Dungeon 5 Turn 10
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While Ricki swaps her old leather armour for the new hide while Kamau explains what he knows about the dog.
“She looks like she’s eight or nine years old, past retirement age for a guard dog.”
“Wait, this is a GUARD dog? I don’t think I want it then. They bite!”
“I wouldn’t worry about that, she’s already calm since you fed her. But this breed tends to get bored if they’re kept locked up, so maybe she’d like something to play with.”
Ricki then heads downstairs while Kamau engages the dogs and hobgoblin. He easily takes one of the dogs out, even in the dark, and he takes no damage from their counterattack. He is once again immensely glad to have heavy armour once again.
While Kamau’s back is turned, Lara decides to acquire a pet of her own since Ricki didn’t seem to like the idea of running around with a guard dog. She conjures up the power she was given by the Goddess of Spiders and takes control of the spider’s simple brain. She feels the sting of the arachnomancer curse spreading further through her body, and she gains 1 point of Corruption.
Lara has gained a pet spider! She can choose to keep it or order it to follow any of her fellow party members, even ones currently in other rooms. Once the pet has been assigned it cannot switch to a different owner (though pets can normally be reassigned between dungeons). Its stats can be found on the Characters page.
“Hello little girl! Hey, can you tell us if the bad guy who took your doll wore a red bandana or a blue hat?”
“Maybe!”
“I see. Hey, did you know your mom wants you to go home for dinner? Why don’t you wait for us there while we go find your dolly?”
“I can’t do that! My dolly needs me! She’s all alone and scared! I’M A TERRIBLE DOLL MOTHER!!”
“Yeah, okay.”
Ricki then uses her speed to head back upstairs, but she can’t also loot a chest like she wants to because she talked to someone in search of more information about the dungeon, which counts as an action.
should have checked spider stats, sadness much
disregard.
and i even got first post 🙁 Shame on me
-Lara: Assign Spider to Self. Murder one of Dogs Kamau is facing.Kamau: InterposeRicki: Arrive and swap dagger for Kamau Sword. Attack Dog. Dog has 3HP and 1Def so we have spider to help to finish it in one turnSpider: Attack same dog as RickiIf Ricki spends Rat Tail to one shot the Dog then Spider turn is wasted since it will not get past Hobgoblin defence.-Spider can oneshot a dog without Ricki’s help.
huh, I should have checked Characters page then 🙁
I wonder if there will be some way to purge corruption? Pehaps at a higher bond level?
Hopefully, but in this particular scenario, where civilian lives are at stake, it was well worth it.
I hope you’re right. By the way, could anyone explain me why that Subdue Spider idea suddenly became so popular? Was it because of some discussion on Discord? (I don’t have a Discord account and don’t know what’s happening there.)
Yes, we sorta mapped out all we have to do, and projected gang strengths and hp.numbers and collectively went “oh dear, we need more DPS because of the turn limit, else kobolds or ourselves may die”.
huh, do we know Hobs stats? Def and HP?
will be usefull for next trio so we can avoid wasting attacks on overkill.
Estimated innate def is 2, Hp around 7 (6 to 8).
Thanks for the explanation!
Yeah, I wondered about that as well. Explosion of get-the-spider all of a sudden. But geesh, UNLOYAL, who would think about it. But! If Kamau’s so wise about dogs, maybe we could ask Lara if she knows this spider type, eeh.
I think it also depends on when people get off work and have time to vote. I’m on west coast time so I’m usually early
2 things:
-Seems like we will have to make a choice with Dog? give it Doll or Ball to play and “fail” that kobol quest.
Could we capture one of Dire Rats and give it that as a chew toy?
-also the dog is supposedly 9 years old… isn’t it to old for us to be using as a battle companion? I’m starting to have ethical concerns.
Concerns
I think that bugbear would be a nice chew toy, too! 🙂
Giving the kids the regular ball gives us crappy ball, which works for the dog.
If the dog doesn’t take damage because Kamau is interposing there are no ethical concerns. We can’t force the dog to attack. If it is too tired to, it simply won’t attack.
I”m thinking long term if we make it a pet
it will go with us to others dungeons and i would expect it to be able to fight at that time.
it’s not about it being hurt, not next to Kamau The Interposer
just abuse of elderly 🙁
is old dog. needs rest,
I just got worried that mention of how old it is means it won’t become a pet 🙁 since to old to function as adventurer.
We don’t yet know if it will stay with us in other dungeons. But if she doesn’t want to stay, at any point, then she could be guarding Lohk. That’d be extremely wholesome.
Yea, i can get behind that.
Guarding Lohk in the house in the green outside of town (which we would need to acquire via next dungeon).
Lohk: “What? Now I shall take care of the dog for you? Still another eater! Bah!”
(And the moment Ricki has left for the next dungeon: Lohk: “Good boy!” & pets dog.)
Kamau: interpose.
Lara: attack a stray dog with longsword, assign the spider to herself.
Spider: attack the other dog.
Ricki: loot the unguarded chest.
I would add Assign Spider to Lara, since she is main DPS right now.
Forgot to say: Kamau wants all attacks to be non lethal. We should specify that in case it’s not automatic.
Kamau only wants non-lethal attacks for bugbears and I only suggested attacking dogs this turn.
Disregard Ricki’s disdain for guard dog pet. Lets find the better ball, trade it for the old ball, to give to the dog ^_^
The dog is so much ex-guard as Kamau. Works.
So you say that taking control of an innocent creature’s brain with dark corrupted magic is called “taming”? What a nice person you are! XD
I think the Spider should be given to Ricki because it can follow her through small places and the bottom of the dungeon might be small characters only.
But then Ricki can’t get the dogs, and the hide armor is optimal for her.
That’s a fair point, but we don’t know how good the Dog will be or if it’s small enough to fit though small spaces (I’m guessing it could though) and we can give her the Dog after this Dungeon.
Lara: Assign Spider to Self. Murder one of Dogs Kamau is facing.
Kamau: Interpose
Ricki: Arrive back and expend Rat Tail to kill dog in one attack.
Spider: Attack Bugbear, gotta check it’s stats + poison roll.
Hopefully we will be able to kill it next turn with combined attack (Kamau not included for remorse reasons obv.)
I’m not adamant about Lara getting spider. It fits thematically and girl needs some fun
but it’s small and seems like pets move with their owner speed so might as well go to Ricki.
on the other hand spider should be fighting alongside Lara and Kamau while Ricki runs errands in future.
So in the end im in favour of Spider going to Lara.
Let’s give the spider to Kamau. Ricki will get the dog cause of the wolf hide and has Rat Fang when she needs bonus damage, and Kamau will basically always be in a position to make use of the spider’s 5-6 atk (compared to Lara’s “usually always”)
Ricki: go open spider chest
Kamau: interpose
Lara and Spider: attack! Lara kill dog, spider “knock out” bugbear