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Maddy the level 5 Skeleton Psyshot by Magnus Grey

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.7.5
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Embers of Rage 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

One year has passed since the one the Orcs call the "Scourge from the West" came and single-handedly crushed the Orc Prides of Grushnak, Vor, Gorbat, and Rak'Shor.  The Allied Kingdoms, now linked by farportal to their distant, long-lost Sunwall allies, have helped them conquer most of Var'Eyal.  The few remnants of the ravaged Prides are caged...  but one Pride remains.  Kruk Pride, isolated on an island, is the last orcish settlement that stands; they, too, face their impending doom.  The Sunwall has blockaded the only exit point from the island, and now, the technologically advanced civilization of Steam Giants have come down from the mountains to take their homeland with machines and weaponry unlike anything else on Eyal.  Kruk Pride has reverse-engineered their technology before; their only hope is to do it again and rise up against the Pride's foes.
 

Features:

  • Explore a whole new campaign from level 1 to 50, one year after the events of the original Tales of Maj'Eyal campaign. Liberate the Orcs (or die trying) by rising up against the Sunwall, the Steam Giants of Atmos, and other dangers that may lie in wait...
  • Play as one of three new races: the battle-hardened Orcs, the brutal Yetis, and the unstoppable Whitehooves. Discover their stories, their pains, their hopes... and their awesome racial powers!
  • Risk your life in over 20 unique zones! Explore the ruins of a lost city, lay siege to the Sunwall forces at the Gates of Morning, and raid the Steam Giants' mining quarry - each has its own unique foes and hazards, leading each to feel and play different from the others.
  • Play as one of the four new tinker classes: Gunslingers, Sawbutchers, Psyshots and Annihilators! Plus a class evolution: Technomancers! Crush and rend your foes with heavy metal, electrocute and immolate them with your gadgets, charge across the battlefield or nimbly strafe in style - each plays differently, and none provide any shortage of ways to slay your foes.
  • Master steam technology to build powerful tinkers to augment your equipment. Need to close in a bit quicker? Turn your boots into rocket boots! Having a hard time deciding whether to shoot someone or stab them? Build a Hand Cannon into your gloves, or deploy a Weapon Automaton to do the stabbing for you! If you have a problem, steamtech has a solution, usually involving explosions; with over 80 different powerful contraptions to craft, enjoy unparalleled versatility and trying something different with every playthrough.
  • Master the tactical uses of over 140 talents! Fire bouncing trick-shots and psychic-infused shots, use your steamsaws as shields or wheels, terrify your foes with long mechanical arms - there are no "boring" talents here, everything has its own special applications and properties!
  • Use advanced technology in the world of Eyal! Burrow through sand, plant bombs to destroy tunnels, and discover that you aren't alone in using it...
  • Infusions and runes are for puny humans; implant new medical injectors to pump an array of experimental chemicals into your body! Injectors can use any (infinitely reusable) salve in your inventory as long as they're off their cooldown, giving you versatility you've wished you could get with a couple of inscriptions.
  • Loot over 70 new and powerful artifacts. Pump lead into foes with big guns, quick guns, and explosive guns! Shred them with saws that maim, saws that thirst for blood, and saws that aren't really saws! Violate common sense by strapping a rocket to your back and calling it a jetpack!
  • Enjoy dying in horrible and exotic ways at the hands (or claws, jaws, guns...) of over 140 new creatures! Not mere piles of stats and chain-stuns, these foes will provide unique challenges - suffer the Sunwall's newest cosmic spells, the new breeds of ritches that infest and multiply, the Steam Giants' elaborate defense systems, and find new strategies to adapt to each!
  • Earn a trunkload of achievements! Have your accomplishments recognized for liberating the Orcish people, displaying exceptional mercy or cruelty, or showing your prowess with impressive feats! Give a boss a fate worse than death, show Sunwall forces how frustrating it is to fight a Radiant Horror as a paladin, come out on top against impossible odds, display a suicidal lack of situational awareness, and wear a badge of pride or shame for each!
  • Read roughly 27,000 words of new lore to immerse yourself in the world! Learn how things have changed since the Scourge's campaign, feel hatred and/or pity for your foes, uncover grand schemes and sinister plots, and notice the elaborate connections between Var'Eyal's numerous factions. Every zone has a story behind it, and every story ties into a bigger picture; enjoy a tale of horror and humor, of intrigue and glory, of despair and hope.
  • Earn the right to use the classic (and Ashes of Urh'Rok) classes in Embers of Rage, and the new tinker classes in Maj'Eyal! Play a Brawler in the East to fulfill your life-long dream of suplexing an entire nation of giants, or play a Sawbutcher in Maj'Eyal to shred through Dreadfell in a whirlwind of sawblades and steam!
Embers of Rage 1.7.4

Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

Many in Maj'Eyal have heard of "demons", sadistic creatures who appear seemingly from nowhere, leaving a trail of suffering and destruction whereever they go. Their Fearscape floats far above the skies, watching and waiting, but not idly; their agents scout the land, their legions build up their forces, and their scholars develop new spells and strategies. As the barrier between our worlds begins to crack under their scrutiny, helpless Eyalites have begun to disappear, whisked up to serve as their slaves and playthings. They imbue these victims with magical powers to better survive the ensuing stresses - can you use your new-found abilities to escape the legions of Mal'Rok?

