[s0] Dicey Dungeons: Thief Elimination Round

[chalcedony_starlings]

Did the Thief episode 4 (Elimination Round) of Dicey Dungeons on stream today. Five losses, then a win. There were two ridiculous events.

(Game interaction spoilers below this point if you care about that.)

The first was when I borrowed the Alchemist's bear potion and became a bear. Because I couldn't not do that, right? The bear equipment is… not bad, but the next turn or so, I wound up in a position where I had 3 HP and all of my dice were on fire. I had the ability to reduce the alchemist to 1 HP using the free bear attack plus one of my dice. Which, because dice that are on fire cost 2 HP to use, took me down to 1 HP. I needed one additional attack for lethal, but that would require a dice. And my dice were on fire. All of the dice were on fire. On fire they were, all of my dice. And thus.

Bear was defeated…

But the other ridiculous thing was the last run which wound up being the win. I invite you to inspect the following equipment display, screenshotted and annotated after carefully arranging everything I'd gotten throughout the game:

You will notice that the Dagger, the Thief's starting weapon that takes a dice with a value ≤ 3 and does that much damage, +1 damage per use due to the upgrade, is the only damage-dealing equipment.

The rest of the equipment consisted of:

• Blight, which doubles poison. Specifically, it doubles zero poison (because we have no poison-dealing equipment) into zero poison.
• Crowbar, which amplifies the effect of dice across multiple pieces of countdown equipment.
• Three ways of turning dice into a larger number of lower-valued dice: Hacksaw, Lockpick, and Snake Eye Charm.
• Two more dice manipulators: Spatula and Bump.
• Two forms of damage reduction: Leather Armor and Iron Armor.
• Two forms of evasion: Dodge and Last Stand.
• Three forms of healing: First Aid Kit+, Healing Crystal, and Bandage.

And I got to the boss with that, managing to not get the Wisp which had been an absolute disaster to the previous runs with its Vanish-dealer, and won with dagger dagger dagger, dagger dagger, dagger dagger dagger dagger.

Whew. 9..6