Intermission 9 Page 38
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“Actually, I don’t think we’re gonna go to a dungeon right now. I have something else I need to take care of first.”
“Oh. I see.”
“I’ll still do some shopping now, then we’ll go to one of those places in a week or two, okay?”
“…Very well. I’ll continue to look forward to out first expedition together, then.”
“Excuse me.”
“…You’re in it real deep now, Ricki.”
“What do you mean?”
“No use worrying about it now. Just keep your eyes open.”
“Anyway, want to convert some of that cash you just got into something useful?”
You can now buy and sell items, order renovations, and select your loadout for the next dungeon. The party for the Burned Temple consists of Ricki and Lara, with no other characters or pets.
The next page will be posted Tuesday, so there’s two days to decide!
No pets? Good to know. Theory that temple is going to encourage us to burn corruption is looking true.
Yeah, I was wondering whether it’d be worth leaving pets out to leave room for Subdue. This simplifies things.
Shame we can’t bring the mule when already low on inventory, but I agree that there probably won’t be too much proper loot. Does make me wonder how much space to spend on equipment… I could see bringing the more esoteric stuff (Helmet, Heavy Gauntlets/Greaves) to buff stats while leaving space to use standard loot we find.
Sell
Gold: 128
Shield, Rusty Heavy: 6.5 (Its garbo)
5x Piercing Arrows: 15 (they’re garbo)
Spear, Corn: 6 (better weapons)
Greataxe: 9.5 (we have a spare)
Greataxe: 9.5 (not anymore)
Hammer, Gold: 9 (Money)
Longsword, Gold: 7 (Money)
Shield: 10 (Better Shields)
Total Funds: 200
Buy
Magic lens 8
Rope 7
Lockpicks X2 10
Wand of mend 35
Total 60
Manor upgrades
Child’s bedroom 50
Kitchen 30
Foyer 30
Library 30
Total 140
Grand total spent: 200
Reasoning: child’s bedroom is a priority as it is a bonus hp and ability for the character that is required in every dungeon.
Other rooms unlock new upgrades and we’ll get a full picture of what the manor can provide.
I’ll let the others figure out the loadout for Ricki and Lara and edit it in later
I suspect that the bond dungeon will be similar in size to the prison and will be shorter in duration. While we prob won’t get much new money/loot, we still have some things we can sell if we need to
I don’t like building Ricki Room over Mac Room.
With your plan we have 0 gold left. That means we HAVE to get 50 gold from Smooch dungeons to raise Mac Bond cap, and we want that 100% for Guard Outpost and Research Facility. Those are loot Dungeons and Mac has special ability to compress it into rings.
If we build Ricki Room now we are going to be taking Mac to a Dungeon while he is at cap. That’s a waste
+1hp isn’t that great. I would rather gamble on Mac bonus ability from his room (and he also needs that HP. even more than Ricki).
1 lense seems not enough. We will want to lense a Boss, and some spooky common enemy.
3 whole new sets of Manor Upgrades is a lot. We won’t be able to buy them anyway. Options are nice, but not when they cost 30 gold each.
For people who have trouble reading the colours…
RICKI: “Actually, I don’t think we’re gonna go to a dungeon right now. I have something else I need to take care of first.”
AMADEUSZ: “Oh. I see.”
RICKI: “I’ll still do some shopping now, then we’ll go to one of those places in a week or two, okay?”
AMADEUSZ: “…Very well. I’ll continue to look forward to out first expedition together, then.”
“Excuse me.”
PAWS: “…You’re in it real deep now, Ricki.”
RICKI: “What do you mean?”
PAWS: “No use worrying about it now. Just keep your eyes open.”
“Anyway, want to convert some of that cash you just got into something useful?”
You can now buy and sell items, order renovations, and select your and loadout for the next dungeon. The party for the Burned Temple consists of Ricki and Lara, with no other characters or pets.
No pets?! Awww, why?
(Daisy looks depressed about that, too. At least that’s my interpretation.)
(… And Macadamia seems to have gotten another letter from Chestnut, how adorable is that?)
Sell
Gold: 128
Shield, Rusty Heavy: 6.5 (Its garbo)
5x Piercing Arrows: 15 (they’re garbo)
Spear, Corn: 6 (better weapons)
Greataxe: 9.5 (we have a spare)
Greataxe: 9.5 (not anymore)
Hammer, Gold: 9 (Money)
Longsword, Gold: 7 (Money)
Shield: 10 (Better Shields)
Total Funds: 200
Items:
Magic Lens x2 (16) – 1 for random minions (we will definitly want to lense Currupted Cultists for Lara lore) and 1 for Boss.
Rope x1 (7) – in case
Thieves’ Tools x2 (10)
Potion of Ectoplasm x1 (12) – We are going to only have 2 party members. Ricki has Grit giving her 3HP heal, but it’s still prudent to have some big one turn heal that can get us out of danger. Think of it as emergency button so we don’t loose a character. 5HP is a lot. If we end up not needing it. Good. We get to save it for another dungeon.
totall: -45
Manor Upgrades:
Library (30) – Science tech tree is always the most important one.
