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The Arrears

The Arrears portrait

It skims your Seethe near to nothing the instant it's banked - three parts in ten survive to be spent - and calls the rest in as a debt on your hide.

Boss 192 HP hits for up to 24 10 damage per turn on average

The ledger that collects before you can spend. Only three tenths of the Seethe you bank ever reaches your hand: it takes its cut the moment the heat lands, garnishes the strength out of your arm on top, and lets the rest stand as a debt. A deck that saves its fire for one enormous turn has been paying interest the whole way, and the cycle ends by calling in everything still owed.

Its move kitNumbers re-derived from the engine, not the authored text.
MoveTypeValueApplies
opens the ledger for 12attack12—
marks what's owed (Debt 2) - it skims before you can spendbuff2—
collects a toll for 15attack15—
garnishes your strength (Weak 2) - what's owed comes out of your armdebuff2Chill
the debt compounds, for 9attack9—
calls in everything still owed, for 24attack24—
Tuned against

This boss is built to punish the Simmer deck. It never stands at the end of Descent I against that deck; from Descent II on, bring something else, or bring an answer.

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❄️ Chill
This unit's next attack deals HALF — one stack is spent per attack.
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