Dungeon 16 Turn 40
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Ricki, Kamau, and Ix charge to the left in the hopes ending the battle with the corn general, but it’s nowhere to be found! Apparently it can suck its gut and/or armour in sufficiently to get down the ladder shaft or the hole in the middle of the room. Also missing: the pack mule, loaded down with all kinds of unique and useful items. Great.
“…There’s also a corn spear unaccounted for. Can corn eat corn to heal itself?”
“That’s disturbing.”
Great.
Suddenly, the fortress itself shudders beneath everyone’s feet, and a few bricks falls from the ceiling overhead. Something new is happening and the chances that it isn’t terrible are low.
Botanya wonders what all the shaking is about, but not hard enough to stop her from looting the nearby chest. Inside she finds an fire-element enchantment scroll. This is probably the equivalent of a weapon too dangerous to use for the vegetable monsters. The iceberg lettuce appears to be sweating even as it tries to smash Botanya’s face in.
Or maybe it’s literally melting?
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The dungeon parameters have changed!
Goal: Evacuate the dungeon before the flying fortress collapses and destroys everything underneath it, which includes a majority of the dungeon itself. Fortunately, that includes all the evil corn, so hey, the original goal is taken care of!
Time Limit: The fortress collapses at the end of turn 50.
The dungeon can still be evacuated at the flower, or by jumping off any cloud while holding a flower parachute. This no longer constitutes abandoning.
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ENCHANTMENT SCROLL OF BURNING
Consumable
Can be consumed to bestow the Burning enhancement on a weapon or ranged weapon until the end of the dungeon. If 5 HP are spent when doing so, the enhancement is instead permanent.
Weight 1, Cost 25
Whelp. This is not going well. Our priority is still to finish this dungeon in 10 turns. If we find golly yay. But otherwise we need to push on
Plan: soldier on for now.
Kamau: down and move right
Botania: use chameleon gloves to turn invisible and go down ladder.
Ricki: down and wait
Ix: move down and wait.
I feel there is a good chance that the general destroyed the ladder leading up to the castle below botania, hence the rumbling and it looking like it might collapse. If botania goes down there, general can do enough to remorse kamau.
If botania tries to climb away past lettuce, then it might attack her when she puts her shield away to climb. Also remorse
Options are use invis gloves and go down. Or left and hope the place doesn’t collapse immediately.
I think the “collapse” as specifically described as happening on T50.
Holy #$&@! How did I not see that text about the parameters changing.
Scrap this plan, we grab loot and go
There’s a lot to speculate about now so let’s all pool our ideas and try to finish this dungeon.
My basic plan:
Head towards peas. If general is there, we take him out. If not, we take out the corn pair below. If we corn are not dead by turn 8… we send Ricki back to flower and abandon.
Other option is: we double down
We don’t abandon and get an additional 10 turns to find and kill general and rescue golly. However, we risk a permadeath as we only have access to 3 flowers. We can pray a 4th escape exists
I think the fire is considering now on t50 killing everything including us still in the dungeon then
The only real question is if we want to secure golly before leaving.
We don’t have to hunt for corn knights anymore. Good.
Botanya still has a brother caged somewhere and Golly is with the General. Bad.
I want the wand of more missiles and the searing bow. Greed.
Despite all of this, what really worries me are those healing potions we left on the clouds directly above the flower. I believe the General is running away (typical) with our donkey and it made a stop to chug a couple of healing potions before leaving for good.
I dandy see this page until today and now noone will see my awesome plan:run gr your life
Ricki:run
botania:run
Kamau:run
ix:run
everyone:RUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUN
run for you life not run gr your life
pun intended
Plan: I can read.
I missed the whole dungeon parameters changing and didn’t realize that the castle isnt going to fall until T50, and that we no longer need to kill Corn. Woups.
Plan now is to see (eventually) if general is to the right with peas (makes most sense) to rescue Golly, otherwise we loot and fall back to flower to escape.
Kamau: Wait for Ix and Ricki to descend the rope. Drop garden gloves and collect the ropee. Jump down with your flower after.
