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[Devastator]

Remember, "Badly Wounded" is 'below half'.  "Lightly Wounded" is below three-quarters but above half.

[King Zultan]

Trence slashes and re-ups flowing water.
Sessha trickshots. We have disabling poison applied, so this is better than vertigo.

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[syvarris]

I guess Willis' absolute zero actually chunked it a lot more than I figured, putting it to 60% or so.  And we just knocked it down into Badly Wounded.

[Devastator]

Trence uses Claw Slash! and reactivates Flowing Water.  The fish is cut yet again, but doesn't seem to take that much damage.  Or suffer from more poison.  The sheathe re-forms as expected.

..and his paw is still feeling the sting of those barbs.  Trence takes 8 fire and 4 cold damage, bringing him down to 58 HP.

Sessha uses Trickshot!

She moves in close and leaves several daggers along the fish's belly, right in the softer gut area.  They strike deeply, and the intense poison ripples through the creature.

The poison effect lands, and the creature will have to make fresh saves every turn!

In addition, it suffers from reduced attack, status defense, and is blinded!.

The fish moves into attack, but with the hampered senses the tentacles do not strike accurately!  One reaches for Trence, and misses, and the other aims for Sessha, who dodges.  Wasn't even close enough to disrupt the water shield.

Instead of attacking, the main body does something different.  It floats in the water, and uses one of its tentacles to scrape off a portion of its metallic spines.  The fish creature than eats them.

The Dendritic Holochroal Elder Sturgeon is maxed out!  All status effects are cleared!

Sessha can't talk underwater, but she seems incredibly irritated.


You are Sessha Naver.

Someone made this goddamn fish monster.  They found a holochroal monster, let it imitate a really, really annoying set of equipment, and somehow figured out how to make it imitate a freaking Megalixer.  And you have no idea how many pseudo-megalixers it can use in a day!

..It's going to be fucking Dorren again, isn't it?  That jackass always does stupid bullshit.

Now facing: One Dendritic Holochroal Elder Sturgeon! (full)

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Trence Colunstin
70/100 HP
18/54 MP
Hasted
Blade Dragon + Venom + Water
Battle Aura
Poison Fang
Flowing Water
Heal Aura, 12 points, 1 more turn.
(Defense +++)

Fight
-> Claw Slash!  Attack one creature.
Damage ++++
-> Double Claw! Attack one creature twice.  Tiring.
Damage ++++
-> Wave Slash!  Damage ++++
Like a slash, but a shockwave hits all enemies in a group.
-> Tail Strike!  Smaaaaaash one group of creatures.  Tiring.
Damage +++

Skills
-> Blade Counter!  Counterattack any creature that attacks Trence.  Tiring.
Damage ++++
-> Chomp!  Bite a creature, and don't let go!  Does damage each turn until successfully saved.
Damage +++
-> Poison Fang.  Adds poison to all attacks made for the remainder of the battle.
-> Flowing Water.  Boosts evasion on self.

Magic
-> Venom Breath. 10 MP. Hits all enemies on the field with a moderately strong blast of poison.  Tiring.
-> Water Breath. 10 MP. Hits all enemies on the field with a moderately strong blast of water.  Tiring.
-> Revert. 0MP

Willis Naver
XX/77 HP
1/37 MP

Fight
-> Shoot! Attacks one creature with arrows.
Damage +++
-> Rapid Fire!  Attacks all creatures in a group with arrows.  Tiring.
Damage +
-> Ice Arrow! Attacks one creature with cold-infused arrows.
Damage +++, Cold enchanted.

Skills
-> Meditation.  Next spell does one damage level more than normal.
-> Entangle.  Weakens a single target's physical attack and defense.  Prevents running.
-> Web Grapnel.
-> Battle Aura.  When active, allows single-target beneficial effects applied to just you to also affect the other members of the party.  Painful when combined with Dragon Form.

Magic
-> Meteor Strike!  Massive fire damage that hits a whole group of enemies.  Costs 28 MP.
-> Absolute Zero.  Extreme cold damage to a single enemy.  Costs 22 MP.
-> Fireworks!  Moderate fire damage that hits all enemies.  Costs 24 MP.
-> Tsunami!  Heavy water damage that hits all enemies.  Costs 36 MP.

