Keyboard Warrior

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“*A distant cousin of the Keyboard Cowboy, this dark knight loves nothing more than roasting people on the Internet... and in real life.*”
―*The Cogs Volume 2*, Lullaby Library
The **Keyboard Warrior** is a special Cog on the Techbot corporate ladder. It is encountered only in the Trial of Fire room in the Citadel Towers Cog Facility at The Citadel, that each party of eight Toons must defeat.

The Keyboard Warrior is a highly mobile, melee-oriented Techbot that focuses on absorbing large amounts of damage, before entering a Hot Keys mode to deal heavy damage and damage-over-time to Toons. It also receives passive buffs from Techbots summoned onto the battlefield periodically, and is immune to Lure Gags.

## Basic Mechanics

The Keyboard Warrior is a sturdy Cog that is 2x2 Squares wide, and boasts a heavy 5,500 HP in the Bell Tower, and 6,500 HP in the Watch Tower. It also has a base movement speed of 5 Squares per turn, allowing it to easily catch up to the fastest-moving Toons, even with Gear and ToonTools.

It has a passive, undispellable Cog Modifier known as **Reactive Armor** that gives it 50% damage resistance from all damage sources. This modifier is temporarily removed when it enters its Hot Keys mode, explained below.

### Heat Meter

As part of the Trial of Fire room, the battle starts with a Heat Meter that goes from 0% to 100%. If the Keyboard Warrior is attacked or steps over a fire-based Obstacle (e.g. the fire traps that are placed around the room), it gains Heat. When it is attacked by a Squirt Gag or Freeze Ray ToonTool, it loses Heat.

At maximum Heat (100%), the Keyboard Warrior gains a bonus action to activate the **Hot Keys** ability, which grants it bonus damage and special effects on each of its attacks, but causes it to lose its Reactive Armor buff for the duration. It also begins to lose Heat every turn at an increasing rate.

Toons have to manage both Heat states of the Keyboard Warrior in order to balance out taking less damage from the Keyboard Warrior, and dealing more damage to it when Hot Keys is active.

### Sudden Death

After 20 turns of not being able to defeat the Keyboard Warrior, the party enters Sudden Death mode.

During Sudden Death, the Keyboard Warrior gains a 25% movement speed and damage bonus, and for every round that Toons survive, one additional Square of tiles will automatically be converted into floor Fire Traps. This means that after 16 more rounds (the room is 16 x 16 Squares), all tiles on the floor will be converted into Fire Traps.

## Strategy

* If you use a Challenge Ticket before the fight, you're in for a very bad time.

### Challenge Ticket

* Using a Challenge Ticket increases the Keyboard Warrior's HP to 8,500 / 10,000, and Reactive Armor damage resistance to 80%.
* Reactive Armor now accumulates a damage boost for the Keyboard Warrior for each time it is hit (+10%), empowering its next attack.
* Hot Keys now allows the Keyboard Warrior to attack twice on activation.
* The Keyboard Warrior's attacks now have a 30% chance of inflicting 2 Burn stacks per hit.
* The Keyboard Warrior now deals bonus 10% base damage for each stack of Burn that Toons have.
* Each Burn stack now reduces incoming Toon-Up / other Laff recovery by 8%.
* On Sudden Death:
	+ The Keyboard Warrior will always have 100% Heat and will always be in Hot Keys mode. This Heat level cannot be reduced by any means.
	+ Any Toons that reach 10 Burn stacks instantly take 20 damage and have their maximum Laff reduced by 50% for 4 turns. During this time, Toons cannot accumulate any more Burn stacks.

## Dialogue

### Battle Starting Phrases

* A Toon entering my chambers? Have at thee, knaves!
* I stand for justice, righteousness, and saying rude things to people on the Internet.
* If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen!
* Please do feed the trolls. Specifically, this one.
* Stand and deliver!
* Your arguments are invalid! Have at thee!

### Activating Hot Keys

* Ain't no disco without the inferno.
* Caution: You're flammable.
* Flame on!
* I'll have you finished at a perfect 450 degrees!
* I'll show you global warming!
* It's time to turn up the heat.
* Liar, liar, pants on fire!
* Looks like we've got some Toons on the barbie!
* Now, what in the blazes do you think you're going?
* Temperatures continue to soar all around.
* The heat is on!
* This is going to be quite the slow burn.
* You're going to get grilled.
* You're in the hot seat this time!
* You're toast now.

### Defeat

* Looks like it's good knight for me.
* Looks like the flames are snuffed out.
* O, I am slain!
* That was... off-key.
* Well played, fair knights.