151 Chapter 151 (1/2)
Chapter 151
”So, are you sure turtling is the best option here?” It was nearing the end of day 2 of the Dungeon Wars, and James was once again accompanied by Rue, as they prepared for the next big event. That being, of course, the journey to the Fields of Battle, and their first face to face opportunity against BLANK.
”Probably the safest.” Rue was once again dressed in her battle armor as she hovered near James. Of course, it had taken a good part of the day for her to calm down over his nighttime shenanigans, and the creation of the M.I.N.E. Craft. He supposed her anger had been quelled mostly by the fact that he had taken screenshots of all the crazy mutated mobs that appeared, and filled her in on his latest and greats modifications.
With the radiation aspect unlocked, he was able to create traps that were essentially barrels of toxic waste. Those barrels could release a toxic field of a varying radius, which could apply radiation effects to any and all living creatures that entered that effect field. Meaning he now had a way to actively mutate his mobs on his floors, and also apply radiation effects to players. Because, who would expect nuclear waste to be floating at the bottom of the swamp? James had to chuckle about that. Who said history lessons were pointless?
”Any idea how to layout these walls?” He had the instance up for his side of the Fields of Battle. As previously advertised, it literally looked like an vast, empty expanse, lightly covered with grass and other terrain features. It was like one of those picturesque battlefields that everyone put into movies. Extremely impractical, and in no way shape or form realistic, considering the amount of infrastructure that existed on the planet, and yet, a necessity it seemed for any and all large-scale battles, no mater the media.
James currently had access to view his half of the FoB, though annoyingly he couldn't see what BLANK was up to on their side. Which made sense. IT would be a bit unfair if either dungeon could actively watch what the other core was preparing for their dungeon war. Instead, this was almost like a stratego type set up. James got to prepare his battlefield, and then watch as BLANKs forces tried to make their way to the very heart of his side of the field, where they could open the portal to his core.
”And then I'm guess day 5 we are going to go all out offensively?” James had earned a total of 960 BP. He had been utilizing his BP as he earned them, in order to prepare aspects for both offense and defense. It made sense, after all, because he couldn't use offense specific BP for defensive items, and vice versa. However, he could deploy up to a maximum of 2,000 BP worth of objects on his FoB side, made up of both offense and defense pieces, in any order.
James had initially planned on just deploying his Core Cannon and Core Shield for both aspects. Rue however, had strongly advised against that. Mainly because of the risk of the objects getting damaged in the initial assault of day three. If they were somehow overwhelmed and the objects were destroyed, James wouldn't have time to build new ones before day 5 of the Dungeon Wars. Instead, they were going with strategy.
Day three would be used to observe how the third and fifth days of Dungeon Wars worked and give his adventurers a chance to learn as well. This would also allow him to interact with the players as his Avatar and help better create a favorable offensive situation for Day 5.
It also meant he wouldn't reveal his full hand to BLANK. If all he deployed on day 3 was defensive options, there was the hope BLANK would think he was just scared, or trying to play defensive. Of course, given BLANKs gaming skills, James doubted that. But, you never know, when you're facing a player like BLANK, just how they would think. Part of James really did believe the extremely confident twins were fully expecting James to cower in fear of them. And he was happy to play into that mindset of theirs. It would make his deployment of his Core Cannon on day 5 all the sweeter.
”The best defensive is a great offense.” Rue gave him a thumbs up and summoned a small battle axe in her hand. It was just like one of the axes she wielded in her berserker barbarian avatar. She was extremely excited for this portion of the dungeon wars. James didn't have the heart to tell her she had that saying backwards.
”Right, well then here goes nothing.” James pulled up his deployment menu and got to work. The first thing he did was activate his core shield. The massive piece of equipment whirled to life, and a force field surrounded his core completely. James wasn't sure if BLANKs forces would be able to make it this far on day three. However, in the off chance that they did, they would have to go through his core shield. And James had no doubt that was no small feat.
Next, he decided to deploy the offensive portions he had created. Given the fact his probes only created objects at 1BP cost per hour, he was unfortunately unable to create all 480 BP worth of offensive structures. The same could be said, frustratingly enough, for his defensive portions. However, he had at least been somewhat creative in what he had made.
The first offensive features that James had made, were catapults. These cost him a total of 10 BP per catapult. They were capable of launching any object weighing roughly under 200lbs up to 800 yards. Meaning they could launch rather large objects, extremely far. James had quickly created 10 of these massive siege engines, for a combined total of 100BP, and set them about 100 yards from the portal area to his core. He figured players were going to spawn during the 3rd day battle around that area anyways. Considering the fact, it felt like the appropriate area for a spawn.