Changes to Dungeon Crawl Chili

As of July 19th @9:20am Eastern time

Implemented already:

The species Silent Specter was added from BCadren crawl;
D:1 is mostly a forested open floor layout and has Jessica almost guaranteed;
D:2 is always the same static floor (for now until someone makes a few new full floor vaults);
D:3 has 4 vaults of castles.
D:4 is BCadren's sewer (partialy ported).
Shorten the number of floors for each branch (including Dungeon) by 1 floor (except for Orcish Mines, the Elven Halls and Crypt)
To compensate for the loss of XP from 1 less floor in most branches and Dungeon, Uniques are more frequent to spawn.

A higher density of Uniques has been implemented in the Dungeon;
Jessica drops a book 50% of time with the Blink spell being included 50% of the time;
Medusa, a naga with the Petrify spell, will always show up on D:2 close to the granite statues. The intent will be to let her be on D:2 until the player has enough experience (XP)...sort of like an early Sygmund. Medusa on her own isn't dangerous but when she dies the statues change into adders and one water moccasin emerges from the fountain.
Oskar the Grump is a new D:4 unique that throws garbage bags at you (to be finalised July 19th).
Regal, an octopode with a cape, that was never added to DCSS over a year ago written by our own MrSquiggles. Regal shows up somewhere in Vaults, Depths, Crypt and Zot.
Octavia the Heretic, an Octopode of Gozag can show up in Depths.

kuniqs — Sunday, July 19, 2026 at 4:05 AM
It'd be good to lower QB's and athame's mindelay to 14 skill, raise rapier's base dam to 10 or so, and give athame dagger stabbing modifier; all 3 of them have different niches to fill: qb for aux attacks, athame for spellcasters/stabbers, rapier for small races wanting a plain damage dealer/fallback for other 2 who didn't luck into their best SB type.
kuniqs — Sunday, July 19, 2026 at 5:22 AM
also: show xp values for monsters; probably remove hounds from d2 because you can easily go up 4 levels on them alone