Blood Moon

Boss

* Profile
* In game

Blood Moon is a red and black Alicorn, and the boss of the M.A.S. Tower. She possesses the Alicorn Amulet, and therefore, fighting her is part of the main story's Alicorn Amulet quest.

## Behaviour

    *For general tips for fighting bosses, see Bosses.*

Blood Moon can do everything that regular alicorns can do, plus more.

### Attacks

Her attacks consist of:

* Turning herself invisible and summoning four scythes. The scythes will slowly fly in a fixed direction towards where you're standing, passing through obstacles. These can be shot down. Her invisibility gets disrupted if Blood Moon takes damage, briefly revealing her.
* Shooting several lightning bolts in rapid succession. Damage is reduced if you're not standing on the ground.
* Firing a Death Ray (similar to your Magic beam). She'll charge up before firing a powerful constant beam at you, doing massive amounts of rapid damage. This attack has a slow rotation speed, allowing you to avoid it if you're close/fast enough. Blood Moon will only use Death Ray on Hard difficulty or higher.
* Rapidly shooting ghost blades, causing serious blood loss and inflicting bleeding.
* Throwing a box at you with telekinesis, dealing extremely high damage on collision.
* Telekinetically grabbing you then throwing you away, doing extremely high damage upon colliding with a wall. You can stop yourself with your own levitation.
* Shooting red spheres that don't deal damage, but inflict one of several debuffs including Disorientation, Panic and Voices in your head.

In her second phase, 6 scythes will orbit around her, doing high damage on contact. These can be permanently destroyed if shot.

After every attack, she will teleport to a new location, either one of six platforms near the walls, or above the battlefield while flying.

## Strategy

Out of all the bosses she has the highest base health (including her second phase), so take lots of ammo, repair kits and health potions. Remember to constantly re-summon your Magical Shield if you've bought it to help reduce any damage you take.

Most of her attacks can be dodged by running in a straight line, however some attacks are inaccurate and may be shot where you're running towards. If you use this strategy, be sure to avoid debuff spheres, as some debuffs switch movement directions or cause you to run uncontrollably.

Make sure you can quickly hide behind some cover at all times, preferably directly under the platform she's standing on since she has trouble hitting directly below herself. Many of her attacks can kill you very quickly if you are repeatedly struck, Death Ray being the most dangerous due to it's constant damage.

If you are directly under the platform she's standing on, you're capable of dealing damage with very little risk of getting hit, allowing you to remove large amounts of her health without issue.

Unlike other Alicorns, her shield provides no armor against attacks. All weapons regardless of their damage per shot are effective. Zebra assault carbine is useful as the fire effect can mark Blood Moon even while she's invisible. Explosives are not recommended, as "Voices in your head" can cause wild firing, resulting in destruction of scenery and self harm.

Having a companion during this fight can be very helpful, as she mainly focuses on you, allowing your companion to constantly deal damage. The only time when she damages your companion are accidental attacks, and Death Ray (if you hide).

If you completed Dusty Nebula's "Library" quest and gotten the Enemy of the Unity perk prior to getting into the battle with Blood Moon, you will do extra damage to her.

### Second Phase

Her second phase begins when her first phase health bar reaches zero. She will become enveloped in a giant red aura, replenishing her health back to full.

Her shield will be gone, but six scythes will now constantly orbit around her. These will cause high damage upon contact, but they also show where she is when she turns invisible. They can be permanently destroyed by damaging each of them enough.

The scythes are especially dangerous if she telekinetically grabs you, as they will rapidly damage you while you're being levitated close to her and incapable of moving away. Prioritize destroying all of her scythes to prevent this from happening.

## Notable drops and loot

* Alicorn Amulet (from Blood Moon), for the quest Alicorn Amulet.
* Alicorn Key (from Blood Moon), allowing you to open 2 safes in the boss arena, and "Boss of the Manehattan ruins" rematch door in the Shooting Range.
* Moonblade (from the glowing safe), a spell allowing you to summon a magical sword companion.
* Focusing crystal (from the other safe), for the quest Find a new focusing crystal.

## Gallery

Blood Moon standing with shield onBlood Moon shooting Death rayBlood Moon shooting a lightning boltA ghost blade in flightTwo scythes in flightBlood Moon surrounded by scythes in second phaseAlicorn Amulet"Blood Moon" by Duskie-06
## Trivia

* If you summon your own Magical Shield during this fight, it will be red, instead of the usual gold.

## Bugs

* Sometimes if you die during the second phase and try to re-enter the arena, you'll be constantly levitated towards Blood Moon, being killed in seconds by scythes flying around her. **Be sure to save your game before battle to avoid this**.