Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)04:49 No. 410683 ID: c811c4
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She lands in an enclosed space with 7 others. There is a door out of here that has a lock with three keyholes.

There is a sign. It reads that pushing boxes will make them slide until hitting a wall, and they will shoot fire out of their holes while moving. With body Rank 4, Alison can choose to push the blocks at a speed of 1 or 2 tiles per turn, and if she chooses 2, the pushed fireblock will not harm her even if it has a hole facing her as she pushes it away.

Stage 3 Begin

Push 1 speed up

if we do so will be exposed to the attack of the guy with the other key

Depends on if pushing the block moves us with it which I doubt. Unless you can ride them. The big question is do you need to be on the same square as a block to push it or just beside it.

In order to reach us Shield will have to move 1 down and 1 left if we do move up and 2 down and 1 left if we don't. We do need to test out the block mechanics in any case.

Talk to the guy near you with the shield and try to buddy up. Move one left.

If we're going to cooperate we might as well say to all of them that we don't have to kill one another to proceed. We just need to put 3 keys in at once. Hopefully most won't agree since we do need the CU.

I just realized we forgot to have someone watch Chief to see who he recruits. We have no idea how many of these are enemies.

In any case talk first. Then decide to push or move. If the guy nearest you declines push the block one up, if he agrees move 1 left.

If he agrees you might be able to combine your Push to up to four squares in one go.

Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)05:37 No. 410693 ID: c811c4
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Alison calls out to everyone asking if they're willing to work together.

The two headed snake immediately declines, but no one else shows outright hostility nor siding by Alison.

She also notices that with the blocks this close, she can move diagonally - probably push diagonally, as well.

The Shield says he has no evidence that Alison can be trusted.

That we can work with. Say we'll meet up. If we can coexist in the same square without attacking each other then they can work together. If either attacks the other then its obvious that we're untrustworthy.

To garuntee this Allison is willing to let him have the first attack as if he moves one down and then stays there the next turn he can know if she is going to attack when she moves up to join him.

Its a risk but we do need more allies.

>>410695
yeah for more allies!

1/2 Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)06:04 No. 410698 ID: c811c4
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>Get the Shield to join on the same tile, and he may defend first
Alison explains this, and he accepts the offer.

The Shield moves onto the designated tile.

Lopears attacks Wolf!
Wolf attacks Lopears!

2/2 Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)06:05 No. 410700 ID: c811c4
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Alison moves up, and the Shield does not attack.

It also is shown that pushing a block counts as a move action.

Wolf is burned! 3 HP removed!
Lopears is burned! 3 HP removed!

Wolf is slain! Lopears is slain!

Swordswoman uses Absorb Lv 2 on Lopears!

Try combining your pushing power to push the block you're on 3 to the right.

>>410700
Please point out to the others that fighting is risky for both parties as they can obviously see. For these early levels, it is just much too risky.

If you must defeat each other, like in order to escape, it's more beneficial to do it through each stage's puzzles. We should work together until we figure out exactly what the stage wants us to do. There's a sign in front of the elf I think, ask him/her what it says if you can't read it from here. Don't ask how you know what an elf is.

>>410700
Is absorb usable on one of the two recently deceased people? If so I vote we use it on Wolf, as not to bother the Swordsmen.

We're too far away, we need to be within 3 squares. Introduce ourselves to Shield, ask if he has a name and share our stats.

>>410702
Thats not a sign, thats the lock with three keyholes. We need three people to open it.

Blob is an enemy, he sent a block at us. Snake is as well. The two unknowns is elf and the lower guy. Goat maybe? Ask again if anyone else wants to cooperate. If noone replies do this. >>410703

>>410711
Let's not waste time on more words. This stage is HIGHLY lethal, so we must work to defend ourselves first and foremost.

We will have to move left or up-left soon, to avoid the block above us. Up-left would work to avoid that blob-sent block.

We can survive a block hitting us twice in fact and still heal given enough time 4 turns thanks to fibinocci armor regen. The enemies around us are the biggest threat.

Push our current block up-right two. We have time before the block from those dead guys gets here, and finding out how block collision works as soon as possible would be useful.

>>410732
We'll see collision in 3 turns regardless of what we do unless we move the block north-east of us before it hits.

>>410700
Pay attention, to see if the flames melt or damage the icy looking floors. If they turn into pitfalls then serious plan changes will be needed.

absorb wolfie so guardsman gets a better mount.

>>410741

Can only absorb from up to 2 tiles away. 3 tiles? I forget if we took Absorb 3. Either way, wolfie is all the way across the board.

Ya we have absorb 3. If snake and goat move forward and one dies we can absorb them then. If they don't we're out of luck.

Depends really, Goat tried to kill Snake with that block so its hard to say where they are going to move.

DoubleSnake is a certain member of Chief's gang. He was seen behind Chief, back when the rumors were being shared. He's a danger to everyone here that isn't part of Chief's group.

Tell Shield to help you push this block to the right, then yell to Goat to jump down-left.

If the keys drop from the fallen here, then maybe we can collect them to open the door.

The door might be one use only even if everyone has a key.

Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)14:39 No. 410822 ID: c811c4
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Alison has an absorb range of 3 regularly, but with stage interaction to all players, she may use absorb regardless.

Alison/Doublesnake/Slime uses absorb on Wolf! Alison has highest level, gains 71 CU.

Alison and Spear push! Sent with 3 tile speed.
Doublesnake is caught! Takes 1 damage.

Alison tells the Goat to move downleft, but it moves up right instead.

You and your partner move left, or upleft

Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)14:47 No. 410828 ID: c811c4
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>Northeast

Swordswoman gets a key!

North!

North it is. Hopefully blob is blockading the door and not holding it for her.