Features:

  • Start with a new class, the Doombringer! These avatars of demonic destruction charge into battle with massive two-handed weapons, cutting swaths of firey devastation through hordes of opponents. Armed with flame magic and demonic strength, they delight in fighting against overwhelming odds, softening up the crowd with waves of fire, then feeding on the flames and suffering of their surroundings to stay alive while quickly reducing any group to a pile of ash and gore.
  • Unlock a new class, the Demonologist, with an all-new item enhancement mechanic! Bearing a shield and the magic of the Spellblaze itself, these melee-fighting casters can grow demonic seeds from their fallen enemies. Imbue these seeds onto your items to gain a wide array of new talents and passive benefits, and summon the demons within them to fight on your side! Ever looked at a gigantic demon-cursed minotaur and wished it was on your side for once? Well, now you CAN summon one to pound your foes into paste while you cast devastating spells from afar, or call forth a squad of Fire Imps to pelt your enemies to death while they exhaust themselves on your impenetrable defenses! Demons have persistent health, making them a little more precious than disposable necromancer skeletons or summoner beasts, but can be revived from death nonetheless.
  • Two new zones, with all-new art, foes, and bosses! You've seen the plains of the Fearscape before, now see the lairs and headquarters of the demons themselves!
  • Over 10,000 words of written lore to find! The demons were once an enlightened, peaceful race, hailing from a distant planet known as Mal'Rok; learn what drove them to plot Eyal's eternal torture! Discover monuments to each of the demonic species and noteworthy individuals, showing the place of honor each has among them! Get a glimpse into the culture and daily lives of these sadistic invaders and their brainwashed thralls!
  • Unlock a new race, Doomelves: Shalore who've taken to the demonic alterations especially well, corrupting their typical abilities into a darker form. Blink away to safety, transform into a shadowy dúathedlen to hide in the shadows or prey on your foes with blasts of darkness, use your new resilience to soak up status effects and critical hits, and assault your enemies' minds to leave them unsteady in combat!
  • Between the aforementioned classes and Doomelves, a whopping 75 new talents!
  • Unlock two new cosmetic options! You know you've always wanted demon-horns.
  • Two new events, appearing anywhere in Eyal!
  • 20 new artifacts, with unique and interesting effects. Collect the Obsidian Treasures to amass more and more power! Slip your hands into the Will of Ul'Gruth and watch your sweeping blows smash down walls! Wear a giant hideous hell-mouth as a fashionable belt!
  • 7 new achievements! Conquer the worst Urh'Rok's forces can throw at you, and hang their metaphorical skulls from your profile page!

Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.7.4

Possessor Bonus Class 1.7.4

Donators/Buyers bonus!
Possessor Bonus Class 1.7.4

Forbidden Cults 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

Not all adventurers seek fortune, not all that defend the world have good deeds in mind.
Lately the number of sightings of horrors have grown tremendously. People wander off the beaten paths only to be found years later, horribly mutated and partly insane, if they are found at all. It is becoming evident something is stirring deep below Maj'Eyal.
That something is you.

Forbidden Cults is a big expansion for Tales of Maj'Eyal to let you explore the horrors that lurk beneath the surface, to delve in long lost knowledge and lore and as usual to die a lot!


Forbidden Cults makes two new classes available to play:

  • Writhing One: Give in to the corrupting forces and turn yourself gradually into an horror, summon horrors to do your bidding, shed your skin and melt your face to assault your foes. With your arm already turned into a tentacle, what creature can stop you?
  • Cultist of Entropy: Using its insanity and control of entropic forces to unravel the normal laws of physic this caster class can turn healing into attacks and call upon the forces of the void to reduce its foes to dust.

Both those classes use a new resource called Insanity that gradually makes you both more chaotic and powerful as it fills up.


Forbidden Cults makes two new races available to play:

  • Drem: A corrupt subrace of dwarves, that somehow managed to keep a shred of sanity to not fully devolve into mindless horrors. They can enter a frenzy and even learn to summon horrors.
  • Krog: Ogres transformed by the very thing that should kill them. Their powerful attacks can stun their foes and they are so strong they can dual wield any one handed weapons.


Forbidden Cults adds many new zones for you to explore and die in:

  • Kroshkkur: An ancient Sher'tul Fortress laying half in ruins that serves as a focal point, and home, for all kinds of creatures seeking lost knowledge.
  • The Maggot: A huge living corrupted worm about to destroy Kroshkkur! Teleport inside and save your sanctuary of horrors!
  • The Godfeaster: Deep undergroud the ground shakes as ... -- redacted by corrupt forces --
  • The Scourge Pits: On the south of the Iron Throne lays a fool pit of ... -- redacted by corrupt forces --
  • Forbidden Tomes: Find special artifact books of ancient lore. But, read at your own peril, for the story they tell may very well suck you in... quite literally.
    Maybe you will even find The One That Writes...
  • Occult Egress: A strange, extremely old, contraption of unknown origin. It seems to require some kind of code sequence to activate. Maybe you will find some during your adventures?
  • The Entropic Void: So you think you are strong? Powerful? Invulnerable? In the end, entropy always wins, as you will learn...


