Golgotha
Shrouded in the rotting jungle are the mouths of the rust-caves of Golgotha, chrome's graveyard.
Golgotha is an early game dungeon that the player is sent to as part of the first quest for the Barathrumites, "More Than a Willing Spirit."
Floors
Exterior
The outside of Golgotha appears as a jungle level with one sealed central building and four randomly placed outbuildings, each containing a row of three slimy shafts. The central building contains a deep shaft that leads directly to the bottom of Golgotha, and a control switch that will unlock the door from inside.
One advanced strategy is to phase, dig, teleport, or hack directly into the central building and jump straight down the elevator shaft. Characters cannot survive this without special preparation.
When ready, the player can jump down one of the slimy shafts to the first floor.
A wide, dark shaft whose chrome walls are coated with stinking, viscous scum. You hear splashing and the drone of conveyor belts below.
Trash chutes, levels 1-4
The next four floors are all randomly generated in the same way: the player drops in from a shaft in front of a set of conveyor drive units driving -conveyor belts. The player must then choose how to make their way to the next set of slimy shafts leading down: whether by standing and fighting to clear an area, or potentially by riding the conveyor belt as quickly as possible to the next level while dodging hazards. Whatever strategy is used, the player may have to confront:
- brown sludge
- green goo
- black jell
- spark tick
- agolmaggot
- eyeless crab
- voider
- girshling
- agolfly
- quillipede
- rustacean
- spitting slug
- electric snail
- agolzvuv
- sewage eels
- scratched vents and chute crabs
- sparking vents
- steaming vents
- fuming vents
After passing four levels this way, the player is deposited in the Cloaca.
The Cloaca
In contrast to the quickly moving conveyor belts and hazards of the trash chutes, the Cloaca is a relatively static area full of trash and sewage. The player will encounter one rare chest, a dysfunctional waydroid, and the unique creature Slog of the Cloaca. Whether Slog is friend or foe depends on their faction reputation toward the player (Mollusks.) Mutants with a good faction relationship may treat with Slog via the water ritual (with one dram of slime), allowing them to learn how to cook Cloaca Surprise. Alternatively, Slog could be killed, and their corpse butchered using the Butchery skill to obtain Slog's annunclus.
Preparation
Players should come prepared to run the entire dungeon, since floors in Golgotha cannot be ascended by normal means once the run has begun. Strategies for preparing for Golgotha's hazards may include:
- Disease treatment via honey or Yuckwheat stem
- A source of healing, such as Witchwood bark or Salve injector
- Explosives to clear pools of sewage
- Neutral reputation with the Mollusks faction
- Precognition via the Precognition mutation or a Sphinx salt injector (if playing a True Kin character)
- A recoiler