Looks like Swordswoman is trying to collect enough keys to leave on her own. Slime looks like he's moving to try and push that block in Swordwoman's direction.

If you can, jump to the east, intercept that moving block and push it northwards.

push block northeast.

We have no idea what colliding blocks do yet, until then intercepting that is pointless.

>>410828
Ask Swordswoman if she wouldn't mind waiting at the door so you can all go through at once.

Also put on your casual outfit again. Battle in formal wear is not appropriate.

Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)15:13 No. 410850 ID: c811c4
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>North

Swordswoman gets a key!

Alison asks the Swordswoman if she wouldn't mind waiting at the door for everyone. She gives the silent treatment back.

Doublesnake says that if the swordswoman goes through alone, she'd better hope that we can't follow.

If Alison is to change clothes, she'll have to do so at a checkpoint.

>>410845

Do... do you need a towel?

north-east

North

If we go north-east twice we can intercept the block if snake throws it. ((thats up-right))

Don't know how those three flaming blocks to the south-east will interact. Jump to the north-east and see what Doublesnake and Slime do.

Note that Goat must have at least body rank 4 to shove that block two spaces.

SOUTH unless we can get on the blocks in which case NORTHEAST

northeast

Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)15:39 No. 410867 ID: c811c4
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>Northeast

The Slime pushes a block west, and collides with the Goat's block. The goat's block upward momentum is canceled, and begins sliding west..

Swordsman takes 2 fire damage! Swordsman takes 3 fire damage!

We never got our allies stats, we're very close to seeing battle.

>>410864

Wolf pushed the block while on it and it just slid out from under him and ...burned him to death. Man, talk about fail.

stay still. sword is gonna get burned again and wompped by that block.

East, we can't afford to take any damage this close to so many enemies.

>>410867

HOLY CRAP FIRE did 2-Snake push the block too? Diagonally??

Ya blocks bumping itno one anaother push both.

Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)15:55 No. 410876 ID: c811c4
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>Stay still

Swordswoman takes 3 fire damage!

>Ask for stats

Shields body/armor/weapon is at 4/6/5 respectively.

She might push it at us, go southeast

Doublesnake's plan is likely to try and eliminate as many others as possible before leaving. He's going to attack Swordswoman, kill her, and take her keys.

Jump north-east; The block there will be gone when you land. See what Doublesnake does and how much damage he does and takes. From there decide whether to directly attack, or jump to the north-west and start shoving flaming blocks to the east.

East. Prepare to attack.

mm to break the tie I change my vote to north-east. As long as we're headed towards them.

You don't want to fight anyone if you don't have to, since some may have 8 attack, plus it's so much more convenient if they kill each other. If they don't, you can move closer. I'd say southeast.

Theres only a limited number of keys and if snake kills her he has 4 of them.

go south, it is the safest. let them kill each other while you stay in absorb range.

They can't predict how we're going to advance. They are more likely worried about eachother, so we don't have to worry about being attacked ourselves. May as well go northeast.

Alternatively we could go northwest towards the blocks, and use them to attack swordswoman and whoever else is hostile.

>>410883
Doublesnake is certainly going to attack Swordswoman. He's already weakened her to setup for the attack. Once he attacks, we can see how strong he is, and judge from there.

If swordswoman is smart she'll move north, then east. so she can recover armor.

>>410890
Which puts her next to Slime, while in a weakened state.

How about shouting to her to jump west, so you two can stack with her. She's facing getting killed anyway, so she might accept.

I think she might not have communication... this would be a good time for scan hah. Anyway ya tell her to go west. If she does great. If she doesn't maybe we'll intercept snake.

Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)16:29 No. 410899 ID: c811c4
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Alison asks Swordswoman to move west, and she nods.

The Snake is asking the goat and the slime to team up against them, but no answer is given yet.

Attack the snake!

Move northwest. Have her hold up fingers, first set for body, second set for armor, third for weapon.

Tell the others if they team up against the snake then all of you can go together. No more death.

Tell the others you don't care about the snake other than how he hates you. You just was to get out of here with as many people as possible.

Say that if they all team up against Doublesnake, we'll all leave here together. Tell them that Doublesnake is part of Chief's crew, and will backstab them to secure his own spot in the exit. You, however, want to get as many people out as possible.

Move north-west, and tell everyone else to avoid Doublesnake and try to stack up with you. If we get enough keys to leave together, we don't even have to fight him.

We actually have enough keys with Swordswoman with us. She has 3 and we have 2. Unfortunately I think this is an elimination room so only two people can advance (3 keys each.) We might have to kill them at the door anyway.

Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)16:55 No. 410920 ID: c811c4
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Alison tells them if they team up against the snake, they can all leave together.

Before the next turn comes, the snake has challenged Alison with a red glove!

Use glove scissors?

Yes use them. This is why we bought them.

we hit the snake, let the swords-women stay behind if she's low on hp, then just leave.

Save the glove scissors, we can take him.

Use them and say you'll fight the snake with whoever else wants to help.

Just kill him. He will keep hounding you if you don't.

Remember that the victor returns from the duel with however much HP they had at the start of the duel, and the snake is slightly wounded.

>>410926
He was slightly wounded several turns ago. His armor has certainly regenerated by now.

We don't know anything about Doublesnake's weapon, armor, or body ranks. Use the glove scissors. They can be bought again; An extra life cannot.

That would have healed up by now.

>>410929
They can only be bought again from the shopkeep. What are we going to do if we get red-gloved by someone else?

>>410936
Win, or lose a life, same as if we fight now.

25 CU is a good price to see the dismay on his face when we cut his glove.

Does HP heal in checkpoints? If it does, then accepting this duel will be better than using the scissors now and losing a life from one later.

>>410937
we'll have much worse chances against anyone who duels us later on in this stage.

