Caves of Qud Daily 2026-06-02 by @oblivioncubed on 3Speak
We're playing cavesofqud daily! We slaughter many snapjaws, but then a Legendary decides to go toe-to-toe with us... We're going to keep playing Caves of Qud until we don't suck! "The beatings will...
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Hello, hello, we're back. We're being cute. We're going to play another caves to cut daily, because that's what we do. I had a comment that the sound quality the other day was four. I was messing around with mic settings and messed it up, so hopefully this is better. Today is day 153 of 2026, and we're going to find out what we get. Oh, cool, okay. Rapid release finger flexors, high agility, real low intelligence again. That's going to be a plus zero to an hint, so our skills are going to go up slow, but that's okay. Everything else is pretty good. Just skip on forward and see how she goes. So let's see here. Rusty Schumrod and Fungus Patch. We're going to be in the salt marshes, aren't we? No, we're in the hills. Yeah, okay. Let's do a quick search. Painted door, village history. Awesome. Is everybody in this village just fungi? Because how do they harvest the trees that they have so carefully planted? If so. What is this painting? Okay, yep. That's it. Um, okay, yeah, so we do have some actual people that wander around. There we go. Let's talk to this girl first. Uh, do we not have, we don't have a torch on? It's on our face, a sun and moon mask. We've got finger flexors, but we don't have any guns. Uh, that's fun. Okay. Sitting on some strange furniture. Yamu or Apaya. going to speak with. Where is the other? It's said to talk to... Okay, um, we'll grab that. And then, mouse were we supposed to talk to? Appiah to the south. Do we have that person in this list? Am I just missing it? Viceroy. There we go. We will water... Water ritual with that guy, and... Here, let's grab butchery. Do you trade anything? No. Okay. Let's see, a remote pig farm. Following the road that passes through a snapjaw fort north. Yeah, okay, we're going to do that one first. Remote pig farms, that should be easy, I'm hoping. Let's eat meat with yuckwheat. 5% max HP for one hour, that's not that much. And now let's take a look. This isn't, okay, that's the layer of the legendary slumberling. Is that what we were told to, just a second, travel to the layer of the legendary slumberling and drink from a clay pitcher? They're trying to get us killed. We're going to go to this other one up here. Yeah, sure, let's look at these ruins. What do we have? Oh, chain guns or laser turrets, rifle turrets. That's going to be a bunch of nope. We're going to come down here, and we're going to try and get up a screen. It's hostile. Okay, so we're going to come down here now then. Actually, you know what? Let's not do that. We're going to go down to the ruins of Chopa, and yeah, there's the crack. We're going to grab the data disk from Dead Guy. And the droid scrambler. pop through the rest of this. Freshet floor, excellent. We'll come over here. We'll take a look down the stairs, but we'll probably just head on back up. Okay, we've got flurry, so I'm not too worried about this bear. We're going to let it come to us. We're going to flurry him. We do have axes as our main here. And we've got butchery, so we just butchered that guy. Let's maybe take a quick look around here, see if we can get A level. A level would be great. We have bark armor and a hand axe. Hand axe I don't care about, but I think the bark armor is a straight upgrade. Yeah, this is cracked already. just to auto-explore here another snapjaw perfect uh brought song sword nothing else there we go level two excellent uh oh i thought he i thought the dog hit me i was like what did i do to the dogs um but no we're fine um this is a true kin build right just double check that yes it is okay So we've got multiwepping weapon fighting. Okay, that's all right, I guess. I would have preferred getting Axe for free, but we didn't, so we're going to grab it, and then we're going to try and put some points into strength so we can use some of the best features of Axe, which is dismembering, of course. the lover right uh yeah spider's gonna be hostile to me as well gonna flurry him which i think really only yeah so it is useful um it's less useful right now because we are holding a torch in one hand but i mean i guess we're still probably hitting them with the torch, maybe not, maybe we're not even doing that. Bronze dagger, we always take the bronze daggers, they are lightweight and can be sold pretty quick and easy. Just pop up a camp and just whip up a quick meal. Okay, let's come up. I think now we should be able to, some forgotten ruins there. And then this is our snapshot fort. So the snapshot fort is going to be somewhat dangerous to us. I think what we'll do is I'm going to come over here. I'm going to come to the parisangue just directly below. We'll come down here, and then we'll travel up. a Parisanger 2 to get to get to that and see if there's nothing here, okay, that's fine. Slugs no, yeah, well, oh, a salt hopper. Okay, this guy is a problem. go, okay, I'm very happy that we managed to kill that guy. Hate assault hoppers early in the game. It's off a cool-down, our cool-down for that is atrocious. I'm not going to mess with that, it's going to try and rust us. We don't need that. We don't need that in our life. Okay, there's no way that I can go further north. I can... Go to this edge of the screen though, and then maybe I can go up. Here are two-headed, uh, this looks out. Hit him, that's excellent. He's wounded, I'm wounded, but we managed it, excellent. Uh, let's make camp real quick here. Can I preserve, no, I can't preserve fresh foods without the appropriate skill. I can and should whip up a meal right now, though. Let's keep going. There we go. Nice easy targets. We will grab, that's not what I meant. We will grab this wooden buckler. That's fine. The Blitz-Saintain neck ring, I believe, is for apes, right? reputation