What would an expansion about horrors be without a bunch of new horrors to torment you with? Please give a warm welcome to:

  • Searing Horrors: You liked luminous horrors? You loved radiant horrors? You will absolutely adore their searing big brothers!
  • Nethergates: It sleeps. Maybe it should stay that way.
  • Netherworms: Vampiric worm masses that are bound to tickle your fancy! And tickle hard.
  • Fearful Symmetry: Geometry has never been so lively!
  • Entropic Shards: Take an entropic crystal, shatter it with tentacles. And die.
  • : And more ...


"DarkGod, is that all?" Obviously not! You will also find your usual addition of:

  • Lore: Delve into the dark forgotten secrets of the world, where sanity is a very tenuous idea.
  • Artifacts: Discover new objects of power and use them to further your own goals.
  • New wyrmic tree: Unlock the scourge drake for your wyrmics.
  • Glass Golem: Unlock the glass golem option for your alchemists.
  • Events: Discover new strange contraptions in familiar zones. What could go wrong?
  • Achievements: Because there can never be enough!
Forbidden Cults 1.7.4
CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeMadness Roguelike
SexMale
RaceSkeleton
ClassPsyshot
Level / Exp5 / 37%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
Killed by armoured skeleton warrior at level 5 on the 78th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 03:32
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Primary Stats

Strength20 (base 10)
Dexterity24 (base 13)
Constitution10 (base 10)
Magic10 (base 10)
Willpower25 (base 23)
Cunning18 (base 18)

Resources

Life-35/242
Psi63/115
Steam64/100
Healing Factor1
Regeneration2.25

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement+15%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite3

Offense: Mainhand

Damage17
Accuracy28
Crit Chance6%
APR1
Speed1.00

Offense: Offhand

Damage9
Accuracy28
Crit Chance5%
APR12
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower15
Crit Chance3%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower23
Crit Chance4%
Speed1

Offense: Damage Bonus

Cold+10%
Mind+10%
Nature+10%

Offense: Damage Penetration

Cold+8%

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)5 (38.594633868923%)
Defense30
Ranged Defense30
Fatigue0
Physical Save20
Spell Save12
Mental Save19

Defense: Resistances

Nature+ 26%( 70%)
Cold+ 21%( 70%)
Mind+ 16%( 70%)
All+ 7%( 70%)

Defense: Immunities

Fear Resistance100%
Instadeath Resistance100%
Poison Resistance100%
Bleed Resistance100%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Implants
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 20
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Steamtech (100% of a turn)
Is: a steamtech power
Description: Steam generator that permanently creates 6.0 steam per turn.
Can be activated for an instant burst of 30 steam.
Its effects scale with your Constitution stat.
Implant: Steam Generator
Implants
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 1
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a steamtech power
Description: Medical injector allows using therapeutics with 100% efficiency and cooldown mod of 100%.
Implant: Medical Injector
Implants
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 1
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a steamtech power
Description: Medical injector allows using therapeutics with 100% efficiency and cooldown mod of 100%.
Implant: Medical Injector

Class Talents

Steamtech / Thoughts of iron1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Drains steam: 4
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Steamtech (100% of a turn)
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Using psionic energies you temporarily alter your blood, turning it into molten iron.
    When affected by molten blood all creatures that hit you in melee take 0.99 fire damage, all your resistances are increased by -2% and all new detrimental effects on you have their duration reduced by -5%.
    Damage increases with your Steampower.
    Molten Iron Blood
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Steam cost: 30
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: 200% of base
    Usage Speed: Steamtech (100% of a turn)
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Melding psionics with steamtech you create 5 mind drones at your sides that fly towards your target.
    If they encounter a creature they will latch on it and bore into its skull for 6 turns, disrupting its thoughts.
    Disrupted creatures have 11% chances to fail to use talents and suffer a --18% reduction to fear and sleep immunity.
    Mind Drones
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Steam cost: 30
    Range: 5
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: You cleanse your mind of 0 mental debuffs.
    Cleansed effects will be randomly sent to closeby foes (range 5, subject to a mental save).
    Psionic Mirror
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 0
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Steamtech (100% of a turn)
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: By using a direct psionic link to your body you can use even more therapeutics. This talent acts as an extra medical injector with 60% efficiency and 161% cooldown mod.
    Mind Injection
0/5
Steamtech / Psytech gunnery1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Activated
    Psi cost: 4
    Steam cost: 5
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 7
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Steamtech (100% of a turn)
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 48% and Physical Power by 30 when using steamguns.
    When your bullets hit a target you instinctively reach out to the impact and use the kinetic force to project a mindstar attack doing 200% damage (guaranteed hit), if you wield one in the offhand.
    This projection requires a pure mindstar; it will not work if extended into a psiblade.

