After our failure to kill the commander of the guards, we needed to hide from justice some fresh air. We followed hints, provided by a strange coin that we’d found earlier, that led to the Temple of the Eclipse.
The Temple of the Eclipse’s main gimmick is its link to both light and dark. And it has a Boss: the Colorless, who also follows this thematic. All other elements are weaker than usual and that is, of course, a major pain in the ass for our Elementalist…
Scenario 81
Goal: Kill the Colorless
Team: Cragheart (lvl 4), Elementalist (lvl 3), Spellweaver (lvl 4)
Set difficulty: 3
In the temple’s parlour, we are greeted by two pairs of Night and Sun Demons. The Cragheart charges head on and, in his recklessness, he gets many grievous wounds. I patch him up and he’s back in combat shape but the demons are very dangerous and are hard to outmaneuver. It’s not easy but we defeat them and get a special scenario item, something we can use against the Colorless.
We open the door and see 3 hulking Stone Golems blocking our way (no pic, wut?!). They have Shield 2, that’s a real bother. Me and the Cragheart try to set up a shield/retaliate combo. That would have been very nice and efficient, if only the stone golems had friggin’ attacked! Total waste of a turn… At least, the Elementalist could demonstrate impressive damage-dealing with his level 3 Chain Lightning.
Jumping over the Stone Golems and simply ignore them would have been a viable plan, as they’re turtle-slow, but we feared the long-ranged Ancient Artillery‘s firepower in the back. So we finished the golems and also got a second scenario item nearby. Once we got close though, the artillery were easily dispatched. Unfortunately, by then it’s obvious that we don’t have very long before we’re all exhausted and we still have the Boss to slay…
The Cragheart has a very good plan, stop the Colorless from summoning by blocking all adjacent squares!
But time isn’t on our side and the Colorless makes it worse, he alternates between getting invisible and healing himself. We know that dumping the 2 special items on the altar will deal him good damage but it’s hard to do without getting eviscerated by the demons.
The Boss had 10 hp left but we failed to kill him. The Cragheart managed to take the treasure and got a very nice healing ring.
Bitter Defeat!
Win OR Learn
- The elementalist was a lot more efficient this time (not his fault if the scenario played against his character) as he got the grasp of how is new character works
- His chain-ligthning was suitably impressive against the stone golems
- I regret not having picked Cold Fire at level 3
- My mystic ally was totally useless both time I summoned it
- We tried a retaliate combo, me and the cragheart, against the stone golems, and that totally backfired in our face when those flipped a retaliate card of their own
- That’s probably the last time I bring Hardened Spikes to battle despite the prior amazing success we had with it (the one time)
- Our tendency to get in harm’s way (the cragheart in particular) is something that we addressed after this scenario
- From now on, we’ll play at default difficulty until we have better synergy
Streets & Spores 