Up-close Dangers

Up-close Dangers is an event consisting of 20 stages and contains mostly melee enemies. There are angel rooms at stage 5, 9, 15 and 19 and boss rooms at stage 10 and 20.

It is highly recommended to use a weapon with a fast attack animation and to focus on abilities that directly or indirectly increases your damage and helps you deal with groups of enemies instead of making yourself more survivable, as you'll quickly get overwhelmed if you can't kill the monsters fast enough. Invincibility Star might be one exception, as it could help you survive any damage you may suffer shortly after entering a room if you time it well (especially when combined with Invisible Bracelet). This advice most likely primarily applies at higher levels (~70), where this event seems to be much more difficult compared to every other event (although it does provide a large amount of experience and coins, even when you don't finish it).

It's fairly straight-forward to avoid taking damage from the bosses (with the exception of Queen Bee, if you can't deal with the summons), although some of them deal very high damage if they do hit you and can take more than half your max HP in 1 hit (of course this depends on your HP and chapter progress).

## Monsters

* **Spider:** Fires 4 projectiles in all diagonal directions.
* **Skeleton Soldier:** Steps forward to attack using a sword.
* **Spear Skeleton Soldier:** Steps forward to attack using a spear.
* **Red Slime:** Randomly moves around quickly. Splits into 2 Green Slime monsters upon death.
* **Splitting Zombie:** Moves towards the player. Splits into 2 Zombie monsters upon death.
* **Jumping Zombie:** Continuously jumps to random nearby spots.
* **Wolfhound:** Charges towards the player.
* **Red Bat:** Charges towards the player.
* **Wasp:** Moves towards the player.
* **Rock Puppet:** Spins while releasing projectiles in random directions.
* **Thorny Snake:** Charges a short distance when close to the player.
* **Round Winged Flying Monster?:** Moves diagonally. Splits into 2 upon death.

## Random Bosses

### Giant Green Bat

Can appear at stage 10.

Attacks:

* Charges towards the player, releasing projectiles in a circle as it travels.

### Giant Wolfhound

Can appear at stage 10.

Attacks:

* Charges towards the player 3 times in a row.
* Jumps towards the player.

### Giant Spider

Can appear at stage 10 or 20.

Attacks:

* Repeatedly splits (2 times) into 2 smaller spider monsters when killed.
* Each monster shoots 8 projectiles in all directions.

### Queen Bee

Can appear at stage 10 or 20.

* You need to be able to deal with the constant supply of summons effectively (e.g. with Ricochet) otherwise they will surround you and you will get overwhelmed.

Attacks:

* Fires 8 projectiles in all directions upon death.
* Fires 3 projectiles diagonally.
* Fires 7? projectiles diagonally.
* Summons 1 Bee in each corner that moves towards you.

### Giant Mace Skeleton?

Can appear at stage 20.

* Keep running in a circle on the edges of the room until it lunges and then attack once or twice.
* The lasers can be very hard to dodge as you don't get much warning and you might need to run quite far to avoid all 3 (being close to the boss might help).

Attacks:

* Lunges towards the player.
* Lunges towards the player to attack with a mace.
* Launches a fireball that leaves temporary fire on the ground.
* Fires 3 lasers diagonally.

### Giant Skeleton??

Can appear at stage 20.

* Keep running in a circle on the edges of the room and attack it while it's firing a barrage or attack once or twice in the brief moments between its attacks.

Attacks:

* Jumps towards the player, releasing 8 projectiles in all directions as it lands.
* Performs 3 thrusts towards the player (all in the same direction) while swinging a sword.
* Fires a laser-like attack in a straight line (technically it's not instant like a laser, but it moves very quickly).
* Fires a barrages of projectiles.