    Also activable for a shot that deals 162% weapon damage as mind damage.
    Psyshot
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Psi cost: 15
    Steam cost: 25
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Steamtech (100% of a turn)
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Using psionic energies you overheat your shot, making it deal 141% damage.
    If the shot hits a wet foe it will vaporize, removing the wet effect and dealing 83.99 fire damage in a radius 4.
    Boiling Shot
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Psi cost: 15
    Steam cost: 25
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 11
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Steamtech (100% of a turn)
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Fire a relatively low-powered shot at a foe doing 50% weapon damage, if it hits a cone-shaped shockwave of radius 4 emanates from the impact, stunning it and all creatures caught inside for 1 turns.
    Blunt Shot
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Psi cost: 10
    Steam cost: 10
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Steamtech (100% of a turn)
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Attach a psionic steam device to a shot doing 110% weapon damage.
    When it hits a foe the device activates, violently sucking all the air nearby, pulling in all creatures in radius 1.
    Vacuum Shot
0/5
Psionic / Psionic fog1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain psi cost: 18
    Drains steam: 1
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a steamtech power and a mind power
    Description: You concentrate your will to psychoport some of the steam of your generator to a remote location. Each turn steam accumulates there, up to 3 charges.
    When you deactivate the effect you release the accumulated psionic and steam energies, instantly switching places with the target location and releasing the charges in a fiery explosion of hot wet steam in radius 4.
    The explosion will do 33.39 fire damage, multiplied by 33% (diminutive) for each charge and apply the wet effect.
    The effect will fizzle if the charged grid is currently occupied by a creature or not in sight.
    The damage will increase with your Steampower.
    Vaporous Step
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: When you deactivate Vaporous Step, if the psychoport succeeds you inhale some of the vapours, regenerating 8 steam and 72 life.
    The effects will be multiplied by 33% (diminutive) for each charge of Vaporous Step.
    The healing done will increase with your Mindpower.
    Inhale Vapours
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Psi cost: 10
    Steam cost: 30
    Range: 8
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Using the steam of your generators you shape it into a psionic fog that lasts 0 turns. Any foes caught inside will take 2.57 damage per turn and be seared, reducing their fire resistance by 0% and and mind save by 0.
    The damage will increase with your Mindpower.
    Psionic Fog
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Cooldown: 20
    Is: a mind power
    Description: While inside a psionic fog the quantum state of space is warped by your powerful tech-augmented psionic powers.
    When you would get hit you instead find yourself in an adjacent location.
    This effect has a cooldown.
    Uncertainty Principle
0/5
Steamtech / Mechstar1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Psi cost: 6
    Steam cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Steamtech (100% of a turn)
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Quickly aggregate particles of metal around your mindstar and focus psionic energies into it.
    The metal explodes like shrapnel, knocking back (1 away) and dazing (2 duration) all foes in radius 1.
    Metalstar
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: When you fire your metalstar, your also establish a psionic bloodlink with the shrapnel still inside for 0 turns.
    Each turn the victims are drained for 1.57 physical damage, half of which heals you (each additional victim healing is reduced by half).
    If the victim move more than twice away from the radius of Metalstar (currently 2) the effect stops.
    This damage does not break daze and increases with your Steampower.
    Bloodstar
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Your bloodstar effect also burns part of your victim's flesh, dealing 1.57 fire damage.
    The intensity of the fire generates steam which you psionically absorb through gestalt, providing 0 steam each turn (each additional victim steam generation is reduced by 66%).
    This damage does not break daze and increases with your Steampower.
    Steamstar
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: When you use a shoot class talent to hit a creature affected by bloodstar an other shoot talent will have its current cooldown reduced by 0 turns.
    Deathstar
0/5
Psionic / Gestalt1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain psi cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: You let your mind tap into your steam generators for energy, increasing your Mindpower in proportion to your steam level: 6 when at full steam and 0 when at 0 steam.
    Using a psionic talent will feedback into your generators, increasing your Steam power by 5 for your next steamtech talent.
    Using a steamtech talent will feedback into psionic focus, increasing your psi level by 11.
    The effects increase with your Willpower.
    Gestalt
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Cooldown: 5
    Is: a mind power
    Description: When you use a steamtech talent while Gestalt is active you drain some residual power to form a psionic shield.
    The shield forms for 3 turns and absorbs 4 damage.
    The effects increase with your Mindpower.
    Improved Gestalt
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Steam cost: 64
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Instantly channel all of your remaining steam to replenish your psi energies and either enhance your active psionic damage shield or trigger a new one.
    The (new or existing) shield duration is increased by 3 turns and its power is boosted by 0% of the steam used.
    You restore psi equal to 11% of the steam used.
    This talent requires Gestalt to be active and either an active psionic damage shield or Improved Gestalt off cooldown.
    Instant Channeling
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Psi cost: 30
    Steam cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Temporarily expand your mind to force your Gestalt upon your foes in a radius of 5. Up to 0 foe(s) will be affected.
    The Gestalt will drain each affected foe's powers (physical power, mind power, spell power and steam power) by 1 for 5 turns.
    Your own powers will be increased in return by the drained amount (reduced for each additional foe).
    In addition for 5 turns you can sense creatures beyond your sight, even through walls in radius -1.
    The effects improve with your Mindpower.
    Forced Gestalt
0/5
Psionic / Action at a distance1.30
  • Effective talent level: 3.9
    Use mode: Activated
    Psi cost: 10
    Steam cost: 10
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Condensate hot steam around your foes in radius 3, burning them for 124.10 fire damage and applying the wet effect for 4 turns, halving their stun resistances.
    The damage will increase with your Mindpower.
    Condensate
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Psi cost: 10
    Steam cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: You concentrate your will in a cone in front of you, condensing the air into a tangible, solid form.
    Any creatures caught inside take 102.64 physical damage.
    Any places with no creatures will be filled with solid air, blocking the way for 2 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Mindpower.
    Solidify Air
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Psi cost: 10
    Steam cost: 10
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Call a streak of lightning on your target, dealing 5.74 to 17.23 lightning damage.
    If it is wet the lightning propagates to all foes in radius 0, doing the same damage to each.
    All affected foes are seared for 4 turns, reducing their fire resistance by 1% and and mind save by 1.
    The damage will increase with your Mindpower.
    Superconduction
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain psi cost: 50
    Drains steam: 2
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Any time you deal damage with a psionic ability you incur a negative biofeedback in your foes, stacking up to 0 times for 5 turns.
    Each stack reduces their physical save by 1, defense and armour by 0.
    This effect may only occur once per turn.
    Negative Biofeedback
0/5

