I am in full on obsession mode over moon leveling right now. I want to do it. I’m trying to do it. And i keep messing it up.
I know what I need to do, and i know what I need to do before I try to do … this thing. I need a transponder. I need the island open. I need to hit level 8 on day 1 so that I can get 5 turns of mining in. I need to hit level 6 in under 60 turns so i can eat. I need to get the mosquito before level 7, so i can double up on the +ML for the cellar and the cranny. There is a a lot of X before Y so I can do Z.
Somewhere along the way, I realized that I didn’t need the extra adventures from booze. It’s been a pretty regular diet for a while. I drink 3 adv. cocktails, 2 pumpkin beers every day. on day 3, I use the spare pumpkin to make juice to help hardcap the tomb rats. Everyday, I eat 2 key lime pies. i also eat a fortune cookie, and then fill in with hot dogs or fondue. Booze is extra adventures, food is keys (which save turns) or +stats (which save turns). Now, if i can generate 500ish turns without booze, I might as well do a teet run, right?
WRONG
Oh my god, so wrong. because the thing that I didn’t mention, is that to do my crazy bat shit insane plan is that I need to start powerleveling 50 turns after I start day 2. why is this? it’s because i’m eating a drunki-bear. Do you have any idea what drunki-bears are made of? drunki-ness. As in, teets cant eat booze. My crazy plan was doomed from the start.
I tried gathering info first. No one really knew, and I can’t blame them. Not a lot of people do diet paths any more. The few that do, do it in such a weird, expensive way that I don’t really want to play. million dollar consumable budgets, etc. I sort of figured it was a coin flip. On one hand, you are EATING the food, so maybe the drunk portion wouldn’t affect anything. On the other, you’re not allowed to drink the ! potion that gives +drunk, nor are you allowed to receive the normal non-combats in barrrney’s barrr.
So, i start my run, I do the bedroom sort of earlyish – one of the asshole diamonds was kind enough to explain to me that OMG, YOU’RE WASTING RESOURCES DOING IT THAT EARLY AND YOU TOTALLY DON’T NEED TO WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING OMG OMG. but perhaps in a less retarded way. Fact of the matter is, I do not waste resources. getting to level 8 on day 1 is important for mining. Furthermore, while I could go wave my dick at the bats, my fairy isn’t fat enough to drop the bean. I’m not fucking summoning 2 yellow rays on day 1, and it only takes 2, maybe 3 turns with a base 15 lb fairy. a yellow ray here saves 1ish turns, and is clearly not a top priority. It’s okay to postpone the bat hole.
SO, I’m doing my ballroom. I’m getting my pastes. I’m shoring. No, wait. I fucked up shoring. I got the wrong tower item. whatever. So, i’m doing my other stuff… and I run out of turns. i need to eat my KLPs, and I need to eat my hot dog, and then i need to eat my drunki-bear. moment of truth….
It doesn’t fucking work. FUCK.so I drop path, and try to regain composure. I’m off balance my entire run. it’s uncomfortable. I didn’t have time to do the pirates when i normally do, the hidden temple unlock was shelved until way late, i didn’t unlock the island in time, so i lost turns of the drunki-bear buff. It wasn’t perfect, and it shouldn’t be hard to just get everything to line up. it’s frustrating. it’s really fucking frustrating because it should be easy to do. I NEED to powerlevel. it doesn’t matter WHEN i powerlevel. well, it does slightly – the monsters scale with my equalized mainstat, so postponing powerleveling gives perhaps one or two more stats per fight.
I did put a little weight on my sombrero this time. it was pretty easy to do in 2 of the crypt zones for 10-15 combats, so the little bastard was 4 or 5 lbs when I finally got to the moon. Not much, but better than nothing. running sombrero in the CoT early is trouble (as it deals unwanted damage), and using it as a stat familiar is worse than a bugbear, and less helpful than a xeno – which i need a transponder from.
I’m currently on day 2. I should finish tomorrow. I want to try this stupid run once more. I want to get it RIGHT.
