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Ragin' Contagion

Épidémon · no. 260 in the monster list
Everything is read from the game's code, unless stated otherwise

The very essence of illness, it was sealed up in the Quarantomb for a century, but came back to curse Coffinwell once more.

This toxic pox was created to ensure that the nameless terror that slept in the Quarantomb stayed sealed inside forever.

The essentials

  • Earliest in the story: Quarantomb, Coffinwell: Ragin' Contagion (once)
  • Gives: 2,295 EXP, 600 G, Royal soil (100%)
  • Weak to: fire, light ×1.25
  • Has no effect on it: dazzle, sleep, whack, confusion, fizzle, poison, paralysis, blunt, charm

Family: elemental

Stats

HPMPAtt.Def.Agi.EXPGoldEvas.
6962556868502,2956000 %

HP from the game's record: in battle, each monster gets a roll between 80 and 100% of it (rounded); MP is full.

Resistances and actions

  • Elements (damage taken): fire, light ×1.25; wind, earth, darkness ×0.75
  • Effects (success rate): 75%: Sap; 50%: Decelerate, Divine Intervention; 25%: stun; immune: Dazzle, sleep, Whack, confusion, Fizzle, poison, paralysis, Blunt, Charm
  • Actions: 2 actions per turn — Attack 45%, attack + poison 23%, Deceleratle 15%, Kasap 11%, Sweet Breath 6.6%; after a first failure (MP or Fizzle), stops picking impossible actions. Conditions (otherwise it picks another slot): Deceleratle: if a character's agility can still go down; Kasap: if a character's defence can still go down; Sweet Breath: if a character is still awake, and under a third has Reverse Cycle. Only once per turn for its whole group: attack + poison, Deceleratle, Kasap, Sweet Breath

Items

Royal soil 100%

Story and quests

  • Quarantomb, Coffinwell: Ragin' Contagion (once)

Habitat (in-game monster list)

Quarantomb

In the game, a defeated monster's entry names one of these places as soon as you have visited it, even if you never defeated that monster there; otherwise “?????????” (checked in game). The first two are named, “Etc.” for the third.

Under the hood

Internal numbers (game records, one per variant): 303.

Drop codes (prm/mon_btldata, bytes +2 and +3; 0 = 100%, otherwise 1/2^(code + 2), 7 = none): Royal soil : 0.

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