Ricki: Down rope. Avoid general if he’s there.
Ix: Down rope. Avoid general if he’s there.
Botania: hop down away from lettuce. Drop rope, coins and flower to pick up Midas gloves and both Nunchalolis. Move down after.
Next Turn:
Kamau interposes lettuce while ricki and Ix grab Wand and fire bow. Either Ricki or Ix scout right.
I know the nunchaccolis are worth gold, but we might need the flower and rope to get out of here, especially if the general starts wrecking ladders.
There’s also a remote chance that he could be waiting with the lettuce below Botanya.
The “wand of more magic missile” (and next to it the “inferno crowstone”) are not next to the fire bow but upstairs where Botanya currently is. Kamau cannot reach that room and interpose that lettuce. So, Botanya go downstairs, drop things (free), go upstairs. Next turn: Pick up things, go downstairs, where the others are picking up things? Also Botanya could drop the Wand of mend and pick up the wand of more mm this turn.
Plan: I can read Ver 2 (couldnt edit old one)
I missed the whole dungeon parameters changing and didn’t realize that the castle isnt going to fall until T50, and that we no longer need to kill Corn. Woups.
Plan now is to see (eventually) if general is to the right with peas (makes most sense) to rescue Golly, otherwise we loot and fall back to flower to escape.
Kamau: Wait for Ix and Ricki to descend the rope. Drop garden gloves and collect the rope. Jump down with your flower after.
Ricki: Down rope. Avoid general if he’s there.
Ix: Down rope. Avoid general if he’s there.
Botania: hop down away from lettuce. Drop rope, coins and flower by the wand. Pick up Midas gloves and both Nunchalolis.
I’m somewhat concerned that the General is waiting below Botania’s Room So I dont want to send anyone down until kamau can interpose…
Next Turn:
Kamau interposes lettuce while ricki joins Botania and grabs wand and her drops, and Ix grabs fire bow and scouts right.
If we think general is at right peas, I dont think Ix can safely scout right next turn without interpose. General is alerted and know which direction we will be coming from so he will attack on sight if he sees Ix
Variant of claudious plan:
Get Kamau eyes below Botanya ASAP. If general ended turn there after destroying ladder, we’ll see where he goes.
Assuming general makes a last stand at peas, we will need to kill the lettuce below castle first cuz we will need Ix to cross and Kamau cant interpose both lettuce and the general in ambush next room at the same time.
Checks on the potions we left behind just in case(if they’re gone, we’ll know general fled down and prolly left the dungeon). Ix still in position to grab searing bow and stuff the turn after, with an extra inventory space to boot.
Can kill imp for demon ichor or chat him next turn.
We drop scroll instead of parachute cuz we can use it from floor
Kamau: Move down with rope. Action move right.
Ricki: Grab a corn spear. Go to imp.
Ix: Move down with rope. Get a full helm in place of chain. Move down again. Avoid general as priority if he appears.
Botania: Block lettuce then go to first floor to drop rope, coins and scroll by the wand. Pick up Midas gloves and both Nunchacolis.
Next Turn:
If we dont see general, he’s probably at peas so Kamau start removing lettuce layers while Ricki kill/chat imp, Botanya use scroll and Ix grab searing bow
I would like us to keep one rope, as I think the general may be destroying ladders between us and the exit
Botanya can kick/shove the rope coil down the ladder hole for Ix to grab while Kamau peel another lettuce layer with princess.
I’d have her directly drop it down the ladder hole, but am paranoid about alerting general that we have someone up just in case he’s standing there.
Everyone can tank a bit from lettuce unless they are lifting someone up to another level. If Ix get hit he just becomes ice which isn’t bad since we prob aren’t going to fight unless we see general
Nooo its horrible cuz Kamau remorse out. Ice lettuce hit fire Ix for 14 so Kamau take 3+ remorse and peace out even if we max Ix defense at 11.
And general ate a corn spear for 2 hp so we need the extra atk fire Ix has if we find him.
Right, I forgot we’re reducing his defense…