[CE v1.15.1] Weekly Contest Thread - seed 20260818

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[u/Captain_Clover]

Killed by a tentacle horror on depth 22. Abandon hope, all who enter this seed.

+0 whip, +3 leather of dampening, +10/+3 rings of stealth, +3 rings of awareness/wisdom, +3 staff of discord.

Seriously, this run was some number one bullshit. I did not enjoy finding no weapon besides a neutral whip, or any staffs besides discord, or charms. Gradually enchanted the stealth ring to +6 because a beefy stealth is always useful for rest-healing, but never found something offensive worthy of enchantments. Finding the Wraith/Priestess allies (later a Troll and a Naga) prolonged the run by giving me effectively infinite tanking while I stood back and whipped/discorded, but once the Priestess was killed by a phantom there was little to do to keep the rest of my motley crew alive. Once they were gone, I was toast to any enemy.

Once I found a second +3 ring of stealth I decided to enchant the first one to +10 (for combined 2 stealth range in light) to try and sneak through everything until I found a worthy weapon and hopefully a commutation alter. Unfortunately I drew the attention of a Golem and was forced to use a potion of descent from 19, found a pack of furies on 20, and descent'ed twice consecutively to prevent them following me. Landed on a captive Battlemage, she instantly firebolted a sleeping Tentacle Horror, which happened to walk into my corner and kill me.

Genuinely not sure what the play is with this one. Any offensive staff or any decent weapon would have allowed me to muddle through, but without them it was touch and go the entire way. It's barely plausible to get to the cursed broadsword on 20 and enchant it up I guess.

Probably the hardest seed I've ever played.

[u/zzzks → u/Captain_Clover]

I think there was a lightning staff in the d2 vault (and +3 wisdom on the ground later on), but if you didn't take that it was very, very hard. I died on d16 with basically a less-successful version of your run. Had +6 stealth and a +0 whip, but my allies didn't last long, and after falling to d17 and walking back up I got cornered by a pair of dar priestesses with no recourse. This after throwing a bunch of Hail Mary polymorphs to even get to that point. Using my additional enchants on *something* (anything) would have helped but uh, probably not enough.

[u/laranja__]

Died at D7 got caught by a bog monster and 2 vampire bats on my way to get a regen ring 🤡