Caves of Qud - Daily May 16 2026 by @oblivioncubed on 3Speak
▶️ Watch on 3Speak --- Another day where I have a few minutes of free time means another day where we get to play a Daily build for Caves of Qud. Today's seed was a fun one - neat starting characte...
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Hello, it is me, Oblivion Cube, back for a little bit more Caves of Cud. We are going to do day 136 of 2026, and let's see what we get. So, water merchant, sweet, mutated human and humanoid, unstable genome, ooh, that's fun, Rostrum, don't know what that is, night vision, that's fantastic, sleep gas, Of the gases, it's not bad. Stunning Force and Distantia. I have no idea what that is. Our stats are all actually fairly low. No 20s or anything up here. Intelligence 19 is decent, but... Okay, well, you know, on with that. Let's see what we make of this guy. I would have preferred corrosive gas. It's just all around OP. as far as I'm concerned, but... Oh, what the... What in the world is going on here? Ah, there is a lot to look at here. So what is this guy? He is a warden. Cracked, grand white lips hang from her hooded and overly jawed face in the asymmetry of disappointment. That's a historic hologram. Another historic holograms, Village lore. Domesticated Deep Slumberling. I didn't know you could domesticate these. That's friggin wild. A domesticated kaleida slug. What? Domesticated Interdictor and another kaleitis slug. That is wild. Okay. Cool. Let's see. That's not at all what I meant to do. I meant to hit look. So, admired, hated by the villages here, don't care. Share some water here. The Fellowship of Wardens is minus 50 reputation right now. So we started with quite a lot of reputation. down with them that's kind of interesting uh that's okay can i talk with this thing yeah not really hey can i talk with this thing new father look slither slither um okay cool let's chat with this guy for a second get him to give me the odd trinket which'll be probably a box of crayons let's find out Seems to be a tool. I'm going to guess we might break this. Oh, a Joppa Recoiler. Is the odd trinket that he wants me to throw into the pit. Okay, sure. We're just going to auto explore it for a little bit here. One interesting layout for a village. This must be a hills village, I assume. Yes, who else do we have? A legendary, jilted lover. Can I speak to you? I can. Wet Gexlios to the east, or Delphum to the east? Okay. Do you have things to trade? No. this or this. Let's go up this one first. That's so weird that it's sentient like vines. You don't have anything to trade. Okay, and the last one then was this guy, and then we'll go talk to that Drummond merchant. Do you have anything to trade? He's the tinker, okay. Let's get rid of that, and this. Oh, you know what, let's keep that. I could get rid of the merchants. Token, ah, let's leave it. Get rid of a couple of these, though, because we're not going to need 12 of them. Then you're going to give me, no, you're not going to do. Okay, never mind. Find that guy. And then here's our Dromat. So, first of all, let's eat whatever this is. Let's trade with this guy. So I know that we have a gun on us. We'll grab that. A glow sphere would be kind of nice. No, it wouldn't. We have night vision, don't we? Yeah, never mind. Okay, let's just go with that then. pour those on and this. That's probably fine. How much fresh water do we have? Yeah, quite a bit. Man, yeah, that's right, we were water-muched. We have tons of... Tons of water right now. What's through here? It's the outskirts of the village, okay. And let's take a look at our skills here, because I, plus some ego, you will occasionally peck at your opponents. Okay, extra reputation with birds. Stunning Forest, what is this? Refuddled by technological complexity. Oh, okay, you're much worse at examining artifacts. Okay, that is going to make it so that we can't really do much for tinkering stuff. But that's okay, we will just treat those as, you know, unknowable, I guess. Let's... You got a bunch of small stones. Cool. Appreciate that you would trade that with me, but... I don't need it. And let's grab this copper nugget. It's going to be less than the weight of 10 grams worth of water. So let's do that. So we've got a torch. We've got, is this a musket? Okay. An isikari rifle would be better, but that's okay. Oh, sorry. Okay, yeah, so we will just automatically sometimes do that, so we'll have to keep that in mind. Let's go ahead and make sure that our abilities kind of make sense. I'm going to move this guy way up. Recoil, I'm pretty sure that's the Jopa Recoiler. so we're just going to move that down, because we're going to take that to the stilt and get rid of it. Now we have two other quest locations. It's probably going to be this one and this one. Just double check. I think there's a hotkey for going to quest. I never know what it is. I just press K because it's easiest. Shailapad, and next to Uzor. Okay. So Shailapad is that one, and Uzor is that one. Yeah, okay. We're not going to go to this two pair of Sangs of North of Gridgate one, because that is going to be definitely a problem. This one we could