The title doesn’t even look like English anymore. I’m doing a HardCore Way of the Surprising Fist Disco Bandit run, which is also going to be my n0 clover BM lead in. Simple.
I picked Fist over no path for a few reasons, mostly for the combat skills, and also to make it a little easier. For the same reasons, I picked the astral mask and went Vole moonsign. I also upgraded pastamancery and adv. saucecrafting. I don’t remember why I went DB over AT, perhaps I thought that I could scrounge up enough meat to buy the cocktail crafting skill in my run? The astral mask should be slightly more helpful overall, as I can get stats from dance cards and the extra moxie helps me survive combat.
My basic strategy is using Emilio as my primary stat familiar, and Stomping boots as my primary fairy. I don’t need to worry about mana, since I have the fist skill that regens mana and very few other skills that use mana. Also, as I’m in fist, I don’t need to worry about a leprechaun or too many other familiar types.
I DO need to worry about HP, since I don’t have any healing skills permed. Emilio should help with the healing a tiny bit, however since each action is equally likely and he has 8 other combat actions (6 of which will often kill), I suspect that I won’t get much healing out of him. Managing HP is probably going to be my biggest struggle this run and I have a few ideas on how to approach this. I can’t equip weapons/off-hands, nor am I aware of my torso or able to craft so I’m losing a lot of options. The subject 37 pin seems like a viable option, as well as getting the 8th fist scroll (needs 36 extra turns to get). Disco nap will cost 1000 meat, which seems more reasonable than using Doc Galactic, or sleeping in my newbie sport tent.
Lets do the math. Assuming that I can get a +item resolution, my fairy is 10lbs base and I’m using the mask. I can get ~20% extra +item from the pool table too. 15 + 30 +20 +20 = 85. I might as well get the +item halo from the clip art for an even 110 (total). The wiki lacks data for the item drops, but i’m going to assume that they are the same rate as GOTOs (my spading from a year ago shows the drop rate to be ~30%). Each zone also has 3 monsters, so… it’ll take about 3 times as long too. I have an expected 63% chance to get the item needed (not including pickpocket), so factoring in the other monsters, it should take me 5 turns on average per zone to find the item I want. I need 4 items for subject 37, so this is an expected 20 turns. If I use the pool buff on something else, I have a 90% +item, giving me an expected 5.25 turns per item. This is clearly fewer turns than spending the 36 turns looking for more scrolls.
I’m able to get 500 meat per day from the harem disguise non-combat in the treasury (once per day). Therefore, the disco nap costs 2 adventures. OR, it takes 1 additional turn in the crypt to earn ~250 meat, so disco nap could be viewed as 4 turns. I’m going to be taking advantage of these meat non-combats actually, as I may need to buy a cocktail kit (1000 meat), the skill (2500 meat) as well as 2700 meats worth of questy stuff (6200 meat total). If I expect to take at least 7 days to do this run, I’ll get about half of the meat I need from harem girl wages, and need to spend 13ish turns making up the remainder in the crypt, plus the 4 more to buy disco nap.
Between harem girl wages and crypt looting, I’m like some sort of slutty tomb raider.
