Some Kingdom Death solo since the board was set up.
Lantern Year 23 showdown - Butcher level 3
Laifuseuskaja, Hovelina, Tranaree and Zoronuro confront the Butcher, and it was rather uneventful. It could have gone south if wrong target would have been picked when Butcher got Lantern Frenzy going on, but instead the target became Laifuseuskaja, whom Butcher hit only on 9+ even with the accuracy tokens!
However, two to four attacks per round against a single target was no joke even with 9+ hits. Laifuseuskaja had to burn her surge each round to use Block on her beacon shield, so progress was on the slower side when it came to wounding the monster since the only one who could reliably wound had to spend her resources on defense. Well, that, and the fact that the 8+ "armor save" on Butcher could have almost as well been the 1.3 version's 6+, so often the nemesis seemed to make those rolls.
There wasn't that much brain damage on rotation. Only one survivor frenzied as a result of infectious lunacy, although both Tranaree and Laifuseuskaja had zero insanity at the end of the showdown.
But, the showdown steadily grinded itself away and it was time for new lantern year.
Lantern Year 24 - Glossolalia
Hovelina who already has no jawbone left receives the Endless Babble ability.
For the first time ever my settlement manages to build the Mask Maker thanks to Butcher dropping the forsaker mask without roll.
1: Settlement innovates Forbidden Dance
2: Forbidden Dance for Laifuseuskaja - success.
3: Forbidden Dance for Voxanius - failure.
4-6: Face Painting for +2 on intimacy
7-8: Two matchmakers for the plant people, +2 population.
9: Scarification for Voekele, blinded.
10-11: Laifuseuskaja and Zoronuro drums for some insanity.
12: Shrine Ritual is success.
Then I should pick a last hunt before the big fight with Watcher. Since I'm leaving Laifuseuskaja to wait for a year and because Antelope Mask looks inviting, I think I'll pick the boring fight against Screaming Antelope level 3.
Lantern Year 24 hunt & showdown: Screaming Antelope level 3 Gigalion level 3
Zoronuro, Hovelina, Menoloromias and Chanial start to hunt for the Antelope. A non-choice of Opportunists as well as Devouring Ground from Antelope hunt events brings survivors to Overwhelming Darkness in no time. Everyone just receives penalties to accuracy and evasion there.
After Overwhelming Darkness not much happened. Just the pickaxe broke, and level 3 Gigalion attacked the survivors.
Fortunately the Dead Monster from the hunt event gave me a headstart and I didn't have to struggle with the smart cat moods. Still, the first round was costly.
Hovelina managed to land two wounds - one of which critted the fuzzy groin. Hoo boy. Showdown just got serious. Zoronuro also manages to wound the monster but with a reprisal reaction, losing total of nine points of armor.
And first four cards showed trap coming up, so I had to juggle around that. I decided to take a risk with Menoloromias the Luma-murdering-spear master-to-be, and for the first time ever I got use out of spear specialization. I'm not sure if it was first time ever, but certainly feels so!
The two cards are, then, failure reactions. First card Menoloromias failed to wound (he needed 5+ after all), got attacked. Since he is immortal, he just took the brain damage and was able to fail the second required 5+, this time getting grabbed.
First AI card is Ground Fighting, but then Vicious kicked in and as Menoloromias was still immortally insane he was not able to dash away.
He started showdown with, like, 26 insanity. After first round he was sitting at light injury level in brain. To make matters worse, I noticed he has the Stark Raving disorder, meaning he continues to be immortal thus rendering his second-highest armor levels useless.
At least there was Ground Fighting in play now. This gave a good opportunity to loot three egg sacs, dead monster and acanthus plants.
Annoyingly, there was trap coming up again.
Vicious caused big trouble in getting to monster's blind spot, but Hovelina had 6+ Understanding so she was able to take aimed shots at the beast without taking brain damage. After a failure reaction with a forward sprint, Zoronuro was able to dash to its blind spot and start swinging counterweighed axe with his mastery, causing two permanent injuries on top of fuzzy groin.
Vicious, however, made it relatively easy to mitigate drawn AI cards with Hovelina dashing just out of reach. Although with Movement 9 (it had gained one -1 move token from a critical location) it required some planning.
My greediness for axe master guaranteed crits cost me the dear life of Zoronuro. He just couldn't make that roll even with a re-roll, and got a basic attack instead - obviously rolling "2" for the one and only severe injury he had to take. RIP Zoronuro, you were with Enerva from LY 1.
What was supposed to be a secure showdown turned out to be excruciation exercise on tip-toeing. Slowly and steadily Hovelina thinned down the hit location deck, but there were still five to six wounds to be done after the deck was emptied.
