Dungeon 7 Turn 27
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After a brief trip downstairs to leave behind her birthday cake, Ricki returns to the corn battle and takes a swing with her axe. However, she doesn’t land a particularly effective hit this time, and so the second corn knight fails to die in a single round of attacks. At least Kamau is no longer taking damage, though.
Plan: Deal with Manny the Mammoth. If we do attempt to kill him, we can use ranged weapons since their damage is not reduced and it will keep the rest of the party safe. As we have a bow, wand and one more fireball cast (then ray of frost). We’ll have a more clear battle plan once we lens him. As a bonus this will secure our exit and let us fiddle with the coop some more.
This would most likely mean giving up on rat chest and stalkroach chest but I feel the potential rewards for Manny will be unique/better.
Kamau: Move down and extra move to right.
Ricki: Move down and Left. Push Hay over to right side
Mac: Kill the last corn
Lhok: Move down one space.
Mac has 7 defense so he can finish the corn off without risk of injury.
Ah, I completely forgot about that. But even so, killing Manny doesn’t seem like the best use of our resources as long as we have the haybale to distract him with instead. Judging by the last couple of dungeon bosses, I’d guess he has 25 HP. That would tie up two or three characters for three or four rounds and use up fireballs that would be better used on plant people. Although the plant people only matter now if we’re trying to clear the barn to pop the mystery chest.
Then again, this is convincing. And I guess clearing the barn is not really realistic. We still have a lot of enemies left in here. We might as well at least lens Manny and see what we’re dealing with.
Re-revised plan:
Kamau and Lohk: double move to coop room.
Mac finish off corn knight.
Ricki, get and equip corn spear once it drops as a free action at end of combat, alongside corn, move to coop room, try to feed 2 corn to coop. If impossible to do so, take out rooster if possible.
Edited because last plan would give us remorse
Explanation: Mac can tank the corn knight or so we think – someone has to because it may attack Lohk – and clear the way for one of the major remaining objectives. Ricki can get in position to take the hay bale out of crows’ way, also another major objective, and give another try for a pet. Rest of the plan is to set up for taking the skelly chest/coop if we can before the crows swarm us.