Intermission 11 Page 4
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After a few more days, Paws arrives at the manor.
“Hello, Ricki. Is, uh…”
“He’s upstairs.”
“Great.”
“And how did your mission with him go?”
“Pretty smoothly, I’d say.”
“He did bring up some… dubious ideas…”
“But he seemed pretty okay with not following through on them. Plus, now we have some spare bombs for later!”
“Mm. I see.”
“Well, I’m glad it all worked out.”
“I assume you’ll be wanting to head out on your next job soon?”
“Yeah, I think we’re all rested up and ready!”
“Even the flower girl? She doesn’t look well.”
“She just learned what books are made of.”
“its so messed up you have no idea”
“Right. I’m not sure I can help with that, but of course I have all of my regular services available.”
“Do you know where it is you’re heading?”
“Let’s see… There’s still that poisoned well in that village you mentioned. The one you weren’t sure we’d be able to breathe in.”
“Or there’s that other place Ama—”
“Don’t.”
“That other place the new guy suggested, the Imperial research facility. There’s supposed to be lots of magic items stored there, but also lots of magic creatures.”
“Oh, and the Guard may have stepped up their patrols at that one.”
“Well, if those are the only two options…”
Ricki thinks carefully about whether to visit the well or the Imperial facility next.
Like this comment to go to the Poisoned Well!
This is the last chance to visit this dungeon.
Time to go spelunking with our hot drider girlfriend. To the poison well we go!
Okay,so I did some math (again) & calculated the money & sellable items:
COLLECTED MONEY(COINPURSE) + STORAGE MONEY + LABOUR MONEY = 8 + 15 + 11 =34 total coins.
The things that are sellable include:
Ricki: Golem Core bombx2 -30×2,Dubious Recipe -25,
Kamau: Shieldx2 -25×2,Plate Armour – 30,Full Helmet -24
Amadeusz: Shield -25,Golem Core -20,Leather Armour -13
Molly: Chain Armourx2 -23×2,Plate Armour -30,Tower Shield -34,
For a grand total of: 357 MONEY!!!Even If divided by 2 (because that’s how Paws works) that’s still 179 MONEY!
That’s likely enough to buy 5 different upgrades!My suggestions are the Kobold Den -40,Undergound Shelter -20,Mammoth Pen -20,Garden -17,Shack With Still -15, for a total of 112 MONEY,& spend the rest on stuff for the Cursed Well exploration…
.Someone in the previous page said Kobold Den,Shack With Still,Sentry Post & Mammoth Pen for 109MONEY,which I’m also fine with!
Paws Packs will probably be open to us on next the next page and we can decide on purchases over the weekend. I think we’re looking at 201 gp to spend after selling off unneeded stuff. Would personally like to buy bedrooms for Coccyx and Amadeusz, and the Sentry Post. Mammoth Pen and Garden don’t seem useful in my opinion.
Consider joining the Discord if you’d like to join our discussions there.
I wanted to get all the uogrades that increase Labour,hence the 2 kobold rooms,garden & mammoth pen.
I’d like to join,but I just don’t use Discord the way my sibling does.I only got my Youtube & Royal Road accounts to keep track of my favorite stories.Plus I am at my IRL job currently.
Doesn’t mean I DON’T have a lot of ideas.I am just (mostly) doubtful of sharing them…
Please copypaste my comments over there,if you could be so kind,sir.Give the Discord folk my regards.
Hearty Meal may go a long way for the Poison Well, under the expectation that we’ll need to take unblockable suffocation damage.
Amadeusz doesn’t have a listed living space at the moment, though he technically only joined just now. We got the Closet before even bringing Coxxyx to a dungeon, and Amadeusz similarly only has one bond threshold (and no empty slot after the |? Was that always like that?).
I’m pretty sure the Closet became purchasable after we brought Coccyx home from the Tomb. Same thing might happen with Amadeusz. He technically wasn’t a party member until right before we entered Dungeon 11, so we haven’t had a chance to buy him a room yet if he’s able to get one. The missing Empty Bond symbol looks like a mistake, since it’s still there in the Current Party page.
