Puppet Master's Theatre

Level 20 Grade 9

The Puppet Master's Theatre, made hard. The Puppet Master once played the great halls of the kingdom; when the audiences stopped coming he went on performing for Oryx, and his puppets learned the heroes' trades by watching them die. Backstage is a warren of dressing rooms and rehearsal halls, some of them walled off by painted panels you can shoot through, and a sealed treasure room where a puppet made to look like Oryx waits. The Stage is at the far end. Endgame.

Getting in

Portal: Puppet Master's Theatre Portal
Key: Puppet Master's Theatre Key — type /key puppet master's theatre in chat to get one, use it, walk in.
The portal drops from Prima Marionette (100%)

Difficulty

Grade 9 of 10 on this server's dungeon scale: the bosses have 175,000 HP counting defense, the heaviest hit is 130, the busiest phase fires up to 78 shots a second. Also: puppets of every class, many of them healers and bombers, in rooms behind breakable panels; the Puppet Master hides behind his puppets on strings, then among five fakes; footlights and an Encore close the fight.

Boss: The Puppet Master

HP	100,000 (+25% per other player within 24 tiles, up to 6 players)
Defense	30
Level	20
Hits up to	105
XP multiplier	1.0
Immune to	stasis, stun

Phases

upstage
welcome
fight
- overture
- marionette
- dance
  - strings
  - act
- find
  - hide
  - show
- lastActCall
- lastAct
- encoreCall
- encore
  - west
  - east

Lines

Welcome to the Final Act, my friends. My puppets require life essence in order to continue performing...

Its not much, but your lives will have to do for now!

Watch them dance, hero, as they drain your life away!

Find me if you can hero, or die trying!

Lucky guess hero, but I've run out of time to play games with you. It is time that you died!

No!!! This can not be how my story ends!! I WILL HAVE MY ENCORE, HERO!

Drops

Loot	Chance	Bag
Harlequin Armor	1.5%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Prism of Dancing Swords	1.5%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T12 armor	12%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T11 armor	35%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T11 weapon	18%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T10 armor	40%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T10 weapon	35%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T6 ability	15%	own bag for the cyan-and-better ones, else shared
T5 ability	30%	own bag for the cyan-and-better ones, else shared
T5 ring	30%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Potion of Attack	100%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Health Potion	100%	shared bag
Magic Potion	100%	shared bag
Six of Cups	10%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Potion of Life	8%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Wine Cellar Incantation	1%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage

Chance per kill. A shared bag is one roll for everyone. An own bag is rolled separately for every player who did at least that share of the damage, and only they see it: soulbound items and everything that comes in a cyan or better bag drop this way. A tier row splits its chance over every item of that tier. Loot rules

Boss: Oryx Puppet

HP	40,000 (+25% per other player within 20 tiles, up to 6 players)
Defense	20
Level	20
Hits up to	140
XP multiplier	1.0
Immune to	stasis, stun

Phases

still
fight
- likeness
- show
- show2
- artifacts
- fury

Lines

Am I not an uncanny likeness of Oryx himself?

You don't see the similarity? Well then, let me show you!

I may not have all the power of Oryx, but my artifacts should still be enough to kill the likes of you!

Drops

Loot	Chance	Bag
Harlequin Armor	1%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Prism of Dancing Swords	1%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T11 armor	20%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T11 weapon	10%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T10 armor	35%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T10 weapon	30%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T5 ability	25%	own bag for the cyan-and-better ones, else shared
Health Potion	100%	shared bag
Magic Potion	100%	shared bag
Potion of Attack	50%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Potion of Life	2%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage

Unique drops

Harlequin Armor UT Soulbound
+14 DEF, +3 SPD, +5 WIS, +80 MP
From The Puppet Master 1.5%, Oryx Puppet 1%

Prism of Dancing Swords UT
85 MP · Leaves a decoy for 5s · Leaves a decoy for 5s · +4 ATT, +4 SPD, +40 HP
From The Puppet Master 1.5%, Oryx Puppet 1%

Enemies

Enemy	HP	DEF	Hits up to	On map	Notes
The Puppet Master	100,000	30	105	4
Oryx Puppet	40,000	20	140	4
False Puppet Master	8,000	30	105	summoned	Phase 4's fakes: they wander and shoot like him; one that is nearly broken flashes, and when it breaks it throws a paralysing spiral and lets an Assassin and a Rogue Puppet loose.
Knight Puppet	3,000	25	110	34	A knight on strings: fire bolts in pairs, and now and then a bash of its burning shield that breaks armor.
Paladin Puppet	2,200	20	115	22	Blue bolts; it heals itself when hit, at most once a second.
Warrior Puppet	2,200	20	115	9	Runs you down; every 5 s it bristles (Armored, Speedy) and swings three times.
Theatre Panel	2,000	0	–	76
Minion Puppet	2,000	20	100	summoned	Chases with fire bolts and slowing stars.
Assassin Puppet	1,500	15	140	19	Green bolts, and a poison grenade at your feet every 3 s.
Rogue Puppet	1,500	20	95	15	Slips into the shadows and comes out beside you with its dagger.
Huntress Puppet	1,500	20	90	17	Arrows, and a trap set where she stands every 6 s: armed in a second, it springs a slowing ring at whoever comes close.
Trickster Puppet	1,500	18	90	11	Red fire in fans of three; always keeps one decoy of itself running about.
Archer Puppet	1,500	25	125	31	Three slowing arrows at a time, and a paralysing indigo arrow; both pass through.
Priest Puppet	1,200	18	80	21	Keeps its distance and mends every puppet near it, the Puppet Master too: kill it first.
Sorcerer Puppet	1,200	15	90	22	Pink bolts; drops a Puppet Bomb near itself every 5 s.
Wizard Puppet	1,200	15	60	18	A spell bomb of fifteen bolts round itself every 3 s, aimed bolts between.
Theatre Footlight	1,000	0	80	36	Footlights along the Stage's front: dark until his last act, then a warning glow and a bolt straight down the room, every 3.2 s. Stand between two of them.
Puppet Trap	1,000	0	80	summoned
Puppet Bomb	1,000	0	70	summoned	Ticks 2 s, bursts into ten sparks and throws two smaller fuses that burst a second later.
Mini Guardian Element	1,000	0	70	summoned	The artifacts: untouchable, they circle him and fire slow rings; faster once he is furious.
Puppet Fuse	1,000	0	70	summoned
Trickster Puppet Decoy	600	0	–	summoned