City of Brass
The City of Brass is a special level in SpliceHack. It is one of the Elemental Planes, appearing between the Plane of Fire and Plane of Water.[1]
Map
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The level is a town with a river of lava, a fountain, and six shops in the positions shown above.
Scattered around the level are twenty-four fire traps, three boulders, a hostile tourist, two peaceful djinni, thirteen hostile djinni, thirten hostile efreet, a peaceful fire elemental, eight hostile fire elementals, a hostile fusion elemental, a fire vortex, a peaceful hell hound pup, three hostile phoenixes, and ten hostile salamanders.
The magic portal is somewhere on the left half of the level.[2]
Extraplanar merchant
| @ Extraplanar merchant File:Extraplanar merchant.png | |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | 23 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 8d4, Weapon 8d4 |
| Base level | 20 |
| Base experience | ? |
| Speed | 18 |
| Base AC | 0 |
| Base MR | 50 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | None |
| Resistances conveyed |
None |
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An extraplanar merchant:
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| Reference | SpliceHack 1.1.0 monst.c L3632 |
Shops in the City of Brass are run by extraplanar merchants.[3] They have a chance of being generated with a katana, a potion of full healing, a potion of hallucination and a wand of speed monster.[4] Compared to regular shopkeepers, extraplanar merchants have a higher level, stronger attacks, and similar behaviour.
Strategy
You may need to enter or leave a shop on this level. You could bring a mummy wrapping so that you can enter and leave even if permanently invisible. Alternatively, you can bring a pet strong enough to kill the merchants if they get in your way.