Generic Talents

Steamtech / Physics1.20
  • Effective talent level: 1.2
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Allows you to create smithed tinkers of level 1.
    You will learn a new schematic at level 1.
    Each other talent level, you have a 20% chance to learn one more random schematic, if you have not gained it by level 5 you are guaranteed it (unless all are known).
    This talent is required for the following tinkers (you still need to learn/find the schematics):
    * Incendiary Groove
    * Ablative Armour
    * Saw Projector
    * Shocking Edge
    * Rustproof Coating
    * Solid Shell
    * Focus Lens (known)
    * Steamgun (known)
    * Silver Filigree
    * Razor Edge (known)
    * Back Support (known)
    * Acid Groove
    * Mana Coil
    * Grounding Strap
    * Steamsaw
    * Fatal Attractor
    * Viral Needlegun
    * Armour Reinforcement
    * Winterchill Edge
    * Crystal Plating
    * Crystal Edge
    * Toxic Cannister Launcher
    * Spike Attachment
    * Viral Injector
    * ...perhaps more to discover...
    Smith
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Allows you to create mechanical tinkers of level 0.
    You will learn a new schematic at level 1.
    Each other talent level, you have a 20% chance to learn one more random schematic, if you have not gained it by level 5 you are guaranteed it (unless all are known).
    This talent is required for the following tinkers (you still need to learn/find the schematics):
    * Voltaic Sentry
    * Iron Grip
    * Saw Projector
    * Kinetic Stabiliser
    * Rocket Boots (known)
    * Back Support (known)
    * Steamsaw
    * Fatal Attractor
    * Hook Shell
    * Saw Shell
    * Spring Grapple
    * Air Recycler
    * Hand Cannon
    * ...perhaps more to discover...
    Mechanical
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Allows you to create electrical tinkers of level 0.
    You will learn a new schematic at level 1.
    Each other talent level, you have a 20% chance to learn one more random schematic, if you have not gained it by level 5 you are guaranteed it (unless all are known).
    This talent is required for the following tinkers (you still need to learn/find the schematics):
    * Voltaic Sentry
    * Black Light Emitter
    * Shocking Edge
    * Magnetic Shell (known)
    * Galvanic Retributor
    * Mana Coil
    * Shocking Touch
    * Grounding Strap
    * Fatal Attractor
    * Lightning Coil
    * Mental Stimulator
    * Voltaic Shell
    * Power Distributor
    * White Light Emitter
    * Deflection Field
    * ...perhaps more to discover...
    Electricity
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Increases the capacity of your steam tank by 0.
    Compact Steam Tank
0/5
Undead / Skeleton1.10
  • Effective talent level: 2.2
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Improves your skeletal condition, increasing Strength and Dexterity by 7.
    Skeleton
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.1
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 26
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Creates a shield of bones, absorbing 217 damage. Lasts for 10 turns.
    The total damage the shield can absorb increases with your Dexterity.
    Bone Armour
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your undead bones are very resilient, reducing the duration of all detrimental effects on you by up to -1%.
    Resilient Bones
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 39
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Reposition some of your bones, healing yourself for -1.
    At level 5, you will gain the ability to completely re-assemble your body should it be destroyed (can only be used once).
    Re-assemble
0/5
Steamtech / Engineering1.20
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Steam cost: 50
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Steamtech (100% of a turn)
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: You open all steam valves at once, releasing a radius 3 wave of superheated steam around yourself which deals 11.55 fire damage (but can not be a critical hit).
    If you had at least 35 steam, the vapours will be so hot that they can burn sensory organs, blinding affected creatures for 0 turns.
    The effects scale with your current steam value; at 1 steam they are only 15% as effective as at 50 or more (current factor 100%).
    Emergency Steam Purge
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Your knowledge of physical laws allows you to use and improve equipment in ways their creators never dreamed.
    Increases all stats, saves, armour, and defense bonuses by 0% on equipment that is crafted by a master or powered by steamtech.
    Innovation
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Steam cost: 60
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 2
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Using a huge amount of steam, you temporarily supercharge your tinkers and other steam-powered talents.
    For 2 turns, you gain 20 steampower and 0% steamtech critical chance.
    Supercharge Tinkers
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Sometimes, being a master tinker requires taking risks; yours are more calculated than others.