Use the scissors, for all we know he may have a poison ability.

The doublesnake is outnumbered and knows he can take out the Swordswoman later in a non-duel because she is injured already. He is using the red glove because he needs to even up the odds, not because he's confident in his chances. Take the duel, save the Swordswoman's life.

duel

Rape him.

>>410929
going to vote for this

Let's look at the scenarios.

The snake has 1 to 5 total body/armor. Not very likely. It takes one hit to kill them. 5-10 total, two hits. 10+, three hits.

The snake has 9 weapon, they can one-shot us. Not very likely. 4-8, they two-shots us. 3, they three-shots us. 2, we win, period.

Looking at those numbers, I believe the most likely outcome is mutual kill. The main risk is if the snake has more than 10 total armor+life. However, if the snake's challenging us to a duel, they definitely have a reason.

Also note that the swordswoman was the only one who tried to absorb. Thus, she is likely the only one with absorb. That will affect the snake's numbers, and I believe the most likely scenario then is the mutual kill.

Although: also consider the possibility of a funky ability in use here. The snake might be counting on that.

In the end, I'm going to vote for using the scissors. I don't think a mutual kill (most likely scenario as I see it unless some funky ability comes into play) is worth using up the precious extra life we have.

The most liekly scenario is we kill each other. Which means he probably has an extra life as well.

doublesnake is getting desperate in the face of potentially having everyone here against him. He probably doesn't know if he can win or not.

I agree mutual kill is most likely. If shield and us both attack we have a better chance of offing him with no death, so we should use the scissors.

1/2 Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)23:07 No. 411075 ID: c811c4
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Alison uses glove scissors!

Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)23:08 No. 411076 ID: c811c4
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The Doublesnake jumps away from Alison's approaching group.

North east. Head for the exit.

up

Glove scissors are re-usable?

up-right.

move north, then north east. we can just make a beline for the door. we should move north first because moving northeast first puts us at risk of being stuck between double snake and the possibly hostile slime.

Move north. Tell Slime he's welcome to join your group on the way out.

Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)23:37 No. 411088 ID: c811c4
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>Go up

Status display updated; glove scissors are not re-useable.

The snake says something to the goat, and the Doublesnake leaps upward. The Goat does not follow, and the Doublesnake curses at the Goat.

Alison tells the Slime he is welcome to join her, but he joins Doublesnake.

move two west onto the block. then everyone push it east.

North-West we can't let the snake win, lets head to the blocks

My suggestion is to split up to tackle both rows of blocks at once. We'll have to push both rows at two speed to avoid damage but it should work as long as we follow right behind them.

Suggestion 2012/05/12(Sat)23:48 No. 411097 ID: c811c4
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>Go to the blocks

Shield offers to split up to take the bottom row, as Doublesnake yells at the goat to come to him.

Who should push at what speeds?

We should push it four and shield pushes it at two. Move left afterwords to push the other blocks.

both go two.

Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)00:06 No. 411106 ID: c811c4
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Alison and Swordswoman push the block at 4 speed, and collide with the Doublesnake and Slime for 4 damage each!

Move left push blocks at 4 speed and two again

That worked better then I expected.

1/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)00:17 No. 411115 ID: c811c4
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>Repeat

Slime and Doublesnake take 1 fire damage!

2/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)00:17 No. 411116 ID: c811c4
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Slime and Doublesnake take 2 fire damage!
Slime is slain, Alison and Doublesnake use absorb, Alison wins and gains 58 CU!

Follow those blocks. Meet Shield by heading south-east and him heading east.

Call to Goat that Snake is very weak now.

While moving towards the door, we should keep to the second row from the top, so we have somewhere to go if he starts pushing them.

Slime must have been really behind, he only had ~190 CU

Ask Goat to move west, then north-west to meet up with your group.

Alison and Swordwoman move south-east, Shield moves east, then all three move south-east.

I think Goat can handle Snake himself. Snake just took 7 damage. and he he'll only have regened twice by the time Goat reaches him.

East, then south-east... lets see what happens.

1/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)00:33 No. 411128 ID: c811c4
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Alison tells the Goat that the snake is weak, and the Goat, who can speak afterall, says it knows.

2/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)00:33 No. 411129 ID: c811c4
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The Goat manages to intercept!

Double S. attacks Goat, Goat attacks Double S.! Double Snake is slain! Alison uses absorb and gains 69 CU!

Shield would like to know if he and the Swordswoman are going to see any CU from their assistance.

"that's how it works with me, but after a thief stole some i'm not pulling any out until we are in a transition where it's safe"

Set aside 100 for Range Rank 1. Give them all of the rest.

Say yes, you'll give them some CU for their help. Since Swordswoman already absorbed someone she'll get 15, and you'll give Shield 30. Goat gets nothing. That'll leave us with enough to get weapon range and 2-3 stat increases. Give it to them now.

Then proceed to the exit. Wait for Goat. Lets proceed all together.

>>411131
Are you mad? We need every CU possible if we're going to face Mongrel and Chief.

>>411135
fair enough, but at least give some to Goat. He directly attacked snake, risking himself directly.

He did it for himself, to get three keys. He risked nothing but some temptorary damage and didn't listen to anything we said.

Wonder how come we aren't seeing enemy damage rates anymore when people kill each other.

As long as we are in a safe room I don't see any reason to not, advance towards the exit. Once everyone's inside give the Shield and the Swordwoman 35 each.

Shouldn't Alison have 204 CU, not 215?

You guys are far more generous then I hah, I think we need every CU possible for the exit stage coming up since we're facing 4 very strong foes.

Alison absorbed 198 CU total. Give Swordswoman and Shield 25 each, and say you'll add more to that to make up for any loss they have from splitting the exit CU, after they exit. See what Goat does before giving him any; He might be hostile.

