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Well, we can't do as bad as last time. Slow and steady wins the dungeon dive. Luckily unlike other rogue-likes hunger isn't an issue, just a health booster.
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The basic diggle:
On hard mode, it must had twice the strength.
DUNGEONS OF DREDMOR: EPISODE TWO - Geokinesis the Nordic Partier!
Shall we fast forward to the character creation screen?
AAAANnnnnnddd randomize! 
Some of the same, some new. Let's review, shall we?
Burglary! A favorite skill of mine, so you don't have to bash down doors and worry about being stabbed, burned, diced, crushed, decapitated and so forth by traps. You can get basically unlimited lock picks and steal the most valuable things from vending machines to use or sell.
PERSONAL RANKING Four out of five. (Would rate it higher but it can only get you so far.)
Silver tongue! Never actually used the skill before, had always stuck to a certain build. Maybe you can tame creatures with this skill? (Weird glitch happened where the first icon disappeared, just odd.
Hope this isn't an ill omen.)
PERSONAL RANKING N/A
Staves! Could be useful? Another skill I've never used. But there a ton of staves to find and even craft. For some shoot fire, lightning, acid and even rockets.
PERSONAL RANKING 3 out of 5. (I mean, if you're dead set on them.)
Duel wielding! Yet another skill I've never used. I mean, I just stuck to meat shields and hurling powerful spells. It worked for the most part... Until I died. Still, this is what it says on the tin. Rollin' like Drizzt.
PERSONAL RANKING Two out of two hands?
And thus we have an adventure, now who will head out into the land of sunshine and kittens?
Well, wise words to live by! Shall we dive once more into the Dungeons of Dredmor!
Right away we find Geokinesis in the middle of the first level, a room known as "THE ABYSSAL FLOGGERY OF FORKS". 
Also, two pairs of pants and a set of lock picks. Along with a single diggle ready to drill us a new one.
But what did Geo say?
Ah, what do we start with?
Vending machine looter: Steal a random item from the vending machine on first use. (NOT USEFUL HERE.)
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DWARVEN INSPIRATIONAL SPEECH: Can put dwarves to sleep or even death. (Useful, but not here.)
Kiaijistu: Just what... A Japanese version of Fu-ru-dah?
Froda's Jump Discontinuity: Basically a short teleport.
Welp, let's use a samurai skills and hope for the best.
All my what, sure it knocked the beast back and blew open a wall. A very small chuck of damage and a long cool down period as well. Just once again to beating the creature to death with my basic equipment.
Lady Luck had it that I landed a few critical hits and lucked out. Somehow this Diggle is weaker than last time, how odd. That's rogue-likes for you. Looting time.
Duel wielding now and picked up both pairs of pants. Adventuring and pirate pants, the latter had the better sats. Now let's move on to kick butt for goodness.
Sweet, right next door is "THE MARSH OF ENGINES". Containing a shop, you know the deal with them. A few places to sell junk and buy some pretty good stuff if you have the cash. Unfortunately we're broke.
WARNING: DO NOT EVER STEAL FROM THESE PLACES, UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR ASS HANDED TO YOU.
To the Left was a room that had teleporting switches, that lead two mostly dead ends. Except for an up and left passage. So, what's up?
This place is a nice find. Book shelves mean books, books mean new recipes for crafting even if you don't have the skill for it. There are potions, but they can be overlooked since we have no alchemy skills. Also a sickly diggle, much weaker but it can inflict statuses.
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Bing-bong, learned four new secret recipes. But sadly they can't be used because we don't have smithing or alchemy. The bottom shield is called "A Mirror Darkly shield". Ugh...
No crying over spilt milk, onwards and upwards.
Ah, hell a puzzle room. Three runes, Pillar, growth/decay, scrutiny.
Can't hurt to put it that order Piller-g/d-Scrut?
Here goes nothing.
Hell yeah, steak. Nothing to see here, loot and move along.
Score, a lump of gold and some more secret recipes! A mace known as the ugly stick, a two-part rod known as Royal Beat-down and a grapple arrow. Huh, stuff beyond this build's skills. ONWARDS!
Another room, now new critters again. Was having fun trashing the kitchen table, now a floating potato and a slime of sorts. BINGO, our first stairs downwards to the second floor.
All sorts are in this room, gnomes as well it seems. The potato wasn't too much of a threat.