Kitchen (30) – being able to get coocked food take-outs for dungeons would be amazing.
that gives us 2 new sets of Manor Upgrades, surelly we don’t need more options.
Sentry Post (30) – We should heed Amadeusz warning about “bringing attention to us” and Post flavour text is about warning about upcoming Guards. We need it after we are done with one of the new dungeons. Since it provides Labour (Sweet sweet Gold) we might as well get it build now.
Basement Apartament (50) – Been a while since we smiffen any rings. We 100% bring Mac to Guard Outpost and Research Facility. We need to build this now or next intermission (assuming we do Poisoned Well, if not then it has to be now. We are doing Poisoned Well next, right? Right!?).
totall: -140
Left Gold 15
Was considering Shack with Still, since 15 left over gold, but it really doesn’t seem worth it. We will never buy anything from it anyway and with +1 Labout it will take 15 dungeons for the cost to return.
3rd Magic Lense was also a consideration, but decided against it over concerns around Inventory Space. we will use up the 2 Lenses i want to take (and regret not having more), but it might take a while before we see first enemy that’s worth it and untill then we gotta have some free space.
Save 15 gold so we can get Ricki room next intermission. Even if we don’t manage to get 50, it’s not like with Mac where we need his <3 cap raised for the loot dungeons.
Delaying Kitchen by 1 dungeon might be worth it. We get to see Library upgrades, if nothing seems worth it, move to Kitchen, then Foyer and finally Living Room.
Alternative option that includes Mac’s Bedroom
Sell
Gold: 128
Shield, Rusty Heavy: 6.5 (Its garbo)
5x Piercing Arrows: 15 (they’re garbo)
Spear, Corn: 6 (better weapons)
Greataxe: 9.5 (we have a spare)
Greataxe: 9.5 (not anymore)
Hammer, Gold: 9 (Money)
Longsword, Gold: 7 (Money)
Shield: 10 (Better Shields)
Total Funds: 200
Buy
Magic lens 8
Rope 7
Lockpicks X2 10
Wand of mend 35
Torch 2
Total 62
Manor upgrades
Child’s bedroom 50
Kitchen 30
Mac’s Bedroom 50
Total 130
Grand total spent: 192
Reasoning: child’s bedroom is a priority as it is a bonus hp and ability for the character that is required in every dungeon.
Mac’s Bedroom to raise cap ahead of item heavy dungeons.
Kitchen for new upgrades and not having to see them eat on the floor anymore.
Loadout
Ricki] (HP: 5 / ATK: 9 / DEF: 7 / FIRE DEF: 10)
– Swiftblade
– Hide Armour, Bat (2)
– Shield, Magma (2)
– Wand of Fireball
– Magic Lens
– Thieves’ Tools
– Thieves’ Tools
– Thieves’ Tools (Acquired on Dungeon Start)
– torch
Ring: Silver Ring of Aggression
Ring: Silver Ring of Aggression
[Lara] (HP: 9 / ATK: 9 / DEF: 4 / POISON DEF: 13)
– Siege Sword (2)
– Rotfang Hood
– Dragon Robe, Poison
– Heavy Gauntlets
– Heavy Greaves
– Rope
– Wand of Mend
– Pack Of Cigarettes (Acquired on Dungeon Start)
–
Ring: Copper Ring of Protection
Ring: Copper Ring of Protection
This looks good to me. Suggested loadouts:
[Ricki] (HP: 5 / ATK: 9 / DEF: 7 / FIRE DEF: 10)
– Swiftblade
– Hide Armour, Bat (2)
– Shield, Magma (2)
– Wand of Fireball
– Magic Lens
– Thieves’ Tools
– Thieves’ Tools
– Thieves’ Tools (Acquired on Dungeon Start)
–
Ring: Silver Ring of Aggression
Ring: Silver Ring of Aggression
[Lara] (HP: 9 / ATK: 9 / DEF: 4 / POISON DEF: 13)
– Siege Sword (2)
– Rotfang Hood
– Dragon Robe, Poison
– Heavy Gauntlets
– Heavy Greaves
– Rope
– Wand of Mend
– Pack Of Cigarettes (Acquired on Dungeon Start)
–
Ring: Copper Ring of Protection
Ring: Copper Ring of Protection
My only qualm with this is that we aren’t spending much gold on what Amadeusz wants us to. He specifically suggested new furniture and eating utensils. We’re getting one of those, and there are three more rooms that will remain totally dilapidated. I’d sorta prefer we just do Mac’s room along with two or three manor upgrades – like the kitchen, foyer or living room, and library. That being said, we definitely want both Ricki and Mac’s room, and getting them both now will mean we aren’t looking at spending additional money on building rooms to enable bond until Bot goes on another dungeon.
He also strongly advised us to get Guard Tower.
Don’t sell the 2nd Greataxe now, it wastes the 0.5 gold for nothing since you have 10 gold leftover anyway.
We can sell it later in pair with another 0.5 gold item.
Claudious, can you edit in Sick’s loadout from his comment below?
done
Apologies for the last minute change of adding a torch for anti-faithless insurance. If LSN is already doing his update o well.
I just hope people don’t mind the 2gp change ….