Caves of Qud - Daily May 20 2026 by @oblivioncubed on 3Speak
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Good day, oblivion keep here, and we are embarking on another Caves of Cud Daily for day 140 of 2026. What do we get? A unit truchin humanoid. Hyperlastic ankle tendons, so we move faster, I believe, is what that one is. Decent strength, real bad toughness. Worse willpower. Cool. Okay. We'll make it. We'll make you. It'll be fine. The village of Hamish on the horizon, standard things that we always see on our horizon. This guy, it's a six-day stilt guy. Yeah. Mechanists, often in your starting village will be slightly lighter blue. But you can always find him if he says Mechanimus Convert, and he'll give you that odd trinket to dump into the trinket hole, sacrificial, well, forget what they call it, bubble level. Yeah, it's often something similar to this, something very, very small and minor. Let's see here, let's auto-explore. Get the lay of our village. There's all these chests laying around that I want to open, and I know I shouldn't. Wow, small village, okay. Let's go to probably... Start with the legendary dawn glider here. Chugs by Ashfall, then drinks on serpents. Yeah, okay. That makes sense. Does he have anything to train? Nope. Well, while we're here, we're going to eat sweet yogurt. Oh, that's sweet. I like that. All right. And you are chugs by asphalt. Let's take a look. Yep, okay, cool. We're gonna water ritual, and yeah, we'll take fasting away so that we don't have to eat. quite as often. Grab some work for him, the layer of Quetzlachia. Legendary croc, okay. A hallowed vase. So we have to go drink from a vase. Yeah, we'll do it. Let's see, and that last guy is this guy, yep. Do you have anything to trade? Let's slugs, that's not so bad, but nothing else, hey? The pier door at Kipir, venerable shrine to us. We have to make pilgrimages, contemplate democracy. Cool, yeah, let's go close the door. What will we have on us? Fantastic. Chrome revolver. Love it. Cloth rope is garbage. Sandals are garbage as well, but hey, we've got a chrome revolver, so let's try to find, does there are drummage? Yes. Take as many slugs as they have. And let's see. I don't think there's anything else that we can, that we really, really need. Vance Toolkit. I guess I should double check here. What are our skills? Let's take a look at that, because it's always important. We've got swift reflexes and we're spry. Okay. Steady hand and weak spotter, 5% more likely to score critical hits with a pistol. Okay, fantastic, we've got fasting weight, because we grab that from this dude. Short blade and hobble. Okay, so that's great. We can hobble them and then move a little bit away. Okay, okay, we can hurdle things, we can make camp, and then it's basically just standard stuff here. Okay, not bad, let's take a look at equipment, and just double check what those. ankle, yeah, plus six move speed, okay, yep, that's kind of what I thought. Sweet. Did we see what this is? Yeah, we must have, hey. Right, anything interesting here? No, not really. There's something in this tent. No, there really is. Okay, alright, well, I think we'll zoom back in here and hop out. So, okay, these are two sites that they want us to go to. That's fantastic. Let's take a look. Kapir is the first one, and then the layer is closer to ruins of Joppa. Yep. Um, cool, okay, well, I think we can definitely do both of those, um, probably pretty easily. What is Chromebust, hey? So this is supposedly a village. Well, that was easy. What is this? Lilypad cuticle tent. I don't know if I would count that as a tent, but sure, you guys do you. What we have here, roast gravy moss? Can cast burgeoning at level 8? Uh, okay. Interesting. Um, well, that's pretty handy. Is there anything else that we can do here? Okay, Village history. to catch basin, perfect, and so we've got a historic site. Can we talk to any of these guys? No, I don't think so, hey? Yeah, nope, no points of interest other than that. Okay, well, that was a very quick bit of SP. Let's pop down to this legendary crock thing, and we are supposed to... We're supposed to do drink from the hallowed vase. Okay. Now, the normal crocs probably aren't going to be that big of a deal for us. But, of course, the legendary croc will be a bit of a problem. I do see it downstairs there that we just passed before, though, so probably... The actual legendary crock is downstairs. Ah, the salamander is going to be annoyed at us now. Okay, yeah, that kind of tracks. Let's heal up. Kill that guy. We don't want to be trapped. Is that... It's just a normal horde chameleon, right? Let's hobble it. Move backwards. Okay. I don't really want to die immediately here, so let's... We're going to use our witchwood. We are going to shoot that guy. Blindly move forward. Let's reload. I don't really want to use. We're just going to rest a lot while we move. Something is hitting us. And it's hard to tell what, because, of course, we don't have a... Don't have... I press the wrong buttons. What was I trying to say? We don't have a torch on right now. Why don't we have a torch on a curiosity? We have a walking stick. Get out of here. I'll put you on. We don't need a cudgel and a... What should we call it? Walking Stair? Or a cudgel and a short blade. That would be foolish. I don't think this guy is going to be a multi-weapon build. If we don't mess with those crocodiles, we won't get aggrored by everybody