Let's Play Mewgenics: The Bad Care Run

[Shifter55]

Immediately upon entering the drains we are met with a squad of Gassies and Boomers, with one Gassy using it's fart to ram Aslan for minimal damage, which Havel retaliates with some claps while getting into position to block the other Gassies from entering the fray. But with so many, and them stinking up the place from getting hit by the other cats, he receives a whopping 18 poison stacks!

Thankfully the other cats are able to finish the battle in time to allow Havel to receive treatment, while Aslan levels up, Learn From Me is chosen, to take advantage of Aslan's Warp and Borrow Mana abilities. We also find another pill and some... teeth to throw at things.


Further on we encounter some Water Kittens herding Leeches in a pool, and a bird attracted by the activity. Aslan warps to the bird, and kills it, disturbing a hidden kitten resting in the eastern pool. Wrath of God once again takes out all of the kittens, and the leeches are swiftly cleaned up afterwards.


For Luis' new ability we take Animal Handler, as the other choices do not really improve his unreliable attacks and cheap abilities. Taking a Spade for later, a Feather, and some Cat Food from the herders we press onwards to the miniboss...


The Flushmaster. with the arena set up with Thorny Rocks its goal is to dash our cats against them, but I've never seen it do a decent job of it. Two birds and a friendly Fly have been attracted to this battle too, and hopefully we'll get to see that fly do some damage here. As usual we focus on the birds to get buffs and items, while trying to keep the cats from colliding with other things.

Using Havel's Swap we move to push the boss towards a Thorny rock, hoping to force it into it with the next wave incoming. However a bad coinflip puts Luis at risk and without Swap, we need Gage's ranged heals to prevent the waves crushing him this round. A barrage of Molars and lobbed shots finishes off the sentient water closet - but not before it washes the Paper Mask off Luis - and the remaining Dib is tossed aside before it can flee.

Gage levels up, and we choose extra STR, to improve the healing rate of her basic attack. The full heal is also quite useful, as right now she can only heal by consuming the Cat Food we looted from the Kittens.


As the Flushmater killed the Turkey before we got to it, we only recover a Rocket Launcher from that battle, and with 10 damage and
5 uses we will equip it to Luis in case we need extra damage in a pinch. We clear out the shop, acquiring Ice Cubes and a Bear Trap Mask, and Luis levels up from the rare candy. Extra DEX is chosen, as he hasn't been taking damage too unpredictably and his Abilities haven't been particularly needed this run.
The Bear trap mask is put on Havel, equaling any loss of set bonuses, and Gage takes the Ice Cubes in case rendering a teammate invulnerable for a turn is required.

After the shop we encounter a number of ranged enemies, and a harpoon trap, while the Pile to the east can generate weak foes our focus is on taking the birds while keeping the Fetuses from healing too much. We use Luis' Dump to disarm the harpoon trap, while ensuring the pigeon can't escape. Eventually the living poops somehow bleed to death, and the fetuses go down to our ranged cats, and we move on.

It's Aslan's turn to get a stat boost, and we choose INT, who needs extra SPD when you can teleport three times in a turn?

Leaving the battle, the group also notices large amounts of bear traps set up, after Gage's accident with one they will be taking care to avoid these on the way to the boss... which is Boris, a large Seal-like creature.


We dispatch the Eagle, but the approaching boss slams Gage into yet another Bear Trap, doing heavy damage and immobilising her! Thankfully Havel is able to use Swap and Warp, provided by Aslan's Learn From Me to drop her off away from ensuring melee. Maybe I should have picked up that extra +2 CON...

As the boss racks up heavy Bleeding, Havel finally puts it out of its misery before it can knock out Gage, and receives a level up for his efforts, as CHA is useful when passing on abilities, we choose it for the final upgrade of this run. From Boris' lair we loot a Rusted Rod, some Debris, Percs, and a Hand Grenade that the eagle was coveting. Overall a significant amount of Armour and Weapons were found this run, and we are going to have to upgrade our storage to have a hope of keeping even a portion of them!


One horrifying cutscene later, we also unlock the next area along this route, The Caves, as well as the Thief collar despite Butch's terrible pickup lines. Luis goes to Butch to upgrade our storage as his abilities are not really impressive, and we clean up our storage to make sure we don't throw out some of the useful items we found in the Sewers.