Lara is nice,sure,but I was hoping we try Coccyx for once.
This’d be easier if I could use the Discord Server.
Can anyone copy-paste my comments over there?
You can use the discord owo if you have either a computer or a phone, it’s dead easy to set one up. It’ll take you maybe 2 minutes and is free.
I’m sure it is,but it isn’t JUST that for me,there’s also plain disinterest.
I’m sure making an Amazon account & getting Bezoz-malware would be equally easy.
The well,AFTER we buy all the upgrades I suggested (mostly the ones that give extra Labour)
Extra labor is worth very little at this point in the game. Quite possibly even negative worth.
Each labor = 1gp/dungeon. Most of the labor options cost ~10gp/labor.
We’re ~2 years into the comic, and have finished 11 dungeons. LSN has said that he plans to run the comic for 3-5 years. So that means that even with a generous estimate, we’ll have made no profit until the comic is 90% done. If the comic runs short, we’ll get negative return on investment. If it runs long, the return on investment will only be a few gp.
A more worthwhile investment is anything that will increase our survivability, mobility, or carry capacity. Managing to get one extra mid-value item per dungeon would be worth dramatically more than what labor would net us.
Why is the background different?Where did Ricki’s face go?
Ricki will be back. The background is fireflies. It’s a memorial to LSN’s dad.
Oh wow,that must be rough.
I only started reading 2 weeks ago,& don’t know anything about the author.
Like this comment to go to the Research Facility!
I was hoping to get the GARDEN,because +2 extra Labour is nice (plus,it’ll make Botanya feel better after the trauma of discovering books)
We can still get it,if we sell one of Lohk’s robes the Owlbear hat,& maybe Coccyx’s old Bow.
For the next party,we take Kamau for tanking,Lohk for the heals,& Coccyx for the ranged damage (with the new Longbow we stole rrom the outpost)
For pets,we take Golly (obviously),Daisy,Lazuli & Toaster.We buy 12 arrows & put them in Golly (since Coccyx starts with 6 arrows if he doesn’t have any,that’s 18 total arrows.)
We should buy some Wands,for Lohk to absorb.Maybe Venom Barrage if possible?Although Mend is also useful.
Someone,forward this to the Discord Server for me,because I can’t use it!
Besides the garden,we should get: Kobold Den,Shack With Still.
Then either…
Underground Shelter,Mammoth Pen
Or…
Sentry post,Mammoth Pen
There is A LOT of debating over this.
Wow,people do NOT like my suggestions.
Mostly because labor is not a good choice at this point. Labor we bought when we first got the manor might have been a decent return on investment eventually. At this point it’s not.
Things with a story motive, like the underground shelter, have validity for story reasons. But garden is probably the worst choice right now. Mammoth Pen would be #2 worst, unless Botanya’s room turns out to be outside.
For people who have trouble reading coloured text, this time for real, what they actually said…
After a few more days, Paws arrives at the manor.
PAWS: “Hello, Ricki. Is, uh…”
RICKI: “He’s upstairs.”
PAWS: “Great.”
“And how did your mission with him go?”
RICKI: “Pretty smoothly, I’d say.”
“He did bring up some… dubious ideas…”
“But he seemed pretty okay with not following through on them. Plus, now we have some spare bombs for later!”
PAWS (clearly not sure about anything related to that guy possibly being okay, especially not following his ideas): “Mm. I see.”
“Well, I’m glad it all worked out.”
“I assume you’ll be wanting to head out on your next job soon?”
RICKI: “Yeah, I think we’re all rested up and ready!”
PAWS: “Even the flower girl? She doesn’t look well.”
RICKI: “She just learned what books are made of.”
BOTANYA (this is her “they DON’T seem nice!” face): “its so messed up you have no idea”
PAWS: “Right. I’m not sure I can help with that, but of course I have all of my regular services available.”
“Do you know where it is you’re heading?”
RICKI: “Let’s see… There’s still that poisoned well in that village you mentioned. The one you weren’t sure we’d be able to breathe in.”
“Or there’s that other place Ama—”
PAWS: “Don’t.”
