Ice Queen Domain

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I'm gonna tease you, bros, with this beautiful pic!

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EDIT: If you find something and want to share it, I can include it in my posts (with your reference of course) so that we could have all info in one place.

EDIT: despite the fact that I lost, I'm completely overwhelmed by the scope of this one sidequest and all the innovative staff. Dr Biskup, you are a genius!

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IC:1

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Two guys on the right are snow golems. You enter from the right side. Every time you reenter the level, golems respawn. These guys are comparable to steel golems, except they have less damage and breathe ice. Correction: they do not in fact see invisible. They are also not vulnerable to lightning. They are still constructs though.

2 giant rooms up and down are filled with ice statues (so 144 in total), small rooms to the left are treasure rooms (filled with crap in my case). Ice status have 15 PV and hit relatively hard. Unlike golems they don't see invis. Ice statues do not respawn.

You are constantly dealt cold damage while on the level. I don't know the magnitude as I'm too afraid to unequip AMW. It also deals equipment for scrolls and potions. I have only fire and waterproof blankets, so I can't check if plain blankets offer some protection. Suddenly ring of fire are reasonable.

Teleportation is disabled on the level
Wands of fire and wands of fireball do not work at all (they give special message). I don't know about fire spells, but I'd assume the situation is the same.

Offensive alchemy does work on the level. I'm too scared to try it against golems, as I don't have enough fire protection.

Tune it for the next update!

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IC:2

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Not much here: trap filled part, secret passage in the upper part (it leads to a scary level with some crazy stuff, I will come back to it later).

Piece of info: potions and scrolls and books do not get destroyed on the floor.

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IC:3

It's a huge-ass battle I was lazy to record a video, I'll try it next time.

Basically there's a team of cold guys vs a team of fire guys. Cold guys win thanks to vortices

Starting positions:
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Engaging!
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I enjoy a snack watching the carnage.
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Fire forces are pwned.
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Everything is non-hostile towards you, until you pick up any items - a number of creatures in your direct vicinity will try to kill you.
Luckiliy it seems that nothing there can see invisible. There are a couple of monster with cold aura - they will damage you while you are still standing near. Did I say you will need AMW there?
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I picked up randomly dropped hammer of the gods and decided to go to the next location.

IC:3 revisited

On my way back I tried the small hole in the bottom-right corner (where red guys entered). It simply leads to the wilderness, so it's a kind of a shortcut I guess?

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IC:4

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If you bumble here you'll die.

We enter another room and guess what - we are standing on ice. If your weight exceeds the limit, the first tile you appear on the level will not break, but as soon as you do a step, everything changes. To return back you'll have to step into another ice tile and it will also break! I didn't have swimming, so it was kinda scary.

ADOM will remember the exact horizontal coordinate of the level when you enter it from below - so if you managed to break some ice, do not reenter the level on the same tile, move left or right.

Not much else, there's a chaos diplomat standing there. If you talk to him, he'll tell you to kill the ice queen (I was lawful, so but he gave me a chance to "redeem" myself).

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I didn't dare to attack him, this guy is likely buff. His speed is 175, so take care.

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IC:5

Not much here, except the ice continues a bit.

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I explore the stuff and there's a bunch of berserkers led by a berserker prince and a bunch of yetis (these guys have penetrating attack, but their to-hit is non-existant).
As soon as I got too close this happened:

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So much for a warm welcome (see what I did there? hehe).

There's a bunch of "distand wind" messages, so there must be something to this level. I kicked all walls, but wasn't able to find anything. Teleport doesn't work.

I didn't have magic mapping or monster detection/item detection :/

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IC:6

Garden! Those are yetis and they are immobile and don't care about you apparently.
EDIT: Unless you go near them. See IC:6 revisited below and make your path as not to get close to them.

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This is even better with tiles:

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Psst, grobble, check this out:

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Not much here anyway, I don't have extra mapping tools, so I continue onward.

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IC:7

Prison!

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Kicked everything, no secret doors. White Ys are ice statues and they didn't care what I did at all.


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Free forge if you can manage the cold.
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Prison cells. Some are empty, some have bones, some have hostile monsters. I didn't explore everything
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Onwards!

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IC:8

This place is annoying.

I lost my entrance pic, sorry.

There's a bunch of water tiles everywhere (hot springs).

At random intervals you have a chance to be thrown somewhere:

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You can lose items in your hands and your headgear. Great place to lose cursed equipment, eh? (I didn't actually check this as I don't have either holy water or uncursing scrolls).

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Navigating here is a pain. Luckily I didn't get drenched and decided to check the left side first. I wonder how Moloch's Thorns will work here.

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Ice Queen Throne

And I was right in going to the left (pun not intended).

We enter the throne hall and are being watched.

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Text ends with "eyes are looking at you" or some sort.

All these guys are invisible stalkers.

Proof:
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Me: AMW, mostly.
This thing is a must there, no exceptions!

We meet the cutie:

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She gives us the quest to go kill a frost giant jarl tainted by chaos called Haggor. Apparently their forces are battling and her domain is getting weakened by it. This guy lives somewhere to north-west.

She also knew that I talked to the chaos diplomat and warned me in a cute way not to try anything. She's likely very powerful.

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Sure, cutie, I'll do that!