THE TITHE ASSESSOR
- MONSTER
- MARS
THE TITHE ASSESSOR is one of the rank and file on MARS, a place of machines.
It is not fighting anybody. Blades pass through it and its own touch is harmless, and it will talk to you — though how that conversation goes is up to you, and it can end with this one swinging.
A companion unit reassigned to count what the colony owes its landlords, wearing the seal that says whose count it is. It is unfailingly polite about the arithmetic and completely unable to leave an error in it, which is a weakness anybody who has met an auditor already knows how to use.
The numbers
- BASE HEALTH340
- CONTACT DAMAGE34
- HITS EVERY0.70s
- SPEED30/s
- SIZE18 across
- CRIT CHANCE12%
- NOTICES YOU AT360
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
MARS
It is placed by hand on MARS and waits at its post until you come close.
| DIFFICULTY | LEVEL | HEALTH | DAMAGE | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EASY | 15–21 | 1686–2488 | 48–54 | 95–243 |
| MEDIUM | 16–22 | 2248–3318 | 49–55 | 113–281 |
| HARD | 18–25 | 4096–6449 | 51–58 | 120–354 |
| NIGHTMARE | 46–50 | 33040–42825 | 80–84 | 1336–2423 |
What to know
- NEUTRALA bystander, not a foe: unhittable and harmless, and it holds a conversation. Provoke it and it becomes an ordinary monster for the rest of the run.
- PART OF A WHOLEPays 1.6× a monster of its level rather than a full set-piece reward — the fight it belongs to is priced as one.
- WHAT IT WAS CARRYINGMore than it should be. Its corpse sheds 2× the gold an ordinary body of its rank does.
- WHEN STRUCKIt throws sparks. A blow that overwhelms it bursts it into wire, cells and torn plate, and it smokes where it lands.