Dungeon 15 Turn 38
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Half the party returns to the entrance room. Lara continues on to the pedipalp room to see if anything there has changed (it hasn’t). Sue activates the rabbit paw she carries and calls Paws into the dungeon.
“Hey there, good to see you’re all still in one piece. Gloomy place, though.”
“You know the drill by now; I’m paying half my usual rate, except for treasures. Looks like you’re got a few, though.”
Ricki sells the spider idol she just got, and Sue sells the chain armour and heavy shield Golly has been carrying. They use the money to buy two potions of ectoplasm, which Sue takes, as well as another potion of poison resist and a pack of cigarettes, both of which get left on the ground.
Lara and Amadeusz stay in the waist room to keep and eye on things. Nothing to report here.
Plan: Piss Off The Goddess Of Spiders
Ricki: Right. Get helped to the right of the room. Right again. Equip your Atk Rings and attack the Gargantula. (12) If the Gargantula just so happens to become a huge pile of gold coins, loot 43 of them.
Sue: Right. Drop your rope on the middle platform in this room. Be carried by Lara to the right. Equip your Death Robes and Shocktail the Gargantula. Activate your Midas gloves if the Gargantula dies. Pick up 1 of the dropped gold coins. (9)
Lara: Help Ricki and Sue and all of our pets over to the right side of the waist room. Pick up Sue and take her the rest of the way to the right, to the Gargantula. Wield your Venom Blade, do not wield your Tower Shield. Attack the Gargantula. (11) (Don’t forget this includes Night Eyes!)
Wolf: Climb up onto the middle platform in the room. Make a jump for it to the right side of the room. Head Right to the Gargantula. Attack it. (14)
Daisy: Bite the Gargantula. (4) (Don’t forget this includes Wolf’s Pack Leader buff!)
Princess: Try to eat the Gargantula. (1)
Golly: This is what you’ve been training for. The late nights at the gym. The early morning runs. It all culminates into this, with a single, MIGHTY KICK, squash this Gargantula like the bug it is. (4) Also, pick up the Gargantula’s Gland as a trophy, you god damn hero.
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12 + 9 + 11 + 14 + 4 + 1 + 4 = 55 Damage. Gargantula has 44 HP + 9, maybe 10 Defense with the dungeon buff. We meet or exceed its HP. Hopefully that’s enough.
Lara is holding the Spider Idol. I really feel like if there’s anything in this dungeon that would draw aggro for that, it’s the Gargantula, based on its description and Lara being attacked instead of Sue earlier.
Princess has 4 HP and 2 Defense. If the Cute Bow doesn’t reduce the 5 AOE damage, Princess still survives on 1 hitpoint.
Golly has 6 HP and 1 Defense. Survives with 2 HP at least.
Daisy has 4 HP and 2 Defense. Survives with 1 HP at least.
Finger’s Crossed…
Honest question. Can Lara help more than one character cross to the spider’s abdomen and still attack in the same turn?
She has previous helped Ricki & Daisy & Sue up a pit and was still able to attack a Brazier that was a room away. This is pretty much the same thing, though she’s moving two additional pets. I do agree it’s a little funky but movement isn’t limited within the same room and no limit to her ability has been established. I’m open to there being a limit, though it would mess this plan up big time since we need our pet’s damage to get the OHKO on the Gargantula.
Geeze amasld what a *waist* or a turn