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[syvarris]

Just throwing our turn is dumb.

Crisis mind: spend 2 AP to offer the chest a treat, throwing it to the monster and tricking it into wasting its action on the food.  Then Wham! it.

[Devastator]

It's not wasting our turn at all.  We're down health from the slow poison and only out of combat turns hurt us.  So it'll recover 2 HP without suffering 1 damage from using an out-of-combat turn.

[King Zultan]

Just throwing our turn is dumb.

Crisis mind: spend 2 AP to offer the chest a treat, throwing it to the monster and tricking it into wasting its action on the food.  Then Wham! it.

+1 Sounds good to me.

[Devastator]

I missed that the tongue slap does Impact damage, which reduces our available AP.

[syvarris]

...And I missed that the box has a ton of toughnes, so wham isn't a guaranteed stun!  By chance, I still prefer my posted plan though. 

[Egan_BW]

It's not wasting our turn at all.  We're down health from the slow poison and only out of combat turns hurt us.  So it'll recover 2 HP without suffering 1 damage from using an out-of-combat turn.

(I won't rule right now how much you can eat in a noncombat turn, but it definitely wouldn't take up a whole turn to eat one. Stalling out combat for the sake of healing or whatever is a pet peeve of mine and I'll try to avoid allowing it.
The reason why slow poisoning doesn't hurt you in combat is that combat rounds are supposed to happen over a shorter time period than out of combat ones, so it would be logical to eat several meats in a turn, or move and eat etc.
That said, if you'd otherwise be idle on a combat turn, it's not a bad idea.)

[Egan_BW]

Crisis mind: spend 2 AP to offer the chest a treat, throwing it to the monster and tricking it into wasting its action on the food.  Then Wham! it.

[Crisis+2, Moderate difficulty: Success!] (66% chance)

Awuna reaches into her hobo satchel mid-stride and pulls out a particularly juicy strip of Minkdillo flesh, tossing it underhand into the stupid fucking asshole fake box's mouth. Its raws clamp down immediately, forgetting the immediate threat.
[Box is stunned]
[-1 Meat Chunk]
"Mama mia, it's fresh! Thanks sweetheart!"

Awuna then follows up with a big punch to its dumb googly eye. It proves remarkably solid. Less like flesh and more like hardwood.
Which uh, would make sense, considering it's a box.
[2 Damage dealt]


The box's googly eyes circle comically and it doesn't do anything on its round.

Chomp again! It got us fed last time, so why not keep doing it?

Spoiler: stupid dumbass minmaxxed box (click to show/hide)

Woody Boxchest, Normal Chest lvl 17/20

Status
Immobile (May use no movement skills)

Endurance 10/12 (3/4)
Agility 3/3 (3/3)
Toughness 6 (6/6)
Strength 3 (3/5)
Crisis 0 (0/0)

Perfectly Normal Box (1/1)
Stationary Chomp (5AP. Melee. Target which melees or is in a grapple with you takes Str*4 Pierce)

Items
Dosh X69 (Shinies make the world go around!)

Tongue Smack (3AP. Basic Melee. Str*2 Impact)

Spoiler: party, meter=2 (click to show/hide)

Awuna Claes, Bestial Soul lvl 19/55

Status
Slow Poison 1

Endurance 13/16 (4/11)
Agility 5/5 (5/8)
Toughness 1 (1/5)
Strength 4 (4/10)
Crisis 2 (2/11)

Fightin'! (3/10)
Duck! (1AP. evade next Sweep attack) (or kill a waterfowl enemy)
Pounce! (3AP 2 Meter. Movement. Melee. requires both hands to be empty. 2 Impact and target is Grabbed, preventing it and you from moving or meleeing other targets)
Bite! (5AP. Melee. Stunned or Grabbed target takes Str*4 Pierce)

Items
Meat Chunk x4 (1AP. Consumable. Heal self for 2 HP. Must be a beast or devil)

Wham! (3AP. Basic Melee. Str*2 Impact)
Run! (6 AP. Movement. evade ALL melee. Using this two rounds in a row will remove you from combat)
Crisis Mind (X AP. Once per round. State something you'd like to accomplish or do which is outside the combat system. At the end of the round, roll Crisis + X. Variable difficulty. On a success, you may gain additional options or benefits.)

[Kilojoule Proton]

This may not be the best use of our dwindling endurance. Run, run again, and then try another door?

[Devastator]

Ahh, thought we'd grapple to get the kill.  Mmm.

Well, go for feed again, but this time, grapple, so we can bite for victory.

[Egan_BW]

That's victory, but costs another meat and another 33% of failure. (Which would result in getting bit and set down to 1 HP)

[Devastator]

Does offering meat count as melee?

..Also, could we pass a turn and try again at 4 Crisis instead of 2?

[Egan_BW]

You won't be getting more Crisis unless you level up, you can only gain Meter. :p

[Devastator]

Right, whoops.  Would 4 meter help?  Could easily talk to the box to pass the turn.

[Egan_BW]

Your only Meter usage so far is Pounce, which you... should only need to use once in this fight.

[Devastator]

Agg, whoops.

Can we make it a 4AP meat offering, then a pounce follow up?

We can entice it with a nice meat song.

♪  "Meat, glorious meat."  ♫