Butcher

The Butcher is an elite enemy of Pascal's Wager. Its name is a translation of the internal name 女屠夫 ("female butcher"); see Enemies. It appears in Ch.2 and Ch.8 and has 7 attack moves (physical damage). In the reference placement (Ch.2 Adamina) it has 806 HP in journey 1 and 2979 HP in journey 4. It attacks from a distance (AI range up to 15 m).

Where it appears#

Each row is one area: level, HP, Physical attack and Physical defence of its placements there (a range when they differ). Reading guide: The Where it appears table.

Maze scaling#

In Deep into the Dark Mist the level comes from the maze floor, not from the placement (details).

Stats#

Reference placement: story 2, monster 2026 (Ch.2 Adamina, the area with the most placements); how to read the table: The Stats section.

Senses and rewards#

Attacks#

How to read this table (move names, attack values, Poise and Resilience damage, AI column): The Attacks table.

Reaction and utility moves: threat roar (#106); alert (#109); idle (#110).

Move notes#

• L / NL: a two-stage slash, and a charged slash in place.
• SP: chase-and-chop. Two dashes (about 4 m and 6 m) followed by a chop.
• S: a jump chop.
• HHHHH: a five-hit combo.
• NH: throws her cleaver on a chain (the AI uses it from 5 to 15 m) and yanks it back.
• SPC: the summoned version of the chase-and-chop. The boss Elmar (the Butcher) (a boss-flagged placement of the same model, see Bosses) shares this moveset.

Animation clip names for each move are in reports/bosses_and_enemies.md.

Drops#

Rolls, groups and lists work as described in The Drops section.

Group Ch.2 #10015 (used by 4 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.2 #10020 (used by 3 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.2 #10002 (used by 2 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.2 #10009 (used by 1 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.2 #10019 (used by 1 placement-rolls)

Hidden mechanics#

• Scaling. Level 7 / 35 / 60 / 80 in the reference placement for journeys 1-4 (fixed per placement, rising with each New Game Plus journey); HP goes from 806 to 2979 (x3.7) and Physical attack from 215 to 959 by journey 4. Poise and Resilience never scale; the rule is in How enemy stats are built.
• Dark Mist levels. Its 5 placements in the Dark Mist scenes (stories 101-105) take their level from your hero, not from the table (Dark Mist enemies scale with your hero). The table level is 1-4 in journey 1 and 1 in journeys 2-4, so from journey 2 on the level is your Altar Level + 11.
• Per-placement bonuses. StoryMonsterProperty adds flat extras (see How enemy stats are built): CritRate +1 in 2 placements; Hp +200 in 2 placements.
• First-kill drop. 1 placement rolls a different drop list the first time it is killed (see Enemies#Drops): quest 22301 (1 placement).

See How to read the enemy pages for what the sections mean and How enemy stats are built for the stat rules.

Sources#

• es_storymonster.lua: 50 rows with HeroId 20012 (stories 2, 8, 101, 102, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 408, 409, 410, 411 ...); es_storymonsterproperty.lua rows for the same story/monster ids; es_herodata.lua row HeroId 20012; es_heropropertydata.lua rows HeroId 20012; es_enemyattributedata.lua (attribute point to property curves).
• Moves: es_skilldata.lua rows HeroId 20012 (_id 850-867); AI tables logic/ai/behaviour/attack/attack20012.lua; move names gamedata/playerdefine/hero20012_define.lua.
• Shared rules (stat formula, drop roll, Dark Mist level rule, AI senses): see the Sources of Enemies.