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“I think I want to check out that cloud dungeon.”
“I just can’t stop wondering what’s up there.”
“We won’t fall as long as we’re careful and help each other.”
“I’m sure. Just be very careful.”
“Like I told you before, besides the dangers of falling out of the dungeon and dying, there were a bunch of plant monsters seen climbing up to that place.”
“So who are you thinking is best to to help you deal with that?”
You can now choose which three characters will join Ricki at the Garden In The Sky.
Ricki, Paul Simon, Beyonce, Harry Styles. In other words: Go solo.
We don’t know for sure what is in sky dungeon but we can make some guesses: flying ranged enemies, anti undead plants. Falling dmg.
My dream team:
Ricki: can be equipped with shocktail for melee or ranged.
Botania: this is her dungeon and we’ve seen unique benefits to bringing the right character. Can be our support char with rope, debuff aura and decent inventory.
Kamau: we need to bond him asap. Since fire and sunken dungeons are worse for him. Even graveyard has unblockable aoe golems. Better to try here so we have time to try again if we fail. He can interpose ranged attacks and decimate in melee. Without him, we have no control on who the ranged enemies will focus.
Lhok: give her golly and she can be a mobile battery of wands or even shocktail if we want. We need bond for her as well and getting a lvl will help us when we bring her to sunken ship (cause we want her powers to use staves more there).
I do think we should bring lots of rope as well but that’s a later choice.
I’m voting for this mainly because I want to finish Lohk’s story. We have four main dungeons to get bond from and Lohk needs four bond to max out, so if we don’t bring her to every single dungeon from here on out, we’re more or less writing her story off.
Worth mentioning that LSN confirmed on Discord we will still be able to do bond dungeons after we compete the final main dungeon of the story, so while we may not be able to reap the rewards of maxing Lohk’s bond, we will still be able to get her story completed if we max her out.
What are those chickens doing?
What is that thing among the chickens?
Awww…that’s Princess! Apparently she’s bonding with the birbs, haha.
Just to note: Princess is male, as indicated in https://dungeoneyes.com/dungeon-15-turn-13/ (in addition to other pages). The name’s misleading, but it’s because his mother was referred to as “tyrant lizard king”.
You know, taxomically, birds are dinosaurs and, in our world, their only living descendants. Maybe Princess is hanging out with his distant-yet-closest-available relatives?
A thought: while it’s not directly relevant to the current dungeon…
Lohk needs four dungeons for bond and people get double bond progress when Fired Up. Perhaps we should try to find an opportunity to ask her about the dungeons so we can find out if there’s one she’s particularly interested in?
The same technically applies to Ix and Coccyx, but I’m not sure how we’d decipher their responses… also, bonding with Ricki’s mom seems more important (especially as she was skeptical about this whole dungeoneering thing from the start).
I’m like 99% sure this is double bond for Botanya and the remaining ones are only double for dead gnome (RIP T_T), Coccyx and Ix so nothing for Lohk.
LSN put the bond characters in the background when introducing the dungeons, like with Ix last page.
Oh, thank you — I never made that connection.
Ricki, Kamau, Botanya and Sue.
I’m really nervous about Kamau remorsing out when we have not only his bond but also Botanya’s double bond on the line so I like having Sue to spoil things so we dont get surprised by something and take unexpected damage.
Also, Paws insist on falling out of the dungeon entirely rather than in-dungeon fall damage so Sue’s headcanon is the only thing that may save a life or stop a gameover in the worst case.
kamau, bot and IX!! Guys we got FIRE dude to fight plants. DIY burning forest lets gooo
A fire dude who willl tranform to ice once he (ineviatbly) gets some random ice damage.
And the if we try to transform him back that’d be more than 5 remorse on Kamau
I will 100% vote for this as soon as I get done burning these wet grass clippings!
Reminder that if we don’t bring lhok, we will be unable to see her story to the end.
Coccyx has an ability that reduces falling damage by 2.
Ricki, Coccyx, Botanya, and Lohk.
Lots of ranged damage available, Coccyx will help explore, Lohk is required in all 4 dungeons if we want her bond maxed.
Kamau can be maxed at the Burning Forest (elemental damage can be blocked by armor normally) or the Golem Graveyard (we’ve handled plenty of fights with unblockable AOE), but if we fuck up and take unexpected falling damage a couple times he’s going to peace out of this dungeon and leave us with a really tough group to finish things off.
Regardless of whether we bring kamau, IX or Cyx, I feel confident we can handle the dungeon. It will only change our strategy. As long as we remember our priorities:
Survival
Dungeon completion
Loot.
In that order
I feel like we absolutely should bring Amadeus. Aside from how useful he is, he’s -finally- almost maxxed out… and there are a -lot- of bonds we’ve sacrificed by taking him so many times before. Might as well see what it was all for… unless we’re specifically saving that for the next bond dungeon? Although I don’t know if those count as ‘free picks’ in terms of making the adventure go on longer.
I think our party should be Ricki, Botanya, Amadeusz, and Sue/Lara.
If we can get Botanya Fired Up, she’ll get one Bond Point, which means we can max her out with one more dungeon. Amadeusz will also be maxed out with this dungeon, meaning we can safely bench him if Sketchy doesn’t get removed by his Bond dungeon.
We could theoretically then take Ix and Coccyx to all of the remaining dungeons and still max out Botanya and Kamau, along with Ix and Coccyx (assuming that Ix gets Fired Up in the elemental dungeon while Coccyx gets Fired Up on the sunken boat).
Sadly, maxing out both Lohk and Amadeusz seems to be impossible no matter what party configurations we try for, and at this point he seems like the more worthwhile character to try and max out.
Now, as for the party:
Rick is obligatory, nuff said.
This dungeon is meant for Botanya, and her getting Fired Up partially counteracts Amadeusz’s presence. (Fired Up ensures +1 Bond regardless of Amadeusz being in the party.)
Amadeusz is a pretty strong fighter at this point, plus he has a revival ability and only needs one more Bond point to be maxed out- this is probably the most efficient dungeon to take him to in regards to farming as much Bond as possible.
Finally, Sue has the Headcanon ability to potentially save a party member that falls from the clouds, as well as her Spoilers ability to find a solution to whatever puzzle we might need to solve in this dungeon. Even if there isn’t one that we need to do to solve the dungeon, it still might be useful if we find a puzzle chest.
We could also take Lara instead of Sue; making Lara more powerful is never a bad idea since she’s practically guaranteed to go into whatever final dungeon we end up going to. The only issue is that she’ll be a bit gimped in this dungeon, since there likely won’t be any walls or ceilings to crawl on. Even so she’s still one of our strongest fighters, especially now that we have a ton more poison items.