Part 3

So when we left off, we were about to get a slightly more difficult quest!



Killing moon robots in the caverns at the center of the earth. OK, sounds good. DEATHBOT PRIME is primed and ready for robot-on-robot action.

We ascend, coming upon & quickly killing the third (and final?) chicken unique...



And then we find the Selenite robots.



And they come pretty close to killing us!

Selenite Service Droid facts.

1) Tough.
2) Can tunnel through walls.
3) Can fire a pistol which does about ~25 damage, or an eighth of our health.
4) Shoot lightning at will. (Each lightning bolt took off about 50 HP, or a quarter of our health.)
5) Four saw attacks per round when in melee.
6) Can tunnel through walls.

I only survived the 2-on-1 pictured through use of 'repair mechanisms' (robot-healing scrolls) and, well, luck.

E: also, the ability to shoot powerful, area-of-effect, non-self-damaging rockets. Those helped too.


It turns out there's a reason they were that murderous:



They're normally found 8 levels further up!

This quest would have straight-up murdered any character less broken than our Steam Mecha.

But we beat it, going from character level 8 to 12 in the process, and also killing this guy:



He took a few turns to kill, but I'm not sure he managed to land a single hit on us the entire time.

He dropped a short sword +3/+3, which isn't very impressive. More importantly, though, this prompted me to ID the long sword I'd been carting around for a while (since last update?), which it turned out was very good indeed (at this depth): +5/+4, and 3 blows a turn. We were getting 1 blow a turn with our starting weapon, the broadsword.

(Kind of wish I'd noticed the 'blows/turn' stat in the character screen earlier! Before fighting all those Selenite deathbots, for example...)


After that, we went back to cash in our findings. We got 2 skill points, which is a very good reward. We also drop off quite a few books for more points.



Important book fact learned while creating this update: some books are worth more than 1 skill point. Any book returned without identifying it will only give you one skill point, no matter how many it's actually worth. Once you're past the first half-dozen levels or so, always ID your books!

Our stats:



And the next quest:





_{(Note that our reputation improved from 'poor' to 'fair' as a result of finishing the last two quests. I have no idea what this indicates, but it must be good?)}