RICKI: “That other place the new guy suggested, the Imperial research facility. There’s supposed to be lots of magic items stored there, but also lots of magic creatures.”
“Oh, and the Guard may have stepped up their patrols at that one.”
“Well, if those are the only two options…”
Ricki thinks carefully about whether to visit the well or the Imperial facility next.
I usually DO NOT have any trouble,but I’m currently at work (7:37 in the morning) & also using a Samsung.
My idea is we take:
Kamau (fir tanking)
Lohk (for magic)
Coccyx (so we can raise his Bond.Also,let’s replace his old Bow with the new Longbow we got)
Can anyone forward this to the Discord Server?I don’t use it,also I’m busy.
Poor Botanya =(
I think we should use someone else besides Kamau for the Well because we will surely be using him for tanking in the much more difficult Arcane Tower. One criteria we can use for determining who goes to the Well can be that we also think about who will eventually be used for the Tower.
Lohk and Coccyx are solid choices, though. Coccyx is practically made for this dungeon with his immunity to poison and we do need at least one other small character besides Ricki, so Lohk is a solid choice, too.
Lara might not be a bad replacement for Kamau. Pros for her are that poison doesn’t affect her as badly and this will probably be a vertical drop of a dungeon, so having her climb walls and carry people would be very useful. We built up her poison resistance to level 3 and it feels silly not to use this in a poison dungeon. Plus we want to see some of her new level up options as a drider.
I usually don’t have issues with color, but this time, seriously 😀
click for screenshot ->
when I saw it, for a split second I expected KingRadical from DrMcNinja to break in through the roof shouting “That’s RAD! Approved!”
Ah,HIM.
I haven’t read the webcomic yet,but I AM familiar with Evil Mcdonalds Person.
That’s why we provide this service!
Service?
Indeed, reposting the text in plain black and white here in the comments for the people who have trouble with the colour text.
What the HELL I can’t read paws’ speech normally
Someone else transcribed the dialogue in the comments.
I,myself,just pressed&held my finger.Then drag-highlighted the text as if I was going to copypaste it.
Normal theme will be back tomorrow.
Why did the theme change at all?Is there a holiday?
A death anniversary, sadly.
Fcck,that’s NOT what I was expecting!
And why keep it so vague!?Now I’m just saddened & curious,& want to know more so I can grieve properly!
That is for the griever to divulge, if they so wish.
My vote is Lohk, Coccyx, and Lara for Poisoned Well and Kamau, Mac, and Coccyx for Arcane Tower.
Reasons, which make sense if you consider them in order:
1. No Ama for either because Bond.
2. No Cordy for either because they’re pseudo-immortal already, get no Bond, and are a bonus character.
3. No Botanya for Arcane Tower due to possible fire attacks (Ko-Fi hints that new character can control fire do it’s safe to assume other entities can, too).
4. Kamau for Arcane Tower because it is dangerous and he didn’t get his Bond this past dungeon.
5. Mac for Arcane Tower for loot and ringsmifing purposes, plus he also missed his Bond.
6. Lohk for Poisoned Well because we need another character besides Ricki for small spaces.
7. Coccyx and Lara for Poisoned Well because they’re practically made for it.
8. No Botanya for Poisoned Well because Coccyx, Lara, and Lohk are better options for it, leaving no space for her.
9. Coccyx for Arcane Tower through process of elimination, and for ranged attacks countering potential ranged magic.
I like your arguments.
I wanted to take Kamau instead of Lara,because his extra carrying capacity & tanking with Interpose is always useful.And because already have max Bond with Lara,but your plan sounds better.
Kamau is exceptionally dangerous for the Well. It likely has damage over time (in the form of being submerged and taking damage from not being able to breathe). So Kamau is likely to remorse out quickly.
Admittedly,my entire argument was based on the well being drsined,or the water not riding…
We’ve been told pretty clearly that the Well is starting out flooded. Intermission 6, page 14. Lots of poison, little oxygen.
I suppose I just forgot,due to binging everything & nearly 10 days passing before the current intermission began.