A Quick Trip into Destard

The problem with busy and tiring work weekdays is that I do not have as much time and energy to go adventuring. Today I decided to take a quick trip down the dungeon Destard to get the red stone. I did not quite remember the location of the dungeon although I had a rough idea as to its whereabouts. There were a few run-ins with the denizens of the realm but the evil creatures were easily dispatched. The dungeon itself was not too difficult. On Level 4 there is a long and windy corridor full of treasure chests. One has to go through a room with Phantoms twice to get the Gold. I did not remember what Phantoms looked like but the moment I saw the "Energy Fields", I started firing at them.

Back when we first started playing, I'm not sure I noticed the flickering of the energy fields in monochrome. This is quite obvious in color where the phantoms flicker between pink and red. In the first battle, I did not use any spells. However in the second battle, Jaana cast the party's first Tremor spell. It was very effective and eliminated 8 of the 13 Phantoms giving her 80 experience points in one go. The party also obtained 1225 Gold on that level at the cost of Kiboko losing hit points to acid traps. I did run out of gems in Level 5 and had to mix some View spells.

There were no tricky secret passage rooms and I quickly made it down to Level 7 to get the red stone. This was followed by a quick X-it spell. I took the Trinsic portal back to Castle Britannia to see Lord British who raised Julia and Shamino to Levels 5 and 4 respectively.

30442 moves. Cumulative playing time = 16.5 hours