Caves of Qud Daily 2026-07-22 by @oblivioncubed on 3Speak
We're playing cavesofqud daily! Three shorties in a row, but this time it's entirely because I never use Burgeoning, and it bites me real hard. --- ▶ Watch on 3speak.tv
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Hello, good day. We are back for day 120. No, mm-mm, mm-mm, 2003 of 26. So we've got a watervine farmer with thick fur, tonic allergy burgeoning, cryokinesis, precog, and pyrocysis. Huge toughness, jank willpower, and jank intelligence. Yeah. Okay, Ego is 17, which is pretty decent. Let's see what we get. We're going to try to be somewhat careful for this guy, see if we can get, you know, past level 10 in the hour that we have, and hopefully not die in the first nine minutes, as we have been, when I've been, you know, foolishly pushing them harder than I should. Let's see how this goes. Very little by way of village history or anything like that. So, let's see, probably the legendary pig farmer, I'm going to guess, and maybe the apothecary has our quest today. We're going to eat from the oven. Hardy Electric Cougal. Emit Pulse. Okay, cool. We're going to lose that right away because we're going to go to the main map, but that's fine. Yeah, so let's talk to the mayor first, I guess, and see. Aha, okay, it is the mayor. There was a time when my kind would be hunting and gathering all day, but after learning the virtue of the dish known as Ma's Worm, we changed our customs and consecrated new rituals. Unfortunately, our godly iron mace was stolen from us. We need someone to recover it, Drifter. Will you do it? My people tell me it has been taken to the little sanctuary. We will reward you for your work. Yeah, so we get a recoiler for that. Let's take a look at who likes him, admired by cannibals, hey? Hated by crabs. That's fine, let's, uh, water ritual with him and learn wayfaring. Excellent, excellent, okay. Does you have anything to trade that isn't complete trash? Not really. Okay. Okay, cool. So, uh, we should talk to... Who else? Mosh. Okay, let's find Mosh. Who's Mosh? The Apothecary. Okay, sounds good. And you're right there, you're literally right there. Okay, so friend, we've been pouring over our records, and we learned about a nearby location forgotten to our people. The Sumuzoon. Summuzon. What mysteries, blah, blah, blah. Between four and eight parasangs south of some forgotten ruins. Yeah, okay. That could be dangerous, we'll see. So he's got painted sandals. We're going to look at that. and C, sultan history, we like that, okay, excellent, and then let's take another look here, so we've got an apple farmer's daughter, the dromed merchant, we do have that legendary pig farmer, he's probably got some sort of rep for us, we're gonna wake up. He does not have rep for us. This is going to be our tinker. Uh, okay, there's the convert. We'll take that quest. Now finally, what we're gonna do is just pop to the Drummond Merchant. A quick look here, so he's got carbide weapons and sturdy and sharp things, so that's decent. We don't have the money for it, I don't believe. Interestingly, we start with a bunch of food. and a farmer's token, we do have the money for this. This is essentially useless. So, okay, let's add half of these, and then let's take a look here. So what do we want? We've got 89 drems in our favor. We've only got 30 drams to work with, so we don't want to use all of it, as that would leave us sad, really. We could go with a bronze longsword, right? That's a decent, that is a decent weapon. We've got really good toughness. Let's go with it. Let's not think about too hard. We'll spec into longsorts here. I'm going to equip this. So we had a lacquered iron vine reaper. That is actually pretty decent. Just a minute. We do have, we do have axe proficiency. So we shouldn't have done that. That's okay. It doesn't matter. It's all good. Our strength is hot garbage, so we need to get that up for sure. Which is going to be tough with such terrible int, but that's okay. That's all right. Let's switch back on the Pine Reaper. Because right now it's what we have. Did I sell this back to him and just take that as a loss? Oh, man, that would suck. But that's actually okay, isn't it? Yeah, let's just... We just gave away some money. That's fine. It's all right. So this is The Forgotten Ruins, and was it south of the Forgotten Ruins? Um, yeah, okay, four to eight parasangs south of some forgotten ruins. So, one, two, three, four. So it's anywhere in this line right here that we're going to find it. Um, now this is the other one that we have to go to. So we may as well start here and then just go straight north, um, assuming we don't, uh, have to fight a bunch of nasties here. So that was, what was that sound? Nothing. Okay, godly iron maze. Okay, we'll just grab that, just like that. That's easy. We're going to pick up that chest as well. Let's kill this guy. Get some extra XP while we can. Let's just auto-explore, I guess. Yep, we want that, and that, and that. We don't really need to worry about that, because he can't hit us. I'll take that. The woven tunic, weird artifact, what are you? Okay, a freeze grenade of some sort. And the null worm, okay. or null worm. So you are tough. I could toast you, but I would probably hit the, probably hit this guy as well. Should we precog? Just in case, because we are pretty low level here. Let's pre-cog. Let's move forward. We nail this with a crit. Yeah. We're going to pop burgeoning. Right. No, we're going to move back. Yeah, yeah, we will absolutely return to the start of our vision. So yeah, we're going to try and... He's quick. He's a quick guy. Okay, let's try chill. We're going to chill this area here. which will hopefully chill him without making everybody else mad at us. Maybe we should sprint, hey? Let's do that. Sprint. Try and get as far away as we can. Geez. This guy's fast. and he's still, like, just completely fine. Oh, uh, well, darn. I should have used that differently. I don't use burgeoning, so, um, yeah. I didn't realize it would just, like, blast me apart. Uh, huh, okay. That sucks. We got to level 2. Brutal. Okay, still somehow 10th. I don't believe that. That's wild. Okay, yeah, rough. That's a rough daily to start with. I should really practice burgeoning and see, get to know it a little bit better because I am not good at that. As always, thanks for hanging out. Thanks for watching today's daily. We'll try back tomorrow, and until then, happy gaming.