Since Hovelina was uninjured and had at least four armor in each location, she fished out the trap with grave results. She was in Tall Grass and Gigalion had one negative accuracy token. Still three attacks out of five hit her, causing a severe injury. Since she was Necromancer, chances for her to die were at 30%. She didn't, but this scared me to such extent that Hovelina ate fresh acanthus right away to get body armor back up.
There were two Size Ups and Ground Fighting in the discard pile, so I thought I would be able to make it slowly. But it took so many turns that Hovelina was starting to run out of survival points. When there was only one AI card in the discard pile - Ground Fighting - I thought I had it made.
But then the persistent injury that gave Gigalion wounds on a "1" before it draws AI made its first "successful" roll and wounded the Ground Fighting away. Hovelina was too close to dash away with her last survival point. Only one survival meant Hovelina would not be able to dodge hits if she wanted to dash away from Vicious.
So, Chanial made a valiant sacrifice and dashed next to Hovelina. Tactics card had been Diversion Tactics.
So, Gigalion hulked to Hovelina and took five dice worth of attacks hitting on 4+. Three of them hit. One was mitigated by Diversion Tactics, another by Fencing and the last attack thankfully went to a location with armor. Hovelina then dashed away, leaving Chanial to be torn to shreds with six damage grabs.
Chanial didn't die, merely had to skip next hunt.
After that showdown was essentially done. Hovelina could run too far for Gigalion to catch her, and as she had somehow stolen the cat's testicles with bow and arrow, it would not target anyone else. And then with Vicious it would just run away from as many survivors as possible.
Eventually the "1" would come up.
Chanial and Menoloromias ate the Gigalion's eyes. Pheeew.
After such a difficult showdown at least the rewards were juicy, too. Twenty-nine resources were gathered in total throughout the hunt and showdown.
Lantern Year 25 - Triathlon of Death
Well it's been a while since settlement did one of these, but it's only fitting it happened on the eve of the final mid-boss. It's the fifth Triathlon for this settlement, so somebody will feel sorry for not gaining one more pair of rawhide boots.
Hovelina, Laifuseuskaja, Nodalus and Agyruu take part in the triathlon. Laifuseuskaja is - again - the race contest winner, Nodalus second, Hovelina third and Agyruu last. No surprises there.
Debate contest is won by Hovelina, second place is for Laifuseuskaja with Nodalus third and Agyruu last. Would I get first banished survivor from Triathlon?
Fight contest goes easily to Laifuseuskaja, with second place for Hovelina. Third place is Agyruu so he isn't banished. I suppose Nodalus, the survivor with two dismembered arms, isn't exactly a prime candidate for triathlon duels.
1: Settlement innovates Storytelling for that extra survival limit.
2-3: Face Painting for intimacy.
4: Matchmaker and Love Juice give settlement +2 population.
5-6: Face Painting for departing x2 success.
7-9: Menoloromias is finally cured of his delusions of immortality.
10: Nightmare Training for Laifuseuskaja
11: Momento Mori for Naoran, who gains the courage and understanding of Zoronuro.
12: Voxanius gets rid of Binge Eating with bloodletting.
13: Shrine ritual is success.
Settlement develops Red Charm, Drums, Scrap Dagger and another Beacon Shield.
And then we have it.
Lantern Year 25 showdown - The Watcher.
Syllogi, Laifuseuskaja, Hovelina and Voegole are the chosen champions of Enerva settlement.
...
Yeah.
Utterly anticlimactic fight when Voegole activated to dash and move a retinue into position. Syllogi does the same so she has a retinue on both of her sides. She takes two attacks at The Watcher.
The Watcher dies.
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Lantern Year 26 - Haunted
Returning survivors join the chorus for some extra insanity.
1-2: Nightmare Training for Laifuseuskaja for +1 weapon proficiency, +1 strength.
3: Scrap Smelting for two Iron.
4-7: Voxanius investigates the Exhausted Lantern Hoard.
8: A matchmaker that gives twins right away.
9-10: 2x Face Paint for battle.
11: War Room plan is made.
12: Shrine ritual is success.
Since The Watcher was such a pushover, I decided to take for a bit of a challenge.
Lantern Year 26 hunt & showdown - Sunstalker level 3
Laifuseuskaja, Menoloromias, Hovelina and Chanial hunt for the big fish.
There was no great drama during hunt except for survivors getting bombarded with events that caused loss of survival. While sonorous rest balanced it quite nicely, Laifseuskaja still had to start showdown four points short from maximum.
Showdown itself was over in just four rounds - most of that thanks to the Sunstalker going soft on actually attacking things. Instead it tried to fry people with massive sun track damage when there were no cards on the track. Controlling AI cards with Rawhide Headband made it easy to predict when a solar flare would occur - and it did, once - to keep everyone out of light. Though a Sunspot Lantern helped a lot in this.
