Dungeon 15 Turn 32
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Sue, Lara, and Amadeusz gather near the entrance. While Sue heals the mushroom and drops a potion for later, she talks to Lara about the high priestess Ricki mentioned in passing.
“So what can you tell us about about the leader of the arachnomancers?”
I don’t know much more than you. I never met her.
All I can tell you for sure is that she sacrificed a lot of people to get where she is now.
And that she must be getting desperate. The Goddess is handing out punishments left and right. Things must be going pretty poorly for her to be so angry.
Meanwhile, Amadeusz considers the shape of the room to the right. He’s sure he could jump off the central platform and clear the split, but he doesn’t think he could climb out on his own. The walls are simply too steep. It seems like people aren’t meant to cross back to the other side after they get thrown across…
Ricki runs ahead to the bottom left room in hopes of catching the high priestess, but she’s not here!
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Plan: Extra chest, healing Lara and start clearing the way towards final rooms
Ricki: Move right. Move up. Avoid ladder trap. Move left(upper) while avoiding floor trap. Loot locked chest. End turn on rightmost end of corridor.
Lara: Move left(upper) using ceiling(to bypass floor trap). Go through the spiders (idol bait) then return right the same way. Drink floor potion.
Amad: Move right. Hit drider.
Sue: Move right. Throw shocktail at drider from as far as possible.
This dungeon got web armor, spider hat and poison damage gloves. Hopefully that chest has some nice poison resist shoes.
Maybe make sure Ricki throws her lockpicks away after use just in case she needs 2 spots to carry everything.
We need to check the “spider butt” room. It is implied that there is where the sacrifices are made. There may be people we can rescue there, or a way to distupt the temple (or the very faith in the Spider Goddess).
We never saw the high priestess until T29, which was the first time we saw any of the rooms at the right end of the dungeon. That makes me think she’s been teleporting back and forth between those three rooms (and there could be another room to the right of them too).
If that’s the case, then it won’t be long before she discovers the brazier we broke last turn, if she hasn’t already. And that will presumably trigger her to “begin rallying support and laying additional web traps.”
So I expect extra spiders to start appearing anytime now – I don’t think she’s going to wait till T40. (Similar to what happened last dungeon, where the tyrant king came back early because of all the horn blowing.)
As far as getting back and forth across the spider’s “waist,” remember that Ricki has the chameluxeon mittens, so she can climb walls. I don’t know if she can carry Daisy while doing so, but Mac was able to take Golly up and down ladders last dungeon, so I wouldn’t rule it out till we try it.
And if we really get stuck – like if we find people to rescue and we need to get them across that space – we could have Lara cast Web Walls in that room.