Scratching Trees

[bcadren]

Last mini-prop for the moment. Similar to an older proposal; but I think I've learned since then.

Scratching Trees would be an encompass vault for Lair:8. It has a number of unique creatures; namely the magic-affine felids (h); mixed in with normal Lair creatures. The felids are as follows:

• Sabretooths, which have Battlecry and Berserk with the strongest defenses and melee attack of the group.
• Infusers, which focus on providing charms to themselves and all other creatures. Their unique 'armour other' spell; gives Ozo's Armour to the target.
• Jinxes; which use lower-level Hexes to great avail, knowing Tukima's Dance, Inner Flame, Sleep and Slow. [Inner Flame is biased to target allies weaker allies (by lowest HP) in melee range of the player.]
• Portalsmiths; which use translocations-spells and distortion attacks; including the unique 'bolt of distortion'; which does plain damage (like bolt of energy); but then applies an effect like a distortion weapon (Blink or Teleport; small chance of banishment; no chance of additional damage). Unique 'abyssal gateway' calls forth creatures from the abyss [1-2 at a time] (Spatial Vortices, Starcursed Masses, Chaos Spawn, or Tentacled Starspawn).
• Cryomancers, which use Freeze instead of melee and have a number of other Ice attacks.

Additionally all felids berserk when threatened (like Bears). Most treat being silenced as a threat. Though these are common in the scratching trees; normal lair denizens from rats to frogs to hydra may still appear with the cats.

Melee felids:

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felid sabretooth (h) | Spd: 10 (move: 80%) | HD: 14 | HP: 42-60 | AC/EV: 6/16 | Dam: 22 | items, doors, priest, see invisible | Res: fire, cold, poison, neg, magic(120) | XP: 923 | Sp: berserker rage [!AM, !sil], battlecry [!AM], berserker rage [!AM, !sil, emergency] | Sz: little | Int: high.
felid gouger (h) | Spd: 10 (move: 80%) | HD: 11 | HP: 32-50 | AC/EV: 4/17 | Dam: 15 | items, doors, see invisible | Res: magic(40) | XP: 671 | berserker rage [!AM, !sil, emergency] | Sz: little | Int: high.
felid (h) | Spd: 10 (move: 80%) | HD: 8 | HP: 21-36 | AC/EV: 2/18 | Dam: 8 | items, doors, see invisible | Res: magic(40) | XP: 298 | berserker rage [!AM, !sil, emergency] | Sz: little | Int: high.

Caster felids:

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felid infuser (h) | Spd: 10 (move: 80%) | HD: 11 | HP: 32-47 | AC/EV: 2/18 | Dam: 18 | items, doors, evil, spellcaster, see invisible | Res: cold, neg, magic(100) | Vul: holy | XP: 670 | Sp: haste, heal other (2d5), regeneration, armour other, berserker rage [!AM, !sil, emergency] | Sz: little | Int: high.
felid jinx (h)  | Spd: 10 (move: 80%) | HD: 12 | HP: 33-50 | AC/EV: 2/18 | Dam: 20 | items, doors, spellcaster, see invisible | Res: cold, neg, magic(100) | XP: 831 | Sp: tukima's dance, inner flame, sleep, slow, berserker rage [!AM, !sil, emergency] | Sz: little |  Int: high.
felid portalsmith (h) | Spd: 10 (move: 80%) | HD: 12 | HP: 33-50 | AC/EV: 2/18 | Dam: 14 (distort) | items, doors, spellcaster, see invisible | Res: cold, neg, magic(100) | XP: 800 | Sp: force lance (3d15), b.distortion (3d12), blink, abyssal gateway, berserker rage [!AM, !sil, emergency] | Sz: little | Int: high.
felid cryomancer (h) | Spd: 10 (move: 80%) | HD: 13 | HP: 38-57 | AC/EV: 2/18 | Dam: 0 (0-21) pure cold | items, doors, evil, spellcaster, see invisible | Res: cold++, neg, magic(100) | Vul: holy | XP: 847 | Sp: armour, b.cold (3d22), simulacrum, freezing cloud (2d23), berserker rage [!AM, !sil, emergency] | Sz: little | Int: high.

[treerex5]

I'm not dealing with a Lair: 8 spatial vortex.

[daggaz]

There's a reason distortion doesn't come on ranged weapons..

[tasonir]

Distortion bolt is a terrifying concept in general, and one you'd never want to face. Putting it as early as the lair is just far too much. The guy who coded it put it in abyss:5 vaults, on a "pan lord" equivalent, which I can sort of see, but would still never go to abyss:5 to face

Having a few lair:8 vaults place felids who have high damage/ev and low hp/ac could be interesting, mostly for variety, they wouldn't show up too commonly. But don't deck them out with strange effects. A caster type or two with a basic monk type felid is fine.

[cerebovssquire]

Having a few lair:8 vaults place felids who have high damage/ev and low hp/ac could be interesting, mostly for variety, they wouldn't show up too commonly. But don't deck them out with strange effects. A caster type or two with a basic monk type felid is fine.

But there's already a spriggan vault.

[KoboldLord]

Having a few lair:8 vaults place felids who have high damage/ev and low hp/ac could be interesting, mostly for variety, they wouldn't show up too commonly. But don't deck them out with strange effects. A caster type or two with a basic monk type felid is fine.

But there's already a spriggan vault.

Ah, but spriggans sometime spawn with usable equipment. With felids, that problem would be solved. This incredible brainstorm showcases a design that could potentially be the worst ratio of risk to reward in Crawl history. It even completely blows the Hall of Blades, experimental Forest branch, or the Spider Nest portal vault out of the water with respect to how bad of an idea it would be to attempt to play through it!

[Sar]

I loved Spider Nest portal so much! Died a lot there.

[tasonir]

Having a few lair:8 vaults place felids who have high damage/ev and low hp/ac could be interesting, mostly for variety, they wouldn't show up too commonly. But don't deck them out with strange effects. A caster type or two with a basic monk type felid is fine.

But there's already a spriggan vault.

Solution: felids have mastered the mysteries of time, and you encounter "ancient felids" who have mastered the mysterious lost art of jump attacking, which places them behind you and cuts off retreat. Boom, unique tactics, you can thank me later.

[cerebovssquire]

Having a few lair:8 vaults place felids who have high damage/ev and low hp/ac could be interesting, mostly for variety, they wouldn't show up too commonly. But don't deck them out with strange effects. A caster type or two with a basic monk type felid is fine.

But there's already a spriggan vault.

Solution: felids have mastered the mysteries of time, and you encounter "ancient felids" who have mastered the mysterious lost art of jump attacking, which places them behind you and cuts off retreat. Boom, unique tactics, you can thank me later.

Thank you.

[wizzzargh]

RIP FOREST
it was just too good for this sinful, ungrateful, tasteless playerbase ;_;7

[Hirsch I]

seriously, tho. I entered the forest twice. the first time, with a insanely powerful DsBe and the ignite blood facet, and a rod of fire. I burned the whole place to the ground. fun as fuck.