Day 1 went fairly smooth. The only screw up was missing the eyedrops SR – I didn’t want KGE uniform and I wasn’t sure what SR I wanted, so I skipped it. Looking back, this may have been a mistake, as I pulled a food pill to fit the cookie in my diet.
Day 2 was a disaster. Powerleveling was … weird. I needed a cherry, but pulled a lime, I needed a cocktail onion, but didn’t have any. I nearly forgot about getting my transponder to drop too. I also spent 2 extra turns looking for black candles with the giants; I’m not sure how bad this was as I was getting 50 mainstat per fight. One of the REALLY NICE THINGS about moon leveling is the off-stats. I typically have about 40 in my off-stats when I powerlevel in spookyraven, since I’m completely neglecting everything but mainstat. 28 turns on the moon yielded enough off-stat to equip the battlefield equipment AT LEVEL 10. I say 28 because I messed up my buffs for a turn, and lost combat in another. This is easily 250 mainstat missing.
Things to fix for next time:
- Stock cocktail onions, cherries, pressure pots, bears, etc before ascending
- get 1st SR, if only to set mafia’s timer
- use the sombrero in the crown more often
- get a transponder early
- put off leveling until as late as possible (started 4 turns early).
I feel missing the cocktail onion hurt the most. I’d like to try it again and get everything just right.
EDIT:I finished the run. I felt like I had some bad luck finding gnasiar in the desert, but that was probably mostly negated by a lucky 8 turn temple… anyway, the run finished. I estimated that it would cut my 63 powerleveling turns in half (if i had the onion anyway). So rather than clock in at 525 (last run) I managed a 494. Exactly 31 fewer turns, even though I skipped SR, and other cock ups. It’s simultaneously frustrating as I try to get everything to line up, and exciting when things work.
