Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted on here, and for that I apologize but things have been crazy around here lately. I’m glad that I’ve been moving, but man, it’s a lot of work. That said, I’ve been able to keep up with KoL for the most part, which has been great. So, here’s my latest update on my character.
Whether you’re a KoL player, or just a MMO player, you have all heard of huge raid dungeons where multiple people go in and destroy things with the hope of getting the single loot drop that they’re looking for. Kingdom of Loathing includes a raid dungeon like that (two of them actually) and it’s called Hobopolis. A massive area under the clan basement, these clan dungeons are areas where KoL players can come together and work towards downing the big bosses in these areas. As a level 15 Turtle Tamer at the time, I had no real goal of downing a boss myself, but I wanted to get in on the loot, so I headed down through the sewers to get in on the big battle against the hobos.
First of all, when entering Hobopolis, you have to beat your way through the sewers, utilizing the combat and non-combat adventures to explore your way through the sewers. It can take alot of adventures if you don’t know what you’re doing, but I’ve been able to take some advice and push through in about 40 turns, which was good, since I didn’t have a ton left for the actual Hobopolis adventuring. After making it through the sewers (and seeing the Dungeon bot announce that to everyone), I headed to Town Square.
Town Square is the generic zone where you have to kill 3000 hobos in order to unlock the last boss of the zone. However, as you adventure there, and kill more hobos, you do unlock subzones where other bosses reside to be killed as you wish. When you down a boss, the loot from the boss gets put into the dungeon admin account, prepared to be sent out to those that the admin wants to give it to, depending on their rules. In my clan, KoL Addicts, you have to spend 100 advs post sewer and send the admin 100k per piece of loot requested. Anyway… I was looking for hobo nickels, so I decided to stay in Town Square for the moment.
I knew that we were not expecting the main boss to show up in Town Square anytime real soon (he was several 1000 hobo kills away yet) so I wasn’t worried about that. I survived alright, only having to consume scrolls of drastic healing every 7-10 hobos. I had boosted muscle through the Body Facepaint from Black Market and the Blood of the Wereseal from the guild, so I was up to 594 muscle (also had a brimstone bunker) while still having about 145% +items. It took my around 111 turns to get 30 hobo nickels and get the non-combat adventure needed to get my code binder. But it all paid off…
You have acquired: hobo code binder
I got my binder.. then, within 5 more advs, I got the hobo codes from the Noob Cave and the Path to the White Citadel. Rather excited, I have now set up the goal of filling this darn binder as soon as possible.
Overall, my experience in the hobopolis clan dungeon was very positive, because I had people helping me along in what my decisions were. It’s a confusing zone, but I can’t wait to see what loot I’m able to pull from it… very excited about loot and my code binder.
Tomorrow, I have some things to finish up with some other aftercore stuff… and then maybe finish TT Nemesis content. Dunno, but just impatient with waiting for Hobopolis loot distribution. Kill faster guys!!
~Hobse
