Dungeon 16 Turn 15
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Kamau climbs partway up the ladder and makes the short leap to the small cloud in the middle of this room. He then pulls up the plant (Ricki warned him it’s an onion) with his gardener’s gloves, being careful not to rip up its roots and create a stink bomb. He then discovers two unfortunate things.
One is that the onion is small and sickly, not worth keeping at all. It seems that clouds really are no substitute for proper soil.
The second is that pulling up the onion, even carefully with the gloves, turns the entire cloud inside out and causes it to pop. Kamau and Princess fall to the larger cloud below, taking 2 unblockable damage each.
He also takes 1 point of Remorse, because…
…after descending the rope, Ricki engages the corn knight in battle. She uses her gargantula gland to deal a deadly strike, but not before she gets pushed off the cloud. She floats grouchily down with her flower parachute, but the landing is still jarring enough to deal 1 unblockable damage. Her mushroom pet grabs onto the flower and goes with her, also taking 1 unblockable damage.
Ix opens the chest, dropping his helmet to make room. He finds a powerful-looking bow.
Botanya briefly climbs the ladder and uses a magic lens on one of the pea soldiers before ducking back down to the lower level. The peas seem to notice this, but they do not pursue.
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PEA SOLDIER
HP: 5
Atk: 2
Def: 2
Ability: forms a pod with all nearby Pea Soldiers, cannot die if any pod members still have HP, +1 Def from any helmet worn
These oversized ambulatory peas all came from the same original plant. As such, their family bond is powerful, allowing them to fight endlessly so long as at least one of them is still healthy. They also work together in combat, attempting to overwhelm a single opponent with their numbers. It is unknown in whose military they serve.
BOW, SEARING
Ranged Weapon
2-handed. Can be used to fire fire arrows. Deals 5~7 fire damage at range.
Weight 1, Cost 28
Good news is that with botania debuff, kamau can tank those peas no prob.
Bad news is that they each take 12 to one shot.yikes
Wow, this bow looks like some serious anti-corn bazooka. If we can find arrows. And if our melee guys can withstand all the corn popping AoE around them.
So many crossbow bolts, zero arrows >.<
Holy frick snacks! That Pea Pod ability is potent, the opposite of the Seven Brothers legendary ability ability though (and also a nice opposite of Hoard Ninjas/Inverse Ninja Rule), sort of a Musketeer’s kind of thing “All for one and one for all”.
Plan: Yeet
I am SO SICK of us getting yeeted but this shit can go both ways.
Peas are even smaller than ricki and fall damage is perfect for low hp high def enemies like armored peas.
Removing them from the rest of their pod could also let us kill them one by one.
Ix: Move up. Move up again and use ladder to get on pea floor. When they charge you, yeet one off the edge on the left.
Botanya: Move down, switch the rope to be attached to the left ladder instead(on bottom rung of the room) after Ix got up.
Ricki: Move up using Botanya’s moved rope. Move up again to follow Ix. Yeet another pea off the edge on the left when they charge you and Ix.
Kamau: Move up. Interpose for Ricki and Ix. And Princess.
Princess: Bite non-yeeted pea.
Or it could just relocate them to a lower cloud where we can’t easily reach them (the cloud at the top left of the screen below, which used to be accessible via the onion cloud). I guess if we could kick all of them down there, they’d be out of our way. But the drop’s not enough to kill them, so it’s an all-or-nothing proposition: Any peas who remain up top are unkillable as long as there are wounded peas still alive down below. Seems more straightforward, and just as fast, to just kill them.
No it’s the reverse. Trying to kill them is the all-or-nothing cuz it literaly do nothing until ALL of them are at 0 cuz of their special ability. Yeeting specifically gets us progress every yeet cuz the pod lose damage for every yeeted pea. We can even just yeet 4 and ignore 1 if we want too.
