KOL Journal (02/15/2016)

New Challenge Path is here.

so far, according to forum, looks like it's interesting mechanically. Depending on what the reward is, I'll decide whether to put brainpower to path analysis, but so far I'm just going to mess around and read the different council text and other stuff like that.

This is a western inside of KOL so that's a plus since recently I was bored with standard ascensions.

KOL Journal (01/20/2016)

Ascension to do list

HC standard 2016 S, DB, AT
SC standard 2016 x6
Unrestricted HC PM
Unrestricted HC DB
Unrestricted HC AT
Dice PM
Dice DB
Dice AT
Bugbear Invasion
Bees Hate You
Way of the Surprising Fist
Avatar of Boris
Oxycore x6
Bad Moon x6

depends on how nice the reward is for the avatar challenge path is whether I'll keep doing the challenge path or just do it once.

KOL Journal (01/03/2016)

It's the new year, Crimbo was uneventful and somehow caused a small amount of drama, I finished collecting the equipment from Dreadsylvania.

It looks like it's Standard for me until the new path comes out in February, I anticipate that I will finish maybe 6 HC and a couple SC. Then, as spring is an avatar path, I'll do that for a while. I still need to finish the stainless set too... so I'll be automating my ascensions for a while (other than new challenge paths, of course)

KOL Journal (11/07/2015)

Well, I don't remember what I planned to do (or even what I did) between August and now, but anyway...

From my ascension history, I did a few CS runs and now I'm automating some hardcore unrestricted ascensions because I'd never got around to collecting the stainless steel items for that.

I'm thinking about buying the new IOTM because otherwise it would be expensive to acquire the untradeable outfit pieces from there. In that case, I'd be making a choice between continuing to collect stainless steel outfit pieces or to switch to meatfarming at Barf Mountain before the dreads speed runs Icy runs.

I mean, for dreads I'd probably just be contributing to spending turns, but earn no meat, and probably spend meat instead. At least it would be relatively simple to run turns in there since I have a lot of equipment and other tools to survive in there.

Not sure how Crimbo will be this year. I'm not sure of the meat making potential this year, though usually it's quite good since people will be spending to get things faster. It might even be better since there are already 2 really good meat farming areas.

KOL Journal (08/23/2015)

So, some thoughts about the community service challenge path.

It's good for:

1) You have no time to do ascensions, but still want to get karma.
2) You don't even want to think about doing another ascension, and want to do something easy.
3) You only have mobile and don't have access to a desktop/laptop.
4) You want to do 100% familiar runs really easily (if you remember to equip the familiar immediately and leave it there for the duration of the run)

It took me 6 days because I kinda messed up on the first day. I'm not optimizing at all so it takes me a long time. I don't care though.

Guess I'll do more runs to pick up a couple skills and stuff.

1) DB, hobo monkey, disco leer
2) SC, Space Buddy
3) SC, Leprechaun
4) SC, Hovering Sombrero

KOL Journal (08/14/2015)

Wow, this new path... really speaks to the lazy person in me. It'll be about 5 days or so if I don't care about optimizing...

Anyway, I need to at least collect the stuff from the rewards.

And, it totally seems like Jick wanted to tease... troll? something like that? all the super optimizers who arrange everything so carefully in order to lower their turn counts as much as possible.

That's something which I respect in others, but don't do myself to that extent because it would tax my brain and wouldn't be fun for me.

I probably won't do this path that much, despite the possibilities with the rewards selling for a lot or whatever.

KOL Journal (08/07/2015)

Soon, as in next week, it will be new challenge path time. I'm making good progress on meat restoration and should be done by the time of the next path.

While the hot charter looks cool, I mean hot... I can't buy every IOTM. I bought the deck because it would probably be useful in run for boring stuff I don't like doing. I bought the lovebugs because they don't require fiddling. I bought conspiracy island because it looked cool.

Right now, I've figured out what I need to get from that 70's island.

Lava Miner's Daughter 50 MP combat skill
Psycho From The Heat +15 hot damage
The Firegate Tapes +3 hot res
lava balaclava 10-12 mp regen (to replace warscarf)
lavalarva cold res (tangentially useful?)
3 lava lamps (because they're cool, need to check component prices vs. buying almost complete lava lamp)
smooch outfit- 45 superheated metal
basaltamander buckler - a myst version of the fake washboard

Also, the colourblind version of cheesecookie's snapshot pages looks way better. 

Inflation of Mr. A's is only a bit... It looks like it's 20.5 mil each right now. the last time I bought one to get the deck, it was 19.8 mil. So maybe I'll have to earn 22 million or more for the next time... Or I could buy one now at lower prices and save it for a future IOTM? 