Of those that died the three of us were directly responsible for exactly one person. Slime. We should split that guy 3 way (20 each). Everyone else we got b/c we spent the money on absorb. As for Goat hes made it abundantly clear hes not on our side.

If he had listened to us even once then that would change but he only killed Snake because it was convenient. He even let Snake occupy the same square earlier as him if you guys recall. Hes not an ally yet. At best hes neutral.

I would share some as a gesture of good faith, but as few as possible. Not on the grounds that you want to survive more than them (we want everyone to survive!) but on the grounds that if some objects must be eliminated, having one person with the most CU will end up with that group having an advantage in the end game. You're basically asking them to put their trust in you.

I am inclined to reward people for helping us, not for being directly responsible for the death of others. We absorbed 71 while shield was helping us and swordwoman was doing her own thing, absorbing someone else, shield should get a cut of that.
We absorbed 58 and 69 after swordwoman started working with us, so both of them should get a cut of those. So like 50 for shield and 30 for sword. (being greedy now will not keep them on our side in the future)

If goat doesn't do anything overtly hostile in the meantime, I would suggest giving him like 10 cp too, as a show of good faith.

1/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)02:39 No. 411167 ID: c811c4
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For a second, Alison could have sworn she had 215 CU, but she only has 204. Must be more glitches.

They approach the exit and put in some keys, while the Goat approaches, but stays silent and distant.

2/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)02:40 No. 411168 ID: c811c4
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Alison heads through the door, and ends up on a platform. The sign says that the lever here will close the door behind them, but as Goat already has three keys, it would do nothing but delay him a turn.

Alison gives Shield 35 CU and Swordswoman 30 CU.

Alison can continue on, or wait for Goat.

>>411168
Eh, no need to wait as far as I'm aware. Continuing on should be fine. If there's some significant chance of goat dying, though, because you continued on, then wait.

Ask your companions how they feel about waiting and/or joining forces with the goat.

Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)03:38 No. 411182 ID: c811c4
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Alison jumps ahead, along with the others. Even though she lept at the same time, her light trail is seperating her from the Swordswoman and Shield, leaving her alone. She may spend points as well as choose her outfit for the rest of this stage. Normally this will be decided at the beginning of the stage.

Body Rank 5: +1 HP -- 25 CU
-- Rank 6: +1 HP -- 29 CU (54 CU total cost)
-- Rank 7: +1 HP -- 30 CU (84 CU total cost)
-- Rank 8: +1 HP -- 33 CU (117 CU total cost)
-- Rank 9: +1 HP -- 35 CU (152 CU total cost)
-- Rank 10: +1 HP -- 37 CU (189 CU total cost)
-- Rank 11: +1 HP -- 39 CU (228 CU total cost)

Armor Rank 6: +1 armor -- 32 CU
-- Rank 7: +1 Attack -- 40 CU (72 CU total cost)
-- Rank 8: +1 Attack -- 49 CU (121 CU total cost)

Weapon Rank 6: +1 Attack -- 24 CU
-- Rank 7: +1 Attack -- 31 CU (55 CU total cost)
-- Rank 8: +1 Attack -- 43 CU (98 CU total cost)
-- Rank 9: +1 Attack -- 55 CU (153 CU total cost)
-- Rank 10: +1 Attack, new form -- 71 CU (224 CU total cost)

Absorption Rank 4 -- 91 CU

Range Rank 1 -- 100 CU

Unless we where saving up for something that I'm to lazy to remember, lets get a rank in range. And I like your old costume B more.

Purchase a Weapon Range upgrade and a Damage Upgrade, I don't really see much point in changing costume now, if it is just for display...

Range and Weapon. Wish we hadn't given so much away, oh well.

>>411184
Voting for this expenditure plan. No opinions regarding outfit - either one's good with me.

I think it's worth the CU to have two more people who might not try to kill us later. Allies are important in this game.

I'd vote to get a rank each in Range and Body. Either outfit is good.

Range and body, outfit B

>>411194
This.

The Weapon upgrade will allow us to better capitalize on our Range, letting us two-shot 12 armor+hp rather than the 10 we can two-shot right now. By contrast, a single Body upgrade won't change how many hits it take to two-shot us (we'd need two Body/Armor upgrades).

>>411187
this and outfit B

Range and Weapon.

Range/weapon.

Outfit B. It's a fiery stage, so it makes sense to wear less. Yes...

Also, people's point values just keep going up. We should probably try to raise our absorption next round... it will pay for itself super fast.

Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)11:28 No. 411251 ID: c811c4
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Weapon Rank 6, Range Rank 1 gained!

Alison lands in another area, with both the Recluse and the Mongrel.

The sign reads the same as the puzzle that this was before, that the up arrow is top priority, and priority moves clockwise.

The sign also says that at least 2/3 of active participants must stand at the center of the stage to move on.

welp, you don't have a movement line. Stand there and wave at people you know.

Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)11:39 No. 411253 ID: c811c4
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Alison stands and waves, the two that do have movement lines jump forward, and now Alison may move if she likes, but may attack the Mongrel before the turn is up.

Suggest everyone team up and kill Mongrel and then the three of them leave together.

Oh FUCK it's the Mongrel. He will try to kill everyone.

Suggest that everyone team up to kill him. Though considering that this is a moving platform puzzle it could be quite difficult to maneuver everyone to attack at once.

Also attack him. We can safely assume he is hostile. He probably has like, rank 10 in everything though.

And yeah, range attack him.

Range attack Mongrel. Don't trust the Recluse to work with you, he has backstabbed people in the past in order to absorb them.

before you do anything hostile against him, get the fuck away from him.

