Talk:Ancient egg mass

Somtimes, at the end of a combat round (if you do enough damage?):

One of the eggs pops open, revealing a hungry, hungry tadpole. Normally, this would only be concerning to algae, but this particular tadpole is about your size... and clearly carnivorous.

Then, with enough damage done?:

The egg mass is getting smaller by the minute. Maybe the future can be changed after all...

followed by one of:

no eggs popped:

The tadpole is hungry like the wolf, so it circles you like the wolf and is ready to take a bite out of you like the wolf.

1-2 eggs popped?:

The tadpoles swim around you, taking experimental nibbles out of you for 100 damage.

2-3 eggs popped?:

The tadpoles swim around you, taking experimental nibbles out of you for 300 damage.

3-4 eggs popped?:

The tadpoles swim around you, taking experimental nibbles out of you for 600 damage.

--hoyifung04 (talk) 13:42, 1 March 2015 (PST)

The damage appears to be the 100 * (n^2 + n) / 2 (or 100 * triangular numbers), where n is the number of eggs popped at the start of this round of combat. At least, it seems to be the case from 0 to 8. --hoyifung04 (talk) 09:17, 3 March 2015 (PST)

I confirm the ones next are 1000 and 1500, triangular numbers indeed. Patojonas 12:10, 3 March 2015 (PST)

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I've noticed that sometimes it does the triangular damage numbers minus a small fixed amount from round to round, last time was 30 (70, 270, 570, etc). Any ideas on what might be the cause? Patojonas 04:40, 13 March 2015 (PDT)