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Common foe

Anchor Chain

Anchor Chain portrait

Loosed from its housing, it swings the whole length of itself rather than aim any one link at you, and it plants deep in the silt to take the return blow. The corrosion doesn't stop at metal: any wound you try to close near it weeps salt back at you, one point for every point you mend, and the same dead iron threads a current - any charge you spend near it earths straight back through the chain, a point of hurt for every point you spend. It leaves a flooded weight in your chest besides, that comes due later, all at once.

Common foe 90 HP hits for up to 20 6.7 damage per turn on average
Its move kitNumbers re-derived from the engine, not the authored text.
MoveTypeValueApplies
lashes the chain for 20attack20—
lets rusted water pool in your chest, to come due, all at once, two mornings from now (Driftfuse 2)debuff2Driftfuse
plants the anchor in the silt (defend 9)defend9—
How it scalesFloors 6–7, the band its biome owns.

On the shallowest floor it appears on it has 195 HP and its attacks carry +3. On the deepest, 213 HP and +3. The printed move text never changes — the number does.

Keywords on this page
🌊 Driftfuse
The whole bank comes due at once, straight through Guard, 2 turns after it was last applied. Nothing decays — the whole bank is paid at once. The wreck doesn't drown you today. It banks the water in your lungs and calls the whole debt due, all at once, two mornings from now..
Where you meet it
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