u/MackTheFife

Morgue: https://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/MackTheFife/morgue-MackTheFife-20260816-152947.txt

I've tried many FeSu's (and Cj's) but never ascended one. My best Fe scores were all berserkers, including my only Fe win.

This time I decided to try shapeshifting as well as spells. The game went well for me throughout. I found the amulet of wildshape and a bunch of talismans, and rush shapeshifting alongside summoning. And I got all the summoning spells I could want.

Endgame: flying and hive form. For any fight, Dragon's Call and Sphinx Sisters. The dragons spawn near enemies, the Sisters near me. If Dragoncall status runs out, run. In Zot, drop a Malign Gateway as I run.

Then at Zot 4 and 5, start bribing. This was amazing. I bribed the dungeon on the way out, and to my surprise it bribes the pursuers. I had a pet pan lord all the way to the end.

Anyway, I hardly ever win, and this was gratifying.

The new extended inventory makes it easy to keep whatever you like. This reminds me, though, of the old days of DCSS:

• There was food. There were a dozen different kinds of fruit with various nutritional values; butchered meat, which could spoil and had to be watched; and a few others.
• There were several types of ammunition. Each could be branded and enchanted.
• Spellbooks took up inventory space. Of course, you could throw one away once you didn't plan to memorize any more spells from it.
• Wands didn't combine. You might have three wands of flame, for instance. You would use the one with the fewest charges so it would disappear when it was empty.
• AND if you tried to make a stash somewhere, monsters could pick up items and use them.

All in 52 total items. I can't remember now how we ever made this work.

If I've forgotten anything or have anything wrong, let me know.

Gale centaurs seem really interesting, but I'm not a good player, and I haven't gotten very far with them. I'm eager to see what others have found about them. I'm currently running a hunter, but I'd be glad to hear about all four flavors. What's interesting about playing them? What are they good at? Bad at?