Auntie Ethel/Combat

This page focuses on Auntie Ethel's behavior during her combat encounter, and tactics for overcoming her. She can be fought as a boss in the Riverside Teahouse in the Sunlit Wetlands if you choose to meddle in her affairs.

Sister of the Seeing Pearl
Auntie Ethel
Stats
Level 5
STR 18 (+4) DEX 14 (+2) CON 16 (+3) INT 13 (+1) WIS 14 (+2) CHA 18 (+4)
Race	[[Fey|Fey]]
Type	Fey
HP	112; 145Tactician
AC	17
Movement Speed	9m / 30ft
Size	Medium
Weight	75kg / 150lbs
Proficiency Bonus	+3
Initiative	+2
Passive features
Alert  Darkvision  Opportunity Attack  Fey Life
Character information
Location	Riverside Teahouse
Additional information
Voice actor	Rena Valeh
Hag Model

Overview

Combat

Auntie Ethel can be encountered again as a boss in Act 3 within The Blushing Mermaid.

Attacks and abilities

•  Auntie's Trickery
  •  A Coven of Hags - need more investigation into this one, summons different amounts randomly or under different circumstances?
•  Ray of Sickness
  • DC 15
•  Throw
  • Flammable Slime Bomb
  • Poisonous Slime Bomb
•  Damsel in Distress
  • Ways to distinguish: Passives, concentration, conditions. Character level. Fake Mayrina doesn't get the tactician health bonus? 8hp, not 10.
•  Vicious Mockery
  • A variation on the spell available to Bards, Ethel can cast this as a bonus action
•  Hold Person
  • DC 15
•  Claws

Attack roll +7

If aggroed in the teahouse

•  Protection from Evil and Good
•  Break Illusion

Tactics

Fight in the Teahouse

Ethel can be attacked in her human form in the Riverside Teahouse, though she will try to make this encounter as brief as possible. Alert gives her a high chance of going first and prevents preemptive strikes, and she will flee through her fireplace using Break Illusion in the first two turns; if out of range, she will defend herself with Protection from Evil and Good and Vicious Mockery. Attempting to destroy her here, then, requires bringing her hit points to zero often before she can take a single action – all while hostile Redcaps are coming through her front door.

Arcane lock work on fireplace???

She may further attempt to evade aggression by drinking a Potion of Invisibility; this can be thwarted by pickpocketing or purchasing it from her in conversation.

Fight in the Overgrown Tunnel

Unless the player launches a preemptive strike from  Hiding, Auntie Ethel will initiate combat through dialogue when approaching in her lair. Her first turn in combat, when started this way, will always be  Throwing a Flammable Slime Bomb on Mayrina's suspended cage.

masks summoned to assist her if not incapacitated. if they are, she'll do auntie's trickery instead

magic missile

detect invisibilty

throwing water/applying other conditions to distinguish from mayrina vs. examine to notice stat differences. or % to hit.

won't use any actions on the turn she begs for mercy, if you decide to finish her off

Honour mode

Auntie Ethel gains  Legendary Action: Weird Magic Surge on Honour mode, punishing the player for casting spells by multiplying Ethel's presence with more illusory copies.

Act Three

new character box needed for act 3 stats?