more kingdom of loathing

[sev]

I'm a level 6 Disco Bandit, which makes me a Sample Swindler.

Nicolas Ravindrian the Familiar Mosquito weighs 14 pounds, with 203 kills.

My cash-flow....er, meat-flow problems are over.  I got some nifty gifts -- thank you, envoy!  And, I'm now in a clan -- thank you, janetmiles! -- which makes it convenient to borrow stuff from the clan stash if I'm not finding it during my adventuring. 

New Accomplishments -- got lots done in the last two days, between the nifty gifts and the new clan!

• You have slain your Nemesis in the Cave.
• You have found the Slug Lord's treasure.
• You have found Dr. Hobo Jones's treasure.
• You have slain the Boss Bat.

My Nemesis in the Cave -- the spirit of New Wave -- bequeathed upon me a Disco 'Fro Pick, which gives me a Moxie +7 enchantment.  I picked up that Fairy Gravy I needed in the Haiku Dungeon.  Speaking of the Haiku Dungeon, I managed to accidentally succeed at the Extreme Haiku Dungeon Challenge with my alt and still didn't understand the pattern...so I went ahead and looked it up, and if I ever manage to encounter it again, I won't be so clueless.

The other day that I noted not one but two quests that required stench protection, and that I noted in my equipment-list that I had an air freshener, and somehow it was still another 24 hours before it occurred to me that I already possessed the solution to my problems in the Bat Hole and the Slug Lord's septic tank.

Quests:

• "Somewhere, there's a door to the 8-bit realm. The crackpot mystic gave me a continuum transfunctioner that, when equipped, will let me enter. It's an accessory. The crackpot mystic will assemble things from Pixels.
• I have the Spooky Temple map. There is a patch of loose soil at the base of the too-tall steps.
• The Pretentious Artist wants to paint my portrait, but not until I get less-bland clothes.
• I have a Spooky Sapling from the Spooky Forest.  It wants to grow.
• "We need for you to go deep into the Knob, and nip this problem in the bud, so to speak, by neutralizing the Goblin King." The nifty gifts I received help me adventure with mostly-impunity in Cobb's Knob, now.  What I can't easily dispatch -- in the third menagerie -- I trade misses and small-hits with until, after 30 turns of battle, the game engine indicates that it's gone on too long & ends the battle (not in my favor, sigh).  But the Knob Goblin uniform I pulled out of the clan stash doesn't appear to be suffifcient to work on the Goblin King, who, text indicates, I need to "distract".
• "The Deep Fat Friars in the Distant Woods are having a problem -- one of the experiments has gone awry, and fey creatures have invaded their grove. Please, Adventurer, lend them your assistance." The Friars said: "Please, Adventurer, help us! We were performing a ritual at our Infernal Gate, and Brother Starfish dropped the butterknife. All of the infernal creatures escaped our grasp, and have tainted our grove. Please clean the taint! Collect the three items necessary to perform the ritual which will banish these fiends back to their own realm. The first item can probably be found in the Dark Neck of the Woods. The second item was last seen in the Dark Heart of the Woods. The third item was stolen near the Dark Elbow of the Woods."

With my new cocktailcrafting skills, I've taken to downing an advanced cocktail or two at the end of the day, to generate some more turns to spend specifically tracking down more ingredients. This enabled me to, today, put a calle de miel in the clan stash, and drink one calle de miel, one perpendicular hula, and ... one other thing.  I spent the first set of adventures smashing barrels. I spent the second set of adventures in Fernswarthy's Tower, as the KoL Wiki indicates that the Fruit Golems found there should drop fruit, but alas, though I fought several Lesser Fruit Golems, I found no fruit. I spent the third set of tipsy adventures in the first Cobb's Knob menagerie, and after three Fruit Golems, I finally found a cherry -- and then was out of adventures, so I can't yet do anything with it, which is okay, because I don't think I can use it with anything I have anyway.

So, I have:

• one cherry
• two bottles of gin
• two bottles of rum
• a bottle of vodka
• calle de miel (margarita + magical ice cubes)
• roll in the hay (whiskey & soda + little paper umbrella)
• wine spritzer
• soda water

...I'm not sure this strategy (of drinking, to get more turns, to get more ingredients to make more cocktails) is actually going to pay off. I think I may do better by smashing barrels to get pre-mixed drinks, and crafting cocktails out of things I happen to find while wandering around doing other things. Or something. 

Comments

[redandfiery.livejournal.com]

*bows down before sevoo
"We're not worthy!"

[envoy.livejournal.com]

I haven't done a Disco Bandit yet. I'm at the end of my second Hardcore Oxy run and I think I'm going to do a Sauceror next. I'm going to wait until after the new Month starts so I can see what the next Mr. A item will be.

The quests are really vague and strange, seriously, don't be afraid to look for spoilers or ask for tips, I had to do it a bunch of times.

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

I'm just a little bit behind you, having made a Disco Bandit, Seal Clubber, and Sauceror after seeing your previous post and deciding that it was time that I finally gave in to the assimilation.

FWIW, there are lemons in the Fun House in the Plains. And you can get "interesting" outfits by going through the rift (which you might need the continuum transfuctioner to see?) and spending time at the Battlefield.

[cforciea.livejournal.com]

Later you'll get to a place where you can just buy a bunch of different types of fruit (though no cherries) for 70 meat apiece. I personally find it more of a pain to find unmixed alcohol without just giving up and buying it in the mall.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Barrel full of Barrels is a good source of unmixed alcohol. The Barrel full of Barrels is, basically, a 3x3 grid, where each square contains 2x2 barrels. The top row has the most powerful items -- mixed drinks, superselters, Homeopathic Elixers and so forth. The second row has the medium items -- bottles of booze, regular seltzer, etc. The bottom row has shots of schnapps, and minor healing items, and minor stat items.

Each row contains three cells -- in one is booze, in one is stat increasers, and in one is health/mana restoring items. Exploding barrels and mimics are scattered randomly throughout, replacing other items.

For me, I usually just go for the booze -- I don't find healing items or stat boosters to be that useful. So if I find a a mixed drink, I know that the other three barrels in the cell are ALSO mixed drinks (or explosions or mimics -- the reason I dislike explosions and mimics is less the damage, and more the fact that the replace something useful.) If I want more booze for mixing, I go to the middle row, and search for bottles of booze, the same way.

[jfarr.livejournal.com]

I've found that you can also gain stench protection from donning an asshat, which you can craft from two bum cheeks (gained from defeating rushing bums in the Sleazy Back Alley).

And dammit I'm now thoroughly hooked on this game and it's all your fault. :P