Dungeon 17 Turn 8
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Ricki leads Mac back to the upper room, across a couple of traps, and to the top left corner to read a third stack of books. Mac attempts to distract the grimoirm by throwing an enchantment scroll at it, but it seems more interested in Ricki’s equipment. Maybe the other one took the bait because nobody actually ran past it?
Hurrying to keep ahead of the crumbling, Ricki reads the final set of texts.
“The Glorious One is dying. She will take all of us with her.”
Welp. That sounds pretty bad. Still… Ricki’s gut tells her there must be something more to be learned here.
Ricki has gained the Well Read III ability.
Ricki and Mac flee from the grimoirm and return to the ladder at the bottom of this room.
I suppose the goal now is to get mac to WR3. Maybe we have ricki check the special door while he does that.
incoming turn 9: loosing another max. HP to the dust.
Did the grimoirm successfully get anything?
No. Ricki dodged
epic illustration!
Plan: book it
Ricki: point out the traps to Mac as you get to them and avoid: ladder rung in next room, trapdoor. Move down and to the right attack the red books.
Mac: move down and avoid traps. Drop shock tail and ring of ambition at the bottom of the ladder just before moving to the next room (bottom right). Move right and go read blue book. End turn bottom left of room where you just entered
Mac will be attacked by worm and lose his other ring enchant. After we get red on Mac, we will have an action to pickup his stuff again while moving back. If Ricki fails all 3 dodge checks against the books, she’s left with 2 hp.
“If Ricki fails all 3 dodge checks against the books, she’s left with 2 hp.”
Ricki would be left with 1 (one) HP, because turn 9 also means loosing another max HP due to dust. In that case it might be time to grit.
Losing max hp takes from the empty hearts first
I’m calling it right now: the Glorious One WAS a benevolent dragon.
“At the direction of the Glorious One the full tribe has retreated to the deepest levels. This Emperor may be an enemy more dangerous than the rival dragons we are accustomed to. Hopefully one day we will be able to emerge again, but for now we can only endure the Dungeon’s magics and hope.”
This is the first passage we read, which indicates that the Glorious One brought her kobolds into her lair in retreat from the Emperor. Not too unusual- I could see an evil dragon doing the same thing to serve as protection- and so it’s not really indicative of any particular morality.
“All is not well. The Glorious One has taken to consuming the writings of the library. She dictates that we must record our history of exile that She will ever have more to devour. We have no hope for survival but to indulge her whims.”
That’s the second passage. Now, it sounds bad- but you know what the dragon ISN’T eating? Her Kobolds. Rather than resorting to eating them, she’s having them write to feed her- possibly in the same way that the book worms consume magical writings. What’s most interesting is the line “We have no hope for survival but to indulge her whims.” I think it means that so long as the Glorious One is being fed, she’ll have enough power to keep the Emperor/the Empire out of the dungeon, but once she’s out of power they’re all dead meat- dragon and Kobold alike.
As for the last passage:
“The Glorious One is dying. She will take all of us with her.”
So, the Glorious One is dying, and she’ll take all of them- ‘them’ being her Kobolds- with her. Now, it’s notable that there are still Kobolds alive even while the Glorious One herself is dying, which to me indicates that she was weakened enough by hunger to be killed, but that she didn’t actually resort to ‘cannibalizing’ her Kobolds. Neither did she send them to die senselessly against the Empire.
My theory is that the big revelation of this dungeon is that while there were plenty of Kobold tribes that genuinely did need liberation from their draconic overlords, there were also plenty of tribes (like the ones who followed the Glorious One) who served and lived under more benevolent dragons. And that, presumably, when those tribes took offense to their good dragon rulers being killed, the Emperor had them genocided so that the only Kobolds in his Empire who were left would be the ones who worshiped him for killing their evil dragon masters.
On another note… the book worm enemies make me think that the Glorious One might be a Book Wyrm of some sort herself. Or at least that seems like the obvious pun to make, considering how she also seems to eat books.
I’m all for Claudious plan, but delayed.
30% evasion and 3 attackers means we have 29.6% of failing all three evasions at the same time and being hit three times, leaving Ricky at 1 HP
and 44% of missing 2 evasions and being hit 2 times, leaving Ricky at 6hp
and 22% of missing 1 evasion and being hit 1 times, leaving Ricky undamaged (except 1 for bad air)
and 3.7% of evading all three attacks, with the same result.
It doesn’t look bad, and in the worst case Ricky fails to kill red book (book has 30% evasion, right?), so she’ll be left with 2 books to fight and 1HP, that’s actually very very bad.
Maybe instead of running past the green book below like crazy and attacking red books in the same turn, we should send Mac to kill the green book, and ask Ricky to pillage skeleton kobolds chest here, and then go down after Mac and end her turn either in the lowest level in the entrance room (in case Mac needs help on the next turn), out of reach of the green book.
Then fully follow Claudious’s plan on the next turn?
We often find items that are actually useful in given dungeon, and if Mac succeeds, it’s going to be much less ricky for Ricky.
Don’t want to open any chests until we are all read up. Not sure if opening chests only wake up books in the same room or just the closest ones which may be the blue book by gate
Right, I forgot about that.
Still, I think we should split the run into two turns. Just let Ricky fight the green book along Mac, so we have less chances of the book evading their attack.
wuut? but thats exactly what the other one was fed for?? like, the text on https://dungeoneyes.com/dungeon-17-turn-5/ literaly explicitly say “Ricki and Mac quickly runs past the grimoirm”
I have no idea how this works anymore >.<
Anyone know?
I think there are two different ways to interpret ‘running past’ someone in these cases.
In the case you linked to, it’s less that they “ran past” the worm and more so that they skirted it while going down the ladder and basically left the book behind as a distraction.
But in THIS case, we actually had Ricki try to go around the worm in a way that would have meant she had to actually move around the worm itself, rather than just being near it while using the ladder.
So in this case, the distraction didn’t work since Ricki had to get closer to the worm- going around it- rather than just using the ladder near it after throwing a distraction.
I think LSN said: “You ran Through this one” as opposed to Ran past.
So I guess if the characters would have to overlap, then no distraction works.
Oh yea I forgot about the discord, thanks!
I think distraction still work with run through if we want to use the right bait tho. The text said its more interested in enchanted equips.
Other LSN answers from a quick skim for non-discord people:
The new ring works with ranged weapons but not wands
Worms disenchant happen at end of turn(but still happen if worm die)