Shrew

The Shrew is a regular enemy of Pascal's Wager. Its name is a translation of the internal name 泼妇 ("shrew / termagant"); see Enemies. It appears in Ch.2 and has 5 attack moves (physical damage). In the reference placement (Ch.2 Adamina) it has 371 HP in journey 1 and 1847 HP in journey 4. It raises a guard stance; 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 2022 (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: Defence.

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

Drops#

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

Group Ch.2 #10006 (used by 9 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.2 #10014 (used by 9 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.2 #10020 (used by 9 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 371 to 1847 (x5.0) 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 10 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. NL 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).
• Per-placement bonuses. StoryMonsterProperty adds flat extras (see How enemy stats are built): CritRate +1 in 10 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: 56 rows with HeroId 20016 (stories 2, 102, 402, 403, 404, 406, 408, 410, 412, 1002, 1004, 1005); es_storymonsterproperty.lua rows for the same story/monster ids; es_herodata.lua row HeroId 20016; es_heropropertydata.lua rows HeroId 20016; es_enemyattributedata.lua (attribute point to property curves).
• Moves: es_skilldata.lua rows HeroId 20016 (_id 951-969); AI tables logic/ai/behaviour/attack/attack20016.lua; move names gamedata/playerdefine/hero20016_define.lua.
• Shared rules (stat formula, drop roll, Dark Mist level rule, AI senses): see the Sources of Enemies.