Doglirium

Doglirium was a secret boss in item asylum. It was accessed through lobby_overlap. 
==Overview==
After accessing lobby_overlap, the player is sent to boss_doglirium, where the boss is fought. The player is only given real knife during this boss. The Doglirium boss is a two-dimensional image of one of the pets caught to access the secret. Doglirium has 8,000 health. Before each attack, Doglirium changes its appearance to the attack's according pet and warps to a random spot in the arena. When doglirium is damaged, it briefly flashes red. Its attacks become faster the less health it has. If the player loses, they are sent back to the overlap lobby to retry.
Once Doglirium is defeated, it teleports to the center of the arena and cycles through its forms rapidly before stopping on an image of a Minecraft cow with realistic textures, then moos and explodes. After the explosion, the player is rewarded with the "red pyramid piece" badge and sent to a public server of item asylum. If the player defeated doglirium within the first hour of its release, they would have been additionally rewarded with the "transient triangle red" badge.
== Abilities ==
*Strum - Doglirium transforms into the backrooms pet (Jinx) and begins playing a guitar, shooting yellow music notes in the direction it is facing while spinning in a circle. Its speed of rotation increases over time. Each music note briefly inflicts ragdoll and weak knockback on contact with a player. After several seconds, Doglirium stops strumming and slams the guitar on the ground, shooting a ring of music notes around itself. The amount of notes fired and the length of the move increase as Doglirium's health lowers, until the point where the boss shoots out notes for around 10 seconds straight before destroying the guitar.
*Bazooka - Doglirium transforms into the beef pet (Walter), holds a bazooka, and fires several rockets into the air before discarding the bazooka. Each rocket then curves down and aims towards the arena, pointing a laser at its destination. Upon contact with the arena, each rocket explodes, dealing 20 damage, ragdoll, and knockback in a small radius. The rate at which Doglrium fires the rockets increases as its health decreases.
*Screech - Doglirium transforms into the crossroads pet (Maddy) and begins charging a screech, dealing 10 damage and decreasing the player's maximum health by 10 in a moderate radius. The wind up of the screech shortens as Doglirium's health lowers. Note that as the damage is applied before the player's maximum health is lowered, the attack may effectively deal no damage if the player has full health.
*Slash - Doglirium transforms into the mandrill pet (Boo) and applies a white path on the arena. During this move, the screen is reduced to black and white colors and the player's walkspeed is reduced to 10. A drum beat plays; once the drum beat ends, if the player remains in the white path, the player is dealt 10 damage and dealt ragdoll and knockback in the direction of the path. The drum beat's speed increases as Doglirium's health decreases.
*Maul - Doglirium transforms into the rocketarena pet (Moo) and applies a crosshair to the player, with text above the crosshair reading "MAULER LOCK-ON" and a countdown. Once the countdown reaches 1, the crosshair moves to approximately 1 second away from where the player is moving, and Doglirium charges at that position. If the player is caught in the charge, they and Doglirium are locked in a cartoony fight cloud, slowly reducing the player's health to 40% of their health before the attack landed. The speed at which the countdown ticks down increases as Doglirium's health decreases.
Doglirium has a chance to transform into the towny pet (Winkle) upon using any attack. This is purely a visual effect.
== Tips ==
* Be as aggressive as possible. Maximizing your damage with real knife is the best way to deal with this boss.
** Remember to stay aware of the attacks around you, though, as half of the attacks that Doglirium has at its disposal can and will knock you off the arena.
* The bazooka attack is also the best time to get serious damage in with real knife, as Doglirium will stay perfectly still for the entire attack.
** However, be careful, as you are in a vulnerable position to the strum attack if it is used afterward.
** Slash can be a great opportunity to damage the boss, but only if you are close to it and it still has high HP.
** Maul is also a good opportunity to get some damage in early on if you constantly shift left and right while it is aiming and run when it has locked in.
* If you're in the center of the map, the strum attack will be no threat to you, thanks to the very low amounts of ragdoll and lack of damage. If needed, move towards the boss to negate the already low knockback.
* The slam of the strum attack is easily dodgeable, use this to your advantage. 
