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Common foe

The Bottlehead

The Bottlehead portrait

It lays molten glass onto its targets a coat at a time, running it down off its own burning head, patient and never rushing the job. That slow glazing draws off more than glass - any strength you've banked mid-swing answers to the coat, two points held down before you can spend it - and the same patient layering scrapes at whatever you're setting course by course, three points of that accretion undone before you can build on it.

Common foe 60 HP hits for up to 15 7.5 damage per turn on average
Its move kitNumbers re-derived from the engine, not the authored text.
MoveTypeValueApplies
runs on a heavier coat that climbs hotter on its own, turn after turn (Kilnbrand 3)debuff3Kilnbrand
clubs you with a banded forelimb for 15attack15—
How it scalesFloors 3–5, the band its biome owns.

On the shallowest floor it appears on it has 95 HP and its attacks carry +1. On the deepest, 119 HP and +2. The printed move text never changes — the number does.

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🔥 Kilnbrand
At the end of your turn you take that much, straight through Guard, and the brand climbs by 1. Burns out after 3 turns. The kiln's heat doesn't visit once and leave. What you carry out keeps climbing on its own, a little hotter every turn, until something colder than the fight puts it out..
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