Fuck, I wasn't expecting a boss battle.

Attack him, ask the Recluse what the Mongrel's stats are, and don't jump.

1/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)12:08 No. 411264 ID: c811c4
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>Suggest everyone team up against the Mongrel
Recluse shrugs, and the floating one says that he's under Chief orders to kill Alison.

>Attack Mongrel

Alison deals 6 damage to Mongrel!

2/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)12:09 No. 411265 ID: c811c4
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>Don't move

Alison asks Recluse what the Mongrel's stats are.
He answers with Rank 3 absorb, 9 body, 10 armor and 10 weapon.

move up if the recluse is okay with it.

>>411265
Yeah that's what I figured. We have to keep attacking him if we have any chance of taking him out.

Okay, if we move up and the Recluse stays there, then if the Mongrel moves up, down, or not at all, we can hit him again. So let's do that.

You know, if we kill the floating one and then get to the center with Recluse there'll probably be a lever to drop the platforms.

Tell Recluse that if he wants to absorb you, he'll probably get a chance in the last area where several of Chief's people will be trying to kill you.

>>411271
Hey you're right. The last moving platform stage had a lever to drop all the platforms below, AND would let us absorb anyone we dropped.

If we kill Floater then get to the middle, we don't even have to try to whittle down Mongrel.

Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)12:48 No. 411275 ID: c811c4
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>Ask if Recluse would allow Alison to join him. If he intends on absorbing her, he'll have a chance with all of Chief's people after her.
He says it's fine.

She ends up with the Recluse, and Alison deals 6 damage to the Mongrel.

He swears all sorts of vivid threats.

>and Alison deals 6 damage to the Mongrel.
>He swears all sorts of vivid threats.
Muahahahahahahahahaha!

That also brings Mongrel down to 8 Hp and 0 Armor.

Move left.

Why does it feel like we're not going to the finish line, but the incinerator? ;_;

>>411280

because you played Portal and it was awesome enough to imprint itself into your subconscious.

hit him one more time and he won't be able to attack you without dying.

>>411280
You will be baked, and then there will be cake.

>>411275
Pretty sure moving left is the right thing to do here. I predict Floater will be within attacking range at that point. We can probably two-hit him.

This is an extremely good stage to have Ranged Attack on. ...considering how difficult it is to get to the middle with this layout, I think we will wind up eliminating both of our enemies before we exit.

1/3 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)13:13 No. 411288 ID: c811c4
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Shopkeep materializes in, saying whoops. Alison and Recluse were sharing a tile, so that should have moved twice. It wouldn't have made a difference, so no change will be made this turn, but from now on shared tiles will move multiple times.

Also, Alison reads the sign, and it specifies that at least 2/3 of active participants must be in the center stage tile at the end of a turn, therefore it requires planning to jump on a tile that ends in the center.

2/3 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)13:13 No. 411289 ID: c811c4
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Jump phase.

3/3 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)13:13 No. 411290 ID: c811c4
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Tile movement done.

Gotta keep on mongrel so his armor does not regenerate.

>>411290
I think we should split up for a turn. Ask Recluse to stay put. We will go right.

It's actually really easy to avoid melee combat here, because you can move in at least 3 directions so long as you're not in a corner. We should draw this out and pelt our enemies while Recluse just avoids everyone, or prepares the board so that someone can enter the center.

Recluse is probably going to gank our absorb targets as he probably has a great deal more then us.

If we both go right we'll end up near mongrel again. Luck of the draw really if we're close enough though.

If they both jump to the right, and Floater stays put, Alison will can range attack him. I say both of them jump right.

>>411299
It doesn't look like Mongrel has a way to get over to us, or Floater, in the next turn. We both go right, and it'll loop us around into the lower right corner.

Mmm your right, we'd end up on the blank platform. How about we move up one, that'd move us one above the center. If we're lucky Mongrel will be in range again and we'll do another 4 damage to his health. (he'd have regened twice by then.) We need to see one dead in order to both of us move up.

>>411302
Notice there's two arrows on that platform. It would carry both of us one spot south-west of where Mongrel is, then two more spots south-west, to stop just one south of our current location. Also, we don't get to attack during the platform movement phase.

Mmm, I admit I am a bit confused over how priority effects that. So priority effects the order, not overriding a movement. Got it.

1/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)14:16 No. 411305 ID: c811c4
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>Move right

2/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)14:16 No. 411306 ID: c811c4
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Platforms moved.

Stay still.

Go up.

>>411310
I agree.

If the Floater goes right and we go up we'll be on the oppisite side of everyone else again.

>>411319
If Floater goes right and we go up, then we'll be in range to attack him. Weapon Range was made for stages like this. Which makes me really glad Mongrel doesn't have it.

>>411319
The stage doesn't wrap only horizontally and vertically. It wraps in whatever direction the arrow points. For instance, if someone were to step on the bottom-left tile, it would not go anywhere, because that diagonal line has only one tile in it.

OK move up. That's most likely to bring enemies within diagonal range.

1/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)14:56 No. 411333 ID: c811c4
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>Move up

2/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)14:56 No. 411334 ID: c811c4
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Alison deals 6 damage to Floater!

Recluse makes a note to get Range.

Move right.

Hey! If we don't move, we can attack Floater again.

Hmm actually I'm going to agree with you, stay still.

>>411334
Now stay put.

Ask recluse if hes willing to split the absorbees. You want Mongrel.

>>411341
Actually we just want CU. We could let Recluse absorb everyone he wants so long as we get CU out of it.

Good point. If he doesn't want to let you absorb anyone go this route.

Mongrel's getting uncomfortably close. Stay put, and let Floater possibly face his wrath.

Ask Recluse if he'd be willing to share a bit of the CU from this.

Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)15:06 No. 411346 ID: c811c4
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Alison asks Recluse about absorbing. He says he will do all of that, but give Alison a share.

Mongrel tells Floater to jump up and join him. Floater does so. Who will Alison attack?

Floater, he should die this turn.

>>411347
I agree.

>>411347
kill him

Ya move left after attacking Floater, that shold put us near Mongrel again.

>>411347
Agreed, kill Floater, then move left.

Uh, there's a problem with attacking Floater. While it would likely take him down, that leaves Alison open to getting hit by Mongrel. Ranged attack takes her movement for the turn. If he targets Alison, even if Recluse defends, Alison is going to lose a life.

I would say go for Mongrel first or he will just absorb everything, he probably has the highest absorb here...

Tell Floater that Mongrel is just not going to let him live even if he takes out both you and Recluse. He's a warmachine. See if you can get him to backstab Mongrel.

Movement and attack are seperate actions.

Mongrel and Floater will most likely jump south, so Alison and Recluse should jump west. That'll move the platforms such that Mongrel and Floater end up in the south-west corner, and Alison and Recluse in the south-east corner.

Mongrel has 3 absorb, the same as us, Recluse probably has the highest.

>>411356
Well, in that case, attack Floater, then jump with Recluse to the west.

Ask Recluse if he'd rather move to the center once Floater's dead and see if there's a lever to drop the platforms, or personally kill Mongrel before going on in case there isn't a lever.

If he's fine with moving on and Floater dies from this attack, then I'm revising my earlier suggestion and voting to move right.

Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)16:05 No. 411368 ID: c811c4
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Alison attacks Floater for 6 damage!
Mongrel attacks Floater for 10 damage!
Floater has been slain!

Mongrel and Recluse use absorb, Recluse wins with Rank 5. Recluse gains 122 CU!

Alison asks Recluse if he would like to go to the center and see if there is a lever at to drop Mongrel. Recluse thinks that is too risky.

Move west?

Move west.

>>411368
Well, it was worth a shot. West it is, then.

Tell Recluse
"That is the kind of problem you won't have if you decide to join our group."

>>411371
He means it's "risky" in that he might not get to absorb Mongrel. Keep in mind that he was once called the Collector because he collects people's souls.

Recluse backstabs allies rather frequently. We have to be ready to run from him and play cat and mouse if he does it this turn.

1/4 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)16:17 No. 411377 ID: c811c4
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>Go west

Mongrel moves down, and she is in attack range!

Alison deals 6 damage to the Mongrel!

Mongrel curses Alison again, yet says she should be proud, making him waste his item.

The Mongrel uses a Red Glove on Alison!

2/4

Extra Life time. Pity. I think Mongrel gets to absorb us automatically since we're outside of time. As we dissolve tell Recluse to jump mongrel now. I bet he has a high defence too.

2/4 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)16:21 No. 411385 ID: c811c4
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Alison has no glove scissors, and Recluse says he does not either, so Alison is dragged into a fight.

All health and armor temporarily filled.
Alison deals 6 damage to Mongrel!
Mongrel deals 10 damage to Alison! Alison is slain!

3/4 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)16:21 No. 411386 ID: c811c4
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Recluse absorbs Alison and gains 293 CU!

Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)16:21 No. 411387 ID: c811c4
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Respawn now?

Wait until 1 dies and then go after the victor.

JOIN THE FIGHT NOW.

Use the scissors now, they said. We don't know how strong the two-headed snake is, they said.

Anyway there is not really a point in staying dead unless Mongrel is a cock who has more than one red glove. Revive and go kick his ass.

he probably didn't think you still had your life
go back to shenaniganing him.

Respawn immediately. If Recluse can't take down Mongrel, you two can still get away.

What does it feel like to be absorbed and part of Recluse?

Hmm... Mongrel has Body 9, so he could potentially have two more red dueling gloves.

I say we respawn anyway.

Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)16:33 No. 411397 ID: c811c4
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>What does it feel like to be absorbed and part of Recluse?
Like her mind is being carried, but she has a feeling she'll get used to it, and it can be ignored after awhile.

>Revive immediately

The Mongrel stays still as the Recluse jumps him.

Mongrel deals 10 damage to Recluse!
Recluse deals 12 damage to Mongrel! Mongrel is slain!

Recluse uses Absorb, gains 426 CU!

Thank Recluse! Move forward

Join recluse. Point out that he doesn't need to kill you now since you are a part of him. Once with him ask for your CU. After recieving it ... backstab him.

If you don't kill him he will kill your entire group if he can. Just to absorb it.

>>411399
This is a terrible idea! He would probably kill us anyway~!

"Well....... I suppose we should leave now. Thanks for killing him at least."

>>411397
Be like "Holy shit dude." and ask him if he's still willing to enter the next stage together, without killing us again.

Also go up I guess.

>>411397
...Now I wish we would have asked for his stats earlier. If we'd known he could do that, we could have avoided that duel.

>>411397
holy shit
why didn't he say that he had such a high attack

We should make haste, Mongrel could have another life. Ask Recluse to split the CU.

>>411404
Recluse likely wanted it to go down like this. We know he desires to absorb everyone he can, including allies. He even backstabbed his own allies to absorb them according to people in an earlier safe zone.
Recluse is in this for the long haul, and intends to save as many as he can. His method is just different than ours. I don't think he is likely to kill us again, but you do not want to assume he will not kill your allies if the opportunity presents itself.

Ask him if he has absorbed anyone in your group before, and work towards the center with him.

>"Outside of the casino, there's the Collector, now known as the Recluse. They say he's obsessed with absorbing everyone, friend and foe alike, to the point that he has backstabbed allies just to absorb them. Even if he doesn't do it for the CU, the point is that he's raked in a massive amount of it. A high level in absorption is expected."