Sessha Naver
184/184 HP
53/58 MP
Heal Aura, 12 points, 1 more turn.
Disabling Poison
(Defense +++)

Fight
-> Dagger Throw.  Attacks one creature with thrown knives.
Damage +++
-> Flurry of Darts+.  Attacks all creatures in a group with thrown knives.
Damage +
-> Trick shot.  Critically attacks one creature with a thrown knife.  Tiring.
Damage +++  Increased chance of critical

Skills
-> Poison Dagger (disabling) Adds automatic debuff attempts to dagger attacks, along with a chance of inflicting several disabling status effects.
-> Poison Dagger (lethal) Adds poison status effect to dagger attacks.  Guaranteed to take effect on non-resistant targets.
-> Backstab.  Charges for a turn to do massive damage to a target next turn.  Tiring.
Damage ++++++
-> Indignation. Raises magic resistance on self by one level.

Magic
-> Heal, cost 6 MP  Heals a little. ~80 HP
-> Healmore, cost 18 MP  Heals a lot. ~140 HP
-> Group Heal, cost 20 MP  Heals all party members for a little. ~70 HP
-> Vertigo, cost 5 MP. Reduces target's attack and defense.
-> Armor One, cost 12 MP. Increases defense significantly for one target
-> Sonic Stun, cost 11 MP.  Target may miss next turn.
-> Shadow Messenger, cost 6 MP.  Talk to any known target within this city.

Alice Nepenthe
XX/69 (91) HP
49/60 MP

Fight
-> Punch!  Alice strikes one enemy with her fists.  +++, but her fists are only equivalent to a +1 weapon!

Skills
-> Harry+.  One enemy will attack Alice Nepenthe next round.  Will take minor counterattack damage. +
-> Stance of Valour.  One friendly target will be protected from all damage next round, up to Alice's HP total.  Tiring.

Magic
-> Crackle.  One group of enemies will take moderate lightning damage.  14 MP.
-> Thundershock.  One enemy will take moderate lightning damage.  Enemy is likely to become paralyzed, and will not be able to use tiring moves.  12 MP.
-> Heal.  Heals target a little.  ~45 HP.  7 MP.
-> Heal Aura.  For the next 6 turns, all allies are healed for ~12 HP a turn.  11 MP.

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

2 medium firebombs
5 potions (Heal 50)
5 smelling salts (revive at 10%)
3 high potions (Heal 200)
8 mana potions (Restore mana)
4 Antidote herbs (Cure Poison)
1 smoke bomb (Escape from encounter)
6 scan crystals
Farflame Mana Symbol. (restores 15MP, doesn't use a turn, Trence only.)

[King Zultan]

Would using a scan crystal on this thing give us any info about it we haven't already figured out?

[NJW2000]

Well, the good news is that we’re probably on the right track here, if Dorren is trying to kill us.

The bad news is that we might be doing this for a while. I like the scan crystal idea…

How do smokebombs work underwater? Assuming Sessha knows.

[Egan_BW]

Guess we should have bought some inkbombs for use underwater~

[Egan_BW]

Well, it can't use a potion if it's dead. We can keep trying for the instakill poison.

Trence: MP pot, double slash.
Sessha: Revive Alice.

If the fish is dumb enough, maybe it'll let us get another heal aura.

[Devastator]

Would using a scan crystal on this thing give us any info about it we haven't already figured out?

It would give you a maximum HP reading, dependant on whoever uses the crystal.  It would also give you a vague but more complete breakdown of it's resistances as well as any effects in play from equipment.

How do smokebombs work underwater? Assuming Sessha knows.

Surprisingly well!  They work just fine.

[IronyOwl]

Trence scan crystals, Sessha smokebombs out. We're not getting paid nearly enough for this bullshit.


So the bad news is this thing is literally designed to be as obnoxious as possible. The good news is that we're clever jackasses who adore shiny objects, so we'll be back eventually.

The other good news is that disabling poison seemed unusually effective. We might be able to bait out elixir uses with debuffs, or rely on being able to heavily debuff it without clearing until it hits half health. Overall though I think we're just going to need a more elegant method of diving this deep; going in without our real armor isn't working too great.

[syvarris]

Trence uses scan crystal, double claw slash.
Sessha uses standard dagger throw.

