Lair

**Lair** is a location that is unlocked after you have explored at least 50% of the Slope.

## **Walkthrough**

### **Entering the Lair**

* You enter the huge cave . It is not the first cave you enter by a long shot, but this one is definitely the most creepy.
* There is a strange metallic smell in the damp air but you are unable to tell what it is.
* The cave walls starts closing in on you there is hardly enough room for 2 people to walk abreast.
* Some survivors are not sure if they want to continue their journey into the lair.
* You press on through the narrow tunnels.
* Luck is on your side as the corridor suddenly widens and gives you room to walk freely. Your survivors let out a sigh of relief.

A careless foot step on something brittle and a terrible crack echoes through the underworld.

1. [What was it]
	* You check out what cracked underneath the weight. It turns out to be a bone, in fact there are bones everywhere, you start to wonder if this place was a graveyard.
2. [Forget it]
	* You don''t care what it was, time is not on your side. You continue with haste.

## **Leashing Kagan**

You enter the dark cave hall full of dripping sounds there must be stalactites nearby. But you know there is something else very near as well.

1. [Listen]
	* You ignore the water drops and concentrate on the another sound. There's a subtle movement in the cave. It is breathing and growling. The creature finally steps out and reveal itself to be a tiger
2. [Touch]
	* You will lead your hand across the cave walls, feeling all the irregularities of stone. Soon your hand stops mid air and you can sense a warm air flow, It is breathing and growling. Then that something bites your hand! One of your survivors loses -**40** .

* The creature finally steps out of the darkness and shows itself. It it a tiger
	1. **[Fight]** *(If you have leashed Keela in the Den, you would be unable to leash Kagan and would be forced to fight her).* Kagan has strong attack and low-ish HP, with **7:10** hit chance**,** and defeating her will give you **20**  and 3 Medicines. After defeating the tiger, you will be given the option to go deeper into the tiger hole. If you choose to do so, you will find ***40*** *.*
* You could go deeper down the tiger hole and maybe find more treasure.
* Or more tigers. What will it be?
	1. **Deeper**
		+ The prospect of treasure drives you on into the tiger den [GO ON]
		+ Eventually you reach the end of the cave and find a heap of gems!
		+ You get +40
	2. **..?**

## **Huge Stone Head on the Cave Wall**

* You have reached the end of the tiger den. You expect at least a showdown with a tiger matriarch but you are instead greeted with a huge stone head on the cave wall.
* The head is hideous and you suspect that it was a deity of a long forgotten religion. It must been buried under this cave for a long time.
* You Examine the head closer. You noticed that the mouth has an opening. You could probe the opening with your hand, if you want...

1. [Put your hand / Insert hand ] -> ***Choose this option to proceed.***
	* You put your hand in the mouth, at first nothing really happens, after a while you felt a metal object and when you try to pull it out, the statue starts to speak to you telepathically.
2. [No way]
	* You won't fall for the age old "put-hand-into-opening-and-get-it-chopped-off" trick. You leave the place with hands still intact. [<--End]

### **Sacrifices Must Be Made!**

* he voice states say your sacrifice.The logbook then prompts you to sacrifice the following. Once you have chosen the trait to sacrifice, the stone head will state a quote and reduce the stats of your survivors accordingly.
* ***(TIP: It's worth it to sacrifice your survivors' skill.)***
	+ ***If you don't want to do it anyway, you won't get the Golden Handle to build the Thunderbolt Staff - the most powerful equipment in the game!; You can buy the Handle for 200***  ***in the menu when you need it.***

* ***(TIP from another editor: TL:DR Paying 200  will just cost you 12-13 minutes of ad watching.)***
	+ ***Gems are grind-able thru the para-drop that's located at the lower left part of your base/home. Sacrificing 10 points of one skill say you have 15 survivors will be equal to a loss of -150 pts. Thunderbolt Staff gives +100 to all the stat so that's a gain of +400 pts. With the loss and the gain, the net is +250 skill points. NOW. if you pay 200 gems, you won't loss that -150 points. Watching an ad will merit an average of 8, 200*** ***/ 8 = 25 ads. 25 ads \* 30 seconds = 750 secs = 12 mins 30 secs . So equivalently, that's 5 seconds per 1 point protection from losing.) (I didn't include the extra***  ***you can get from tapping/clicking the random Mini Pterodactyl that flies across your screen***

1. [Knowledge] : **-10**  from all survivors
	* "Knowledge always comes with a price. Sometimes the cost is too great to pay. Know this and receive the gift"
2. [Passion] : **-10**  from all survivors
	* "Passion is the Ocean. Swim in it for too long and alert the sharks. Know this and receive the gift"
3. [Wealth] : **-10**  from all survivors
	* "Wealth is a heavy burden to bear. Lose it before it pulls you under. Know this and receive the gift"
4. [Progress] : **-10**  from all survivors
	* "We want to grow and reach the heavens, Stop lest you hit your head against the Ceiling. Know this and receive the gift"
5. [Nothing] : Sacrifice nothing, however you will not be awarded the **Golden Handle.**

## Random fight

* Night after night your survivors are faced with severe insomnia, they can't even get an hour of good night's sleep. This starts to influence their performance during the day.
* You ask arounf and it turns out that the survivors had terrible nightmares about a monster hunting them. You all decide to face the nightmare monster in your sleep to put and end to the insomnia.
* When you go to bed you ambush the nightmare plaguing your sleep. It is a terrible demonic creature. You challenge it to a fight!
* [Fight]
* [Dream demon away 300 ]
* You send the nightmare back to the shadow. In your dream you find 100 .