The Musician Boss

"The musician was dripping with an uncanny perspiration and twisted like a monkey. In his frenzied strains I could almost see shadowy satyrs dancing and whirling insanely through seething abysses of clouds and smoke."

The Musician (Monster Mod) is now live for Darkest Dungeon. Inspired by "The Music of Erich Zann," a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, this new boss battle includes two unique Hamlet fights (after week 40 and week 60). If you can survive the stress-filled encounters, you may earn unique quirks and powerful trinkets. Art and coding by Loki Laufey, Sounds by Dem.

The Musician is a boss who will show in the Hamlet after the event called Mad Sounds is present, this event will trigger after week 40 for the first time and again after week 60.
The first time he shows he gives as a reward the Astronomical Violin, and in the second time the reward will be the Amorphous Flute.

Amorphous Flute

• +20% Stun Skill Chance
• +40% Debuff Skill Chance
• -2 SPD
• On Miss: Self: Stress +6
• Was Hit: Buff Target: +30% Stun Skill Chance
• Was Hit: Debuff Target: +20% Stress

Astronomical Violin

• +7% CRIT
• -2 SPD
• Friendly Skill: Target: Stress -6
• On Hit: Buff Self: +20% Stress Skills
• Was Hit: Torch -7

Set Bonus

• +5 Dodge & +1 SPD if Stress above 20, 40 and 60

Also when your heroes fight with him they could get one of two new quirks, which are:
Melody Memory: -10% Stress per 10 points above 30 Stress
Unforgettable Notes: -10% Stress Heal Recieved per 15 Stress

Be careful when the Musician appears, because ignoring him or losing against him will end in losing 3 random upgrades from your buildings!

Explanation of how the battle work / How to defeat the Musician
In case you got stuck or don’t want to figure out how to defeat the musician here is what you need to know. First of all you must know that if you lower the musician’s HP to 0 and he hasn’t finished his song he will use Unfinished Play, a skill that deals high damage to the team of heroes until, he will use this skill constantly, he may get healed eventually but that’s very rare to happen, so it is advised to keep him alive until the end.
The Musician must play his song completely, it consist of the skills Introduction, Verse, Chorus and Closure, the first 3 skills will always summon 3 Otherwordly Windows, when you kill the 3 summons of each skill he will use the next skill to summon more Windows. So by killing the 9 summons you will force the Musician to use Closure, a skill that heal stress to the heroes and kills the Musician.
The Otherwordly Windows might seem too strong, but there’s a way to weaken them, they appear to force the Musucian to play his music, so if you attack him they will get angry and attack the heroes with a skill that also makes them vulnerable.
The battle will consist of attacking the Musician to make the summons weaker while trying to not will him.

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Code & Art: Loki Laufey
Sounds: Dem
Special Thanks to the Moonlit Dungeon Discord, for always helping me in creating mods!

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