Dungeon 5 Turn 9
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Kamau gives Ricki back the single rat tail he holds, and she allows her rat fang dagger to consume it as she and Lara attack the bugbear in a stunning combo move that only two people who truly enjoy hanging out together can pull off. The bugbear hits the far wall and promptly falls extremely unconscious. Kamau nudges him into a corner where he won’t get in the way for the rest of the dungeon.
The bugbear drops the rusty greatsword he wielded, as well as a suit of wolf hide armour. Everyone’s inventories are so full that the items are just left loose on the ground for now, but the dog doesn’t appear to be guarding them so they can be freely picked up at any time.
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HIDE ARMOUR, WOLF
Armour
Def +2. Canine pets gain Atk +1.
Weight 2, Cost 20
Yay girl power!
I think we should give that armour to Lara for now, and current Lara’s amour to Kamau (just to carry it). Lara could use every extra DEF point “just in case”, and if we need to make Ricky have 6 DEF, we can always swap.
EDIT: Cool thing regarding the armour+dog – but it means we may need to plan whose pet it eventually will be. I have no idea if we can trade pets between party members, probably not.
That’d mean it should not be Kamau’s pet, if we want to make use of that armour at all.(taken back, see edit2 below)EDIT2: OOh I misread it! It says “canine PETS”, not “canine PET”, so it is possible that this armour works on every pet in the team, not just for pet of the wearer. Nice.
It’s also nice to see that the other bugbears doesn’t wear the same armour as this one. The one with three dogs could be an ugly surprise if it did wear such armour.
i still think Kamau needs to get the dog. Screw the attack bonus
it’s a dog. He is ex guard.
IT MAKES SENSE
im going to be so sad if Dog friends whoever puts on the wolf armor.
but Kamau needs to stay in his new shinny armor.
The way it’s written, and considering person can have only 1 pet at time, I think we’ll get the attack bonus if ANY team member is wearing this armour. So sure, can go for Kamau. And armour probably for Ricky, eventually, but at this very moment I’d give it to Lara. We don’t have Ricky-only areas here.
Lara will always be with Kamau, he will protecc her
Ricki is our errand girl with her 2 Mov, she will be running around alone. Imo we stack defence on Ricki.
“Everyone’s inventories are so full” but we have three empty slots, thus we can shuffle around things and pick something up (after analyzing what to shuffle/pick up).
That armor is amazing for Ricki. It still qualifies for light armor prof.
I agree! Ricki needs that armor!
Ricki: Get dat defense (drop leather armor, pick up wolf hide armor)
Edit: Then loot the chest guarded by the spider after Lara subdues it.
Lara: Get dat spider (Use Subdue Spider to acquire spider pet)
Kamau: Get dat doggo pets. (Pet the doggo)
Unless the dogs and guard upstairs try and attack Lara while she’s subduing said spider, in which case, sadly interpose while promising the doggo future pets.
Yes, spending corruption is very bad, but this is likely to be our best trade. We’ll get info about spiders as pets (stats, abilities etc), get some badly-needed DPS for this dungeon, and are early enough that we’ll really maximize the additional time with the spider-pet. There’s a lot of benefits so we’re making fully informed decisions later, if/when we’re dealing with life-or-death corruption decisions.
What would be Ricki’s action?
You should edit this to have Ricki open the spider chest. I’d also vote for Kamau to attack the dogs with the other bugbear and for Lara to wear the wolf armor so we can get both to 5 when necessary.
Suggestion: have Lara check beforehand if she knows this particular species of spider can be turned into a pet.
Kamau: share your guard dog knowledge with everyone. Pet the dog. Move up ladder and kill a dog.
Ricki: drop leather and grab wolf hide, go down the ladder. Ask the kobold if the person who stole her doll wore a red bandana or a blue hat. Also tell her to go home, it’s almost dinner and it’s not safe out here. They’ll bring the doll there when they find it. Move back up to rest of group and loot chest under spider when safe.
Lara: use corruption to tame the spider.
Edit: made Ricki loot chest and kamau attack. Better use of actions
Weird exploit: Put hide armor on dog?
Obviously I don’t expect this to actually work, but if dog becomes a pet, there’s no rule in the book that says a dog can’t wear wolf hide armor. Of course, there might also not be a rule saying they can wear any armor, but that’s not the point.
Actually in the how to play it’s says that most pets can’t use equipment or items. I wish that wasn’t the case though…
Ricki: Drop the leather armor for the wolf hide armor, then trade the shield for the raw meat, then triple move to the kitchen and ask the kobold if you can cook one of the meat
Lara: Pick up the rusty greatsword, then check the spider upstairs and determine whether it’ll be a pet or simply docile. If it’ll become a pet or you’re not sure, Subdue it.
Kamau: Pick up the leather armor, then after Lara Subdues the spider, open the chest next to it.
Lara should trade her leather armor for the wolf hide armor, and begin wielding her torch. She then tames the spider using her corruption ability. Kamau switches to his longsword and wades into the dogs and bugbear to kill a dog. Ricki will loot the chest under the spider when it is safe to do so. If possible, she can use her dash to also move downstairs and try to persuade the kobold child to return home, promising that we will bring her her doll.
Suggest adding in this bit from CombatDoctor: Lara check the spider upstairs and determine whether it’ll be a pet or simply docile. If it’ll become a pet or you’re not sure, Subdue it.
Kamau: pick up and equip the bucket, go to the group of enemies above, interpose.
Lara: attack one of the stray dogs with longsword.
Ricky: drop leather armor, equip hide armor, give Rat Fang to Lara, equip rusty greatsword, attack another stray dog with it.
* This plan allows us to kill two dogs in one turn and Kamau probably won’t lose HP. I think that our position is still quite good and we shouldn’t subdue that spider yet.
We don’t need to worry about Kamau losing HP anyway I think. Previous dogs did 3 and bugbear did 5. These dogs should only do two, and the bugbear would only do 3 for a total of 9. Kamau can tank with just plate and innate.
I agree with most of this suggestion, BUT I really think we should keep the greatsword intact in order to feed it to the rust monster.
IF it is a rust monster. Did we ask the kobold there? I think we forgot to do that.
Inventory space is a bit of problem right now, but maybe we should find room to stack the bugbears’ blue caps? We might be able to negotiate free passage with the Reds, even if temporarily.
Ricki: Swap armor with Wolf Hide. Give Kamau dog advices.
Kamau: try to make friends with dog. take meat from Lara, dangle a rat tail. Do whatever it takes as long as it’s advertiser friendly to make the doggo like you.
Lara: If it won’t aggro the group of Dogs above. Peak up and spend 1 Corruption to make Spider into a temporary pet. all hush hush like.
Kamau: Interpose upstairs
Lara: Tame spider with spell
Ricki: unlock spider chest
All: pet doggo
CHANGE:
For Ricki, she should go to the reds hideout, sheathe weapon, and talk to one of them.