Dungeon 12 Turn 36
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Lara abandons the fight at the bottom of the well and swims up for air. Amadeusz clears the way by ripping apart the last fish on the way. His sugar high then dissipates, removing his various stat buffs.
Once Lara reaches the room to the left, she heals herself with the wand of mend, recovering 1 HP.
Ricki decapitates the ghoul she already wounded before predictably becoming paralyzed again. But now her odds of being able to move on future turns is much higher!
Cordy returns to one of the earlier rooms that’s already been cleared out. Nothing out of place here.
We want cordy to yoink all the coins eh?
Plan: More of the Same.
Amad: Grab a coin where you are. Move left for air.
Lara: Use wand again and leave it on the floor again.
Cordy: Grab a Coin and then move up the Right side ladder to check on Chest.
Cordy gets eyes on the puzzle chest and can move and start stinging fish next turn for more shrooms.
We’re gonna heal up Lara so she can kill the crabs while Amad gets some coins.
Another option (which doesnt change our current turn plan) is planning to abandon with as much loot as possible.
Idea would be to send Amad and Lara past Crab king to loot those chests when they have more hp. We would have Ricki by exit in case someone got grabbed or badly injured.
Regardless, we have a few turns to decide.
Honestly, we might want to think about abandoning. T40 is usually when things start to push us to finish and I am not confident we can handle the Crab King with just Lara at 4 hp (thats as much as she can heal with mend) and Amad with maybe more hp but swimming in poison.
Just clearing the crabs is going to take us like 4 turns.
I’d be willing to try if ricki was on standby by the exit ready to leave if we discover the crab can grab or something.
We have a lot of mushrooms. Why aren’t we having them eat more and having cordi join in on the kills to make more? Seriously, waste of healing.
Also we have the paw. We can trade loot for possibly some healing.
Mushrooms heal 1 and take an action. Cordy can’t make more without drowning and losing an hp unless he’s in an air pocket.
Right now. That leaves just the 2 fish at start he can shroom safely. Given that he has 5 def and 1 hp, he can’t even swim 2 poison rooms without dying let alone join a fight in melee.
4 fish – there’s 2 in the entry room.
How many mushrooms in this dungeon alone have been used up in fights where they didn’t need to die?
Any selling of stuff with the paw is at 1/3 the price. So if we sold the arrows, rod and the 2 Crit items, we could buy one potion that heals for 5 or a bunch of meat for amad.
It might make a difference. But if it doesn’t, we’ve lost a character and sold our only loot cheaper.
As a side note: this is a no bond party anyway so abandoning only makes us lose on an upgrade for Ricki since amad, Lara and Cordy are probably not going to join us in later dungeons much.
It’s possible that Ricki will be back with us by the time Lara clears the crabs. Together with Amad, the three of them could do some decent damage. Maybe enough to kill the Crab King in two turns? Risky though. We’re having a hard time surviving two turns as it is.
I’d be curious to hear Discord’s best guess as to the Crab King’s stats. High def and some kind of special attack seem likely.
High Def and and a grab attack is my best guess as well. Maybe throwing a skull as a ranged attack.
Dunno abouts exact stats, but Lara is swinging at like 16 atk with a mushroom buff and siegesword so pretty sure she can kill anything in two turns even with just Amad helping. ^_^
But can she tank it at no dmg? 2 rounds is 2 rounds of drowning.
Oxymoss would help with that, and Ricki could get some in a few more turns.
“kill anything in two turns”
Anything with a combined def + hp of ~36 or less, yes. The mini golems were 30 and the mammoth was 34, so you’re probably right, as long as Lara & Amad can each get a hit both turns. But if one of them got grabbed by a crab claw & immobilized, for example, we’d be in trouble. Wish we still had a lens.
