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Ida’s Guide To Flustering and Frustrating Bastion
Being an escape artist, ain’t nothing more frustrating or flustering to a spider than escaping the traps they’ve laid.
Know your riddles and puzzles not only will it frustrate and fluster the spider when you disarm his traps. It’s also good for the brain and it makes you feel clever!
Read the room, Fae literally have to play fair so there’s typically a way out of everything, they might try to obfuscate it but if you know what to look for ain’t nothing they can do to stop you.
Know your folklore don’t eat the Fae’s food, don’t make promises you don’t intend to keep, don’t agree to anything you don’t know the fine print of, follow warnings if they are given, but generally mistrust any information that is not verbally airtight. Establish your own loopholes and interpretations where possible.
Knife! Iron! Good for stabbing and throwing.
Small Fae can be bribed with chocolate and sweets even the spider ones.
Large Fae creatures can be stabbed and outrun. Also bribed though more rarely.
If it’s scary or disorienting you’re probably being herded.
There are places that aren’t dangerous, typically monsters can’t get in and the Host frequents these places. Also there might be symbolic signs of protection or sanctuary around.
Fluster host persona by treating him like a person and being nice to him. Also swear! he makes a face it’s funny.
Folk remedies and small rituals of safety, not all of them work but many do.
Be good at running, climbing, jumping and other athleticism.
Don’t open blue door, that’s the parlour door, it will get you eaten. If someone else opens the door don’t try to help them. If somehow the door opens on its own. Knife the spider he’s not used to people doing that.
Don’t kill other guests, if other guests are hostile and you are at risk of dying before they get eaten for breaking the rules. Lure them into traps, monsters or the parlour. You can’t kill other guests but the Manor can.
If at any point Bastion tries to tease or taunt you tease back he can’t handle it. Especially if it’s about his appetite. Man is so used to being a big bad predator he becomes putty at the slightest hint of reciprocation. Not really a survival strategy, but he’s cute when he’s flustered!