THE FOUNDER
- BOSS
- BOOT HILL
THE FOUNDER is a boss on BOOT HILL, a place of hands.
Two universes of running end here, in a compound with no rift left to tear and nobody left to call. He dies as he lived, offering equity, and his entire estate turns out to be three pieces of worthless trash.
The numbers
- BASE HEALTH900
- CONTACT DAMAGE36
- HITS EVERY0.90s
- SPEED42/s
- SIZE40 across
- CRIT CHANCE15%
- ABOVE THE HORDE+5 levels
- NOTICES YOU AT280
The monster at its baseline, before a venue has placed it. What it really fields on each difficulty is under “Where you meet it”.
Where you meet it
BOOT HILL
It is placed by hand on BOOT HILL and waits at its post until you come close.
| DIFFICULTY | LEVEL | HEALTH | DAMAGE | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EASY | 34 | 900 | 72 | 7073 |
| MEDIUM | 36 | 1350 | 74 | 8782 |
| HARD | 40 | 2070 | 78 | 12673 |
| NIGHTMARE | 57 | 5400 | 96 | 41530 |
What to know
- HOW IT ENDSThe hero vaults onto him and drives the blade down through the skull, holds it there, and wrenches it free. He folds under his own weight. The hero: "NO BOARD MEETING. NO OTHER UNIVERSE. JUST THE FLOOR."
- LEASHEDNever strays further than 460 from where it stands.
- WHAT IT WAS CARRYINGA fortune. Its corpse sheds 6× the gold an ordinary body of its rank does, which is the plainest thing anyone has ever said about it.
- WHEN STRUCKIt bleeds. A blow that overwhelms it bursts it, and there is a face among what lands.
Mechanics
Every dangerous move is telegraphed — it roots, it winds up, and you get the beat you need to be somewhere else.
- ENRAGEBelow 25% health it fights like a cornered animal for the rest of the fight — 1.4× speed and 1.35× damage, permanently.
- ORBITAL DELIVERYIt roots for 0.9s first, then calls 3 pods down onto marks scattered across 130 around YOU. Each falls for 1.4s behind the same firming ground shadow a meteor drops behind — so you already know how to read it — and bursts for 80% of its contact damage across 56, then pops open and lets one more out of the crater. The marks bracket you rather than chase you, so the question is which way to move, not whether. Once every 11s. It calls COWBOT.
- CALL OF INCELSIt roots for 0.9s first, and then they come — 2 waves of followers at a dead run, about 3s apart, down a lane the approach dust draws for you before the first of them is even on screen. They trample what they hit and put a grounded hero flat on his back. The answer is the one every herd in the game has: get out of the lane. Once every 16s. Only from NIGHTMARE upward.
What it drops
Always drops
What it says
Spoilers for this fight, covered until you ask for them.
THE FOUNDERNO. NO NO NO. HOW. I SOLD THE RIFT TO EXACTLY ONE DICTATOR. THIS WAS A GATED COMMUNITY.
THE HEROYOU MADE ME CHASE YOU ACROSS UNIVERSES, THE FOUNDER. NOWHERE LEFT TO RUN. WHERE IS ADA?
THE FOUNDERLOOK - BOOT HILL RUNS ON MY TRUST ME BRO AI. LICENSING, RECURRING REVENUE. I AM A SUBSCRIPTION.
THE HEROWHERE. IS. SHE. LAST TIME I ASK NICELY.
THE FOUNDERDELIVERED. THE SUPERCORE WANTED HER. I DON'T READ ITS LOGS ANYMORE. IT READS MINE.
THE HEROTHE SUPERCORE? YOUR OWN AI GIVES ORDERS NOW? SHE'S SOLD TO AN AI YOU DON'T CONTROL?
THE FOUNDERFINE. FINE! TAKE THE PARK. TAKE THE COMPANY. I'LL START ANOTHER. I ALWAYS DO.
THE HEROSOMEONE ALWAYS HANDS YOU ANOTHER CHAIR, DON'T THEY. EVER WONDER WHO? OR WHY?
THE FOUNDERSECURITY! CONTROLLERS! ANYONE! ...I'LL GIVE YOU EQUITY.
Last words
THIS ISN'T FAIR... ...I WAS GOING PRIVATE...
What this scene is part of — everything said and found around it — is its chapter of the story.