I’m down to abandon but would like to see where we’re at turn 38 or so
> (…) and Amad with maybe more hp but swimming in poison
While I was calling the bigcrab “bigmommy” few turns ago, someone else suggested that maybe the eggsacks do not belong to the crab, and maybe that pile of eggs on its back is just stuck there. *IF* that is true, then bear with my newest idea: if that is true, then this eggsack on its back is no different from all others, and we can attack it separately and remove, or at least weaken, the poison from the boss room. Considering that the end condition is, literally, “Goal: Eliminate all sources of poison that are affecting the water.“, we may NOT NEED to kill the crab, it may be enough to just ensure that all eggsacks are broken at one single moment of time.
If that is true, we just barge in, attack the sack, and gtfo. Or even not gtfo, since if we do it well, it will be the last sack and the dungeon will just end.
Another weird idea, which already worked at least several times: can we feed the crab somehow to distract it? Raw meat maybe?
Plan: Prepare crab meat and fishy mushrooms
Lara mend self, leave wand on ground
Amad move down. Kill a crab (8 def – 1 water – 3 poison – 4 crabs = 0 damage except drowning)
Cordy move up on left ladder to sting fish and get eyes on puzzle chest
HP left: 4/3/1/2
Amad start killing crabs since he already is in position for that(if he was at air, he would need to drown just to get into position). We don’t have time for Lara to heal and kill 4 crabs by herself.
Ideas for future:
38
Lara mend self, leave wand on ground
Amad kill crab
Cordy make fishy mushroom
Ricki and mushroom kill ghoul
HP left: 4/4/1/1
39
Lara mend amad, leave wand on ground
Amad up, left for air
Cordy sting other fish
Ricki fight frog
HP left: 4/4/1/2
40
Lara right, down to kill crab
Amad mend self, leave wand on ground
Cordy make another fish mushroom
Ricki kill frog
HP left: 4/3/1/3
Pretty sure the skeletons are now near the crabs and will aggro Amadeusz if he goes down to attack.
Nah, look at turn 10 and 11. Skellies return to where they were when we leave.
Plan: More of the Same, but with Cordy going to where he can try cleaning the water for the puzzle chest.
Amad: Grab a coin where you are. Move left for air.
Lara: Use wand again and leave it on the floor again.
Cordy: Move up the /left/ side ladder and sting a Skelefish
Cordy gets eyes on the puzzle chest and can move and start stinging fish immediately for more shrooms. Once the fish are dead, if that doesn’t open the puzzle chest we can try throwing some wish Coins in there, or wishing on the wish Coins, see what happens.
We’re gonna heal up Lara so she can kill the crabs while Amad gets some coins.
Plan: fortify.
Ricki: use your natural base building ability to construct an impermeable dome around yourself and the ghoul, your not trapped in there with him. He’s trapped in there with you.
Cordy: eat that purple thing. Grape is the best flavor.
Weremadeusz: chew on the Swarmfish bones. Good dog.
Lara: practice your tapdancing. With eight legs you could be a star and I feel we’ve been neglecting that career path for you and I’m sorry.
Annoying.
Why’d this gwt dislikes?Everyone else feels the same sentiment.
Oh sorry, I just took it personally.
Probably because it doesn’t contribute to the discussion in any meaningful way.
Please don’t interpret this site as like Reddit, where the goal is to get likes. The goal here is to have dungeons go well and to have fun. Post well-thought out plans, notes on things other people don’t seem to have noticed (traps, miscalculations), maybe post jokes or observations but not too often.
Plan: Lara solo crabs asap
This cost us 1 healing compared to using Amad to help because no one will be able to use the mending wand while Lara kill the last crab, but does get us an extra coin on turn 39.
Lara move right. Move down to kill a crab
Amad move left. Mend Kara, leave wand on ground
Cordy move up on left ladder to sting fish and get eyes on puzzle chest
HP left: 4/2/1/3
Future ideas:
38
Lara kill crab
Amad mend self, leave wand on ground
Cordy make fish mushroom
Ricki and mushroom kill ghoul
HP left: 4/1/1/4
39
Lara up, left to mend self, leave wand on ground
Amad get coin
Cordy sting other fish
Ricki kill frog
HP left: 4/2/1/4
40
Lara right, down to kill crab
Amad mend lara, leave wand on ground
Cordy make another fish mushroom
Ricki kill frog
HP left: 4/2/1/4