Just to be clear: once he's defeated, is he gone forever?
Also, I only got the visor (no claw for me).
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I'd be very surprised if he weren't unique.
Maybe you need a Myers sampling kit to get the claw?
Has anybody tried talking to the scientists in the Ramshackle Fortress after killing him?
I'd guess that the sampling kit is probably necessary for the claw. And the scientists don't have anything different to say once you kill him. I tried going back there to tell them that he'd been 'taken care of', but got no new options or text from the existing ones.
Since Distant Claw is a usable technique, maybe Call for Aid is also obtainable, and related to the Ocean/Fae solutions to the spinning hallway? That hallway is near Dr. J's haunts, after all.
In the beginning, men were mortal.
I haven't fought him yet, but I'm curious about this:
5 Call for Aid in a chain 7 technique, which can evade <range> melee, ranged (and others?) damage.
I ask because here's the quoted example:
You catch him with an explosive round. It deals 18 damage, but a complex pattern of green light appears, holding back the attack.
The doctor raises his hand into the air and shouts "Please! Aid me!" Nothing happens apart from the sensation of being watched.
The combat text says that nothing happens, and I notice that Call for Aid is right after the chain 6 Distant Claw. Could the green light holding back the attack have come from that?
EDIT: I think I've been spending too much time hacking, where doing something tends to have it effect in the following round. In regular combat things are generally instantaneous.
But, I've got another thought. His attacks produce green light, right? And in this game, what does that make you think of? Well, it makes me think of the Fae. Has anybody with Fae Sight tried to talk to him? Maybe he attacks folks aligned with the fishmen and would be friendly to somebody who's aligned with the Fae.
I didn't have either skill, for the record. Kinak did hint that the fea/ocean sight skill will become a more important choice in the future…
And yes, the attacks are simultaneous and the "complex pattern of green light" is from the Aid technique.
CHAIN DATA
Hounds:Rake x2
Hounds:Rake:Aid x1
Rake:Hounds:Dive for Cover x1
Rake:Aid x1
(account deleted)I have Fae Sight, but I can't remember for sure whether I talked to him or not. Probably tried to get a recording of his intro. Anyway, to me, green light/flame represents etheric in general, not just the Fae sect. The combat message of Evil eye indicates a green flame, unless you have something that turns it to red. Dr Johnson is more of a puppy person than a pixie person. Not that pixie people are wusses, sigh…
If he's not in league with the Fae, he's definitely serving someone or some…thing. He serves some sort of master:
The other scientist picks up the train of thought. "He said something about how it was a failure, but from its failure, he'd build an even greater success. Then congratulated himself about going to its master, like it was the best idea he'd ever had."
The first scientist chuckles dryly. "Yeah. We thought that he'd left to go find the old head of the project. That's before we realized he'd poisoned the food and sabotaged all the masks."
And he calls for aid, which has to come from somewhere, right?
Then there are those dark shapes you can see flying around the tower. They get mentioned again when you first meet him, too:
Among the whistling winds and rhythmic beat of wings, you hear a stone scraping against stone.
Oh, one more thing. Has anybody tried observing him several times in a row? The scientists say something about him walking through walls. That might be interesting to watch if you can catch him doing it…
I wonder if he's a servant of the Herald… can't think of a way to display your allegiance to him, though (and if you had to be honest about it that would be quite a niche).
I interpreted the dark shapes and the wings as belonging to the flying eyes. Hm…
In the beginning, men were mortal.
One thing I was thinking of in response to Kinak saying that this is a different sort of puzzle is that maybe we need to somehow get his call for aid attack to do something?
Oh, also his call for aid attack does seem to block attacks both melee and ranged,
As the first attack:
You latch onto the doctor and tear a chunk out of him with your teeth, dealing 6 damage, but a complex pattern of green light appears, holding back the attack.
The doctor raises his hand into the air and shouts "Please! Aid me!" Nothing happens apart from the sensation of being watched.
Or maybe we need to run him out of techniques? Is that a thing that's possible to do?
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