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Common foe

The Plumbline

The Plumbline portrait

Someone once measured this stair. The line they dropped never found a bottom, and it is still swinging. It comes back through the flight on a slow arc, and everything caught in the arc goes over the rail with it.

Common foe 62 HP hits for up to 25 11.5 damage per turn on average
Its move kitNumbers re-derived from the engine, not the authored text.
MoveTypeValueApplies
the line comes back through the flight for 25attack25—
drags the whole stair a degree out of true (Unfooting 2)debuff2Un-Footing
the wire goes still and true (+6 Guard)defend6—
swings back the other way for 21attack21—
How it scalesFloors 6–7, the band its biome owns.

On the shallowest floor it appears on it has 135 HP and its attacks carry +3. On the deepest, 147 HP and +3. The printed move text never changes — the number does.

Keywords on this page
🪜 Un-Footing
Whenever you play an attack, you lose that much Guard. Decays by 1. The stair tilts when you lunge — attack first, then raise the wall.
🛡 Guard
Absorbs incoming damage. Resets at the start of its turn.
Where you meet it
Others behind the same doors
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