Farewell, Knight MementoMori...
May. 25th, 2026 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lb_leeMori: I done reclaimed my hack103 honor! I beat the game as a knight!
I think Knight might be my favorite class. You’re weak as hell and heavily laden with armor and weapons—you’re like the polar opposite of the Wizard, who gets jack shit in weapons or armor but is stupidly buff. (Strength of 16 vs. 10. Obviously me and Rawlin take after our fav character classes.)
This game, killing and eating a dragon was the big tricky part; I had no fire resistance and the wand of death I yoinked off a ghost had only one charge—killed the first dragon, but it didn’t leave a corpse, so I had to do it again, for real this time.
I got unlucky; my next dragon encounter, there were two of them on the same level. Thank fuck they were at least far apart from each other. I chugged a potion of speed, bobbed and weaved and threw rocks at and teleported away whenever I got into a corner, but the potion wore off and finally I just had to bite the bullet and just go toe-to-toe with the fucking dragon and hope it went down first. Lucky for me, it did! And it left a corpse. Nom nom, motherfucker! Fireproofery is mine! (And then I went and whooped the other dragon because once you’re fireproof, they’re way less fraught.)
Shit I learned from this run (and the preceding failures):
• sometimes, if a monster swallows you, you get the status message “what are you looking for? The exit?” Don’t remember ever seeing that before. No clue what it means, if anything.
• apparently sometimes you can wring one last zap out of an otherwise dead wand. Apparently there’s whole strategies around this but we have never been heavy wand users, you can get through the whole game without using any but one or two, and ain’t nobody got inventory room for deadass wands, come on.
• in the mazes, just drop gold in front of any rock that might be the one you’re looking for. Saves shitloads of time and swearing later.
• the wand of cancellation is a thing that’s existed this whole time AND WE NEVER FUCKING KNEW. ...still not entirely clear what it does in practice, will have to fuck around and find out!
• apparently dragons ain’t the only monster who’ll just flee you if they think you’re too strong. Nurses will too! (Not sorry about that, nobody likes fighting nurses.)
• taming the hellhound with treats is the BEST trick and we are never not using it again, holy shit.
• starving to death remains the WORST death.
• experience levels cap at 14, but gaining further experience raises your max health so it’s still worth devouring every Wraith you get your hands on.
I also managed to take my original dog, OldGirl, home with me. Always good! (Rogan won as cavewoman a while back, but none of y’all heard about it because he left his dog for safekeeping on level 2, wasn’t paying close enough attention to his keyboard commands, and accidentally killed it in one hit. Worst victory ever. Seems appropriate; caveman was the parents’ favorite class.)
Rawlin’s won as wizard, me as knight, Rogan as speleologist, fighter, and cavewoman. Only tourist class remains. Maybe Sneak’ll do it; ze’s the only gaming one of us who hasn’t beat it yet, and while ze hates combat, ze loves King of the Puppies runs, which the Tourist is well-equipped for. (Being Tourist isn’t even so bad. It just requires a lot of patience.)
Also I said fuck it and made a hack103 tag. When a third of your game tag is just the one, time to face reality.
I think Knight might be my favorite class. You’re weak as hell and heavily laden with armor and weapons—you’re like the polar opposite of the Wizard, who gets jack shit in weapons or armor but is stupidly buff. (Strength of 16 vs. 10. Obviously me and Rawlin take after our fav character classes.)
This game, killing and eating a dragon was the big tricky part; I had no fire resistance and the wand of death I yoinked off a ghost had only one charge—killed the first dragon, but it didn’t leave a corpse, so I had to do it again, for real this time.
I got unlucky; my next dragon encounter, there were two of them on the same level. Thank fuck they were at least far apart from each other. I chugged a potion of speed, bobbed and weaved and threw rocks at and teleported away whenever I got into a corner, but the potion wore off and finally I just had to bite the bullet and just go toe-to-toe with the fucking dragon and hope it went down first. Lucky for me, it did! And it left a corpse. Nom nom, motherfucker! Fireproofery is mine! (And then I went and whooped the other dragon because once you’re fireproof, they’re way less fraught.)
Shit I learned from this run (and the preceding failures):
• sometimes, if a monster swallows you, you get the status message “what are you looking for? The exit?” Don’t remember ever seeing that before. No clue what it means, if anything.
• apparently sometimes you can wring one last zap out of an otherwise dead wand. Apparently there’s whole strategies around this but we have never been heavy wand users, you can get through the whole game without using any but one or two, and ain’t nobody got inventory room for deadass wands, come on.
• in the mazes, just drop gold in front of any rock that might be the one you’re looking for. Saves shitloads of time and swearing later.
• the wand of cancellation is a thing that’s existed this whole time AND WE NEVER FUCKING KNEW. ...still not entirely clear what it does in practice, will have to fuck around and find out!
• apparently dragons ain’t the only monster who’ll just flee you if they think you’re too strong. Nurses will too! (Not sorry about that, nobody likes fighting nurses.)
• taming the hellhound with treats is the BEST trick and we are never not using it again, holy shit.
• starving to death remains the WORST death.
• experience levels cap at 14, but gaining further experience raises your max health so it’s still worth devouring every Wraith you get your hands on.
I also managed to take my original dog, OldGirl, home with me. Always good! (Rogan won as cavewoman a while back, but none of y’all heard about it because he left his dog for safekeeping on level 2, wasn’t paying close enough attention to his keyboard commands, and accidentally killed it in one hit. Worst victory ever. Seems appropriate; caveman was the parents’ favorite class.)
Rawlin’s won as wizard, me as knight, Rogan as speleologist, fighter, and cavewoman. Only tourist class remains. Maybe Sneak’ll do it; ze’s the only gaming one of us who hasn’t beat it yet, and while ze hates combat, ze loves King of the Puppies runs, which the Tourist is well-equipped for. (Being Tourist isn’t even so bad. It just requires a lot of patience.)
Also I said fuck it and made a hack103 tag. When a third of your game tag is just the one, time to face reality.
