Dungeon 6 Turn 24
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Lara charges solo into another group of skeletons, decapitating the skeletal dog instantly. Even all five bony monsters together can’t put a scratch on her.
While Ricki and Mac destroy another skeleton, Lohk and Daisy run past to grab the keys up above. They are labeled “basement”, which probably means they aren’t much good any more since all the doors down there already got opened. Lohk discards the keys rather than let them clutter up her inventory/floor.
Lohk, Daisy, and Wolf Spider attack the skeleton
Ricki Mac and Lara attack the dog skeletons
You’ll lock Ricki into the library if the wolf spider attacks. Also it isn’t necessary because Lohk and Daisy do 5 damage already.
Lohk: Search the Leftmost bookcase then go stand near the skeleton in the library so Daisy can fight.
Daisy: Attack the library skeleton.
Lara: Kill the leftmost skeleton.
Mac: Join Lara in the passage with the remaining skeleton group and attack the rightmost skeleton in the group.
Ricki: Engage in fisticuffs with the same boney opponent as Mac.
Daisy will take out half of the remaining library skeleton’s hp while Lara, Ricki et al take out half of the skeleton group. I’m keeping Lara on the left so hopefully the specter targets her on turn 25 when we mop up the last of this group. Lohk will either get more book loot or perhaps another clue about the safe. Next turn we can finish off the rest of the skeletons through a repeat of this turn’s actions. If Lohk found loot this turn we can have her drop it with the scroll to avoid her venturing closer to the specter before we know who it attacked.
Copying my suggestion from last page:
In addition to any other actions:
Ricki & Mac – talk about how open chests work:
Was there a (now broken) lock in the debris Mac produced from the chest?
Could Ricki lock an open chest?
The idea here is to figure out if open chests should be counted as having locks
I’m 99% certain unlocked chests don’t have locks. Check out the behavior/appearance of the unlocked lock on the double lock chest in the warrens. It doesn’t turn gold, it simply splits in half. Link to said post included for your/others convenience.
https://dungeoneyes.com/dungeon-5-turn-40/
That being said, there’s no harm in trying to have this conversation if LSN will let us do it along with the listed actions. If I was able to edit my post I’d do so to include trying this conversation as a casual addendum to the skeleton murder(re-murder?), but I don’t currently have access to the device/IP address that made that comment. I did upvote your post though.
Mmh yeah that’s a good point. I’d still argue we should try to see what extra information we could gain this way – even if it’s just to figure out whether we can.
We could also try to check if squirrels are rats – maybe ask Mac if he knows any Kobolds named Acorn (and whether squirrels / tree rats bother that one more often)?
What if it is remaining, instead of numbers of rats, locks, and ladders from the beginning?
Search the rest of the bookcases and the rest of the level before trying again. We can’t afford to guess.
Possible, buy how would a number of ladders change? Doesn’t make sense to make two numbers variable, and one not. If it were ‘current’, then using bats or even chests would make more sense, since we now know we can smash a chest.
What if we search one of these bookcases and find one of those silly little rolling library ladders?
well, obviously “not visible when dungeon started” 😛
but of course, “not visible” is also a conjecture
also, what if the two-pixels standing out from a chest here are a ninjaladderat? 🙂
Maybe there’s a secret room from a wardrobe?