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I got worried for a second there, because I thought her knee guard was blood and that she had been seriously injured. Nobody hurts my
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Yo, there should be an event where a monster makes its way out of the dungeon and catches one of the knights off guard, but we punch its lights out (probably injuring our hand in the process). It could be a standalone event with Raine where she's like, "Damn, nerd's got hands," or the next part in the "magic knight" subplot with Lucette that leads to her trying to teach us swordsmanship while we try to teach her magic.
(Also, I can't tell if Raine is hypnotized in that picture or just exhausted.)
So, I'm guessing the next Tweet will be "update tomorrow". Let's see...
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So, anyway, I had a thought about a new mechanic that could be interesting, and it may be something you already thought of or had planned: "threat tokens", in the vein of the "creature tokens" that you might see in a collectible card game. It would basically be a way to have threats interact with the dungeon more dynamically instead of only being in predetermined rooms set at the start of the floor. Some interaction with a specific threat, curse, or status would result in a token being placed in a particular empty room, and that token would be treated like a trap or monster, though probably a weaker-than-average one.
*Maybe* certain tokens would be mobile, but that might be a bad fit for the game's overall direction (though it could be an exception for "boss floors" that are meant to have a different type of difficulty than usual floors). The example that comes to mind is if a knight gets implanted with an egg from some monster (not my kind of thing, but if we're gonna cram every known fetish into this game...), they could end up "laying" the egg while moving through the dungeon, leaving an egg token that eventually hatches into a monster token - or trap token, if it's gonna be something that just tries to get a single shot in. Another example might be a mushroom that spreads spores into adjacent rooms, leaving monster tokens for us to fight there. (Ooh, there should definitely be some mushroom monster in the game that tries to take control of the knights with its spores, with at least one event that causes Trance and shows a mushroom growing out of their head.)
(Edit: This could also be used in conjunction with those enemies that flee from battle, like the Bat or Scout Beast, who would appear elsewhere in the dungeon as a monster token with all of its damage retained. Oooh, it would also work *really* well with a "treasure goblin" type monster. A knight opens a chest only for some creature to jump out and run past her, appearing in a random explored empty room as a monster token. You can chase it down to get a few hits in, but its only (or most common) "attack" is to run away and show up in another tile. If you leave it alone in one spot for X number of turns, it disappears for good, but if you defeat it, you get... something?)
This came to mind while thinking of another status effect that could show up, but would again probably be best saved for the AI update: The "Brainjacked" status (better name pending). It basically sets them to carry out a specific command, like attacking an ally, or putting that ally in trance, or just making out with her. Or heading to a certain monster tile and letting it attack her (probably getting a unique scene out of it). Potential causes would be certain attacks from monsters or the effects of one-shot traps or trap tokens, as well as a "post-hypnotic command" that some Trance-using monsters can use to put a Compulsion in the knight, causing them to suddenly get the Brainjacked status at some later point and act out the command. I was specifically thinking about a sort of parasite monster that latches onto a person's head to control them, which is what led to the token idea. There could be a one-shot trap that causes a parasite to latch onto the knight and Brainjack her into seeking out and attacking another knight, with a parasite trap token following around on her tile. If her brainjacking wears off on its own, she can spend a turn or two trying to disarm the "trap" before it triggers again, and any knight she's attacking can also try to disarm it.
