Dungeon 12 Turn 27
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After leaving their meat behind for later, Ricki, Cordy, and Lara move to the right and attack the swarmfish skeletons that lurk there. Each of them attacks and destroys one, without taking any damage in return. Having figured out the fish’s habits pretty well by now, they sacrifice three mushrooms to distract the other three fish.
Amadeusz swims through on his way below, and takes 3 unblockable damage from passing through the cloud of soggy mushroom spores.
Ricki, Lara, and Cordy each take 1 unblockable damage from drowning.
Amadeusz finds another room full of poisonous water, and no apparent source this time. He takes another 1 damage from drowning.
More meat, maybe?
If so, then DIRGE. We can’t allow ourselves risk 1-8 unblockable damage, followed by a raid of angry skeletons (if we happen to accidentally disturb them), all happening in poisoned no-air room.
If we actively attack anything here, we can’t EXIT the room.
Sadly,Dirge doesn’t work on undead…
The crabs have a surprisingly high amount of hp. At least 3, so dirge won’t be enough.
Damn :/
But it should reveal them and prevent unblockable damage, and Amadeusz can use the fishing rod now to attack things.
He would have a 50% Miss chance sadly which is unreliable.
Amad-wolf would need to take human form to play a DIRGE and then he couldn’t eat any raw meat for healing.
The CORRECT name is “WereAmy”!
This place sucks…
Like a black hole.
I’m losing track of health, and character page still shows them at full…
Look at the current party tab, that has accurate health values
Currently it’s R4 L4 C3 A2.Amy is REALLY close to death.We should return to those chunks of meat,because they heal 3 HP to any carnivore.
Plan: prep for hail Mary attempt to finish.
Amad: move up. Move left to air. Drop wand of mend.
Ricki: kill a fish.
Lara: move left. Grab harpoon. Get air
Cordy: move up. Move right to get air
Idea here is to get as much HP on amad with meat and candy and send him down tunnel to the right. He should only take 2 drowning to get eyes on that room and a remaining 6 to deal with what’s there.
Lara can tank skellies (9dmg) and also drowns twice in the process. She can use the wand to counter the drowning or top her self up if there is an air pocket.
Cordy’s job is just resupplying mushies with fish and checking on puzzle chest. He is useless as usual so let’s try to get something with him.
Ricki’s job is to kill the next source on turn 30. And if things look bad for amad or Lara, to abandon the dungeon as a failsafe.
Amad needs 3turns to prep while Lara needs only 1.
Currently the most thought-out option.My suggestion was for everyone to go back & eat a steak…I was really hoping for this place to be a simple loot-grab.
Sadly the meat is only good for Amad. We tried feeding meat to a spider before and it didnt work so probably not good on Lara either. If we could cook the meat that would be better but no fire source here 🙁
Everyone except Cordy: Go back to the chunks of meat,eat them,& resurface for air.
Cordy: follow the others & absorb a minion to heal.
Your thoughts?
Okay,alternatively:
Cordy:have minishrooms attack the remaining fish,while you drink the ectoplasm potion.
Lara::go back & resurface for air,grab any raw steaks,return to the others.
Amy:drop the candy for anyone else to eat,then gorge yourself on the raw steaks Lara brought.
Ricki:grab a coin…I suppose?
We should probably have someone to go figure out the puzzle chest to get the diving helmet inside it and have others collect wish coins. There are resources available if we take the time to collect them in preparation of tackling the bottom level of the poisoned well. We could even kill the respawned egg sack on turns 30 and 40 so there doesn’t seem to be a need to rush forward unprepared. That bottom level looks dangerous.
Unfortunatelly, coins protect only against poison and not drowning. Still, that’s some HP saved.
That puzzle chest is only opening if we clear out all the poison water. It’s the same color as the blue water. I’m certain that’s what opens it. So it’s locked still.
Idk how to open it, but its probably not clearing poison because thats the main objective and dungeon will end as soon as it happen.
Other options is Dumping clean water on the chest or getting all the moss.
It could be open right now for all we know. Here’s hoping
Maybe collecting/using all the wish coins opens the chest.
