphhire/diamond weapon can be safely dipped in acid (as can many other materials not commonly found as non-whip weapons).

I have to say it is annoying how much misinformation is posted as "tips"

Most likely there was an eddy in the space time continuum. they teleport items away giving the message"the XXXXX on the ground disappears"

Sorry, I was really grumpy and just got annoyed by posting of incorrect information. Next time I'll kick my dog instead of venting frustration here. (I wouldn't actually kick my dog). I think its because Tips Tricks and Secrets was always my favorite forum and I was sad to see the state to which the discussion had degenerated. Waiting hopefully for a new IVAN release....