This guy is serious business. He's absorbed us already though, so he probably won't kill us again. The only point in doing that would be to get more CU, and he doesn't really want that.

Ask him if he has any idea what happened to the people that Mongrel absorbed, now that he is dead. Can Mongrel sleep in Recluse's dream to allow them to live, as well?

yeah, we should probably just makes sure he's willing to work together and escape. we could potentially kill him by abusing our weapon range - we probably won't get a better chance to later on, actually - but we don't know what sort of item he's holding. losing that extra life means we should be taking as few chances as possible, even if our odds are relatively good.

Move north, and call out to Recluse to meet you in the middle to leave.

>>411399
People who respawn using an extra life won't show up in the dream, I think. Recluse could still backstab us, but I doubt he will right now.

>>411400


We can use our long range and the fact that if he doesn't declare attacking that turn he can't attack. If we attack the same turn we get the CU he'll have no way to retaliate. And as long as we reach him within 4 turns we'll be able to kill him in one hit. If not we just move out of range and hit and run him.

I'm afraid we have to kill him no matter what, if not now ... later. None of our group has a 1-up now.

Anyway move up.

The extra life counter is still on the status display. Shouldn't that have gone away?

be scared. don't fuck with him.

Okay, I have a movement plan. He moves left,left,up,up,up,up. We move up,stay,down,stay,down,up. That should get us both to the center.

Remember that Recluse made a note to get ranged attack. With all the CU he's stacking up, and ranged attack, he'll be unstoppable very soon. Alison will have no better time than now to take him down. The danger is if he has a red glove, and doesn't go down in one hit, Alison is toast.

Also ask what happens if someone gets absorbed by more than one person? Whose dream do they go to?

>>411417
Wait, no, that'll make us skip over the center on the last move. I need some time to think about this.

>>411417
Meh, he'll have recovered all his armor by then.

Unfortunately I have no idea how to get us to meet up sooner. Someone with a bit of puzzle solving skill should take a crack at it.

We have to take the chance. Otherwise Iso, Math, Engineer... everyone is at risk. Plus all the people we absorbed will dissapear for good too.

>>411411
Next to chief, Recluse is practically an ally. We'll probably need each other for the next rounds. Its a good opportunity to get rid of a threat, but we need to play our cards more carefully.

If we go through with the dubious plan of ranged attacking Recluse, tell him you want to get on the same platform as soon as possible. He should jump west, wait a turn, then jump west. Meanwhile, we'll wait two turns, then ranged attack him to the north-east, and jump north. This plan would also work if we don't want to attack him; Just drop the attacking part.

>>411417
>>411423
Okay, I think I've got it.
For him: left,left,up,up,left,stay,left.
For us: up,left,stay,stay,stay,stay,left.

Of course, if we'd rather try to kill Recluse to protect our friends, I don't have anything against it other than our wasting time here when our friends could be dying in the final area of the stage.

We wait, move up, move down. He moves up, down, right. That should get us in the lower left platform.

I'm near certain he has range 1 and just hasn't told us. We'd be killed if we attacked him. Even at range.

Recluse gained 800 CU this round. If you think hes going to spare our friends think again.

okay jump. and let's get this stage movin.

Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)17:48 No. 411440 ID: c811c4
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>For him: left,left,up,up,left,stay,left.
>For us: up,left,stay,stay,stay,stay,left.

Alison does this, and in 6 turns, the Recluse and Alison are together and can jump to the center tile.. She points out that he does not need to absorb her twice.

He says that twice doesn't hurt, but he is also fair. She will get a share, because he trusts Alison to not backstab him.

She knows that if she is going to backstab him, now may be as good a time as any. On the other hand, he hasn't split the CU as of yet.

He says he will answer her questions after they are past this stage.

Don't backstab him, he will cut you down.

If he could not kill/absorb your friends that would be great though~

Both jump left, ask for the CU there in case we get split up again. Then jump out of the puzzle. We'll have to kill him later. I wish we took a short route so we would have at least have had a chance.

We won't have to kill him because we just found our tank. When it comes down to Alison and Recluse, give him all your CU then self terminate, after he promises to absorb you. Then he can win the game.

...absorb is recursive, right

Too late to backstab him now; You'd get slaughtered. Keep on his good side, and ask if he'll join up with your group, or at least aid them until the end. Make the case that with him on your side, he can save them without absorbing them.

Both of you jump to the left, exchange CU and questions and answers, just in case you get separated, then leave the level.

Request that he doesn't attack your friends to absorb them, or at least holds off on it. You know he wants to absorb as many as he can, but you don't want him to force it on your comrades.

Ask him what he hopes to achieve by absorbing so many. Is it so that the absorbed can form a new world in his dream? Is that the "freedom" he spoke of?

Say that since he absorbed a part of you, that perhaps our dreams will be linked the next time we sleep. Plan to do so at the same time in the next Safe Zone.

1/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)18:06 No. 411451 ID: c811c4
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>Jump

She goes according to plan, and she asks of him not to absorb her friends. He doesn't promise it, but he also doesn't care to earn Alison's ire.

Alison says his stats are exceedingly high, but he handwaves it off. It doesn't do any good if he has no range with the way this stage was set up, but Alison shouldn't be surprised to run into people with such stats, he explains. If his calculations are correct, admittedly not with the best memory or mathematics, then if this is hypothetically the last stage, there have been about 400,000 contenders so far. It isn't a surprise that with things like absorption, there would be a few people that got a massive lead over most others.

>Ask for CU share
Recluse gives Alison 420 CU.

2/2 Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)18:10 No. 411460 ID: c811c4
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>Absorb is recursive, right?
Wrong, Recluse says. He is hoping that there is a hidden bonus to change this, whether or not he absorbed Alison while she has no lives left, he would not gain any of her absorptions.

