Dungeon 13 Turn 16
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Cordy joins the fight, using their wand alongside Ricki’s enchanted swiftblade and Amadeusz’ second crowstone. Both remaining wisps perish, but not before Cordy takes 3 unblockable damage from that darned death beam.
Lara descends to the room below.
Lara flips a second pipe valve. Again, it doesn’t do anything obvious.
The three winter wolves start barking at Lara.
Amad: move down and loot chest 1. Debuff dogs.
Ricki: move the wisp canister back into position. Go through the red pipe. Down.
Lara: move up and flip the lever.
Cordy: drop bandolier and pickup bomb.
Honestly I don’t know what we’re aiming for. We don’t want to move down since patrol comes on turn 20. So we have red pipe to explore (Ricki solo) and dog room to clear. Or owlbear (hence the bomb).
The wolves should only do 3 dmg each since amad debuffs them. Amad can tank that
Same as Claudius, but Ricki steal more loot instead of traveling the pipes. I’m afraid pipe may have an ambush waiting at the other end
Amad: move down and loot chest 1. Debuff dogs.
Ricki: drop wand of mend and lens in the pile. Go through the rathole and loot the animals chest. Then come back
Lara: move up and put the wisp canister back into position (use your shield to avoid dogs damage)
Cordy: drop bandolier and take bomb
Guys guys gals and all did you notice the dogs changed their element?
On CombatDoctor’s snapshot, they are FIRE. Here they are ICE.
Also, the “fire” in that huge tank is now more icy-ish in color than it was earlier.
Yep, exacty. Turn3. All fire. https://dungeoneyes.com/dungeon-13-turn-3/
Now Winter.
Syncing up the elemental defenses (i.e. MagmaShield, etc) will be much more trickier. We actually might need to observe if the elements are cycled in some order. I wonder how long does it take to change. Every turn? Every few turns? Or maybe 10 turns to spawn a wisp and switch the color at the same time..
I think the dogs changing element might have something to do with the crack in the pipe. Whatever is being sent through there, a portion of it diffused through the crack and then was able to alter the canines. In this case probably ice.
If we are paranoid of piping into the unknown, I made yet another alternative to Claudious
Amad: move down and loot chest 1. Debuff dogs.
Ricki: Crawl into the pipe downleft only just until your Dungeon Eyes can see that room, ideally stay inside the part of the pipe that’s in the dog floor of that room. Lens the uber justiciar since you can do that through walls. Come back out in the upright room.
Lara: move up and put the wisp canister back into position (use your shield to avoid dogs damage)
Cordy: flip the wisp lever. Go left.
My concern with this plan is that the 4 guards in bottom left will be alerted by Ricki. That would mean they would join the justicars fight when we do go down there so we’d have to battle justicar and 4 guards instead of one free round of just justicar. Lara died when the guards all ganged up on her…
The bottom left room is fully dark and none of the guards are facing any direction. I think the red pipe being in the position that it is is intended for us to be able to read the note without being put in danger.
Both outcomes are possible but I don’t like the risk.