#nagak

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The pic I started on stream today, decided to finish it up off-stream because I felt rested enough but also didn’t want to fight with Picarto being broken.

A pair of strange fellows based on an even stranger dream I had back in 2014. The part that involved them was basically some kind of hybrid Terraria/Dark Souls game, which (in the fashion of dreams making no sense but somehow working) was able to switch between a Terraria style game and a more Dark Soulsy one at will (as well as a couple other games here and there), though usually only switched to Dark Souls style for bosses.

These two were bosses of a castle on a sky island. I was able to glean very little aside rough appearances, save that they could drop their weapons, the big guy could drop a Face Monster vanity mask, and their nameplates read “Archmage” and “Nagak.” However, due to proximity, I’m not even sure if that was both their names, or if the skelly’s name was “Archmage Nagak” and face monster paladin was just nameless. Their nameplates vanished during the fight, but I tend to refer to them separately.

Likely was subconscious fallout from designing a Hell-Armored Face Monster I edited and animated for an old forum Weekly Sprite Challenge about fusing monsters together.

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While walking home from getting lunch I actually got some battle mechanics in mind for Archmage and Nagak.

- Nagak is basically a buffed Paladin of sorts, Super Tanky, TONS of HP, but most of his highest damage attacks would be contact or melee. Would have a projectile or two (a Flying Dragon-esque energy wave and a ground/wall-hugging shockwave), but not use them as frequently as, say, a regular Paladin’s hammer flinging, but they’d hurt a lot.

- Archmage has the equivalent HP of a wet paper bag but would teleport a lot and have a lot of magic attacks that would basically fuse together attacks from the other Dungeon casters. Bouncing lasers that explode. Homing explosions. Curvy lasers ™ . Probably some unique ones too. Basically, leaving him alive is a huge liability.

- Killing Nagak first would be a lot harder out of the box with Nagak’s high HP/tankiness and Archmage’s BS, but doing so basically makes Archmage a sitting duck since nothing would change with Archmage’s mechanics.

- Killing Archmage first, though, would enrage Nagak, causing either much more rapid attacks/more ranged spam plus inflicting Ichor, or perhaps having him start flinging his greathammer as a ranged attack at regular Paladin levels of Hammer Spam. Not sure which, but maybe both.

Inspired by trying to chainsaw a Paladin to death in-game and having multiple casters show up to take potshots.