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=== Fight in the Overgrown Tunnel === | === Fight in the Overgrown Tunnel === | ||
Unless the player launches a preemptive strike from {{Sai|Hide|Hiding}}, Auntie Ethel will initiate combat through dialogue when approaching in her lair. Her first turn in combat, when started this way, will always be {{Sai|Throw|Throwing}} a {{RarityItem|Flammable Slime Bomb}} on [[Mayrina|Mayrina's]] suspended cage. | The first turns of the Auntie Ethel fight are deterministic. Unless the player launches a preemptive strike from {{Sai|Hide|Hiding}}, Auntie Ethel will initiate combat through dialogue when approaching in her lair. Her first turn in combat, when started this way, will always be {{Sai|Throw|Throwing}} a {{RarityItem|Flammable Slime Bomb}} on [[Mayrina|Mayrina's]] suspended cage. | ||
If the player had previously killed or incapacitated her Mask servants (i.e. [[Mask of Regret]]), she spends a turn summoning them to her side as allies. If they were already dealt with, she casts {{Sai|Auntie's Trickery}} instead. Following these opening moves, the midgame of the fight begins. | |||
==== Midgame tactics ==== | |||
Each clone of Auntie Ethel summoned by {{Sai|Auntie's Trickery}} functions as a duplicate of the hag, having all of her magical abilities but lacking the bombs in her inventory and capable of being dispelled in a single blow. Necessarily, they also cannot summon additional clones of themselves. If they are all defeated, Ethel can refresh their supply with {{Sai|A Coven of Hags}} - this time, however, the original hag will be invisible rather than in the mix of illusions. | |||
Next on the smorgasbord of trickery is {{Sai|Damsel in Distress}}, a wily illusion where she teleports Mayrina into her proximity and adopts her appearance. Distinguishing between the two requires a careful examination of the two's statistics, looking for key differences that reveal the true victim. | |||
When not playing mind games, she barrages the party with poison damage via {{Sai|Ray of Sickness}} and her limited supply of {{RarityItem|Poisonous Slime Bomb|alias=Poisonous Slime Bombs}}. She mixes in melee {{Sai|Claws (Class Action)|Claws}} and the cantrip {{Sai|Vicious Mockery (Auntie Ethel)|Vicious Mockery}} - two attacks she falls back on when out of grenades and spell slots. | |||
won't use any actions on the turn she begs for mercy, if you decide to finish her off | won't use any actions on the turn she begs for mercy, if you decide to finish her off | ||