I decide that hey, I can manipulate time, and I'm not a huge fan of this whole curse business, so, let's See the Threads with each grave to not get cursed and pick what kind of enemy I'll be facing off against.
On about the third grave in, I get a choice between curse, vampire master, and vampire... so I take the vampire and contineu slogging into the fight when lo and behold, with my 1% anomaly chance at around ~400 paradox...
Anomaly. Teleported into Celia's room.
I have never had a more frantic battle of my life. My first thought was (wrongly) let's kill Celia ASAP before she gets summons up. Shield up, foresight up, temporal clone her to buy a moment of time and maybe, just maybe have summons to counter her summons.
Ok, now I need to get out of melee with Celia, this seems a bit risky. Dimensional Step to the other side of the room. Failure, high paradox. Ahh, that's not so surprising, I'm popping about 600 now. Let's try it another way. Wormhole, step to the other side of the dungeon.
Ok. So now I need to heal that damage from the vampire fight, and get my paradox down to manageable levels... Healing infusion, reduxed static history. Much better.
Oh god, what's that coming through the door? Elite Runic Bone Giant? OHHH THAT'S why you open all the graves before fighting Celia. Oh no. Oh no.
I manage to kill Cellia, but fail overall (imho). Too many classed elites chasing me, clumped up together. Impending doom kept getting thrown around, which I'd have to clear off with Body Revision. I was actually entirely capable of recalling by teleporting so many times that they never could catch me with enough force to kill me off, but needing to use Body Revision kept on removing the Recalling status. So... I was stuck. No stairs :X
I died pretty quickly before I got a handle of the situation and how to survive in it. Greed got the better of me and I went back for the loot and an alchemist ingredient from a summoned Vampire Lord. I hadn't realized that revision was killing off my recalling status, so realized I was literally stuck unless I could slog it out. I teleported and teleported, dimensional steps, wormholes, Using Gravity well to pin things in my LoS when they couldn't shoot me. It... wasn't good for me overall and I realized I was destined to die over and over again if I tried it. Especially since I realized if I ever had a failure, it was a decent enough chance it'd be a lethal failure. Dimensional Steps an dbody revisions were critical to my 'survival.'
Anyways, it was a riveting battle, but perhaps, just perhaps, we ought not have characters able to teleport into Celia's room. It just seems like a good way for someone with a teleport rune or a phase door rune to suddenly lose a character/a life. I was a paradox mage, so I should've taken it into account that it was a possibility. I just assumed it wasn't.
I'm sure we're aware of the lethality of the whole encounter, so I'll leave it up to you whether that should be balanced a bit better or not. I can say it was one of the more tense situations I've ever been in, and quite engaging. Then again I understand the Dwarf Fortress meaning of the word "Fun."
We probably ought to have stairs pop back after Celia's put to rest.
Anyways I just wanted to recap the ridiculousness that was an hour and a half of last nights play. I did get a Choker of Dread and a Bolbum's Big Knocker out of the whole encounter but- it wasn't worth it.
