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Bluescreenofdeath: /* Devnull Challenges */

2021-05-11T18:03:49Z

‎Devnull Challenges

Bluescreenofdeath: /* Hell's Bathroom */

2021-04-25T09:18:13Z

‎Hell's Bathroom

Bluescreenofdeath: /* Swimming Pool */

2021-04-25T09:11:16Z

‎Swimming Pool

Bluescreenofdeath: /* Emyn Luin */

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‎Emyn Luin

Bluescreenofdeath: /* Angmar */

2021-04-24T13:47:47Z

‎Angmar

Bluescreenofdeath: /* Rival Quest */

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‎Rival Quest

Bluescreenofdeath: /* Void and Nether Realm */

2021-04-22T12:54:24Z

‎Void and Nether Realm

Bluescreenofdeath: /* Optional areas */ Fill in a few branches

2021-04-22T10:10:04Z

‎Optional areas: Fill in a few branches

Bluescreenofdeath: /* ZAPM */

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‎ZAPM

Bluescreenofdeath: /* Minotaur Maze */

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‎Minotaur Maze

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 A series of one-level branches found early on, taken from the [[Devnull]] tournament. The actual challenges aren't playable in SLEX; if the player enters all of them within the same game, a trophy is granted as well as +1 to a random stat. These are the challenges:
-* Grue challenge - accessed via a magic portal on one of the lowest Gnomish Mines levels. The player may find a blindfold here.
+* Grue challenge - accessed via a magic portal on level 7-8 of the Gnomish Mines. The player may find a blindfold here.
 * Joust challenge - accessed via a stair on the top floor of Sokoban. This level has an ostrich, a bounter, a hunter and a shadow lord for the player to fight.
 * Pacman challenge - accessed via a magic portal on dungeon level 8-12. Here, two skeleton keys and four beartraps can be harvested, but the player has to watch out for Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde.
 * Pool challenge - accessed via a stair on dungeon level 4-6. There are several pits and boulders here, plus a bohemian ear spoon.
-* Digdug challenge - accessed via a magic portal on one of the middle levels of the Gnomish Mines (can be in Minetown). Loot on this level consists of a pick-axe and several wands of stun monster, but there's also some pookas and a Fygar.
+* Digdug challenge - accessed via a magic portal on level 3-6 of the Gnomish Mines (can be in Minetown). Loot on this level consists of a pick-axe and several wands of stun monster, but there's also some pookas and a Fygar.
 === Illusory Castle ===

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	=== Hell's Bathroom ===		=== Hell's Bathroom ===
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		+	A short side branch in Gehennom, accessed via a pink staircase on a random level. Hell's Bathroom spans 3 levels and has lots of urine lakes as well as some toilets; being in this branch without magical breathing causes the player character to occasionally be affected by a background poison effect. Swimming in a urine lake does nothing if the player's alignment record is positive, but causes severe acid damage to the character and their inventory if it's negative.
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		+	The bottommost floor of Hell's Bathroom spawns Erogenous Katia, the boss of this branch. She is fast and has a couple of resistances, as well as powerful melee attacks including one that causes random status effects, potentially including illness, plus she can fart at the player to cause random bad effects. The biggest danger is her ability to paralyze the player when she moves over a toilet though, as it allows her to continuously attack while the player cannot do anything. When she's defeated, the player gains a trophy and an artifact bath towel that may increase the character's charisma if they use a toilet while wearing it.

	=== Minus World ===		=== Minus World ===

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	=== Swimming Pool ===		=== Swimming Pool ===
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		+	This 15-level dungeon is accessed via a pink staircase somewhere in Gehennom. The levels have a lot of water tunnels, which can be entered only when the player character is not flying or levitating, and even then it requires swimming or magical breathing, plus the player's items get wet just like when coming in contact with regular water. Also, mixed pools and diver's paradises are common special rooms here.
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		+	When the player enters the lowest level of this branch, there is a trophy. However, the actual reward consists of a bunch of rings and amulets hidden in the water tunnels of the lowest Swimming Pool level; since the final level doesn't have a fixed layout, the player will have to either use object detection to find the randomly placed jewelry, or dive into the water to find them. Retrieving the items will most probably require the player to equip gear that lets them survive underwater, although it may also be possible to dig out the water tunnels (which transforms them into regular water tiles) and then fish out the items with fishing poles or similar tools, or characters with certain combinations of in/extrinsics may be able to simply pick them up while flying over the water.

