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

KOL Journal (05/27/2015)

Random Summer turned out to be better than expected, so I'm collecting the dice items in hardcore and then taking 2 days to accumulate adventures to collect the dinseylandfill class item in one day. Then after that, I'll do the last standard softcore sauceror ascension and collect that item since I didn't do it my first random summer ascension.

All the dinseylandfill stuff is cheap now... except the washboard. I hope I can collect that too, or I'll buy it from the mall for use in a future softcore path. The warscarf will be going out of style too next year, at least... I think that's right.

I'll have to squeeze as much enjoyment out of KOL as possible in the next two years, in case it closes. Maybe they can keep it afloat for longer, but twelve years seems like a long time already, so it wouldn't exactly be too much of a shame if it closed. We'll have to see what happens since the future is hard to predict.

KOL Journal (05/04/2015)

I'm waiting for the new path to come out, and based on that, I might do more than one. Depends on the reward or how easy/boring it is. I still have to finish standard runs, but I'm on my fourth one so I can at least finish that before May 15. At least, it shouldn't take more than 10 days. I guess it doesn't really matter if I don't jump into the new path immediately.

Since I jumped interests as I usually do every 2 years or less, KOL is on the back burner since I don't care any more.

It was funny to see the fallout from Dinseylandfill, but well... that's mildly entertaining at best really. It's mostly a rehash of previous complaints.

I'll just mess around for now.

KOL Journal (04/13/2015)

I finally finished my HC standard runs, and did a SC Standard run. I've completely forgotten how to use pulls effectively, so I finished in 5 days. I'm too lazy to continue at the moment. I'll take a break from doing ascensions for the time being.

I've still got 5 more to go... Eh... Maybe later. I mean, I could lazy ascend and just finish it off.

At this point, it's more fun to watch other players' reactions to meat inflation.

KOL Journal (03/30/2015)

Let's see... I did a bunch of Ed runs, so I'm back to HC standard now.

It's not quite as bad as before since I permed a lot of stuff. I'll get through this one and the next one and I'll be done with HC standard until next year. Then I'll do the SC Standard stuff. After that, I dunno. I feel kinda lazy about it. I was going to do bad moon or non-standard HC after that to pick up those sets, but I'd rather not.

KOL Journal (03/07/2015)

For my Ed runs, I kinda alternate what I do each time, but generally, I'll note down here what the general flow is.

Now that I have a bunch of skill points to start off with, I have access to helpful things earlier.

Day 1 - Ka farming (alley or cobb's knob, hippy camp, lab), level 10 quest, pirates, spooky temple unlock or friars

Day 2 - Most of the other quests, start on level 11 quest

Day 3 - Finish level 11 quest, do level 12 and warehouse

Due to RNG or forgetting random things, my turn count is between 690-715. If... I can get hardcore to 3 days in the future, it will be my go-to path for generating karma because I don't have to get keys (this is the major thing) or do large parts of the level 11 quest.

It's going to be annoying to do standard after this. I think my plan will be to finish my 10 SC Ed ascensions, then do a HC Ed ascension to see how long it takes. Depending on that, I'll go back to HC Standard, then SC Standard, then maybe oxygenarian or bad moon. If I continue with that, it should take me a very long time to complete, and by that time, something else would have changed.

KOL Journal (03/03/2015)

My thought today was if Ed was worth it to do over and over for karma.

The positives:

Ed can skip a lot of the quests, like the pyramid and desert, Whitey's Grove, and the entire Tower.
Ed has access to both +combat and -combat.
Ed can flyer, insult and get cursed multiple times in one fight.

The negatives:

Ed is really fiddly because you have to manage Ka and the 3 times combat thing.
Because of the above, it takes longer to play.
I have no idea how Ed plays in hardcore, even with all the skills.

Judgment:

Anything that removes the tower is A++++ in my book. It means I don't need keys, sources of initiative, elemental damage, stat gainers, the beehive, or the electric boning knife.
Anything that reduces flyering/insulting turns is good.
I don't have to be perfect to get three day ascensions in softcore since I usually have tons of adventures left over on day 3.

For now, I'll stick with doing Ed in softcore until I have 10 starting points.