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Part 6 - Mr. Creepy's Wild Ride


Okay, I know I can do better than that. Let's keep giving Thief some more shots, I know this should work.



Gee, thanks

I'm still curious as to what the purple variant is supposed to do.



Oh



A short moment later, I find that I didn't really do better.



Okay, this time for real!



I fight through a horde of vampire mushrooms to find a chest that contains a vampiric dagger! Thematic!



I get level 3 (I got Juke at level 2 to get rid of the earlier stated vampire mushrooms without dying). This time, let's pick up Fire Trap.



I find a much better shrine this time.



And that's a much better weapon for a class that needs to hit and run!



Okay, all set to actually take on Hakkipunki this time!



I lied again. This is becoming a bit of a broken record, I think.



Let's speed this up with a quick album of "The Last Thing I See Before I Die". This one is titled "Fucking Mushrooms"



The next life, I run into these motherfuckers, who are three guys tied between each other. I find out that they don't need to be killed all at once, since you can kill one and it won't come back immediately. However, you have to kill the remaining two at the same time, or the two dead ones will respawn with full health.

I died because I wanted to figure out how to kill them, instead of just invisibly walking away. The right answer probably is to just walk away from that bullshit.



A couple more attempts ahead, I run into a weird cutscene featuring one of those bizarro clogheads. I guess I wasn't actually supposed to see them in the previous level, but Savage difficulty overrode that with an out of depth spawn.

It then runs off the map. Weird.



Anyways I died to a frog. Next!



Here's were I corner myself like an idiot between infinite poison spiders.



This time I run around in a circle and get cornered by the black jellies I spawned.

I'm starting to think I might not be good at this game



This life starts with me spawning next to a Blinking Cloak (the 20% chance to ignore damage and random teleport). Score!



I pick up Fire Trap for a first level instead of Hide in Shadows to help get out of this situation.



Or I guess nothing will step on the trap and I can just get blinked out for free. I'll take it.



Through a bunch of spider webs is the downstairs and a healing shrine.



The frog pulls me away after I heal, though, and I get blinked instead of taking damage. Oh well, let's explore the rest of the level.



I first go to use the other healing shrine, though.



I get a level up, which nets me Hide in Shadows. That should be enough to survive and keep diving with, I think.



I invis my way past the mobs into the staircase. So far, I've been trying to fight things, and it hasn't worked out. This time, let's just dive past everything as fast as I can.



Is what I would say if I wasn't a bloodthirsty monster intent on killing everything



A pair of wisps start chasing me, which forces me to leave behind some black jellies to multiply.



I invis after killing one of the wisps to buy time.



Using the shrine turns out to be fire! Great!



I slip around in invisibility away from the jellies, but the wisps are killing me even without seeing me.





I use my healing potion to heal up, since I don't trust the wisp not getting in the way of the healing shrine.



My exploration south gets cut off, though.



But I was prepared! I also found a pretty neat gimmick with the fire traps: if you are invisible, placing a trap doesn't take a turn! I'll remember to abuse this, I think.



I find a chest around the corner and open it up while a black jelly hits me and teleports me away thanks to my armor. Inside the chest was a better version of my armor! I'll take that, it's been pretty powerful so far.



Anyway, this level is starting to become crowded. I need to find the stairs down soon.



There they are! Only two stars of stamina left, though; I should probably fill them up before dropping to the next level.



Not like this!



Luckily, I teleport away before getting ganged up on too much.



A judicious use of stamina later, and I've dodged around everything back to the stairs. I'm not dealing with this anymore.



Next level, I find a loot shrine right away!



Oh hey, it's an accessory item! That reminds me that I collected one of those from Rumakko's lair and forgot to equip it

Anyway, let's see what it does.



Oh, I guess it works like the D6 from Binding of Isaac? I guess I'll find out if I reach another chest.



The black jelly parade is already on the way to ruin my day. However, I hit a small one first to get Level 4! I put the level Hide in Shadows to maximize my stamina usage, since I'm mostly using it to run away and re-position.



I pop it immediately with the one star I gained and clean up the jelly mess before continuing to explore.





God damn you, Ghostfen, you are a piece of shit.



A quick journey north confirms that those wisps were guarding the stairs, so I'm going to either need to kite them away or kill them off, while dealing with all these jellies.



I invis away and collect some health and go regain my stamina somewhere safer to handle this.



I open a pot and get a scroll of pottery! This is exactly what I need right now!



Alright, fuck all those things!



Okay, looks like some jellies survived The Pottening. Guess I'll have to clean them up.



I collect a health potion from one of the pots, and bring the jellies over to this little choke point and slowly kill off the small ones a couple at a time, then cleaning up the goop in invis.



