Dungeon 12 Turn 1
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Lara takes a deep breath and dives into the poisoned water, clambering along the edge of the well as she descends. The skeletal fish immediately attack her, and the poison itself attempts to eat away at her body, but her magical augmentation and big ol’ helmet manage to protect her despite the onslaught. Cordy tries to help by using his wand of venomous sting against one of the fish, but although the water doesn’t seem to be any impediment, the fish manages to survive the hit despite the rotfang hood.
Amadeusz spends some time going over the various schemes he has going, particularly those involving the research facility dungeon that awaits in the future. However, due to his Sketchy trait, he can’t relate any of those things to Ricki just yet! Nice try!
Ricki heads to the right.
She finds a room full of creatures, but also mostly full of breathable air. It seems not the entirety of the well is going to be underwater, which is a relief. Still, there’s a whole bunch of things here that she’s never seen before…
Deeper in the well, Lara finds that lots of it is very much underwater, and apparently relatively empty. Despite making it through the poison and fish unscathed, she takes 1 unblockable damage from holding her breath for too long.
Plan: scout and frog
Ricki: attack frog with swiftblade
Cordy: venom sting the same fish again.
Amad: move right. move past frog and Explore south.
Lara: keep holding your breath and scout left.
This gets us eyes on 2 new rooms.
We probably won’t kill frog but with Ricki as the only melee target she should be able to tank it safely and we can kill next turn
Let’s get eyes on another room, since time is going to be tight.
Lara: Swim down through the left-hand tunnel into the next room, checking out those shiny yellow things on the way and picking them up if they’re something good.
Ricki: Climb up the ladder and attack the big frog with your swiftblade.
Cordy: Follow Ricki and attack the frog with your wand.
Ama: Follow Ricki and play a hurtful dirge.
I’m assuming Lara is facing no more than a point or two of unblockable damage by continuing her swim, so if someone knows I’m wrong, please downvote.
I’m also going straight for the dirge – well, mainly because Zing & Thrum are still in instrument form, so Ama can’t attack the frog directly with them – but also to do like 15 points of damage with one spell, since there are so many enemies in this room (and also I guess to find out whether the various blobs are enemies, although I’m pretty sure they all are).
However, I’m worried that a dirge could aggro the rats and their blob companion and land Ricki and Cordy in a much bigger fight than we have time for. So if you know that will happen or just don’t want to take the risk, that would be another good reason to downvote!
It seems only 1 guy is outright against using Dirge in this room…
It never aggroed mooks the previous times it was used.
It didn’t aggro anyone on D11 T10, but it did seem to aggro a scorpion on D11 T14, so … ?
D11T10 Amadeusz was a valid target for the dogs/guard, confirmed by LSN on discord.
D11T14 the Scorpion had no line of sight on any target, so it just took damage and was confused.
In this scenario, the plague rats are looking directly at Amadeusz as he dirges. I imagine it’s exactly like a ranged attack and will aggro the rats. And what benefit does that give us? It wont kill any enemy in the room, they all have too much health. It’ll provide +2 Defense to Lara, but she already has a ton of defense because of the poison. I’d be down to just play violins normally for +1 Defense to Lara, but I just don’t see any benefit to Dirging.
Thanks for checking with LSN on that. Although that still doesn’t explain why only the scorpion had an exclamation point above it. Why didn’t the imp and the downstairs dogs have them too, on D11T10?
I do want to dirge this room, but after we’ve scouted the next one
I’m going to guess that purple thing is a source of poison.
Also pointing out what appear to be traps: 2 on the left in Lara’s room, 1 on the right in Lara’s room, 2 in the fish tank in Ricki’s room, and one on the right side ladder in Ricki’s room.
I think they’re almost definitely gold coins. Same color and width as the sprite you can find in the Item Tab.
Oh, interesting. In that case just the extra thick ladder rung to look out for
Are we certain the cyan thing above the rats is just a background decoration?
Not at all. They could be some kind of floating brains that are going to mind-control the plague rats and make our lives total hell.
My theory is the moss is a water breathing buff
LSN indirectly admitted on discord that he copy/pasted that ladder wrong. That said, he also said that he might turn it into a dungeon element.
So as usual we don’t know and remain paranoid.
Ricki: Head up and attack the Frog with your swiftblade.
Lara: Head left. Pick up the gold coins along the way.
Amadeusz: Head right to join Ricki. Attack the Frog with your fists.
Cordy: Head right and up the ladder. Use Wand of Sting on the Frog.
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Unless this Frog is a total gigachad, it should die to 15 damage. Ricki and Amadeusz have decent armor to tank it with while Cordy stings from the back to generate a shroom. I think we want him up and running asap.
I don’t like using Dirge in this room. 1 damage wont be very impactful on any of the enemies in this room and I don’t want to attract all those plague rats over to Ricki. Its also unclear was form Zing & Thrum are in. The sprite is Instrument Form but it’s giving Amadeusz +4 Atk in his stats. So idk.
Lara’s on a journey that she is most suited to travel. If there’s some Poison Sources she can handle on her own in these hard to reach spots, it’ll go a long way towards finishing this dungeon.
I would prefer amad to scout since he has. 50% miss chance anyway
Lara goes left,& resurfaces for air if there IS any.Amy & Cordy help Ricki kill the frog on the right using VSting & Dirge.Ricki moves South if possible…
My tiny addition to the existing scout and frog plan:
Ricki: attack frog with swiftblade
Cordy: venom sting the same fish again.
Amad: move right. move past frog and Explore south.
Lara: loot as many coins as you can and scout left.
A plan claude requested on discord to post for them:
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Cordy: Finish off the wounded fish for a mushroom
Amad: Enter the frog room and dirge with your instrument near Lara
Lara: Enter the frog room, kill the frog
Ricki: Inspect blue thing under the blue chest, then scout downward
Seek intelligence first, including if the poison source is indeed a living organism that can die to dirge. We also deal more than enough damage to kill a giant spider, which I believe should be of similar toughness to the frog.”
Plan: guarantee mushroom, info on moss and scout a room
Cordy: venom sting frog
Amad: dirge zing and thrum next to Lara.
Lara: Enter the frog room, kill the frog
Ricki: avoid thick ladder rung. Inspect blue thing under the blue chest, then scout downward
Slight change from other plans which is just having Cordy poison attack frog with wand instead of fish since fish could have 3 hp
Lara: Take a big ol swig.
Cordy and Amadeusz: Dive in after Lara
Ricki: See if there’s any treasure in the Frog’s digestive system but don’t hurt the frog. Animal abuse is wrong.
Just a quick note to LSN. Please disregard all my messages. I’m just having fun in the comments, I don’t want to ruin the game.
Appreciate you clarifying your intentions. Have fun!
Thanks! Please vote down my comments. If LSN doesn’t see the clarification they may still fall into the voting pool.
Just to give you a bit of peace he already acknowledged on Discord that the fact that you post those obviously bad plans shouldn’t be taken as trolling but innocent fun and that if anything you’re on the side of people posting good ones.
I’m looking forward to the day when ppl actually upvote baddecision’s plan and it gets executed for fun&noprofit
That’s since to know. I’ve avoided the discord because if anyone is annoyed by me I want them to be able to downvote and move on, and if they have discord notifications turned on that makes it harder for them.