    Gain 0 cunning, 1 physical save, 5% resistance to self-inflicted damage, and 2% chance to avoid being critically hit.
    Last Engineer Standing
0/5
Steamtech / Chemistry1.20
  • Effective talent level: 1.2
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Allows you to create therapeutic tinkers of level 1.
    You will learn a new schematic at level 1.
    Each other talent level, you have a 20% chance to learn one more random schematic, if you have not gained it by level 5 you are guaranteed it (unless all are known).
    This talent is required for the following tinkers (you still need to learn/find the schematics):
    * Fiery Salve
    * Botanical Shell
    * Second Skin
    * Alchemist's Helper
    * Moss Tread
    * Pain Suppressor Salve (known)
    * Healing Salve
    * Antimagic Shell
    * Water Salve
    * Frost Salve
    * Fungal Web
    * Air Recycler
    * Power Distributor
    * Poison Groove
    * Unstoppable Force Salve
    * Viral Injector
    * ...perhaps more to discover...
    Therapeutics
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Allows you to create chemical tinkers of level 0.
    You will learn a new schematic at level 1.
    Each other talent level, you have a 20% chance to learn one more random schematic, if you have not gained it by level 5 you are guaranteed it (unless all are known).
    This talent is required for the following tinkers (you still need to learn/find the schematics):
    * Fireproof Coating
    * Waterproof Coating
    * Black Light Emitter
    * Rustproof Coating
    * Alchemist's Helper
    * Acid Groove
    * Flash Powder
    * Corrosive Shell
    * Winterchill Edge
    * Toxic Shell
    * White Light Emitter
    * Itching Powder
    * ...perhaps more to discover...
    Chemistry
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Allows you to create explosive tinkers of level 0.
    You will learn a new schematic at level 1.
    Each other talent level, you have a 20% chance to learn one more random schematic, if you have not gained it by level 5 you are guaranteed it (unless all are known).
    This talent is required for the following tinkers (you still need to learn/find the schematics):
    * Botanical Shell
    * Incendiary Groove
    * Ablative Armour
    * Flare Shell
    * Solid Shell
    * Steamgun (known)
    * Thunderclap Coating
    * Magnetic Shell (known)
    * Thunder Grenade
    * Voltaic Shell
    * Corrosive Shell
    * Hook Shell
    * Antimagic Shell
    * Saw Shell
    * Explosive Shell
    * Toxic Shell
    * Hand Cannon
    * Headlamp
    * ...perhaps more to discover...
    Explosives
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a steamtech power
    Description: Increases the efficiency of all steamtech you operate, granting 0 steampower.
    Steam Power
0/5
Technique / Combat training1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your skin becomes more resilient to damage. Increases resistance to all damage by 0.0%.
    Thick Skin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 0, Armour hardiness by 0%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 0% with your current body armour.
    (This talent only provides bonuses for heavy mail or massive plate armour.)
    At level 1, it allows you to wear heavy mail armour, gauntlets, helms, and heavy boots.
    At level 2, it allows you to wear shields.
    At level 3, it allows you to wear massive plate armour.
    Heavy Armour Training
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You learn to maintain your agility and manage your combat posture while wearing robes or light armour. When wearing armour no heavier than leather in your main body slot, you gain 20 Defense, 9% Armour hardiness, and 12% reduced Fatigue.
    In addition, when you step adjacent to a (visible) enemy, you use the juxtaposition to increase your total Defense by 10 for 2 turns.
    The Defense bonus scales with your Dexterity.
    Light Armour Training
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 18.
    Combat Accuracy
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
0/5

Effects

Quests

It is time to explore some new places -- dark, forgotten and dangerous ones.
The Old Forest is just south-east of the town of Derth.
The Maze is west of Derth.
The Sandworm Lair is to the far west of Derth, near the sea.
The Daikara is on the eastern borders of the Thaloren forest.
* You must explore the Old Forest and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Maze and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Sandworm Lair and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Daikara and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
Into the darkness		active
You have been resurrected as an undead by some dark powers.
However, the ritual failed in some way and you retain your own mind. You need to get out of this dark place and try to carve a place for yourself in the world.
You have found a very special cloak that will help you walk among the living without trouble.
The rotting stench of the dead		done

Equipment

On feet
pair of rough leather boots (0 def, 1 armour)
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / feet ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Talent granted: +1 Rocket Boots


