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Call to Adventure — Game Guide

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Call to Adventure

A fighter, a wizard, a rogue, and a cleric descend a seeded dungeon. They start with empty bags. Kill monsters for gold and gear, pick the piles up off the floor, then climb back to the surface before the vault's reinforcements close the way out.

Stat	Value
HEROES	4
LEVELS	6
ITEM SLOTS	2
DROPS	22
MINUTES	20

THE RUN

How the dungeon works

Call to Adventure is a deterministic four-hero expedition. The map is six stacked 128×128 slabs: Surface, Old Halls, Caves, Flooded Deep, Lava Hall, and the Vault. Ramps link the floors. One BASIC script drives each hero.

The party starts on the surface with no items and fights down. When the vault is empty they turn around. On the climb, monsters respawn on floors above them every 15 seconds. Every kill drops gold. Deeper floors, and golems, can also drop a usable item. Gold goes into that hero's purse, not a shared pot. Gear fills one of two item slots. A hero banks gold only after reaching the surface. If everyone dies, the run is lost. If time runs out, the match ends wherever they stand.

Each class has four abilities (keys 1–4) and two item slots (Q, E). Click a pile or item on the floor to pick it up. Click an item slot or press Q or E to use it. Right-click a slot or hold Shift and press Q or E to drop it. Clicking an enemy paints it with a red outline. Damage rolls base + 0..spread , then a class power percent. Healing is negative damage and skips that percent.

Reference	Details
Regen	4% max HP every 0.5s after 3s idle
Encumbrance	Speed 100 / 85 / 70 / 50%
Guard	Guarded targets take 40% damage
Aggro	11 tiles, then hunt the floor
Cap	90 monsters in the whole dungeon
Clock	24 ticks a second, 20 minute run

THE PARTY

Heroes and ability bars

Speed is in tiles per second. Power is the percent applied to strike damage. Items is the two-slot bag. Light is vision radius in tiles.

Brom

BROM · FIGHTER

FRONTLINE

Stat	Value
HP	340
MANA	0
POWER	150%
SPEED	2.50
ITEMS	2
LIGHT	6

Key	Ability	Details
1	Firebrand Sword	PRIMARY · 14–20 DMG · 21–30 HIT · 1 TILE · NO CD
2	Molten Fist	34–44 DMG · 51–66 HIT · 1 TILE · 5s CD
3	Lion Guard	SELF · 2s CD · NO MANA
4	Blazing Blade	28–36 DMG · 42–54 HIT · 1 TILE · 4s CD

Nyra

NYRA · WIZARD

BURST MAGE

Stat	Value
HP	200
MANA	160
POWER	125%
SPEED	2.60
ITEMS	2
LIGHT	8

Key	Ability	Details
1	Meteor Strike	PRIMARY · 22–30 DMG · 27–37 HIT · 12 MANA · 7 TILES · 1.5s CD
2	Frost Lance	10–14 DMG · 12–17 HIT · 16 MANA · 5 TILES · 4s CD
3	Void Portal	20 MANA · 4 TILES · 10s CD
4	Lightning Storm	30–40 DMG · 37–50 HIT · 18 MANA · 6 TILES · 2s CD

Fenn

FENN · ROGUE

MOBILE STRIKER

Stat	Value
HP	250
MANA	40
POWER	135%
SPEED	3.40
ITEMS	2
LIGHT	5

Key	Ability	Details
1	Venom Dagger	PRIMARY · 12–16 DMG · 16–21 HIT · 1 TILE · 4s CD
2	Verdant Arrow	9–14 DMG · 12–18 HIT · 6 TILES · 1s CD
3	Shadow Cloak	SELF · 15s CD
4	Gale Slash	20–26 DMG · 27–35 HIT · 1 TILE · 2s CD

Zyra

ZYRA · CLERIC

SUPPORT

Stat	Value
HP	270
MANA	180
POWER	100%
SPEED	2.70
ITEMS	2
LIGHT	6

Key	Ability	Details
1	Solar Hammer	PRIMARY · 14–20 DMG · 1 TILE · NO CD
2	Healing Bloom	HEAL 70 · 18 MANA · 4 TILES · 3s CD
3	Angelic Emblem	24 MANA · 4 TILES · 15s CD
4	Sun Orb	26–36 DMG · 20 MANA · 5 TILES · 10s CD

THE DUNGEON

Monsters

Surface has no spawns. Deeper floors mix nastier species and add 10% hit points per level. Monsters swing Firebrand Sword at their own power percent, so they lose a straight damage race against the party.

Skeleton

OLD HALLS

60 HP base. Speed 2.20. Sight 6. Power 55%.

Orc

CAVES

90 HP base. Speed 3.00. Sight 9. Power 70%.

Lich

FLOODED DEEP

130 HP base. Speed 2.00. Sight 10. Power 80%.

Golem

LAVA / VAULT

260 HP base. Speed 1.40. Sight 5. Power 110%. Often drops a usable item.

THE HAUL

Monster drops

Items are not attached to heroes. The four abilities on each bar are the class kit. Q and E start empty. Every drop lands on the monster's tile. A hero holds gear only after they pick it up, and they can drop it again. Every drop has a gold value. Treasure is gold only and goes straight into that hero's purse. The old per-hero extras (four from each class bar) are now shared drops. Any hero can use any of them. A fighter gets little from a mana potion, and a wizard still swings a flail if they pick one up.

Every kill leaves a gold pile. Deeper floors, and golems, can also drop one extra item from the table below. Click the pile or the item to pick it up. Right-click a slot, or hold Shift and press Q or E, to drop gear back on the floor. Each hero keeps their own gold. It only counts as banked after that hero walks it onto the surface.

Reference	Details
Not on the kit	Heroes spawn with empty Q / E slots
On the tile	Drops land on the monster's floor tile
After pickup	A hero holds an item only once they take it
Can drop	Shift+Q / Shift+E or right-click the slot