with bad boots we're gonna put that back on just in case we need it i don't think we will but it never hurts to have a steel knife with crap and this is that better than what i have that's my question or is it what i have no i've got a panthers cloak i look way cooler um okay now that guy is going to be a slightly bigger threat in some of these others. I was really hoping I could get a bow and arrow. Here, I'm gonna let him come to us, try and give him a flurry. So we believed him. I think we are okay. Often that's my famous last words. We will equip this. We'll look at this, because that's going to give us some sort of lore. We don't need to take it. This is an axe. It is just iron, though, and we are currently rocking some... steel, rocking steel stuff. So, if we can find anything that gives us light, we'll go back to multi-weapon fighting here because it is better, but if not, that's okay, too. Two-handed, have arrows, but no, is that, seriously? What about this? Okay. Grab that. Grab this. Equip this. And then can I... Can I also equip this here? Can I rock two bucklers? I don't know if that does anything. Like said, I'm bad at this game. We're going to try anyway. A masterwork whip. Grab that just for its sale value. Okay, these stairs down are tempting. Ah, let's explore, why not? Is this a layer of something? I'm so, so intrigued. It's not bleeding or anything yet, so keep hitting it. It'll be fine, famous last words, right? I'm a little nervous in something that has these, like, brine stock walls, these are constructed and not just, you know, natural cave formation, so... It makes me a little bit more nervous than... All right, level four, excellent. Let's take a quick look here, because I should have, yeah, attribute point and skills, we're going to group, cleave. Come on, yes, I hit, yes, thank you. It's time to eat a witchwood for sure. That guy, and that guy, okay. Here for just a minute. We don't need a staff. That's nice. I think I might. Can I pour that into a container? Excellent. Upper Nugget we'll take. Tix Trams of Liquid will take, and then we come over here and I really want to... Oh boy. Yeah, you know what, I really want to avoid that is what I want. Did somebody else break it? Is that what I heard? No, it's just smashing that wall a bunch. What can I do here? Can I shoot it better than it can shoot me? That's the question. The answer is no. Yeah, our health drop below 40%. Just crit me again. Man, that thing is nasty. Okay, we're getting out of here. We're toying around with that. That's not what we're here for. This is where danger happens because we are getting a little surrounded, and we are pretty low on health. Okay, I want to move this way. That's going to give us a turn or two to coop a little bit. Yeah, and that guy with the arrow dislike. We might actually come down here. Yeah. Flurry. Yeah, now we're hurt. Let's use which would again. We are going to try our very best. to kill him, perfect, and then wait for a little bit here. So we get studded leather armor, which I think is better than the bark armor. Just completely, yeah, so we're going to drop that, we don't need it anymore, and it weighs a lot. Now, Stunrod, that is pretty decent, but it is not good. enough that we are going to switch. We are very close to another level up. Kill that guy, yes, okay. Where we got here? Just a snapshot corpse on this tile. Pestle in this tile, but nothing else. On a dang salt hopper. Okay, let's try and shoot it once or twice before it gets to us. Okay, we did get a couple of shots in there. It is injured, and there we go. Perfect. I said we always grab that. Here, just check, was there anything? Nothing too fancy. We did get level 5, though. Let's just take a look here. So we need charge to get charging strike, or 21 strength to get... dismember. Dismember is the one that I really, really want, but we're going to be a ways before we can get that. So, let's take a look at what other skills we can get. Does shield give us anything useful? As long as you wield a shield. Now, does that only work with actual shields, or does it also work with bucklers? That's the question. Let's see. Well, right now we are single weapon fighting, but... All we could do is grab bow and rifle, I guess. It does allow us to shoot just a little bit better. I think that might be what we can do here. No, actually, I kind of want that. In case I start bleeding, I want to be able to stop bleeding. Bleeding sucks. And these guys can absolutely make us. Now, there is, this guy is a hulking snapjaw, hot eater. This guy might actually run us. He might end our run. We're gonna try and not let that happen, of course. Let's get a tiny bit of space. Toss a grenade right there. That did not quite sleep who I wanted it to. He's still fine, and we are not fine. Let's... Use. Use a salve injector and then just try and then just try and beat this guy down. We're going to switch this mid-combat here, and we're going to try our best to Yeah, we're dead. Yeah, that's okay. That happens. All right, well, that was a good run anyway, I think. Got to level 5, scored 5,000 points. Definitely not the best run that we have done. I could have sprinted away, and I probably should have. That's probably what I should have done. In retrospect, I probably should have sprinted away. But that's okay. You know what? We're 13th on today's leaderboard. You know, that's decent, I guess. We're not the bottom, that's what matters, right? And we had fun, so, yeah, fun game, love it. That was a neat little build. I would have definitely liked to be able to make better use of our multi-weapon fighting. I should have as soon as I saw the guy put on the other axe, but, you know, it didn't come to me until he was already standing toe to toe with me, which kind of... limits the usability of that. So, yeah, keep that in mind, I guess, if you try this build as well. Yeah, I think that's everything, though. So, as always, thanks for hanging out. Thanks for watching, and happy gaming. Until next time.