A pair of boots made of leather.
pair of rough leather boots (0 def, 1 armour)
Quiver
pouch of iron shots (22/22, 16-19 power, 1 apr)
Requires:
- Dexterity 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: ammo / shot ; tier 1

Base power: 15.5 - 18.6
Uses stats: 50% Cun, 70% Dex
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +1
Crit. chance: +4.0%
Capacity: 22


Shots are used with slings to pummel your foes to death.
pouch of iron shots (22/22, 16-19 power, 1 apr)
On hands
restful iron gauntlets (0 def, 1 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training

Infused by psionic forces
1.50 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / hands ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Fatigue: +1%
Life regen: +2.00
Stamina each turn: +0.50
Maximum stamina: +12.00
When used to modify unarmed attacks:
Base power: 12.0 - 16.8
Uses stats: 40% Cun, 40% Dex, 40% Str
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +3
Crit. chance: +2.0%
Attack speed: 83%
When this weapon hits: Nightmare (10% chance level 1).


Metal gloves protecting the hands up to the middle of the lower arm.
restful iron gauntlets (0 def, 1 armour)
On head
stabilizing iron helm (0 def, 3 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training

Crafted by a master
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / head ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +3
Fatigue: +5%
Physical save: +11 (+6 eff.)


A large helmet that can protect the entire head. Ventilation and bad vision can be a problem, however.
stabilizing iron helm (0 def, 3 armour)
Tool
iron torque of mindblast [power 100] (7/15 cooldown)
Infused by psionic forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: charm / torque ; tier 1

It can be used to blast the opponent's mind dealing 110 mind damage and silencing them for 4 turns

Activation puts all charms on cooldown for 15 turns.

Torques are made by powerful psionics to store psionic powers.
iron torque of mindblast [power 100] (7/15 cooldown)
On fingers
psionicist's copper ring of nature (+20%)
Infused by nature
Infused by psionic forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: jewelry / ring ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +2 Wil
Changes resistances: +20% nature
Changes damage: +10% nature
Mental save: +4 (+2 eff.)


Rings make your fingers look great!
psionicist's copper ring of nature (+20%)
On fingers
copper ring of the mind (+10%)
Infused by psionic forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: jewelry / ring ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +10% mind
Changes damage: +10% mind


Rings make your fingers look great!
copper ring of the mind (+10%)
In main hand
iron steamgun
Requires:
- Dexterity 11
- Talent Shoot
- Talent Steam Pool

Powered by steamtech
4.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / steamgun ; tier 1

Mastery: Psyshot
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +3
Attack speed: 100%
Firing range: +6
Travel speed: +600%
Attacks use: 2.0 Steam


Steamguns use bursts of steam directly injected in the barrel to propel metal shots with great force.
iron steamgun
In off hand
mossy mindstar (2-2 power, 12 apr, mind damage)
Requires:
- Willpower 11

Infused by nature
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / mindstar ; tier 1

Base power: 2.0 - 2.2
Uses stats: 50% Wil, 30% Cun
Damage type: Mind
Mastery: Psiblades
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Accuracy is based on willpower for this weapon.
Armour Penetration: +12
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
When wielded/worn:
Talent granted: +1 Attune Mindstar
Mindpower: +2 (+1 eff.)
Mental crit. chance: +1%


Mindstars are natural products. Natural gems covered in living matter, they are used to focus the mental powers of all nature defenders and psionics.
Using mindstars in the offhand does not incur the normal offhand damage penalty.
mossy mindstar (2-2 power, 12 apr, mind damage)
Light source
brass lantern
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +3


A brass container with a wick emerging from it, protected from draughts by a sheet of greased paper. It can be carried by a handle.
brass lantern
Main armor
Silk Current (12 def, 0 armour)
Powered by arcane forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: armor / cloth ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +12 (+6 eff.)
Damage when hit (Melee): 10 cold
Changes resistances: +7% all / +15% cold
Changes resistances penetration: +8% cold
Changes damage: +10% cold
Talent masteries: +0.30 Spell / Glacial waste +0.30 Spell / Rime wraith +0.30 Spell / Water +0.30 Spell / Frost alchemy +0.30 Spell / Grave +0.30 Spell / Ice
Spellpower: +5 (+5 eff.)
Movement speed: +15%
Talent on hit(spell): Water Jet (5% chance level 1).


This deep blue robe flows and ripples as if pushed by an invisible tide.
Silk Current (12 def, 0 armour)

Inventory

steam generator implant of the duelist (steam 7)
Powered by steamtech
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: scroll / implant ; tier 1

When inscribed on your body:
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 23
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Steamtech (100% of a turn)
Is: a steamtech power
Description: Steam generator that permanently creates 6.8 steam per turn.
Can be activated for an instant burst of 34 steam.
Its effects scale with your Dexterity stat.
It can be used to implant on your skin..

Steamtech implants can be grafted on the users skin..
steam generator implant of the duelist (steam 7)
mighty elm longbow of fire
Requires:
- Dexterity 11
- Talent Shoot

Powered by arcane forces
Crafted by a master
4.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / longbow ; tier 1
It must be held with both hands.

Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Attack speed: 100%
Firing range: +6
Damage (Ranged): +11 fire
When wielded/worn:
Physical power: +9 (+4 eff.)
Changes stats: +2 Str
Changes damage: +14% fire


Longbows are used to shoot arrows at your foes.
mighty elm longbow of fire
Cloak of Deception
Powered by arcane forces
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: armor / cloak

When wielded/worn:
Physical power: +5 (+2 eff.)
Spellpower: +5 (+5 eff.)
Mindpower: +5 (+2 eff.)


A black cloak, with subtle illusion enchantments woven into its very fabric.
Cloak of Deception
linen robe (0 def, 0 armour)
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / cloth ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +7% all


A cloth vestment. It offers no intrinsic protection but can be enchanted.
linen robe (0 def, 0 armour)
2 spinel
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / green ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +2 (+1 eff.)
Physical save: +2 (+1 eff.)
Spell save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental save: +2 (+1 eff.)
When used to imbue an object:
Defense: +2 (+1 eff.)
Physical save: +2 (+1 eff.)
Spell save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental save: +2 (+1 eff.)
Latent Damage Type: Nature


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
2 spinel
Automated Portable Extractor
Powered by steamtech
0.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: tinker / power

When carried:
It can be used to melt all the items in the APE at once (also done automatically when you change level)

Activation costs 0 power out of 1000/1000.

The APE is a multifunction tinker toolbox. It can store temporarily any amount of items and when requested melt them down using metallurgic and chemical processes.
The metals are melted into lumps of ore to server for the creation of tinkers.
Any remains are melted and turned into valuable materials.
Automated Portable Extractor
Rod of Recall (1/1)
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: charm / rod

It can be used to recall the user to the worldmap after 40 turns

Activation costs 202 power out of 400/400.

This rod is made entirely of voratun, infused with raw magical energies that can bend space itself.
You have heard of such items before. They are very useful to adventurers, allowing faster travel.
Rod of Recall (1/1)
simple frost salve [power 9]
Infused by nature
Powered by steamtech
1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: misc / salve ; tier 1

No medical injector available, values are indicative only.
Activating this item is instant.
It can be used to remove 1 physical effects and grants a frost aura (9% cold, darkness and nature affinity)

Activation puts Talent Medical Injector on cooldown for 25 turns.

Medical salve.
simple frost salve [power 9]
simple healing salve [power 114]
Infused by nature
Powered by steamtech
1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: misc / salve ; tier 1

No medical injector available, values are indicative only.
It can be used to heal 114

Activation puts Talent Medical Injector on cooldown for 15 turns.

Medical salve.
simple healing salve [power 114]
Transmogrification Chest
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: chest / sher'tul

When carried:
It can be used to transmogrify all the items in your chest at once (also done automatically when you change level)

Activation costs 0 power out of 1000/1000.

This chest is an extension of old Sher'tul places of power. Any items dropped inside are transported to an other place, processed and destroyed to extract energy.
The byproduct of this effect is the creation of gold, which is useless to process, so it is sent back to you.

When you possess the chest all items you walk upon will automatically be put inside and transmogrified when you leave the level.
Simply go to your inventory to move them out of the chest if you wish to keep them.
Items in the chest will not encumber you.
Transmogrification Chest
citrine
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +4
Infravision radius: +4
When used to imbue an object:
Light radius: +4
Infravision radius: +4
Latent Damage Type: Light


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
citrine
2 zircon
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Changes resistances: +1% all
When used to imbue an object:
Armour: +1
Changes resistances: +1% all
Latent Damage Type: Light


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
2 zircon

Achievements

Log

Maddy receives 77 healing.
Maddy hits Skeleton master archer for 30 fire damage.
Maddy activates Rocket Boots.
You are unable to move!
Maddy is no longer pinned.
Maddy uses a frost salve.
Skeleton master archer shoots!

Maddy's cleansing fire area effect hits Armoured skeleton warrior for 27 fire damage.

Maddy is not affected anymore by the salve.
Maddy's cleansing fire area effect hits Armoured skeleton warrior for 27 fire damage.

Skeleton master archer uses Crippling Shot.
Armoured skeleton warrior hits Maddy for 50 physical damage.
Melee retaliation hits Armoured skeleton warrior for 11 cold damage.
Maddy slows down.
Maddy's cleansing fire area effect hits Armoured skeleton warrior for 23 fire damage.
Skeleton master archer's Crippling Shot hits Maddy for 92 physical damage.
LIFE LOST WARNING!

Skeleton master archer shoots!

Skeleton master archer shoots!

Armoured skeleton warrior casts Rune: Shielding.
A shield forms around armoured skeleton warrior.
Armoured skeleton warrior hits Maddy for 46 physical damage.
Melee retaliation hits Armoured skeleton warrior for (9 absorbed), 0 cold (0 total damage).
Maddy the level 5 skeleton psyshot was maimed to death by an armoured skeleton warrior on level 2 of Blighted Ruins.