We probably do have a solution here, instakill poison, but the fish's "equipment" might provide resistance to that.  I don't want to leave until we know this won't work; even if we have to use some mana potions, it's cheaper than coming back later.  Also, I want to land the debuff poison some more, to see if it keeps eating its "megalixer" spines.  If it just does that whenever it gets a severe debuff, we know there's no meaningful limit, a very important fact.  If it doesn't, we can just sit here and grind until we kill it, through instakill poison or running down a few HP bars.

Leaving before we're sure we have the information we need is foolish, IMO.  We're very unlikely to just lose flat out.  Sessha has too much HP to die before she can escape.

[King Zultan]

Trence uses scan crystal, double claw slash.
Sessha uses standard dagger throw.

We probably do have a solution here, instakill poison, but the fish's "equipment" might provide resistance to that.  I don't want to leave until we know this won't work; even if we have to use some mana potions, it's cheaper than coming back later.  Also, I want to land the debuff poison some more, to see if it keeps eating its "megalixer" spines.  If it just does that whenever it gets a severe debuff, we know there's no meaningful limit, a very important fact.  If it doesn't, we can just sit here and grind until we kill it, through instakill poison or running down a few HP bars.

Leaving before we're sure we have the information we need is foolish, IMO.  We're very unlikely to just lose flat out.  Sessha has too much HP to die before she can escape.

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[Devastator]

Spoiler: Scan info (click to show/hide)

Elder Sturgeon

HP: 15 Claw Slashes
MP: 0

Attack ++(++++)
Defense ++(++)
Magic Attack +++
Magic Defense ++++(++)

Strong against Fire
Strong against Cold
Immune to Water
Strong against Wind
Strong against Lightning
Strong against Earth

Immune to Instant Death.
Saves boosted

Gear (Ersatz)
Volcanic Ruby Chakram [+4]
Cryonic Aquamarine Chakram [+4]
Cloudwalker Feather Padded Armour [+4]
Ring of Elemental Armour
Greater Skull Totem

Trence then uses Double Claw Slash!  Neither the poison or the instant death procs, which isn't surprising after what the scan crystal told you.  Skull totem probably blocks the death effect.

..Huh, that attack didn't burn too much.  Only 2 fire damage.

Sessha uses Dagger Throw.

This time the ongoing poison effect doesn't land, presumably due to the extra saves, but several effects do.  Attack is reduced.  Magic attack and magic defense is reduced.

Doesn't stop the fish from attacking.  Both tentacles come out at Trence.

..they don't seem coated in bubbles and ice this time.  Instead they're coated in odd brownish-black spikes.  Spikes on spikes, very fractal.  Unfortunately the distraction is too much, and the tentacles hit too squarely to be deflected by the flowing water aura.

Trence takes 32 and 28 damage!  The magical damage is now Earth-type, instead of Fire and Cold.  Trence is at 8 HP!

Although he can see them starting to bubble up a little.. maybe it'll wear off in a few turns.

Once again Trence is surprised by the fish's lack of expressions.  It really doesn't give much warning for its attack.  It darts forward and opens its mouth, trying to suck the dragon inside it's mouth.  This time, Trence barely manages to escape, as it turns into a quick sort of mini-chase, prevented only by the sheath of flowing water.  Terrifying.  Those barbs don't stop all the way down the throat..

..anyway..

The healing aura from Alice fades out, expended.

Now Facing One Dendritic Holochroal Elder Sturgeon! (scratched) (attack - mattack - mdefense -)

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Trence Colunstin
20/100 HP
14/54 MP
Hasted
Blade Dragon + Venom + Water
Battle Aura
Poison Fang
Flowing Water
(Defense +++)

Fight
-> Claw Slash!  Attack one creature.
Damage ++++
-> Double Claw! Attack one creature twice.  Tiring.
Damage ++++
-> Wave Slash!  Damage ++++
Like a slash, but a shockwave hits all enemies in a group.
-> Tail Strike!  Smaaaaaash one group of creatures.  Tiring.
Damage +++

Skills
-> Blade Counter!  Counterattack any creature that attacks Trence.  Tiring.
Damage ++++
-> Chomp!  Bite a creature, and don't let go!  Does damage each turn until successfully saved.
Damage +++
-> Poison Fang.  Adds poison to all attacks made for the remainder of the battle.
-> Flowing Water.  Boosts evasion on self.