probably pull off, and then this greater still one we could definitely do. Alright, let's come down here first, though, and wait a second, do we have, we don't have wayfaring or anything like it yet. Yeah, kind of expected that. Let's pop down here just to see, and we did regain our bearings. Aha, beautiful. Okay. Drop down, and we're going to go straight to that area, because what are we doing here again? Geez, you think that I could remember this for more than five seconds. right, locate the blunt scalpel. Okay, so we should be able to just auto-search this. There's a leech there, okay, couple leeches. Pure blunt scalpel. There we go. That's the easiest level ever. to, there's a couple rooms there that, of course, we can't get into, rush-eye floor is always nice. We'll take that, we'll take the vineway for two. One arrow and wood bow, not bad. Okay, yeah, so if we had burrowing claws or anything like that, we could get through these, through these walls, but... Bloaded Leach, and that's all that you are. Okay, there's nothing besides that shrine. What's down? Nothing. What's up? Oh, did I just... Ooh, I am very, very lucky that I did not just get spoiled there, because, uh... That could have given me a fungal infection right off the hop, but that would have been not great. Okay, that's good to know. Let's try to get back to the village. Somebody's fighting, I can hear it. Ooh, that unicorn thing just fucked up whatever this is. The dog. Those equines do not, equimax, don't like the dogs for whatever reason. Glow Crow, just normal Glow Crow, though, not legendary or anything fun like that, so, yeah. No places of interest yet. I don't particularly feel the need to tangle with any of this stuff if we don't have to. The fine creepers on the walls don't... much difference for us. There was quite a few creatures there, but it looks like they're all just normal. None of them are... None of them are legendary or anything like that, so... Okay, so unstable genome prompt there, and what do we want? Precognition, obviously. Like, teleport is great, but precognition could really save our bacon. Although either of these could. This one has a 500 round cool down until we get our wisdom. or whatever it is up. Teleportation. Man, that's tough. I'm going to go with Precog mission. I think Precog is just kind of always good. We did get more attribute points and stuff like that, so we could immediately dump one into Will, which will bring down the... I guess it won't immediately bring down the number of rounds that takes. Unless that's just fixed. Yeah, I don't know. Okay, either way. Yeah, I can't advance this one yet. I can advance these, though. Sleep gas. I think that's probably a good idea. And that one's just fixed. I can't do anything about that. Hide in quickness I could advance, but maybe I'll just save the point. We could always just try and buy a new mutation. Let's reload. I'm trying to shoot one of these guys. Our name is dog shit. That's okay. Let's see here. There's normal snapjaw corpse, bronze battle hats. What are we wearing on our feet right now? Leather moccasins. I think those croccasins are better. I don't know what kind of weapon, I forget what kind of weapon skills we have, short blade right now, hey? Okay. kind of prefer axe because we could get ax proficiency, but what we should really do is get bow and rifle if we are going to be trying to use muskets and stuff like that. Let's think about that for just a second. We can put things to sleep relatively easily. Strength and agility aren't Eco is much better. Hmm. We'll get here. Self-discipline and Fasting Way. Ah, we don't have quite enough for Fasting Way. That's okay. We'll get that next. Get it with the musket. Um, okay. That was for fun. Yeah, I think we're going to go back to the town soon, so we may as well grab that. Yeah, Guggles doesn't hurt my beak for Hekenet people. So that should be okay. Oh, what was that? Oh, Salt Hopper. This little bastard here could... That is a potential run ender at level 3. This actually might be a good option to pop this. Let's try. Okay, let's stun it. Stunning Forest, it's gonna blow it towards us. I don't know that, put it to sleep, and it's bombed to death. No, let's not, let's not, there we go, yep. Okay, not bad, just rest up. I don't have the music on, do I? I don't have music. Music in this is great. We're still lost, hey, yeah. Okay, let's go up to the top. Yeah, there's our music. That's the stuff. I might turn that down just a little bit, because it's looking a little... It's looking a little loud on the audio mixer, but... go over here oh oh holy crap I do not want to have to deal with any of this novice of the sightless way that's a big no bunch of leeches why are you a different color you know what I don't care let's get the hell out of here we did regain our bearings so let's drop campfire meal first Um, and then let's just pop up and head to, head to town. This guy, can I trade with him? Um, okay, so we did get one of the quest of items. Uh, oh, apparently not yours. Must be his. this scalpel. Who are we taking this to? Return the Pure Blunt Skelhole. Oh, okay. Redelf flipped up. You. There you