I'd rather not tempt myself into using an IOTM, so I suppose I will not do that.

Future plans:

1) earn meat

2) monitor hot charter items for acceptable prices

3) when new path is released, do that, get reward for display case

4) assess whether farming reward is worth it (either to sell it or to use as a skill) or doing the path is interesting

5) some other items I haven't gotten yet:

fake washboard (25% muscle gains, DA +50)

backwoods banjo (20% moxie gains, HP/MP +200)

Hodgman's journal 2: Entrepreneurythmics

observation/pickpocketing - Wombat, Blender, or Packrat sign

disco leer - DB

slime-covered lantern via rusty old lantern

stainless steel scarf - S HC

3 more dice runs

6) more Ed runs?

7) automate 6 hc runs using bumcheekascend?

8) oxycore? (*shiver*)

KOL Journal (07/24/2015)

OK, it's time to meatfarm at Barf Mountain.

I've worked out something that's easy for me to maintain.

Extra buffs I have to remember to keep up:

Scams

Leash

nasal spray

pet-buffing spray

smithness from flaskful of hollow

daily card cheating

spades (I've got some of my stage 2 password, but I can't figure out the rest)

island (blue mana storage)

right now, knife for 50% meat

Let's revise the to-do list:

1) make 20 million to replace amount spent for Mr. A.
2) save up blue mana for ancestral recall
3) possibly buy another iotm this year or save up more meat for another time
4) Get spade thing from card

I'll do either many or only one of the new challenge path that comes out on August 15. It depends on the reward. I should be fairly close to recovering 20 million meat by that point.

1) get hamster
4) carboloading for crimbo *may not be useful if Jick implements daily limits*  (can't right now, need to maximize adventures for meatfarming.)
6) save up black mana for dark ritual (is there a limit?, I will have to suggest this for hobopolis part making for unascended accounts using 120 MP skills) (not really any point to doing this right now, since I don't need it yet, and I can regenerate MP in other ways)

KOL Journal (07/09/2015)

So I've started automating my ascensions recently... it works best for Ed, where most of the heavy lifting for adventure gain is via haunches for the extra spleen space. The only thing I have to remember to do is use my deck (which I spent 19.8 million to buy via Mr. A from the mall), check if the script has updates, and check mafia every so often if the script aborted for some reason, which it didn't much the first time I used it. So pilsners, ring, wallaby, then set and forget. Simple! (this is cheesecookie's script, I haven't used the other one I've seen floating around.)

It does need some IOTMs to work, but I had most of them already and it probably works OK without them too. My best purchase last year was the Conspiracy Island charter. I never knew it would become so useful for Ed.

I don't know what I'll work on next after I finish the dinseylandfill outfit, but maybe if the hobopolis runs aren't finished yet I can get a hamster to complete the set. I'm pretty sure I don't have a restless leg either so that'll have to be for the dreads runs.

I could also meatfarm at barf mountain. By my estimates, where I don't really think about it too much, including buying the ticket every day, it would take me just under 2 months to farm about 20 million meat. That doesn't seem too unreasonable, I guess. And eventually I'd get enough funds to get a free ticket. I did make most of my meat at Crimbo or by selling hobopolis consumables, but I think the latter market will crash when the consumables from the hobopolis runs are distributed.

New plans, then:

1) get hamster
2) make 20 million to replace amount spent for Mr. A.
3) save up blue mana for ancestral recall
4) carboloading for crimbo *may not be useful if Jick implements daily limits*
5) possibly buy another iotm this year or save up more meat for another time
6) save up black mana for dark ritual (is there a limit?, I will have to suggest this for hobopolis part making for unascended accounts using 120 MP skills)

KOL Journal (07/05/2015)

So I overdrank again this time when I was trying to get the Dinseylandfill piece for saucerors. And I overdrank by 2 and didn't want to buy a 500K melange to reverse it.

But I was able to defeat wart dinsey with passive damage and by boosting muscle to max out physical damage. I also had a lot of elemental resistance.

level 14 sauceror

Muscle: 873 (131)
Mysticality: 300 (191)
Moxie: 300 (130)

orange peel hat
titanium assault umbrella
drunkula's wineglass
cloak of dire shadows
shark jumper
warbear long johns
pocket square of loathing
groovy prism necklace
warbear warscarf

warbear drone
ant hoe

oil of parrrlay
fish-liver oil
polysniff perfume
brawnee
mother's little helper
pokemann band aid
stiff upper lip
programmable turtle
tomato juice
oil of expertise
vial of the glistening
glowing syringe
eel battery
pec oil
scroll of protection from bad stuff
fabric hardener
skeletal warrior, wizard, cleric
burning,man

vent rage gland
astral shell
ghostly shell
elemental saucesphere