New Agate Snails

[mrbobbyg]

Killing them makes me super guilty. Once they retreat into their shells I don't have the heart to do it.

Anyone else feel like this?

[szanth]

Nah, fuck 'em. They shouldn't've been talkin' shit!

[Curio]

Yeah! Fuck'em.
First it crawls to me to bite, then it hides when injured! Sissy little snake - i'll poke you with my sword in that soft unprotected flesh of yours 'til you die!
Muahahahahahahahahha

[KoboldLord]

I like to keep them alive if they're not in an inconvenient location. They're slow enough that I can stab, step back, and repeat and they can never quite bite me. So whenever I kill a hydra or something, I head back to my pet agate snail and let it chase me around a tree for a while. It's worth a level or two of fighting for a caster before I'm too far away to come back every time I kill something.

Watch out if you haven't cleared the level, though. Training pets can easily end up blocking the exact wrong place if you're running in terror from a hydra or elephant pack.