these spiders don't really phase me anymore. their legs crunch when i go through them, which is highly satisfying. my ice homie and i made a path through to the altar, aquiring the lam esen's tome.
we made it to travincal. i survived (of course) and my ice homie was now a dead homie. i grabbed the flail and transmuted it with the organs (again) and headed towards mephisto.
there were tons of dolls popping as they died. there was one pack of champion dolls that really hurt, taking me down to about half life. that was the worst of it.
mephisto went down pretty quickly. i wasn't able to leech off him and drank a few reds and blues. for the killing blow i switched to my gull and 1h hammer and swapped out a few other items to get as much mf% as i could in hopes of finding some new equipment. i racked up to a whole 210% mf for the kill!