My experience with the new timed event.

[shwqa]

Here is a ridiculous story that just happened to me. I wanted to create a halfing mindstar wyrmic. The idea was that no melee could hurt me with so many evasions, but I would have no weapon training or accuracy until I got 750 gold. My only attacks would be bellowing roar, acidic spray, corrosive mist, and very weak melee until that training. But going slowly I thought I could manage. Half through the first floor on trollmire I get an event.

"Find an herb in a random location in the old forest within 40 minutes."

Shit I thought, my character is very weak but I want to beat this new event. I rush through first three floor of trollmire ASAP. 8 minutes have gone by. I decided to take on Bill. I win with 4 hp left and thanks to the level-up hp recovery I survive the rest his gang. Level 6 and 10 minutes have gone by. I run Derth and buy a regen infusion. Then I rush to old forest. It is stormy! This means I can't wait for bellowing roar to recover because those storm elementals spawn faster than the cooldown. I press forward regardless. The 5th storm elemental to spawn is greater and just destroys me. 1 life gone and the timer is still ticking.

I go over to Norgos' Liar. I rush through there. 20 minutes have gone by. Then I head to Ruins of Kor'Pul. I clear the first floor and then look at the clock. I won't have enough time to clear the ruins and old forest. Time for another shot at old forest. But when I go over there I find 2 hostile adventuring parties guarding the place. This turns out to be good fortune because I find a +15 slime damage mind star that can split. Though it eats up more time.

I run back into the stormy forest. I can't see anything and stormy elementals are pelting me with lightning. Thanks to fungal arts I can keep my hp up. I clear about 3/4 of the map. Then a rare oozemancer appears. I am handling myself pretty well, but then another greater elemental appears. I kill the oozemancer, but the elemental kills me. 2 lives down and 30 minutes have past. When I come back I clear the first floor.

The 2nd floor isn't stormy but it is full of huge mobs of ants and I got an warrior escort. I kill all the ant and save the warrior.

The 3rd floor is full of huge mobs of snakes and I got a thief escort. Again I manage to clear the floor and save the thief.

The 4th floor has my future self as an escort and the Boss. Course I can see the portal on the other side of the boss but the escort can't get to it. I have long slow fight with Boss. The escort decides to get in range of the AOE ice effect. Thanks to nature's touch the escort lives through the fight. I confidently press Z for my quest reward. To my horror I have cleared the floor but not the event. 3 minutes left...

It seems auto-explore doesn't pick the event item. I am going to have to re-search every floor by hand. I finally caught a break and found it with 1 minute left. I get greeted with April Fools there is no reward

[darkgod]

Awesome !!
You can even post it on te4.org

[ajfluffy]

I ran into a new timed event where I had to defend a fort for 200 turns.... It does not look like it was finished and is a HUGE death trap. Just a caution to anyone else that finds it heh. Waves of unique mobs that don't seem to stop even after the timer ends O_o

[Hachem_Muche]

I ran into a new timed event where I had to defend a fort for 200 turns.... It does not look like it was finished and is a HUGE death trap. Just a caution to anyone else that finds it heh. Waves of unique mobs that don't seem to stop even after the timer ends O_o

This is an unrelated and unfinished event part of the Infinite500 addon that was not supposed to be accessible yet.

[ajfluffy]

O good call. I never noticed it before