Amemochi Nina Carries the Box of Happiness Home in Torneko’s Remastered Dungeon
After a pitfall cost Nina a box in plain sight on the 27th floor, a second one turned up on the 28th, and a missed attack on the climb back kept the run alive.
VARIUM — Amemochi Nina of Varium brought the Box of Happiness out of the dungeon on Thursday in the sixth installment of a Torneko’s Great Adventure remaster series, finishing the run at the 28th floor after a return climb in which the box was nearly lost.
Nina began the evening with a note to self, “don’t panic when in danger,” after the previous attempt ended in starvation. Heading in, Nina carried over a Dragon Killer sword and a leather shield from an earlier run, along with a ring that stops hunger, and spent the early floors building levels. A stream of small monsters on one floor kept dropping wooden arrows that Nina collected until the stack reached its cap of 99, and the character stood at level 15 about an hour and 20 minutes into the stream and level 27 after roughly three hours.
“Ah, being alive is wonderful.” — Amemochi Nina, after surviving an attack on the way back up
The deeper floors were harder. Exploding monsters and a doll-like enemy that drains strength thinned out Nina’s supplies, and on the 27th floor Nina saw the box directly ahead and then dropped through a pitfall before reaching it. Stuck on the lower floor with no way back up, Nina said the run would now be about reaching the 99th floor, then found a box on the 28th floor soon after.
With the box in hand, the only way out was up the stairs, and Nina had almost no useful items left. In one tense moment a large-eyed monster, Omedama, attacked and missed; Nina said afterward that its two near misses were what made the return possible. Nina reached the surface and watched the ending sequence, saying both the original and the remaster were now cleared. The finished gear was a Dragon Killer at +9 and a leather shield at +12.
Nina said the next goal is a 99th-floor run, in which the box changes to a different one from the 30th floor on. Viewers answered the return with applause and congratulations, and the stream received 44 Super Chats. Nina’s next stream is set for 7 p.m. on Friday.
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