* When the boss uses its bazooka attack, stay close to the corners of the arena, as the rockets are more likely to hit the middle.
* Constantly attacking while it uses screech is viable, as most deaths in this fight are caused by falling off. This is not recommended when at low health for obvious reasons. As you can either get mauled to death later on or even die to screech if you have less than 10 health.
* Slash and bazooka's knockback are strong enough that you have a very high likelihood of falling and dying, so avoid them as much as possible.
* Doglirium's attacks become extremely difficult to dodge when it is at low health due to them speeding up as its health lowers. Deal as much damage as possible during its bazooka, strum, and screech attacks, as these are the only moments late in the fight Doglirium will stay still.
* In the latter half of the battle, it is incredibly difficult to deal damage during the strum attack. Instead, use this phase to increase the Rage Meter and to heal.
== Music ==
<tabber>
|-|Current=
Song info 	
 	Hound of Mary E
File 	
BPM 	152
Song Length 	1:48
Remixer 	Aden Mayo
Original Composer	RENREN
Reference 	Memoryrave - The Binding of Isaac - EXCELSIOR Soundtrack Mod
</tabber>
== Trivia ==
* This boss is a reference to the Trifecta and Defecta in Midnight Horrors, with the badge obtained being part of a side event in said game.
**Its design is based off the boss Delirium from The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth's DLC Afterbirth+, with the song being based off a fan made theme for Delirium from the unofficial Excelsior soundtrack..
* This is the only boss to not have a perfect run.
** In addition, it is the only boss that must be fought solo.
* The Towny pet (Winkle) is a pet that does not have a specific move from the Dog Council but instead uses all moves from other pets.
* The first person to clear doglirium was DeluxeVoidy.
* The Backrooms pet (Jinx) is the only pet that isn't a dog. Rather, it is a cat.
* This boss has one of the smallest arenas/maps in the game, being about the same size as smallplate.
* All the pets presented in Doglirium are from the Dog Council. 
* According to PortABoi, Doglirium has been in item asylum for "over a year."https://discord.com/channels/760660791241343001/847159147715100713/1243653695783178311; 
* If the player is killed by Doglirium, the death message is guaranteed to be "Doglirium mauled you". 
** If the player resets or falls off without taking damage, the death message is instead guaranteed to be "can you actually fight the guy?". This additionally works in lobby_overlap.
*Doglirium's screech attack is the only attack in item asylum that can directly lower a victim's maximum HP.
*This boss has the highest base health of any boss, at 8000.
*The name of Doglirium's soundtrack, Hound of Mary E, is a reference to The Smile Dog creepypasta.
*Doglirium has the most amount of boss health bar icons out of every boss in the game, with 7 icons.
*The player receiving only the real knife in the fight is a reference to the dagger you use to fight the Dog Council in Midnight Horrors.
*This boss was a part of a Midnight Horrors event called "Goodbye Fecta", with the other participating game being Oculus Game. Obtaining the transient triangle red badge would grant the player a special cosmetic item, giving them the red piece of the triangle respectively.
==Gallery ==
===Forms===
Doglirium backrooms form.png|Doglirium in its Jinx form.
Doglirium beef form.png|Doglirium in its Walter form.
Doglirium crossroads form.png|Doglirium in its Maddy form.
Doglirium mandrill form.png|Doglirium in its Boo form.
Doglirium rocketarena form.png|Doglirium in its Moo form.
Doglirium towny form.png|Doglirium in its Winkle form.
Doglirium cow form.png|Doglirium after being defeated.
===Attacks===
File:Dogliriumstrum.gif|Doglirium strumming.
File:Dogliriumbazooka.gif|Doglirium firing rockets with its bazooka.
File:Dogliriumscreech.gif|Doglirium screeching.
File:Dogliriumslash.gif|Doglirium slashing.
File:Dogliriummaul.gif|Doglirium trying to maul a player.
File:Dogliriummaultoplayer.gif|Doglirium successfully mauling a player.
==Changes==
*v1.7.0
**Removed doglirium.
*v1.6.9
**Added doglirium.
==References==
Category:Bosses
Category:Based on media
Category:NPCs