So we get the flexibility AND we can have Kamau yeeting instead of interposing after 2 are yeeted off cuz 3 sword peas are only 9 dmg with Botanya debuff. And maybe Botanya can help yeeting too cuz it maybe not count as an attack.
also, the ability say “nearby” peas so I think it dont work anymore if yeeted away anyway
Hmm, maybe you’re right. The flavor text led me to think that pods are born together and stay together, but the actual description makes it sound more like a pod can form anytime two peas get close to each other. I haven’t read the next turns yet so I don’t know if your theory will get tested, but thanks for clarifying.
Bow Proficiency: +1 damage when wielding a bow or similar weapon.
Lightweight: Takes 2 less damage from falling.
Spooky Scary: +2 Atk, Def, and damage with ranged weapons during the month of October.
BOW, SEARING
Ranged Weapon
2-handed. Can be used to fire fire arrows. Deals 5~7 fire damage at range.
Hm. So Coccyx would have been doing 10-12 ranged damage for the entire duration of October, and would be largely immune to falling damage in this dungeon. So glad we left him at home in exchange for Ix.
Kats plan, but we just attack the peas.
While throwing the peas off could maybe work, if it doesn’t we’re just wasting turns. Kamau takes at most 2 dmg from peas if he doesn’t dodge any. We can clear peas in 2 or 3 turns depending if Ricki gets up this turn or not
Ix: Move up. Move up again and use ladder to get on pea floor. Stab pea 1
Botanya: Move down, switch the rope to be attached to the left ladder instead(on bottom rung of the room) after Ix got up.
Ricki: Move up using Botanya’s moved rope. Move up again to follow Ix. Attack pea 2
Kamau: Move up. Interpose for Ricki and Ix. And Princess.
Princess: Bite pea 3
What is the reason for Toaster and 45 not also attacking pea 3?
All pets combined do not even hurt a pea with shield and only princesses unblockable will hurt them. That said. If we add gollys kick we could finish off a damaged pea maybe
Found where LSN said yeeting small monsters is an option on discord:
https://discord.com/channels/343970307926786051/928365830268416062/1370498751210328105
I guess my concern is that Ricki, also a small, cannot throw a pea off the cliff. So it would waste her action and make the battle longer than necessary.
The benefit to throwing a pea off is that kamau definitely won’t take dmg in the following rounds. But with his 60% dodge the chances he takes the two dmg is miniscule.
We can put 2 peas at 0 this turn, and with golly’s kick we can take out the other 3 the turn after.
Easy -peasy
random idea regarding Peas
This might mean that if we take i.e. Kamau and let him climb and move past it and stand where the cage is – Carrot should be surprised and not attack Kamau while he’s passing by (anyways, he wouldn’t take damage). But then, on the next turn, Carrot would charge at Kamau, fall down onto the peas, damaging at least those just below the edge, or maybe even it could continue its charge and sweep 3 or 4 of them.
Sounds fun, but takes 2 turns to just try that. No guarantees that Carrot can continue its charge on the platform below, and also no guarantees it would sweep the peas at all. And Kamau will probably take falling damage on top of Carrot’s charge. And any remaining peas will gang on Kamau.
Also, peas are already woken up, but “they do not pursue.“, which may mean that it is safe to go up the ladder and left and up the ladder, while it’s not safe to go right through the peas. Or not. Maybe they will charge as soon as they see Kamau climbing the first ladder and landing on their floor. According to the rules, “!” sign does not guarantee either, so both options are possible.
Fun experiment, with so many ways of being screwed up 😀
This would be cool to try, but I worry about the flytrap and being attacked by the peas and the carrot on the next turn.
The way I envision this is we could have someone pass by the carrot and use the chameluxeon gloves to hang from the floor below the cage. The carrot would charge towards the cage (destroying the flytrap maybe) and fall on the peas. A medium character hanging from that plataform would probably be attacked by the peas and would risk a charge from the carrot. But if we could be somehow safe, the carrot would most likely run over and push all peas to the room below, falling along with them.