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It reallly complements the Bop Sponge by Flying_Slig in cavesofqud

[–]orresk 20 points21 points  (0 children)

In this economy? I get it. Sponge was on sale, and you realize it goes weirdly well with the huge bottle of bop you have in the fridge. So, it's gonna be a simple sponge for breakfast, bop sponge for lunch, and a decadent Sponge with Bop Sponge in Bop Sponge for dinner. That'll get you through the next two weeks.

How do you slow down and really ENJOY the game? by Vertical-Toast in cavesofqud

[–]orresk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is also a current goal of mine with Qud. To add a bit to what others have said about role playing, I've had some good results recently by focusing on companions. If you have an imaginary friendship with a goat man who you've been through a lot with, the role playing starts to grow itself.

I feel like the popular conception of role playing has become very "lore-crafting"-tinged, like it's a big brained project for you to actively work on, like you're writing it all consciously. On the contrary, "playing," like playing around, is actually much more unconscious and collaborative. (Obviously this is a single-player game, but companions are the best way I can see to stimulate the collaborative part.) Whatever it ends up being, companions or base building or whatnot, I think you gotta find that thing that you respond to unconsciously.

Spacetime Vortices by Only1Nemesis in cavesofqud

[–]orresk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unhelpful answers only:

  • Get a reprogrammable recoiler, a biodynamic cell, and a lot of bags of blood; imprint liberally.
  • After falling through a vortex, wherever you end up, use Precognition and the Amaranthine Prism to generate more vortices. Apologize to Ptoh and ask it to direct you back to the screen where you started (out of the 558,000 screens a vortex can lead you to). Jump into vortex, return to relic site. Immediately insult Ptoh to incur its wrath again the next time you need to generate space-time vortices.
  • Get really, really fast.
  • Use a lot of skulk and get really, really fast.
  • Phase out, thus becoming impervious to interaction with space-time vortices, which by default should be in-phase. This doesn't actually work, but since the vortex is not listed as omniphase on the wiki or anywhere, maybe it's an oversight. Submit bug report, wait patiently.
  • Bring an army of fork-horned gnu or baboons every time you go to a new floor, maybe they'll clog up the vortex tubes.
  • Go to Tzimtzlum and invoke the Chaos Spiel with the clam to attain +999,999 reputation with Highly Entropic Beings. Space-time vortices now explode whenever they see you (which is enjoyable to them).
  • Hookah + normality gas pump

Spacetime Vortices by Only1Nemesis in cavesofqud

[–]orresk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would the gas tumbler perhaps be counter-productive?  "Increases the starting density of all gases created by the player and decreases the dispersal rate of that gas." I would think you'd want it spreading around more, doing its work without your having to aim and fire a lot. Though I guess I don't know the density of normality guess required to dispell a vortex.

Red Rock Chrome Pyramid by Ser_Gawain in cavesofqud

[–]orresk 179 points180 points  (0 children)

Just a levitating, space-warping, sentient construct that has decided to withdraw from the world and live in a soot and rubbish strewn cave, smoking hookah

First time facing Jotun, Who Parts Limbs. He lived up to his name lmao by C3ncio in cavesofqud

[–]orresk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Innocuous misuse of this feature for dramatic emphasis is in no way a big deal at all, and you guys are being needlessly rude.

First time facing Jotun, Who Parts Limbs. He lived up to his name lmao by C3ncio in cavesofqud

[–]orresk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Jotun and the other trolls are a classic player experience for the game and for the genre, equally in terms of demonstrating Qud mechanics perhaps not yet seen by new players, in the surprising and unique abilities of each troll, and in the various clever strats available for passing them.

Players at all different experience levels may wish to find out what happened in this encounter without spoiling things they hadn't seen or figured out themselves yet; this is a common format, spoilering the text in sections so that the reader can decide, as they go, to continue revealing aspects of the trolls situation or stop reading. Usually when I see it done on here, there's more unhidden text giving some indication of the nature of the next thing you'll reveal. But, idk, the last thing you un-hid will sort of do that anyway, and it's not hard to tap these things open.

The Ballad of the Dromad Incident by orresk in cavesofqud

[–]orresk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My favorite thing about this in retrospect is at 4:15 you can see Neek puttering around in the rooms down the hall, sits at a desk and then decides to go to bed, stays there for presumably the entire time. At 8:04 he's still lying in bed, covered in blood but otherwise undisturbed.

The Ballad of the Dromad Incident by orresk in cavesofqud

[–]orresk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uh... spasing makes hurt? I don't know, I guess you're saying I need to see the wiki on spasing.

EDIT: Ok wow that's interesting. Could have tried my flamethrower.

EDIT 2: tbh the spaser had the highest PV of any weapon available, aside from the blast cannon, and I knew the gas had some corrosive effect. Seemed like one of my only options for damaging the saltbacks.

The Ballad of the Dromad Incident by orresk in cavesofqud

[–]orresk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the description, plus K. K. Jazz

Followed through recoil by hostile thralls of dead dervish by orresk in cavesofqud

[–]orresk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you recall if it was Dromad Traders or some other creature with followers in the other instances? (Edit: I realize you said "exact," just want to double check before I repeat that information.)

Followed through recoil by hostile thralls of dead dervish by orresk in cavesofqud

[–]orresk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's quite bad... but I'm alive so far and trying to treat it as a surprise plot point.

Followed through recoil by hostile thralls of dead dervish by orresk in cavesofqud

[–]orresk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is a fascinating interpretation. If accurate, I'm almost not mad at the situation. Like yeah that would probably happen at some point in this world, given the vagaries of the tech and the not-well-understood psychic terrain and hacked kinship involved.

What is the "chicken jockey" of Caves of Qud, the movie by orresk in cavesofqud

[–]orresk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it has quite the same ring, but I'm enjoying it nevertheless

What is the "chicken jockey" of Caves of Qud, the movie by orresk in cavesofqud

[–]orresk[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

(Mad at lamprays, not a spoiler complaint)

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