Is what I would say if I were playing smart. Instead, I killed all the small ones at the same time and ran away from the jelly, causing my situation to get worse because I am good at roguelikes you guys honest



Save me, scroll of wonder!



Okay, that really wasn't that wonderful.



The shrine gods are much more forgiving to my current situation. Let's make a like a Cloghead and get out of here!



I find and use another scroll of wonder while looping back around to the stairs.



Okay, that was even less useful, given that fucking wisp trap



Jellies cut off my escape, so I head for the bottom, unexplored route.



In there is a chest and a life shrine! The chest even has a weapon, which will definitely help out with clearing out these jellies AND the boss!



Unfortunately, it turns out the frost from the winter shrine and my dagger share the same "freeze only once" restriction, and I take some unnecessary hits. Also, a jelly stepped on the wisp trap

There's also a lot more shrines than there were before, probably due to the wonder scrolls.



One of them is a full heal! Fuck learning from my mistakes, just get lucky



I even get more pots out of all the things chasing me!



Greed sense has me go get the special pot, even though I already have the health potion. Turns out it's haste, so I just quaff it immediately.



Also, turns out haste means you don't get damaged by wisps while walking next to them ~pro strats~



Alright, time to fight Mr. Creepy! This should be easy with the health potion. I could probably just tank him down.



He doesn't even give me a monologue, what a rude arachnid



I drop a fire trap at my feet to prepare for damage on the retreat, and proceed to retreat backwards in order to get as much damage in as I can before I need to start face-tanking.



The fire trap clears the spider webs behind me when it goes off as well? I mean, I guess that makes sense, and I'm wondering how much harder I made things for myself for not knowing that



Alright, that should be enough kiting. I pop my last star for invis in order to re-position, but I run out too soon. Thankfully, some spider nests are present to give me back some free stamina!



I get blinked away after killing one. Eh, I'll take not being damaged and a free re-position.



I knock Mr. Creepy down to 33% HP (roughly) when his first bite sends me teleporting again! This time I'm stuck in a corner. Again, not bad, since I've probably got enough HP to tank him here.



I land a single hit and he teleports me on the first hit AGAIN! This time, I don't like my position that much. I'm going to start being eaten alive by these poison spiders if I don't get some stamina back and take out the webs.



Thus, I start killing some spiders and relocating with invis. Some mushrooms join the fight as well.



I end up getting teleported even further away while trying to clear the nests



Okay, I'm really not liking my health and position anymore. I use the shrine, and it gives me winter tides, which should give me enough time to push back to the spider nests.



I almost make it back before the purple tide starts poring again.



It takes way too much effort to push closer, and I decide to pop open the chest in hopes of something better to kill these spiders with.

I think this will work



AHAHAHA BURN BURN



BURN IT ALL FUCK SPIDERS FUCK HAKKIPUNKI FUCK GHOSTFEN



I love the smell of burnt spiders in the morning...smells like victory.



However, killing them took my health potion and half my health, so I gotta play a bit careful with Mr. Creepy again.



There, that's careful enough.








Finally! Hakkipunki down! I get dirty, poisonous villagers in return, as well as my usual gold rewards.



:You found the Mushrooms! How are they faring in the fen?
:They've been...infected?
:Oh no! It may be too late...
:The malevolent wisps of Ghostfen have possessed the Mushroom colonists!
:What's that? You met a bizarro Cloghead with giant white eyes that spoke gibberish? Oh Cloghead! You're hallucinating!
:You must be sick with grief as well...
:Oh, you brought back another chest? Open it yourself...
:I'm too distraught to pay attention.



Inside the chest is...vampires?



:You have awfully strange tastes, don't you?
:Anyway, with a heavy heart I'm off to investigate the vampire Mushrooms...
:I will return.

(Psst, I don't think Sproggi is all that smart :ssh



:Thank you for freeing me from that stuffy chest. Some rabble rascal thought it'd be a hoot and a half to lock me inside. That was one hundred years agao! Now I'm free as a flittin' fairy, and I'm aimin' to repay you your kindness...with vampirism! The gift that keeps on givin'.
:I'll wander about your precious lil' village here, and you can send vampire Clogheads adventurin' all over the realm. Enjoy feastin' on the blood of your enemies! Woo-haw!

So, I guess we've got vampires as well now, even though we were trying to prevent the mushrooms from being vampires?



Well, fuck it, let's go buy stuff. The reroll coin turns out to cost 3600 gold, but I never ended up using it and it costs too much, so oh well.



I go buy more pots and shrines because I like luck compared to numbers, I guess.


NEXT TIME: Fuck, more Ghostfen???