MISSION SPECIALIST

• ELITE
• THE MOON
• PHASING

MISSION SPECIALIST is a named elite on THE MOON, a place of ghosts.

It senses you through walls and drifts straight through them; the dead do not respect stone.

A dead astronaut with fifty years to work out what he stepped onto. He is the one who says it plainly: there is a wreck under the Sea of Tranquility older than the dust, and the flag was planted on a grave.

Where you meet it

THE MOON

It is placed by hand on THE MOON and waits at its post until you come close.

What to know

• HOVERSHas no legs and never touches the floor — it drifts over it, casting its shadow down.
• PHASINGWalks through walls and hunts you through them.
• THE ENTRANCECloses at 115/s until it has said its piece, then fights at its own pace.
• WHAT IT WAS CARRYINGNothing. It has no pockets, and never had wages — a kill pays in gear, not in coin.
• WHEN STRUCKIt comes apart in ectoplasm. A blow that overwhelms it bursts it, and the goo it was holding together goes everywhere.

Mechanics

Every dangerous move is telegraphed — it roots, it winds up, and you get the beat you need to be somewhere else.

• ENRAGEBelow 35% health it fights like a cornered animal for the rest of the fight — 1.4× speed and 1.3× damage, permanently.
• ORBIT GUARDIt roots for 0.6s first, then 4 motes come up and turn around it at 30 out, for 7s. Anything the ring sweeps through takes 50% of its contact damage, no more than once every 0.7s however many motes pass at once. The ring does not chase — it only means the last stride into contact costs something. Time the gaps, or fight it from outside. Once every 11s.
• BLINK STRIKEIt roots for 0.8s first — the longest tell it has — and then it is not where it was. It arrives 26 from where you were standing WHEN THE TELL STARTED, already swinging for 70% of its contact damage across 30. It will do this from as far out as 220. Because the spot is fixed at the tell rather than at the arrival, a hero who keeps moving is met by a mob swinging at empty floor. Once every 10s.

What it drops

Every kill pays one medkit and one XP scroll.

Its drops roll 30% better on the rarity ladder than the level's ordinary loot.

Guaranteed pieces by rarity: 1 magic. A rarity the monster's own level has not unlocked yet is skipped, so the same fight pays better on a harder rung.

Always drops

• FLARE GUN

Story items

• APOLLO MISSION LOG

What it says

Spoilers for this fight, covered until you ask for them.

What this scene is part of — everything said and found around it — is its chapter of the story.