else. Okay, yeah, okay, so we found another historic... site, right, or at least a piece of information about a thing. I don't see anywhere here that has that particular... the glowpad do some of our work here, and we will make it quick camp with a meal because we're hungry right now, and then drop down. Hopefully, what we're looking for will be very quickly in here. Okay, yeah, that's going to be a pain, isn't it? It's just manually attack. That's not going to be it, is it? Yeah, it's not. Okay. What we'll do, though, is we will collect that anyway, and we'll sell it at town. Yeah, you, hey. Two of you, three of you. Yeah, I don't really want to deal with all three of you hitting me at once. So we'll funnel them into a choke point. and then take them out, rest up. Level 5 already, not bad. Let's boost our toughness by one. I don't think our willpower, I mean, we do need better willpower, but for right now, I don't think it's going to make a ton of difference. Let's get, yeah, let's get Blood Letter, and let's get Charge, if we can, yep. Do we still have enough for Mind's Compass, because I would like to not get lost every five seconds? Let's get Salt Dune specifically. So I'm going to have to deal with these stupid plants. I'll say they were definitely helpful with smashing these things out. Now that tortoise is going to be possibly annoying for us. So let's shoot the tortoise. These guys in their shells. Geez, Louise. Um, okay, we're gonna eat another witchwood. And we can just, even if we're confused, we know that they're right in front of us, this is a, um... Pretty straightforward little hallway here, so just keep hammering away this way. Stepping in a lot of blood. It's badly wounded, but so am I, okay. Ah, there we go. So, uh, let's reload again. Ow, we got this shot by the seats, spitting vine thing. Okay. Uh, I don't really need to kill you, but I'll come up and do it anyway. That wasn't very nice. Okay, let's see, what else? Yeah, okay, we've got 41 slugs still. And we have not yet found, yeah, we haven't found the hallowed vase. That's just a glass. No, I don't want to use that. I want to use the one. This one. Come on. Okay. Yeah, let's just wait for it here. Just in case there's more. It really isn't fantastic. deal with the seed spitting vine first, and then... Oh, he's not mad at me. I was like, why am I not attacking him? That's fun. Darn, okay, well, down one more. Hopefully it's down here. miss it somehow okay yeah that's quite a lot of things that are just on those stairs um if we just wait here for a second do we get hit yes okay so something is below us we can hit down and just smash away at it come back up let's try and i was gonna say let's try and rest but Apparently that's not a thing that we're going to be allowed to do. Okay, there we go. Now let's go down, and what do we have here? Did they all just run away? I absolutely hate how open this is. Okay, we're going to go up, move back, let that guy come up, just hobbling him just for fun, and see if we can go back a bit. charge. Man, those shelled, shelled tortoises, they are a pain. I think that probably clears some of this, at least. that one first because it's just extra hits on us and it's, I think, a little bit weaker. Let's hide in this room and heal. find it funny when the villagers are like, we make this pilgrimage to this extremely dangerous spot all the time. Because, like, how? How do you normal villagers manage this? I guess at this level, I'm kind of a normal villager as well, right? So, I mean, I guess maybe it makes sense. from up here, funneled them through this choke point. There we go, okay. Not so bad. Let's jump the level here, over here. Oh, man, that one hit hard. got impaled there, didn't we? I think we did. Graffiti door. What does the door say? An elder ooze. Screenshot, just for fun. There we go, level six. Okay, is there anything else that is going to help us, like, right away. So we could use jab. We don't have two short blades right now. And we don't have the ability to get extra arms or anything like that. So... This might be... That might be decent for us. Give us just a little bit of... Just a little bit of room. Does single weapon fighting? Yeah, melee weapon. Okay. Let's go with maybe, let's get tinkering. Let's start down tinkering. See if we can get very far with this. Because it is a... Really nice skill to have. Nothing in it. Oh, man. What a rip-off. Okay. Now, these guys are a pain. That's actually not so bad. Alright, is there anywhere else to go? No. So, down it is. We're going to go down one more time. And, oh, that's, ah. Oh, that's fun. Let's just wait here for a second. So a null worm missed me. That's fun. We're going to try and see what happens here. Let's just wait. Okay. I'm gonna go down again. Hopefully not die immediately. Yeah, 11 damage. Oh, geez. Yeah, tried to wait a turn and... Dead. That is brutal. Okay. Well, we survived 26 minutes. Can you believe it? We found one layer. and our most advanced artifact was an artifact that we started with. Yeah, that's fun. Okay, let's look at the records for day 140. 17, not terrible. I have done far worse, so that's fun, that's fun. Yeah, neat, neat starting area. neat starting quests. I actually kind of like those ones, those ones were fun to do. But that's going to be it, per usual. We're just doing the daily, and then we're popping off. So, until next time, as always, thanks for hanging out. Happy gaming.