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The wall of fire will only be passable if you have the Orb of Elemental Fire. You've certainly met Khelavaster, so you should know about it.

If you don't want to face the greater daemon in melee, you can always sacrifice him. Just lure him on top of the Dwarftown altar and hit "O".

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I thought, adomlike, that using that orb of water chaos to extinguish the fire wall was logical... but better not descend there again if possible.

I really tried to poison that snake, unintentionally, as my hands are poisoneous. It simply hit me back so hard, that I decided to no longer go on melee. I have 250HP, and a short beating from that snake took me down to 100. With the last charge of the last wand I had - a wand of cold - I killed that beast.[\SPOILER]

Well, I actually have such a nice red dragon armor. I found it after the fight. It's (-1, -4)[-1 +13], appeared to me as to many minus. Instead I use an elven chain mail [+1 +5] or that mummy wrapping. Right now, I am lvl 21. I am no so sure, if should go directly for that fire temple. I also could go to a cave full of steel golems in the south, or that gremlin cave. Neither of both I like very much. Then, there is this bug village, where I ceased to go because I never survived for long. But now, I already smashed some of those greater claw bugs on the way, and maybe I am up for it. I am short on holy water, herbs, good arrows that slay something, I really don't feel up for something too heavy.

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ok, no, not that bugs... I did not know about the killer bugs. Well, cowardly I am still alive... and got the second corruption that makes me exhale sulfur...

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BTW, I teleported the first time to that dwarven mystic, everyone is talking so much about. He says, I am ingenious. Now I have a potion of GA, and 2 viscious potions(?).

Now, I am going to slay that greater demon.. got some DEMON SLAYING ARROWS ;).

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Does wearing that tremendous water orb corrupt? - I like that willpower bonus.

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Wearing the orbs of chaos is safe, they only corrupt you when you use them. Don't be afraid to use the water orb for healing though if you're in a bad spot, as getting corrupted somewhat is a whole lot better than dying!

If you haven't already, go get the quest to kill Griff and grab the elemental gauntlets from the dwarven graveyard. The artifact gauntlets will protect your rings in the ToEF from burning, and they give fire resistance. They also halve the corruption you get from using the chaos orbs, so the water orb becomes a bit better source of healing, only giving you 0.3 corruptions per use instead of 0.6. I'd wear the red dragon mail for the ToEF and probably also otherwise, but your other body armours are also fireproof so you can wear them in the tower too if you really want to.

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A red dragon scale mail is infinitely preferable to getting your fire resistance from rings of fire resistance. There are so many other rings that have beneficial effects it's not even funny. Don't worry about the penalties of the mail - they are more than made up for by the enormous PV.

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Oh, wait a second. This isn't a spoiler.

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I killed that ancient chaos wyrm. Ok, not in the first run, I had to run away several times (I have excellent speed of >130) and leave that tower to heal, and I wouldn't have managed it without finding a wand shop in that cave full of teleportion traps ...and the hint of throwing a potion of blindness found on this forum. After emptying several wands through those fire demons, trying to hit the wyrm, it started to shoot at me, and hit HARD. Then I threw that potion of blindness and killed it with melee on berserk.

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and now, I will go to D29 through that fire wall...

No fear of dying anymore, after slaying 5 fire giant kings, 24 fire elementals and 15 fire demons with my bare hands.

I am eager to see what can stop me now!

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Ok, Lvl27, 403Hp, 143 speed, and the whole day wasted ...

I went down to lvl D>30, then there was an idiot guardian. I went up again, asked thundarr, sent me to the mountains, and I found that high king ring. Then, i wanted to go back .. but what do i find? a casino. Idiot casino guy wouldn't let me pass... okay, I find no way of descending further, so up agian. I think, I could go to that bug temple now once and for all. At first everything seems nice, I was just about clearing it out, but the killer bugs soon got harder. Meanwhile, antennas grew on my head (which was very handy actually, because i was almost out of magic map) - monster detection tells me i am almost through. I've got to turn back always because the killer bugs are so nasty.. and then, suddenly, one of the greater claw bugs comes and takes away 300 hp in one turn. I couldn't believe it, and after killing some hundred of these, have no respect...

and died. $%&%+#!!

Upon reading my inventory, i realize now, that this nice dragon scale mail was down to ZERO PV!. I hate bugs! I will never go there again. Why hadn't I just slewn that casino guy to go on as planned? but ok, I just doubled my highscore with only one game from 127000 to 356000.

So, resuming, I need to know how to solve that casino problem. Secondly, if someone had a little tactical tips for that bug infested temple...

I learned another lesson: I was just about passing day 90, maybe saving khelavaster in the beginning would have been good to have more time then. I read about the potions of cure corruption he would give. That would definitely come handy.

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Sorry to hear about your death, hope you'll do better next time. The killer bugs are about the most difficult enemies for a melee fighter in the game, so you were kind of brave to try them on.

About your armour: the bugs might have damaged it down to +0PV, BUT, their attacks always bypass PV anyway, so all that time fighting them your dragon scale mail didn't help you at all. If it still had -1DV, it handicapped you instead :) So next time, forget PV and go for maximum DV when fighting those things. And be a spellcaster/archer or something :P

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Khelavaster doesn't give you potions of cure corruption. He gives you scrolls of chaos resistance, which are twice as effective.

The Casino problem... I almost can't bear to write the words, because I know how you will feel after reading them... Suffice it to say that you can aim the wand of teleportation at people other than yourself... (Getting angry at yourself and groaning already?)

Hints on the bug temple? Don't attack the bugs in melee if ever possible. Use missiles, or with a spellcaster, bolt spells. Also important to remember is that PV doesn't work against them at all - their attacks simply punch through your armor. What you need is DV, as high as ever possible. They are good at damaging armor with their hits, so your dragon scale mail was possible the worst possible choice of body armor against them.

A level 27 character attempting the bug temple is, at the very least quite optimistic.

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Actually, I killed quite many of those claw bugs - I cleared out 4 of those killer bug rooms. I think, if I had not made so many mistakes regarding DV and PV, it would have been possible - and maybe if there hadn't been the "stiff muscle" corruption (though i am not sure, if it affected anything. Still my speed value was around 140)