Also the blob, not too hazardious this time around. Just couldn't find much information, oh well back to looting.
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Ran into a few minor diggles and finally leveled up, but the bigger question is what to spend the skill points on.
Ended up taking blood Siphoning, more damage I do the others... The more I heal myself. A passive skill as well.
So, I misread that silver tongue skill. I puts any enemy to spell, now a very useful skill.
That teleport skill, is very random and uncontrollable. Wanted to get a piece of armor on that one pillar but teleported me to a new room. Ugh, but might help as run the hell away skill.
I filled up my inventory, might as well sell off my junk. So I thought a room right next to the merchant, I encountered a boss mob. Might be tough. Still if worse comes to worse I can teleport away and heal up.
A little bit of a tough fight, but I manged to get through. Shame it only dropped some spare cash.
Leaving them simply a "Pile of pain filled with love." Gotta love random generators some times.
Pockets heavier but not enough to buy some better goods, it had been time to get back to exploring. A few rooms south I found this oddity and also my first mellow shrine. "Just wants you to mellow and chill."
A minute or two later, leveling up once again. Now picking up a nifty skill of using math to weakening enemies, rather nifty indeed. Finding a room that had a few wands in it as well as a FUCKING INGOT PRESS. Love these things, more when I'm playing a building type, but that means I can deal with ore and make me some awesome omelets. Just takes four diggle eggs.
Fuck.
Geo will just have to go without delicious, mouth-watering, possibly questionable omelets. Unless we find the recipe. The true quest for omelets begin here!
A few posters that are easy to over look.
No trip through DoD would be complete without bring up this thing. You have to offer it gifts of lutefisk to get fishy-gifts back. I think I gave it about 100+ and haven't seen a single return, then again it might just be a luck issue.
<Insert meme here> But really, I recall Lutefisk being a jellied fish. One second...
Lutefisk (Norwegian) or lutfisk (Swedish) pronounced [lʉːtfesk] in Northern and Central Norway, [lʉːtəfɪsk] in Southern Norway, [lʉːtfɪsk] in Sweden and in Finland (Finnish: lipeäkala)) is a traditional dish of some Nordic countries.
It is made from aged stockfish (air-dried whitefish) or dried/salted whitefish (klippfisk) and lye (lut). It is gelatinous in texture. Its name literally means "lye fish". - Wiki
Yum.
On the next room over, I'm starting to get a feeling we're unwanted here. Nahhh.
Further more to the left we score our first Anvil of Krong, this bad boy can pimp out a single piece of armor or weapon. Note: I've found anything that is named already pissed off Krong 100 percent of the time, but unnamed is like 70 perecent chance of blessing or curse. But I tend to save this guy til I've fully cleared the floor.
Heading back up, we finally stumble across the Goddess Inconsequentia. A side quest giving map, give x to y or beat up a random boss mob. Usually scoring a blessed named item and a hefty sum of XP. Let's do it!
I see no down side to this.
Let's get some Napo! Wherever it might be.
A little ways further in, we stumble across the Lutefisk cube. The quickest way to get lutefisk, if that's what you wish to go for.
Tip: If you want to grind for lutefisk, the quickest way I found prior was simply put on of a stack of throwable items. Not the whole stack, it'll merge into a single lutefisk. Thus a very, very slow process with fat stacks.
Scored our first named item. Which is basically metal studded crocks, but are better than bare standels... So score! Oh, Uberchests. This things are just odd to me, there are few switches some times to open things or move stuff around. You just never know if you've just locked one or unlocked one for the loot inside. Also...
Us? Nope, can't be.
Further west was another statue. This time it's to kill a random boss mob. More fat loot awaits.
It took a couple of minute so monster slaying. Leveled up once more, upped mathmatics to gain the golden rule. You can turn your enemies into cash. But in other good news we found Nepo! That little candle thingy.
I mean, what other type of coffee would you want?
Luck of luck, the second quest object is in the same room... Some type of pink/purple genie. I think we can take them.
I was wrong. Almost had them too, just when my health had dropped low I had used the teleport skill. What happened? I teleported to the opposite side of them. Suddenly they got two attacks in a row and finished me off. Not to mention the traps that would of blocked a non-teleport retreat. LUCK HAS RUN OUT. Welp.
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Moral: There's ain't no party like a Nordic party.