Magic
-> Venom Breath. 10 MP. Hits all enemies on the field with a moderately strong blast of poison.  Tiring.
-> Water Breath. 10 MP. Hits all enemies on the field with a moderately strong blast of water.  Tiring.
-> Revert. 0MP

Willis Naver
XX/77 HP
1/37 MP

Fight
-> Shoot! Attacks one creature with arrows.
Damage +++
-> Rapid Fire!  Attacks all creatures in a group with arrows.  Tiring.
Damage +
-> Ice Arrow! Attacks one creature with cold-infused arrows.
Damage +++, Cold enchanted.

Skills
-> Meditation.  Next spell does one damage level more than normal.
-> Entangle.  Weakens a single target's physical attack and defense.  Prevents running.
-> Web Grapnel.
-> Battle Aura.  When active, allows single-target beneficial effects applied to just you to also affect the other members of the party.  Painful when combined with Dragon Form.

Magic
-> Meteor Strike!  Massive fire damage that hits a whole group of enemies.  Costs 28 MP.
-> Absolute Zero.  Extreme cold damage to a single enemy.  Costs 22 MP.
-> Fireworks!  Moderate fire damage that hits all enemies.  Costs 24 MP.
-> Tsunami!  Heavy water damage that hits all enemies.  Costs 36 MP.

Sessha Naver
184/184 HP
53/58 MP
Disabling Poison
(Defense +++)

Fight
-> Dagger Throw.  Attacks one creature with thrown knives.
Damage +++
-> Flurry of Darts+.  Attacks all creatures in a group with thrown knives.
Damage +
-> Trick shot.  Critically attacks one creature with a thrown knife.  Tiring.
Damage +++  Increased chance of critical

Skills
-> Poison Dagger (disabling) Adds automatic debuff attempts to dagger attacks, along with a chance of inflicting several disabling status effects.
-> Poison Dagger (lethal) Adds poison status effect to dagger attacks.  Guaranteed to take effect on non-resistant targets.
-> Backstab.  Charges for a turn to do massive damage to a target next turn.  Tiring.
Damage ++++++
-> Indignation. Raises magic resistance on self by one level.

Magic
-> Heal, cost 6 MP  Heals a little. ~80 HP
-> Healmore, cost 18 MP  Heals a lot. ~140 HP
-> Group Heal, cost 20 MP  Heals all party members for a little. ~70 HP
-> Vertigo, cost 5 MP. Reduces target's attack and defense.
-> Armor One, cost 12 MP. Increases defense significantly for one target
-> Sonic Stun, cost 11 MP.  Target may miss next turn.
-> Shadow Messenger, cost 6 MP.  Talk to any known target within this city.

Alice Nepenthe
XX/69 (91) HP
49/60 MP

Fight
-> Punch!  Alice strikes one enemy with her fists.  +++, but her fists are only equivalent to a +1 weapon!

Skills
-> Harry+.  One enemy will attack Alice Nepenthe next round.  Will take minor counterattack damage. +
-> Stance of Valour.  One friendly target will be protected from all damage next round, up to Alice's HP total.  Tiring.

Magic
-> Crackle.  One group of enemies will take moderate lightning damage.  14 MP.
-> Thundershock.  One enemy will take moderate lightning damage.  Enemy is likely to become paralyzed, and will not be able to use tiring moves.  12 MP.
-> Heal.  Heals target a little.  ~45 HP.  7 MP.
-> Heal Aura.  For the next 6 turns, all allies are healed for ~12 HP a turn.  11 MP.

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

2 medium firebombs
5 potions (Heal 50)
5 smelling salts (revive at 10%)
3 high potions (Heal 200)
8 mana potions (Restore mana)
4 Antidote herbs (Cure Poison)
1 smoke bomb (Escape from encounter)
6 scan crystals
Farflame Mana Symbol. (restores 15MP, doesn't use a turn, Trence only.)

[Egan_BW]

Who gives a monster an immunity to instant death accessory? Dammit.

We need a thief to swipe that stuff off it. :p

[King Zultan]

Should we use vertigo now since we can't use the instant death on this thing.