Dungeon 10 Turn 0
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“…She’s still in there.”
“What?”
“The Goddess of Spiders. I can feel her attention on me. Even from outside the temple.”
“She’s… furious.”
“Maybe this was a bad idea.”
“But this is important to you, isn’t it?”
“…”
“If it gets really bad, we can leave. But if it’s important, we should still try.”
“I’ll be right beside you the whole time.”
“Okay… okay.”
“Thank you, Ricki.”
“I’m glad you’re here.”
“Me too.”
Upon passing through the ominous maw-like temple entrance, Rick and Lara are surprised to find that the whole building seems to have transformed into a dungeon. It is surprising. Everyone is surprised by this.
“The Goddess… she’s still so strong here.”
“I don’t… I don’t think I can risk using her power.”
“It would be bad.”
“It’s okay.”
“So, what are we looking for?”
“The archive room. What I want is there… if it’s still here at all.”
“We need to hurry, Ricki.”
“She’s got to be planning something.”
“We’ll be out of here before you know it.”
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Dungeon 10: The Burned Temple
Goal: Reach the archive. It’s at the back of the temple on the highest floor.
Secondary Goal: Don’t gain any Corruption. Once is too much here.
Time Limit: On turn 10, the wrath of the Goddess of Spiders will be unleashed.
This dungeon can be abandoned.
Ricki: Run to next room
Lara: Smoke cig for bonus attack and kill one of the spiders.
According to Discord we need cig to Spider. + it gives us inv space.Offence:
Lara has 12 dmg (2 base, 7 Sword [in that 1 poison from enchantment], 1 dmg from Nigh Eyes skill, 1 from Poison Profficiency skill, 1 from Robe).
Spider has 12 hp
smoking cig is not needed. Feel free to downvote this comment (could be worth for inventory space but we can do it at any moment)
Defence:
Spiders have 4dmg +1-2poison dmg x2 = 8dmg +2-4 dmg. 12 dmg worst case but that includes poison
Lara has 4 defence on her, but against poison dmg she also gets +6 from her skills and +3 from her robe adding to 13. Lara is immune to both spiders even in worst case scenario
There is no point in having both of them enter second room. Lara as well might do something
Hold on. The spiders may focus fire. Best not.
We neglected to include Poison Prof and Poison robe earlier so Cigs are not needed to squish a spider in one shot.
There absolutely 100% has to be a way to get that chest without using web.
That’s why we brought a rope. To lasso the chest and climb up to it.
We tried a lasso in Manor I think. Maybe if we attach to a spear/arrow and shoot it.
I think this is corruption Bait.
D6T18 Ricki can’t lasso from as far as halfway across the room. D6 wrap-up stream notes: “Rope and spear to go for ledge was reasonable, spear can’t stick in indestructible dungeon walls but could wedge on chest”.
D7T39 Kamau lasso works on a tree branch which is the third “floor” up in a room. This is a similar distance, but the branch is something to catch on, while the ledge there is drawn as a line but represents a floor which people can walk on and a rope can’t loop around.
Ricki: Run to next room
Lara: Attack one of spiders
no cig smoking
Offence:
Lara has 12 dmg (2 base, 7 Sword [in that 1 poison from enchantment], 1 dmg from Nigh Eyes skill, 1 from Poison Profficiency skill, 1 from Robe).
Spider has 12 hp
Defence:
Spiders have 4dmg +1-2poison dmg x2 = 8dmg +2-4 dmg. 12 dmg worst case but that includes poison
Lara has 4 defence on her, but against poison dmg she also gets +6 from her skills and +3 from her robe adding to 13. Lara is immune to both spiders even in worst case scenario
for completion sake
There is no point in having both of them enter second room. Lara might as well actually do something
Our Total has Lara doing 13dmg base because of Poison Prof, Poison Robe and nighteyes.
She should be able to squish spiders. She will take 0-2 damage however from the bites.
This also clears our exit partially in case we need to retreat.
Lara is
2 (Base)
6 (Siege)
1 (Poison Enchant)
1 (Poison Prof)
1 (Poison Robes)
1 (Night Eyes)
12 Total
Lara alsi has 13 Poison Def, enough to block all damage from two max rolls from spiders.
This fight is safe. Lara has the poison robe, which is an additional +3 def vs poison, so she’s at 13 def and can tank both spiders if necessary.
Can’t Ricki do an action too?
Can we take a look at the giant background spider? Just an harmless background texture decoration or a statue that may animate later and kill us? Maybe I’m paranoid haha
*comment retracted cause I am silly *
Okay. NO corruption use. Let’s hope we got enough ass kicking firepower though the temple.
We cannot risk rushing past the spiders because Ricki may be damaged if there is focus fire on her, and we shouldn’t START OUT by damaging Ricki.
Ricki: attack Left Spider with Swiftblade
Lara: attack right spider with Siegesword.
Next turn, whoever has the rope lassoes the chest, and whoever hasn’t got rope moves on to next room.
Nevermind, Lara can take the focus fire. Ricki can’t, but it’s highly unlikely they’ll focus fire on her unless the Spider Goddess is giving the spiders direct marching orders.
We’re also free to use healing. 10 turns isn’t a lot.
I will note that the completion condition is to reach the archive, we don’t (yet) need to return to entrance. I was going to remark that we anything we could do with the chest would be doable on the way out but this might be the last we see of this room.
Who wants to guess what the wrath of the goddess is?
My first guess is that giant spider decoration on the wall (and I’m assuming there will be similar ones all throughout) coming to life.
I’m banking on either auto corruption proc every ten rounds or suddenly the place catches fire again and we have to run.
In the broader dnd lore, damaging spiders unprovoked is a good way to anger the fallen goddess.
Oh, that ship has sailed long ago.
It’s okay, we got a better ship.
Friendship.
I am surprised this is a dungeon.