Trabber

So The band outside Blosk just north of Dharmon consists of 2 thugs or whatever, 1 archer and 1 goblin flinger + the leader. Besides the random loots and coins, the goblin flinger drops a health potion and the archer drops a speed potion. As long as you don't kill their leader they will respawn when you take Dharmon portal to Portal keep and back (or something else, this was fastest imo, since you can sell your random loot to the portmaster(?) Just walk up until you get the message and run to the green area below with the 4 following and the leader staying there, kill them, loot sell stuff. This can also be done pretty much as soon as you exit the food depot and go get the quests, and if you finish the 2 other quests first, well. I'm not far enough to know when you have to finish this one to continue, or if it's even necessary. Nice to have 13 ap for every fight in the game on my torment singleton + a ton of health potions

Ye, I actually did that but cba to rewrite the story with exact numbers, he just killed the rats too without using items. The link in my previous post is what he is now... I'm just a bit tired so this got messy, but I guess it's fine now

I first decided to skip using that, but after some calculations (oh they were hard ) I came to the result that even if I train in parry with a trainer, I have lost 26 skill points in dexterity and defence, which I might regret later on. Thanks for changing my mind Here's the new, improved Bison http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5742/bison.jpg Will train parry with trainer to 3, and to 8 with skill points with the exploit after that, so will reach 17 by the time I hit 56 Made some other changes, but will stay pretty much the same as I planned to do in post #1. Hardiness is now 7 tho And on to the story: Chapter 1 - a hero is born Walking down the rooms, looting everything. I finally get to see the first NPC, Sergeant Nichol. well he tells me to kill some rats, giving no help at all, good I looted his place. Afterwards I sneakily check his desk and oh the joy when I find some bandages. Well off I go to the south. I reach what I think is a dead end, and sence something coming. I eye the room for any good corners to cut down the enemy numbers, he did say rats after all not a rat. When I think I've found it i start walking to see the last bits of shadow, and instantly get ambushed. I run around the most south rat, into the hole in the wall, and smack him with both my swords for a good portion of his health. I kill him before he he hits me, just before being attacked by the next rats. With a few dead rats on the floor, this green rat charges me. I still feel confident, when he reaches me. I decide to focus on the boss rat, and I start seeing how cruel the torment world is anyways, after a good portion of my energy drained, I finally defeat him, only to be attacked by another of his minions. With the last rat dead, I still have all my potions and the bandages left, with just 26 health and no energy to heal myself. After saving my game for the first time I report to Nichol and after he heals me I get sent upstairs. There a whole bunch of things happen, and after killing this drug addict, I return to Nichol once again. That's all for now.

This thread is mostly for the amusement of your reading, and for me to try how far I will get. I allow myself to do anything that is in the game without using the editor. This will include all possible gamebraking glitches and stuff like that, the idea is to survive right? This is not to prove my superiority (I bet alot of people would do things way more easier and better, and might even have done). So if you come here to flame some cheap method of surviving, turn away. Ok, I've actually played every game on this website as long as I can get in the demo version, and decided to try my first full run like you should, torment difficulty singleton. No use of editor or any cheats, no knowledge about the game before, ok who am I cheating... I actually took a few notes from here and got a pretty decent buildup and I know where the trainers are. Or the name of the place really... hope there is a map, my memory of the layout isn't that great Now meet Bison (direct link if image doesn't work) http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/17/bison1.jpg And now to explain my build: Slith EW DT, easy choices. Thought about NM but parry really is too good. DT is a must and I like sliths 1 point in priest skills... well I believe potions won't last without healing sometimes. Besides heal + first aid will be my #1 anti-boredom trick. Will reduce town visits alot. 5 in defence, well it's untrainable, and get's me through the start. I still want to train in parry later on, which needs defence, while defence being pretty useless by then, so I put all I ever need to make my starting life as and adventurer easier. My main goal is to not increase any skill until fully trained in them, which leaves me moslty hardiness and quick action to waste my early skill points in. Hardiness will max at lvl 7 to start with. So that leaves me with quick action pretty soon. Also, at my first level up, I'll go for 1 first aid, to give me 1 spell energy every time I kill something. This means that I get 1 heal every 2 enemies I kill if I do them 1 vs 1. This will be my main strategy really, using crooked 1 tile corridors to prevail. Not sure yet, but I will defineatly get 6 endurance pretty fast, and might invest in luck if I feel like it. I'm not going to play this through in one session, so this will take a long time, but I'll try to keep a good length in my posts to give some possible hints I think would help people, and just to give everyone something to read when bored. Expect the first update pretty soon!