I've been dreading Sunstalker level 3, but this showdown probably made me feeling overly confident in fighting it in other campaigns...
Still, there were only three returning survivors. But that was Laifuseuskaja finally succumbing to King's Curse.
Lantern Year 27 - Triathlon of WHAT
Alright. Maybe Kingdom Death is trying to hint me to start a new healthy hobby or something. But this is just absurd. I know for certain that it just can't be a matter of shuffling poorly. The way I randomize settlement events is: I shuffle the deck. Then I start rolling a d20 one by one for each card, and I pick the one that rolled lowest. If multiple cards get the same number, I randomize one from those in the same manner.
So... It's the sixth Triathlon of Death for this settlement. At least somebody else gets the chance to win now that Laifuseuskaja is gone for a while.
Hovelina, Menoloromias, Chanial and Agyruu begin the sports.
Everyone is shocked when Agyruu is about to WIN the race contest. Spectators throw sticks and stones on her route to such extent that she actually loses. This took three re-rolls, though. But in the end Hovelina won, Chanial was second, Menoloromias third and Agyruu felt cheated, which she certainly was.
Debate contest went as it always went, with Hovelina winning. Menoloromias came close second. Chanial just got angry when Agyruu still continued to insist that race had not been fair play. No-one listened to Agyruu, so she became apathetic.
Fight contest took one re-roll for Menoloromias to win and become spear master, Hovelina second, and, uh, Chanial was third. That left Agyruu for the last spot.
A survivor was banished because of Triathlon of Death! Traditions just got serious.
Then, since settlement had just innovated storytelling, it was time for Edged Tonometry. Noctamum became proficient with Katana, that's it.
Troka took a flower from the hulking King's Man look-alike, which then vanished into distance while Troka became Laifuseuskaja Twice Reborn.
Settlement develops Monster Grease, Sun Lure and Hook.
1-2: Lantern Discoveries level 2
3: Oxidized a Beacon Shield.
4-7: Voxanius investigates 9 Broken Lanterns, 2 Cocoon Membranes and a Lantern Tube from Exhausted Lantern Hoard.
5: Settlement makes White Lion Mask!
6: Settlement makes 3x Iron with Scrap Smelting.
7-8: Face Painting for Intimacy, Intimacy with Love Juice
9: Scarification for Voegole
10: War Room plan.
11: Face Painting for battle.
12: Shrine ritual is success.
13: Hunt for Great Golden Cat!
Lantern Year 27 hunt & showdown - Great Golden Cat!
Woo! My first time hunting a legendary foe! (We don't count the Beast of Sorrow.)
Menoloromias, Laifuseuskaja, Hovelina and Voegole start their legendary hunt. I try my luck with Sky Fishing to start the showdown immediately, but it didn't work out. Menoloromias lost his nose.
Then, survivors encounter a river that drowns Menoloromias to just one survival remaining. This hunt it sucks to be Menoloromias.
Right after, without getting the time to use sonorous rest, a giant carries the survivors straight to showdown. Guess I got my quick start after all.
Then the showdown, yes, it began.
The thing is... there was no Great Golden Cat around, like, at all. Worst case scenario came true: first AI card drawn was Vanish. Fortunately the kitty was found hiding, but only after a total of five actions had been spent in the search - two of them from Necromancer's Eye user.
Still, Laifuseuskaja took a risk and dealt three damage. Hovelina didn't dare to push luck any further and instead went to scavenge some debris as if there was no legendary monsters around.
Great Golden Cat takes a swing at Laifuseuskaja but fails to connect because Laifuseuskaja is inside Tall Grass.
Next turn after checking hit locations Laifuseuskaja attacks the monster but a timeless eye hit with counterweighed axe left a failure attack reaction coming up next. Now, if Hovelina would have walked to the monsters blind spot failure would be like 12% chance or something, but I deemed that too high. Those +5 damage tokens combined with -3 on severe injury rolls certainly made me cautious.
But then the showdown started going easily enough. Only scary moment was when I didn't take into account that Laifuseuskaja would not be in the Lion's field of view if she was in blind spot, so it targeted Hovelina instead, who was fortunately able to dash away from range.
The rewards are absurd. Laifuseuskaja got even more strength and accuracy, even more because of the stirring tale from Saga. Laifuseuskaja is the monster here with +15 permanent strength!
Anyway, another Lantern Year.
Lantern Year 28 - Weird Dream
Weird dream, huh? That must be about the seventh Triathlon of Death. But the extra insanity is helpful for sure.
Settlement develops Lantern Glaive, Lantern Mail, Lantern Greaves, and Lantern Gauntlets.
1-2: Lantern Research level 3
3-6: Investigating the Exhausted Lantern Hoard for 17 Broken Lantern and 2 Lantern Tubes
7-9: Silk Refining into hides
10: Leathermaking
11: Forbidden Dance for Hovelina, succeeds with one re-roll.
