Dungeon 5 Turn 7
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Ricki uses her fancy new Dash ability to quickly return to the Blues’ hideout and join Kamau and Lara in fighting the bugbear. Kamau continues to absorb all damage without harm, while Ricki and Lara deal modest damage to the bugbear. Even with Lara scoring a crit, it looks like he’s still got a lot of fight in him, though.
Kamau: interpose
Lara: attack
Ricki: unlock the guard dog.
I think this is actually a good idea, I suppose this dog is going to attack the bugbear immediately after we release it.
If it attacks us, Kamau has been proven to be able to handle it. The dog has been watching intently, he knows who is fighting whom
and if it attacks us we loose another chance at a pet.
From your alternate plan: “Ricki checks what is in the bucket. If it is food, feed it to dog, and unlock cage when possible if reaction is favorable.” Maybe edit this into this plan, too?
Since everyone seems to agree, yes, doing so. In fact I’ll optimize the plan a bit in this direction
Can’t edit it. Posting another alternate
One attack is useless due to the armor of the bug bear. If we want to do something like this we would need to pass the plate to Lara and have Kamau attack with her.
I do not like idea of releasing dog before we start befriending it
and definitly not mid combat
Kamau: interpose.
Lara: attack the bugbear with longsword.
Ricki: give the Rat Fang to Kamau, take the longsword from Kamau and attack the bugbear with it.
Alternative plan:
Kamau: attack the bugbear with the longsword.
Ricki: trade Rate Fang for Lara’s longsword, attack the bugbear.
Lara: move to the ladder, use Venomous Sting to attack while holding a torch in other hand.
Ricki has 5 Def, she should be fine even if bugbear attacks her. I suppose the bugbear won’t go after Lara while he has two characters attacking him in melee.
[Edit: added Tem’s suggestion]
If we do this, Lara should in one hand wield the torch. There is no light source in this room, thus Kamau cannot see anything, thus his attack has a high chance to go amiss.And get the shield from Kamau. And put the bucket on her head (no miss chance for Sting anyway). [edited after reading this @Discord, and again after further comments there] And if Ricki keeps the Rat Fang and burns a rat tail, that makes even more damage than the long sword.
Yeah, he merely puts them in cages.
I think that’s a tiny hint to release the dog and observe as Bugbear totally ignores it.
Alternate plan: Lara retreats and subdues spider if she thinks it can be made a pet. If not, she leaves it alone and attacks bugbear for lack of stuff to do.
Kamau interposes
Ricki checks what is in the bucket. If it is food, feed it to dog, and unlock cage when possible if reaction is favorable.
I think we shouldn’t use abilities that give us corruption, unless the situation is dire.
I agree, but this is planning in advance, suggested on Discord, for those who wish to stay until turn 50 or clear the dungeon of gangs entirely. We’ll probably need the DPS, and if so, better now than later. As said, this is the Alternate plan. 😉 First plan is checking the dog out.
I agree. Might as well use that ability once and we are early on. Spider will pay for itself.
I agree that we should stay until turn 50 and try to defeat the gangs, but let us not get reckless with these corruption abilities.
I’m curious if using Corruption ability will trigger talking about it next intermission.
One won’t hurt and it doesn’t seem like there is a way to buff them much for Lara. So they are more valauble on early levels than later.
Might as well use 1
Just a note:
https://bit.ly/dungeon-eyes-map
https://bit.ly/dungeon-eyes-mechanics
(Thanks for putting those up!)
and there’s also the enemy stats list https://gist.github.com/KingMarth/2c55735080b5b7a39b1514154a2cb177
Thx. That is actually relevant
STRAY DOG
HP: 3
Atk: 2 (frenzied)
Def: 1
Frenzied when in groups.Can see in the dark.
meaning Ricki using Long Sword (1base +2 for sword) can’t one shot it. Since it has 3HP and 1Def, so we need to be spending rat tails or “waste” time.
When we have a moment, we should get Ricki to move down 1 screen ask the kobold if the person who took her doll had a blue cap or a red bandana.
Also, we should tell her its not safe and to go back home in case more thugs show up (she may be the missing child)
“(..) her its not safe and to go back home”, as there’s no point in waiting on the ‘street’, we’ll deliver the doll straight to her at home
Reposting because I can no longer edit my prior comment.
Kamau: interpose
Lara: checks what is in the bucket. If it is food the dog can eat, feed it to dog. Else, if still possible, attack bugbear
Ricki: unlock the guard dog with her uniquely calming manner if the reaction to the food seems favorable or if there is no food in the bucket.
Reason is that the guy has at least 4 armor so a lone attacker won’t do harm. Better focus on reinforcements then.
Yes. I think he’s got 4, since he appears to be wearing boots. So if Lara did 4+1 points of damage this turn and Ricki did 2, then the bugbear took 3. At that rate it might take us another 2 or 3 turns to kill (edit: subdue) him.
Maybe after next turn Lara should hand off the longsword to Ricki, back out of range, and use Venomous Sting (while holding the torch) so Kamau can stop interposing and join the attack. I don’t think the bugbear can hurt Ricki or Kamau, although the dog would be vulnerable.
Per pet rules, the dog is only vulnerable if it attacks. Unclear if it would immediately count as a pet but I would guess feeding it or at least killing its captor is required to make it a pet.
The gods sent us a prophecy that “This bugbear may be a career criminal but he’s not going around stabbing peoples’ dogs, just saying”
That looks like chain, not plate, so plus 3 makes sense. It’s either innate 1 or 2 defense, and we has a large blood drop and a small one which is probably 2+1=3 damage.
Using a rat tail would literally double our damage in this case. (+3 for the turn)
Let’s have Lara exchange her longsword for the torch, and then take Kamau’s shield to use along with the torch. Then she can back up to the ladder and cast venomous sting on the bug bear. Ricki should burn a rat tail and attack the bugbear with the rat fang, and Kamau should attack the bug bear with a longsword. This way everybody but Lara has 5 defense and can’t be hurt by the bugbear, and we can do a total of 13 damage to the bugbear in one turn, hopefully killing it. (5 + 5 + 3). Lara shouldn’t get attacked, but if she does it’ll only be for 1 damage.
EDIT – this plan originally involved wearing a bucket in hopes that a spell wouldn’t have a miss chance, but the wording for venomous sting explicitly calls it a ranged attack, so the bucket isn’t useful for this purpose.
The shield would be needed to be transfered from Kamau to Lara first, wouldn’t it?
You’re right, and my plan also doesn’t work anyway because venomous sting IS an attack and I was wrong.
Ricki: Swap dagger for sword Kamau is holding, attack bugbear
Lara: attack bugbear
attacks non lethal obv.
Kamau: interpose.
dog time later. We don’t know how pets work and wasted all our previous chances. Let’s get this right even if it takes 1-2 turns longer. It will be worth it.