Yep. Perhaps just using a wish coin to try to open it. Or dumping clean water on the chest or dumping the chest into clean water. If it isn’t open already when we check on it then there are several things we can try.
Chill y’all, this aint that bad
Cordy: chug that potion you got in your inventory and go left for some air
Everyone else: go finish off the damn fish
That actually WOULD put Cordy at maxHP…
Niice, I didn’t even notice we had a potion left. Probably best to let Lara drink it tho.
But Amy’s the one with 2 remaining HP. . .
Amy is the only one who can eat raw meat so he will heal for 6 already just from the two pieces we left in the air pocket.
I thought Cordy Drank that potion on turn 27…
If we do have a potion. We should give it to Lara or Ricki because Cordy is just going to waste it swimming in the poison water below with his low def
I noticed that some people had problems with remembering what’s RIGHT from the Room-with-SkeleTitan. There’s a map mantained by CombatDoctor and updated from time to time
https://viewer.diagrams.net/index.html?tags=%7B%7D&layers=1&nav=1&title=Dungeon%20Eyes#Uhttps%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Fuc%3Fid%3D1Kbl4QaQZ205RJG2DVZXetuXqJ985Wglz%26export%3Ddownload%23%7B%22pageId%22%3A%22UYIDgUoIPi36Hk2FeH4X%22%7D#%7B%22pageId%22%3A%22UYIDgUoIPi36Hk2FeH4X%22%7D
I haven’t seen the guy commenting anywhere here…
Random thoughts:
A) Ama is in poison water. I don’t remember, does DEF guard against it? If not, we have a critical HP problem here.
B) There’s MAY BE A WHOLE LOT of crabs under those skulls. First time it was 50% (2 out of 4). Second time, it was 75% (3 out of 4). I don’t dare to say it’s flat progression and that we’ll have 100% now, that’s hardcore, but if 75% is possible, that means 6 crabs. That means 6 unblockable damage on the turn they show up due to ‘surprise’, unless we think of something better.
C) Something better may be simply to ignore them. They probably won’t jump out on us if we only swim by carefully sticking to the ceiling. MAYBE. They are small. They are hidden under skulls. And crabs probably cannot jump up. They attacked feet/ankles so far.
D) The same trick won’t work with skeletons. They are taller, they have hands, they have weapons. If someone swims by at the ceiling, they’d probably just raise their swords and sting the swimmers. Because, why not.
E) Ama still has 2 dirges, and crabs are “living creatures” and they should count as “enemy”. Ama would have to switch to human form and could wear armour (if we have any?) and get some extra DEF. Killing up to 6 crabs also gives noticeable chances for more meat.
F) 9 coins here. LOTS of time and actions to pickup. 9gp, and 9 person-turns of poison-water protection. I have a feeling it’s not worth it at this moment. There’s poison here, we don’t want to linger here. Maybe we can pick them up when the water is clear. There’s also a chance that skeletons, or crabs, or both groups are actually guarding those coins. That would be quite thinkable and unfortunate.
G) If we really think we need coins, if I count well, there are 2 right here, 5 of them at SkeleTitan’s room, 2 at PetMaster’s, 1 at shaft right from PetMaster’s, 5 at Lara’s-near-death-experience room, 2 at first eggsack room, and all of these are in clean water with no enemies.
H) Can Ricky somehow use GreaterCritGauntlets to sweep through Ghouls and Frog in a reasonable time to get more Oxymoss? (ghouls will freeze her if they manage to touch her, so I think it’s better to fight them openly to reduce their numbers and lower chance of being touched. Frog will swallow her, also better to fight than to try to run/pass/sneak)
re-edit: sorry for previous shape of this text, I posted it, it looked fine, then I edited it to fix few typos, and didn’t notice that the website squashed all ‘points’ into one huge vomit of text. I changed ‘-‘/’*’ to letters and it bugged off my text. Odd.
Woow, 3 bottom rooms. But cheer up guys, we can do it!
This dungeon was added at the same time as the farm and the tomb.
The timer of all 3 is in the style of “something happen every 10 turns”.