12-13: Matchmakers
14-15: Storytelling time! And it's dirty story indeed, one that feels wrong on so many levels. I had to re-roll once to get White Speaker story event. Hovelina was nominated to hear the story of Forsaker. She gained +2 permanent strength and two broken arms. Which, thanks to Eternal Will, negate the associated penalties.
16: Voxanius investigates one more Lantern Tube because I can't figure out anything else to do.
17: Shrine Ritual is success.
Next it's going to be King's Man level 3. I suspect the killing blow to be the most serious injury here. But I think this is enough Enerva for a little while.
+3 insanity for departing survivors.
Enerva settlement
Population 47, Survival limit 14 (manhunter hooch), +4 on depart (+6 vs nemesis) (+3 survival, insanity from Knowledge Worm) +monsterlevel on arrival
Luma XXX otherworldly luck
Voxanius otherworldly luck XXX
Noctamum XXX
Laifuseuskaja
Konahim XXX
Nodalus, hamstrung XXX
Firbab the First Baby XXX
Lepuri XXX +1str watcher -1 permanent strength from Lamplighter, -1 survival. Dared to investigate beneath lanthern hoard on LY 20, +10 insanity +1 permanent strength and Immortal & Flower Addiction disorders. Ate the Lantern Bud.
Nossos, with Ambidextrous, +1str watcher XXX
Kholkho, +1 str watcher Burning Focus fighting art. XXX +3 insanity, Anxiety from lost companion.
Chantur XXX +3 insanity, +1str watcher
Phenial XXX +1str watcher
Agyruu XXX (Banished for losing in each triathlon category!)
Tranaloka XXX +1 str watcher found from silk nest, +9 insanity, Vestiphobia, Hemophobia and Secretive from lost companions.
Noram XXX
Hovelina XXX
Mallestik XXX +1 str watcher
Kholbab XXX +1str watcher
Pheruu XXX +1str watcher
Chanram XXX +1str watcher
Lojuba XXX
Syllogi XXX
Tranch XXX, +1str watcher +3 insanity and Narcissistic from lost companion.
Noandalus XXX +1str watcher, Swordman's Promise from Warm Virus
Menoloromias, XXX saved by Lojuba during Overwhelming Darkness
Firbalus, XXX +1str watcher Blinded via Scarification, +1 courage
Undenial XXX +1str watcher
Noantur, XXX +1str watcher destroyed genitals via scarification. +1 courage.
Kholbea XXX +1 perm strength (watcher)
Noch, XXX +1 courage and Tough from Scarification.
Hunoka XXX, +1 perm strength (watcher)
Tranaree, +1 perm. strength, +1 courage, Tough (Has done scarification)
Pheboka, +1 strength (watcher)+2xp, +3understanding, +3 courage, +2 perm. accuracy (insight & bold) (Has done scarification)
Phentur XXX +1 strength (watcher) +2xp, +3understanding, +2 courage, Mammoth Hunting
Chanial XXX
Voegoran Warbling, XXX +1 strength (watch) Flower Addiction (Insight done) Blotted Out (age)
Nagravarkele Warbling, XXX +1 strength (watch) Flower Addiction (Insight done) +1 accuracy (age)
Traalus +2 strength (watcher, insight) (bold done) (Blinded from Scarification) Otherworldly Luck (age)
Nodanch +2 accuracy (insight & age), +1 strength (watcher) (bold done) (Tough from Scarification)
Lepram, XXX +1 strength (watcher)(insight done), Heroic (age)
Voekele, +4 perm strength (intimacy, insight, age, watcher), blinded from scarification, +1 accuracy from Bold
Nagragoran, Tough (age) (insight done)
Voegole XXX (+1 perm strength from insight), Thrill Seeker (age)
Naoran (+3 perm strength from watcher, insight & bold), Combo Master (age), , blinded, Weak Spot, Sweet Battle from See the Truth, 8 understanding, 9 courage
Hunanch, +1 permanent accuracy (insight) Transcended Masochist (age)
Vole, +1 perm accuracy (insight) +1perm str (age)
Naan XXX, insight done random art (age)
Gragoran (insight done) +1 accuracy (age), +1 strength (bed)
Gorvar, XXX (insight done), random art (age)
Inventory:
1x Shadow ink gland (organ)
Black Lens (organ)
2x Shadow Tentacles (hide,organ)
2x 1000 year sunstone
3x Salt
1x Beast Steak
2x Fresh Acanthus
1x ???
21x Broken Lantern
1x Web Silk
8x Leather
6x Iron
2x Cocoon Membrane
3x Lantern Tube
1x Black Lichen
1x Hooked Claw
1x Great Cat Bones
For masks:
Skull
Pelt
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