Caves of Qud Daily 2026-07-21 by @oblivioncubed on 3Speak
We're playing cavesofqud daily! It's a short one again today - we play a little fast and loose with a Beguile and Dominate build for the daily - but it's a good time nonetheless! --- ▶ Watch on 3sp...
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Hello, hello, it's a living cube, and we are here to make bad decisions. We are going to go with a daily for day 202, a scholar mutated human with a bunch of stuff. Okay, psionic migraines is going to be interesting. Great intelligence, solid willpower. Yeah. All right, we're going to random that, because we don't care about his name. And let's see how we do. Okay, so as per usual, we've got a mod to keep this down to one hour, getting a little bit of village history here. Just doing the typical auto-explore kind of thing. Yep, more village history. Oh, Sultan history, my mistake. Alright, let's start with taking a drink from the, or sorry, eating a meal from the oven, village meal. Alright, that's not bad. Of course, that only lasts for a day, I believe, lasts until metabolizing goes away. So, Let's see here, probably this legendary and the elder, right? That's who we assume. That's who I assume. Scheme is nearly complete. They need a single step remaining. So I'm going to go to the layer of Malkute, legendary crock, and drink from the Mexies, I like vase there. Okay, sure. Legendary Croc is going to mess us up. at this point, but that's okay. Let's talk to the mayor. We have work. By the lateral charm friend, hear me. My scheme has nearly come to fruition. All right, so similar here. We need to sleep in a crib. This one is a little bit easier, as far as those two go. Let's take a look, loved by, and hated by, okay. Yep. We will water bond with them. Let's see if we can get anything interesting here. Wayfaring, absolutely. We are 100% taking that. Anything to keep us from getting lost quite as often is a big win. You were just the tanker. You are the mechanist. Yeah, we'll make the journey, get a little bit of extra EXP. We'll talk to the merchant. Let's see. So this is going to be a gyre thing, iron or something. Prices are kind of harsh. Let's see here. Yep. I don't think there's anything that we particularly need or want. Now, we could, we could dominate them. That's not, though. So dominate, I guess I usually do this, and I haven't. So, don't muscle, of course, gives us extra strength. That's fantastic. Night Vision is just fantastic all around. Beguiling is pretty good, right? So it will beguile someone into serving you, right? Dominate will take over somebody else. Now, you can dominate and kill yourself if you've never played before you can dominate, kill your original body and then take over that body, so you have that new body, which can be O .P. Sometimes. Since psychic, this is probably not going to come into play. This one could be useful. And now this is, we can't wear hats or helmets. That's too bad. Yeah, that's too bad. We don't need these torches at all. So what we can do is actually we can trade these all away, because we definitely do not need them. What should we take? I wouldn't mind a better weapon, but... That's okay, what we're going to do is instead we're just going to take some ammo for later. So let's pop up to the world map. We are here, booPeakDa-boop, right near the rusted archway. So one of our quests is this one, and the other is this one. This one's the obvious one that we're going to go to first. It makes the most sense. far and away the most sense, so let's pop down there. And we might get lost, but we do have Wayfaring now, so if we pop down into this tile, we will actually come to the village ruins of Jopha. We'll get a droid scrambler, some Rush F lore. Perfect, and we will be able to find the crack. Let's pop up here and unlock the crack. There it is. Now we could pop down here just to see. Is there anything interesting? Just wait a couple turns. Okay, safe enough. Kill that guy. Ooh. We do not have much for... for health. We are very squishy. Makes sense for level one. So now, because we're right on top of the area that we need to go to, we can actually come down into this tile from that prior parasite, come down again. And it should be somewhere around here. If I hit down, where is it? It's south, okay. So we're in the north tile of the Parasang. We could go to the center, and then we can go to the south, or we can just, you know, jump to the south. Which we'll do here. Crocodile. Okay, we're going to beguile this guy. Boom, you see how he changed sides there? He's our friend. For now, at least. That's going to help. Ooh, Illuminated Book, that's going to be worth more, I think more EXP and more money, but we don't sell books in this house. We trade them for EXP. Yeah, okay. We're waiting so we can't build the campfire. Eat that quick. I just keep going. Alright, so where is this bed? Let's go till Harvest Dawn. We got a level and another level. Now what we're going to do is we're actually going to come straight back up to the village here, because we're going to get some more levels from that, and we need that. Oh, a symbiotic firefly would normally be great. Small sphere of negative weight is fantastic. This, I don't know what they are. Yes, for skin slippers. I haven't encountered those before. So we're going to take the sphere of negative weight. While that's on us, we see this minus 10 pounds. So we just get free carry space, really. It's pretty fantastic. That's a solar cell, that's great. And you're the droid scrambler. Cool. Let's take a look here at our skills. So we have no weapon skills. And I think right now we're using a cudgel. Is that correct? Yeah, we've just got this, like, very basic staff. Wow, that's... probably okay, we've got this crocodile with us, so what we're going to do is we're going to try to come down to this legendary crock thing. And then I think we're going to try and beguile it. Well, that seems so dangerous to me. Let's try it anyway. But we're going to come to the center here and just see if we can. Yeah, there's nobody. Up south, there is a crock there. I want my croc to kill their croc. Um, now we can look at our guy. Yeah, he's fine. This guy is wounded, okay. Now we can, I think it's no, Shifty, no, Control Shifty. I thought I had a, I thought I had this bound to a specific key, but I guess maybe I don't. But there we go, so we've got another level. So let's take a quick minute here. We've got... three mutation points. We've got a bunch of skills. I don't... I don't know what... I don't know which of those to take until I get something that's slightly better than what we have, so... I guess until then, let's just keep going. We're going to turn harvest plants off, because I don't care to do that. Okay, so he cracked our robe. That should be fine. We managed to kill him. Not a problem. Let's travel campfire, eat, because we were hungry. I want to chat with you. Yeah, I can, but there's nothing you can do. Okay, I can rename that. Interesting. We're going to pop up, we're going to pop down here. Nope, that's not what I meant to do. Come up here, pop down. This was, ah, South West, okay. Let's go to the lair. Is this our friend? Are you... Yes, okay, you are Croc, you are friendly. We actually do need to kind of rename you. We're gonna call him good boy. Okay, so I'm holding Sultan lore, which is always good. We're gonna let our croc try and take on that other one. And what should happen is when it kills it, I am hoping, that we don't take... the heat for that, ah, never mind, we're going to help, even though that might make it so that these other things try and kill us. It didn't, though. That's good. Okay, never mind. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. I'm being foolish in how I'm approaching this. What we're going to do here is eat some witchwood. because that makes sense, because we are going to get hurt. Let's move away. Okay, we got a little bit of XP there. Uh-oh. Goodbye. Good boy died. Oh, no. Okay, we're going to beguile. Oh, I actually want to beguile that guy. The Horn Chameleon. I don't think I have enough. Take a look here. He's cleaved and injured, so maybe, maybe we can pull this off. We're going to eat another one of these. Okay, we did kill one of them. Let's beguile whatever's. Oh, tell this. Ah, did that work? I don't think it necessarily did. Darn it. I bled to death. Be killed by a companion on accident. I just got as an achievement. Okay, well, that was short and sweet. We did die because of, whoa, because we were confused, of course. I think that was, in fact, the chameleon that I was hoping to get. Wow, we're number nine. That's amazing. We don't see anything above four, so I don't know if that's to be trusted, but cool, nonetheless. Not bad. As always, thanks for hanging out. I have started recording a series where we are taking through our classic guy here. I haven't posted them yet, though, so we'll see when that starts happening. I want a couple before I start posting them. So until then, as always, thanks for hanging out, and happy gaming.