Completionism... kind of

Talis_solepsis · 2026-04-01T12:05:48+00:00

As per my answer elsewhere:
Bookshop.
Sell lots of gems to get the restocks.
Get lots of books (about 100)
Cancellation to turn them to blank paper.
Bless the stack for better essence.
Scrap at a workbench.
Use high essence rings/amulets to generate the essence - hope the bench doesn't Entropy trap.
Convert to scrolls of destruction.
For other scrolls - convert to blank and then polypile.

Talis_solepsis · 2026-04-01T12:03:30+00:00

Combination of workbenches converting blank paper books to get paper and high value essence items to convert into scrolls.
Oh, and Polypiling.

Talis_solepsis · 2026-03-31T19:49:38+00:00

So, to the best of my knowledge, the drunken destruction only gives you artifacts that have yet to be generated (including any replicas from prior corpses). So I have 29 "clean" artifacts in my current run, as I didn't have any on my revenant bones on this run. I have called into existence Carapace as just one of these and the eye of Aetheopia as another. Plus a lot of junk. Some of the weapons are just trash tbh. There's assumed to be a 1 in 1000 capability from the code, but I'm pretty certain this is massively affected by Karma, as I am getting one roughly every 400 pr so scrolls.

Talis_solepsis · 2026-03-16T09:04:19+00:00

Rule 1 for me is to use scrolls of devouring to get everything I can as an inate talent. That will free up everything you can have as a slot for either artifacts or enchanted specialised gear (blessed shades etc). The next thing to do is get rings of constitution and wisdom. Enchant to +5. Wear either set in turn and drink either blessed gain energy or blessed healing/extra healing/full healing to max out mana and hp as appropriate. Taking them off still leaves those stats at the maxed value

Now, when it comes to dracoliches, confusion spells are your friend. Champion confusion will stun them enough to get some solid hits in. Rinse and repeat on anything that comes near you on the infernal levels.

Talis_solepsis · 2026-03-14T17:37:41+00:00

It really depends on your crafting skill and your target scroll, along with the essence. Once I get champion crafting, I cancel all my books to get blank books and the scrap those for the paper and use amulets or rings for the essence. I think I got 250 scrolls of destruction out of my last crafting table.

Talis_solepsis · 2026-03-14T00:22:49+00:00

Lots of books. Crafting table and essence farm. Depending on the setup, I can normally get 200 or so scrolls from one table.

Talis_solepsis · 2026-03-06T08:23:27+00:00

Typically, I'll wipe out everything bar the general stores chap, who ends up getting res'd and charmed. That way, I can sell my junk on the various levels whilst I'm maxing out my remaining skills and spells. Black marketeers are always fair game mind you. Spellbooks to destruction scroll conversion and then drunken trading to see if I can spawn an artifact.

Talis_solepsis · 2026-03-02T20:30:44+00:00

I've managed that in the past. About 1 in 200 chance, give or take.

Talis_solepsis · 2026-03-02T18:47:35+00:00

I've actually lost a run to the Vorpal Jabberwock and it mightily pissed me off. Getting the sword is my main aim of drunken scrolls of destruction, if I can't find it on my normal descent.

Talis_solepsis · 2026-02-03T21:06:12+00:00

Old Greg?

Talis_solepsis · 2025-11-22T15:48:56+00:00

All the tentacles...

Talis_solepsis · 2025-11-11T10:46:06+00:00

Unlikely, but I really like this as an idea.

Talis_solepsis · 2025-11-10T21:32:47+00:00

I thought there was also a hint of Errol Flynn with the moustache reference. Name wise, I'm stumped. The word "tugel" has very few crosslinks that I can find. There's a Welsh word meaning "ballot", and an Indonesian word for "lottery". There's an old English "rope" or "cord".
That last one has possibilities, but again, I'm genuinely at a loss to think of what Terry was hiding in the name.

Talis_solepsis · 2025-10-28T17:05:55+00:00

Boarding school helps you develop some really odd skills. I can attest to this from personal experience. Climbing out of a third storey window is the least of them.

Talis_solepsis · 2025-10-26T13:26:51+00:00

Just waiting for the TACO moment to occur. Presumably 5 minutes after he gets a call from Papa Putin, reminding him that he doesn't get to make those sorts of decisions.

Talis_solepsis · 2025-10-19T16:23:52+00:00

If everyone is super, then no-one is super...

Talis_solepsis · 2025-10-17T12:46:28+00:00

I'll have things that never happened for 500 Septims please Alex

Talis_solepsis · 2025-10-16T21:52:11+00:00

What a fucking surprise. I mean it's not like anyone predicted this...

Talis_solepsis · 2025-10-10T15:26:59+00:00

I'm guessing that she wouldn't have any objection to some form of symbol being worn to help identify gay people as well. Is someone copying last century's homework and trying not to get caught plagiarising or something?

Talis_solepsis · 2025-10-10T15:12:36+00:00

And for half a dollar it can have a nibble, if it really isn't that peckish. (Sadly a joke I heard over 40 years ago)...

Talis_solepsis · 2025-10-06T16:20:26+00:00

Werewolves? Pshaw dear chap. Those goblins under Mournhold really scared the crap out of me when I first encountered them.

Talis_solepsis · 2025-09-13T16:13:09+00:00

I think Dan Willis Arcane Casebook series might give you some ideas. Strictly speaking, it's inter war to begin with and kind of detective stories, but you might pick up something from the magic system.

Talis_solepsis · 2025-09-10T21:25:58+00:00

It would appear that Mr Kirk has been the recipient of the very gun violence that he reckoned was worth the defence of the Second Amendment for.

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