Dungeon 15 Turn 51
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Ricki drops her lockpicks to make room for whatever is in the chest the purple widows are guarding, which turns out to be… another spider idol. Ricki sighs heavily as the widows fly into a frenzy and try to bite her harder.
Ricki, Sue, and Amadeusz reunite at the entrance. Sue mends Daisy for 2 HP.
Lara descends to the dungeon’s lowest level, correctly anticipating that some spiders would be heading up from that direction. She and Princess each attack one, dealing some good damage but not defeating either. Both spiders attack Lara, but she blocks them.
Ricki, smash the idol. For science.
Not even for science, for petty, petty revenge and the need to destroy everything associated with horrendous god.
No, I’m not joking. Smash the idols, end a dark god’s existence. 50gp ain’t worth it.
Or if y’alls greed overwhelms sense, can Ricki’s idol at least be packed onto Golly and then just leave Golly one room behind for the “final fight” (so Golly won’t be attackable and Ricki won’t be taking extra damage from spiders).
We tried leaving pets behind and it doesnt work. Unless you can think of a way we didnt try yet that may work?
Plan: Prep
Wolf: Move down. Attack Princess’ spider.
Lara: Kill Your spider
Ricki: Move down. Move Left to double check priestess again. Move Right. Get fed the potion of poison resistance.
Sue: Move down. Feed Ricki the Poison Resist Potion.
Final engagement plan is still being worked on Discord. With 2 spiders with High Priestess HP) thats around 24 dmg possible damage if HP chooses to attack instead of using staff or web. Thats a KO for Amad and Ricki.
Abandoning is an option…
Might I propose a slight alteration:
Wolf: Move down. Attack Princess’ spider.
Lara: Kill Your spider
Ricki: DROP IDOL. Move down. Move Left to double check priestess again. Move Right. Get fed the potion of poison resistance.
Sue: Move down. Feed Ricki the Poison Resist Potion.
(Yes, I’m trying to trigger the “break” reaction to the drop clause.)
Plan: better prep imo
The boss’ staff is more dangerous than her attack. At Ricki’s current 16 def 5 hp:
-If she attacks, Ricki dies if she fails to dodge all 3 attacks with 60% rolls.
-If she staff, Ricki dies if she fails to dodge both spiders with 30% rolls. Poison res is useless here
So instead of using poison res, I think we should buff Ricki’s def and move her idol out which gives her good odds of surviving getting staff’d. She is already extremely likely to survive if staff is not used.
I think Amad should stay behind until as our contingency revival while everyone else kill the 2 spiders next to the boss next turn so his def is less important.
Ricki: Move down. Equip dodge ring. Trade with Amad near fight to give him idol, chameleon gloves. Move left(upper) then back to check on boss room.
Amad: Move down. Trade with Ricki near fight to give her heavy greaves and gauntlets. Loot any glands.
Sue: Move down. Mend Daisy
Lara: Unequip tower shield. Hit Princess’ spider(11 dmg)
Princess: Bite your spider again(+1 = 12dmg, +1 hp lost last turn = dead)
Daisy, Mushie, Golly: Attack the more wounded spider(4+2+1=7 dmg, +6 hp lost last turn = dead)
Honestly, how much do we need money? We could just intentionally break the idol. It wouldn’t even cost an action.
I think it’s more that we just don’t have a reason to break it yet. Dropping is free. We can just do it next turn if we don’t decide to abandon.
Lara, the spiders are weak. Throw your Pet Battle Ball to catch one.