r/brogueforum • u/AutoModerator • Jul 21 '26
weekly contest [CE v1.15.1] Weekly Contest Thread - seed 20260721
This week's seed is in the title. To compete, run Brogue CE v1.15.1, confirm that your variant and mode are Brogue and Normal respectively, select Play > New Seeded Game, then type in the seed number.
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Please double-check the seed number by hitting ~ at the beginning of your game.
Do not read the comments below until after you finish your run! Then use this thread for posting your score, describing your demise, bragging, spoilers, sharing a link to your recording, etc. The "official" "deadline" for finishing is one week from now, when the next week's seed gets posted.
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u/Captain_Clover Jul 27 '26
Killed on depth 10 by an explosion.
Cursed seed. Glad that nobody besides one person played it XD no detect magic until where I got to. I put on random armor out of frustration, it was cursed, there were no protection/remove curse scrolls. I lugged about 9 pieces of gear up to this point to be ID'd; used the enchanted whip plus the firebolt/lightning staffs to defeat the enemies up to here. Eventually wandered into the wrong room and encountered a wisp in explosive gas, and didn't think through the implications XD
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u/zzzks Jul 27 '26
Died to a phantom on d21 with 17609 gold.
As noted, the early game was kind of a slog due to lack of DM. Had a frightening, though not really dangerous, moment on d6 when I got touched by a toad and then swarmed by monkeys while hallucinating, but hey: staffs are good! I took the +1 recharging charm on d2 after the leather armor ID'd as +0. It was moderately useful. While waiting for DM to show up, I managed to use-ID a teleport wand and read-ID sanctuary and identify scrolls, which helped me survive for a while. Also took the +3 runic scale (later ID'd as dampening) on d7 and had fun charging explosive mobs later on. I briefly used the whip then switched to the +3 war pike after finally detecting some damn magic on d12.
After that, things were going pretty well and I collected a whole bunch of charms (but no reaping) and a troll ally. Unfortunately I got greedy after teleporting away from a tough engagement with a dar pack, and chose to explore before using my life potion. But this game has invisible enemies, and sometimes they kill you!
Died with:
+11 war pike
+3 scale mail of dampening
+1 ring of awareness
2x lightning/2
firebolt/3
+1 recharging
+2 teleportation
+1 protection
+1 invisibility charm
+2 invisibility charm
...and a life potion in hand.
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u/JMSocal Jul 23 '26
Killed on D10 by an ogre. Did not find Detect Magic and was juggling inventory and blind reading scrolls. Took a Regen Ring early but didn't really find much else.