	=== Hell's Bathroom ===		=== Hell's Bathroom ===

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	=== Emyn Luin ===		=== Emyn Luin ===
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		+	This dungeon is accessed by a pink staircase found on a random level in Gehennom, and spans 20 levels. Dungeon levels in Emyn Luin are usually rooms-and-corridors levels and caverns (the latter having layouts similar to those seen in the Gnomish Mines). The main gimmick of this dungeon is that all the walls in Emyn Luin are displayed in blue, and player characters who bump into any such wall take damage and may lose intelligence or wisdom; rarely it also causes amnesia. It is therefore a good idea to not play too fast, as a single mistype may result in lost stats, and holding keys down is particularly ill-advised as the game doesn't automatically stop when bumping into a wall (although this can be configured with the MSGTYPE option).
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		+	On the bottommost floor, the player encounters Kalwina, the boss of this dungeon. She has a ranged shredding attack that damages and disenchants the player's gear and also deals considerable damage, as well as a kalashnikov with lots of ammo which she'll likewise use at range. When the player defeats Kalwina, the kalashnikov can be looted off her body, and a few permanent passive boosts are given to the player character: learning a new spell gives 10% extra spell memory, technique timeouts are 2% faster so they can be used a bit more often, and using a skill has 5% chance of training the skill by double the usual amount. Additionally, once Kalwina is defeated, the blue walls effect inside Emyn Luin ends, making the branch safe to traverse.

	=== Minotaur Maze ===		=== Minotaur Maze ===

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	=== Angmar ===		=== Angmar ===
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		+	A dungeon found in Gehennom, accessed by a pink staircase on a random level. 15 levels in length, Angmar features rooms-and-corridors levels with lots of sand terrain and some shifting sand. The regular sand slows down movement of non-flying players, and being on a sand tile has a chance of blinding the player for a few turns due to sandstorms. Shifting sand, on the other hand, is a very deadly type of terrain: players who cannot fly or levitate will have three turns to move to a different tile or die, and being pulled into it by a monster with drowning attacks will just kill the player outright, no questions asked. Unlike water, unbreathing does not help. Therefore, the player is advised to always have a charged [[wand of teleportation]] or similar item at hand to deal with eels and the like if they get a grabbing attack off, because allowing the eel to get another turn while it has already grabbed the player can end the game.
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		+	On the lowest level, the Witch-King of Angmar is waiting, the boss of this dungeon branch. He's a high-level wraith with good speed (20), decent AC (-10) and powerful level-draining melee attacks as well as a ranged beam attack that heals him by the amount of damage he does to the player, and additionally he has full arcane spellcasting. While the Witch-King is a formidable opponent who can also fly over terrain obstacles like water or lava at will, he's vulnerable to fire, and a player with strong weapon attacks won't have too much trouble hitting him in melee or with powerful ranged weapons, and it may well be a good strategy to kill him quickly before he gets his pain train going. After defeating the Witch-King, the player receives a trophy and 5 extra skill slots that can be spent to increase the character's skills.

