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Elite

The Hooksmith

The Hooksmith portrait

It forges the hooks the rest of the larder carries on the anvil it wears for a head, and the bellows-roar of its body drowns out whatever dawnread you're trying to hear - the reading arrives fogged, four parts in ten lost before you can act on it. It quenches its hook in grease before the strike, souring the swing you throw back.

Elite 83 HP hits for up to 12 6 damage per turn on average
Its move kitNumbers re-derived from the engine, not the authored text.
MoveTypeValueApplies
hooks twice for 9 and 12attack12—
quenches the hook in grease, souring your next swing on the draw (Greasebite 3)debuff3Greasebite
How it scalesFloors 0–2, the band its biome owns.

On the shallowest floor it appears on it has 83 HP and its attacks carry +0. On the deepest, 115 HP and +1. The printed move text never changes — the number does.

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🛢️ Greasebite
Every attack you make deals that much less. Decays by 1. Every blade you draw here comes back greased. The force you put into a swing is never the force that lands..
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