Lia's BK tweets archive - 2020-12-19: Cor Hydrae

Lia @liareplaysbk · 11:11 PM · Dec 19, 2020 Permalink

Today’s round one of Cor Hydrae, probably mostly trying to get photos of the local mobs. Will post any especially pretty bits and otherwise be quiet.

Lia @liareplaysbk · 12:56 AM · Dec 20, 2020 Permalink

Cor Hydrae’s not an especially complex dungeon: it has one central room with six branches, we come in through the southmost one.
There’s a SuspiciousTM glyph in the center, but otherwise no guidance. It relies on the player going exploring.

Inspection text: “You feel a strong power emanating from the pattern on the floor.”

Inspection text: “It reminds you of the uneasy feeling you had when confronting the gods.”

Lia @liareplaysbk · 12:59 AM · Dec 20, 2020 Permalink

There’s some light puzzling again. Those green and red blocks cause platforms to move, for instance.
And the lights cause chests to appear in other branches, causing a lot of back and forth.
So what I did today was go down each branch and activate all of those.

Kalas standing in a room full of separate platforms, some with green or red blocks, next to a round light.

The camera shows a chest appearing in another room.

Kalas standing next to a round light dissolving into a spiral.

The camera shows us a new platform giving access to a chest.

Lia @liareplaysbk · 01:00 AM · Dec 20, 2020 Permalink

That and a ton of fights, because the random drops are numerous and necessary for the collection.
As mentioned, now that we can do 9-card combos, numbers will get preeeeeetty silly.

Combat turn result screen, showing 1923 raw damage, a “Final straight sunset” bonus of +255%, for a total of 6827.

Lia @liareplaysbk · 01:02 AM · Dec 20, 2020 Permalink

And a shoutout to this rather pretty room, which is the accursed level design trope of a place full of unmarked teleporters that you have to bruteforce until you find the correct path.
THAT is a design pattern best left far into the past.

A room with large pillars, some of them connected by thin bridges. Each pillar has a teleporter light on top.

Lia @liareplaysbk · 01:03 AM · Dec 20, 2020 Permalink

Next time, we do the same thing again except we harvest the last treasures. And go into the last room of each branch where ghost gods are waiting for us to punch them in the face.