go. Compass bracelet with a combustion cell and a cell and a cell projector. Bioscanning Braceletize Boots. I have no idea. I don't know what the bioscanning bracelet does. I forget. Let's just go with this one. Mostly because I know what Accomplice Bracel does. So, how do you... Okay, converts oil to energy. Sure. That makes perfect sense. Okay. I think... That should be okay then. What we'll do is, we're going to go speak to the Dromid. head to the stilt and see if we can't, see if we can't do some fun stuff in the stilt. Do we want better armor? The engraved tunics... I guess that does give me a little bit of a reputation boost, and I am wearing a tunic already, so get rid of all of those and this and this. Um, look at this and this, because we don't need it. And then, let's see. Let's see here, so that's just muskets. Now these artifacts, of course, we're not going to be able to... We're not going to be able to find out what these are ourselves, very likely, because our guy is stupid. What do we do here? Let's trade for not two. We don't need two. We'll trade for one glow sphere. That has a pretty lightweight, and we can trade it back for way less, actually, yeah, geez. That's okay, it doesn't matter. Put this on. that away for free, but that's all right. Let's try to make it to the stilt. That's going to be a little bit interesting because we are going to get lost pretty good I expect. I don't like how this happens. You notice on the bottom there? If you're up here, these two switch. The order of those two switch. Um, just a thing that I noticed, it doesn't matter though. Ruins, yeah, we'll absolutely explore some ruins. Why not? Probably gonna get messed up. If we see a Dawn Glider here, we're the hell out. Uh, what is that? There's a burrowing gursling. Yeah, okay. Uh, so what we're gonna do is we're gonna reload our musket. take a Posh on another pop gas nap time and then we are going to shoot again. Okay, there we go. Our dagger is painted. Okay, cool. Yeah. Oh, he's not dead yet. Okay, there we go. And now that is an electrofuge. Hmm, okay. Because if we need to, we can still run away. is asleep. We should be okay to, yeah, just do that. Let's rest up, and, hey, that's not so bad. We've got another scorpion. That's not too bad. Our musket is... There is definitely some stuff going on in this, whatever the heck it is. I would love to have clairvoyance right now, so I can see what is inside this thing, but... Oh, hell no, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Okay, we're gonna pop up, and let's just keep heading towards a stilts. It's nighttime. is still quite loud in the... Let's try that. Okay, that is... That is a lot of things. What are you? These guys are all neutral to me, so far. The jelly isn't, the amoeba isn't? But these guys are... Is that... That too's legendary, isn't he? Can I chat with you? One drum of oil. Robots hate us more. Random villagers hate us more. That's okay. We could get trash divining if we give him a secret. We could get him up to... Do we have enough secrets that we could make him join us? Oh, we can only do it twice. Okay. Let's, do you have anything to trade, first of all, I guess. Trinkets, which, as we know, work great with. We could take the trash divining. It's a free skill. You can get cool stuff with the trash sometimes. So let's try that. I don't accidentally shoot anybody or anyone else hostile. Uh, this thing. Pariate to their people, hey? What are you, exactly? Oh, a hindrance go. Okay. Yeah. Are you friend? Yep. Okay. What about you? You are not a friend. You are very much not a friend. Okay, let's turn sprint on, let's get a bit of a distance away, and... Sweet, let's pump up sleep sleep gas Man, our toughness is not great. Can we do anything about that yet? No, we still don't have attribute points. We are very close to being able to buy a new mutation, which I think I might just save up for. Let's heal up here. And, yeah, okay, another star. It came out. Okay, very first, we're going to pop precog. We are going to stunning force. I would like to stunning force him away from us, right? Yeah, okay, he is stunned. We made the save. Cool. Yes, we definitely do want to not die. Okay, that definitely did not go as well as it could have. Pop that, knock him down over that way. Let's get up here. Oh, what are you? Maybe friends. Okay, let's... Uh, ha, ha, ha. Let's reload. Try to shoot him. Yep, nope, we died. Darn, um, that was a pretty good run, honestly. We got to level five. Not bad, 30 minutes, that's decent. Unfortunately, we just could not... These Isakari Riflers, their rifles hit hard when you're this level. If we could have killed him and taken it, we would have been doing great. But that's okay. That was a fun one. I liked it. All right, well, let's check our... Let's check our records here. That's the leaderboard number four. Wow. That's very surprising. I feel like that's higher than I have any right to be for only 6,000. That's fun, though. Okay, cool. Well, that's going to be that, I think, for today. As always, thanks for joining me for these cave-zip-cut dailies whenever we get to do them. I appreciate it, and as always, happy gaming.