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 Found somewhere in Gehennom, the Rival Quest is accessed by a hidden magic portal, but it's closed as long as the player has not obtained the [[Bell of Opening]]. The bell doesn't have to be carried to access this branch; as soon as the player picks it up for the first time, the portal opens and won't close again. Inside, the player encounters the quest of a different playable role, chosen randomly, complete with that role's nemesis and quest artifact at the bottom; killing the nemesis gives a trophy, but there is no guarantee that the player will be able to pick up the artifact, because it may evade their grasp if it's of a different [[alignment]]. Very occasionally, the rival quest nemesis can happen to be the same as the player role's own quest nemesis, in which case killing the nemesis in the regular Quest will automatically mark the Rival Quest as completed too; the nemesis and quest artifact will not appear a second time in the Rival Quest in that case.
-Like the regular Quest, the Rival Quest is 7 levels in length.
+Like the regular Quest, the Rival Quest is 7 levels in length. It should be noted that if the player gets a different role's quest artifact here, carrying it around will increase sanity and contamination over time, and equipping it even more so, making it a risky-to-use reward even if the player is capable of picking it up.
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 The Void is a dungeon branch always accessed via a staircase on level 98 of Gehennom. It's 30 levels in length, and has a randomly placed branch inside that leads to the Nether Realm which is likewise 30 levels long. While the player is in the Void or Nether Realm, there is permanent map amnesia, meaning the map will continuously get erased from the screen. The goal in this branch is to first reach the bottom of the Nether Realm, which causes the boss to spawn on the bottom level of the Void, and then fight Tiksrvzllat at the bottom of the Void.
-All forms of level teleportation, branch teleportation and other methods of instantly warping to different dungeon levels are impossible while in the Void or Nether Realm. The Void also spawns some nether mist tiles that have giant chasms on them; inside the nether realm, nether mist is more common, but has a lower chance of spawning with nether mist. While the player stands on a nether mist tile, their experience is slowly drained; drain resistance provides partial protection from that effect. There are many void rooms (filled with high-level ghosts) in the Void, and the Nether Realm has random monster group spawns on most floors as well as a high concentration of random special rooms. It should be noted that monsters in the Nether Realm spawn awake when they're generated as part of a special room, so if there's e.g. a roomful of trolls, they'll all come for the player immediately!
+All forms of level teleportation, branch teleportation and other methods of instantly warping to different dungeon levels are impossible while in the Void or Nether Realm. The Void also spawns some nether mist tiles that have giant chasms on them; inside the nether realm, nether mist is more common, but has a lower chance of spawning with giant chasms. While the player stands on a nether mist tile, their experience is slowly drained; drain resistance provides partial protection from that effect. There are many void rooms (filled with high-level ghosts) in the Void, and the Nether Realm has random monster group spawns on most floors as well as a high concentration of random special rooms. It should be noted that monsters in the Nether Realm spawn awake when they're generated as part of a special room, so if there's e.g. a roomful of trolls, they'll all come for the player immediately!
 Tiksrvzllat, the boss, is a level 120 ghost with very fast speed (25), good AC (-20), resistances to basically every element (including time stop), and can walk through walls and blast the player with disenchantment, time, insanity, psywaves and nether, plus she has arcane spellcasting. If the player defeats her, there's a permanent +1 increase damage and +5 accuracy for the player's attacks, 10% better spellcasting chances, and the player receives 5 random artifacts with a chance of unlocking or boosting their corresponding skills.

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 === Void and Nether Realm ===
 === Angmar ===

