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[Steel Shadow]

Trogs can go to hell. As can slimes (damnit, how many weapons did I break?!?). But the traps and the jumping? Those were awsome!

...It took us about 4 hours to do, but now I wanna do it again on hard...

[Yrcrazypa]

Originally Posted by Wigmund

So um, yeah...the Pit sucked balls. Fun, but damn trogs and slimes and elementals and traps and huge rooms requiring jumping skills to hell.

You actually did the pit? I'm positive I remember that one from years past being basically impossible to find a group for, because everyone was terrified of it!

[Terex4]

Now that I've had the evening to recover from that virgin programmer's revenge we call "The Pit" I'm ready to post some screenshots. These are technically spoilers so if you plan to run it and want to be surprised you've been warned.

Sadly there are some rooms that I didn't get any shots of, we were so busy dying, crying, and running around looking for shrines we'd already hit at least 6 times prior because this place is a twisted maze built from the remains of drowned puppies.

This place is full of jump puzzles and running on pipes. Dwarves are fail jumpers.


This is the other side of those "platforms" from the previous shot. I was nowhere near the top.


Still not to the top, we had to rely on non archers with bows to take down some of the super powered trogs running around this dungeon. The chat logs are also not an accurate representation as about half of what we were saying was over the voice chat.


You can barely see the bottom of the room if you look hard enough.


This is not a shot to show how high up we were (although it demonstrates that nicely) but rather to show the slim pipe we have to run across and jump to the pipes to the left. With one point in tumble that's an 80+ hp drop.


This dungeon is not for anyone who's afraid of heights.


The main thing to note in this screenshot is our new quest objective. Yes they want us to ARM the TRAPS.


This is a picture of the main corridor. Its basically built as two ramps winding around two pillars in a mobeus strip style. Once we finish our current objective those pillars will fire cones of force at us as we make our way around to the other rooms (and shrines)


Story of our lives...


And back to the furnace rooms. All 3 furnace puzzles involve tightrope skills on pipes with trog mages shooting you with acid and fire and magic missiles.


This room was fun. Bolts of lightning fire in different directions while you run around each pillar to throw 3 switches each. All of these traps except the force cones of the main corridor hit for at least 20 ,if not significantly more, points of damage.


More pipes.


This part was really cool. The object is to get a few people to stand on the steam pipe and have someone pull the valve to jettison the sucke...ahem...volunteers as high as the ceiling way way up.


And there goes our faithful rogue. Seriously we could not have done this dungeon without you Steel


Steel doing what he does best. All our work for us.


Wigmund was the only other one of us competent enough to keep up with Steel, so he often found himself playing bodyguard.


Did what I could to capture the action up there, but I suck at landing the steam catapult so I stayed at ground floor.


Steel finds a second valve jump up above, this method never actually panned out for us and he took to using the first valve to get where he needed to go.


And the last shot of the set, Steel continuing to flaunt his jumping skills. Pretty sure he's giving me the finger from up there.


I wasn't able to get the last part of the dungeon, at that point I was mashing my recall button to get the hell out. Many of the rooms involved respawns and in the case of the third furnace room, those of us who stayed below had to deal with constant waves of trogs and black puddings so we weren't having a picnic while Steel did all the work.

Dungeon Statistics:
Deaths: Too many to count
Shrine Uses: See Deaths
People Getting Lost: All of us, multiple times
Deaths by Lava: Nearly all of us at the very start. There wasn't even a reason to go down to the lava...
# of times we said Fuck: Pretty sure we beat Scarface here. Most of these times were in conjunction with the words "me" and "Jesus".
Quality of Treasure: Shit
Repair Bills: My personal repair bill was over 5000 gold at least.

[Corel]

So the pit was a bundle of joy. In fact I was lucky enough to capture some screenshots of the first part leading up to Terex's screenshots.



So this is us in a previous dungeon doing what we do best: For a quick run down on us we've got Catara (Me), Orson (Wigmund), Terexe (Terex4) and Solomas (Steel_Shadow) we make a pretty bad ass team. However I don't think we were kinda prepared for what was going to take place for the next 4-5 hours.



After a short gaping at the giant chasms, we found a ladder.



Boy is this a big ladder, moments before this photo was taken I see Wigmund go flying down the chasm. He mentions something about lava in the chat? Lava? I can't see an-



Oh. Here it is.



With some Oozes waiting for us! (Which are creatures that destroy your weapons)

In the end we discovered there was actually no point coming down here, so went to the generator room.



Which led us to this pretty cool puzzle. Basically 9 switches corrensponding to 9 lights on the wall. Flipping a switch would turn the adjacent lights on/off etc. In this mean time we were being attacked by Trogs.



Just to reiterate what Terex said, there were two main pillar that spiralled down to different rooms, as shown here.



...and suddenly we're on pipes off the ground!



Did we mention that we were being shot at when trying to turn the levers on? All I heard at this time was Steel_Shadow saying "Oh fuck!" into the microphone and then me bursting out laughing at the calamity of it all (which was the general theme of the night).



Remember those pictures again of Terex saying how large the furnace was? Well here it is, can't even see the ceiling.



After turning the traps on, it caused the entire level to have sonic traps turned on.



Lastly, here is Solomas in action getting launched up into the air via the steam pipe.

The rest of the quest is basically what Terex has posted already. Would like to thank the guys who made this adventure possible (Steel_shadow, Wigmund, Terex and later Grimpond) as I'm sure we would've never have made it through alive without supporting eachother.

I've dubbed this quests Tomb of Horrors 2.0; Would like to do it again at a later level on hard (won't be as bad seeing as we now know what to do...basically)

[Wigmund]

Originally Posted by Corel

I've dubbed this quests Tomb of Horrors 2.0; Would like to do it again at a later level on hard (won't be as bad seeing as we now know what to do...basically)

Originally Posted by Corel

won't be as bad seeing as we now know what to do...basically

Originally Posted by Corel

won't be as bad

HAHAhahahahahahaha...imagine what those casters and elementals will be throwing at us then!

[Corel]

Originally Posted by Wigmund

HAHAhahahahahahaha...imagine what those casters and elementals will be throwing at us then!

...

Oh god DAMMIT!

You might be happy to know that I spied on my quest log that there's another dungeon with the same diffiuclty description for level 8 characters. Should get a team ready either this or next weekend for it.

[Steel Shadow]

Supposedly there's a really long one for level 7s to.

Incidentally, y'all may this list useful, been meaning to post it for a while.

http://ddowiki.com/page/Free_to_Play_quests

[Wigmund]

I think we should do The Tears of Dhakaan quest in House Phiarlan. I tried to do some it on Casual (it's a Lvl 7 Quest that requires a party...and I ended up running out of healing potions and getting killed by hobgoblin spellcasters) and I managed to find a +3 Mithril Shirt, so on Normal with a full party there should be plenty of good shit for us to loot.

And I only ran into only a couple of Oozes/Slimes there as compared to the hordes found elsewhere.

[krogothwolf]

So, I've been busy most of this weekend, not sure when I'll be on next, Annabel is teething and the wife is working evenings right now.

[Osterbaum]

I might be able to join later today (sunday). Otherwise next week.