>What happens if 2 people absorb the same person? Which dream do they go to?
Both, he says. It can be jarring for the absorbed, but he hasn't experienced it himself.

There are two chests here, for Alison and Recluse. Alison may choose between 3 different absorption boons.

>What does he hope to gain by absorbing so many?
He doesn't believe that the only point in having people exist beyond absorption is simply to have chats. He thinks they can be saved in the end, so he is trying to save as many as he can, his way of bypassing the low exit numbers for each stage.

Ghost Form:The user may bring their absorbed persons out. During stages, they will simply hover over the user and only be able to speak. In safe zones, they will be able to behave normally as though resurrected. Available at Absorption Rank 4 if chosen.

Ability gain: The absorber will gain access to any special ability that the absorbed target has at least Rank 1 in. This can only be done at the time of absorption, and can only choose one special ability. Available at Absorption Rank 7 if chosen.

Resurrection: For the cost of the target's CU, she may resurrect anyone that she has absorbed at the start of any turn, or anytime within a safe zone. Will be available at Absorption Rank 10 if chosen.

RESURRECTION

I'm going to go with Ability Gain, we can wait to buy the rest hopefully. And if not this one has the most use in battle.

Rank 11+ Absorption + Resurrection = Infinite CU!

Ask what Recluse got offered from the chest. If he was offered the same stuff get resurrection. We may never have lvl 10 absorb but if we do then we can bring people back.

>>411460

DANG IT

Resurrection... sounds great in principle, but unless we wait until the very end to use it we'll effectively be bringing under-prepared characters back in the game while everyone else is at level 10. The others aren't that great either though, meh. Wait, if we resurrect someone who absorbed others, will that return them to the post-absorption dream state?

Resurrection is a ways off. We need to get probably 1000 more CU to get level 10 if the levels keep growing. I'm hoping both the none-battle used boons will be available in shops.

>>411465

110% absorption I think the devs would have anticipated that. xD It probably maxes out at 10.

>>411460
If Recluse can pick Resurrection we should give him ALL OUR CU so he can work towards it.

It is the best long-term plan possible.

We should pick Ability Gain, just for the added survivability.

After picking our ability lets wait behind for 3 turns while recluse moves on. If someone else comes on the stage we can dump them.

Pull the lever. If mongrel has a second life he is on his way here. Wouldn't hurt to pull it.

ability absorb

Ask Recluse what he found in his chest, and share what you found. Confer over what to choose.

Resurrection is outwardly tempting, but Alison would have to get to absorption rank 10 to actually use it, and have the CU to bring them back, and to bring them up to level. Otherwise they'll get killed easily in the levels. I'm leaning towards the ability gain boon, but lets see what Recluse got in his chest first.

Tell Recluse that if he helps your group, he'd be able to save more people without resorting to absorbing them.

Ask recluse wht happens to the ghosts within those he absorbs after they die. In her dream she couldn't find any that died to those absorbers.

>>411470
Recluse's plan would go against wasting CU on resurrections. I doubt we will get any other easy chance to get Resurrection, so I would say go for that even though we won't be able to use it for quite a while.

>>411476
>"Absorb is recursive, right?"
>Wrong, Recluse says. He is hoping that there is a hidden bonus to change this, whether or not he absorbed Alison while she has no lives left, he would not gain any of her absorptions.

Suggestion 2012/05/13(Sun)19:13 No. 411493 ID: c811c4
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>What happens to the ghosts that were absorbed by people that die and get absorbed?
He says probably the same thing to the people who die without getting absorbed at all. He doesn't know.

>Ask what Recluse has in his chest
He says he has a choice between 60 CU, double jump access, or a knockback boon. He will probably get double jump.

Ask him if he wants to swap chests, if possible. Yours has a bunch of Absorption boons.

Nod, advise he gets knockback as it will go great with weapon range if he still plans on getting it. Double jump is after all offered in the store. Ask his advice on your boons.

"There are 3 absorb perks in this one, including the ability to ressurrect someone for their total CU cost at absorb level 10. That's what you are after, right? I'd much rather get knockback than one of these. So swap chests?"

NO! We want ability absorb. It will allow us to get knockback, disarm and scan!

We really should swap chests with him, at a higher level he would get more use out of them than us.

Tell him specifically that you have the potion to get a Ressurection boon that will allow you to bring people back to life by paying how much CU they had, available at rank 10 absorption.

You may be able to get the recluse's help in funding this endeavor. Also other stage people will begin to look very favorably upon you if they know you can feasibly bring them back to life.

With this you could make tons of cash reviving people for others by the way.

The knockback boon is not the knockback ability, nor an access to that ability line; It's an add-on to knockback.

Oh, missed that, ask what the boon does.

>>411498
"Things like this are why I like to work as a team rather than alone. I'd like us to stick together. Please don't kill any of my friends and when we get back to the safe zone I have a proposition I think you'd really like. Short version is you get dibs on any absorbs and split the CU with the party. We can work out the details when we get a break."

...Chest full of ability boons... I think we got Recluse's chest by mistake.

Tell Recluse what you found in your chest, and ask him which one he would have taken. Don't actually give it to him. At least, not right away. This is to figure out if he would have taken resurrection or not.

I doubt he'd take resurrection, remember hes been backstabbing allies.

He's been backstabbing allies probably to make sure he keeps them! Tell him about the ability boons, he'll probably be interested.

Let him know about resurrection, and if you two cant swap chests, then you should take it yourself. It might be a bit pie in the sky, but that is our best bet at getting more out alive. And with the ability to bring the dead back, we surely will be able to win over more allies. This probably includes Recluse, the super emo tank.