Dungeon 7 Turn 30
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Ricki takes the dropped shield from the room of (un)locked doors, then she and Kamau head below where Kamau gets the attention of the chickens. Macadamia and Lohk (after leaving her robe in the pile) then arrive to help, taking out one chicken and the rooster. They are immediately replaced by one more of each popping out of the coop. Squirrel is given cheese and ordered to attack, but he literally can’t deal damage any more so he just eats the cheese.
The pollen is getting thicker, and everyone now has a -3 penalty to Atk. Cawing is once again heard from the left somewhere. What is THAT even all about? And where is the pollen coming from??
Ricki spots the stalkroach running into the next room.
Let’s keep on clearing the coop area. We must check it out thoroughly this time, so it can be the last time.
Kamau: remain interposing.
Lohk: ray of frost a chicken.
Ricki: try feeding a corn or two if you can into the feeding tray so next turn it’s pacified while you enter.
Macadamia: take a look at the loft above the pumpkin outside and kill the newcomer rooster.
The idea is that Ricki or Mac explore inside the coop next turn while the crew clears out the remaining chickens.
Clearing the chickens, feeding corn to the coop, reversing the weatherwane, checking if the coop is enterable. Those are all the ideas I have for dealing with the coop. If this turn and the next we get nothing, then I believe there is nothing to be had, and we can safely ditch it.
As a note: the stalkroach is taking the long route to the rat chest. Our pile will probably have been stolen by now.
I still think the most important thing to do right now is get more info. Lensing the mammoth and scouting left both need to happen, and if Lohk doesn’t start working on lensing this turn, we won’t be able to lens until 33.
Alternate plan to try to deal with stalkroach before it completely destroys/steals item pile.
Kamau: remain interposing where you are so smols can leave
Lohk: go right, attack stalkroach with ray of frost.
Maca: go left to loft above pumpkin, go right twice, attack stalkroach.
Ricki: go right, attack stalkroach.
It’s not guaranteed we’ll be able to reach stalkroach. This also carries an element of risk as regards damage, as the smols will be outside kamau’s interpose umbrella.
As an addendum, this plan also aligns with those who seek to get the rat chest now, so I don’t think we need to post a separate plan for that.
Lohk: Grab the lens and move right.
Kamau: Interpose.
Ricki: Kill a chicken with a corn spear.
Mac: Check out the pumpkin ledge one last time, then return right and kill the newly spawned rooster.
This gets Lohk moving out to lens the mammoth, and clears some more of the chicken coup area. We need to fix Kamau and Ricki’s inventory, and given the many many hints that we should check left, I think we need to check left. After this the coop area will be safe for Ricki to handle alone even with gimped defense so she can feed corn, and then check inside the coop. If the left area is confirmed safe, we can head out after this final effort to figure out the coop. Prospective timeline looks something like.
T31: Above
T32: Lens mammoth. Kill both final chickens. Have Kamau grab any last things from the pile we might want, and/or eat cake.
T33: Feed corn to coop, check inside coop. Lohk grab back her robe. Push hay bale above Manny depending on results of lens.
T34: Set out left?
Grab what lens? Kamau’s inventory still list having both of them in there and there’s no indication of him having dropped one despite our plan last turn.
It’s difficult for LSN to keep the character page up to date because of people’s insistence on constant inventory shuffling.
I assumed LSN would change that at some point, like he did with the cheese not being consumed. That doesn’t seem to be the case. I posted a different plan with inventory swaps to let Ricki do the lensing instead.
First of all: Squirrel nibbling the cheese is adorable! We need to do this more often. 😀
Second: The stalkroach might have messed with/looted our pile (if looting, it hopefully has a inventory limit, similar to our characters). However, nothing we still need super badly was in there. It would be great if the potatoes survived (because we might be able to take them with us as another unique kind of produce before the end of the dungeon, when we place more items with weight 2+ on Molly and free up more inventory space), but we got 2 corn spears in Ricki’s inventory and there’s no more locks for the thieves tools (that we know of) to use on and we got tomatoes and onions in our inventories as well. Sure it would be awesome to sell that stuff for more gold, but we’d need to be able to carry it first, so that’s unlikely to happen.
Third, random thought: I wonder if using the gravity staff would have a “special” effect on the mammoth. Like they are rather heavy to start with, so maybe increasing the gravity would literally weigh more/harder on him than on lighter individuals, perhaps to a point where it would render him less able to fight (debuff) or even unable to move (so we’d be able to sneak by unmolested by him)? It’s certainly something to keep in mind, but we definitely should lens him asap, so we’ll know more.
(Apologies, if someone else mentioned something along these lines in the last 36-48 or so hours, I didn’t have a chance to frequent the page in that time (much), and it’s kind of less interesting to read through all the comments AFTER the decision of what will get done next turn has already been locked and executed.)
That stalkroach is going to steal stuff left lying around on the ground.
Ricki: Trade inventory with Kamau. Give him your shield, both corn spears, your helmet, and the eggs from Molly in return for his Magma shield (stored on Molly), and both magic lens. Take out your bat bide armor from Molly and equip it now that you have room. Drop two corn out of the way of the chickens so Lohk can feed them to the coop next turn. Finally, move right two screens to lens the mammoth next turn. Check on our loot pile as you run by.
Kamau: Receive items from Ricki. Walk onto the pumpkin ledge to see what’s there.
Macadamia: Kill the rooster.
Lohk: Frost ray a chicken from the ladder.
The idea here is that it gets us set up for Ricki to lens the mammoth next turn, and it also gets her inventory ready to grab everything we want from the loot pile. After she uses the lens, she should have two slots available (one on Molly, one on her inventory). That will let her grab the potatoes (worth 6 gold), the two onions to complete her stack, the two corn to complete her stack, and Lohk’s robe. We could send someone over to eat the last corn spear and the cake, but I think the rest of the loot will have to be left behind.
Doesnt this have all the chickens attacking Mac? thats 6 plus rooster which may be a remorse
It isn’t. Mac has 7 armor. The rooster does 1 and the chickens do 2 each for a total of 7.
can crows fly up and over the panel to the left? (on some unseen panel) … do we need to use the gravity staff somewhere on the roof to keep them from passing over the barn?