Thursday, September 16, 2021

"Arrow" and "Mimicry" Commands

Kassandra is a bit different from other characters in Penumbra Crystallis so far. Vahn, Hans, Vera, and Oalston all have single unique commands, Kassandra has two - Arrow and Mimicry.

The Arrow Command

Arrow abilities are learned via leveling up and allow Kassandra to do more interesting things with her arrows such as dip them in potions to allow them to heal or reverse engineer remedies to imbue her arrow shots with status conditions. Arrow abilities mostly consume items in order to use them (predominantly twigs - a special item that Kassandra will need for several arrow abilities and can be purchased from item shops). Here are a few Arrow abilities that Kassandra will start with:

Aim: Allows Kassandra to attack twice per turn for a few rounds. Requires her to focus, consuming 25% of her maximum MP to use.

Magic Arrow: Consumes one mana to inflict magic-based physical damage to one target.

Splintershot: Consumes five twigs to fire numerous weak shots at randomly selected targets.

Stun Arrow: Consumes one twig to stun a target for a single turn.

Triage Arrow: Consumes one potion to heal for an amount roughly on par with potions (100 HP), but could be a little more or a little less. Is also capable of inflicting critical heals.


The Mimicry Command

As previously stated, Kassandra is the replacement for Ami from Blackmoon Prophecy, so she's the resident "blue mage" of sorts even though that term is not used in the game. Kassandra's official class is huntress. 

Mimicry abilities are learned in a very simple manner. The party can find monster statues littered throughout the world, and if Kassandra is in the party, she will be able to learn a new mimicry ability by studying the statue and what is written on it. Easy peasy!

While mimicry abilities will become extremely diverse as the game progresses, here are the three basic abilities that Kassandra starts with:

Chopodile: Copies the "All Chop attack that chopodiles use. Attacks all enemies, inflicting non-elemental damage.

Shelldon: Copies the "Gooey Graze" attack that shelldons use. Low non-elemental damage and poisons the enemy.

Skeleton: Copies the "Roll the Bone" attack that skeletons use. Throws a bone at one target for non-elemental damage.


That's about all for the Arrow and Mimicry commands. Kassandra starts with some pretty basic stuff, but she'll be able to learn to do lots of neat things as the player progresses through the game!

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