Tentacle Monster

The Tentacle Monster is an elite enemy of Pascal's Wager. Its name is a translation of the internal name 触手怪 ("tentacle monster"); see Enemies. It appears in Ch.2, Ch.4 and Ch.8 and has 7 attack moves (physical/poison damage). In the reference placement (Ch.2 Adamina) it has 780 HP in journey 1 and 3415 HP in journey 4. It can inflict Poison, Poison (fast build-up); 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 2050 (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#

• LL: a two-hit tentacle combo.
• D: a single tentacle strike.
• SP: a poisonous special that cannot be blocked and cannot be interrupted while it plays.
• HP: a held heavy strike that applies Poison quickly and has guard break 500.
• H: the pounce, its hardest physical hit (flat attack 200).
• O: a wide tentacle flail (120 degree cone).
• HPC: the version of HP used when the Tentacle Monster is a summon (called by another enemy).

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.4 #40096, Ch.2 #10020 (used by 8 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.4 #40013 (used by 4 placement-rolls)

Group Ch.4 #40098 (used by 4 placement-rolls)

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

Group Ch.2 #10005 (used by 3 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 780 to 3415 (x4.4) and Physical attack from 182 to 871 by journey 4. Poise and Resilience never scale; the rule is in How enemy stats are built.
• Dark Mist levels. Its 4 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 4-13 in journey 1 and 1 in journeys 2-4, so from journey 2 on the level is your Altar Level + 11.
• Body flags. It cannot be backstabbed (HeroData HitBackstab = 0, see Backstab); it has a large body, so it ignores other hit reactions while Weakened.
• Unblockable moves. SP 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).
• Status effects. Its moves can apply: Poison, Poison (fast build-up) (see Status effects).
• Per-placement bonuses. StoryMonsterProperty adds flat extras (see How enemy stats are built): CritRate +1 in 4 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: 45 rows with HeroId 20011 (stories 2, 4, 8, 102, 104, 401, 402, 404, 405, 407, 408, 409, 412, 414 ...); es_storymonsterproperty.lua rows for the same story/monster ids; es_herodata.lua row HeroId 20011; es_heropropertydata.lua rows HeroId 20011; es_enemyattributedata.lua (attribute point to property curves).
• Moves: es_skilldata.lua rows HeroId 20011 (_id 836-849); AI tables logic/ai/behaviour/attack/attack20011.lua; move names gamedata/playerdefine/hero20011_define.lua.
• Shared rules (stat formula, drop roll, Dark Mist level rule, AI senses): see the Sources of Enemies.