Both sister dungeons had the timer get harsher on turn 50, where things start going bad.
We are only on turn 27, and this place is larger than the tomb!
So we barely used over half of our time yet only have 3.5 rooms left to clear! We are doing good! Let’s take things slowly, step by step, and we have this in the bag.
Also, the tunnel is at the bottom floor of the room, meaning there’s good chance for air in both final rooms ^_^
I appreciate the optimism. But we need to be careful with our assumptions as they could lead to death if we’re wrong. Remember: hope for the best, plan for the worst!
I also appreciate the optimism, but we have NO guarantees that the well ends up here and that there is no more levels than the next one :/ Also, air. We got quite a bit of Oxymoss, right? And diving helmet. I *hope* there really are some air pockets down there.
The last patch of oxymoss we found (AFAIK) was above the frog,in the room with the 2nd Barnacle.We need some sort of miracle.Hopefully the Discord will think of something.
Yay!Optimism!
We still need to do something sbout the low HP…
R4 L4 C3 A2
Plan: Steady, step by step progress
Amad: Move up. Drop wand of mending near coins. Kill fish 1
Lara: Kill fish 2
Ricki: Move left. Drop harpoon, purse and paw on meat. Enter hole. Kill a ghoul.
Cordy: Sting fish 1 from range to start refilling mushies
Cordy now has 3 defense after water debuff. We need 2 fish attacked or Cordy can get hurt.
We want Ricki to bring back the oxymoss and chest loot ASAP so she starts the tunnel now after dropping some stuff she won’t need to make space.
Amad drops the wand so that Cordy can use it next turn while Amad and Lara prepare to deal with bottom layer.
Cordy can keep the wand to heal party while Lara/Amad sets up then Cordy can pop turn 30 source/head up to make mushies from fish/check puzzle chest. Cordy can always drop the mending wand down the shaft if we want to pass it to our divers.
Idea for for next turn:
Cordy: Mend Amad with floor wand(keeping it in inventory after). Move left for air. Drop your potion near meat.
Lara: Move left for air. Loot harpoon near hole. Drops arrows near meat
Amad: Move left for air, eat floor meat
Ricki: Kill ghouls
> Cordy can always drop the mending wand down the shaft if we want to pass it to our divers.
Smart! I love that one-direction pass-item idea. However, we dont know if people down there can actually CATCH what’s falling. I think we never tried. The worst that can happen, it falls straight onto 9 coins, into skeletosn/crabs “trap”. Worth keeping in mind and trying though.
> Amad: Move up. Drop wand of mending near coins. Kill fish 1
That leaves him with 1 HP due to drowning, right?
> That leaves him with 1 HP due to drowning, right?
Yep, but next turn he heals for 4 HP. Then eat another meat for 3 more. Then candy for a total of 9 HP.
Are you sure Ricki can kill 3 ghouls & a frog on her own?remember that they both inflict a form of STUN.
Yeah, a math nerd on discord said it takes 5 turns on average to kill the ghouls if stun is 50% and 7 turns for 75% thanks to Ricki’s dodge.
Frog only stops her from moving so she can carve it up from the inside if need be.
Cordy is fine if he gets hit since he has 4+ def and the fish only do 2 each now. No poison water here either.
I’m still not keen on sending Ricki to deal with Ghouls without getting eyes on the next 2 rooms first. all we know for those rewards is that we’ll save 2-3 hp from drowning from that moss…
She is also the only one who can abandon the dungeon and save everyone if things go very badly.
If poison water damage is at 4 in the lower level, this likely kills Deusz due to him being targeted by the unoccupied Fish 3.
This is possibly unrelated,but I wonder what Cordy’s opinion of everything is.What is going on in that infectious head of his?
When he 1st appeared,he mind-controlled everyone into accepting him.
In the Contested Caravan (RIP Molly),he was about to kill a human,but relented when Ricki scolded him & “needed some time to come to grips with that”.
And so far,he always cooperated,& even socialised with the squad,like listening to the stories & helping provide labour.
With 0 Bond to raise,& without LSN saying anything,we can only speculate. . .
Everyone swim down and collect those coins.