Having just purchased this game and gotten a basic feel for the gameplay I decided on an arconaut. I was wandering aimlessly and stumbled upon a disturbing sight: hordes of massive tortoises bearing down upon a hapless scavenger. At the back was one particularly large tortoise, with aged and purple skin. I knew enough about these tortoises to keep my distance as they shredded the poor snapjaw. Then, they noticed me. I threw a high explosive and bits of flesh and shell were thrown up high, but the purple monstrosity charged onwards! A second grenade felled the beast, and I made the poor assumption that because the big mean guy was dead, his minions wouldn't pose a problem. The first hit from the first tortoise practically exploded my abdomen and that was that.
A few characters later I ran into some cultist hiding in a building. I had procured a shotgun just outside of town from a particularly clumsy snapjaw, and quickly blasted the cultist to bits. I stepped forward to retreive his carbide dagger (mmm) when I'm dropped to 9 health from a massive, screen-covering explosion. I only caught a momentary glance since the explosion knocked me back behind the wall on the same turn I moved, but it was something like a traipsing or shambling mortar. I died the next turn when it walked around the corner and immediately fired, obliterating myself, itself, and that stupid carbide dagger to boot.
This game has a well-wrought style in both game design and the creative assets (the writing especially, reminds me of Jack Vance in a good way). Refreshing, actually, to be so immersed in a roguelike.