Dungeon 7 Turn 20
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While Kamau and Lohk return to the barn’s entrance, Macadamia keeps the corn knight busy by continuing to attack it. Although he takes no damage from doing so, he also doesn’t deal very much damage himself due to the ever-present pollen once again taking a toll on the entire party.
Even with the weakening effect, Kamau is still able to take out the injured rooster (if Lohk provides him with some light). He takes no damage from the counterattack. A second chicken emerges from the chicken coop at the end of the turn.
Ricki also returns to the barn entrance after opening the final locked door above. She decides not to mention to any of her friends that there were any locked doors at all, so none of them question why she still has all of her thieves’ tools.
More cawing can be heard from somewhere to the left. Those crows must be really excited about something.
Mac: Go two screens to the left and try to pull the hay bale along the metal beam one screen to the right by whatever means you find appropriate.
Lohk: Keep lighting up the room. Stow your shield, and use your now-free hand to ray of frost the potatobeast.
Kamau: interpose against potatobeast.
Ricki: attack potatobeast.
Explanation: We are unsure what the crows are doing out there. If they damage the hay bale, our chance of befriending Manny the Mammoth is gone.
It is possible the crows are attacking the pumpkin
For what’s worth, it’s also possible that the second-eye-of-the-mystic-crow, the one that displayed produce-in-a-bag, meant that there’s a food transport coming. Crazed merchant generated by the dungeon, and a merchant’s wagon, pulled by a bull, full of goods, all mimics, all pretending to be produce.
Uhm, how about:
Kamau goes left (in top level) one room and pushes the bale of hay back to the right (and also moves back right, too, if that is possible)
Lohk goes up one room and loots the left bottom chest (holding out her torch while she is in the room with the potatoe beast)
Ricki goes up one room and loots the right upper chest
Macadamia goes left one room, up one room and then loots the bottom right chest.
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Kamau shouldn’t be hurt by the potatoe beast and everyone else isn’t close while it is still light in the room.
With our ability to bring down enemies we might need to grab what we can and get out of here. Even if the bale of hay doesn’t let us tame the mammoth bull, it might at least distract him until our group was able to get away.
The loot in the chests might be worth more coins, so we possibly can afford Kamau’s appartment after this dungeon… *fingers crossed*
At the very least we won’t have wasted Ricki’s actions to unlock all those doors, if we get the loot behind them. 🙂
Also here goes my theory that the bull’s fur colour might match the puzzle chest. I honestly don’t know what it could be this time. I can’t wait to find out. (Btw. did anyone happen to go back to other dungeons to check if this might have been a match with Rusty’s colour or the demon rat’s? If so, what was the result?)
Oh, I didn’t mention it in my post, but Kamau has produce on him. He may get swarmed by crows.
Colors do not match, all previous chests have been an exact match, so far the only exact match has been the red of the barn seen from the outside during the intermission, so best guess is clearing the barn in some fashion
Uhm yeah, that’s why I said that my theory “goes there” (as in “out the window”). It didn’t turn out to be true, as is often the case with theories. What exactly was your point in telling me the colours don’t match?
As for your idea of clearing the barn: I don’t see that happening, so the only way we find out if that was the prerequisite to opening the chest is either a) in the “after dungeon stream” or b) by finding out the puzzle chest had a different unlock condition than this.
In addition, I’d also like to say that I find “clearing the barn” an extremely unlikely unlock condition (especially if that includes the roof of the barn as well), because there are SO many monsters (with decent DEF and HP or sheer numbers of enemies) in/on the barn and our capacity to deal damage is dropping rapidly – while just GETTING to the barn would have taken 5 turns alone, even if we had ignored everything on the way there.
True, LSN sometimes has a tight schedule for these puzzle chests (see the demon rat), but it is usually do-able. (I can’t remember a single chest where the unlock condition was -this- tough, especially with the chickens/rooster combos AND the coop re-spawning chickens regularly, this seems like an insurmountable task and hence I personally deem it unlikely.)
I figured the hay bale was best dropped onto the pumpkin so we don’t get him acting as a surprise boss.
Just looney tunes him!
Thanks, Perth! 🙂
Previous turn had a comment and comments to that, which discussed moving the hay bale by the rail to the right and feeding the Mammoth with it, either to tame or to distract it (allowing us to leave the dungeon at its right end). The pumpkin might be engaged by throwing a chest onto it, after a chest has been made movable by looting it. https://dungeoneyes.com/dungeon-7-turn-19/#comment-7822
Why no Cleave?
Kamau attack: 3, Ring of Aggression +1, pollen -2, cleave -3, sum: 3+1-2-3=-1, attack mercifully does not drop lower than zero, but that is still not good enough to hit a chicken. So, while Kamau could have done “cleave”, there would have been no result, thus LSN just skipped it.
Forgot the 1 from his hilt, but the end result is the same.
You are right, I was wrong.
Not in any important way. The end result was the same, I only mentioned it because I routinely forget to add weapon damage on Kamau, since he’s always using a shield.