The Inevitability of Rust

In a damp and grimy dungeon, some of your equipment is bound to break eventually. It's lucky you're so good at improvisation!

### Rules

Don't create gadgets after each fight. All equipment is reuseable. All equipment breaks after 4 uses. Broken equipment immediately becomes a gadget.

"The Inevitability of Rust" is the Third Episode of the Inventor.

## Description

### Text

In a damp and grimy dungeon, some of your equipment is bound to break eventually. It's lucky you're so good at improvisation!

### Rules

Don't create gadgets after each fight. All equipment is reuseable. All equipment breaks after 4 uses. Broken equipment immediately becomes a gadget.

* The number of uses of equipment is shown as dice in each equipment's top-right corner. If it has more than 6 uses, there will be multiple dice, with sixes on the right.
* Upgrading equipment resets duration to 4. (Even if above 4?)
* Copying equipment copies its current duration.
* Gadgets also break after four uses, but each can only be used once per turn.

## How To Unlock

Unlock Episodes by playing The Witch Way. Win or lose. (Exiting to the title screen will not work.)

## Story

### Introduction

This introduction is shown once, for either Episode 2 or 3, depending on which is played first.

 Lady Luck: Don’t get trapped forever!

## Available Items

### Weapons

* Boomerang
* Broadsword
* Crossbow
* Dagger
* Hammer (Starting equipment)
* Keyblade
* Lament
* Plasma Blaster
* Plasma Cannon
* Short Sword (Starting equipment)
* Shovel
* Spike
* Spiked Shield
* Staff
* Sword
* Toxic Ooze
* Two Handed Sword
* Venus Fly Trap
* Whip

### Shields

* Leather Armor
* Wooden Shield

### Magic

* Electric Shock
* Hall of Mirrors
* Healing Crystal
* Inferno

### Items

* Bump
* Chocolate Cookie
* Counterfeit
* Doppeldice (Level 3 reward option)
* Duplicate (Starting equipment)
* Grindstone (Level 3 reward option)
* Hacksaw
* Lockpick
* Midnight Charm
* Smush Together
* Spanner

## Floors

This episode uses the "inventor\_rust" generator.

### Starting Equipment

* Hammer
* Duplicate
* Short Sword

Gadget: Focus

#### Items

There are 3 chests on this floor. One contains a Sword. One contains a Short Sword. The last contains either a Staff or a Crossbow.

#### Items

There are two chests on this floor. They will each contain a different item from this list:

* Leather Armor
* Smush Together
* Hacksaw
* Healing Crystal
* Lockpick
* Spike
* Keyblade
* Electric Shock

#### Other

* 2 apples
* A shop, which will sell one Staff, one upgrade, and one of the following items:
	+ Dagger
	+ Boomerang
	+ Lament
	+ Venus Fly Trap
	+ Keyblade
	+ Wooden Shield
	+ Spiked Shield

#### Items

You will find 3 chests on this floor. One contains a Staff. One contains one of the following:

* Counterfeit
* Two Handed Sword
* Plasma Blaster

The last chest contains one of the following:

* Broadsword
* Bump
* Lament
* Chocolate Cookie
* Hall of Mirrors
* Midnight Charm

#### Enemies

1 LV.2 Enemy, and 2 LV.3 Enemies (a total of 8 XP)

#### Other

* 1 apple
* 2 shops, one of which sells 2 of the following:
	+ Dagger
	+ Boomerang
	+ Lament
	+ Venus Fly Trap
	+ Keyblade
	+ Wooden Shield
	+ Spiked Shield
* and one of the following:
	+ Leather Armor
	+ Smush Together
	+ Hacksaw
	+ Healing Crystal
	+ Lockpick
	+ Spike
	+ Keyblade
	+ Electric Shock
* The second shop will sell an upgrade, and two of the following items:
	+ Shovel
	+ Boomerang
	+ Whip
	+ Spanner
	+ Staff
	+ Healing Crystal

#### Item

You will find 3 chests on this floor. One contains a Short Sword. One contains a Staff. The last contains one of the following:

* Counterfeit
* Two Handed Sword
* Plasma Blaster

#### Enemies

1 LV.3 Enemy, and 2 LV.4 Enemies (a total of 11 XP)

### Floor 5

#### Item

It's a "big" floor.

You will find 3 chests on this floor. One chest contains a Keyblade. One chest contains one of the following:

* Plasma Cannon
* Toxic Ooze
* Inferno

The last chest contains one of the following:

* Counterfeit
* Two Handed Sword
* Plasma Blaster

#### Enemies

2 LV.4 Enemies, and 2 LV.5 Enemies (a total of 18 XP)

#### Other

* 2 apples
* An Upgrade Shop
* A shop which will sell an apple and 2 of these items:
	+ Shovel
	+ Boomerang
	+ Whip
	+ Spanner
	+ Staff
	+ Healing Crystal

### Floor 6

#### Enemies

It's the last stage so you will find a boss.

## Trivia

The following enemies cannot be encountered in this Episode:

* Aurora
* Mimic
* Keymaster
* Crystalina
* Wisp
* Cornelius