Dungeon 15 Turn 11
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Lara, Amadeusz, and Sue travel together to fight the heavily armed arachnomancer in the strangely shaped room. Between the three of them, they’re able to defeat him in no time at all, with Amadeusz managing to barely avoid damage from the strange purple blade.
After the fight, the party quickly scoops up all the arachnomancer’s items before he gets back up as a drider. Lara takes the sword, while Sue collects plate armour, a heavy shield and heavy helmet, and two spider venom glands.
“Hi, sorry about Amadeusz. I’ll take that ribbon you were offering, please.”
“An excellent choice!”
“This PET ITEM will help your PET survive PET DUELS against strong opponents, like my PURPLE WIDOW SPIDER! Not that you needed it this time…”
“You can equip one PET ITEM onto your PET at any time, using your action, but remember you cannot remove a PET ITEM until a dungeon ends!”
“Thanks. Now please, PLEASE leave.”
Pet Master throws a smoke bomb to the ground, apparently to cover up his use of whatever a skedaddle twine is, then disappears. Ricki and Daisy squeeze through the hole in the wall behind where he stood.
At the top of the tunnel, Ricki finds an enclosed room. Up above she can see two more of those strange braziers.
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CUTE RIBBON
Pet Item
When worn, any creature the pet targets with an attack deals -2 damage that turn. Additionally, the pet gains a 30% chance to evade attacks.
Weight 1, Cost 30
VENOM BLADE
Weapon
Atk +2, deals poison damage. Deals +2 poison damage when a Venom Gland is used in conjunction.
Weight 1, Cost 40
Loose thought: There’s a chest on the ceiling. Lara can get there and can open it. However, I have some doubts regarding looting. The chest is kinda-glued to the ceiling, but we know that CLOSED chests are magically immobile. I’m a bit worried that, once opened, the contents of the chest, and even maybe the chest itself, may fall and crash (potions, etc).
Edit: considering the layout, and “at the top of the tunnel”, this is top-left room.
Edit2: venom blade says +2 damage with gland, but that’s in addition to the gland’s bonus, right? otherwise it would be nonsense
Plan: Take care of the lower area despite how scary it is
Ricki: Put the cute ribbon on Daisy. Lookatdacutegirlllll :). Head through the hole, then right. Point out the ladder rung trap to your crew. Point out the web over by the puzzle chest to wolf. Head down with them.
Lara: Hold up your Tower Shield and ditch a Longsword. Crawl across the ceiling to that upsidedown chest and loot it. You can ditch the rope too if you need more space. Then carry Sue to the left, then down (avoiding the ladder rung trap).
Sue: Unprompted, spoil Wolf about the purple braziers in this dungeon. Allow Lara to carry you around.
Wolf: Head left. Avoid the ladder rung trap. Slice up the web by the puzzle chest. Then head down.
Plan: Keep putting off the lower area let’s do other stuff.
Ricki: Head through the hole, then right, then up (avoiding the ladder trap). Slice the web on your right. Have Daisy attack one of the Purple Widows.
Lara: Grab Sue, head left, then up. Put sue down. Wear your Silk Armor and head straight to the Arachnomancer, smash them with your Siegesword.
Wolf: Head left, then up. Kill a 2nd purple widow.
Sue: Be carried by Lara to the left then up. Then squash a 3rd purple widow.
Go kindly ask that guy above Ricki if he’d be so kind as to give us his cool hat and sword.
I feel like this dungeon is going to flip over at some point. Are we prepared for that?