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Previously, in the Brogue game diary…Brian’s monkey has burned to death, he’s found a ring of stealth, and he’s gone blind from drinking a darkness potion.<\/em><\/p>\n

I head back down to depth 5, sticking close to the walls, until I find a shadowy alcove to hide in until my vision slowly recovers enough to venture onward. I find a potion that turns out to be Fire Immunity. I have not seen any fire on this level yet, though.<\/p>\n

After the jump, say hello to my little ogre<\/strong><\/p>\n

A potion of Confusion takes out half of a room full of goblins and jackals with friendly fire, and when I go in to mop up the survivors, I find a captive Ogre. Much better than a monkey, if I can keep her alive — her health is at almost zero.<\/p>\n

The rest of level five contains only a few unknown, probably harmful potions, some gold, and some random solo monsters. We head down to depth 6, the ogre having recovered almost a third of her health.<\/p>\n

We’re presented with a large pool, probably chock full of eels. I look for a way to circumvent it, but the only way past is through. Four eels attack the moment I step into the water, nearly killing the ogre. A potion of Telepathy reveals the four eels and a fifth on the far side of the pool. I try throwing some darts, but while they’re submerged, they seem to be immune to ranged attacks. Then a Pink Jelly wanders by, so I deal with that while waiting for the Ogre to heal up enough to take on the eels.<\/p>\n

\"b4_1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\fWhen you can see them, the eels are not quite as dangerous, so I stand by the edge of the pool and try to hit them as they swim by, managing to kill one. The other three retreat to the center, and we make a break for it to the dry corridor beyond — which contains a fully-grown Bloodwort stalk! The Ogre heals up just in time to defeat a swarm of Vampire Bats and an Acid Mound.<\/p>\n

I decide the time is right to try out some of these scrolls I’ve been accumulating. For some reason, I choose a hallway, and the first one is a scroll of Sanctuary.<\/p>\n

I learn that even pet monsters cannot pass through those sacred glyphs of Sanctuary. My ogre is now trapped in a dead-end room. I search for secret doors to no avail, and then I start reading scrolls, hoping one of them is Shattering. First one: Recharging. If only I had a staff or a charm to recharge. The second is Negation, which apparently has no effect on sacred glyphs.<\/p>\n

The third scroll is Shattering!<\/p>\n

\"b4_2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As soon as those walls finished melting, we can be on our way. Before heading down to the next level, I find one more scroll of Sanctuary, but nothing else of interest.<\/p>\n

\fOn level seven, the first thing I see is a monkey running off with a teak staff. I’m on level 7 already and that’s the first staff I’ve seen. It turns out to be a staff of Discord. I’m not entirely sure why I know that the second I pick it up, since I have yet to identify a single staff, wand, or ring so far, but I’ll take it. There’s also a potion of Creeping Death and a willow staff lying nearby. That one remains unidentified.<\/p>\n

I find a room full of sleeping Acid Mounds. So I toss some Creeping Death into the room, which turns out to be a great move — beyond the acid mounds, a group of Goblins and Goblin Mystics are now trapped behind a relentless, growing carpet of death.<\/p>\n

\"b4_3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I leave them to their horrible fate and discover a room filled with explosive gas, along with a Healing Staff behind some highly flammable wooden barricades. There is a fire trap in the room, which I thankfully discovered before accidentally immolating myself and my ogre friend, but there’s no safe way for me to set it off.<\/p>\n

Around this point, I see a disturbing message:<\/p>\n

\"b4_4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t remember ever running out of food before — I halfway assumed that the game just threw some food into a level whenever you ran out, which I’m pretty sure is not how Brogue works, but the point is I’ve never worried about food before. I set the worry aside, confident that I’ll find some food soon, and continue scouring the level. I’ve got to leave the Staff of Healing behind, though.<\/p>\n

I find some Goblin Conjurers and Mystics guarding some leather armor, chain mail, and a potion of Strength, which I immediately drink. I’m finally strong enough to wear that Banded Mail I found back on level … one?<\/p>\n

Uh-oh:<\/p>\n

\"b4_5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That happened faster than I thought. Again, at this point I usually just eat some food, because usually I have some. I’m mentally replaying all the time I wasted: waiting for hallucinations to wear off, waiting for darkness to wear off, hiding in the shadows, and slowly regaining health. In retrospect, those are starting to seem like poor choices.<\/p>\n

There’s nothing left to plunder on this level — certainly no food — so I make a beeline for the stairs. Surely, there will be some food just lying around on level 8.<\/p>\n

A scroll of Enchantment, some gold — no food in sight.<\/p>\n

\"b4_6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve never seen this message before. I’m getting frantic, desperate for some food, a mango, anything. Plate armor, a potion of Descent, no food.<\/p>\n

\"b4_7\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Shit. Now every step is taking a chunk out of my health. I head towards the nearest unexplored room, my health ticking away with each step, hoping against hope there’s something to eat. But of course not — I’m rewarded with a potion of Paralysis, and a sinking feeling in my stomach.<\/p>\n

I start reading scrolls — maybe one will be Teleportation, and it’ll send me to a room with food in it. Of course, this seems vanishingly unlikely, but it’s the only hope I’ve got. And things can hardly get worse.<\/p>\n

Of course, the next scroll I try is one of Discord. My ogre clubs me, after all I did for her. I read a scroll of Sanctuary, protecting me at least from her, but I only make it one step away before collapsing from starvation and dying.<\/p>\n

So that’s where my delve ends — on level eight, trapped by a backstabbing Ogre, done in by being overly cautious on the earlier levels.<\/p>\n

\"b4_8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomorrow: learning from what happened<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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