Court Favorite

The Court Favorite is a regular enemy of Pascal's Wager. Its name is a translation of the internal name 宠臣 ("favoured courtier"); see Enemies. It appears in Ch.4 and Ch.6 and has 11 attack moves (physical damage). In the reference placement (Ch.4 Edith) it has 735 HP in journey 1 and 2367 HP in journey 4. It raises a guard stance; it leaps down on you with a jump chop when it falls.

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 4, monster 4042 (Ch.4 Edith, 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.

Moves without damage: Defence1, Defence2, Defence3, Defence4.

Reaction and utility moves: threat roar (#106); alert (#109); idle (#110); jump chop (#111): 308-428 attack in journey 1, 896-1016 in journey 4, unblockable; spawn animation 1 (#114); spawn animation 2 (#115); spawn animation 3 (#116).

Drops#

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

Group Ch.4 #40096, Ch.6 #60096 (used by 26 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.4 #40005 (used by 17 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.4 #40097 (used by 17 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.6 #60009 (used by 9 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.6 #60097 (used by 9 placement-rolls)

Hidden mechanics#

• Scaling. Level 13 / 42 / 64 / 76 in the reference placement for journeys 1-4 (fixed per placement, rising with each New Game Plus journey); HP goes from 735 to 2367 (x3.2) and Physical attack from 228 to 816 by journey 4. Poise and Resilience never scale; the rule is in How enemy stats are built.
• Dark Mist levels. Its 8 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 11-13 in journey 1 and 1 in journeys 2-4, so from journey 2 on the level is your Altar Level + 11.
• Drop attack. It uses the unblockable jump chop (move #111) when it falls onto you; see AI and senses.

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: 99 rows with HeroId 20026 (stories 4, 6, 104, 105, 401, 402, 403, 404, 406, 407, 409, 410, 412, 1004 ...); es_storymonsterproperty.lua rows for the same story/monster ids; es_herodata.lua row HeroId 20026; es_heropropertydata.lua rows HeroId 20026; es_enemyattributedata.lua (attribute point to property curves).
• Moves: es_skilldata.lua rows HeroId 20026 (_id 1200-1245); AI tables logic/ai/behaviour/attack/attack20026.lua; move names gamedata/playerdefine/hero20026_define.lua.
• Shared rules (stat formula, drop roll, Dark Mist level rule, AI senses): see the Sources of Enemies.