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Common foe

Rot Grub

Rot Grub portrait

A corpse-fattened grub that burrows out of the bone-mortar to seed you with the first spore of the hall's slow decay.

Common foe 67 HP hits for up to 7 2.3 damage per turn on average
Its move kitNumbers re-derived from the engine, not the authored text.
MoveTypeValueApplies
gnaws rot (Rot 5)debuff5Rot
swarms for 7attack7—
fattens on the rot (+1 Wrath)buff1—
How it scalesFloors 3–5, the band its biome owns.

On the shallowest floor it appears on it has 106 HP and its attacks carry +1. On the deepest, 132 HP and +2. The printed move text never changes — the number does.

Keywords on this page
🦠 Rot
Deals that much damage at the end of each turn. Ignores Guard and never fades — it only grows as more is applied.
💪 Wrath
Adds its value to every attack it makes. Lasts the whole fight.
Where you meet it
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