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	=== ZAPM ===		=== ZAPM ===
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		+	[[ZAPM]] is originally a roguelike game based loosely on NetHack, but in space. The ZAPM dungeon was recreated for SLEX, and can be accessed by a pink downstair that will be found on a random level from 2 to 49 in the Dungeons of Doom. Certain roles and races will start in this branch, and activating the "zapem" (sic) birth option has the same effect. This branch has three additional sub-branches; upon entering, the player is first placed in the Space Base, which has 12 levels, with side branches at the bottom. These are the Sewer Plant, Gamma Caves and Mainframe, accessed via pink staircases on the last three Space Base levels. Characters who start the game in the Space Base will have to reach the bottom of the Sewer Plant before they're allowed to exit back to the main dungeon, but may opt to clear out the other two sub-branches first.
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		+	While the Space Base is a rather unremarkable dungeon with mostly rooms-and-corridors levels, the three side branches all have their own special rules. They have to be completed in order: at first, only the Sewer Plant is open, and the player has to make it to the bottom of that to unlock the Gamma Caves, then get to the bottom of that branch too to open the stair to the Mainframe. On level 8 of the Space Base, the Robot Town special level can be found, which has several shops and a locked nurse hall. The latter may become important later (see the Gamma Caves section below).
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		+	In the Sewer Plant, the player encounters lots of moorland and water. Swimming in moorland is possible, but deals continuous HP damage. Also, just being in the sewer plant will occasionally hit the player with poison damage unless unbreathing, and players who have to breathe will regenerate HP and Pw at half the normal rate. It helps a lot to have flying in this branch, which allows the player to pass over the harmful liquids. There are a total of 5 levels in the Sewer Plant, with the bottom being the waste processing facility, a special level that has a few random armor pieces and nothing else of value.
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		+	The Gamma Caves are characterized by having a background contamination effect that causes the player's contamination to go up quickly over time. Also, monsters with contamination attacks are very common here. Contamination resistance helps, but is a very rare property; alternately, the player should probably try to finish this branch quickly, then get out again and take care of the contamination. This may be done by going back to Robot Town and chatting to the nurses; if the RNG is kind, one of them will offer a decontamination service, but that costs a couple buckazoids. The Gamma Caves branch is 6 levels long.
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		+	Finally, the player will reach the Mainframe, which is entered from below so you have to make your way up to the top. While in the Mainframe, teleports cannot be controlled, and major demons are more common. The Mainframe opens up with a special level, the Rabbit Hole: a large open area with various hostile rabbits. Most of them are easy to defeat. A few of them are not. In particular, the moon rabbit and eastern rabbit can cause confusion, and the killer rabbits are level 16, deal high damage in melee and can cause fear. After fighting or sneaking your way past them, there are mostly maze levels up to the top; there's 5 levels in the Mainframe (counting the rabbit hole), and at the top, the BOFH is waiting. He's the boss of this branch and needs to be defeated to claim a reward.
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		+	Fighting the BOFH as a low-level character can become a war of attrition; all he ever does is using a 2d12 damage melee attack, but he has a lot of health as well as good armor class and 100% monster magic resistance, and is covetous to boot. Since there is no upstair on the level, the BOFH can't warp to it to heal, which makes it easier to pin him down but at the same time also makes him more dangerous as he'll just keep attacking even when wounded. While a powerful player character can probably just overwhelm him, weaker characters will have to hope they don't run out of steam while the BOFH batters them. Since the BOFH lacks player-style magic resistance, a death ray will kill him, and he can also be turned to stone, but the player still has to be capable of actually hitting him with such attacks.
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		+	Once the BOFH is defeated, the player gains several rewards: up to three random skills are unlocked or may have their skill cap increased, and the player also receives a random artifact as well as a guaranteed branchporting artifact. The latter can theoretically be used immediately to warp out of the entire ZAPM branch. However, using it too often will eventually start afflicting the player with long-lasting inertia, which can be very detrimental, and it lasts longer the more often the artifact is used.

	=== Void and Nether Realm ===		=== Void and Nether Realm ===

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	=== Minotaur Maze ===		=== Minotaur Maze ===
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		+	This dungeon branch is found on the second level of the Giant Caverns. It's 25 levels in length, filled with nothing but mazes. These mazes do have rooms and other dungeon features, unlike the regular full-screen mazes from vanilla. However, the player cannot dig holes as a method of shortcutting, and level teleportation in this branch can't be controlled. To further complicate things, the game doesn't remember the map for you, i.e. you have permanent map amnesia while in this branch.
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		+	On the bottom of this branch, the Minotaur of the Maze is lurking. He's essentially a slightly stronger minotaur, so the strategies for dealing with normal minotaurs apply for fighting him as well. After he's defeated, the player receives a random artifact and may also have a random skill unrestricted or its cap increased, plus the character learns the cure amnesia technique, which cures temporary map amnesia (caused by e.g. triggering a lasting amnesia trap). It should be noted here that using the technique in this branch does not remove the ongoing map amnesia effect inside the Minotaur Maze, and defeating the boss doesn't make it end either.

	=== Swimming Pool ===		=== Swimming Pool ===