Scissor Crone

The Scissor Crone is a regular enemy of Pascal's Wager. Its name is a translation of the internal name 剪刀老太婆 ("scissors old woman"); see Enemies. It appears in Ch.2 and Ch.4 and has 4 attack moves (fire/physical damage). In the reference placement (Ch.2 Adamina) it has 276 HP in journey 1 and 1458 HP in journey 4. It attacks from a distance (AI range up to 20 m); it can inflict Burn; it has unblockable attacks.

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 2029 (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.

Moves without damage: O1, O2.

Reaction and utility moves: threat roar (#106); alert (#109); idle (#110); spawn animation 1 (#114).

Drops#

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

Group Ch.2 #10020, Ch.4 #40096 (used by 20 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.2 #10014 (used by 11 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.2 #10003 (used by 10 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.4 #40001 (used by 9 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.4 #40097 (used by 9 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.2 #10006 (used by 1 placement-rolls)

Hidden mechanics#

• Scaling. Level 4 / 29 / 57 / 70 in the reference placement for journeys 1-4 (fixed per placement, rising with each New Game Plus journey); HP goes from 276 to 1458 (x5.3) and Physical attack from 127 to 827 by journey 4. Poise and Resilience never scale; the rule is in How enemy stats are built.
• Dark Mist levels. Its 3 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 4 in journey 1 and 1 in journeys 2-4, so from journey 2 on the level is your Altar Level + 11.
• Fixed level. 1 of its 21 chapter placements keep the same level (1) in all four journeys, so those copies do not get stronger in New Game Plus apart from their fixed bonuses.
• Unblockable moves. SP2 have Guard Break 999. An ordinary guard cannot hold against it: the hit lands as a normal hit and the defender's poise drops to 0, unless the guard value itself is higher (see Guarding#How a blocked hit is resolved).
• Defence-ignoring moves. SP2 have no defence type, so your defence does not reduce them at all.
• Status effects. Its moves can apply: Burn (see Status effects).
• Per-placement bonuses. StoryMonsterProperty adds flat extras (see How enemy stats are built): CritRate +1 in 9 placements.

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: 165 rows with HeroId 20013 (stories 2, 4, 102, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 412 ...); es_storymonsterproperty.lua rows for the same story/monster ids; es_herodata.lua row HeroId 20013; es_heropropertydata.lua rows HeroId 20013; es_enemyattributedata.lua (attribute point to property curves).
• Moves: es_skilldata.lua rows HeroId 20013 (_id 868-882); AI tables logic/ai/behaviour/attack/attack20013.lua; move names gamedata/playerdefine/hero20013_define.lua.
• Shared rules (stat formula, drop roll, Dark Mist level rule, AI senses): see the Sources of Enemies.